Tobias Leingruber

There goes another VR hype cycle. To be fair though, I think online games are virtual worlds already anyways. wired.com/story/meta-is-…

@markgadala This is like finding out that Banksy aged 20 years in 20 years. 😉

This is insane. $6.1 billion in unpaid wages. 819 million hours of labor. Every person who clicked a fire hydrant to log into their email was part of it. reCAPTCHA was never primarily a security tool. It was the largest unpaid AI training operation in history, running invisibly inside the infrastructure of the entire internet. Google launched reCAPTCHA in 2009 as a book digitization engine. Version 2 trained image recognition for Street View, extracting labeled data on house numbers, traffic lights, storefronts, and road infrastructure across the planet. Version 3 trained behavioral pattern recognition. Each iteration harvested a different dataset from hundreds of millions of users who were told the point was bot detection. The dataset was the point. The punchline is airtight: AI can now solve CAPTCHAs faster and more accurately than humans can. The tool built to filter out machines spent 15 years training them. You completed the loop without ever being told you were in it. Every system designed to keep machines out was simultaneously teaching them how to get in. The more interesting question is what today's equivalent looks like, and whether you'd recognize it if you saw it.

@EricJorgenson @elonmusk @scribemediaco Hi Eric, do you know if or when it‘ll be available in Germany? If not I‘ll try to get it from the Amazon U.S. store (which more complicated of course)

🚀PRE-ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE 🚀 The Book Of @elonmusk 61 Days to Launch... Published by my team @scribemediaco amazon.com/Book-Elon-Guid…

@LMU_Muenchen What happened?

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Nothing we see or hear via any media can be trusted anymore. I wonder where this loss of trust will lead us next. Certified devices or something like that? (The work flow below isn't real-time just yet)

@ThaFilthyHoss @CeaserWrestles I‘m hoping to see Gunther at WM live this year. Against Brock. What do you think are the odds?

@CeaserWrestles This better lead to Gunther beating Cody for the Undisputed Title & having a career vs Title match against Brock at SummerSlam. The only payoff I see.

If you see this From Cena's perspective, this is the saddest thing you've ever seen in your life. But if you see this From Gunther's perspective, it's the coldest thing you've ever seen in your life. Symphony No. 9 playing in the background, heartbroken faces in the crowd, Cena lying lifeless in the center of the ring was just BEAUTIFUL.

@aakashgupta Of course

In January 2015, Google and Fidelity wrote a combined $1 billion check for roughly 10% of SpaceX. The company was valued at $12 billion. Google’s portion: approximately $900 million for 7.4%. At the time, SpaceX had just successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage for the first time. Starlink was a PowerPoint presentation. Revenue was a rounding error compared to today. Ten years later, SpaceX has become the most valuable private company on Earth. The valuation trajectory tells the story: 2015: $12 billion 2020: $36 billion 2021: $100 billion 2022: $127 billion 2023: $180 billion June 2024: $210 billion Late 2024: $350 billion 2026 IPO target: $1.5 trillion That $900 million investment from Google? At the $1.5 trillion IPO target, it would be worth approximately $111 billion. A 123x return. From one check. To put that in perspective: Adobe’s entire market cap is $144 billion. Google’s single 2015 investment in SpaceX would be worth more than 75% of one of the largest software companies on the planet. But here’s where it gets interesting. In Q1 2025, Alphabet reported $8 billion in unrealized gains from a “non-marketable equity security in a private company.” Bloomberg confirmed it was SpaceX. That $8 billion boost represented nearly 25% of Google’s entire net income for the quarter. One investment. One quarter. Almost a quarter of their earnings. And that was based on the $350 billion valuation from late 2024. If SpaceX hits the $1.5 trillion target, the paper gains from this single position could exceed $80 billion more. The financial return alone would justify calling this one of the greatest venture investments ever made. But the financial return is actually the boring part. Look at what SpaceX has become. Starlink went from zero subscribers in 2020 to 1 million in 2022 to 4.6 million by end of 2024 to 8 million by November 2025. They’re doubling annually. Revenue hit $7.7 billion in 2024, up from $1.4 billion in 2022. Projections for 2025: $11.8 billion. Starlink now represents 58% of SpaceX’s total revenue and the majority of its profits. SpaceX has reused a single Falcon 9 booster more than 20 times. They completed 134 Falcon-family launches in 2024. They’re on pace for 150+ in 2025. They now account for approximately 90% of the world’s payload mass delivered to orbit. Read that again. One company. Ninety percent of global payload mass. The reusability breakthrough is what made Starlink possible. You can’t launch 7,500+ satellites on expendable rockets. The math doesn’t work. But when you can reuse boosters 20 times and turn launches around in under 30 days, you can build an orbital internet constellation that would have been economically impossible for any other company on Earth. And then there’s the government money. SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said the company holds $22 billion in government contracts. Pentagon contracts alone total nearly $8 billion. The Space Force just awarded SpaceX $5.92 billion for satellite launches through 2029. The National Reconnaissance Office signed a classified $1.8 billion contract for Starshield, SpaceX’s militarized satellite network for intelligence and surveillance. The Pentagon plans to acquire more than 100 Starshield satellites for its future satcom architecture. SpaceX is now the dominant launch provider for the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community, and NASA. They have more government contracts than most defense contractors, but they’re valued like a tech company because they actually are one. Starlink isn’t just consumer internet anymore. It’s 75,000 vessels with maritime connectivity. 300 cruise ships. United, Air France, Hawaiian Airlines. Direct-to-cell service launching with T-Mobile. Military encrypted communications via Starshield. Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity runs on Starlink. This used to be a rocket company. Now it’s a telecom company that happens to own the rockets.

@TheAppleDesign Hard no. iPhone 5 is. It’s also the size Steve Jobs wanted. To fit in one hand. It’s meant to be an addition to your life, not the main thing.

iPhone X is the definition of PERFECTION.

@ATRightMovies 10/10. And the dinos still look the best 30+ years later.

What would you rate JURASSIC PARK out of 10?

@atulit_gaur IMO Apple is strategically not adding this obviously great feature because they think it would hurt iPad sales.

Startup idea: laptop with sim cards so that we can use mobile data on laptops too

@mrdoob Yes!! Nice.

Made a nice page for all my demoscene favorites. mrdoob.com/demoscene/

@wheresaddie 😄

me too, me too

@simontunaitis @TheAppleDesign I’m on an off YouTube Music, because the music quality (kbps) is often extremely bad, I assume because it includes old video uploads in playlists. I can’t figure out how-to not encounter this problem.

@TheAppleDesign Is there any reason to go with Apple Music instead of YouTube Music with YT Premium? I guess Spotify or Apple Music only makes sense if you don't really watch YouTube

TELL ME A SINGLE REASON WHY anybody should use Spotify over Apple Music Apple Music >>> Spotify • $10.99 🆚 $11.99 • Lossless 🆚 320kbps • Upload your songs 🆚 You can’t • Works on all Apple devices 🆚 Limited • 4K Music video 🆚 None • Better privacy 🆚 More tracking • Human made playlists 🆚 Mostly algorithmic • Live lyrics 🆚 Basic lyrics • Time synced translations 🆚 No translations • Apple Fitness+ integration 🆚 None • Seamless iCloud sync 🆚 No native sync • Higher payout to Artist 🆚 Lower payout to Artist

@SuperArt7 @WrestleOps What did he say about Gunther?

Facts...learn how to work, tell a story, make it believable and not hurt people or yourself in the process. I know its cool to hate on Bret and call him biter but outside of his take on Gunther(its a different style and Gunther is a true a pro) he dont miss with his takes. You won't and can't fine a bad Bret Hart match

Bret Hart says that wrestlers today would be a lot better off if they copied him more. (via The Masked Man Show)

This video gives good summary on the state of the internet I think #aislop #walledgardens youtube.com/watch?v=3dstGV…

Tomorrow will be 10 years since we shut down the Free Art & Technology Lab aka F.A.T. #RIP fffff.at @fffffat 👋 @jamiew @danzeeeeman @wheresaddie @theowatson @EvanRoth_ @gleuch @jamespowderly @bekathwia @arambartholl @golan @kcimc @LM4K

Glitch in the matrix, woven into every thread. New drop live now at glitchwear.store Slow knit, Future fit. #Glitchwear #FutureFabric

Do what you love. #bellcurvememe

@VideoGameHstry Zelda, A Link to the Past

What video game world you want to live in?

@focustools Hi, would you mind donating your handle to me for a project on mental health? You haven't used it in a long time so I thought I'd ask. Thanks for getting back to me!