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Diogo Mónica

@diogomonica

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Co-Founder and President @Anchorage , ex- @Docker , ex- @Square Infinite knowledge; Infinite progress.

Joined December 2008
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
When people ask me what I miss about Portugal, I say: the food and the infrastructure. When people are surprised by the infrastructure portion of the answer I send them a speed test from my home internet:
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
Thrilled to join Katie and the exceptional team at @HaunVentures as I take a new role as Executive Chairman of @Anchorage and continue to help @nathanmccauley and the team as we enter the next exciting chapter!
@katie_haun
Kathryn Haun
2 months
Diogo Mónica I’m ecstatic to announce that Diogo Mónica, one of the most exceptional founders I know, is joining us as a General Partner. In addition to co-founding and building Anchorage Digital into the success story it is today, Diogo possesses a wealth of technical…
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Diogo Mónica
6 months
@afonsolfm Failure is a necessary part of success. Building things that help move society forward is one of the best uses of our brief time on this earth. Take a break; start over.
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
My feed is 100% Javier Milei right now, and I like it.
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Diogo Mónica
3 months
Incredibly excited to launch Porto, an institutional self-custody wallet built with the security and technology Anchorage Digital is best known for. Porto allows institutions to fully engage with web3, safely. Bonus points if you can figure out our product naming algorithm! 😂…
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
Diego is the spanish version of Diogo, not the other way around.
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1 year
You’ll be missed @crazybob 💔
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
US Innovates, China copies, and EU regulates.
@LuizaJarovsky
Luiza Jarovsky
2 months
🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know: ➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving: - Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups; - Social…
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
@aeyakovenko We need motivated good actors to pick up the pieces.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
@ThierryBreton You are clearly the villain.
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Diogo Mónica
3 months
I'll be hosting a BTC all-time-high party. That's all.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
The biggest Chad move would be for @elonmusk to force every account on Twitter to follow him. Of course, you can pay $8 to unfollow.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
An amazing step forward in pushing 🇵🇹 forward. Stock options now are only taxed at a qualifying event (IPO, sale) and not at time of exercise. Effective tax rate reduces from 28% to 14%. 👏
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Diogo Mónica
22 days
Excited to announce that Aaron Schnarch is joining @Anchorage as COO. Couldn’t be more excited about working together. Welcome Aaron!
@Anchorage
Anchorage Digital
22 days
@Anchorage Digital is proud to appoint Aaron Schnarch as our first company-wide COO. We are excited to expand our team and accelerate our mission of providing institutions with safe and secure access to crypto. Read the announcement ⬇️:
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
Congratulations to @HHorsley & the @BitwiseInvest team for ringing the NYSE bell today. As a longtime partner, we are proud to see this major moment for Bitwise — and for institutional adoption as a whole.🔔🎊
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
We are potentially seeing a thawing of so-called ‘crypto winters.’ While the digital asset market will always have bulls and bears, institutional adoption is pushing us closer to spring. The long-term outlook for Bitcoin is promising—and institutions are just getting started.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
The biggest advantage of this blue badge debacle is people finally realizing how silly it is to trust anything on twitter in the first place.
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
Years from now, 3 days will mark the Bitcoin calendar: -Oct. 31st (Bitcoin white paper was published) -Jan. 3rd (first coin was minted) -And the day the SEC approves a spot Bitcoin ETF. The excitement around this is almost palpable—a spot ETF would mark Bitcoin’s golden era.
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
"A successful entrepreneur is a hero"
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4 months
Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo.
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Diogo Mónica
9 months
huh… this isn’t what I meant by the institutionalization of crypto.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
Excited for our partnership with @AngelList . Fund companies using stablecoins!
@Anchorage
Anchorage Digital
2 years
Our @AngelList partnership to fund #startups with #USDC benefits young companies & investors with instant settlement & access to global funding. Read more in coverage from @ForbesCrypto 's @marigra21sl with @Anchorage President @diogomonica ⬇️: @Forbes
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
On a flight out of SF. ~50% of people on their laptops are reading about SVB.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
brb, buying some €
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Diogo Mónica
6 months
"About 140 detectives searched the residence of the prime minister and several government ministries as part of the inquiry." -- My biggest question is: where did he live that could fit 140 detectives? 🤔
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
@brunodccarvalho Because we can!
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Diogo Mónica
6 months
If act one is a spot Bitcoin ETF, then act two is a spot Ethereum ETF. Ethereum adds an extra layer of intrigue as a PoS asset—underlying ETH could also be staked for additional rewards. If approved, a spot Ethereum ETF would drive demand for safe, secure, and regulated staking.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
I love this timeline.
@justinsuntron
H.E. Justin Sun 孙宇晨
1 year
. @UBS 's bid for @CreditSuisse falls short. I would like to propose my own offer of $1.5 billion to acquire Credit Suisse and integrate it into the Web3.0 world. Switzerland has been one of the most crypto-friendly countries in the world.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Data isn't oil. Data is toxic waste. The more you accumulate, the likelier you are to die of radiation poisoning.
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Diogo Mónica
9 months
I've said it before, but it's been coming up in conversations a lot recently and feels worth reiterating: the next phase of crypto adoption rests on a clear segregation between custody and exchange functions.
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Diogo Mónica
10 months
Institutional crypto summer? ☀️😎
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
AI is turning most humans from authors into editors.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
We’re co-tweeting!
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
@saranormous Carta? We're all on @pulley !
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Em casa de ferreiro, espeto de pau.
@NapierHolland
Alex Napier Holland 🦍
1 year
I live in Portugal and yet I’m about to purchase a mountain bike from an Italian store. In fact, I import most luxury items from Germany and other EU countries. Why? Because 90%+ of Portuguese online stores barely work. Poor UX hurts entire economies.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Square was the first company I worked at in Sillicon valley and it was instrumental in my path towards Anchorage Digital many years later. Fun to be part of this great group of people.
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
If this goes through, it might be a bigger catalyst for BTC than all the ETFs combined.
@business
Bloomberg
4 months
President Joe Biden’s administration is backing legislation that would let it seize some of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to help pay for reconstruction of Ukraine
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Congrats to @Lux_Capital on their new fund! @Anchorage is a portfolio co and they’ve been a fantastic team to work with! Amazing humans and unwavering support.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
The effort @elonmusk has put into making Twitter more entertaining this week is nothing short of spectacular.
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Diogo Mónica
6 months
eIDAS 2.0 is a EU browser backdoor being approved behind closed doors in Brussels. If this gets approved, EU citizens will have to start compiling their browsers from source (with a couple of lines commented out).
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
That makes it two complex Ethereum updates that were deployed without a hitch. This time around it was Decun, a portmanteau of "Deneb” and “Cancun", that will bring rollup fees down by orders of magnitude and enable Ethereum to remain competitive without sacrificing…
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
@NapierHolland I think the reason is that all the amazing Portuguese talent is busy building amazing products for larger markets, as they should.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
Not every founder can raise twice in a bear market. @christinacaci is 🔝
@christinacaci
Christina Cacioppo
2 years
. @techcrunch has the scoop on Vanta's $40m Series B extension! (Macro, what?)👇
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Because G comes after F.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
USD > EUR
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
The majority of people in the U.S. said they would need at least $100M to lead a comfortable life. I know inflation is bad, but come on...
@Forbes
Forbes
2 years
Ten million. That's the amount that most people think is necessary to lead a comfortable life—except if you're American, that is. Researchers asked 8,000 people the same questions in 33 countries around the world across 6 continents.
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
@0xLaryssa MEO 10Gbps
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
What is a bitzlato?
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
It makes sense that the CEO of twitter is the biggest meme lord.
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Diogo Mónica
10 months
The real (and enduring) driver of mass crypto adoption is institutions, not individuals.
@mrjasonchoi
Jason Choi
10 months
What’s your unpopular crypto opinion?
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
After today's ruling on Grayscale's spot Bitcoin ETF filing, the ball is now back in the SEC's court. Feels worth restating: institutional demand for a spot Bitcoin ETF is stronger than ever before, and for many it's a matter of when—not if—the SEC will approve one.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
Fun fact: Portugal is 97% water.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
In addition, the custodian should be regulated as well. A federal bank, perhaps? 🤔
@SenToomey
Pat Toomey (US Sen. ret.)
2 years
This episode underscores the need for a sensible regulatory regime that, among other things, ensures a centralized exchange segregates and safeguards customer assets.
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Diogo Mónica
9 months
Implementing key market structure protections from traditional finance -- like we are doing with EDX Markets through a distinct separation of exchange and custody functions -- is critical for continued institutional crypto adoption. "
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Fed ChatGPT my PhD Thesis and have been asking it questions. The results have been fascinating. For example, I asked if my thesis covers hashcash. ChatGPT got it wrong in the sense that hashcash is definitely a paper that I reference (it should have seen it), but holy shit, it…
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Diogo Mónica
8 months
A year ago, the Ethereum network successfully completed #TheMerge , and in the year since has since continued to prove the ecosystem can mature safely & sustainably. Proud to play a part in it through offering federally regulated ETH staking @Anchorage Digital.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
Thoroughly enjoyed joining Lloyd Wahed on Searching for Mana podcast We talked through my upbringing in Portugal, inspiration (or rather pressure) from my father to get a PhD, and the journey to co-founding Anchorage with @NathanMcCauley
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Diogo Mónica
8 months
Had a great time speaking at @token2049 about safeguarding digital assets. Is always particularly interesting to have these conversations on the ground in Singapore, which has worked to actively establish itself as a leading crypto hub.
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Diogo Mónica
10 months
Amazing to see so many Portuguese entrepreneurs in one place. Celebrating entrepreneurship is critical to build a culture of risk taking in Portugal. Thank you to @EY_Portugal for putting together such a fun event.
@EY_Portugal
EY Portugal
11 months
No EY Entrepreneur Of The Year foram distinguidos os melhores e mais relevantes exemplos de empreendedorismo. Sérgio Silva, CEO do Vigent Group, foi o grande vencedor da 9.ª edição. #EYEntrepreneuroftheYear
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
If you thought the BTC ETF wasn’t a big deal, think again!
@BTC_Archive
Bitcoin Archive
2 months
🔸JUST IN: #Bitcoin ETFs are 58% of the way to flipping Gold ETFs for total assets. $58.7b for $BTC $98b for Gold That's just after just 8 weeks... At this rate, Bitcoin will flip Gold ETFs in a few month!😳
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Diogo Mónica
9 months
Big institutions that have longterm horizons are looking at crypto.
@APompliano
Pomp 🌪
9 months
These answers provided by billionaire David Rubinstein when discussing Bitcoin are quite impressive.
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
Hard to be convinced that a company that sells your data on the free tier is somehow going to be a great steward of your personal data because you pay them $10 a month going forward. It's the same database.
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1 year
Super useful: feed ChatGPT PDFs (articles or whole books), and quickly find passages; other books referenced; snippets; etc, all with partial context. Easiest way to do it is with Cheapest way to do it is with
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
Welcome to the @Anchorage team @TuongvyLe12 !
@TuongvyLe12
TuongVy Le 🗽🔭🍕🦄
2 months
I am so excited to be joining @Anchorage Digital as its new General Counsel. I can’t wait to lead a top-notch legal and policy team and to help guide the company through this next chapter of innovation and growth. ⬇️🧵
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Diogo Mónica
8 months
Loved catching up with @ThinkingCrypto1 about what @Anchorage Digital has been up to for the last 2 years, the current regulatory environment, and the state of play in the institutional crypto space right now.
@ThinkingCrypto1
Tony Edward (Thinking Crypto Podcast)
8 months
Charles Schwab, Fidelity & Citadel Securities launched a crypto exchange called EDX Markets earlier this year. Anchorage Digital provides custody for their crypto assets! Diogo Monica, cofounder and president of Anchorage joins me to break it all down! @diogomonica @Anchorage
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
4.15% is cool, but why not T-bills?
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Diogo Mónica
6 months
I need an Uber option to exclude electric cars. Drivers love their torque way too much.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
When asking people for advice, also ask yourself these three questions: 1. How many successes has the person had in this particular field? 2. Do they have a credible explanation for their hypothesis when probed? 3. Can they explain situations when the advice doesn’t apply?
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
This is the best part of the cycle.
@TheCryptoBubble
lil bubble
2 months
Nah @saylor snapped on this one 🔥 We Call Them Poor - House Remix #bitcoin
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Everyone on twitter is about to say that everyone else on twitter is about to become a banking expert.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Really interesting claim that Wikipedia might be the biggest source of misinformation in the world. Every source of information is by definition a source of misinformation, since all of our knowledge is incomplete, but still, bold claim.
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Demand for Ethereum increases after every successful upgrade. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen massive drops post Shapella, this brings us closer to sharding and the solution to Ethereum's biggest problem: low TPS.
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Diogo Mónica
9 months
An SEC-regulated Bitcoin ETF would unlock the next generation of crypto adoption, allowing trillions in institutional capital to come off the sidelines and providing a more regulated and accessible pathway to safely participate in the digital asset ecosystem. (1/2)
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
I #StandWithCrypto . More than 300,000 people are already advocating for better crypto policy in America. Join the fight to receive email updates on crypto policy, invites to local events, and more.
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
That’s really cool. Congratulations ;)
@cjking711
Chris King
7 months
We are very excited to annouce that we have partnered with @Anchorage to Offer Digital Asset SMAs to Wealth Managers. Read more below:
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Take note.
@DeItaone
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SWISS AUTHORITIES EXPECTED TO CHANGE COUNTRY’S LAW TO BYPASS UBS SHAREHOLDER VOTE - FT
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Diogo Mónica
2 months
Bitcoin accumulation underway.
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Diogo Mónica
7 months
“They won't come for the sardines or pastéis de nata.”
@imidaily
IMI Daily
7 months
At the risk of offending my (many) Portuguese 🇵🇹 friends: What made so many foreigners (including myself) relocate to or invest in this beautiful country over the last decade was primarily four things: 1. The NHR low-tax regime 2. The Golden Visa 3. Tax-free crypto 4.…
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Diogo Mónica
1 year
Lockdown Mode thwarted a real-world zero-click attack. The price to pay is: annoying pop-up’s on every new app; no SMS 2FA autocomplete; broken button links everywhere; and worst of all: can’t open PDFs or docs easily. #worthit
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
It’s 2024 and my phone number is useless. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve actually disabled the phone functionality and all calls go to voicemail. Of course that does nothing for the SMS spam. 🤦‍♂️ Going to instate a yearly phone number rotation.
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1 year
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN OPERATION IN GERMANY. 2010: 17 2023: 0
@_HannahRitchie
Hannah Ritchie
1 year
Share of electricity from coal (Germany vs. its W. European neighbours) 🇩🇪 Germany: 31% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13% 🇩🇰 Denmark: 11% 🇬🇷 Greece: 10% 🇮🇹 Italy: 8% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 7% 🇪🇸 Spain: 3% 🇬🇧 UK: 1.9% 🇫🇷 France: 1% 🇦🇹 Austria: 0.2% 🇵🇹 Portugal: 0.1% 🇧🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪 Belgium, Norway, Sweden: <0.1%
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You realize you’ve read too many books about money when you can guess both the structure and anecdotes of at least the first 3 chapters when reading n+1.
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10 months
gerontocracy
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
This tweet aged well.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
If this was a movie, this article would have been used as one of the stepping stones of the flashback explaining how we got to the present day. Immediately followed by "first boston dynamics robot jailbroken" and "robot causes mass murder in the US".
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Diogo Mónica
4 months
Funny enough, I spent most of the time reflecting on the disinformation potential of AI dubs, since I only heard the AI generated translation and didn't listen to the original speech to verify.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
Fantasy train route map put together by German’s green party. More sleeper trains does sounds fun.
@grescoe
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇
2 years
"The Night Sprinter network would be a European grid of night trains that would consist of 40 international long-distance lines. By 2030, it would connect more than 200 cities from #Lisbon to #Helsinki ." Part of the "flight-free movement" growing across Europe.
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2 years
I’m genuinely surprised the proposal for funding “zombie robot deadly spiders” was approved.
@CBSNews
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2 years
Researchers have turned dead spiders into necrobotic grippers capable of lifting items that weigh more than 100 times their own body weight.
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2 years
For future historians: This is an artistic rendition of panem et circenses—entertainment to keep the masses from looking at the underlying issues of society.
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Diogo Mónica
2 years
“meeting”
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
2 years
Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!
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