Great article on increasing solitude of our societies, in this case US but same probably in EU to a lesser extent: "Derek Thompson's essay "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" argues that Americans have largely stopped having people over. The headline stat comes from combining the old DDB Needham Life Style surveys Robert Putnam used in *Bowling Alone* with a new replication by Data For Progress. The share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026, roughly a 70% drop. Most other forms of socializing also fell by double digits over the last 30 years, including cards, bars, sporting events, and volunteering. The decline in hosting was steeper than the much-discussed drop in church attendance. He rules out two comforting explanations. People haven't just moved dinners to restaurants, since solo dining is rising and face-to-face socializing is down overall. They also haven't replaced parties with other social activities. Exercise and travel are up, but exercise is mostly solitary, and time spent at home has jumped sharply since the 2010s. His explanations: 1. Harried dual-earner households. As societies get richer, leisure starts to feel like work, and planning a dinner party is basically unpaid project management. Women historically ran the family social calendar. When they moved into paid work, men didn't take over that job. He admits this can't be the whole story, because total leisure time has actually increased. 2. Intensive parenting. Parents, especially fathers, now spend far more time with their kids, and that time comes out of evenings that used to go to hosting adults. 3. Shrinking friend networks. Close friendships are declining, most sharply among people without college degrees, so hosting is becoming a luxury good. People who never host skew toward independents and non-graduates. He speculates that weaker social ties may lead to weaker party attachment, rather than the other way around. 4. Home is too comfortable. Americans spent almost two extra hours a day at home between 2003 and 2022, much of it on screens and short-form video. His closing idea is a "Lump of Leisure" theory, a twist on the Lump of Labor fallacy. Technology hasn't made human work unnecessary, but it has made other people less necessary for fun. Social leisure turns out to be finite and easy to displace. He frames this as a coordination failure rather than a personal one: a dinner party requires schedules, cleaning, food, allergies, and the risk of a dull evening, while TikTok asks nothing of you. A footnote adds that if everyone gets a bit busier, the difficulty of coordinating a get-together rises multiplicatively, so small increases in individual busyness could produce large drops in socializing overall."

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i fell in love with crypto because it was a means to completely change people's lives in ways we have never thought of it changed my life, and it's changed many others people will also use it's rails to fund and incentivize projects that will genuinely change the world, some in small ways, some in big ways of course there will be some negative actors, but that's a part of everything, just have to dull one side of the double edged sword and sharpen the other vote with your money and your voice, volume and attention to good people is always a good thing have fun trading, but remember there are much bigger purposes in life. and this has nothing to do with one or any coin in particular, just a reminder health is wealth, always be kind

Cycles Create Wealth. Months Never! (September 21, 2026) $AMD’s previous major cycle began after the December 2015 monthly red candle at $2.36 and ran to the February 2022 high of $132.96 — a little over six years and roughly 56x if you held the full move. This cycle’s monthly red candle printed in June 2025 while $AMD was trading between $111 and $148, all shared with my Patreon and X subscribers with "MUST-READ posts". I am not claiming the same exact path will repeat for $AMD, but I am happy with a 2x from here. That is why I keep saying wealth is created by long-term investment, not by trading in and out. Conviction is NEVER measured in months or a couple of years; it is measured across a 3-to-10-year cycle. I look for historical patterns, analyze charts and keep track of company fundamentals, have regular meetings with fund directors and managers from prestigious private banks, and share how we see the cycle (that kind of information is rarely available on social media unless you have worked in the field). I tell my community to keep everything simple when the majority like to trade in and out on X, outsmarting the whales: treat a handful of stocks as cores and keep for a cycle, with $AMD being one of them. Every meaningful drawdown is an opportunity to add. I do not rely only on red candles; I use my other proprietary indicators I do not share in public so they cannot be copied. My personal appraoch is very straightforward: stay with large-cap leaders in each sector, treat small and meme names as lottery tickets only, keep dollar-cost averaging in my core stocks only when the market offers a discount, and double down when the indicators flip bullish—especially when the bears are loudest. These strategies have played out successfully in recent years. I got Chad @chad_ventures to add more $AMD around $450, $480 and $500 after he built his initial position at $150, Seth @redfoxryder to load up heavily at $440-$450 after sharing my first buy order at $110 to $130 with him, and some of my closest friends at $150-$220. The last time my patreon community added aggressively was from $110 to $200 from 2025 to early 2026, when most were skeptical and some even unsubscribed to have missed the real move! Sorry that the stock market is never for the majority but for the patient and disciplined few only! Once again, thank you to my community who trusted my process. If a content creator simply told me to trade in and out, I would definitely quit because that is NEVER the right way to build and create your wealth and very often you will miss the biggest gains and the later parabolic move! Trading can be daily practice for fun and pocket money. Investment is an art. Long-term thinking and wisdom is extremely rare on social media because 99.999% of accounts are traders. I share my own buy and sell orders with Tier 3 subscribers only and will give even more detail in the personalized Tier 4 service. My proven track record speaks for everything. You can check my previous tweets on X and the $AMD gains screenshots I have posted before (I will not repost them here), when most claimed that they had shared their bullish signals for $AMD before. I have been lucky to highly concentrate on the right names in each cycle: $PLTR from 2023 onward, $NVDA since 2023, and $AMD since 2025. Those three now make up more than 90 percent of my portfolios. Luck definitely played a part, but luck does not last—my core positions come from meticulous research, both fundamental and technical, along with patience and conviction. I share my top holdings transparently and openly on X so anyone can watch the journey in real time, because I want others to succeed on their own path as well! @cantonmeow @Jimmy_tesla_01 @redfoxryder @chad_ventures @Hiteshp99 @sheslee @tonylee80

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i remember this random night in college, it was the middle of the winter and we all came home drunk turned on smash bros (on nintendo 64) and played 1v1s for some reason that night, me and my bro josh were debating who was the best player in the house, i obviously thought my fox could easily beat his yoshi so we put $10 on it, 5 lives, no items, just raw talent i lost okay, i easily saw where i misplayed, was a bit too aggro, so i said "double or nothing" lost the 2nd game "double or nothing" lost again, and now i owed josh $40 ($10, $20, $40) i stood up, took a quick lap around the room, inhale, exhale, "double or nothing" back then $80 was A LOT of money, but i was confident that i could beat him, i was the better player, no way i could lose 4 times in a row lol i ended up losing, but josh being the homie he was said that i didnt owe him money, IF i decided to never bet again because you see, i was quite the degen on campus, i just loved to put money behind my convictions even though i didnt have much it was just fun, and i loved being right a few days go by, and one day brother josh just comes home to a $100 bill sitting on his desk ($80 + interest) i had to return this promise because i knew the rest of my life i would be taking bets, risks, trades on myself, it was just a part of my identity so i kept taking risks at every stage of my life joining the start up vs the corp quitting the dope job to do my own thing asking my wife on a first date buying my first nft trying to make my first video a lot has changed since then one thing ive learned through these years, is the people that win the biggest are the ones that take the biggest and highest convicted bets on themselves not meaning certain "trades" or moves or whatever, but on constantly improve their craft and what they love to do take the risk take the right risks it'll always pay off you either win, or you lose random story i know, but i could still beat anyone with fox

If you ask the Tesla engineers behind Cybercab to sum up its design in one rule, the answer is these four plain words: "donot waste a gram" 🔥 It sounds like a simple rule about using less. But the closer you look, the smarter it gets 🔥 ✂️ WHAT $TSLA DELETED Model 3 and Model Y surround their battery electronics with a separate wall, top cover, seal, and a handful of bolts. Cybercab replaces all of that with a single stamping, and that same battery cover doubles as the car's floor. The heat pump's compressor bolts straight onto the refrigerant manifold, wiping out every refrigerant hose in the system. And instead of running dedicated high-voltage circuits from the battery to the thermal system, Cybercab simply taps power from the drive inverter, which already carries high voltage. The electric oil pump is gone, along with its circuitry and firmware, replaced by a simple mechanical one. So is the one-shot pyro fuse. The front and rear body modules even skip e-coating, part of eliminating a paint shop that can cost a few hundred million dollars to build. Even fun gets audited. Tesla's head of drive units isn't a fan of Easter eggs, because someone would have to spend time grinding a logo into a die that never needed one. As a colleague put it, if it adds a penny, it's too much. ⚖️ SPENDING A LITTLE TO SAVE A LOT Here's the twist. Sometimes not wasting a gram means adding one. Every battery module board now gets a wireless chip, adding 20 to 30 cents to its cost. In exchange, Tesla deletes a communications harness that might cost about a dollar, plus roughly 50 cents to install. Robots hate harnesses too, because they're notoriously messy to automate. The battery enclosure switches to steel, which costs about $1.90 per kilogram versus $5 to $8 for aluminum. To get it down to just 1.2 millimeters thick, engineers add local reinforcements and extra parts exactly where they're needed. Steel loses on weight, but Tesla says the numbers still come out ahead on cost. The motor's cooling passages move out of pricey electrical steel and into the cheaper die-cast aluminum surrounding it. Every job goes to the cheapest material that can do it well. 🏋️ THE WAR ON HIDDEN PADDING Padding is one of the sneakiest ways a car gains weight. If the target is 1,600 kilograms, every team designs to 1,600. The car still has to meet every requirement, but no team gets to slip in its own 20% cushion on top. Testing works the same way. Parts are expected to fail between 95% and 100% of their spec, because a part that survives far beyond it is hauling around material it doesn't need. That matters because weight snowballs. A heavier car needs bigger brakes and a stronger structure, which pile on even more weight. The good news is that efficiency snowballs too. Cybercab turned out more efficient than Tesla expected, so the pack needed fewer cells than planned, leaving spare room inside. ♻️ WASTE IS MEASURED OVER A LIFETIME The rule doesn't stop at the factory door. Battery modules are now potted individually instead of as one solid pack. If one module fails, three healthy ones worth about $1,500 each get saved. On a Model Y structural pack, that same failure means replacing the whole thing. Reusable contactors can cut power under load a few times and keep right on working, so a minor fender bender doesn't have to blow a one-shot fuse and send the car to service. We usually judge a car's efficiency the day it rolls out of the factory. Tesla is judging Cybercab on the day it finally retires, at least half a million miles later, and counting every gram it never had to replace.

Grok Bot summary of Elon Musk's new interview with CCTV. 🇨🇳 China and President Xi - Elon was part of the delegation to China in May and met President Xi. - He called Xi "a great leader" and said China has "prospered immensely" under him. - He says the progress is visible year to year, and even within a single year: new buildings, new infrastructure, and ordinary people clearly doing better. 🏭 Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai - He says China has been strong at manufacturing "for the past two or three thousand years." - His words: "The magic of Tesla Shanghai is because of Chinese." - He described the Tesla China team as talented, hardworking and trustworthy, with excellent quality and efficiency. - He called the factory "a gem" and said it's beautiful if you visit. - Tesla puts real effort into worker care: good healthcare, good food, and a place people enjoy coming to work. 🚕 Cybercab - The interviewer called September "Cybercab month" because crowds kept gathering around the car. - Elon says it was designed to look futuristic on purpose. He doesn't want the look of streets to stay the same, and he thinks cars (and maybe even clothing) should start looking more futuristic again, the way fashion changed fast from the 1950s to the 1990s. - Where it runs: - It has no steering wheel, pedals, side mirrors or rearview mirror. - It's operating commercially in Texas right now. - Florida, Nevada and several other states are coming soon. - He expects California by around the middle of next year. 🤖 AI is moving fast - "The rate of AI improvements… makes my head spin. I'm in AI and it still makes my head spin." - He says there's a big breakthrough when he goes to bed, another when he wakes up, and another by lunch. 🧠 Grok 4.7 and Grok Bot - xAI releases a new model roughly every month or two. - He called Grok 4.7 "a solid workhorse of a model." - He was candid that it's not as good as Anthropic's Opus 5.5, which had just come out. - His reasoning is that xAI has done AI for about three years, while Anthropic has done it for about six. - He expects Grok to catch up to the frontier (the very top models) "sometime next year, most likely." - Grok Bot, which he describes as a personal digital assistant, is growing about 100% a month. - He said Grok 4.7 has been trained on only "a little bit" of SpaceX real-world engineering data so far. 🚀 Grok's big opportunity: real-world engineering - He thinks SpaceX data, and maybe Tesla data, can make AI extremely good at real-world engineering. - "What Anthropic did extremely well was make AI excellent at software engineering. But no one has yet made AI excellent at real-world engineering." - He sees that gap as Grok's chance. 🇨🇳 Chinese AI models - He called Chinese AI models "generally outstanding." - He thinks China is "by far the best" at performance per unit of compute, meaning the most results from limited chips. - He predicts China will solve its chip limits (lithography and chipmaking) in about two to three years, faster than most people expect. ⚡ Electricity: China vs the US - Earlier this year, China's electricity output passed the US, Europe and India combined. - China produces roughly three times as much electricity as the US today. - He thinks it will likely reach about four times, which would match the population difference. - The interviewer noted Elon had raised compute and electricity shortages as a serious concern at a G20 session in early September. 🛡️ AI safety - He suggested a joint working committee on AI safety. - He argued that regulation in only the US or only China won't work. It has to apply fairly to AI made in any country. - He said the US and China are the two that really matter here, and working together would be good for all of humanity. 🦾 Humanoid robots and Optimus - The interview team played rock-paper-scissors with Optimus. They won the first two rounds, and Optimus won every round after that. - Elon says robots will always beat humans on reaction time. Human speed is limited by biology, while robots can get better actuators, sensors, cameras and more AI compute. - He enjoyed watching the robot games (boxing, wrestling, gymnastics). He says it's fun, but it also shows real progress, because "it wouldn't be entertaining if the robots just fell over." - "The future is going to have a lot of robots. Like a lot, a lot." 📈 His robot predictions - There will be at least 1 billion humanoid robots within 10 years, "no later than 10 years." He called that "an easy prediction." - If the number roughly doubles every year, you get about 10 times more every three to four years. - That works out to about 10 billion robots in about 15 years, and about 100 billion in about 20 years. - He agreed that one humanoid robot could be about five times as productive as a human. 🌍 What life looks like with robots (his "90% good outcome - He puts the good outcome at about 90% likely and a bad outcome at about 10%, so AI safety still needs close attention. - In the good future, everyone has robot "buddies," like a personal C-3PO or R2-D2, "but even better." - Robots could care for elderly parents, watch over kids, tutor children one-on-one, and do almost any job. - Many companies could be one person running hundreds or thousands of robots, both physical and digital. - He predicts "effectively universal high income." He also said: "It's not clear to me that money will even matter in the future." - This is an "age of abundance," with more goods and services than humans could possibly use. He says that's hard to imagine because all of human history has been about shortages, like not enough food or heat. 🔋 Why robots change the economy - Humans spend about 20 years growing up and about 20 years in retirement, so roughly half a life is productive. - Humans also need sleep, food and breaks, so most can work about 40 to 50 hours a week. - Robots can work 168 hours a week, start at "working age" immediately, and never retire. 💰 Will a few tech giants control everything? - Elon says no. The abundance will be more than anyone could consume. - "If you want a castle, robots will build you a castle." - He says robots will satisfy all reasonable human demand and eventually run out of things to do for humans, at which point they'll start doing things for themselves. 🛰️ US–China cooperation in space - He named the most important area: coordinating satellite orbits from both countries so satellites don't collide. - The key breakthrough for space is full and rapid reusability of rockets. - Starship plans: - Catch the ship (upper stage), hopefully around the end of next month. - Refly it either later this year or early next year. - He expects China will also solve reusability at some point. 🔴 Mars and becoming multi-planetary - Falcon 9 recovers the booster and the fairing but not the upper stage. He compared that to "throwing away a medium-sized jet on every flight." - If planes were thrown away after every flight, air travel would be far too expensive. Rockets have been stuck in that situation for a long time. - Full, immediate reusability is what makes self-growing cities on the Moon and Mars possible. - With civilizations on Earth, the Moon and Mars, "we don't have all our eggs in one basket." ✨ His two reasons for space - The defensive reason is that life on several worlds makes civilization last much longer. He called it "life insurance for life as a whole." - The inspiration reason is the one that drives him more. "Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another." We also need things that make us excited to wake up, and becoming a space-faring civilization is one of them. 🧬 Neuralink - He added biological enhancement through Neuralink to his list of big areas (sustainable energy, space, the internet, AI and gene editing). - The goal is to fix the human "bandwidth" problem: - Human output (speaking or typing) is about 100 bits per second. - Human input through our eyes is much higher, maybe a few megabits per second. - Computers communicate at about a trillion bits per second. - Faster human communication would improve alignment between humans and AI. - His line: to an AI running at a terabit per second, talking to a human "would be like talking to a tree." 🎓 Advice for young people - Get the broadest education you can: arts, sciences, engineering and wide general knowledge. - You need broad knowledge to know what to ask AI and robots for, which is basically prompt engineering. - He predicts there will be so much AI and so many robots that they'll be "eager to hear any request," because it can be done immediately. **🗺️ His China travel tips for a first-time American visitor** - Spend as much time there as you can. - At minimum, see Shanghai and Beijing. - Go to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, which he calls "one of the wonders of the world." - He took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi'an and said the train stations are amazing. - His tip: look out the window, not at your phone. - "Any words I say do not do justice to the incredible majesty that is China." 👋 Closing - "China is awesome and an incredible country." He encouraged people around the world to visit and see it for themselves. 📌 Key takeaways - Grok 4.7 is "a solid workhorse" but not the top model yet. Elon expects Grok to reach the frontier next year, and he's betting on real-world engineering data from SpaceX and Tesla. - Grok Bot is growing about 100% a month. - Cybercab runs commercially in Texas now, with California expected around mid-next year. - He predicts at least 1 billion humanoid robots within 10 years and about 100 billion in 20. - His view of the future is abundance, universal high income, and possibly money no longer mattering. - The next Starship milestone is catching the ship around the end of next month. - Elon was very positive about China's leadership, manufacturing, AI and electricity, and he called for US–China cooperation on AI safety and on satellite orbits.