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[@powerfultakes](/creator/twitter/powerfultakes)
"@bakwasbandkrein Agamemnon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981483720474304989) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-23T22:11Z 40.5K followers, 26.8K engagements


"@avidseries Are you sure there were 50000 That would place more Americans in Tehran then than in 1950s Paris - which was a famed and quite known expat haunt for Americans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1978362882547933205) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-15T07:30Z 40.5K followers, 2807 engagements


"My estimates of theological distance from Roman Catholicism (0): Orthodoxy X Protestantism X (Anglicanism 1.5; Lutheranism 2.5; Calvinism 4; Evangelicalism 7; Mormonism 18) Islam XX (Shi'ite 34; Sunni 38) Judaism XX Buddhism XXX Taoism XXX Hinduism XXX Confucianism XXX WDYT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980094947463168172) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-20T02:13Z 40.5K followers, 5378 engagements


"Video account of a Ukrainian mobilization evader's heroic escape across the Carpathians into Romania. Unsurprisingly it's becoming harder every year. Lots of surveillance drones now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980528226553458820) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-21T06:55Z 40.5K followers, 2597 engagements


"@XiXiDu @RokoMijic @EgeErdil2 I've heard of these claims and they seem fantastical - creating some genie ex nihilo (as opposed to grifting on the last waves of the AI bull run). Has anyone even done this for say the much narrower and much more "solved" domain of chess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980687694876586428) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-21T17:28Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@StefanFSchubert @chribreuer Well Sweden certainly punched above its weight too Also one interesting point made in this book is that Swedish literacy was loaded towards reading but much less towards writing. Product of the Protestant emphasis on reading the Bible; writing stuff not so important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981285257883374017) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-23T09:03Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@MAKRealtyDE No SBF gambled with customer assets that did not belong to him (I mentioned that before FTX went under) and is in jail for valid reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981453052898058405) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-23T20:09Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Matt Walsh is now "feeling the AGI." Meanwhile there's been zero change in real capabilities since we hit Midwit Wall (120 IQ) in January 2025. It's over. Send all these AI scams to zero prompto. 🚨🐻📉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1976491279241576678) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-10T03:33Z 40.5K followers, 128.7K engagements


"Worldcoin is what you build when you believe in AGI. Sora is what you build when you no longer do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1976500873003258319) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-10T04:11Z 40.5K followers, 16.2K engagements


"The Garden of Gilgal - the lovechild of an architect and Mason called Thomas Child who spent the last two decades of his life actualizing his Biblical and Mormon visions in his backyard. Very cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1978935583100510301) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-16T21:26Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements


""This Is The Place" - the main Mormon theme park recounting their journey and early history. Mixture of outdoor folk-larp museums with commemorative monumentalism. About half the workers are unpaid Mormon missionaries (the Church having a special relationship with the museum)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1978936997864517706) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-16T21:32Z 40.5K followers, 1167 engagements


"Willing to bet that Dubai will not even displace Berlin in prominence let alone NYC. UAE has a Slovenia level of scientific productivity (3x lower than the Saudis) and its culture seems centered around skyscrapers X star hotels instathots cryptobros and exiled oligarchs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1979027535741460689) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-17T03:31Z 40.5K followers, 19.9K engagements


"Limits of raw IQism - Richard Lynn did this kind of analysis decades ago. Genius isn't just a function of IQ but of specific population structure (favors the US India Israel) and a personality suite (high non-conformism openness disagreeableness)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1979031513833353353) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-17T03:47Z 40.5K followers, 79.1K engagements


"My trip to Salt Lake City and the MTA (Mormon Transhumanist Association) conference was useful and highly enlightening - much more so than Burning Man. While I have no interest in converting to Mormonism I was strongly inspired by its theology's frame that we are all co-creators with God regardless of what it is that we are creating - be it goods and services (The GDP); community service; children; family history research; blog posts; new worlds (e.g. fantasy and sci-fi novels. for now). Something like radical life extension research/proselytism can be viewed as helping Jesus no matter in how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980171216972640333) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-20T07:16Z 40.5K followers, 6942 engagements


"Took longer than many expected but it's increasingly evident the Europeans will use Russia's own frozen reserves to finance the Ukrainian war effort from 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980347249852039512) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-20T18:55Z 40.5K followers, 8377 engagements


"I've long come to realize that a big reason I enjoy being in SF so much is that the baseline IQ feels at least half a standard deviation higher than anywhere else. It's this intangible aspect to every conversation across a wide range of personalities like a brain fog was lifted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980522176945222006) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-21T06:30Z 40.5K followers, 5069 engagements


"It is vitally important to love and cherish the Indians in our lives every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980802620605464679) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-22T01:05Z 40.5K followers, 5401 engagements


"@nvidia Can we crash this clown market and go to zero already Tired of waiting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1980912422354637073) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-22T08:21Z 40.5K followers, 1319 engagements


"We are XX% off the Bitcoin ATH and once-somewhat prominent alts (Kadena used to be $3.6B mc) are explaining to their bagholders that they have found "newer opportunities" and exiting their own projects. This is the stage of the "bull" market we are at. ZERO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981068465575514566) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-22T18:41Z 40.5K followers, 2352 engagements


"@chribreuer Sprinted to XX% literacy rates in 17C; ahead of England (only around XX% mid-century) way ahead of the rest of Western Europe to say nothing else. But then it started equaling out and their population wasn't that big"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981277002490662922) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-23T08:30Z 40.5K followers, 28K engagements


"I'm not a fan of CZ's influence on the crypto space but the money laundering charges against him were a total fraud. By those standards most CEXes and virtually all decentralized protocols without KYC are also criminal enterprises. Good on Trump for the pardon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981452320891417077) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-23T20:07Z 40.5K followers, 4183 engagements


"@DrewPavlou The definition of "hobbit hovel nationalism." ☝ @croftyler Any more or less interesting and optimistic future (space empires mind uploads biosingularities whatever) presuppose current nations will not be recognizable or identifiable within the century let alone 1000 years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981546552100606246) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T02:21Z 40.5K followers, 8405 engagements


"That is not even an incorrect comment (even if disparaging). I had a higher opinion of Switzerland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981813066548564024) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T20:00Z 40.5K followers, 6868 engagements


"JP Morgan Chase is trying to extort $133000 from me No exaggeration. They claim that I opened an account with them in Jan 2024 and ran up $133000 in spending in LA. Despite physically being in Honduras and spending a total of X days in the US between Sep 2016 and Apr 2025. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981833690398515302) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:22Z 40.5K followers, 9794 engagements


"Some identity thief opened a revolving credit card in my name with them in January 2024 and ran up the $133000 debt with payments to what appear to be shell companies in Los Angeles. I could not have been responsible in principle because I was in Honduras (Prospera) during that entire period a claim validated by Honduran entry permits in my passport and a plethora of other evidence all of which I made available to them. I also informed the FTC and JP Morgan Chase as soon as I became aware of it early this year. I have done everything and more that can be reasonably expected of a victim of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981833695289127009) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:22Z 40.5K followers, 1956 engagements


"PS. Just me poasting from Honduras (geotagged) while the identity thief was making $10000 purchases from "PosXperts" and "Remodel Xpert""  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981833698606821621) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:22Z 40.5K followers, 2011 engagements


"Today I was informed that my 4th/5th appeal has been closed (as always I had to call them to find out). I am not really sure how it's possible to resolve this issue at this point without recourse to the courts. It's completely Kafkaesque. They don't have a case. But I do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981833704806003066) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:22Z 40.5K followers, 2319 engagements


"@dylanfa I did the investigators' job for them and identified the likely suspects. It appears to be an LA-based Armenian credit card fraud ring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981838933055971380) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:43Z 40.5K followers, 6403 engagements


"@NwaigboOdera Lazy and taking the path of least resistance I think. Probably just banking on intimidating me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981839297759387851) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T21:44Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@jackson77228301 @dylanfa It's not immigration or even criminalized diaspora subcultures that are the problem here but JP Morgan Chase a giant and quintessentially American institution and its willingness to extend massive credit lines online without due diligence and zero accountability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981856843493433765) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-24T22:54Z 40.5K followers, 1728 engagements


"I think intervention against Venezuela is likely to be a great and unqualified success. Which is actually the real danger. Because the voices of skepticism and dissent will be marginalized while appetites will grow with the eating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1981979118528012624) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-25T07:00Z 40.5K followers, 7167 engagements


"I never comment on how much I have or don't have but just a PSA that this is absolutely awful advice and no-one should under any circumstances ever follow it. Paying an identity theft related debt acknowledges it is yours doesn't remove most of the hit to your credit rating and confirms you as an easy mark for further such exploitation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1982121932373041211) [@powerfultakes](/creator/x/powerfultakes) 2025-10-25T16:27Z 40.5K followers, XXX engagements