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Peruvian 🇵🇪 scientist and diplomat Pedro Paulet (1874–1945) is credited with pioneering early rocket propulsion technology ... 🚀

Having out of body experience right now AMA.

KEN GRIFFIN WENT HOME "FAIRLY DEPRESSED" AFTER WATCHING WHAT AI IS DOING INSIDE CITADEL The Citadel CEO says AI productivity has hit a step change in just the last few months. Then he described what he saw inside his own firm: "Work that we would usually do with people with master's and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months is being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days." "These are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI." "I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed by this, because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society." "When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man-years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow." The guy running one of the most sophisticated quant firms on earth just told you what's coming.

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps. “And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” cbsn.ws/4wwp0T7

Jerome Powell's tenure as Federal Reserve Chair officially ends after 8 years.

Kevin Warsh is confirmed as Federal Reserve chair, succeeding Jerome Powell. The incoming Trump appointee faces an early test as inflation surges. cnn.it/4ufRgb8

@Wouwer173348 @RaminNasibov It's interesting ... Von Braun is quoted as stating that due to his experiments in 1900 with a "two-and-a-half kilogram motor" generating 100 kg of force, "Paulet should be considered the pioneer of the liquid fuel propulsion motor".

@mezabytes @RaminNasibov Rocket propulsion goes back to ancient China, followed by rocket flares in the early 1800's. The DeLavall nozzle in 1888, Herman Oberth's liquid rocket, Tsiolkovskys Ideal Rocket Equation in 1903, followed by Goddard and von Braun.

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

The World's Most Impactful Companies of 2026 ... time.com/article/2026/0…

Sometimes I ask myself if this is true

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. cnn.it/4d7tcQ2

NEW: Cinco de Mayo falls on Taco Tuesday. Prepare accordingly.

In support of its goals, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 3‑1/2 to 3‑3/4 percent. #rates federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…

Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will report earnings tomorrow.

BOOM *UAE DECIDES TO EXIT OPEC AND OPEC+

@SJosephBurns @grok Maybe you could ask Grok if $ASGN had media coverage?

Hey @grok Which stock has the highest insider buying-to-selling ratio over the last 90 days that almost no financial media is covering?

BREAKING: Justice Department drops criminal probe of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, likely clearing the way for confirmation of his successor. apnews.com/article/federa…

MICROSOFT PLANS FIRST VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEE BUYOUT IN COMPANY’S 51-YEAR HISTORY – CNBC

Walter Schramm invested $6,000 in Amazon $AMZN stock in the late 1990s and, following a "buy and hold" strategy He did not check his account for almost 20 years however Thinking he had close to $100,000 by then, he checked his account, only to discover it empty His stock was deemed "abandoned" and liquidated by the state of Delaware in 2008, through a process known as escheatment. Per the state, if you do not check your account for three years, it is deemed abandoned. The state sold his shares for about $8,000 in 2008, and held the money for him. Walter did receive a check for $8,000 in the end, but that was still a pittance relative to what the stock would have been worth had he checked his account regularly The moral of the story is to check your accounts often

Meta is reportedly building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg ... engadget.com/ai/meta-is-rep…