"The House of Arnault" A fairly recent and long article on one of the richest people in the world, Bernard Arnault, CEO of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton $LVMH.PA It covers the man, his history, business practices, potential succession and so forth. Even if you're not into any of the brands on the LVMH rooster, I'm not, it's an interesting read. Link to article (paywall) https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-lvmh-bernard-arnault/

Viktor Frankl: -“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

How can anyone possibly think we're done?

X (formerly Twitter)

tae kim (@firstadopter) on X

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei says compute is more than 80% of their expenses on a podcast. Salaries of 600 employees are much smaller expense

Media in the country I live are reporting on the recent falling price of #Bitcoin with a certain satisfaction. Just wait. They'll learn the hard way. A client of mine is a media outlet. They not interested in paying me in Bitcoin... yet! Made me think of this classic Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

"Former ASML CEO says US-China chip fight will continue" $ASML.AS Peter Wennink: -"These kind of discussions are not being conducted on the basis of facts or content or numbers or data but on the basis of ideology," When Peter speaks you listen. We need more level headed people like him. https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-asml-ceo-says-us-china-chip-fight-will-continue-2024-07-06/

Jay Lumen - Spiritual Rave Feeling tired? This monster has risen more people from the dead than Jesus himself. Maybe I'll finally be able to finish my cable management now.

You know what annoys me? Cable management

"The Crazy Economics of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag" You know it's The Birkin from Hermès $RMS.PA by reading the headline. Accept no imitations, they're No 1. WSJ ain't publishing an article on the 2.55 by Chanel, Saddle by Dior, Alma by LV or Puzzle by Loewe. No sir! This kind of says it all https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hermes-birkin-bag-investment-031c215c

Yesterday we saw Zuck surfing while drinking beer with "Born in The USA" playing in the background. Today we see META $META up over 3%. Coincidence? Surely yesterday was a signal. More to come I bet. I'll be watching similar signalling from John Donahoe Nike $NKE

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us Video just dropped. Drake got to be shook at the very least. This isn't going away anytime soon.

Not a real problem #Bitcoin Transactions are still flowing on the network, my nodes are up and running, my Bitaxe is hashing and the weather today is going to be good.

Got my first Bitaxe Supra - For the culture! Thanks to @Solo Satoshi for being a class act with the order and @skot9000 for making this possible! 🙏 While people are panicking over the drop in price of #Bitcoin I'm having real problems. Need to do some reorganising of my storage space where I have my router, server, Bitcoin nodes etc. Won't work as is. Will write more detailed posts about noise, overclocking, pools and what not later when I've got my second one setup and hashing.

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ... has one of the hardest hooks in all of dance music. If you haven't been off your rockers to this you still have something to look forward to in life. ... In fact, the track is so good Honorable C.N.O.T.E. sampled it for Gucci.

Threads by Meta $META hits 175 million users. Not too shabby I must say. I still haven't tried it myself.

The Verge

Threads hits 175 million users after a year

Meta is focused on stealing more market share from X and preparing to turn on ads.

Miners selling #Bitcoin ? At below $60 k, I'm buying

Death Stranding Director's Cut 🚨 I'm late as always. Just started playing it. This game so good I want to buy it again. Production level is crazy with story, game controls, music (!) etc. Within 20 minutes of playing there's a scene where you almost want to weep. Kojima 🙌

Prince was peak musician/artist/performer

Nvidia $NVDA might be facing antitrust charges in France. Sources close to Reuters name blah blah blah, CUDA, blah blah, Coreweave, blah blah whatever. Nvidia so good they on top all by themselves, that’s the only crime here. https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-regulators-preparing-nvidia-charges-sources-say-2024-07-01/

SK Hynix is going to invest a massive $74.6 billion into its chip business while setting $58 billion aside for AI related technologies and shareholder returns. https://www.reuters.com/technology/south-koreas-sk-hynix-invest-75-bln-by-2028-ai-chips-2024-06-30/

Scotland - one of the most beautiful countries I’ve visited Some photographs I’ve taken during this vacation. Apart from the gorgeous landscape, the people are so friendly and welcoming too! Definitely worth a visit. ❤️