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🚨 SAMSUNG, SK HYNIX, AND MICRON ARE GETTING SUED FOR ENGINEERING THE MEMORY CHIP SHORTAGE. The lawsuit, filed June 25 in California, accuses the three companies of using their pivot to AI memory chips as cover to cut production of regular DRAM, the memory used in everyday laptops and phones. DRAM prices have risen roughly 500-700% over the past four years. Micron reportedly shut down its consumer DRAM brand, Crucial, at the most profitable price point in its history, a move the lawsuit calls economically irrational unless it was coordinated. The lawsuit points directly to Apple's recent price hikes on iPads and Macs as evidence the damage is already reaching consumers. This isn't the first time. Between 1998 and 2002, Samsung, Hynix, Micron, Infineon, and Elpida ran an actual price fixing cartel, confirmed by US federal prosecutors. Samsung paid a $300 million criminal fine, Hynix paid $185 million, and Infineon paid $160 million, with several executives serving real prison time, sentences ranging from 4 to 14 months. The new lawsuit alleges Samsung and SK Hynix later rehired and promoted some of those same convicted executives into senior roles. Together, the three companies control the vast majority of global DRAM supply today, and building a single new DRAM factory costs $15 to $20 billion and takes years, making it nearly impossible for new competitors to break in and undercut them. That's the core problem this lawsuit is targeting. Three companies with total control over a market everyone depends on, the same companies already convicted once before, now facing the same accusation again while prices keep climbing and ordinary buyers have nowhere else to turn. Jefferies doesn't expect relief anytime soon. Prices are forecast to climb another 40-50% next quarter, then a further 30-40% on top of that the quarter after, meaning prices could roughly double by year end. 2027 is expected to bring another 40-45% increase on top of that, with no real normalization expected until 2028.

POV: It's 2026, and someone captured an ordinary day on a 35mm camera. No dramatic story. No perfect poses. Just warm sunlight, candid smiles, quiet streets, and little moments worth remembering. 📸 Prompt Seedance 2.0 ↓ Prompt: Main subject from image1 lock her completely. Face, hairstyle, body proportions, skin tone, outfit, accessories, and overall appearance must remain perfectly identical throughout the entire video. She is a sweet and naturally beautiful Indonesian girl, 18 years old, soft warm tan skin, expressive dark brown eyes, long black hair tied into a casual messy bun with loose bangs, youthful smile, minimal makeup, wearing a simple white oversized T-shirt, light blue denim jeans, white sneakers, and carrying a vintage brown canvas camera bag. Around her neck hangs a classic 35mm analog film camera. Theme: "A Day With My Camera" A relaxing weekend in 2026, following a girl who loves documenting ordinary moments with her analog camera. The video should feel authentic, nostalgic, and effortlessly beautiful. Everything takes place around modern Indonesia in 2026: quiet neighborhood streets, small coffee shops, city parks, bookstores, pedestrian sidewalks, and cozy residential areas. The entire video must look like it was filmed naturally by her best friend using a modern mirrorless camera. Absolutely no posing, no influencer behavior, no scripted acting. Every smile, glance, and movement feels spontaneous and real. Camera language is the highest priority. Natural handheld movement. Gentle camera sway. Occasional focus breathing. Real autofocus adjustments. Slight framing imperfections. Natural motion blur. Documentary-style tracking shots. Soft depth of field. Authentic available sunlight. Premium lifestyle vlog aesthetic. Sequence: She walks out of her house while adjusting the analog camera hanging around her neck, smiling softly as morning sunlight lights up her face. She stops beside a quiet street and photographs flowers, bicycles, passing people, and little everyday details with genuine curiosity. She enters a cozy camera store, happily choosing a fresh roll of 35mm film before carefully loading it into her camera. Walking through the city, she photographs random candid moments: children playing, street cats, trees moving in the breeze, reflections on café windows, and interesting architecture. She sits alone inside a cozy café reviewing her newly taken photos, smiling while enjoying an iced latte. Golden hour arrives. She slowly walks through a city park while continuing to shoot photographs, warm sunlight creating beautiful natural lens flares. She notices the person filming her, laughs shyly, lifts her analog camera toward the lens as if taking one final photo of the viewer. The camera gently lowers while she keeps smiling naturally. Recording suddenly cuts off mid-motion like a real weekend vlog ending. Lighting: Bright natural morning sunlight transitioning into warm golden hour. Color: Natural realistic skin tones. Soft warm colors. Subtle filmic contrast. No exaggerated grading. Audio is strictly natural. Birds. Footsteps. Camera shutter clicks. Film advance lever. Coffee shop ambience. Light wind. Distant traffic. People talking naturally. Leaves moving. No music. No narration. No subtitles. No logos. No watermark. Ultra-realistic. Looks exactly like a real lifestyle vlog filmed in 2026.

“In practice, most of us will be buying shares in SpaceX.” On “The Intelligence”, @j_scribbler explains how Elon Musk’s $3trn public listing will affect ordinary pensions and savings

Sunflowers in the Wind The adult world is exhausting. Old Zhou, a taxi driver of twenty years, had grown numb to it all — the bridges, the sea breeze, the city lights. He was ready to quit. Then a little girl got in. She didn't rush him. She simply gazed at everything — the bridge, the park wind, the river clouds, the purple evening sky — savoring it all like a quiet goodbye. It was her last look at the world she loved, before surgery. Innocent yet brave. Gentle yet determined. In that moment, Old Zhou realized: the ordinary life we've grown tired of is the tenderness others desperately wish to keep. One sunflower. Two hearts healed. The next morning, light fell over a field of flowers. Old Zhou drove on — rekindled. Ordinary life, gently lit again by warmth and hope. Happyhorse CPP Qingshan Yingling studio × Happyhorse short film “Sunflower” 🌻 HappyHorse 1.1 is now available! HorsePower AI Cinema Awards Global Competition now open! More info can click:

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Long post. Most will scroll past before realize what is hidden in it. That is part of the filter. This is not one idea. It is a trail. Physics shows up. Belief shows up. The body shows up. Responsibility shows up. At first, they may look like separate rooms. They are not. They are connected doors. Read slowly. The connections run deeper than they first appear. A person can spend years looking for answers and still refuse the one thing that would actually change the result. That is the part people usually do not want to see. They think the problem is lack of information. More books, more lectures, more techniques, more quantum mechanics, more explanations. But information does not change a life if the belief underneath remains the same. Before looking at physics experiments, this needs to be clear. In this view, quantum mechanics is not mainly about technology, weapons, machines, or theories. The real point is to understand how the universe works so a person can create the reality they want in their own life. But there is a trap here too. A person can hear “consciousness is fundamental” and turn it into another slogan. Another belief to defend. Another thing to repeat without changing anything. The words changed, but the structure did not. So the question cannot stop at, “What is consciousness made of?” That question matters, but it can become too abstract too fast. People start adding extra machinery, extra assumptions, extra invisible interactions, and then act as if the problem has been solved. But adding more parts does not automatically explain experience. It only moves the question somewhere else. The deeper question has to become operational first. What kind of system can sustain consciousness? What must a physical system do to keep a coherent internal perspective alive through noise, change, error, memory, pain, emotion, and time? That question points to what actually happens when consciousness appears, weakens, breaks, returns, or stabilizes. It does not ask for a slogan. It asks for a process. A conscious system has to keep a model of “me,” “now,” and “the world” intact while everything inside and outside it is changing. The body changes. The brain changes. The chemistry changes. The environment changes. Memory updates. Prediction errors arrive. Emotion interrupts. The senses keep correcting the picture. And still, something holds. There is a point of view. There is a world being experienced from somewhere. That does not fully solve the metaphysical hard problem. A skeptic can still ask, “Why should stable modeling feel like anything at all?” That is fair. A thermostat regulates. A computer processes information. A brain models the world. Those are not automatically the same thing as felt experience. But the question becomes deeper. Maybe experience is not a substance added on top of the system. It is what the system is from the inside when the right kind of self maintaining stability is achieved. Once a system preserves a living perspective across body, memory, prediction, and world, that perspective is not something it watches from outside. It is the only vantage point available to it. That is where the operational question opens the metaphysical one. Consciousness is the base of everything. Matter is not the foundation. Matter is a manifestation of consciousness. The fundamental state is the wave. What appears as matter is one expression of that deeper state. But then comes the practical problem. People hear this and still do not want to change their beliefs. If the beliefs do not change, nothing changes. A person can study for years and still produce the same life because the inner position stayed untouched. This becomes clear in a lecture room. You can explain the same thing fifty times, three hours each time, for years. The person listens, but does not move one millimeter. Five years later, the same belief is still there. So how could the result be different? It cannot. Study is supposed to mean learning. Learning means, “I did not know this before. Now I know it. Because I know it, I change my behavior. I change my consciousness according to what I learned.” If that does not happen, what was the point of studying? It is like reading the manual of a car while continuing to destroy the car. The manual explains what needs to be done, but the person keeps driving the same way and then acts surprised when the car stops. But what was the manual for? People often approach new ideas with an automatic reflex of rejection instead of genuine consideration. One point is raised and dismissed. Another follows and receives the same response. When this pattern continues, no new possibility is tested or allowed to land. Discernment is necessary, but when every suggestion is rejected before it is examined, real change becomes nearly impossible. The same requests keep coming. The credit card. The overdraft. The contract. Month after month, year after year, the person wants a different result, but the state behind the result does not change. In this view, everything that happens in a person’s life is connected to the consciousness they carry. If a person believes in problems, problems appear. If a person believes in possibility, possibilities appear. Imagine someone stuck in mud, holding onto it as if it were gold. Someone pulls them out, but as soon as they let go, the person jumps back in. Why? Because in their consciousness, the mud is still gold. The location changed for a second, but the perception did not. Only when the state of consciousness changes can they actually be helped. Until then, every rescue is temporary. The same applies to relationships. There is a process. It involves bio chemistry, neurotransmitters, and what the person feels. Handled properly, it works. Handled wrongly, it breaks. But many people hear the process and still say, “That cannot be done.” Then how can the result appear if the process is rejected? It is like making a chocolate cake. Follow the recipe ratios, temperatures, and the cake works. Change the ingredients carelessly, and there is no cake. For a cake, everyone understands this. But in life, when not following the law produces suffering, people still argue with the process. So the question remains. What is the problem with changing what you think? It looks like ego. It becomes “what I think” against “what is being explained.” The person holds onto the old belief because admitting the new one would mean letting go of being right. Even when the process is explained clearly, the old belief returns immediately. Someone might say, “But I was taught that I should not want too much,” or “Good things only come after I have struggled enough.” The conditioning reasserts itself before the new understanding can take root. There it is. A belief from childhood, family, culture, grandmother, great grandmother, another century, still deciding the person’s life today. Science and experience may show that it does not work. The person may be frustrated, repeating the same result, and still say, “No, someone else has to take initiative. I have to wait.” Who said that? Where was this written as a cosmic law? It was said by tradition, by conditioning, by people repeating what they received without checking if it produced happiness. This applies to everything. A person receives the explanation clearly. “Do this, this, and this.” In the moment, they agree. Then they walk out the door and do the opposite. Why deceive the person trying to help you? If you mislead your therapist, lawyer, or accountant, you do not win. You just make the help useless. If a person resists even that, imagine what happens when the subject touches the deepest layers of meaning and faith. Many hold stories and interpretations passed down through generations that once gave life structure and certainty. When a clearer and deeper understanding becomes available, some may hear it yet still continue living as if the older framework remains the final truth. Whole civilizations are built on stories. Ideas about life, death, work, women, guilt, punishment, rest, and salvation sit on top of them. So when the story is questioned, the person feels their whole structure being touched. To bring about real change in life, the person has to align with the basic principles of how the universe operates in this view. That requires shifting the state of consciousness and the underlying paradigm. Everything is under the paradigm. If the paradigm does not change, nothing truly changes. The person remains dependent on someone else to keep fixing what they continue to create from the same inner state. This is why resonance is meant for liberation, not as permanent support. Its purpose is to help the person shift their consciousness so they can stand on their own. When used this way, money may begin to flow and situations may improve. But if the thoughts and beliefs underneath remain the same, the old patterns eventually return and recreate the same problems. There is also a deeper spiritual point here. A real connection with God, the divine, the higher self, or the sacred within does not make a person smaller. It should make the person more honest, responsible, awake, and capable of love. The problem is not faith. The problem is when inherited fear, guilt, or identity freezes around faith and gets mistaken for the living connection itself. That is why full responsibility can feel threatening. It does not have to destroy faith. It can purify it. It removes the excuse, but not the sacred. It returns creative responsibility to the individual while allowing the inner connection with higher power to deepen instead of staying trapped inside old programming. There was a young man who understood this after only four months of doing this inner work. He came from heavy conditioning, but saw the mechanism. He realized the role his own consciousness had been playing in shaping his experience, and that he had been sabotaging himself through it. Once he saw that, he took the beliefs he had carried for years and threw them away. That is change. Now take illness. In this view, every illness has a psychosomatic dimension alongside its biological expression. Physical conditions often reflect deeper inner states. When it is suggested that certain patterns of inner resistance or avoidance can contribute to physical symptoms, strong objection usually appears. But test it yourself. Deliberately give space to inner resistance. Feed the feeling of not wanting to engage with life or responsibility, and observe what happens in the body over the following days. The resistance is intense because it brings the role of one’s inner state back into awareness. The work is to question the beliefs. List what you believe about money, health, relationships, work, sales, the body, and the future. Then compare the belief with the result. If the belief is not questioned and changed, the result is zero. Relationships expose this faster. When the subject is metaphysics, many people let it pass. But when the subject is male and female conditioning, the room heats up. Touch the beliefs around men, women, initiative, control, guilt, and blame, and people react instantly. This same pattern appears in how people treat others. Someone may speak of spiritual values while still holding contempt or judgment toward certain groups. The contradiction is not always obvious to the person. It stems from old stories absorbed long ago. Those stories continue to shape how the person sees and treats others through tone, assumptions, and prejudice. This is not rare. Old beliefs do not remain only in the mind. They turn into behavior. When this inner work begins opening the unconscious, what is inside starts coming out. If there is mud inside, mud comes out. This is why some people say they started the process and now have more problems. Fear, guilt, anger, prejudice, laziness, and old beliefs do not disappear just because someone pressed play yesterday. The cleaning can take time. It may last one month, two months, six months, a year, or longer. While the old material is still coming out, results tend to appear in pieces. The bigger shifts usually come once the cleaning reaches a certain point. Many people want the benefits, but they do not want the study, questioning, or inner change needed to hold those results. That is imagination trapped in place. But the principle is simple in this view. Your consciousness participates in shaping your reality and continues to do so. Change an inch in consciousness and reality shifts an inch. Change a mile in consciousness and reality shifts a mile. Expansion creates expansion. If you believe you can earn one thousand, you earn one thousand. If you believe you can earn ten thousand, ten thousand becomes possible. If you believe you can earn one million, then one million is not a different category. It is still energy. The number is not the obstacle. The belief is. This is why real help cannot stay as rescue forever. At first, someone may heal, fix, rescue, and intervene. But after years, the same pattern appears. The person receives the benefit but does not evolve. The money comes, the illness improves, but consciousness does not move. Then the helper realizes they are only postponing the consequence. So they stop being a crutch and start teaching. Because if the person does not understand, the same pattern continues here or on the other side. People resist quantum mechanics because they sense where it leads. If consciousness is involved in reality, then responsibility comes back to the person. There is no place to hide behind fate, blame, family, society, or chance. Even biology can be read through that question. A living cell has been shown producing laser light. Not a whole organ. Not a brain. One cell. If one living cell can organize light in such a precise way, imagine a brain with billions of neurons and countless connections. Can the human being release energy too? Yes, through consciousness. A cell can emit organized light. A human being, with a developed consciousness, can direct energy in a much greater way. But then the mind keeps collapsing the problem. There is a quantum effect where continuous observation can keep a system from changing state. Translated into ordinary life, if the person keeps staring at the debt, the debt remains. If the person keeps staring at illness, illness remains. If the person keeps staring at lack of work, lack remains. “When will the money come to pay the debt?” Never, while the whole consciousness is fixed on the debt. “When will I get a job?” Never, while the whole consciousness is fixed on not having one. “When will I leave the hole?” Never, while the person keeps observing the hole. Trying too hard from the wrong state can keep the person trapped. The person thinks effort is solving the problem, but the attention is still feeding the same condition. Sometimes problems move because people accidentally stop focusing on them. For a while, the problem is not being observed with the same intensity. Then things move because the focus loosened. That is why a simple instruction can be powerful. Watch films that hold your attention. Comedies, dramas, anything that takes the focus off the problem. But even that meets resistance. A person hears that laughter and endorphins can help the body, and then says they could not find a single comedy they liked. Healing cannot be separated from consciousness. A person may arrive with a serious illness and want a miracle. But if the illness was built through resentment, anger, guilt, fear, and years of inner pressure, then the real work is not only physical. The person has to change the state that built the condition. Each situation has to be seen as a whole. If a store is failing, it may not be only the store, the economy, the decoration, or the sales process. You have to look at the people involved, the relationships, the history, and the whole field around the situation. The system is built so people do not understand what reality is made of. As long as things are presented as mysteries that cannot be questioned, people are less likely to look into how they actually work. Once someone understands the atom, the rest begins to open. Matter is not so solid anymore. Reality is not just hard objects separated from each other. It becomes information, energy, relation, and response. That is why non locality matters. If all particles remain connected, then nothing is truly isolated. The whole universe is one entangled system. What happens in one place does not stay completely separate from what happens elsewhere. When problems appear in one part of the world, they are not truly isolated from the rest. In this view, events reverberate through the whole field. To claim complete separation from what happens elsewhere contradicts the interconnected nature of reality itself. The same inconsistency appears when those who profit from outdated systems blame the public for pollution while suppressing cleaner technologies that could reduce harm. In this view, one cannot claim separation while benefiting from the structures that create the problem. Everything is connected. Experiments with entangled particles show correlations that do not behave like ordinary local contact. One particle is measured here, and the other responds there. The information does not travel in the normal way through space, because relativity says nothing can travel faster than light. Yet the correlation appears. So what do people do with that? They use quantum principles to develop technology. Quantum computers. Quantum encryption. Quantum communication. They build products from the very principles they deny when consciousness enters the discussion. That is not simple ignorance anymore. That is convenience. If information is stored in the field and can be accessed and transferred, then resonance becomes sensitive because the result becomes measurable. Someone asks for a result, the information is transferred, and something changes. But will the system allow that kind of experiment to be done freely? Probably not. Because once the deeper potentials of consciousness and information are recognized and measured, they would exceed the limits of the current accepted framework. Strong evidence that consciousness can directly influence outcomes would force a shift the existing structure is not ready to allow. The resonance does not depend on a huge physical machine. The information is there. It is accessed. It is transferred. If the result appears, the old explanation starts to break. But people also sabotage the result. Someone may ask for a higher level of excellence, but not fully understand what they are inviting in. That force carries a way of thinking, feeling, acting, and deciding. It wants movement, execution, and the highest expression of itself. But when it enters a person’s life, it often collides with comfort zones, old beliefs, fear, approval seeking, and small habits. And then everything stops. The person says, “Nothing happened.” But something did happen. The archetype arrived and pushed toward expansion. The person hit the brakes with all their strength. If the person was moving at ten miles per hour, the archetype comes in wanting one hundred. The person panics and steps on the brake completely. So the system freezes. Not because the archetype failed. Because the person refused the level of action that came with it. If someone asks for excellence, they cannot keep living from mediocrity. A great scientist wants to study. A great athlete wants to train. A great business mind wants to build. The force comes with movement. That does not fit laziness, delay, comfort, excuses, or “this is good enough.” People ask for the top, but someone at the top is not there by accident. That person works more, trains more, studies more, sacrifices more, and refuses the average standard. So when that information enters, it demands alignment. If the person refuses alignment, the result blocks. That is imagination trapped in place again. The person does not want to study, learn, understand the laws, or question beliefs. They want to make requests and receive results as if the universe were a vending machine. But reality does not work according to what a person prefers. It works according to law. If the process is followed, the result comes. If the process is rejected, the result does not stabilize. The knowledge is already laid out. The path is not hidden. It is in the person’s hands. The only question is whether they will use it. Because receiving knowledge increases responsibility. The more a person understands, the more they are required to act from that understanding. If they know and do not act, they have to suppress what they know. And suppressing consciousness has a cost. The higher the consciousness, the greater the responsibility to live according to it. If the person receives more and still tries to remain small, the pressure turns inward. What is not lived becomes blocked. What is blocked becomes weight. And that weight eventually appears somewhere. So the point is simple. The more consciousness a person has, the more they have to do with it. Because if they do not, the same consciousness they refused to express becomes the force that turns against them.

A Japanese Engineer Vanished in Dalian. Beijing Just Showed Its Cards. In late May, a Japanese man working for a major Japanese electronics firm walked into work in Dalian. He didn’t walk out. The Asahi Shimbun reports that Chinese authorities detained him on suspicion of attempting to export rare-earth-processed products outside of China — the very same rare earths Beijing has been weaponizing against Tokyo for months. This is not a customs case. This is a hostage. Recall how we got here. On November 7, 2025, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the Japanese National Diet that a Chinese armed assault on Taiwan involving warships and the use of force could constitute a “survival-threatening situation” — the legal trigger under Japan’s 2015 Legislation for Peace and Security that permits Tokyo to exercise collective self-defense. She said the quiet part out loud. Beijing heard it. What followed was a coercion campaign with no diplomatic ambiguity. Travel warnings against Japan. Standoffs around the Senkaku Islands. Joint Chinese-Russian air activity off the Sea of Japan. On January 6, 2026, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) banned dual-use exports to Japan tied to military end-use. In February 2026, Beijing tightened twice in a single month. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson stated the purpose explicitly: to prevent Japan’s “rearmament and attempts to acquire nuclear weapons” — language designed to recast a sovereign democracy’s defense posture as historical revanchism. Then came the cargo strangulation. Chinese customs data confirm that shipments of terbium oxide and dysprosium oxide to Japan have stood at zero since November 2025. Yttrium oxide: negligible volumes since December. Heavy rare earth flow to Japan — for motors, magnets, semiconductors, defense systems — is no longer disrupted. It is severed. And now, a man in Dalian sits in a cell. Understand what this detention signals. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not punishing a single engineer for paperwork violations. It is broadcasting to every Japanese employee, every multinational executive, every supply chain manager still operating inside the People’s Republic: your body is leverage. Your liberty is contingent. The line between commerce and hostage-taking has been formally erased. This pattern is not new. Since the 2014 Anti-Espionage Law and its 2023 expansion, at least 17 Japanese nationals have been detained on opaque “espionage” or national-security pretexts — pharmaceutical executives, friendship-society organizers, ordinary businesspeople. The evidence is classified. The trials are closed. The releases, when they come, are political transactions. What is new is the integration. Rare earth weaponization, dual-use export bans, military intimidation off Japanese coasts, and now the arbitrary detention of a Japanese citizen tied directly to the rare earth dispute — these are not separate Chinese policies. They are a single coordinated coercion package, calibrated to extract a retraction from Tokyo that Takaichi has refused to provide. At the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France in mid-June, Takaichi raised the Chinese export regime directly, voiced deep concern about the supply-chain impact on G7 economies, and proposed allied stockpile cooperation and joint reserves. Translation: Tokyo will not be coerced. Tokyo will harden. That is the correct answer. It is also why the cell door closed in Dalian. Condemn this clearly. The detention of a private citizen as an instrument of state-to-state pressure is not lawful enforcement. It is hostage diplomacy — the tactic of an authoritarian regime, not a modern state. The CCP has weaponized its own legal system against a foreign national to settle a political grievance over a democratic prime minister’s parliamentary remarks. Every government, every multinational, every chamber of commerce that pretends this is anything else is providing cover for the cage. Japan has done the harder work of decoupling. The United States, the European Union, Australia, and the United Kingdom should now accelerate it together — strategic stockpiles, non-red supply chains, processing capacity outside Chinese jurisdiction, and a unified declaration that arbitrary detention of any allied national triggers a coordinated response, not bilateral negotiation in the dark. Beijing did not lose a rare earth dispute. Beijing took a hostage to win one. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

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A man invested $53,000 of his family's savings into a dying video game store. Hedge funds laughed. He turned it into $48 MILLION and made Wall Street beg Congress to stop him. > Keith Gill was a 34 year old financial analyst at a Boston insurance firm in 2019. His salary was ordinary but his conviction was not. > He believed GameStop, a struggling mall video game retailer trading at $5 a share, was one of the most undervalued companies in America. > Wall Street disagreed. Hedge funds had shorted the stock so aggressively that more shares were shorted than actually existed. They were certain it was going to zero. > Gill invested $53,000 of his family's savings and started posting his analysis online under the name DeepFuckingValue on Reddit and Roaring Kitty on YouTube. > Nobody took him seriously. He kept posting anyway, week after week, with nothing but spreadsheets and conviction. > In January 2021 retail traders on Reddit's WallStreetBets discovered his posts. > They started buying. The stock went from $5 to $483 in three weeks. A 9,600% move. > Hedge funds that shorted the stock lost BILLIONS. One firm alone lost $6.8 BILLIO and had to be bailed out by other hedge funds. > By January 27 2021 Gill's $53,000 investment was worth $48 MILLION. > He lost $13 MILLION in a single day when the stock fell. He held anyway, without flinching, without selling a share. > Robinhood restricted buying of GameStop without warning. Retail traders were furious. Congress summoned Gill to testify. > He showed up in his Roaring Kitty headband and said three words that became the most quoted phrase in finance that year: "I like the stock." > His employer fired him and paid a $4 MILLION fine for failing to supervise his trading. > He went quiet for three years. Then in May 2024 he posted a single image on X. GameStop surged 50% the next morning before he said a word. > By June 2024 his position was worth $289 MILLION. > A Hollywood film called Dumb Money was made about the saga, starring Paul Dano. He has never spoken publicly about it. He invested $53,000 into a stock Wall Street had already written off for dead. Hedge funds lost BILLIONS.