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Science, technology, economics and geopolitics predictions for 2026 and later: youtube.com/watch?v=8Ow5Exjyโ€ฆ
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They're not smiling anymore. The Four Palestine Action terrorists who attacked an Elbit Systems Site in the UK, causing over a million pounds of damage and beating a police officer with a sledgehammer within an inch of her life, have been jailed. The white guy got almost eight years in prison, the two white girls got five years, and the Indian received four years and eight months. It would have taken five seconds of my time to find out their names, but they don't deserve that.
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Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk ๐Ÿ’ช
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Elon created 4,400 millionaires today. 400 with over over $100 million in net worth.
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NEW: Space X is worth half as much as the entire Toronto Stock Exchange. (All 2,500 companies)
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Largest companies in the world by market cap: 1. Nvidia: $4.9T 2. Google: $4.3T 3. Apple: $4.2T 4. Microsoft: $2.8T 5. Amazon: $2.5T 6. TSMC: $2.2T 7. SpaceX: $2.1T 8. Broadcom: $1.8T 9. Saudi Aramco: $1.7T 10. Tesla: $1.4T
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A new milestone.
JUST IN: Elon Musk officially becomes the world's first trillionaire following SpaceX IPO.
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RT @sapinker: I've have the same exchange many times!
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Who got some SpaceX stocks today? (I bought some. But a small amount.)
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The islamic regime is selling murdered Iranian women for parts. Armenia has confiscated massive amounts of undeclared Iranian natural women's hair which was brought across the border. This illegal trend has been skyrocketing since, wait for it, January. Almost all the morgue victims from the massacre were men, and not women. We are beginning to learn what actually happened to the girls who were massacred back then.
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Israel detains flotilla members for one day, then released - European and Canadian media and politicians are ๐Ÿ˜ก Libya detained flotilla members for over a week and continue to detain them - European and Canadian media and politicians ... ๐Ÿฆ—
Ten members of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud land convoy were detained by eastern Libyan authorities more than a week ago, and their detention has now been extended. Unlike with Israel, the case has received no international media coverage or global outrage
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The new Ribbentrop Molotov pact.
Democrats are the Party of Unity. They have finally brought the Communists and Nazis together as one!
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RT @Sajwani: Tehran under fire now
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The federal governmentโ€™s decision to extend its firearms amnesty once again is an admission that its firearm confiscation scheme is ineffective and deeply flawed. Ottawa should make the amnesty permanent and abandon its plan to confiscate legally acquired firearms from law-abiding Canadians. Gun confiscation programs will never stop gang violence, cross-border gun smuggling, and the criminal misuse of firearms. We will continue to use every lawful tool at our disposal to shield Albertans from any form of firearms confiscation. Alberta believes in a principled, evidence-based approach to firearms policy that targets violent criminals and illegal guns, not responsible firearms owners who follow the law. (And yes. That is a picture of me skeet shooting with friends.)
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1M tons to orbit should be possible in roughy 5 years
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I hope so. My fear is that the maximally self-improving model will win. Even if not truth seeking.
The maximally truth-seeking AI will win in the end.
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In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist. The west is like the shire. We must save the shire.
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Argentina is making history.
Argentina is the first country in the world to develop a legal framework for AI personhood. President Milei is positioning the entire country as a special economic zone for the singularity. Just that same week, Anthropic called for a global pause on frontier AI. -- 80% of Anthropic's code is written by Claude. Engineers shipping 8x more per quarter. -- US added 172,000 jobs in May vs 85,000 expected. Unemployment: 4.3%. -- Autonomy time horizons are doubling every four months. 100x algorithmic improvement is already baked into existing architectures. -- The three countries with the highest robotics penetration: Sweden, South Korea, Germany have the lowest unemployment on Earth.
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The Woke Reich isolationist dipshits around here trashed Israel and Netanyahu last night for hammering the Iranian regime after it fired 11 ballistic missiles into Israel.ย  Tonight, as weโ€™re hammering the Iranian regime for taking out one of our Apache helicopters, theyโ€™re mostly silent. What a bunch of pathetic morons. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The unity of arenas that Iran tried to reestablish did not succeed. Israel attacked Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and will continue to do so until they disarm. Hezbollah is not interested in abiding the Lebanese state because it is not Lebanese but Iranian, and their project is to transform Lebanon into a Shiite Islamist regime. With such jihadists, no agreement helps. Any agreement allows them to grow stronger again. If the world and the US tired of wars, then support fully Israel to finish this war fast and successfully. Israel to hit Hezbollah hard everywhere in Lebanon in order to achieve the long-awaited peace. The failed Lebanese state will not dismantle Hezbollah, it cannot. Any attempt will lead to civil war. Israel is responsible for protecting its citizens and communities from an existential threat, and it will fight until it wins. The people of Israel live! @i24NEWS_EN
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