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@yaakovkatz @pangram ai check

Israel sent Iran a strategic message this morning: we act independently. President Trump might have told Israel not to act in several interviews, but in the end Israel did what it believed it needed to. While this appears to defy Trump, it could just as easily have been coordinated - America stays out of this round, but Iran learns that Israel is prepared to act with or without the US. And that message matters because Iran had been playing America for a fool. It dragged out the talks while continuing to destabilize the region - attacking the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait (remember the attack on Kuwait’s airport a few days ago?). Then came yesterday’s missile attack on Israel. Beyond the immediate threat, it carried a message that Iran still believed it could dictate the rules of the game all over the Middle East including in Lebanon. This was not a regime acting like it was about to make a deal or wanted to compromise. It was acting like a regime that believed it was immune and that Trump was so desperate for a deal, that he would do anything to avoid a new round of fighting. This morning, it learned a different lesson.

@nic_carter @MisterJay9977 😂 faggit

@MisterJay9977 that happens anyway

call me a prude but I think society has gone too far bikini-wise

@Trace_Cohen @jimcramer True. They are investing $10B in google.

Let's see: $80 billion for GOOGL, probably $100 billion for Anthropic, $100 billion for OpenAI (maybe more) and $100 billion for SpaceX and $100 billion for Amazon? does this market have $500 billion in spare change. What has to be sold to raise it???

@TheSlimeRain @GunHeritage Most Brits can name 10 US presidents, 15 US cities, and 20 US states. They are not all on x.

@GunHeritage Na only on twitter, most people give 0 thought about the USA.

Dawg we’re all you people think about lol

@amuse @pangram ai check

@PurzBeats 17 pixels

If you took a picture and changed one pixel with AI is that AI art or a photo? If you took a piece entirely generated by AI and change one pixel by hand is it still considered AI art? Where do you draw the line?

@BIMBOSATTVA_ 'English: Claude Monet - Water Lilies Deutsch: Claude Monet - Seerosen (um 1915) - Neue Pinakothek in München, Inventarnummer: 14562 - Wildenstein: W.1796' Then click on the link in description under wikimedia page r-tard. I am guessing 12.

@OfficerCurrent I'm not clicking your obvious phishing attempt, how old do you think I am?

Everyone wants to be part of an "in-joke" here on TPOT because they all think this is a real Monet and some daring social experiment THIS IS STILL AI GENERATED!!! This Monet Does Not Exist How has not ONE person reverse image searched? First result is Midjourney 🤦🏼‍♀️

@BIMBOSATTVA_ sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/6kL…

@OfficerCurrent Notice the upload date, May 14th 2026

@MharrisonArt commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clau… have a seat

This was made by a machine, therefore it is inferior. It may be pretty, but it’s not real.

@wallacemick Israel doesn’t want to wait until Iran acquires the nuke. It’s Irans stated goal to wipe Israel off the map. Israel said ‘better be the bad guy than the dead guy’.

Iran is not being attacked by US/Israeli Epstein Coalition for "having nuclear weapons, but because it doesn't have them." Iran is being attacked because "they dare to defend the Human Rights of the Palestinian people" which the Europeans have failed to do...

@SteJeffery7 @_rathbone Some civilian infra and a few oil tankers. Nothing too serious.

@OfficerCurrent @_rathbone They WILL attack Dubai? What do you think they've been doing for the past few weeks

Everyone wants Iran to kill Netanyahu. The entire world is waiting for this man to be confirmed dead.

@protosphinx Not this nonsense again. EUV is DUV’s next generation. And can by bypassed with SADP and Multipatterning. Japan,US,and China have this tech already. EUV is not a show stopper. Never was. It has faster throughput and more economical. That’s it.

ASML is alien tech. The aliens bequeathed it to the Dutch. Ain’t no way anyone else is getting that tech.

@The_Lacey_Belle @scalper_sauce @nypost No aggressors, dipshit. That’s US and Israel. Rest can pass.

@scalper_sauce @nypost It is objectively not the same sentence.

Any country except for US and Israel can pass through Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Minister says trib.al/wsIONsJ

@anishmoonka @pangram who wrote this?

Chegg was worth $14.7 billion. Today it’s worth $156 million. That’s what a drained moat looks like when you follow the money. Naval is right, but the dollar flows tell a more specific story. AI is draining one type of moat and filling another with concrete. The moats getting drained are all knowledge moats. Chegg’s whole business was being the middleman between students and answers. ChatGPT made that free. Stock down 99% from its 2021 peak. Two rounds of layoffs in 2025, cutting 22% of staff in May and another 45% in October. Freelance writing jobs dropped 33% since ChatGPT launched. Translation fell 19%. Graphic design fell 13%. A Stanford study found entry-level software developer jobs fell nearly 20% between 2022 and 2025. If your competitive advantage was “I know something you don’t,” the market has repriced that to near zero. Now look at where the capital is flowing in the other direction. The Mag Seven are spending roughly $680 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025. Amazon alone is projected to be $200 billion. Alphabet at $175-$185 billion. Meta at $115-$135 billion. Microsoft is on pace for $144 billion. You need to spend that kind of money annually to stay in the race. That’s the deepest capital moat in business history being poured in real time (not a drained one) NVIDIA became the first company to hit a $5 trillion market cap, largely because its CUDA software ecosystem has developer adoption 10x that of its nearest competitor. Cursor, an AI coding editor, went from zero to $1 billion in annual revenue in 24 months, the fastest in B2B SaaS history, and is now valued at $29.3 billion. OpenAI tried to acquire Cursor for $3 billion and was turned down. Google then spent $2.4 billion to acquire the team behind the number two player, Windsurf. Two of the biggest companies in AI both tried to buy their way into coding tools, and neither got the one they wanted. A 2025 McKinsey survey found that 79% of organizations say their competitors are making similar AI investments, but only 23% believe they’re building sustainable advantages. I think that’s the real story here. AI drains knowledge moats and fills capital moats. The companies writing $680 billion in checks this year aren’t worried about their moats disappearing. They’re building new ones that most competitors literally cannot afford to cross.

@EddCoates Me. Good content is good content.

Show me just ONE person who’s actually excited about watching this content. I'll wait.

@ResourceEvo @MaxCrypto Oil isn’t reaching $120 Sherlock

@MaxCrypto People who do this don’t pay attention to geopolitics at all. This is one of the dumbest things you could ever do in times of war

🚨 A whale has opened a $2,800,000 Oil short position. If Oil pumps to $120/barrel, he will get wiped out.

@WillBredderman This is where you conflate useless memorization with critical thinking skills right? How many phone numbers do you remember off the top?

Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.

@bernh21848 @BetterCallMedhi @KI_Agent No. Just the East Asians are an exception.

@BetterCallMedhi @KI_Agent Isnt it ironic that the so called communists beat the self entitled capitalists on capitalism. Maybe something is off with the labels.

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster