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1️⃣3️⃣ Telegram turns 13. Happy Bar Mitzvah to the greatest app on the planet. Imagine where Telegram will be 13 years from now. By then, you’ll look back and wonder how you ever lived without it. 🎁 Here’s to the next 13 years, Telegram!

I've previously talked about open-source development from our partners 🤭 Today their bot for marketers got an update that lets you authorize sending videos and photos to the bot for uploading posts to social networks. They promise to ship the API this week. Thanks to that, in your dashboard you'll be able to connect everything to the ChatPlace platform and Higgsfield AI as an MCP server. After which, published links can be automatically routed to the best ad agency.

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.

🗽 Who bans access to social media, VPN services, and restricts access to information through censorship? Officials, deputies, and crooks who believe that their fellow citizens are deranged, dumb sheep who are very easy to manipulate, who can't control themselves, who can't ensure their own safety, who can't make sound decisions. And most importantly: they threaten themselves with their own freedom. That's why their freedom must be curbed by stripping them of the choice of whom to listen to, read, and watch. These are the kinds of people who think and act this way. You know perfectly well who they are, and why they consider society and all people to be idiots, like little kids who can't be trusted with matches: they'll set themselves on fire. A free person is the litmus test that reveals the true nature of an unfree person. In other words, they want to restrict you and everyone else's freedom because they think other people are morons incapable of figuring out what's good for them and what's harmful. Just imagine: what kind of self-importance, what kind of arrogance you have to possess to not notice the moral pedestal you've placed yourself on. When you tell others how, for whom, and where they should live. Some people are so unshakably convinced that they're better than everyone else that it doesn't even occur to them to ask themselves: on what grounds did they decide they're any different? They don't even bother answering that question. For many people in power, everyone around them is dumb, deranged, uneducated, incompetent, and slow-witted.

I've got good news for you — this week wasn't wasted! Our key partners for banking products have released a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera. There's also a personal dashboard for business owners and for buyers. You can already test out the new features. Feel free to share your experience in our chat. Enjoy 🤭

Midnight walks to clear the head.

Persistence wins. Not talent, not capital, not connections. It's the one thing that remains when there's been no growth for six months, money is running out and everyone around you is laughing. The stubbornness that keeps you from closing the tab on your own…

You do realize that artificial intelligence is already shaping decisions that affect every one of us, right? 🧿 Many people still think AI is just ChatGPT and other neural networks used only by enthusiasts. In reality, it's long been baked into the services we use every day. Today, algorithms help banks assess borrowers, employers screen candidates, and marketplaces decide which products you see first. In many cases, it's AI that shapes the choice before a human even steps in. And this is only the beginning. In just a few years, AI has become part of the world's digital infrastructure. The next stage — our beloved AI agents. They won't just analyze information but will carry out tasks on their own: search for products, track price drops, complete purchases, book services, and interact with digital platforms in place of humans. We're gradually approaching a moment when not only the way we use the internet will change, but the very model of how humans interact with the digital world.

😕 How the world is restricting access to social media Just a few years ago, only one country wanted to ban social media for children. Today, more than 20 states are already introducing or discussing such measures. Australia has banned social media for users under 16. The UK, France, Spain, Turkey and other countries are heading in the same direction. The main argument — protecting children. Endless feeds, autoplay and push notifications are increasingly recognized as mechanisms that cause addiction. But another question arises: how do you verify a user's age? Without identifying the person, it's impossible. That's exactly why, alongside age restrictions, there's a growing trend toward mandatory user verification. If it holds, online anonymity will gradually become the exception rather than the rule.

☝ Our key partners just dropped two interesting updates at once. On top of staking that works like a bank deposit with returns in dollars, there are now cards with Google & Apple Pay. You can top up the card directly from a non-custodial wallet using Gram, Bitcoin, Solana and, of course, USDT. Transfers of USDT on BEP20 and TON have zero fees. In effect, this is another step toward making digital assets just as convenient for everyday use as familiar banking services.

Every dictatorship is obsessed with one thing — control. In ancient Rome, people were given bread and circuses — distracted with entertainment. Other dictatorships use other strategies to control ideas and knowledge. How do they do it? Poor education, restrictions on culture, censorship of information, censorship of any form of personal self-expression. And this is worth remembering. This pattern always repeats itself throughout history.

Accepting congratulations +1 region in the collection 🇦🇪 Got three new licenses for the company. Expanded our business capabilities. So that you get the best service across our products.

😩 Chronic cortisol. It's night, and I'm prepping with the team for an AMA for our bStocks partners. We'll be tackling questions about the new Binance products related to TradFi. And since it's late, I want to muse with you about something… Whatever your relationship with money looks like, money isn't about luxury or greed. First and foremost, money is safety — and the sense of safety is a basic need of the nervous system. When that need is met, the brain gets the chance to think crystal clear — to create, build, expand, and come up with something new. When the nervous system is under constant stress, the brain simply can't function properly. Cortisol blocks clarity of thought, creativity, and the ability to see opportunities. Money doesn't make you happy, but the lack of it makes everything else unbearable. That's exactly why it's so hard for people sitting on different tiers of Maslow's pyramid to interact with one another.

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📣 About education. From lyceum to university: #myexperience Thinking out loud. How you should learn languages. Enjoy 🎁

Andrew Tate arrested. Miami, at Britain's request, 59 charges: rape, human trafficking, etc. For those who missed the phenomenon: Tate is the biggest seller of "masculinity" on the planet. Like Markaryan, with billions of views, aimed at a 14–20 audience. And now the business model without the marketing wrapper: a webcam studio where girls worked for him → on top of that Hustler's University, a subscription for teens about "winner's mindset" → a content machine of thousands of fan accounts that got paid for clip edits. Cash flow built on women in front of a camera, packaged as a philosophy of strength for boys. Basically an OnlyFans pimp with a media empire. I've written about info-gypsies many times: the vetting methodology doesn't change. Don't listen to what the guru says. Look at where the guru's money comes from. If the income source contradicts the sermon, that's not a mentor in front of you — it's a sales funnel.

📣 About real estate. How I became a landlord: #challenge One apartment per year. A bug of the younger generation. Enjoy 🎁

💚 The long-awaited teaser for the most anticipated film of the year has dropped, from my favorite cinematic universe — Marvel. For me, their films feel like nostalgia for childhood. If you haven't seen the clip yet, enjoy! The trailer on YouTube has already racked up 51 million views in just a few days.