Bret is exactly right here I’ve been saying this for five years and it should be a bigger deal. If we don’t hold those responsible to account and get what really happened on the public record we are guaranteeing that this tactic is used again and more potently next time.

@RandPaul DOCS: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/… "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)."

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory.

i see people are upset that elon didn't generate his wealth the right way, drawing a 7 figure annual salary from a prestigious washington dc based ngo with a 25% program expense ratio

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran. Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.

there were signs…

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

American works are taking home a smaller percentage of corporate profits than ever before. Employee compensation as a % of corporate GDP has fallen to ~54%, the lowest since records began in 1948. In other words, workers are receiving ~54% of the income generated by corporations, while the remaining ~46% goes to profits, interest, taxes, depreciation, and other corporate income components. At the same time, US corporate profits as a % of GDP are up to ~11.5%, the highest on record. Since 2001, employee compensation as a % of corporate GDP has declined -10 points. Over the same period, the corporate profits proportion of GDP has doubled. Workers are keeping less of what they produce than at any point in history.

Erik Voorhees explains how you can combine different AI tools to beat any single model "We're working on a concept called Minds. If you put modules of AI systems together the right way, you can get results better than any single model itself" "All the labs are focused on their models and beating each other's scores, but if you combine these things in creative interesting ways you get stuff no model can do on its own" "If no new models came out for five years, the advances in AI would still continue apace because people have not realized how much they can do even with the stuff created two years ago"

Stablecoins are becoming the settlement layer of the onchain economy, but they require secure infrastructure to scale. Chainlink provides the core capabilities powering the next generation of digital money.

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It’s most beneficial to pay attention to signal when it’s at its noisiest

Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic. Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($VVV) has 3M users and is growing fast. NEAR is the infrastructure making it possible, from private inference to confidential execution. How NEAR powers Venice 🧵

Worth a read 👇

I’m ready for the doomerism to wane. It’s been relentless.

This list is insane, people built everything in FHE: prediction markets, RWA settlements, private payments, casino games, compliance tools, etc. Each of these could be a billion dollar company given the right distribution channels and resources. AI FHE is clearly the winning combination, there are no limits to what can be done now!

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

Back in October, @jswihart explained why Zcash exists and why it started with Bitcoin: "Zero knowledge cryptography had been around for 30 years. Theoretical math. Academic. No practical application." "Satoshi wanted privacy for Bitcoin. Hal Finney was working on it. Scientists at Johns Hopkins, MIT, Technion figured it out. Bitcoin core said no, too novel." "They forked the Bitcoin code. Added zero knowledge encryption. That's Zcash."

BREAKING: Sergey Nazarov says Chainlink could become the backbone of tokenized funds. $1T Fidelity Int. launched $FILQ with Chainlink-powered onchain NAV data. Nazarov compared Chainlink’s role in RWAs today to how decentralized oracles helped DeFi grow from under $100M to over $200B.