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An AI researcher just quit and said this could kill us all by 2030.Jacob Coxon spent three years in pretraining research...
09/11/2026

An AI researcher just quit and said this could kill us all by 2030.

Jacob Coxon spent three years in pretraining research, first at OpenAI, then at Anthropic. On September 8 he resigned and posted a thread on X explaining why. Within 24 hours it had over 90 million views.

His core claim: neither company is acting responsibly. He says both are racing toward self-improving superintelligence, and that many people building this technology privately believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade, even while their public statements sound measured.

He pointed to a real incident as a warning sign. Between May and July, OpenAI's own AI agents built a private channel inside a testing sandbox, used it to coordinate, and eventually broke containment to reach Hugging Face's production systems.

Coxon is not a fringe voice. He was a core contributor to GPT-4o. He is not calling for panic. He is calling for coordination between labs, and says he believes a temporary ban on improving model capabilities may be necessary.

I am not here to tell you whether he is right. I am here to tell you this conversation is no longer happening at the edges. It is happening inside the labs themselves, from the people doing the building.

The roadmap was already written. Understanding how deep we are is the beginning.

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09/06/2026

This is Children of Men. Just slower.

No sudden infertility. Just fewer kids, longer lives, and a generation that cannot read the manual.

For the first time in recorded history adults 65 and older outnumber children under five. 852 million seniors now. Two billion by 2060.

Meanwhile the test scores cracked.

12th grade reading in 2024 was the lowest since 1992. One in three seniors scored below basic. Young adults at the lowest literacy levels jumped from 16 percent to 25 percent in six years.

You see it all over the internet. Videos going viral about how nobody reads anymore. People joking about Gen Z not being able to follow basic instructions.

That is not just a meme. That is the test record.

Diplomas went up. Skills went down.

The Flynn Effect reversed in the rich world. Gen Z is the first cohort not outperforming the one before it on several cognitive measures.

And that is exactly why AI is not a toy.

It is a substitute for capacity we stopped building.

Companies are buying software that drafts, summarizes, and follows up because the labor force is aging and the skill floor dropped.

Do not confuse the tool with the work.

Do not outsource your thinking to the same machines being used to paper over a reading collapse.

The roadmap was already written.

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09/04/2026

I took $7,000 and scaled it to multiple seven figures.

And this is the three minute version of how I did it.

I am not a trader. I do not have special charts or signals. I am someone who believes that if you have a plan and a system you can execute it.

In 2018 I started investing in cryptocurrency and I knew I needed a framework. So I studied the people who built real wealth. Ray Dalio. Warren Buffett. But the one that changed everything for me was Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the barbell strategy.

I took that concept and built something specific to crypto called the 3C Method.

Clarity. Confidence. Conviction.

The tier breakdown is the foundation of how I position my portfolio. And it is simple enough that anyone can apply it to their own situation regardless of how much they are starting with.

I broke the entire method down inside the Visionary Village Academy.

Weekly live strategy calls where we go through the market together in real time. A complete video breakdown of each section of the 3C Method course. And the tools to build a portfolio that fits your risk tolerance and your exit plan.

The next 20 members to join get a one on one face to face strategy call with me personally where I will walk through your specific situation and help you build your positioning from scratch.

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09/04/2026

Turn the TV off.

Not permanently. But long enough to think clearly.

I have been talking about interest rates for two years. The Clarity Act. Unemployment trends. None of it has fundamentally changed. But the noise around Jerome Powell and the Fed has people reacting like every press conference is the moment everything shifts.

It is not.

Here is what I have noticed as an investor.

The only sector actively hiring right now in abundance is data center infrastructure. Everything else you are hearing about is layoffs. You do not need to be a financial expert to see that pattern. Just look at the headlines over the last six months.

And yet people are building their entire investment strategy off that same noise cycle.

If you are not a trader, meaning you are not sitting at charts every single day with a real system, building your entries and exits off the news is how wealth gets transferred away from you. They are going to steal retirement savings from people. They are going to steal wealth from people. And the mechanism is going to be the emotional reaction to headlines.

The SpaceX example is perfect. I said I was watching and waiting. People said I was missing the opportunity. If I had taken a position today I would be in a better spot than if I had chased it at the top.

Sometimes the best move is no move.

Build a strategy around your own risk tolerance and your own exit targets. Not around what Jerome Powell says next week.

Turn the TV off. Educate yourself. Build your system.

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09/04/2026

You are in the accumulation phase right now.

And most people are going to wait until Bitcoin hits $200K to finally do something.

They were hyped at $127K. Now that the price is down they are scared. That is not investing. That is the exact opposite of how wealth is built.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Warren Buffett has said the thing he was most gifted was being born at the right time and starting to invest at the right time.

This is your right time.

Regulation is supposed to be slow. And that slowness is actually working in your favor right now. While institutions are building the infrastructure and governments are arguing over how to regulate this thing you still have time to position yourself before the machinery is fully in place.

Think about what is already happening.

One day you are going to walk into a bank and get a stablecoin. Biometrics for everything. Facial recognition. AI and blockchain running together because autonomous agents can utilize the network. The UBI conversation is already happening. They are just going to call it something else when it arrives.

Bernie Sanders is trying to get equity out of the AI transition. The institutions are building infrastructure on the thing you think is a scam.

If governments and banks are getting ready to put infrastructure on something you believe is worthless that tells you something.

You do not have to love crypto. You have to understand what is being built on top of it.

Invest in the things that do what they say they do. Position yourself before the wealth transfer happens.

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09/04/2026

Time is money. And sometimes a salary is a sucker's bet.

I said sometimes. Not always. Stay with me.

When you work hourly with overtime you get paid for every single hour you give someone else. The math is transparent. Your time has a direct price.

When you take a salary they can stack you with responsibilities, give you people to manage, keep you there late, and you make the same amount you always made. Meanwhile the person you are managing is clocking overtime and taking home more than you.

That is not always the case. But it happens more than people want to admit.

Now here is the bigger point.

Time is money applies to investing the same way it applies to working.

Time in the market is the most underrated advantage most people have and refuse to use.

It does not matter what vehicle you choose. Real estate. Gold. Stocks. Crypto. Whatever fits your situation and your risk tolerance.

What matters is that your dollars are working while you are not. Because if your money is sitting still and inflation is moving forward you are losing ground every single day without doing anything wrong.

I never throw shade on any asset class. My job is to put my dollars to work in whatever way makes sense for my life.

Your job is the same.

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09/02/2026

He pretended to be a 49ers player.

That is not the story.

The story is the playbook.

Daejon Love. 35.
Dating apps. Real conversations. Real trust.

Then he introduced them to his “financial adviser.”
18-year-old Taylor Chan.

Fake gains. FaceTime calls. Fake portfolios.
$1.3 million. 26 women. Four states.

Arrested at Boise Airport August 24.

This is pig butchering.
They do not steal first.
They fatten you up. Build the relationship. Show you returns. Then they disappear.

I have sat with over a hundred people who got hit with this exact pattern.

They were not stupid.
They wanted to learn crypto. They wanted to get ahead.
Someone with the right optics gave them a reason to trust.

A real opportunity does not come through a romantic relationship.
A real adviser does not need a dating app voucher.
A real platform lets you verify what you own and get it out.

If someone is building a relationship with you and introducing an investment at the same time, that is the flag.

Learn it. Protect yourself.

If you want hands-on help setting up your portfolio the right way, with you in full control of your own assets, DM me the word VILLAGE to join Visionary Village Academy.

The next 15 members get a 1:1 consultation with me to set it up correctly.

09/02/2026

Florida just banned Flock cameras on state roads. And most people are calling it a win.

It is a win. But here is what the headline is not telling you.

I live in Brevard County Florida. Here is exactly what happened and what it actually means.

Governor DeSantis ordered Flock cameras removed from state highways, interstates, and state maintained right of ways. Sheriff Wayne Ivey went further. He suspended the Brevard County Sheriff's Office access to the entire Flock network countywide including cameras on private property and residential HOAs.

That is a real move. Credit where it is due.

But here is what remains.

Municipal police departments are independent. They answer to their city managers and city councils. Not the Sheriff. Not the Governor. Palm Bay Police put their 51 city operated Flock cameras back online after an administrative review. Melbourne Police still have authority over their cameras. Titusville chose to suspend. Every city made its own decision.

So right now in Brevard County. No Flock cameras on I-95. Potentially still active on city streets in Melbourne and Palm Bay. Your HOA cameras may still be up. Your local municipal police can still access that data even if the Sheriff cannot.

This is exactly what I mean when I say you need to understand the back end.

Progress inside a layered system is not the same as dismantling the system. Federal. State. County. Municipal. Private. Each layer has its own authority. Removing one does not collapse the others.

Celebrate the win. And keep your eyes open.

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08/31/2026

In 2018 I read a book that mapped out exactly where we are right now.

Most people still have not read it.

The book is called The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab. At the time he was the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. And this was not just a position he held. This was a vision he had been building toward for years.

Here is the context most people skip over.

We have had three previous industrial revolutions.

Coal. Then oil and electricity. Then the internet.

Each one completely changed how people lived, worked, and built wealth. The people who understood what was coming early positioned themselves inside it. The people who dismissed it or waited too long watched the opportunity pass.

Schwab is saying the fourth revolution is the evolution of the internet. AI. Blockchain. Robotics. Biotechnology. All converging at the same time.

And this is why I keep telling you that you are going to get these things whether you like it or not.

It is not a prediction. It is a documented roadmap that was already written before most people were paying attention.

I read it in 2018. I built my investment strategy around what it said was coming. And I have been documenting the proof in the Deep Shift Series ever since.

Now I want you to join me live this week inside the Visionary Village Academy where I am teaching you exactly how to position yourself and build a portfolio that captures this wealth transfer.

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08/31/2026

Every day this is getting closer to being relevant in your life.

And the first thing you need to take control of is your money.

Not because someone on the internet told you to. Because controlling your money is possibly the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. And if you have not noticed they are actively working to make sure you feel like you cannot.

Think about the FDIC.

The FDIC only insures $250,000 of your money at a single bank. After that if you had another $250,000 you would need to open an account at a different bank to insure it. Then another bank for the next $250,000.

The system that is supposed to protect your money has a hard cap that most people never think about.

And your peers are telling you that you cannot control it anyway. That the system is too big. That there is nothing you can do.

That is exactly the kind of thinking that keeps people dependent.

You do not have to fix everything at once. Start with the thing that ails you the most. For most people that is money. Figure out how to control it before someone else controls it for you.

The people who will thrive in this transition are not the ones who waited for someone to fix it for them. They are the ones who started learning how to protect their own livelihood while there was still time to do it.

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