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The first trillionaire in human history – Elon Musk – Born in South Africa – Bullied relentlessly as a kid – Immigrated to North America – Arrived with a backpack and a dream – Built Zip2 with his brother – Sold it 4 years later for $300 million – Co-founded PayPal with the profits – Revolutionized digital payments – Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion – Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX – Got mocked for electric cars – Got laughed at for reusable rockets – Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 – Kept building anyway – Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker – Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry – Made reusable rockets a reality – Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% – Sparked the modern commercial space race – Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet – Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history – Bought Twitter for $44 billion – The world said he overpaid – He was called reckless, stupid & crazy – Advertisers fled, media declared it dead – Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history – Renamed it 𝕏 – Rebuilt the platform anyway – Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth – Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race – Sent astronauts to space – Is trying to get humans to mars – Created millions of jobs – Generated hundreds of billions in value – Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: – Failed repeatedly – Worked insane hours – Slept in factories and offices – Got bullied, laughed at and mocked – Constantly told “it’s impossible” – Kept building anyway – Made it possible Today: – Richest person on Earth – First trillionaire in human history – Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
The federal hemp ban is a law passed in November 2025 that reclassifies most intoxicating hemp-derived THC products (including delta-8, delta-9, THCA, and HHC) as Schedule I controlled substances, effectively closing the loophole created by the 2018 Farm Bill. This ban is scheduled to take full effect on November 12, 2026, at which point the sale, possession, and purchase of these products will be illegal in states where marijuana is not already legalized.
Key provisions and impacts of the legislation include:
Strict Limits: The law sets a cap of 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container for finished consumer products and excludes synthetic or converted cannabinoids from the legal definition of hemp.
Affected States: Consumers in states without legalized marijuana (such as Idaho, Kansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina) will lose access to these products, while states with legal cannabis markets will likely see sales shift to licensed dispensaries.
Exemptions:Industrial hemp (fiber, grain) and non-intoxicating CBD products without detectable THC generally remain legal, though some full-spectrum CBD items may need reformulation to meet the new per-container limits.
While the Trump Administration has claimed new legal authority to dismantle the market for these products, enforcement challenges remain due to limited federal resources and conflicting state laws. Some industry groups are lobbying for delays or regulatory frameworks instead of an outright ban, but as of June 2026, no legislation has successfully overturned the November 2026 effective date.
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Neither the federal government nor state or local governments should have any say in what individuals consume of their own free-will. Governments might do well to regulate potentially dangerous substances with the aim of making sure they contain no toxic additives or byproducts. Age requirements for purchase, warnings, and, in some cases a doctor’s prescription for use, make sense if done with the least restriction feasible. Rather than imposing high taxes on cigarettes, government would do better to make sure cigarettes are made from quality tobaccos, organic being best, with zero addictive or harmful additives. ABN
BANGKOK (AP) — An American scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy was arrested by authorities in China on suspicion of spying, China’s foreign ministry said Friday.
The scholar, Min Zin, was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” said China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian.
A Burmese activist who knows Min Zin said he disappeared June 3 after going to Kunming, in China’s Yunnan province, for a conference. The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of government retribution and arrest, said Min Zin had visited China multiple times before.
I’m a woman so my views might be skewed. But everyone has seen that Hollywood movie of TV shows where the male friend duo goes out as each other’s wing men to meet women at social gatherings and have a good time. Both my grandfather’s told me about how back in their men used to have their father’s drive them to their first date or how everyone had a crush or someone special. Nothing but fond memories. However it seems guys today seem to be all doom and gloom about dating. Why is that so? Why do I never hear men sharing positive stories about their dating experiences?
FWIW as a woman, I think women tend to be more vocal about their dating experiences for better or for worse lol. I chat with my GFS all the time about our dating experiences and I think women tend to talk about it more.
There are 500+ comments as of right now. It’s an interesting question with a range of answers, which form a telling, crowd-sourced barometer of our world(s) today. Seems more issues than just dating have diverged from raw instinct to techno-modulated post-instinct. The underlying semiotics of traditional behaviors have shifted toward digitalized, instantaneous, sharper but weaker. That’s not all bad. It’s just different. In some ways it’s sublimation, which can be good. When I started dating my current partner, my head was spinning for days. That happened because we already knew each other and only went to the dating level due to changed conditions and there was never any app between us, just human presence and first-order emotions. She still makes my head spin today. ABN
It might sound like something out of The Last of Us, but scientists have uncovered a hidden fungal network lurking beneath our feet.
Almost every part of the Earth’s surface is criss–crossed by tiny living threads known as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi.
Now, a study has calculated just how colossal this secret web really is.
Placed end–to–end, scientists say Earth’s fungi network stretches over 68.35 quadrillion miles (110 quadrillion km).
That’s long enough to circle the planet 2.7 trillion times, or to cover the distance from the Earth to the sun one billion times over.
Researchers also found that the network contains approximately 300 megatonnes of carbon – about five times the weight of all living humans on Earth put together.
Lead author Dr Justin Stewart, with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), says: ‘It is hard to overstate the importance and enormity of these fungi.
‘There could be up to 10 meters (33 feet) of mycorrhizal network in just a teaspoon of soil.’
Grasslands such as the Tibetan Plateau are home to 40 per cent of the world’s AM fungi, despite being some of the least protected ecosystems on Earth
The materials were quietly uploaded to the Department of War’s website on Friday morning and include a series of cases that investigators were unable to definitively explain, leaving the nature of the phenomena unresolved.
Among the newly released records is a 2025 FBI report describing a video captured by a citizen in the northeastern US.
According to the witness, a bright object hovered over their backyard as a ‘brilliant red sphere’ roughly the size of a basketball.
Another never-before-seen video shows what officials described as a ‘plasma-like sphere’ hovering above a pond at an undisclosed location in the US, appearing to shift shape and brightness as it moved.
Friday’s release also includes dozens of long-hidden CIA files about mysterious sightings, revealing that the agency assembled a panel of top scientists to investigate ‘flying saucers’ amid fears the reports could clog military warning systems and spark mass hysteria.
A psychological morpheme is defined as the smallest unit of a psychological response.
This term is used in FIML practice to distinguish psychological micro responses from meso and macro responses which are more general and less amenable to change and productive analysis.
There are many kinds of psychological morphemes and every individual has a multitude of them that are unique to them. Some are associated with personal memories and emotions that were aroused in the past. Others are new and arise in the present moment.
Still others are internalized social responses which at their most basic feel almost like disembodied responses, responses that precede thought, that begin creating the world we live in before we even know it. They are part of us, but can be slightly astonishing when we notice them for what they are.
A good example of one happened yesterday. My partner was away on a short trip and since it was a warm day I was working at home in my birthday suit. At some point I decided to call my partner, who would think nothing of seeing me in my birthday suit, but before I did I found myself reflexively putting on a pair of shorts.
I stopped and wondered why I was doing that and realized I was being “directed” by an almost completely emotionless and thought-less psychological morpheme.
Since I was going to speak, I was going to engage in a social act. And since I was going to engage in a social act, some part of me decided I needed to put on a pair of shorts.
This morpheme is interesting because it is so elementary. I was going to speak over the phone, long-distance to someone I have been living with for many years. And yet even still a very weak and basic sense of propriety that I had learned from my culture arose in me and got me to put on a pair of shorts.
It was like a single cold spark. And yet it was strong enough to move my system. It was a sort of “logic” like the logic of a small pattern in sand, or a twist in a tree’s bark. It was “me” putting on the shorts, but the “logic” of my doing so seemed to belong more to nature or a physical process than “my” being.
Psychological morphemes of this type are wonderful to observe. They belong to an almost blank class of responses that work like directional signs that induce us to move one way or another, to do something or not.
Other kinds of psychological morphemes induce us to feel, think, or believe something with no more “charge” than the single small spark that got me to put on my shorts.
Psychological morphemes are the most basic data of FIML practice. They are the small signs that make up the “language” of our psychologies, our minds. Understanding them leads to a rich understanding of your own and others’ behaviors, feelings, and thoughts.
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