Coming back from Monaco to Milan, then flying off to Switzerland, you can't help but see the difference between audience segments especially clearly.

Between people who constantly travel, change countries, social circles and cultural contexts — and those who keep living inside the post-Soviet information capsule.

This gap is especially visible when you touch on the topic of so-called non-traditional values. Take LGBT symbols, for instance, which in Russia have somehow been effectively wired into an extremist normative framework.

What in Monaco, Milan or Switzerland is just part of the surrounding environment and often doesn't even register in one's consciousness triggers literal culture shock in part of the post-Soviet audience.

And this is a rather curious effect of travel. You physically move between countries and simultaneously seem to switch between completely different versions of reality.

And each of them, mind you, is convinced that its own coordinate system is the objective norm.

Fate put me in such conditions, in such a framework, where there was no chance of not coming to God. Those conditions I was in — they led me, of course, to the great Creator, to those spiritual thought processes where I became a part of it, to an understanding of faith and an understanding of the One I turn to, the One who helps me walk this life's path along the road I'm walking now.

⁨Don't listen to other people's opinions. Most people are fat, poor pansies and don't listen to them when they try to deter you from whatever it takes to succeed. The average person will always try to keep you average. It makes sense that if you want to be extraordinary, you will do things that an ordinary person would see as extra.⁩

focus on the joy of creating

Global and local governmental problems are caused by fear of change on the one hand and thirst for revolution on the other.

Inaction and apathy displayed in the governance of science, industry, and art are the main enemies of progress.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Starting today, we're keeping only English across our services and apps.

AI now translates pages and texts even better than humans, so in your personal account, live chat, when placing orders and using our services you can pick your native language. The integration is seamless: you won't even notice our team is talking to you in English.

Even though our team is fairly large, resources are still limited, so we've decided not to operate in other languages. I believe this is the only right call at our current scaling stage. Full-fledged support for multiple languages eats up resources anyway, so translations are fully handled by AI, and we're moving to a single language as our standard.

Without faith in God, it's impossible to reach true heights. Everything we have is from Him, and we're just following His path.

Faith is, first and foremost, discipline. Every day begins with intention, and if your intention is pure before the Almighty — everything will work out.

The US is considering buying "significant" amounts of BTC and other cryptocurrencies. Also, Congress will most likely pass the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill.

These are basically the news that triggered yesterday's and today's rally of almost 10% in 24 hours 📈

Good green morning, gentlemen.

BTC > $71k.

In 20 years, the share of Christians in Britain has collapsed from 72% to 46%. Europe lost even more over a decade — believers now make up less than half. Tellingly, this decline runs in parallel with the rise of dictatorships: bread and circuses have given way to control over knowledge and the degradation of education.

The less faith, the more idols — and not always religious ones. Freedom of choice is being replaced by imposed values, and entertainment is turning into a tool of control.

Every dictatorship is obsessed with one thing — control. The only question is how to achieve it.

What’s the point of having all this if you spend all your time at work just to afford it?

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for roughly $8B. Back in spring the startup was valued at $1.3B, and now its price has grown 5–6x in literally a few months.

OpenRouter launched in 2023, but has already become a single entry point to 400+ AI models for 8M developers and companies. Around 25 trillion tokens flow through the platform every week.

But here's what really matters: Stripe isn't buying just another neural net. They're buying the infrastructure layer between business and all the models at once (an aggregator business model, a SuperApp if you will): routing, picking the optimal model by price and quality, fallback providers, and cost control.

In AI, huge money will be made not only by model creators. For example, Perplexity with Syntx AI, and Higgsfield along with Cursor, are examples of such businesses that turned from startups into unicorns in literally a couple of years.

Funny thing — OpenRouter used to be called "the Stripe for AI." In the end, Stripe itself bought it. Ironic, isn't it 👀