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Billions of dollars.
Millions of followers.
Thousands of attendees.
Half a dozen governments.
And one idea whose time has come.
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Balaji
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Balaji
@balajis
Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.
- Jetpacks are now real. x.com/mmm_machiavellโฆ
- Jetpacks are becoming real. x.com/HiraethResistsโฆ
- This is a fall of the Berlin Wall moment. An end of the USSR moment. A far left leader admits heโs been lying. That it was all by design. That it was happening. And that itโs bad that it is.Holy. Shit. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an โopen borders experimentโโฆ "This happened by design, not accident. Immigration policies were reformed deliberately. It has been a failure. They pretended it wasnโt happening.โ
00:00 - The net result of FTX is that billions of dollars was stolen from crypto investors to give to Democrat-aligned politicians, nonprofits, and journalists. This is why there may be no prosecution.
- Hardware is hard. Thatโs why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time. Remember โ countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping
- The full scope of what is happening is completely unprecedented in our lifetimes. The Trump executive orders were clearly meticulously planned to strike every single source of blue power, simultaneously, both in the US and abroad. A fusillade of legal cruise missiles.
- I cofounded a clinical genomics company that sold for $375M You work at BuzzfeedReplying to @RMac18Not to say that a co charges money to open emails is wrong. But people like him handwave and throw out whataboutisms suggesting theyโve been blocked from affecting some great societal change when all theyโve been doing is mining crypto and tweeting.
- Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.
- Grok is the best integrated ChatGPT is the fastest Claude is the smartest Perplexity is best for web search Gemini handles the largest files
- A memecoin is a zero-sum* lottery. There is no wealth creation. Every buy order is simply matched by a sell order. And after an initial spike, the price eventually crashes and the last buyers lose everything. * Itโs actually negative sum if the platform takes a cut.
- Satya wins. Reflexes of a startup CEO. Resources of a trillion dollar company. Pulls this together in 48 hours from a cold start. Gets it signed and over the line before markets open.
- France has 67.4M people. India has 1.38B people. But France has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and India does not. So why do people claim the world order is "democratic"?
