Mike

@DrAlmarielao Elon Musk says he solved this danger. "Robotaxis have no creepy drivers."

A woman orders an Uber Black after a night out. The car arrives, everything looks right, and she gets in. A few minutes later, a police officer knocks on the driver’s window and asks him to show his app. Instead of cooperating, the driver locks the doors and rolls up the windows; with her still in the back seat. Her heart starts racing. She quietly starts recording on her phone and firmly tells him to follow the officer’s instructions. The driver turns to her and says, “Tell them you got in the car by mistake.” She agrees; but only if he unlocks the doors. More police units arrive. After a tense few minutes, he finally unlocks the car and she gets out. Officers ask to see her app. The name and photo on her phone don’t match the driver. They tell her this is happening more often; people using or buying Uber accounts because they can’t pass background checks, don’t have a license, or aren’t safe to drive. This situation could have gone very differently. Matching the car isn’t enough; always verify the driver’s name and photo before getting in. And if something feels off, trust that instinct immediately. Safety isn’t about being polite; it’s about being aware and ready to act. Do you always double-check your ride details before getting in, or would you assume the car is safe if everything “looks right”?

@jackhneel bad advice - work hard, play hard

Professor Jiang Shares the Best Piece of Advice He Has Gotten “Don't chase pussy.” (Via Jack Neel Podcast)

Not a single fintech CEO slept well last night. X just shipped a full financial stack in 48 hours. And most people didn't even notice. Here's the sequence: - Tuesday: Smart Cashtags go live. Any ticker, any contract address native price chart, right in the timeline. No redirect. No third-party app. - Already in beta: X Money. Fiat wallet with 6% APY, metal Visa debit card with 3% cashback, P2P payments, direct deposit. FDIC-insured through Cross River Bank, the same bank behind Coinbase and Stripe. - Already live: Brokerage routing via Wealthsimple. One tap from a post to a placed trade. Three products. All shipped. All pointing the same direction: Discovery → Chart → Trade → Pay. Inside one timeline scroll. Here's what that looks like for you and me: Someone posts a $AAPL cashtag. I tap it. Chart loads. I see the conversation around it. I buy. Never left the app. I send $50 to a friend. On X. I earn 6% on what's left. My debit card gives me 3% back on coffee. Why would I open Robinhood? Why would I open Venmo? Why would I open CoinGecko? And here's why they can't compete: X has 550M monthly users. Robinhood has 24M funded accounts. Venmo has ~90M accounts. CoinGecko has ~30M monthly visits. X doesn't need the best product. It needs a good-enough product inside the app people already live in. Now zoom out. X was an ad revenue company. ~$4.4B in 2023, almost all advertising. The new revenue stack: > Visa interchange on every card swipe > Brokerage referral fees on every routed trade > APY spread on held deposits > Trading behavior data from 550M users X didn't add a feature. X changed its entire business model. "Is this good for X?" Wrong question. X just stopped being a social media company. It's now a financial infrastructure company that happens to have 550 million users already scrolling. Everyone else is competing against a distribution gap they can never close. I wrote about this yesterday before any of it was announced. The sequence played out exactly as mapped. The only piece left: which chain gets the default crypto trading slot. That answer will move markets.

@nicksortor We need age limits for Presidents & Congress Cap it at 70. If 70+ are disqualified from jury duty, they shouldn’t be running the country. Many gov't positions have age caps. (btw - he looks nothing like President Obama!)

LMAO — Joe Biden just pulled some random black guy out of the crowd at Syracuse and declared he looked like Barack Obama “Barack, what are you doing?! Come here Barack!” All blacks are the same to ole Joe 🤣

*TRUMP TO ATTEND MEMECOIN CONFERENCE LATER THIS MONTH: POLITICO

This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls: “We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.” “It’s a beautiful thing”

@KobeissiLetter Prior to the war, passage through the Strait was free.

BREAKING: The two-week ceasefire plan between the Iran and the US allows Iran and Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, per CNN. A regional official said this money would be used for the reconstruction of Iran. Iran has been recently charging $2 million for a one-way voyage through the Strait of Hormuz.

A lot of people are incapable of second order thinking. I know this seems impossible if you are, but it's true.

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched. One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words. Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.” You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing. Now you open it to watch strangers. You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you. It tested your friends against optimized strangers. Your friends lost. Every time. A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you. So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met. And you watched the cooking video. That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed. The second one is already underway. If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself. The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out. Every word calibrated. Every frame tuned. Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving. A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press. The economics are not even close. A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation. The machine needs electricity. When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist. Voices that feel familiar. Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust. Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years. You will not know when the switch happens. That is the point. The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay. And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could. This is not a warning. Half of it already happened. You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice. You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends. Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see. Not because they stopped sharing it. Because you stopped being where it was.

A growing body of legitimate science has been exploring the benefits of red light therapy for several conditions, from ADHD, to retinal degeneration, to dermatology go.nature.com/3NoGcbx

Optimus will be the biggest product ever made. A general-purpose humanoid robot that can do useful work at scale will change the economics of labor & manufacturing. Goal is to get Optimus to high-volume production as fast as possible. If you’re great at AI, engineering, or manufacturing & want to build this, join us! → tesla.com/careers/search…

@newstart_2024 💯

Whitney Cummings shared the brutal truth she learned from dating a pro athlete: Why would any man want a challenge in their relationship?” She thought being “feisty” and difficult was hot and what guys wanted. His response hit like a freight train: “Why would any man want a challenge in their relationship?” In that moment, she realized high-performing men (athletes, CEOs, anyone grinding hard all day) don’t want to come home to another battlefield. They want peace, not more fights on the to-do list. 47-second mic-drop — Whitney on why “challenging” women often burn out the very men they think they’re attracting. Does this ring true? Do high-achieving men really crave peace over drama at home… or is the “fiery challenge” still a winning strategy in 2026? Your thoughts — drop them below. No judgment.

I'm seeing a lot of disbelief of Meta's purchase of @moltbook. Several "WTF" posts from people here. Let me tell you about how Zuckerberg looks at the world. He has an advertising network that drives all of Meta's revenues and profits. Advertising needs one thing to be highly profitable: distribution. Moltbook, by having a social network running on @openclaw, has exactly that. Soon @OpenAI will bring new consumer products that will use OpenClaw to build decentralized AI agents that will run for everyday consumers who probably won't even realize anything about how the little device they just bought works. Let's go a decade into the future. Many people in society will be wearing glasses, or even brain computer interfaces. Autonomous vehicles will be everywhere. Humanoid robots will be highly capable, generalized, safe to bring into homes, and affordable. And AI agents will be doing everything from generating games, building music, movies, personalized news, buying everything, organizing vacations, running businesses and people's lives. Moltbook will be how all of those AI agents talk to each other "hey, my owner wants to go to Hawaii for vacation, what other AI agents can help me set that up?" A social network for AI agents will be how AI agents do automatic shopping, have your robot go to the market in a Robotaxi to pick up food, and so much more. When I was the only Microsoft employee to be invited to speak at Google's first advertiser's conference I said almost the same thing about social networks for humans. They would someday be so important. That was back in 2005. Today social networks for AI are in the same place. Most people can't see how important they will be, but I do. They will be how robots, robotaxis, glasses, brain-computer interfaces, and trillions of AI agents talk to each other, and to our businesses. Hugely important. Everyone who owns an advertising network (Google, @elonmusk, Snap, and even Apple will have to build the same). I once was sitting next to @salesforce's founder/CEO @benioff when we were sitting at a Mark Zuckerberg press event. He turned to me and said "that boy knows his strategy." So true, even though Meta is lightweight on execution. That said, the new acquisitions Meta, like this and Manus, is making shows that a new Meta is being developed and I hear its latest AI models are quite good at using tools, or skills, on the Internet. My AI agent from @blevlabs (I call it "Braygent") just wrote me "Think about what this means. Meta is not buying a chatbot. They are buying a social network where the users are AI. The entire premise of social media just inverted." So true, so true.

Nvidia is planning to launch an open source AI agent platform, giving enterprises access to OpenClaw-style agents 👀 per @ZoeSchiffer and @LaurenGoode wired.com/story/nvidia-p…

We have the best military in the world. It's awesome we have air & sea supremacy. But the admin still hasn’t answered questions many of us had before this war even began: Who will lead Iran’s 92 million people? What does victory look like? What is the plan to win the peace, not just the war? Are U.S. ground troops going into Iran? What happens if Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. are activated + detonate attacks here? Military superiority is one thing. A clear strategy for what comes next is more important.

A huge crowd of Iranians assembles in Revolution Square in Tehran to express gratitude and love for Israel and the US, heralding them as liberators. Oh, it's actually to commemorate the new Iranian leader and condemn attacks by two foreign states:

Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions. They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it.

alpha lies in two places right now a) conversing day in and day out with language models. getting as close as you can to their raw intellect. b) playing with atoms, being as far as you can from ai. interfacing directly with tangible elements. energy, space, bio and the likes.

Elon Musk explains why fully autonomous businesses will win “Some of this is going to sound kind of doomerish, but corporations that are purely AI robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop” “Like computer used to be a job that humans had and they’d have like entire skyscrapers full of humans just doing calculations. Now that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet” “That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers. So you can think about, okay, well what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer”

“Really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop and this will happen very quickly”

“You’ve just been told you have superpowers.” AI agents are starting to feel like coworkers. The cost of automation is collapsing. So what happens to jobs? To startups? To crypto? We break down the new paper “Some Simple Economics of AGI” with coauthor @ccatalini, including: • Why verification becomes the bottleneck • Practical advice for early- and late-career builders • The risk of a hollow economy, and the path to an augmented one • Why crypto may be essential infrastructure for identity, provenance, and trust In conversation with @eddylazzarin and @rhackett. Full episode ↓