ELON MUSK ISN’T JUST A CEO ANYMORE.

He’s playing a new game and the board just got bigger.

They call him a “special government employee.” 

That means: he’s not a full-time official, but he can advise. 

He still leads Tesla, SpaceX, X and his other ventures — but now with a seat, however informal, at the table. 

What makes this dangerous — or unstoppable:

• X remains a megaphone. Musk controls one of the biggest platforms on Earth. 

• Tesla’s valuation now reaches record highs, giving him financial clout that outmatches many entire industries. 

• SpaceX + satellite-internet + AI + robotics — he isn’t building gadgets. He’s building infrastructure.

• His ties to power aren’t behind closed doors. He’s got access to top offices. 

At this point, it isn’t about whether “he’s more powerful than the President.”

It’s about how many tools of power he now commands — money, media, technology, influence.

The question isn’t “Can he win?”

It’s “How long until the victory looks inevitable?”

#elonmusk #power #techgiants #Xplatform #futurevision

Why does capitalism sell me therapy to cope with the problems capitalism creates after convincing me my suffering is an individual failure not a systemic one...

Guess I just need to work harder...

🤷

First Taco Bell in Ireland opened last week, literal 3hr queues, what is wrong with people

Serious question for new node runners.

Us plebs need to know.

I’ve cooked up a great bitchat horror movie skit where I think I’m alone in a cabin in the woods and open up bitchat expecting no one but then BAM some anon appears on the network. Gripping chaos ensues. I believe the anon is the hash slinging slasher. But the anon is actually ____

i'm looking for a #job ... 8 years experience #golang programmer, lots of experience with APIs, #cryptography, #bitcoin and #nostr, badgerDB key value store, concurrency, #network and #protocols

i'm open to a temporary contract, full time, anything at all that will get me some more runway for something better if it's not long term.

Always split 8s and Aces is a lie

Counting, Deck estimation and interacting with the ploppies, I miss those days

Introducing PIP-177 (Pizza Improvement Proposal) to redefine pizza’s base unit —currently known as “a slice of pizza” — to “a whole fucking pizza.” By removing confusing fractions, this PIP aims to increase mainstream pizza consumption. No longer will you need to be ashamed when your friends ask how much pizza you ate and you answer “a slice.” Now you can proudly boast “I ate a whole fucking pizza,” which not only sounds cool but is also easier for everyone to understand according to me and the 5 other people who like this idea. Support PIP-177 today on Pizza Day and go eat A WHOLE FUCKING PIZZA! 🍕

I decided to go upside down for Bitcoin Pizza Day. #soon

I have 13 percent battery 🔋 what about you?

Whose pizza looks better?

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I wrote 12 words in a copy of The Bitcoin Standard 2 years ago. Sadly, the contents remain unclaimed. Maybe I should offer some clues here so someone can win it.

Hesiod 700 BC

Yes. I'm in Bitcoin for the original cypherpunk ethos (personal freedom, privacy, and decentralization) outlined in the white paper—which is why I also use Monero.

There is a large sell-out, highly-regulated price to pay for government adoption and "money go up." If Bitcoin is not used as a currency, and only as an historically well-performing, highly-volatile asset/commodity, it will still likely be a good investment, but it will have been neutered as a global cryptoCURRENCY, and have failed in its original vision.

Snowden has been warning the Bitcoin devs for years to bake in privacy on the protocol level, and the clock is ticking. Cash can be used privately. Everything will be tracked when we go full digital on a public blockchain. When AI is put to the task of on-chain analysis, all the hoops Bitcoiners have been jumping through for years to try and use Bitcoin privately will have been of little use.

There is a reason Bitcoin is being co-opted by the powers that be, while Monero is being delisted from the CEXs.

I've been buying them since the '90s. Now, I own a lifetime print subscription. Around 80% of the way to a complete collection, slowly buying the rest from private collectors.

The oldest print issue of 2600 I own.

Volume 4, Number 2 - February, 1987

The rest of the collection...

Each stack represents one year of issues. Most are complete.

#IKITAO #Tech #2600