Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes

#Africa #Education #Tech #Entrepreneurs Cape Town Joined April 2008

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Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty

a day ago

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

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If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

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signüll @signulll

a day ago

almost everyone reads this list as wealth hoarded. it’s the opposite. each name here is a rounding error on the surplus they unleashed on to the world through both the peripheral individuals (employees, investors, etc) involved & the compounding value of their creation to society in general (which allows others to also pursue greatness).

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David Hoffman @TrustlessState

a day ago

The world needs more trillionaires

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Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes

4 days ago

@justinspratt Likely some influence but I reckon they did it to pump their pre-IPO SpaceX bags. Given high the IPO multiples and their sizable shareholding its a pretty meaty ROI on that rental fee.

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greg @greg16676935420

2 weeks ago

I bet the other 24 letters are pissed

WOLF @WOLF_Financial

2 weeks ago

Alphabet is raising $80 Billion by selling stock to invest in AI

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Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes

2 weeks ago

@RubyGold Why?

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nvk 🌞 @nvk

2 weeks ago

Do people even know that we won't have fish in the sea anymore because of China?

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Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes

3 weeks ago

Vegan NIMBYs in a spin over this

Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch

3 weeks ago

Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.

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Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature

4 weeks ago

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

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Tando @tando_me

a month ago

We’ve been on a side-quest, and we have good news from the other side! 40 million Kenyans now have a bitcoin Lightning Address! They didn’t need to sign up for one because they had it this entire time, attached to the phone number in their pocket! Try it: send bitcoin to [email protected] (254 is optional). The BTC arrives as KES in their M-Pesa. ⚡ EVERY M-Pesa number works. All 40,000,000. Wallets with LUD-09 support give you a nice clickable link to see your M-Pesa receipt. For example: bitcoin.co.ke/receipt/6528a4…

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Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus

a month ago

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lungile @IamLungile_

a month ago

Until black people vote for DA and Vf+ so they can scrap the minimum wage and BEE, there will be no jobs created for young people in South Africa! Minimum wage makes inexperienced people too expensive to hire and train. The actual learning for a job happens in the work place

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PeterSweden @PeterSweden7

a month ago

If your country requires digital ID verification to use social media, then you don't live in a free country anymore. If your country want to regulate or ban VPNs, you don't live in a free country anymore.

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John Ennis @johnennis

a month ago

Elon’s decision to make likes private here on X has probably done more to shift the Overton window than any other single action in world history

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J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling

9 months ago

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

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Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus

a month ago

Yes.

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Ryan Petersen @typesfast

a month ago

The palisades fire being an act of left wing terrorism is not being discussed nearly enough.

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou

a month ago

Palisades Fire ends up being one of the most destructive acts of left wing terrorism in modern history. The arsonist Rinderknecht searched “free Luigi Mangione,” “let’s take down all the billionaires” and “let’s kill all the billionaires” before setting the Lachman Fire which

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Rob Stokes ⚡ @robstokes

a month ago

Not a coincidence that 1971 is when the world officially abandoned the gold standard. This change gave governments the ability to print money out of thin air and give it to their friends. This monetary expansion, Cantillon Effect and subsequent asset price inflation make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The only solution is to separate money and state.