🇪🇺📉 Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic to regulate. Your car industry is about to be wiped out by the Chinese. Your biggest economy shut down nuclear out of spite and with fraud. Your capital markets have no liquidity and your startups are drowning in bureaucracy. Your border is being attacked by Russia and your defence spending will have to triple just to be where it was with US subsidy given that part of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc is now part of the EU. Your economy has slumped from the world’s largest to way behind the US. Your pensions are paid by three times less people and cost five times as much as people live longer. Your infrastructure is a model for the world but is configured for rail over self drive. Your electricity grid needs half a trillion of investment to cope with planned capacity and replacements, for the switch to renewables, within a decade. There are bright spots such as pharma and your healthcare system is a model for what civilisation looks like it. But to afford it, you need to completely transform from the industrial to digital age, to reform your institutions and rout the sclerotic bureaucratic system.

https://twitter.com/daveg/status/1784835703743881256

🇦🇷💰🔼 — Under the government of libertarian president Javier Milei, the peso, Argentina's national currency, experienced a significant increase of 25% against the dollar in the parallel market over the past three months, making it the best-performing currency among the 148 monitored in the first quarter of 2024.

➡️ The peso's recovery, which is beginning to show concrete signs of stabilization, is attributed by the American agency Bloomberg to Milei's efforts, who has only been in office for four months, to reduce public spending and control Argentine inflation.

➡️ The agency cited that renewed Argentine confidence in the peso, along with the cessation of money issuance by the central bank to finance public spending, contributed to the stabilization of the national currency.

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📖👁💫🖼️ Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail

💰 Announcing Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP) - The Next Generation of Monero's Privacy

https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html

🇨🇳❤️🥇China’s young people are rushing to buy gold

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/04/25/chinas-young-people-are-rushing-to-buy-gold

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 NATO | Secretary General in Kyiv: Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to NATO, support will continue | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday (29 April 2024) for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the state of the war and the future of NATO’s support to Ukraine | April 29, 2024:

"The Secretary General praised President Zelenskyy’s leadership and the bravery of the Ukrainian forces and people, but acknowledged that “leadership and bravery alone cannot repel the Russian forces; you also need arms and ammunition.” He recognised that serious delays in support have translated to serious consequences on the battlefield. "Ukraine has been outgunned for months... fewer Russian missiles and drones have been shot down, and Russia has been able to push forward on the front line," said Mr Stoltenberg. "But it is not too late for Ukraine to prevail. More support is on the way."

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🇭🇰🕯💰💰Interactive Brokers Introduces Hong Kong Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETPs

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240429722408/en/Interactive-Brokers-Introduces-Hong-Kong-Spot-Bitcoin-and-Ether-ETPs

‼️🚨📡 FCC FINES AT&T, SPRINT, T-MOBILE, AND VERIZON NEARLY $200 MILLION FOR ILLEGALLY SHARING ACCESS TO CUSTOMERS’ LOCATION DATA

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402213A1.txt

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-fines-big-three-carriers-196m-for-selling-users-real-time-location-data/