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@USC CS grad → Built AI tool to 10k+ users. AI Consultant bridging hype/execution gap. Writing on GenAI, startups & tech's societal impact.
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Aug 10 16 tweets 6 min read
Every time you push code to GitHub for free, Microsoft makes money.

Every React component you build, Meta profits.

Every TensorFlow model you train, Google cashes in.

You're not a developer - you're an unpaid employee of Big Tech 🧵 Image The numbers are staggering.

Recreating all existing open source software would cost $8.8 trillion.

Yet who maintains it?

Mostly unpaid volunteers working nights and weekends.

Meanwhile, Google pulls $200+ billion annually built on Linux, TensorFlow, and thousands of free projects.Image
Aug 8 15 tweets 6 min read
Your iPhone's GPS exists because 269 people died in 1983.

Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet missiles after a navigation error.

Two weeks later, Reagan declassified America's most classified military technology for civilian use.

The smartphone in your pocket is built on tragedy 🧵Image
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KAL007 wasn't supposed to be there.

A Boeing 747 carrying 246 passengers veered 200 miles off course into Soviet airspace.

The crew had no idea. Soviet interceptors mistook it for a U.S. spy plane.

Two missiles. 269 dead.

All because they couldn't figure out where they were.
Aug 7 17 tweets 7 min read
One American fruit company killed more people than most wars.

200,000+ dead across Latin America.

All so your bananas stayed under $1/pound.

This is the United Fruit Company story 🧵 Image
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United Fruit didn't just sell bananas.

They owned countries. Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica - entire governments danced to their tune.

Railways, ports, telegraphs, hospitals. They controlled everything.

Even gave us the term "banana republic." That wasn't a joke. It was a warning.Image
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Aug 6 16 tweets 6 min read
The US built a 500KB virus that destroyed 1,000 Iranian centrifuges.

Zero shots fired.

It escaped globally. 100,000 computers infected.

Every dictator learned how to weaponize code.

This is how America opened Pandora's box 🧵 Image
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Stuxnet wasn't just malware. It was a declaration of war through code.

Six years of development. Multiple zero-day exploits worth millions on the black market.

All to make Iranian centrifuges spin themselves to death.

They called it "Olympic Games." Iran called it an act of war.
Aug 4 18 tweets 7 min read
Trump just committed the biggest economic suicide in history.

He slapped 25% tariffs on a country 17x larger than the one getting preferential treatment.

India: 1.4B people. Pakistan: 240M.

Remember, Pakistan is the the one that harbored Osama bin Laden

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The numbers are staggering.

- India: $4.2 trillion economy, 1.4 billion people, $129 billion trade with US.

- Pakistan: $373 billion economy, 240 million people, $7.3 billion trade with US.

Trump is punishing the giant to reward the minnow. Image
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Aug 3 17 tweets 7 min read
The man who put Americans on the Moon was a Nazi SS officer.

He killed 20,000 slave labor to build the infamous V-2 rockets that later terrorized London.

Meet Wernher von Braun: Nazi mass murderer turned American hero and the dark secret NASA doesn't want you to know 🧵 Image
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In 1945, as Germany fell, the US launched Operation Paperclip - a covert program to recruit Nazi scientists before the Soviets could get them.

Over 1,600 German experts were brought to America.

Many were war criminals. All had their records "sanitized."
Aug 2 17 tweets 6 min read
Africa loses $88.6 billion every year to Western corporations.

That's more than all foreign aid and investment COMBINED flowing into the continent.

While you're donating to "save Africa," multinational giants are literally stealing it blind.

Here's the heist nobody talks about 🧵Image
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Shell, Total, and mining corporations didn't get rich by playing fair.

They use something called "transfer pricing" - selling Africa's diamonds, gold, and oil to their own shell companies at fake low prices.

Result? Billions in profits recorded in tax havens. Zero taxes paid in Africa.Image
Aug 1 17 tweets 6 min read
Bill Gates owns more American farmland than most countries have total land.

275,000 acres across 18 states. That's bigger than New York City. Twice.

Tech billionaires are quietly buying the one thing you actually need to survive: your food supply.

Here's how they're colonizing America's heartland 🧵Image
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Gates didn't become America's largest private farmland owner by accident.

He has never milked a cow, planted corn, or harvested wheat.

He's not farming.

So why is a software billionaire buying America's dinner table?
Jul 31 18 tweets 7 min read
The Pope knows more about world leaders than the CIA does.

The Vatican operates the world's oldest intelligence network - complete with spies, secret files, and global political manipulation.

Here's how 1.3 billion Catholics unknowingly fund the world's largest spy operation 🧵 Image
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They don't call them spies. They call them "papal nuncios."

183 Vatican diplomats trained in espionage techniques, operating in every major country on Earth.

Their cover? Religious diplomacy.
Their real job? Intelligence gathering for the Holy See. Image
Jul 29 17 tweets 6 min read
The world's most trusted banks built their reputation on Holocaust victims' gold.

While Jewish families burned in ovens, Swiss bankers were melting down their wedding rings for profit.

Here's how "neutral" Switzerland became Nazi Germany's money launderer 🧵 Image
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They hid this for 50 years, but the truth is devastating.

Swiss banks didn't just store Nazi gold, they actively helped melt down jewelry ripped from Jewish victims' bodies.

Including dental fillings from concentration camp victims.

This isn't neutrality. This is complicity. Image
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Jul 27 19 tweets 7 min read
America has a terrifying secret: We can't make weapons fast enough to defend ourselves.

While China cranks out military hardware at lightning speed, the U.S. takes YEARS for basic missile parts.

One startup just raised $260M to save American democracy. Here's the shocking story 🧵Image
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America has a dirty secret that no politician wants to talk about.

We can't make our own weapons fast enough.

While China cranks out military hardware at lightning speed, the U.S. takes YEARS to produce basic missile components.

This isn't just embarrassing, it's terrifying. Image
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Jul 23 25 tweets 9 min read
Mastercard's CFO called India's payment system "incredibly painful."

Translation: India just murdered a $500B industry. With FREE payments.

51.4 billion transactions. Zero fees. 49% of global real-time payments.

Here's how a "developing country" made Visa & Mastercard beg for mercy 🧵Image
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The numbers are staggering: UPI now handles 49% of ALL real-time payments globally.

One country. One system. Half the world's instant transactions.

We're not talking about gradual growth.

We're talking about complete market domination in just 9 years. Image
Jul 15 18 tweets 7 min read
In 2025, North Korea quietly became a ground force in Europe.

Now, Kim Jong Un is reportedly sending 30,000 more troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

His soldiers are dying on European soil, honored in public ceremonies back home.

What’s really going on? 🧵 Image
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This isn’t propaganda.

Multiple Western and Asian intelligence sources confirm it:

North Korea already deployed 11,000–14,000 troops

Now they’re tripling that, sending up to 44,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war machine.

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Jul 10 18 tweets 6 min read
OpenAI has the best models.
Google has the most data.
Microsoft has the biggest cloud.

But Elon Musk just realized something they all missed:

POWER is the real bottleneck.

His solution? Import a 2-gigawatt power plant.

Here's why this "insane" move changes everything 🧵 Image
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In July 2024, Elon Musk announced that xAI would purchase an entire power plant overseas and ship it to the United States to power a data center with 1 million GPUs.

What followed fundamentally transformed how the world thinks about AI infrastructure. Image
Jul 7 17 tweets 6 min read
In 2024, Google offered $23B for a 4-year-old company and got rejected.

The founders?

Two Unit 8200 veterans in their 20s.

While American grads pay student loans, these Israeli soldiers are building unicorns.

Here's the military secret that's reshaping global tech 🧵 Image
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The numbers are staggering:

$160B+ in market cap, dozens of unicorns, Google's failed $23B Wiz acquisition.

But here's what nobody's talking about:

Unit 8200 has a 90%+ success rate for funded startups.

That's not luck, that's systematic advantage.
Jul 4 18 tweets 7 min read
In 2016, Pokémon Go became the world’s most popular mobile game overnight.

500M downloads, $1B revenue.

But few knew the truth: it was built on CIA tech for military surveillance.

Here’s the classified story they don’t want you to know 🧵 Image It starts with Keyhole Inc., a little-known mapping company in 2003.

CEO John Hanke needed funding for 3D Earth visualization tech.
Traditional VCs said no.

The CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel, invested millions naming it after spy satellites. Image
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Jun 30 27 tweets 9 min read
The Saudi royal family stopped talking to each other.

Not from anger but from fear.

MBS had bought $55M worth of Pegasus spyware and was monitoring their every word.

Here's the chilling story of how surveillance destroyed family trust 🧵 Image
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In 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made a purchase that would forever change the nature of royal power:

NSO Group's Pegasus spyware for $55 million.

This wasn't just another defense contract.

It was the beginning of history's most audacious family surveillance operation.Image
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Jun 29 17 tweets 6 min read
China’s $500 million AI cluster was shut down overnight—by NVIDIA.

A "routine" driver update burned out 12,000 GPUs.

Accident? Insiders say otherwise.

Here’s the shocking tech sabotage story no one’s talking about 🧵 Image
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On January 30, NVIDIA quietly pushed driver version 572.16, supposedly a standard update for their new RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs.

Within hours, chaos erupted on forums worldwide—GPUs went dark, permanently bricked.

Coincidence? Insiders aren't buying it... Image
Jun 28 6 tweets 3 min read
Russia has spent 10 years building "invincible" hypersonic weapons.

They claimed Mach 10 speeds & zero chance of interception.

Then Ukraine did the impossible with a 40-year-old Patriot system...

Here's the $50 BILLION reality check that shattered military history 🧵 Image
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March 2022, Putin announced on Russian state TV with a direct message to the West.

"I expect that everyone understands that these weapons cannot be intercepted by any existing air defense systems."

His ultimatum was clear... Image
Jun 22 21 tweets 7 min read
⚠️BREAKING: Last night U.S. stealth fighters struck Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran’s $2B air defense didn’t even see them coming.

This wasn’t just an airstrike—it was a live tech demo.

The future of warfare just arrived.

Here’s how it happened—and why it matters: 🧵 Image
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The mission was unprecedented:

The United States took offensive action on 22 June 2025, by striking three Iranian nuclear sites using aircraft that Iran's $2 billion air defense network couldn't even see coming.

This wasn't luck—it was physics. Image
Jun 21 21 tweets 6 min read
In 2025, the U.S. banned AI chip exports to 120 countries.

China responded with state-backed LLMs.

Europe buried startups in compliance.

What happened next created the biggest startup arbitrage since the internet.

Here’s how to play it: 🧵 Image The AI world has fractured into 3 distinct regulatory regimes:

US: Deregulation + Export Controls
EU: Strict Horizontal Regulation (AI Act)
China: Vertical Controls + State Capitalism

Each creates different startup opportunities. Most founders are building for only one.