TODAY: Chainlink announced it is working to enable financial institutions to connect to @swiftcommunity’s blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform. Swift moves the equivalent of the world's GDP roughly every three days ⬇️

Apple paid $25 million. Meta paid $14 million. OpenAI just paid $3.2 million. All three settled the same DOJ finding: they rigged hiring so Americans couldn't apply, then handed the jobs to visa workers. Three of the most valuable companies on earth, same scheme, same government charge. When the fine is a rounding error, the fine is just a cost of doing business.

America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating. Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground. The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves. It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors. Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence. True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over. Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market. We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.

Democracy is not a legitimate mode of governance if the State can select a new polis to represent. Extending the franchise to foreigners fundamentally violates the social contract. Elected official are not legitimate authorities if they engineer the voter pool.

I was not planning to vote because of the great betrayal from Trump and Congress, but now I think instead I will vote against every politician who was against Clarity and is explicitly against remigration. I cannot support any Trump endorsed candidates either.

Disgusting

Grayscale Head of Research @LowBeta discussed Chainlink and their $LINK thesis on the @CryptoPrimePod “Chainlink is critical middleware technology for achieving this tokenization vision” “We think of it [Chainlink] as a really great expression of the tokenization thesis” “It’s almost impossible for me to see how the tokenization vision will come to life without an important role for Chainlink”

Beginning in 2014, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn’t purge established Boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI. compactmag.com/article/the-l…

Actively banning anyone who complains about the geolocation is the purge every American needs on their TL.

If I die at someone's hands, do not forgive my killer. Form a pitchfork mob and wipe out 5 generations of their bloodline.

What ever happened to all those drones everyone was seeing? Did we ever get an official explanation?

Did X change is algo recently? Lots of sensationalist animal/whacky "you won't believe this" videos and low brow antitrump leftist takes galore the past couple days. Anyone else seeing this?

🙏 We are excited and humbled to announce that we have passed $100,000,000 in TVL on Dolomite! This is just the beginning. 🏗️ We will continue to innovate and push DeFi forward with more of the features and integrations that have fueled our growth so far. Ooga Booga

What Chainlink just revealed at their 2024 SmartCon is easily one of THE biggest paradigm shifts since crypto’s inception. Chainlink’s new platform architecture fundamentally changes how developers even approaching building in Web3. How so? Rather than developers first choosing a chain/VM to build on and then having that decision anchor the rest of their choices…Chainlink’s new platform now becomes their starting focal point for Web3 app development. Thread⬇️

BREAKING: The DNC just filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Election Board to block the new rule that requires election workers to hand count ballots to ensure the totals match what the voting machines say “If the Hand Count Rule is allowed to go into effect, the general election will not be orderly and uniform – large counties will face significant delays in reporting vote counts, election officials will struggle to implement new procedures at the last minute, poll workers will not have been trained on the new Rule because it was adopted too late, and the security of the ballots themselves will be put at risk,” So now Democrats care about getting the results quickly? 😂 This is a broad daylight admission that they can't win if they're not allowed to cheat easily.

Activists are calling on Mundo Marino aquarium in Argentina to release a 35-year-old orca who has been confined to a small tank since 1992. The orca, Kshamenk, stares at the gate of the tank for "24 hours a day." Kshamenk's tankmate died in 2000 meaning he has been all alone for 24 years. Orcas are highly social animals that need interaction with each other. "We continue to work with Argentinian activists and members of Congress to try to highlight and address his cruel world," a spokesperson for UrgentSeas said. "He needs to be removed from his tiny concrete tank and to join other members of his species before it's too late."

Out of all the rallies Trump held in the last year, CNN decided to carry exactly one of them live: Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Butler, PA. Interestingly enough, as the shooter - whoever that was - began firing, a NYT's photographer was in prime position to catch Trump's head exploding with a camera set to the unusual setting of 1/8000 & 30 FPS. Which you would only use if you expected to be shooting something happening in a millisecond. Turns out you can actually SEE a bullet in flight at those settings. Isn't that amazing?

The question isn't just how in the hell that roof 150 yards away from Trump was unguarded The question is also how this gunman knew that it was unguarded

We're incredibly excited to announce the long awaited launch of @GMX_IO $GM pools as collateral on Dolomite! 🎉 Dolomite users and GMX fans can now borrow against $ETH, $WBTC, $ARB, and $LINK GM pools while continuing to earn GMX yield! 🫐 Let's dive into this amazing launch 👇

Chainlink is working with @swiftcommunity and more than a dozen major financial institutions on experiments to enable connectivity to and interoperability across public and private blockchains: swift.com/news-events/news/s… These experiments are a significant step forward from the biggest financial players across the globe to #LinkTheWorld of traditional finance to blockchains. “As banks endeavor to access multiple blockchains,” @SergeyNazarov explains, “a common connectivity layer across the various chains will be a critical building block for their adoption of on-chain finance.”