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$BP Treasury Update We added 44 more $GME today, bringing our treasury to 1301 tokenized shares. While mainstream media continues to criticize Ryan Cohen and GameStop, the BP Army remains steadfast in its support. ♾️ Power to the People. 🇺🇸

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In 1995 a single 28-year-old trader lost more than 800 million pounds, destroyed a 233-year-old bank that had helped finance the Napoleonic Wars, and then ran. The bank was sold days later for one pound. He had hidden every loss in a secret account almost nobody at the bank ever checked. By the time they opened it, the money was gone and so was he. His name is Nick Leeson. The bank was Barings. The footage is on YouTube. Barings was not some fly-by-night shop. Founded in 1762, it was the oldest merchant bank in Britain, banker to the Queen, an institution so old it had bankrolled wars and empires. Nick Leeson was a working-class kid from Watford who ended up running the futures desk in Singapore, placing the trades and settling them at the same time, which meant nobody was really watching him. He started with small losses and did the one thing that turns a mistake into a catastrophe. He hid them, in an error account numbered 88888, and then tried to trade his way back out. He bet bigger. He bet on the Japanese market staying calm. Then, in January 1995, the Kobe earthquake hit, the Nikkei fell, and his hidden position detonated. He did not cut it. He doubled down, betting the market would bounce. It did not. The losses passed 800 million pounds, more than the entire bank was worth. Barings collapsed over a single weekend and was sold to a Dutch bank for one pound. Leeson ran to the other side of the world. On his desk, staff found a note. It read, "I'm sorry." This is not really a story about one rogue trader. It is about the one law no amount of talent lets you break. Leeson did not lack skill. He lacked a stop. Every disaster in markets has the same skeleton: a loss that felt too painful to accept, hidden instead of taken, then chased with more size until the hole swallowed everything. The math is old and brutal. A small loss you cut is the cost of doing business. A small loss you hide and double is a fuse. It does not matter how sure you are that it will come back. Sometimes it will not, and that is the only time that counts. The lesson is this. Markets do not destroy people for being wrong. They destroy people who refuse to be wrong quickly. Leeson was one man with no limit, and three years later a fund run by Nobel laureates would prove the same point on a bigger stage. The size of the brain never mattered. The absence of the stop always did. The film is free. The pattern repeats every few years. Most people will only remember the number.

Friedberg: New study shows enzyme reverses skin age from 70+ years to 31 Chamath: That’s a $2T market. Did Scientists Just Discover How to Reverse Skin Aging!? “CML is kind of the predominant molecule that gets formed in this extracellular matrix that's driving aging, and nothing breaks it down. So these scientists set out to try and create an enzyme, an enzyme is a protein that breaks something down, that can break down CML. And so these guys kind of went out and they took the target, which is CML, and tried to figure out, ‘Okay, how do we actually degrade CML, clear that extracellular matrix, and reverse aging?’ They started to test it on the proteins that we would find in our body, casein, collagen, retinal proteins, which are in your eye, hemoglobin, and they were able to get rid of 52 to 97% of the CML, just degrade it away. And then they found several sites where they were able to degrade over 90%. And then they took actual human skin from elderly patients that had donated their skin, and they put this enzyme onto that skin, and they were able to eliminate 55% of the CML on the skin, basically reverse the skin's age down to the age of a 31-year-old, this is from greater than 70-year-old patients, just by putting this enzyme on the skin. And so it's kind of a groundbreaking demonstration of combination of AlphaFold, what's called directed evolution, where you change the order of the DNA that changes the structure of the protein to test different proteins, do high throughput screening, and ultimately make a novel protein that doesn't exist in nature today that can do something pretty profound for human health.” Chamath: “It will be a trillion-dollar market. If you can create a cream…” Friedberg: “I mean, dude, if you could put this enzyme literally on your skin and have it absorb in…” Chamath: “Game over. That alone is $2 trillion.”

23-year-old wildlife researcher Ryan arrived in South America at the Amazon River to study anacondas He equipped a drone with a thermal imaging camera and the AI Claude, launching it over the river at night The AI's computer vision model highlights thermal outlines in real time, classifying the species and size of the snakes with over 95% accuracy This allows the drone not just to search, but to scan automatically, logging every specimen found into a database with GPS coordinates What he saw truly stunned him: the number of snakes was off the charts, and it looked genuinely eerie AI helps to study the world around us in much greater detail

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Cleopatra (1963) cost so much it nearly sunk 20th Century Fox - what started as a $2M movie exploded into a $44M epic, forcing the studio to sell off land just to stay afloat.