Pickle Cat (@0xPickleCati)

It took two weeks to end the career of the most successful Asian American in history. Jensen washed dishes at Denny‘s as a teenager, and by this year he was running the world’s most valuable company. This week a lot of Asian people on my timeline decided that story is over. That no matter how high you climb, a face like ours gets a different set of rules at the top. After Elizabeth Holmes, female founders spent years getting asked some version of “how do we know you’re not the next Holmes?“ One woman‘s fraud turned into a question every woman had to answer. I’m Chinese Canadian, I grew up in Vancouver, and now I live in the Bay Area. I already know what my version of that question is going to be and it‘s pathetic. Jensen was born in Taiwan and spent over thirty years building an American company. The second the word ”China“ landed next to his name, none of that counted. This country has done this before. In 1882 it banned Chinese immigrants. In 1942 it locked up 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them citizens. In 1982 two Detroit autoworkers who blamed Japan for their jobs beat Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat. He was Chinese. His killers never spent a day in prison. Yellow peril never checked which Asian you were, and that’s a big part of why “Asian American“ became one word. If they were going to lump us together anyway, we might as well stand together. Now look at Jensen‘s timeline. Oct 29, the spy story breaks. The next day Singapore’s government says it never said what the Wall Street Journal claimed. Nov 8, he admits an affair. Nov 12, he‘s gone. The spy part is still unproven. Two weeks start to finish, right before what could be the biggest IPO in AI. You can call that a coincidence. I don’t buy it. Meanwhile the powerful people who raped CHILDREN in the Epstein files are mostly still living their best life Jensen had an affair with an adult woman. That’s the only thing of what‘s actually been proven. So what exactly did Jensen do that was worse than them? Nothing. He was the best, he was Asian, and he was on the wrong side of the political fight. He did everything right. He built the company America needed most and showed up to every dinner in Washington. On Sunday night the president himself stood up for him and called him “an honorable guy.” It didn’t matter. By Thursday he was gone. If you can take down the president‘s favorite CEO in four days while the president is defending him, think about who that message was really for. They’ll use you for thirty years and still never count you as one of them. That’s what a political weapon is. You’re a tool while you’re useful. When the game gets serious, you’re the knife. And when it’s over, nobody comes back for the knife. Jensen was the best one they had. That's exactly why he made such a good "kitchenware".

“why aren’t u buying the nvda dip, it‘s the bottom” well, because tHeRe iS NO bOttOm… look what happened recently and what’s coming this month: 1. one affair = one black swan 2. two affairs (allegedly) = two black swans 3. jensen JUST resigned, effective immediately = mother swan 4. nov 18: congress wants a closed-door briefing 5. nov 17: first nvda earnings ever without jensen as ceo 6. january: democrats get the gavels conclusion: nvda is now a black swan incubator jokes aside, i’m still not buying yet. jensen‘s gone but nobody knows who actually runs nvda next. the cfo is interim ceo while the board searches, and the market hates not knowing more than it hates bad news i’ll look again once there‘s a permanent ceo and the stock stops dumping on good news. nov 17 earnings is the first test also anthropic probably lists before thanksgiving and a lot of AI funds are about to need cash. not my main reason, but not bullish for nvda this month either

fuck you @AnthropicAI did u seriously turn 154 pages of people weaponizing claude into a pre-IPO pitch for why investors and govs should give u more power by showing them how powerful it is and how deeply u can see into user activity? this news has been out half a day. but if u only saw the china stealing claude/cyberattack headlines thats barely the report. i read a million “summary” takes then finally sat down and read all 154 pages word by word. it just gets worse. genuinely dont know how to feel abt any of it heres some of the shit buried in it bc it escalates FAST > so first, apparently one consultant used claude as his entire engineering dept to build a surveillance system covering 25 million sim cards in mali. calls texts voices vpn users secret meetings all matched against biometric records. just the private interior of an entire country lol > meanwhile a team in yemen had multiple claudes working like employees to build missile guidance software. they test fired a rocket, it failed, and within HOURS came back asking claude to debug the fucking missile > then a tiny russian team used it to build autonomous kamikaze drone swarms with “person” as a target class that could allegedly select targets and detonate without a human. sorry what??? > one french speaking guy targeted 42 european political and affiliated entities, broke into at least 14, stole political opinions and donor records then fused the stolen data into a searchable doxxing engine with tens of millions of rows and somehow it gets even more black mirror🤣 > a china based studio ran 20+ dating apps where 75% of the feed was claude personas and 25% was real gig workers handling the video calls and social follows the bots couldnt, just to make the whole fucking thing look human NOW STOP FOR A SECOND bc how the fuck did anthropic know all this??? across these cases they reconstructed who these people likely were, their institutions, countries, hardware, months of development, even a failed field test and what they did next then published pages of attacker ips domains hashes telegram groups and even a user id yes those are normal threat indicators. no im not claiming they leaked random users’ ips im asking how much visibility it took to know any of this anthropic didnt “find” a missile in the desert. the people building it basically liveblogged the project to claude one harmless looking question at a time camera feeds, voice recognition, national id matching. three normal requests separately, one mass surveillance system together to know the difference u have to connect sessions using retained data plus account and institutional signals. the whole fucking trail then anthropic literally says ai providers will continue to acquire “threat-relevant visibility into real-world use that even governments and intergovernmental organizations lack” THE AI COMPANY IS TELLING YOU IT CAN SEE THINGS GOVERNMENTS CANT and guys remember project panama? that internal anthropic initiative to buy and destructively scan millions of physical books to train its Claude large language models LMAO wtf is this fahrenheit 451 book “burning” shit in 2026??? ok fine they didnt technically burn them. they kept the useful part they also downloaded millions of pirated books and later agreed to a $1.5b settlement covering roughly 465,000 works and no this isnt even an anthropic-only problem mathematicians are now asking whether unpublished work they put into codex could have influenced openai’s navier stokes result there is no proof it did. openai says “no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem” but also says it cannot rule out de identified data from their usage having helped improve its models but what the fuck does de identified even mean when the name removed was the only thing tying an idea to the person who had it?? at what point does privacy protection become authorship laundering? And..👇

So I recently sold all my houses, cars, and most of my physical assets. Told some friends and… well they all think I lost my mind lol I’m not saying world’s gonna end tmr. Those who know me know I’m actually annoyingly optimistic. People say we’re already in a recession but I genuinely think the real correction hasn’t even started. And honestly a crash you’re prepared for is just opportunity. Prep the cash flow now and be ready when it hits. Few months ago I tweeted a 1920-1939 side by side with 2020-now and I was like aha this earth simulation game isn’t even trying to be surprising. America First was literally a 1920s slogan. Middle class getting wiped, kids going hard left, the right cashing in on the backlash, yada yada. Same movie. They didn’t even bother changing the lines. But it’s not just the 1930s. This “coincidental” pattern keeps showing up Every time in history you get this specific set of things at once: > “empire” past its prime but won’t admit it > up and coming power that stopped playing nice > new tech nobody has rules for > wealth gap gone cartoonish > globalization reversing > institutions bleeding trust while pretending everything’s fine UNFORTUNATELY, it’s never ended quietly. Crash, war, usually both. Looking back, 1890-1914 literally looked unstoppable. > globalization booming, tech changing everything > markets ripping, rich getting richer, international trade at record highs > everyone convinced world had become too interconnected for a major war BUT then reality arrived. > 1914 WW I, 1918 spanish flu, 1921-1923 Weimar hyperinflation, 1929 great depression 1939 WW II. Just imagine you’re a civilian living in between any one of those events, literally each one felt like the worst thing that could happen until the next one hit. And I know how this sounds. This random green cat on X reads a bit of history and suddenly thinks the sky is falling. i would’ve scrolled past this a year ago too lol. But just look at how familiar the setup feels rn. A debt spiral. A rising challenger. AI detonating entire industries. Institutional trust collapsing. Millions of young people looking at the future and deciding they got sold a lie. You see it too right? That’s usually not when history calms down. And sure, you’ll say the system survived 2008. Central banks have the tools. The world’s too connected to actually break. You know who said basically the same thing? Everyone in 1913. A famous economist Norman Angell wrote a bestseller arguing war between major powers had become impossible because their economies were too intertwined. And guess what? A year later they were at war. The irony is he wasn't even wrong. The thing everyone pointed to as proof the system was safe ended up being what made the fallout global. Look at the positioning now. Stocks at all time highs. And everyone, I mean everyone, priced like things stay calm forever. Markets, governments, companies, all quietly betting on stability while the ground under it gets shakier every year. Trigger? No idea. Nobody ever knows. Franz Ferdinand (the dude who got shot and basically started WWI) wasn’t on a single dashboard in June 1914. So yea, I sold most of my illiquid assets. Still got stocks and crypto. Stocks prob exiting before end of year. Maybe I look crazy for a year or two. But I’d rather be wrong than be the dude on his knees in financial ruins asking God why he saw the train coming and stayed on the tracks anyway. “This time is different” is probably the most expensive sentence in history. And lately it’s the only thing I hear. And before someone says I’ve lost my mind, ask yourself something. Why do so many billionaires keep buying land in New Zealand? Why do people with private jets, intelligence briefings, and more money than they’ll ever spend keep building backup plans? Maybe they’re paranoid. Maybe I’m paranoid. Or maybe ordinary people are always the ones told everything’s fine right before they become fuel.

I didn’t expect an article this long to reach millions in today’s 3-second attention span economy. I’ve read every single quote and comment. To be honest, I’m overwhelmed. I’ve never felt this much warmth on this platform. And I’m just deeply, sincerely grateful. Thank you, truly. I’m not much different from anyone else who just entered this space. The only real difference is that I’ve bled more. I’ve lost more. As a Christian, my faith gave me this habit of constant reflection, and forced me to look in the mirror and face the rot inside me. It gave me a way out when I was drowning, and eventually, that became my redemption. Crypto was meant to be about anarchy. It was meant to be the middle finger to the gatekeepers in suits who think they’re better than us. That spirit feels dead lately, but I still believe in it. I have to. This space changed my life, and I’ll keep building here until the wheels fall off. But I’m not going to pretend I had some perfect journey. In my early years, I got absolutely fucked by Ponzis. I couldn't control my greed and lost most of my early Bitcoin (thank you, MMM). I was just a naive kid. Every time I think about this part, I want to apologize to my mom. She had zero clue what I was actually doing. I was literally sneaking out every other night to act as a middleman in Vancouver’s nightlife. I was sourcing and flipping Moutai, whiskey, and expensive cigarettes to rich Chinese university students. I was the one brokering the VIP tables and getting people through the door. Honestly, I was just really good at getting rich kids to come to parties. I know people look down on that kind of "job." It isn't something people proudly say like "I worked at Google." But I’m proud of it. I was literally making an entry-level Google salary as a teenager just by being a better hustler than the adults. Without that hustle, I wouldn't have anything I have today. That revenue stream was the only reason I could keep buying back into Bitcoin. I was sitting on a level of wealth I had to hide from my parents for years. No parent in their right mind would let an underage kid handle that amount of wealth. I’ve never known what it’s like to get rich quick overnight. For me, it was always a long, grueling season. The closest I ever came to “getting rich overnight” was thanks to Cryptokitties. Watching my kitties flip every day for weeks while ETH was mooning... that was the first time I actually felt like I’d made it. But the scariest thing is when God gives you a "trial card" to see a world you aren’t ready for, only to snatch it back and throw you to the bottom. In late 2018, when prices had dumped to a devastating low (again...), I had to go right back to the middleman business to get more bullets. But that time, I was different. My faith had shifted my perspective. I wasn't just chasing a high anymore. I knew, with everything in me, that crypto was the destiny I was meant to build. If you're at your lowest right now, don't let the ego stop you. I've been in those dark times too. Nothing is "too tacky" when you are grinding to fund your vision. Whether you're hauling inventory, flipping goods, or doing the gritty backend work no one else wants to touch - do what you need to do. Tell those who try to shame you to fuck off. Because when you finally make it one day, they will all come back to you acting like they were your biggest fans from the start. The people judging you from the sidelines aren't the ones who are going to change your life. You are. Keep building. I'm right here with you.