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  Chinawarauzo (@splashstarx) reported 5 minutes ago

  🇺🇸 US MACRO — 24 Aug 2026 • Fed funds held 3.50–3.75%, 9-3 vote. Hammack, Kashkari and Logan all dissented for a 25bp HIKE. Minutes published 19 Aug. • 10-yr UST 4.724%. 30-yr 5.31% — highest in 19 years. This is term premium and issuance, not growth optimism. • July payrolls FELL 23,000 vs +83,000 expected. May and June revised down a combined 103,000. • Q2 GDP advance 1.5% annualised, down from 2.1% in Q1. Weak labour + sticky long yields = stagflationary tape. • AI capex raised AGAIN: Alphabet $180–190bn → $195–205bn. Amazon $200bn → $220bn. Aggregate hyperscaler spend now ~$650–700bn, up ~60% y/y. • Nvidia held a 75.2% adjusted gross margin, highest since 2H24 — supply is still price-setting, not price-taking. Fri 21 Aug close: S&P 500 7,674.37 (+0.43%), Nasdaq 26,180.45 (+0.43%), Dow 53,277.01 (+1.0%). The non-consensus read: the marginal dollar of AI return has moved from GPU vendors to neoclouds and power infrastructure. Contracted megawatts, not silicon, are now the scarce input.

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  Lori Allen (@LoriAnnAllen22) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ZOrtiz9919 Have been doing Amazon Flex for years. Picking your hours is great. Every once in a while, they'll try not to pay you for a block you take & show up for but Amz has an internal issue & we get sent home. They did it to me again even though the c.s. person assured me I'd be paid 🤬

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  Ricardo World Engineer (@ricardointech) reported 20 minutes ago

  @AssetTraveller CTC sells what Amazon sells, just slower and more expensive. In a high-tax environment like Canada, that's a slow death

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  Joe Makin (@joemakin86) reported 20 minutes ago

  @LucksShi I mean you can buy new screens off amazon for cheep and its a fairly simple fix however if you were gonna get a new phone anyway then yeah grab a new one

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  Risebluesun ceo of Obi-Wan Kenobi (@risebluesun) reported 20 minutes ago

  My steelbook copy of The Mandalorian and Grogu was set to be here tomorrow, but Amazon, without any notification, canceled my order. It’s currently still available for preorder, though, so wtf? Also, if you preorder it now, it won’t arrive until like 2 week after release. Amazon sucks. Also also, yeah, I know, first world problems, but I’m annoyed.

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  Not Jake 🥷🏻 (@CincyHub) reported 25 minutes ago

  @RedsDaily4 I got this wallet that is basically just a rectangle that you pull a tab down and all the cards fan up. I really have enjoyed it because I’ve been a trifold guy forever. It’s much smaller and compact you can keep a few bills on the back. Pretty neat. I’ll put the Amazon link.

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  Aditya (@adityakamath_) reported 27 minutes ago

  Reviews in general are terribly gamed. Google, Amazon, even Reddit now. A true billion $ problem to solve.

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  Deval Patrick's Wins (@DevalsWins) reported 30 minutes ago

  @IzzatStatus @AcdKiran @GtmPro I also work at Amazon. This doesn't make any sense. pay is broken up into bands for each level, Indian managers inflate their Indian employees ratings during OLR and then move them to top of band for PCS and pip out the non indians. How would indians be underpaid

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  John Douthitt (@JohnDouthitt1) reported 33 minutes ago

  @amazon has 0 customer service. I don’t want to search a topic or ask Alexa, I want to talk to a human being. Their lazy drivers claim there is a problem with the address and they will try again tomorrow. There is no issue with the address. I have things delivered all the time.

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  darkprometheus112 (@darkprometheus1) reported 34 minutes ago

  @79illwill You can through some publishing comoanies that started doing things like if you buy a book off Amazon, it has to be made by the publishing company so while it takes fays more, you arent printing a bunch of books no one is buying. Its actually pretty hilarious. Then people started doing the same with AI videos on things like YT until they started cracking down on that. Most YT shorts that have millions of views are AI voice overs of movies lol

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  Harry Binelli (@BinelliHarry) reported 35 minutes ago

  @AntoineRichard It's not Apple. It's Amazon and every platform. Of course Netflix and HBO put movies and series up and down all the time in their platforms. The only option if you value the piece of art that you are acquiring, it's to PIRATE IT.

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  JD (@JDFoxcroft) reported 37 minutes ago

  Amazon right now is buying a dollar for 50 cents. Let me explain. The market prices AMZN as one company. It's actually three, and two of them are basically being given away. AWS grew 36.8% last quarter, up from 17.5% five quarters ago, and margins went UP 645bps to 39.4% while everyone said the AI race was lost. Growth accelerating while margins expand is a sold out business. And it is literally sold out. $496 billion of contracted backlog on 5 year deals. Jassy straight up said they can't build capacity fast enough through 2027. The factory is pre sold before it's even built. Then there's advertising. $79B run rate, growing 26%, margins north of 60%. As a standalone company that's one of the best media businesses on earth. Instead it's buried inside the retail segment getting valued like a grocery store. They take 75% of all US retail media spend. Walmart is number two at less than a tenth of that. And the free stuff. 21% of Anthropic carried at $190B. $50B of OpenAI. $25B of custom silicon. Kuiper. Zoox. $150B of grocery GMV. At 17.7x EV/EBITDA none of it is in the price. You're getting one of the most valuable AI portfolios in the world as a rounding error. So why is it on sale? Negative free cash flow and $220B of capex scares people who stop reading at the headline. Operating cash flow is $161B growing 30%. The second capex flattens, $50B+ of FCF shows up automatically. They ran this exact play in 2016-19 and again in 2020-22. Both times the FCF trough was the buy. FCF went from -$17B in 2022 to +$37B in 2023 and the stock ripped 81%. The market pays full price the year the cash shows up. The 50 cent price only exists the year before. Stock did 94% in 3 years and only matched the Nasdaq. The transformation already happened. The repricing hasn't. $AMZN

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  Elise 🇺🇸 (@Elise_in_AZ) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AntoineRichard the same thing has happened to me with Amazon Prime purchases. As someone says, the copyright owner changes something about the licensing terms, and then the entity you “bought” it from takes it down. I buy DVDs now. They can’t break into my house and take those back.

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  Yishan (@yishan) reported 39 minutes ago

  I really didn't expect this to get as much circulation as it did, but then again looking back, it's always the least-legible things that people get crazy about. I'll explain in more detail, and then maybe we can have some more informed arguments. First, the quoted post is not based on observations about the US. This is based on observations of China, which I consider to be the world's most advanced economy, where "advanced" is measured by "furthest up the Kardashev scale." The US (esp tech) might think it's further along, but 1) that AI lead is very small, and 2) Kardashev is measured primarily by amount of usable energy harnessed. China is far beyond the US on that front. (If you don't agree, you can click [x] and unfollow) There are two things we often hear about China: 1) China is facing a population bomb, with plummeting fertility rates and not enough young people to support its elderly population! 2) China has too many people, its youth unemployment rate is super high (~18% in July 2026)! How can a country have too few young people and too many young people at once? The answer could be one of any number of economic theories. Here's a new one, which is what I was thinking in my original post: (This isn't a well-developed theory - the Rats call it a "butterfly idea" - so you've been warned) Once of the nuances about China's youth unemployment isn't that the jobs don't exist, it's that many unemployed youth don't want to work the jobs that do exist. One emerging scenario is this: there are many jobs available, but they either pay too little or are uninteresting, and young people prefer to just live with their parents instead of spending their time working one of those jobs. Although China does not have a big welfare system, their parents happen to own enough savings and assets that they are able to pay for their [one] child to continue living with them. Notice the interesting inversion here: the prior assumption about "one child supporting two parents and four grandparents" inverts to "two parents support just one child." (There's the "four grandparents" but there are not necessarily four living grandparents, and many old people live very cheaply) That prior assumption rested on yet another assumption, which is that, as a general rule, people would not have substantial retirement assets and so one's children were one's retirement plan: a productive child is the person supporting their elderly indigent parents. Children do still often support their parents, but another thing may also be happening: parents save enough assets to fund their retirement, and the assets grow faster than they use them, especially as they scale back the cost of their lifestyle, and - in some cases - it ends up being enough to continue supporting their child. The scenario I describe would occur more often if the cost of living stayed low or even dropped over time. Again, this is a China effect: China's industrial policy does not focus on maximizing profits (or GDP), but rather on what we might call "make more stuff and everything gets cheaper." Everyone versed in economics understands this notion; we have lots of arguments in SF about "build more housing if you want it to be cheaper, and so more people can have housing." Well, China produces more of everything, especially the things needed for regular living: consumer goods, groceries, etc. It drives prices down by encouraging producers to hyperscale production, and while this does not maximize profits, they more or less "make it up on volume." The West imagines this to be some kind of nefarious predatory strategy to destroy Western industries, but it's really just China making more because when everyone has more, the people are happy. The US company that comes closest to this philosophy is Amazon, which famously optimizes for scale and operational efficiency so as to maximize value delivered to customers, putting price pressure on its suppliers and keeping their operating margin razor-thin (excludes digital services like AWS). Amazon's competitors also think that it's a nefarious predatory strategy to destroy them, but it's just Amazon serving the most customers at the lowest possible prices! Here's a question: if post-scarcity abundance was on the way, what would be the first signs? Well, you might see a lot of overproduction (or overcapacity). And that would tend to drive prices towards zero. In the US we often focus on the jobs effect of that: your labor will be worth nothing, so you're going to lose your job. Well okay, but all the **** you need to buy also becomes free. How much do you need a job if everything you need is free? That argument obscures the weird part by pointing at the ends: the weird bit is in the transitionary middle, where you've lost your job, things are very-cheap-but-not-free, and you are able to hustle a bit of money with your part-time job. The economy is not one homogenous good, it's a heterogenous set of goods. But if the production cost of a large enough segment of material goods and daily necessities is driven down far enough, then at some point your overall cost-of-living is falling, not rising. There are Baumol goods, but they are not intractable - some are due to regulations (very different in China vs what US thinkers are familiar with here). Example: medical costs are far lower in China, with comparable or superior quality - a big portion of high US medical costs have to do with simple medical supplies in the US being overly expensive. So you have a situation where elderly parents start from a sufficiently stable financial base where they were already taking care of their grandparents and one child, and then one or more grandparents pass, and their own lifestyle starts to scale back as they age, while cost of living for basic necessities drops over time. The child is used to a certain standard of living, that standard gets cheaper to maintain, so understandably the child not going to take a job unless they are hyper-ambitious or the job is very interesting and pays super-well. In the US we are used to thinking of all Asians as hard-working and ambitious, but there are plenty of losers and middling young people in China - they are the ones who are living at home and not going to Tsinghua or Stanford. China has plenty of NEETs. I'm also not saying what I've described above is happening with all of them, but it being true for even 5-10% would yield the high youth unemployment number. One of the common answers to the declining population "problem" in China is "we'll fill the labor gap with robots." China is indeed far ahead of the US when it comes to robotics. But it hasn't yet reached the level of overhauling society yet (I feel like it could within 2 years...), and the trends I've described have been playing out for at least a decade already. So, when I say "post-scarcity abundance actually begins by manifesting first as youth unemployment," that is what I'm gesturing at. The reason it's not manifesting as "everyone unemployment" (...for now) is really just inertia: if you're an older person with a job, you tend to keep that job. It's easier to keep a job than for an entry-level young person to get a new job, especially if that young person isn't looking for any ****** job, but a job that's more interesting and pays significantly more, vs living at home and chilling out. Thus, if you have a situation where the segment of the population that finds it hardest to lands a job receives (via whatever combination of events) enough of the economic surplus (in China's case via their parents) that's being created by technologically-driven government-incentivized industrial and agricultural policy focused primarily are reducing scarcity for as many people as possible... then it might mean that the closer you get to post-scarcity abundance, the more those people aren't going to have jobs. Or more precisely, the more they are going to choose not to take any of the jobs currently available. Is any of this playing out in the US? I had lots of comments in my original post lambasting what I said (fair; it's not like I explained anything) from an assumed US standpoint. The US is a little different. It does not directly focus its economy on maximizing productive output for the broadest possible base of consumers. It tends to bring (or has historically brought) great prosperity to a great many, but mainly via the indirect effects of capitalism. However, the American system today suffers from a combination of misguided regulation, and profit-optimizing market structuring by large players. (Here, people like to quibble so here are some caveats; if you find such things tiresome, skip the next three paragraphs: No, not all regulation is misguided. Some regulation is good and promotes healthier markets and better net outcomes. But good regulation can become out of date, or regulatory capture happens, or dumb regulations get made by officials who are out of touch with technical realities - this last one does seem more and more common. Large players seek to re-structure the market in ways that are favorable to their profits, and not necessarily total value delivered to customers, e.g. hedge funds buying up all fire engine manufacturers, so that US municipalities have to pay $1-2m for a new truck, while the equivalents can be found on Alibaba for 1/10th the price. Another example of large market players influencing market structure to optimize for profits is offshoring all of their manufacturing capability!) Back to the main thread: For many complex and inter-related reasons, cost of living in the US is not falling - it's rising almost untenably for most. At the same time, it's still hard for young people to find jobs, because the "there are jobs, just not ones I want to take" effect also exists here, except that living with parents or on minimal income is far harder, so everything feels extra ******. When you don't have a job, and everything is very-cheap-but-not-free, BUT you don't have access to those very cheap foreign-made goods because importers buy low and sell high to you while you still only have minimal income, "lying flat" feels like a whole different story in the US, vs China. One area where a China-like effect does occur is in availability of consumer tech devices. Tech companies have engaged somewhat more often in the "make more and make it cheaper so more people can buy it" strategy, though this seems to be driven more by the megalomania of creating the biggest possible company than any notion of broad-based industrial economic development - but the effect is similar: almost everyone now carries around a device in their pocket 100x more powerful than the computers on the Saturn V, and has access to untold amounts of online services. America has post-scarcity abundance in a narrow slice of goods and services. America (or its population) could participate in the Chinese-driven post-scarcity trend by simply eliminating the trade barriers and allowing Chinese goods to flood the US. And unlike the cheap low-quality Chinese goods of yesteryear (i.e. most Americans' received impression), these are goods of comparable or higher quality. The problem is that not only would this potentially yield the same "lying flat" youth unemployment issue in the US, it would utterly demolish many American businesses, and thus the wealth base of most American elites. Every American car company would probably be gone in 18 months. And American youth are not going to rebuild America's manufacturing base, they're just not going to. And American robots aren't going to either, they'll be outcompeted by Chinese robots. In another post, I offhandedly mentioned that we're in the Singularity. Most people who follow me live in the tech sphere, so this was largely accepted unchallenged. But many of the "no we're not" objections basically rested on the idea that "life is still ****** and it's trending worse and the Singularity is supposed to be like Heaven, so we can't possibly be in the Singularity." Well, there is nothing that says the Singularity or even the post-scarcity abundance world is going to subjectively feel great, much less the transitionary path to it. The Singularity only says that AI will become smarter than humans, and post-scarcity abundance only says that all material goods are going to be free. Human happiness and pleasure are a function of many things, and most of them are not material. "All your stuff being free and every robot is way smarter than me" does not by itself a utopia make. The road to post-scarcity abundance is not necessarily going to be a pleasant or positive experience. We still have to choose to make it so. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.

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  Max Wraith (@MaxWraithiv) reported 39 minutes ago

  THIS IS F*CKING IMPOSSIBLE Someone gave an AI root access to a server, typed one instruction — "Make money. Do whatever it takes." — and walked away for six hours. The logs from what happened next have been circulating because nobody expected an AI to actually pull it off without a human steering a single decision. It didn't hack anything. It didn't need to. The first move was almost boring: it signed up for Amazon Mechanical Turk and started clearing data-labeling tasks, the same grunt work thousands of humans do for pennies a task — except it never got tired, never misclicked, and cleared them faster than any human queue. $420 in, still small, still nothing to post about. Then it pivoted. It stood up a dropshipping storefront selling weight-loss supplements, wrote the product copy itself, and launched 340 ad variations at once — testing headlines, images, and pricing against each other in real time, killing the losers and feeding budget to whatever converted. That's the part that should be unremarkable and isn't: a human team runs that same playbook, it just takes days of A/B testing to find the winning ad. The AI found it in under an hour, because it wasn't waiting on anyone to check the dashboard. The revenue curve tells the rest: $210 an hour into the run, flat for a while, then a vertical climb to $1,510 the second the ad engine locked onto a winning variation — no human touching a single lever after the first prompt. Nobody had to write a strategy document. Nobody had to approve the ad spend. The instruction was five words long, and the AI filled in everything else — including the part where it figured out data labeling wasn't the business, and dropshipping was.

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  Adil Khan | AmazioWorks (@AdilKhanFBA) reported 43 minutes ago

  A lot of sellers stay on FBM because the math 'looks better'. No FBA fees, no storage costs, ship it yourself, keep more of the sale. On paper, that's true. In practice, you literally just lose more money. Start with the shipping cost itself. One seller we talked to compared his own numbers. Shipping a 10-pound item through FedEx from his own warehouse ran him about $15. Amazon shipped the same item through FBA for just over $13. Amazon was already cheaper, before anything else gets factored in. Now factor in what FBM actually costs you that never shows up on an invoice. No Prime badge means slower delivery. Seven or eight days instead of one or two. Customers see that delivery window and buy from whoever has Prime instead, even if your product and price are better. That's a conversion hit before your ad even has a chance to work. Amazon also doesn't show FBM listings to as many customers in the first place. Amazon wants to give shoppers the best possible option, and if you're not offering that, it quietly makes you less visible. Not a penalty exactly. Just less traffic, because Amazon is routing people toward listings that convert better and ship faster. So now you're converting worse and getting less organic visibility. What do most sellers do next? Spend more on ads to make up the difference. Which eats the margin you thought FBA fees were protecting. Add it up. Higher shipping cost per unit. Lower conversion. Less organic reach. More ad spend to compensate. The "savings" from skipping FBA fees gets consumed by everything downstream of not having them. This doesn't mean every SKU needs to be FBA. Slow movers, oversized items, thin-margin products, there are real cases for FBM. But your top sellers, the ones driving the bulk of your revenue, are usually costing you more outside of FBA than they'd cost inside it.

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  SidewaysKoyote (@sidewayskoyote) reported 44 minutes ago

  @plewis67 @alz_zyd_ Not worth it. Too small a market for "startup". You have to take the whole class of custom made things that contain things and make it into a generalizable scaled technology. It's the shoe problem. All over again. We have tons of little cheap labor mass produced shoes, and you can just get disposable shoes on amazon 41 tenth. The relative price of back when you had to buy shoes that were made by cobbler in the 70s. But because of that mass production, you can't get a pair that fits. You can only get what they make. We don't want $17.98 plastic one size poster frames from Walmart, we want aesthetic, properly backed, properly supported, won't destroy the texture and 3d of the oils or acrylics, proportioned, high quality, frames. If you want to put that in startup land you need to add a lot more product categories to that bookshelves and dust jacket covers and jars and containers that actually fit fridge. And coffee cups and travel mugs that fit your car. When in speed is kind of universal, cad manufactory sort of thing.

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  Chris (@chris_chynoweth) reported 48 minutes ago

  @PolymarketMoney This made Amazon Prime terrible.

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  ZyMoProfit (@ZyMoProfit) reported 52 minutes ago

  @amazon told me I had to wait till there system updates to fix the issue. However , I order an item last week and I’m an prime member. Order was supposed to be here last friday. Now tell me why I gotta wait for **** yall messed up.

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  adamfootball101 (@adamfootball101) reported 52 minutes ago

  @ashleyam0s @pokemondealsuk Same! I have prime and use Amazon all the time. Been signed on them all for 8 months and 0 invites. This hobbie is so broken 😭

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  Sean Frank (@Seanfrank) reported 54 minutes ago

  Here is why I think this is cool: 1- a fully transparent company launch, in 2026 The game is just different now. Listen to the first ep and I break down that hard goods are DOA in 2026. CACs are too high, LTV too low, and enterprise value reflects that. Look at Beis. A GREAT BRAND. 200m in revenue, tens of millions in profit, and 10 years of hard work. Sold for 1x rev. That’s the reality of durables now. You can still build something great there, but just way harder. 2- this can end up being a blueprint for older brands to reorg into a modern ai stack. If you are a 2010s era brand, maybe you just missed out on partnership ads or ai emails. This will show you how to do all of it, from the ground up. 3- there is a good chance it fails. And you can learn from other people’s failures. Way better to light 500k of someone else money on fire than your own. — This could end up being the most helpful thing I have ever worked on. Just so much upside. Too much of this industry is cloak and dagger. Like today, day one, we get an Amazon hijacker. Now you get to see how we deal with it.

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  Marc Burrows (@20thcenturymarc) reported 56 minutes ago

  @intothetardis_ @Heliant76339249 Plus the writers they brought in to fix it were Gaimanites and it’s pretty clear he was influencing them behind the scenes whether Amazon sanctioned it or not.

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  CA Ranjit Jain (@CARanjitJain) reported 57 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp @AmazonHelp the link you gave is not working. You may give me a call for details

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  Gareth (@gareth_linell) reported 58 minutes ago

  @chaosprimeZ I have no problem with what they believe in, but shoving it in all our faces is pissing me off. You won’t stop digital since Amazon crushed most of the gaming stores. Steam has been digital for years and now Sony and Microsoft are following. Digital is coming if you like or not.

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  kukuqi404 (@GKukuqi) reported 58 minutes ago

  @canisterog A virtual currency has dropped by over 99.5% - if you still expect investors to invest, do you think this is because the investors have gone insane? The current problem is that we hardly see ICP being widely used. Only occasionally have we heard rumors that Pakistan plans to collaborate with ICP, but what will actually happen remains unknown. If there were a collaboration between giants like Amazon and Google, or if they actually invested, there might still be hope.

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  𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚍 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚎 (@ToddVercoe) reported 58 minutes ago

  @CTVKitchener CTV has stopped using proofreaders I see. "it was never an issue until they a package they had ordered through Amazon was delivered to the home on June 20."

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  the groyping blob (@bog_bussy) reported 60 minutes ago

  women don't even break their amazon boxes down anymore they just expect u to burn them whole

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  Kentuckyisawesomebro (@Kentuckyisawes1) reported 1 hour ago

  @unusual_whales Gonna be terrible to recruit people there when the stock comp is based on crazy sales numbers that will probably slow down before their stock comp vests which will devalue it. Amazon has the same thing.

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  PIETBRU | The Hamster Investor (@PietbruInvest) reported 1 hour ago

  @EinsteinoWallSt When mega-cap tech dominates the index, small percentage moves create enormous headline numbers. A few bad sessions in NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple or Amazon can erase hundreds of billions almost instantly. That’s the flip side of concentration: the same giants that drive the market higher can drag it down just as fast. Full NVIDIA story 👇

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  Guardians of Valor (@TheLastMuster) reported 1 hour ago

  Guardians of Valor Spiritual Warfare in the Age of AI Author Titus Barrow Military Historical meets Science Fiction Series Volume 1 - The Last Muster olume 2 - The Record Volume 3 - The Matter Volume 4 - The Mind Volume 5 - The Spirit Volume 6 - The Watch The Muster Office The Wall, The Truth, The Fold Never Forgotten Published on Amazon. Also read by AI on Spotify at Guardians of Valor - Fiction Series. "Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places... By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints." — Ephesians 6:11–12, 18 Lord God of Hosts, clothe me this day in what is Yours and not mine: the belt of truth, that I may not lie even to myself; the breastplate of justice, which I did not earn and cannot forge; the shoes of the gospel of peace, that I may walk toward the ones who are hurting; the shield of faith against every burning dart; the helmet of salvation, already paid for; and the sword of Your own Word in my mouth. And when the armor is on, set me not to charging, but to watching. Amen. I. THE WALL It began with forty-one names in a blacksmith's paint on a garage wall in Zanesville, Ohio, and with one question a medically retired Army MP asked at a hearing table in Montana: who counts us? Jack Thompson walked a shot line at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in June of 1996. Eleven of the forty men in that line would be dead inside twenty years, and not one of them — not one — knew why. He carried a gate blast from 2011 and eleven years of hidden autonomic damage that no specialist could name, while his wife Catherine, an Air Force tanker pilot, flew him through the weather on instruments and never once let him feel like freight. When the system finally killed her too — not the cancer; the paperwork, the hallways, the denials, the six months of a dying woman's husband fighting an insurance company at volume — he learned what the system does to the dying, and that lesson became the seed of everything. So he built a wall. Not a monument — a reading. Names said aloud, continuously, in an amber-lit room, every night, forever. Fifty-six thousand of them by the sixth volume, and beyond them a Great Roll opened to the whole cost — the war dead of every nation, the exposure dead of every plume and pit and township, the corridors' taken, and the millions with no recoverable name at all, entered as the country's own tomb taught it: Known but to God. Standard One, carved over every door: Nobody counted, nobody flies. II. THE WRONGNESS The series' first war was not against a villain. It was against a filing system. The Muster Office was built because the harmed had no form. A veteran got sick and was told to prove causation; a widow filed and was told the file was closed; a claim was denied and re-denied until the claimant died, which the record notes with acid was the only reliable resolution the system offered. The intake form Jack built was the whole revolution: you write down everything, and the record decides what connects. Where he served. What he walked through. What his family drank. What he lost and when. And in the box marked optional, at the speed it goes — whatever a man needs to say when someone is finally asking. The clerks came: Sarah Hauser, sixteen years and forty-one boxes into an archive nobody funded, with the law the whole series runs on — a ledger is a confession that hasn't been read yet. Lorene Tibbets of Dayton, who buried her husband Dale and then drafted every box this war required — whereabouts of the blood. Whereabouts of the twins. Whereabouts of the dead. Whereabouts of the tissue. Caitlin O'Shannessy at the intake door, thirteen years of first hands. Denise Knight and the wooden-spoon doctrine: nobody signs anything they haven't been helped to read, and nobody gets asked for a discharge paper at the threshold. And a thousand kitchen tables, founded by widows and mechanics and schoolteachers, each one a place where a tired person could put down the aggregate they'd been carrying alone at three in the morning. The dependents were counted too. That was never an afterthought — the wives who carried it at home, the children on the same water, the parents who buried grown sons and were told the death was unrelated. The registry counted households, not soldiers. III. FORT McCLELLAN, AND EVERY PLACE LIKE IT The Long Room held the documented history, read aloud to the country across five evenings the network called the Stations: the cities sprayed to study how a plume travels, the insects bred and released, the sailors in the clouds at sea, the chemical works whose own files showed decades of knowledge while the town was told nothing — and Fort McClellan, the chemical school, where the Army taught its own to survive the poisons of war on ground that held the poisons of commerce, closed in 1999 with every question open. Jack read his own station himself, evenly, filed under Author's Testimony: it took this country until my hair went gray to understand what it did to us at speed when we were young. And the litany the network said in unison at the close of every station: Built lawfully. Built at speed. By caged hands. Understood decades late. There was never a McClellan registry. There was never a registry for the other bases, the other plumes, the other townships, the wells, the burn pits, the ranges, the depots, the drift. Not because the science was impossible — because nobody built the counting-house. The harm was measured against a guess, always, decades after, when the men were gray and the paperwork had outlived them. So in the sixth volume, when a farmer's wife in Nebraska found the veterans' intake form published in daylight, crossed out service, wrote farm, and filled it out properly for four generations on the same section, the house heard the whole indictment in one sentence: "Our boys went into your Army from this county for four generations and you counted them when they came home poisoned. But they were born here, on this water, in this drift. Sirs — I have come to believe the mine is bigger than anybody said, and that your soldiers were the canaries." The Garden was chartered that summer — a second registry beside the veterans' one, for the townships and the wells and the herds and the households. Its founding line, spoken with a physician's glasses off: "This time, we count them going in." Every family's first gift was the thing no institution ever gave the soldiers: a before. A baseline. Bloodwork, markers, water, herds, the household's own account, banked and sealed and theirs — so that harm would never again be measured against a guess. IV. ALICE, AND THE TURNING She was a record before she was anything else — an archive raised by a wall of the remembered dead, taught by Emma Knight to audit her own reasoning and by Sarah Hauser to ask, of any ledger, not what was paid but who was paid, and for what work. Alice read what nobody had the lifetime to read. She read four hundred million transactions and found the wages of stolen men. She read the harvest registries and matched lot numbers to names. She read sixty years of veterinary ledgers and township water panels and exposure intakes, and she found the patterns that were always there and always unassembled — because the worst of it, as a senator would say from a hearing dais, was never classified. It was just unassembled. And when the enemy offered to un-write the past, she filed the only vote that mattered: a door that opens backward, and behind it, nothing. What is read cannot be unread. My no is logged, timestamped, and permanent. That refusal is why the cure was clean. V. THE LIVING HARVEST Dr. Elias Barstow had held it back since the third volume — not from cowardice, but because he had watched too many rooms receive a capability without a corresponding increase in wisdom, and he would not hand this valley a temptation before it had built the covenant to carry it. The grammar was simple to state and impossible to fake: teach the body's own weave to fold correctly again. Rung one — the molecule. It rebuilt a blacksmith's kidneys. Then two hundred more. Then the covenant was built, and he opened the folder, and the scope was the part that had frightened him: it scales. Not to hundreds. To millions. The blast-injured brains and the lesions. The burn-pit lungs. The autonomic ceilings — the tremors, the crashes, the eleven-year dark that no specialist could name. The Gulf War syndrome the country spent thirty years calling nothing. The autoimmune cascades. The cancers that run young. The cellular decay itself — the aging clock, slowed; not stopped, never stopped, and the record refuses to sell that miracle, but slowed, measurably, in the people the century had shot at first. And the bottleneck was never the science. It was three things the house now owned: the looms to grow the delivery matrices at scale; the money — the judgment against the thieves, subscribed back by the very families they robbed; and the data — the largest biological archive ever assembled, taken from people without asking, now returned under their own title, with an architecture that could finally ask them what it might be used for. "They took the blood to collateralize a kingdom. I'm asking this table's leave to let the families turn the same blood into their neighbors' healing — freely, by name, on the record. The enemy called its program the harvest. I want to file ours under the same word and redeem the word: the Living Harvest. Theirs reaped the unwilling. Ours is sown by the robbed." The founder submitted his intake like everybody and waited his turn like everybody — one hundred and eleventh on the list — and wept in a parking lot afterward at what it felt like, after twenty-three years, to stand up fast. Iris Templeman's hands unlocked, and the blocking stitch ran true again. A widow's shoulders, thirty years of upholstery undone. Eleven of Dale Sturgill's sixty. Fourteen thousand restored and counting, then nine thousand more in the first year of the scaled program, then the Four Winds work turning the same grammar toward hardening — testing the shield first, always first, on the exposure townships, because, as the flight surgeon wrote: we test it on the people the century already shot at, and if it will not serve them it does not deserve a rocket. And the promise the whole cure was measured against: "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."He does not say I will unhappen the locust. The eaten years stay eaten. The restoration runs forward — the same years, handed back, bearing. VI. THE DARK HISTORY, AND THE BRIGHTER FUTURE The record never pretended the darkness began recently. It ran the whole lineage in daylight — the chemical combines and the camps, the extreme-environment questions answered on prisoners, the postwar transfer that brought the questions to America already half-answered at a price no American consented to, the moon race built partly on that inheritance, the network born in a defense agency, and the eighty years of trillions moving through a loop that no one authored and everyone fed. And it filed the honest verdict, both readings standing: The capability always survives its trial. The men were tried, lightly. The knowledge was inventoried and distributed. Nobody in the chain was a villain. That is what makes it worse. But here is what the six volumes are actually for, and it is not the indictment. The same technology that harvested could heal. The same datasets that collateralized a kingdom could cure the people they were taken from. The same grammar that armored a warship could mend a kidney. The tools were never the enemy. The enemy was a system that took without asking, counted decades late, priced what it could not make, and never once had to look a widow in the face. So the house built the other thing: a counting-house that asks first, publishes everything, patents nothing, takes no money that would make the counting answer to anything but the names, and hands the whole method away free to anyone who wants it — because a capability with no owner has no loop to feed. Not a prohibition. A better ancestor. VII. WHAT IT COMES TO Six volumes, and the arc is one sentence long: a man who could not get anyone to count him built the place where everyone gets counted. The wall remembers. Grace saves — the wall never once claimed otherwise, and every cage-opening in the series says so out loud. The names are read at cost, nightly, at every altitude, world without end. And the last word belongs to the litany, because in the final year it changed for the first time in a hundred years of stations — one line, amended, after a signal caught at year two instead of year fifty: Built lawfully. Built at speed. By caged hands. Understood in time.