The future won’t wait for you.

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OpenAI's Head of Compute: "We believe the world of recursion is not that far where AI will design the systems it needs to train and run the next generation of AI, including chips."

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"Most people use AI like a search bar. I use it like an employee. Five minutes of instruction buys me twenty minutes of finished work." -@MartyBent I discuss: ⚡️ The soup to nuts Bitcoin Brief workflow ⚡️ What I got done while the AI worked ⚡️ Am I a sellout for this?

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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says "a lot of parties" have expressed interest in joining the eBay acquisition.

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dfrlab.org/2026/07/13/dis…

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Belarus is seizing property and bank accounts of democracy activists living in Canada. Families still inside Belarus are being harassed as leverage. Photos from a rally in Alberta become evidence of "extremism." Apartments are confiscated without court dates or appeals. Since the fraudulent 2020 election and the mass protests that followed, over 1,100 political prisoners remain behind bars. More than 8,000 politically motivated convictions. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Belarusians have fled the country. But fleeing doesn't mean safety anymore. At least 207 participants in Belarusian Freedom Day events held in Canada, the US, UK, Poland, and Lithuania were identified by authorities and charged with "facilitating extremist activities." The playbook is straightforward: seize property back home, threaten family members who stayed behind, file charges in absentia with sentences up to seven years and fines up to $750,000. "Extremism" becomes whatever the regime decides it is. Facts and evidence are irrelevant. This is transnational repression. Authoritarian states projecting control beyond their borders to silence dissent in free countries. It's happening from Belarus, Russia, China, and Iran. The assumption that democratic nations provide a safe haven for political exiles is eroding in real time. Distance no longer protects you.

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Joe Lonsdale on China going from a fraction to over a third of new therapeutics by stealing US IP. The stat that kills: pre-IND approval in China takes 90 days. In the US it takes over 700 days. "We have to accelerate this if we're going to compete."

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"It's like a mafia where if you criticize it too much, they might just decide to make you wait a year. Unchecked, unaccountable power. We shouldn't have that in a free society." Lonsdale says the FDA needs competition and accountability.

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Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: "The primes have congressional districts locked down. They automatically get the contract even if their stuff sucks because it's a jobs program. It's not about deterring our enemies."

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Me when someone says they're waiting for bitcoin to drop back to $30k.

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Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B parameter model with open weights available for download. That last part is the story. Most people interact with AI by renting access to a black box. The model can be updated, the price can rise, the acceptable-use policy can tighten, a government can pressure the provider, the service can disappear. That's fine for casual chat. It's a dangerous foundation for critical business processes, medical research, financial workflows, and national infrastructure. Inkling is an American counterexample to Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and Qwen that are spreading globally because developers can download, modify, and build on them. The country that supplies the foundation shapes the next layer of global products, standards, and technical dependencies. Winning the benchmark while losing the ecosystem would be a hollow victory. The argument is Hayekian. Much of the knowledge that makes an organization valuable is tacit, local, and private. A centralized lab cannot collect all of it. It cannot define one alignment layer that reflects the values of every person, company, community, and country. Customizable models let organizations encode their own specialized knowledge into the weights instead of renting the same generic model as everyone else. Open weights are not the end state of AI sovereignty. They are one necessary step toward it. The bitcoin parallel is obvious. Bitcoin gives people the ability to own money without renting permission from a central bank. Open AI points toward the ability to own intelligence without depending on a corporate API. The AI race is not only about intelligence anymore. It is about sovereignty.

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Watch robot hands thread a wire harness. This is one of the hardest fine motor tasks in manufacturing and it's now being done with commercially available hardware.

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OpenAI's Head of Compute: "We believe the world of recursion is not that far where AI will design the systems it needs to train and run the next generation of AI, including chips."

@TFTC21

"Most people use AI like a search bar. I use it like an employee. Five minutes of instruction buys me twenty minutes of finished work." -@MartyBent I discuss: ⚡️ The soup to nuts Bitcoin Brief workflow ⚡️ What I got done while the AI worked ⚡️ Am I a sellout for this?

@TFTC21

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says "a lot of parties" have expressed interest in joining the eBay acquisition.

@TFTC21

dfrlab.org/2026/07/13/dis…

@TFTC21

Belarus is seizing property and bank accounts of democracy activists living in Canada. Families still inside Belarus are being harassed as leverage. Photos from a rally in Alberta become evidence of "extremism." Apartments are confiscated without court dates or appeals. Since the fraudulent 2020 election and the mass protests that followed, over 1,100 political prisoners remain behind bars. More than 8,000 politically motivated convictions. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Belarusians have fled the country. But fleeing doesn't mean safety anymore. At least 207 participants in Belarusian Freedom Day events held in Canada, the US, UK, Poland, and Lithuania were identified by authorities and charged with "facilitating extremist activities." The playbook is straightforward: seize property back home, threaten family members who stayed behind, file charges in absentia with sentences up to seven years and fines up to $750,000. "Extremism" becomes whatever the regime decides it is. Facts and evidence are irrelevant. This is transnational repression. Authoritarian states projecting control beyond their borders to silence dissent in free countries. It's happening from Belarus, Russia, China, and Iran. The assumption that democratic nations provide a safe haven for political exiles is eroding in real time. Distance no longer protects you.

@TFTC21

Joe Lonsdale on China going from a fraction to over a third of new therapeutics by stealing US IP. The stat that kills: pre-IND approval in China takes 90 days. In the US it takes over 700 days. "We have to accelerate this if we're going to compete."

@TFTC21

"It's like a mafia where if you criticize it too much, they might just decide to make you wait a year. Unchecked, unaccountable power. We shouldn't have that in a free society." Lonsdale says the FDA needs competition and accountability.

@TFTC21

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: "The primes have congressional districts locked down. They automatically get the contract even if their stuff sucks because it's a jobs program. It's not about deterring our enemies."

@TFTC21

Me when someone says they're waiting for bitcoin to drop back to $30k.

@TFTC21

Stay ahead of the curve. Subscribe to Bitcoin Brief, the newsletter Bitcoiners trust. tftc.io/the-bitcoin-br…

@TFTC21

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B parameter model with open weights available for download. That last part is the story. Most people interact with AI by renting access to a black box. The model can be updated, the price can rise, the acceptable-use policy can tighten, a government can pressure the provider, the service can disappear. That's fine for casual chat. It's a dangerous foundation for critical business processes, medical research, financial workflows, and national infrastructure. Inkling is an American counterexample to Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and Qwen that are spreading globally because developers can download, modify, and build on them. The country that supplies the foundation shapes the next layer of global products, standards, and technical dependencies. Winning the benchmark while losing the ecosystem would be a hollow victory. The argument is Hayekian. Much of the knowledge that makes an organization valuable is tacit, local, and private. A centralized lab cannot collect all of it. It cannot define one alignment layer that reflects the values of every person, company, community, and country. Customizable models let organizations encode their own specialized knowledge into the weights instead of renting the same generic model as everyone else. Open weights are not the end state of AI sovereignty. They are one necessary step toward it. The bitcoin parallel is obvious. Bitcoin gives people the ability to own money without renting permission from a central bank. Open AI points toward the ability to own intelligence without depending on a corporate API. The AI race is not only about intelligence anymore. It is about sovereignty.

@TFTC21

Watch robot hands thread a wire harness. This is one of the hardest fine motor tasks in manufacturing and it's now being done with commercially available hardware.