I don’t care what people say, I love Shia LaBeouf. First, he’s an incredible actor who often gets overlooked because people mostly remember him from movies like Transformers. But I’ll never forget seeing him in Fury for the first time and genuinely thinking he was outshining Brad Pitt. Second, I’ve watched a lot of his interviews, and you can see the struggle in him. You can also see someone who keeps trying to understand himself, become better, and move forward. I genuinely believe there’s a good person in there, and I hope he eventually finds peace and happiness.

A man in his 40s finds himself still living at home with his overbearing mother. Whenever he comes close to meeting a girl he might consider settling down with, his mother always manages to mess up the relationship. Her excuse is that no girl is good enough for her precious son. As the years tick by, he eventually realizes that unless he does something soon, he will end up living at home forever, so one evening he gets up the courage to announce: “Mother, I have fallen in love and intend on getting married. I’m going to bring three ladies to the house tomorrow evening, and you have to guess which one I’m going to marry.” The mother is deeply unimpressed, but agrees to it, and so the following evening the son brings three attractive women into the living room and asks them to sit down on the sofa. “Right,” he says to his mother, “which of these young ladies do you think is the one that I’m going to marry?” Without hesitation, the mother pointer finger and replies: “The one in the middle.” “That’s right,” says the son. “How did you know?” The mother replies, “Because I don’t like her!”

A man deposited a fake junk mail check for $95,000 as a joke. The bank cleared it. Six lawyers told him it was legally his money. He gave it all back anyway. – Patrick Combs was 29, living in San Francisco in 1995 with $200 in his bank account when a junk mail letter arrived offering him a get-rich-quick scheme. – Inside was a promotional fake check made out in his name for $95,093.35. Printed across the front in clear letters: NOT NEGOTIABLE. – In a moment of dark humor he signed the back with a smiley face and deposited it at an ATM. – He expected the bank to call him laughing. They never called. – Ten days later he checked his balance. $101,217.34. The check had cleared. – The promotional check was so close in design to a real check that it legally qualified as one under banking law. – By the time the bank realized what had happened it was legally too late to recall the funds. – Combs called his brother who told him to move the money immediately. – He tried to withdraw $95,000 in cash. He learned three things. All the large safe deposit boxes were taken, $500 bills no longer existed, and $95,000 in $100 bills did not fit in a small box. – He got a cashier's check instead and locked it in a safe-deposit box. – When the bank finally came for the money a month later they accused him of fraud and threatened police. – He refused to return anything until they admitted in writing that they had made the mistake, not him. – Six different lawyers reviewed his case and told him the money was legally his to keep. – The bank and Combs went to war for five months. He gave interviews on television and in newspapers. The public loved him. – He eventually gave every dollar back. All he wanted in return was a signed letter clearing him of any wrongdoing and lunch with the bank president. He got the letter but not the lunch. – He turned the entire story into a one-man show called Man 1 Bank 0 and performed it 2,000 times across the world. A man deposited a fake check as a joke with a smiley face signature. The tenth-largest bank in America cleared it.

here’s my thing with $ZEC and I’m fairly confident on this it is purely a bear market narrative imo. the moat is 'quantum resistant & private BTC' essentially. yet the president comes on national TV the other day & says he's going to help make btc and other leading crypto quantum resistant. so then ppl will buy it for privacy- yet every blockchain will eventually have (somewhat) private transactions (MPC, native, etc) & some have already done this. so then what is it? ppl just buy a second version of btc? crypto was hungry for a fresh privacy narra & flocked to it when market went to shit. it’s a bet against $BTC , so I don’t like it.

🚨 Elon Musk just laid out his vision for the future at Israel’s Samson Smart Mobility Summit He says: • Tesla Robotaxis are already operating fully driverless in 3 Texas cities • Optimus could lead to a world with far more robots than humans • Starship is key to making humanity multi-planetary • Neuralink may eventually restore communication, mobility, and even vision Elon also confirmed he’s heavily focused on the upcoming SpaceX IPO. 🚀 $TSLA $SPCX ------- 00:00 Welcome and Setup 00:34 Scaling Full Self-Driving 02:14 Robots and Universal High Income 03:01 Starship and Neuralink Breakthroughs 05:41 Mobility Endgame and Robot Future 07:48 Meaning Peace and the Best Future 09:54 Message to Israeli Innovators

Elon Musk just identified the real bottleneck to artificial intelligence on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast. He didn’t use political science. He used physics. Impedance matching. In electrical engineering, impedance matching means a component adjusts its own resistance to mirror whatever system it’s plugged into. It becomes the thing it’s connected to. Musk: “They impedance match to the government, to the Public Utility Commission. Literally and figuratively.” The companies responsible for powering every data center, every GPU cluster, every training run on Earth didn’t just slow down. They absorbed the exact operational frequency of the federal bureaucracy. They became it. Musk: “They have to do a study for a year. A year later, they’ll come back to you with their interconnect study.” Twelve months. Not to build anything. Not to deliver a single watt. To study whether you’re allowed to plug into the grid. In technology, one year is an evolutionary epoch. NVIDIA ships a new architecture. OpenAI leaps an entire generation. DeepMind publishes frontier breakthroughs quarterly. Inside government, one year is a single administrative pulse. And the friction isn’t accidental. It’s structural. The utility matches the regulator. The regulator matches the legislature. The legislature matches the election cycle. Each one calibrated to the metabolic rate of the next. A feedback loop of institutional inertia with no exit ramp. Every AI lab. Every hyperscaler. Every nation racing toward superintelligence. Same invisible ceiling. A permitting desk. The ultimate bottleneck is not compute. Not data. Not talent. It is the regulatory capture of electricity itself. And nobody with the authority to fix it has any incentive to move faster. The system wasn’t designed to produce outcomes. It was designed to produce process. A year-long interconnect study isn’t a safety measure. It’s a tax on momentum. The race to AGI will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the best grid. You cannot impedance match the future to the past. Eventually, the circuit burns out.