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Explorer by passion. Curating captivating engineering, science, tech, art, and weather visuals, with context and insights to fuel your curiosity.

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Simon Gerovich
Simon Gerovich@gerovich·
今、世界は二つに分かれている。 一つは、ビットコインを持ち、未来が訪れるのを見ている世界。 もう一つは、持たずに「なぜ何もかも高くなるのか」と首をかしげる世界。 これまでで一番強気でいる。この二つの世界の差は、これから劇的に広がっていく。
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Wonder Of Things@wonderofthings·
The Universe 25 experiment by John B. Calhoun (1968 to 1973) created a mouse utopia. A large enclosure offered unlimited food water nesting material perfect temperature and no predators. It started with 8 healthy mice (4 males 4 females). The population boomed doubling every 55 days and peaked at around 2200. Space was still available but the colony became socially overcrowded. Then came the collapse called the behavioral sink. Aggression surged with gang attacks. Females neglected or killed pups pushing infant mortality near 100 percent. Mating broke down into bizarre patterns. Many mice known as the beautiful ones withdrew completely. They groomed obsessively but ignored social bonds courtship and parenting. Reproduction stopped and the entire colony went extinct in under 5 years despite endless resources. This links directly to universal basic income in an age of abundance. UBI plus robots would give humans every basic need without work or competition just like the automated feeders for the mice. Critics warn it could trigger a similar sink: loss of purpose apathy declining birth rates social withdrawal and family breakdown. When survival pressure disappears traditional drives erode. However humans arent locked in a sealed mouse pen. We can adapt. Create new purpose: Explore space (Calhoun himself advocated this) pursue knowledge art or voluntary challenges. Robots free us for meaning not idleness. That is probably why Elon’s SpaceX is building transportation to space for exactly this future. When abundance arrives we can choose to expand into the stars instead of sinking like the mice. What do you think?
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TFTC@TFTC21·
Saylor: "There's gonna be an explosion in prosperity because a billion robots will do all the work and a billion cars will drive themself. Then I think you'll see a socialist wave of entitlements. Universal healthcare, universal basic income, universal housing, universal entitlements." "People worry that there won't be enough. That's not the problem. There'll be too much. Too much music, too much entertainment, too much food, too much alcohol, too much sugar, too much stimulation. Different civilizations will be distinguished by how they react to it."
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Dylan LeClair
Dylan LeClair@DylanLeClair·
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. $BTC
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*Walter Bloomberg
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone·
TESLA SHARES SET FOR BIGGEST ONE-DAY JUMP IN OVER NINE-MONTHS, LAST UP 7.9%
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Nikita Bier
Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
Crypto has had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it.
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Simon Gerovich
Simon Gerovich@gerovich·
昨日の株主総会でご紹介した、メタプラネットの株主優待プログラムをご覧ください。 2026年6月30日時点の株主さまを対象に、7月からお申込可能になる予定です。 日本の上場企業において最も充実した株主優待プログラムを目指しており、今後も新たなパートナーの開拓とプログラムの拡充を進めてまいります。株主の皆さまに、どこよりも充実した特典をお届けできるよう、これからも全力で取り組んでいきます。お楽しみに!
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
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Simon Gerovich
Simon Gerovich@gerovich·
Breaking down our latest raise. Our single KPI is Bitcoin per share. Every capital decision we make gets measured against that. After our last institutional offering, we heard from shareholders that they wanted us to think differently about how we raise capital. The demand was still clear: more Bitcoin. So here's what we did. Japanese PIPEs typically price at a ~10% discount to market. We sold shares at a 2% premium to market and packaged our equity vol into fixed-strike warrants at a 10% premium. The company gets immediate capital to grow the Bitcoin balance sheet. If the stock goes higher and warrants are exercised, we receive additional capital at a price above today's market. The investors get to express a view on volatility. This isn't zero-sum. Both sides can win. This is the same playbook MSTR pioneered with convertible bonds. A 0% coupon convert was a bond and an embedded call option packaged into one security. The coupon was zero because the embedded option on a levered BTC vehicle was so valuable it replaced the coupon entirely. The bondholder wasn't lending for free. They were paying for vol. Saylor understood this before anyone else in BTC and it unlocked a new paradigm for Bitcoin treasury capital formation. Same principle, different wrapper. We used stock plus warrants instead of converts, so there's no debt, no maturity risk, no overhang, no ongoing dividend or interest payments. The capital structure stays clean with no debt sitting above equity holders, and that's by design. When we issue preferred shares, the balance sheet underneath needs to be pristine. Every Bitcoin we add strengthens that foundation. The bigger the base, the more credible the credit. We are intentionally building this to become the dominant issuer of Bitcoin backed fixed income instruments in Japan. And finally, we run one of the most active BTC derivatives books in the world. Every scenario here has been stress tested and is being managed, including the tail risk on future warrant exercise. We built this company around Bitcoin volatility and BTC Yield. This is what we do. This is permanent capital with no ongoing cost. The proceeds go to Bitcoin. ~$255M now. Up to ~$531M on exercise. March toward 210,000 BTC continues.
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Startup Archive@StartupArchive_·
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I really discourage 1-on-1s” Jensen famously has 60 direct reports. When Stripe founder Patrick Collison points out that this isn’t conventionally considered best practice, Jensen shares his reasoning: “I don’t do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say, I say to everybody all the time. I don’t really believe there’s any information that I operate on that only one or two people should hear about… I believe that when you give everybody equal access to information, that empowers people. And so that’s number one… Number two, if the CEO’s direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers you’ve removed in a company is probably something like seven.” Patrick offers to steal man the other side of the argument: “1-on-1s are where you provide coaching, where you maybe talk through personal goals and career advancement, where maybe you give feedback on something that you see somebody systematically not doing so well… Do you not do those things or do you do them in a different way?” Jensen responds: “I give you feedback right there in front of everybody. In fact, this is a really big deal. First of all, feedback is learning. For what reason are you the only person who should learn this?… We should all learn from that opportunity… Half the time I’m not right, but for me to reason through it in front of everybody helps everybody learn how to reason through it. The problem I have with 1-on-1s and taking feedback aside is you deprive a whole bunch of people that same learning. Learning from other people’s mistakes is the best way to learn.” Video source: @stripe (2024)
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Nate Esparza
Nate Esparza@Nate_Esparza·
if you can reply to this you might have gotten paid for posting on X Congrats 🎊
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Cameron Sorsby
Cameron Sorsby@CameronSorsby·
We’re launching a new @alphaschoolatx high school for aspiring entrepreneurs. Our promise: Make $1m by graduation, or receive a full tuition refund. Yes, this will be the coolest high school in the world. And we're building the best team in the world to make it happen. We’re looking for 2-3 exceptional coaches to help us guide the students towards achieving this aggressive but achievable goal. You won’t be giving lectures or assigning homework. You’ll be grilling them on their P&L, driving them to the car wash they bought, critiquing their email funnels, pushing them to do things 99% of the world doesn't believe is possible. Job posting is live and DMs are open.
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Juri 渡邉珠理
Juri 渡邉珠理@juriwatanabe_·
この弱気相場の中で、私は多くの方に 「なぜ今、ビットコインに対して強気なのですか?」と聞くようになりました。 というのも、その答えの中にこそ、ビットコインの本質的な価値や、 なぜそれが「お金の未来」と言われるのかのヒントが隠されていると思ったからです。 今回は、弊社CEO @gerovich の一日に密着し、彼の圧倒的な確信はどこから来るのかを探りました。 そして、私が彼から改めて気づかされたこと。 「ビットコインは常に変わらない存在だ」ということ。 私たちが 思わず恐れてしまう価格のボラティリティも、 その多くは市場のセンチメント、恐怖、そして欲望によって生まれるもの。 ビットコインそのものは、ただ静かに、変わらずそこに存在し続けている。 それが、私にとっての最大の気づきでした↓↓
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Dylan LeClair
Dylan LeClair@DylanLeClair·
Metaplanet is a perpetual Bitcoin accumulation machine. Our unwavering mandate is to utilize every capital markets tool available in one of the world's deepest financial markets to acquire BTC, relentlessly and at scale. We believe Japan represents one of the largest capital markets opportunities in the world for a Bitcoin treasury company, particularly in fixed income. It's clear that institutional adoption and acceptance of BTC is what's coming next, yet the infrastructure required to support it domestically doesn't fully exist at the requisite scale. The U.S. had its moment in 2024; Japan is next, and our aim is vertical integration across the ecosystem to be ready for it.
Simon Gerovich@gerovich

Today our Board approved the establishment of two new wholly owned subsidiaries, Metaplanet Ventures and Metaplanet Asset Management. Metaplanet Ventures is our commitment to Japan's Bitcoin ecosystem. We'll be investing ¥4 billion over the next few years into companies building Bitcoin financial infrastructure in Japan. Lending, payments, custody, stablecoins, derivatives, compliance. We're also launching an incubator for early stage Japanese founders and a grants program for open source Bitcoin developers, educators, and researchers. Japan has built the best regulatory framework in the world for digital assets. Now it needs the companies, the builders, and the infrastructure to match. We want to help make that happen. Metaplanet Asset Management, based in Miami, will be our digital credit and Bitcoin capital markets platform, bridging Asian and Western capital markets across yield, equity, credit, and volatility strategies. More to come as we launch specific products. Our first investment through Metaplanet Ventures: up to ¥400 million into JPYC, Japan's first licensed yen stablecoin. Every Bitcoin transaction has two sides. Bitcoin and a currency. As this market goes institutional, that currency side goes digital. JPYC is building that rail in Japan and we want to be part of it. TSE disclosures linked below.

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Wonder Of Things@wonderofthings·
Your workout ends when you leave the gym. Theirs ends when they leave the sauna. Cycling + 15 min sauna afterward = higher VO₂ max gains than cycling alone over 8 weeks. Post-workout heat exposure is also showing up in strength training research, greater anabolic signaling linked to muscle growth. The sauna isn’t recovery. It’s a performance multiplier. Most people are leaving gains on the table. Literally on a wooden bench at 180°F. x.com/foundmyfitness…
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Wonder Of Things@wonderofthings·
What small business owners are quietly building with AI while everyone else is “waiting to see”: → Dentist office owner built an AI receptionist. She answers calls, books appointments, sends reminders, handles cancellations, and follows up on no-shows. Patients don’t know she’s not real. He fired his answering service and saved $4k/month. → Food truck operator built a demand prediction system. It pulls weather data, local events, and his own sales history to tell him exactly where to park and how much to prep. He cut food waste by 40% in the first month. His competitors are still guessing. → Wedding photographer built an AI editor that learned her style. Color grading, cropping, skin tone consistency, all automated. Turnaround went from 6 weeks to 4 days. She doubled her bookings because she can actually deliver now. → Gym owner with 3 locations built a member churn predictor. It flags people likely to cancel based on visit frequency, class bookings, and payment patterns. His team reaches out before they quit. Retention is up 22%. His franchise offered to buy the tool. → Pest control guy built a custom CRM from scratch using vibe coding. Scheduling, invoicing, route optimization, customer history, chemical tracking — all in one app. Took him 6 weeks. The industry software he replaced cost him $1,200/month and couldn’t do half of it. None of these people write code for a living. The gap between people who build and people who “stay informed” is becoming the gap between who survives and who doesn’t.
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Chicken Genius
Chicken Genius@pakpakchicken·
Pumping gas at $120 per barrel. Gas how much 💀
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CZ 🔶 BNB
CZ 🔶 BNB@cz_binance·
Tried many AI models with OpenClaw, I found Kimi AI to be the most token efficient, good at coding, also the easiest to set up.
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Milk Road AI
Milk Road AI@MilkRoadAI·
Visa just gave your AI a debit card. A real, spendable Visa card created by an AI chatbot in under 10 seconds. No human types in a card number or visits a checkout page. The machine handles it all. A tool called AgentCard just went live on Claude Desktop Anthropic’s AI assistant. You say create a card and the AI generates a one-time virtual Visa, preloaded with whatever amount you set. Then it spends it, anywhere Visa is accepted on your behalf. Visa, Mastercard, Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all been building toward this moment for over a year. Visa calls it the trusted agent protocol, Mastercard calls it agent pay. Google published an open standard for agent payments and the infrastructure is already live. Santander and Mastercard just completed Europe’s first real AI‑agent payment in a live banking environment Now the part no one wants to talk about. Your AI agent can be manipulated and prompt injection a known, unsolved vulnerability can trick an agent into buying things you never asked for. The agent holds the card, makes the call and the agent can be fooled. Who is liable when an AI makes a bad purchase? You? Anthropic? Visa? The merchant? No one has answered this yet, regulators haven’t caught up, and no court has tested it.
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