Just saw The Odyssey. Despite what you may have heard, literally all of the criticisms by conservatives were entirely correct. The movie is just as woke as you fear, if not more so. The DEI casting is atrocious. Completely takes you out of the story right from the beginning. But even worse than that is Nolan’s decision to turn Odysseus into an anachronistic whiney, solemn shell of a man plagued by “trauma” and guilt. It’s impossible to overlook these flaws because the film itself is not terribly entertaining or well constructed. For the most part it is disjointed, dull, self-serious, disenchanted, somehow feeling both verbose and overly rushed at the same time. The dialogue is some of the worst I’ve ever heard in a “critically acclaimed” film. “On the nose” and “clunky” are descriptions that can’t even begin to describe this script. At no point in the story does Nolan ever transport the audience to the ancient world. You never feel like you’re 3,000 years in the past. You feel like you’re watching modern Americans put on a pageant, because you are. Nobody would be calling this thing a masterpiece if it was made by a director not named Christopher Nolan.

Kalshi CEO @mansourtarek_ thinks compute could become the largest commodity on the planet, creating the largest derivatives market alongside it. He says companies already spend roughly $1 trillion a year on compute, with that figure potentially growing 10x by 2030. As prices become more volatile and compute becomes a larger corporate expense, producers and buyers will increasingly want to hedge their exposure. “Historically, if that market has any degree of success, it ends up being at least 10 to 15 times the underlying market.”

A $54.4M loan for @get_hydrahost has moved into escrow. This marks the beginning of Hydra’s season-and-sell program, the first in the history of GPU finance. - 1,040 NVIDIA B300 GPUs - Earns 7% in escrow, 10% after funding Hydra Host and USDAI have been working closely together to support faster and better AI factory deployments. More to build.

Holy: China now has a 1-gigawatt AI data center built without a single Nvidia chip! Via Bloomberg: zAI has reportedly completed construction of the facility and begun partial operations. It runs exclusively on Chinese-made chips and will support the development of the company’s frontier GLM models. zAI has also built or operates several computing clusters containing more than 10,000 chips each. This is far more significant than the next Frontier model. The importance of chip independence from the USA can hardly be overstated.

Hot take: Tokenized asset issuers shouldn't bake liquidity sleeves into the asset. It just erodes native yield and makes the asset less attractive. If the underwriting is sound and the risk/reward is compelling, liquidity will form around the asset on its own. Let composability do the work.

hmmm is robinhood chain bearish for hype? like instead of trading tokenized stonks with shitass liquidity on HIP3 or whatever, isnt it better to trade on rh since they already have the infra? idk whats their future plans, but id assume their goal is to have 24/7 stonk trading?

BREAKING: SK Hynix stock, South Korea’s second most valuable company, officially debuts on the Nasdaq and surges +14% at the open, now worth over $1 trillion. The company’s ADRs were priced at $149/share, raising $26.5 billion.