BetterSpectator retweeted
America is getting hacked on Friday the 13th....this is not good
The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.
BetterSpectator retweeted
On almost every Canadian TV commercial, couples are always interracial. Always a black guy or Chinese guy. Occasionally a White woman, but never with a White man.
This has been more true with each passing year since 2011. White men don’t exist in TV commercials unless gay.
BetterSpectator retweeted
why is ZEC nuking?
what in the actual wizardry transgender fuck is this
Can a vote gather a signal without binding a decision? Violet (@rollergirlVi) and Daira-Emma discuss the mechanics of @Zcash governance, coinholder polling/voting, and why a healthy system needs many ways to be heard.
What do we miss when we look from only one place?
BetterSpectator retweeted
THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS DEAL IN THE ENTIRE AI BOOM.
Anthropic needs Broadcom's AI chips to run Claude.
It does not buy them directly.
Instead, Wall Street banks and Blackstone put $63 billion into a separate company, and that company buys the chips from Broadcom.
That company then rents the chips to Anthropic.
Over the life of these leases, Anthropic owes about $161 billion in rent on Broadcom equipment.
So where does Anthropic get the money to pay that rent?
Partly from Broadcom.
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion, and that money can only be used to pay rent on Broadcom's equipment.
Broadcom sells the chips, then lends the customer money to pay for them.
If Anthropic cannot pay the loan back in cash, Broadcom can take Anthropic shares instead.
So why is this dangerous?
First, the sales are not as real as they look. When a company lends its customer the money to pay its bills, part of its revenue is just its own cash coming back.
Second, everything depends on one customer. Broadcom's own filing warns about its dependence on a small number of customers for AI chip demand.
Anthropic alone owes $161 billion on its equipment.
Third, Anthropic does not have the revenue yet. It made $16.96 billion last quarter but has committed $895.4 billion to compute.
Many of these contracts must be paid even if Anthropic never uses the capacity.
Fourth, the chips are the collateral. AI chips lose value fast as newer models come out. If Anthropic cannot pay, lenders are left holding equipment worth far less than the debt.
If AI demand slows, the whole chain breaks at once.
Anthropic misses payments, Broadcom loses its biggest customer and its loan, and the banks and Blackstone take losses on the debt.
This exact setup played out in 1999 and 2000.
Lucent and Nortel lent billions to their own customers to keep equipment sales growing. When those customers went bust, the loans were never repaid, and both stocks collapsed.
The current situation is getting dangerously close to the dot-com bubble.
BetterSpectator retweeted
dawg what in the fuck is this
Can a vote gather a signal without binding a decision? Violet (@rollergirlVi) and Daira-Emma discuss the mechanics of @Zcash governance, coinholder polling/voting, and why a healthy system needs many ways to be heard.
What do we miss when we look from only one place?
BetterSpectator retweeted
Hey @HeinzTweets CEO, why do Europeans get the best-quality ketchup while Americans go without?
We tried to bring your superior European recipe (real sugar, incredible taste) to the U.S. Instead, you're pushing "Simply Heinz" — but it just doesn't taste as good.
Heinz is a great American brand. Why are you giving Europe a higher-quality product than the one you offer to your own home country?
Stop forcing us to look elsewhere for a replacement. Do the right thing for American diners. 🇺🇸🍅
BetterSpectator retweeted
It’s all scripted:
Go watch last years Super Bowl halftime show…guys on power lines and the power…cuts
🚨Update: Massive Power Outage Coming! War Department prepares major U.S. milıtary bases to operate for 90 days without outside support, including civilian power grids and global supply chains!
- Fox News
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This refers to the Pentagon's 'FORTRESS' plan for military bases to operate without civilian power or supply chains if a future conflict disrupts infrastructure. It is not an announcement of an imminent power outage and does not involve the civilian grid. foxnews.com/politics/insid… ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-90-da…
BetterSpectator retweeted
BREAKING: America’s $1.7 trillion auto loan market is headed for a crash, per Reuters.
Auto loans are now one of the biggest sources of household debt, bigger than credit cards.
And the strain is showing: 1 in 5 Americans is behind on at least one loan, the highest since 2010, and the average car on the road is now nearly 13 years old, a record.
BetterSpectator retweeted
The U.S government now owns a piece of 35 companies
They paid cash, swapped grants, or took warrants
Here's the full list:
Chips & quantum
• Intel $INTC: $8.9B for a 9.9% stake
• GlobalFoundries $GFS: ~7% stake, worth over $2B
• Wolfspeed $WOLF: $1.5B loan, warrants for 7.5%
• IBM $IBM: $1B for minority stake in quantum foundry
• D-Wave $QBTS: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Rigetti $RGTI: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Quantinuum $QNT: $100M in stock
• Infleqtion $INFQ: $100M in stock at a 15% discount
• Aeluma $ALMU: up to $30M in stock
• PsiQuantum: $100M for a minority stake
• Atom Computing: $100M for a minority stake
• SandboxAQ: $500M for a non-voting stake
• I-Pulse: $250M for a minority stake
• Kepler Computing: $245M for a minority stake
• Multibeam: $140M for a minority stake
• xLight: $150M for a stake
• Extropic: up to $75M for a minority stake
• Thintronics: up to $50M for a minority stake
• Diraq: up to $38M for a minority stake
• OBSIDIA: $34M for a minority stake
Mining & metals
• MP Materials $MP: $400M for ~15% of the company
• Trilogy Metals $TMQ: 10% stake + warrants for 7.5%
• Lithium Americas $LAC: warrants 5% + 5% of its mine
• USA Rare Earth $USAR: $277M in stock and warrants
• Korea Zinc: $1.4B for 40% of a Tennessee smelter
• Elmet Group: $450M, warrants for up to 19.9%
• Vulcan Elements: $50M in equity plus a $620M loan
• ReElement: $80M loan plus warrants
• Atlantic Alumina: $400M in preferred stock
• Strategic Bauxite: $85.5M in equity
• Hertha Metals: $65M stake in a steel startup
Defense, energy, oil
• L3Harris $LHX: $1B for preferred stock
• Westinghouse: 20% of profits if it IPOs above $30B
• US Steel: one golden share with veto power
• North American Blue Energy: 35% of Venezuelan oil company
The U.S Government just doubled stake in GlobalFoundries $GFS
• US government now owns ~7%
• Equity stake worth over $2B
• First plant opens 2029
35th company the U.S government owns a piece
BetterSpectator retweeted
Solana event in Shanghai abruptly cancelled on the morning of October 16
The "Solana Accelerate China 2026" event, hosted by the Solana Foundation in Shanghai on the morning of October 16, was abruptly cancelled; the reason remains unknown. Some registered attendees reported that they were still unable to gain entry after waiting for an hour and a half. At 12:00 PM, the organizers sent out an email offering an apology.
BetterSpectator retweeted
Remember when they said to “Trust the science?”
Artificial intelligence finds that a quarter million cancer research papers have been faked
A 2026 study trained an AI on 2,202 cancer papers that had been identified as fake. It then applied this model to look into 2.65 million original cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024. It flagged 261,245 papers as fake
- Over 178,000 flagged papers had Chinese institutional affiliations
- Roughly 36% of Chinese cancer research output in the dataset
- Iran was next at around 20%
This is a major problem because this can mean the medical community amplifies completely fake research and findings
“Every fabricated study sitting in a real journal is competing for attention with studies actually pointing towards a legit cure, which means the more fake noise there is, the longer it takes for the real breakthroughs to surface. And somewhere in that pile, maybe a real cure is buried under a fake AI-generated one.”
No doctors have gone to jail for this (I checked)
BetterSpectator retweeted
Keep an eye on Intel here 👀
It's below Nancy Pelosi's original buy of up to $5M back on May 29th, 2026
• Price when Pelosi bought: $115
• Price of $INTC today: $94
BetterSpectator retweeted
Canton has no max supply, like Ethereum and Solana. That doesn't mean it has an unlimited supply.
On Canton, burn-mint equilibrium runs on a permanent emission schedule, minting and burning roughly 2.5B canton-network:native a year in steady state.
@ShaulKfir discusses with @LongViewCrypto.
BetterSpectator retweeted
Not many people remember or know this, but actually George Bush senior was the president when the Soviet Union truly collapsed.
When that happened there was rampant antisemitism rising in Russia as people noticed that most of their “oligarchs” were Jews exploiting them.
Thus the Jews looted as much of the old Soviet Union as they could, and then claimed to be “refugees” and came to the United States.
George Bush senior let in over 30k of these scoundrels.
The same thing is happening to the United States right now. Jews know it will collapse and are doing the thieving out in the open now (insider crypto deals, Kalshi, Polymarket..) etc.
Then once they are forced to leave, they will take their wealth and pretend to be poor old refugees…
Then the process will repeat again in the next country..
BetterSpectator retweeted
I feel most terrible for America white man. Life so full with tragedy.
- be child, mother a hoe, do not even know who real father be
- be teenager, try find love. But all girl around you possess std. Give you HIV
- be college student. But every girl possess muscle like Arnold Shewasnigger. All try rape your buthole.
- be adult. Get marry with wife. But later find out wife cannot give birth. Why? She a transformer gender with cut off penis. No uterus.
- try focus on make money. But AI so good make you be unemploy. Now you must spread your buthole on only fan. But still cannot make money because buthole look so ugly because girl with muscle like Arnold Shewasnigger rape your buthole too aggressive in university
Every one life be very short life. But the white man life so much tragedy. I’m cry one tear for the white man.