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Matt Berk

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As things scale we just select for shitty people.

absolutely insane. openai’s origin story reads like a shakespearean tragedy… idealists who thought they had divine purpose slowly devoured by alignment politics, ego, & billion dollar incentives.



My stepdad’s Alzheimer’s is getting bad. I have to tell him that my mom is his wife. He’ll say, “Really!? Boy I did pretty well.”


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Jensen is getting desperate. China is shutting off a major src of demand for Nvidia chips, transshipment to Chinese SOE DCs. I have pretty solid src that just 6000 out of 100k racks in Meta's Hyperion DC will be Nvidia cards. Google TPUs are supplying most of its future demand.…

tphuang's tweet image. Jensen is getting desperate. China is shutting off a major src of demand for Nvidia chips, transshipment to Chinese SOE DCs.

I have pretty solid src that just 6000 out of 100k racks in Meta's Hyperion DC will be Nvidia cards. Google TPUs are supplying most of its future demand.…

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Automotive factory in China. And at the same time German unions seriously request a move to four days workweek without pay cut. In which parallel mental universe do they live? They may achieve zero days workweek instead.


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Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve…

TheFP's tweet image. Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve…

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Cannot emphasize enough how totally meaningless this is to anyone under 40. To the extent we think about these people at all, we think about how their leadership led to the mess we’re in now.

My Republican Party. Is it yours, too?

CountryFirstRep's tweet image. My Republican Party.

Is it yours, too?


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Socialism: unionize, bankrupt your employer, lose your job, but maintain your "sense of solidarity"

Josh_Young_1's tweet image. Socialism: unionize, bankrupt your employer, lose your job, but maintain your "sense of solidarity"

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Goldman Sachs is building an 800,000-square-foot, $500 million campus in Dallas, which will be the bank’s largest US operation outside New York and house over 5,000 employees when it opens in 2028.​ JPMorgan Chase has expanded its Texas workforce to over 31,000, surpassing its…


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Sent a document to my boyfriend’s work email so he could print it for me and got colleague-zoned

jquadddddd's tweet image. Sent a document to my boyfriend’s work email so he could print it for me and got colleague-zoned
jquadddddd's tweet image. Sent a document to my boyfriend’s work email so he could print it for me and got colleague-zoned

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The lefts: We need more state The state:

MichaelAArouet's tweet image. The lefts: We need more state

The state:

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Given towering expectations on both sides, Zohran Mamdani will be a great disappointment to both his supporters and his critics. NYC’s problems are intractable & many. Yet a single mayor can’t fritter away 300 years of economic hegemony. NYC muddles through in its usual way.


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Robots are a fundamentally different form factor from the one enabling the dominant AI use case today: datacenters/hyperscalers that enable generative AI. Form factor drives different system, product and component design requirements. Naturally, there is a somewhat independent…

FT Exclusive: Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race, thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations. Read more from his interview with the Financial Times: on.ft.com/4oZUXyB

FT's tweet image. FT Exclusive: Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race, thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations.

Read more from his interview with the Financial Times: on.ft.com/4oZUXyB


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📈 Global Broad Money Supply (2000–Q3 2025) Global broad money supply* rose to $142 trillion in September 2025, up from $26 trillion in 2000, reflecting a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0%. Growth accelerated notably in 2025, increasing 9.1% year-to-date and 6.7%…

econovisuals's tweet image. 📈 Global Broad Money Supply (2000–Q3 2025)

Global broad money supply* rose to $142 trillion in September 2025, up from $26 trillion in 2000, reflecting a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0%. Growth accelerated notably in 2025, increasing 9.1% year-to-date and 6.7%…

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hahaha… here we go… bring the Sharia on one Human Right at a time…

Is Polygamy A Human Right? For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights will rule on polygamy: eclj.org/family/echr/la… #ECHR #HumanRights #polygamy

ECLJ_Official's tweet image. Is Polygamy A Human Right? For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights will rule on polygamy: eclj.org/family/echr/la…
#ECHR #HumanRights #polygamy


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SPOTTED: Average first home buyers in 2050

NorthmanTrader's tweet image. SPOTTED:
Average first home buyers in 2050

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As for unconventional policy, the QE and zero-rate era of the early 2020s, there’s no question that it amplified wealth gains for those who already owned assets. The top 10% saw massive appreciation. Lower-income and younger Americans gained less, even with temporary fiscal…


Remember, if your cat was big enough to kill you, it would.

Trump's energy and trade policies



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He drew the diagram on the back of a napkin, giving birth to an entire generation of non-rigorous analysis.

US economist Arthur Laffer, best known for the theory that bears his name and as the Republican Party’s anti-tax bard, says Western economies are stuck on the wrong side of his “Laffer Curve” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



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NB: experts were not previously convinced that sodium batteries would not be viable until 2035. CATL has been producing them for 2yrs. Experts have known they were likely to be mass-produced by 2025. Mass production was delayed by the dramatic fall in LiFePo4 battery prices.

🚨🇨🇳 REPORT: Chinese company CATL is mass-producing its 1st sodium battery. Experts were previously convinced that Sodium Batteries would not be viable until 2035. It has the same capacity and size as lithium, at 1/10th the cost, lasts 25 years, runs fine at -30°C, and highly…

RTSG_News's tweet image. 🚨🇨🇳 REPORT: Chinese company CATL is mass-producing its 1st sodium battery.

Experts were previously convinced that Sodium Batteries would not be viable until 2035.

It has the same capacity and size as lithium, at 1/10th the cost, lasts 25 years, runs fine at -30°C, and highly…


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28 --> The median age of first-time U.S. homebuyer in 1992 40 --> The median age of first-time U.S. homebuyer in 2025 Source: @nardotrealtor

NewsLambert's tweet image. 28 --> The median age of first-time U.S. homebuyer in 1992

40 --> The median age of first-time U.S. homebuyer in 2025

Source: @nardotrealtor

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