carrie from BAXUS details all the insane infrastructure they've built to ensure high quality whiskey is verified and tradable safely youtube.com/watch?v=8tNIkN…

Solana is quietly establishing itself as the leading public blockchain for payments. Expect more competition here from Tempo, Arc and more in coming quarters, but still believe most enterprises will prefer Solana’s neutrality. Credible neutrality is grossly under-appreciated.

Solflare - The Solana Wallet Mike Novogratz PayPal xStocks Marcantonio Jeremy Allaire - jda.eth / jdallaire.sol buffalu Artemis Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 66/ Baxus has all the infra in place for their whiskey vaults + exchange, and is ramping up their user facing exchange youtu.be/8tNIkNAQU4s?li…

Sheel Mohnot It’s cooked. It’s politically impossible to stop subsidizing demand with other people’s money, and impossible to increase competition or supply when the buyer is the state.

everyone should have two therapists, a man who tells you to grow up and get your shit together, and a woman who tells you to love yourself the way you are. Ideally they should be married to each other since at least 9 months before you were born

The best thing to come out of prediction markets is that the CIA doesn’t need to sell drugs anymore to fund its black ops.

There’s an aesthetic of kids growing up integrated into their parents’ intellectual scene that appeals to me a lot. Like small children playing around dinner parties with their parents’ friends, learning about their parents’ jobs, hearing adult ideas.

It’s the death tax, but annualized.

Probablemente estemos viviendo la revolución feminista más importante de la historia y por alguna razón el feminismo del mundo libre está callado

This is a very unpopular opinion, I know. My take on what all the recent smoking curbs mean for freedom: x.com/MsMelChen/stat…

Booze is coming back. For the bravest CPG entrepreneurs, it is one of the most interesting places to look in 2026 and beyond. I firmly believe the “decline in drinking” among the early 20s crowd has way more to do with the cost of going out than not wanting to drink. Surging

If you see people posting this chart talking about the death of alcohol or shifting consumption trends, just know that they haven’t actually looked at the chart, and don’t know what’s actually happening. Stay tuned for my breakdown. Maybe my first X article

America only built the B-24 bomber from 1940 to 1945, at peak production they shipped one airplane every 60 minutes In 2026, it is still the 12th most produced airplane in the world.

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I live in the Midwest. I’ve seen entire factories—employers that kept a little cornfield town alive—disappear overnight after production was moved to Mexico or China. Complete devastation for an entire close-knit community. No tears, no 4,000-word eulogies in WaPo, no

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To properly deliver a baby in the US, you have to pay a few thousand dollars to hire an advocate (doula) to make sure that your wife gets proper physical care and that the doctor doesn’t unnecessarily drug her or cut her stomach in half to deliver your baby.

How about a big ol’ dog?

financial nihilism is just one consequence of hyperonline-ism young ppl today spend the majority of their waking hours in front of a screen - consuming online content, communicating online, and experiencing defining life moments in the digital world one effect has been

a year ago, we wrote a piece on how the alpha is onchain...and how we’ve observed a spectrum of DeFi traders, who range in level of sophistication and what they prioritize (e.g., speed, mobile or desktop first, convenience, UX, price). at the time, DEFINITIVE was building