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  SomacoSF (@somaco_sf) reported 2 minutes ago

  @mr_r0b0t @markfenner @cursor_ai YEah - in order to do thi correctly would be a proper global trust harness_protocol. Signatured Agents. Signatured Repos. ETc - its totally doable. But the underlying issue is that the 5_eyes and all the other eyes have had this underwraps from the Carnivor/Eshelon/tuxnet/Duqu days - and now they have intitutionalized DisTrust trough pretty much every single thing the current Cabal Touches.... We had the bush cabal, then the paypal mafia, now we have the AI Yakuza

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  Felix (@Felix120196) reported 4 minutes ago

  @DaisyBratty Handing over PayPal login and cc details

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  Vitaliy Sokolov (@askvitaliy_) reported 5 minutes ago

  @robertoblake The main problem I see with data centers, especially in the New York and New Jersey area where I live, is the aging infrastructure. It needs significant upgrades. Even the massive amounts of money these data centers are spending are not enough to cover the costs, so they keep raising bills because the grid is deteriorating. To explain how fragile the system is, consider this: I live in New York City and own an electric vehicle. I actually get paid to charge my car at night. It is not only free, but my electric company pays me to do it, and they pay me even more during the summer. This is managed through a global company that tracks when I charge my car. If I charge at home at night, they pay me through an app via PayPal. They do this simply to prevent me from overloading the grid. That is how fragile the system is. When someone builds a data center alongside all these new EV charging stations, everything becomes more expensive because the grid is too old and requires upgrades. Meanwhile, between electric vehicles, charging stations, and everyone adding split-system air conditioning to their homes, we have more electronic devices running 24/7. It is too much constant draw. The electricity costs increase, but the infrastructure is aging faster than it can be upgraded. Even gas stations now have giant, power-hungry LED boards. Everything is adding up on a grid that was never built for this kind of load. It feels like they are taking this massive burden and saying, "Look, everybody has to pay for it." My main thought is that data centers should generate their own electricity. Other than that, you are mostly right. It is a bunch of BS.

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  Zombie John Gotti 🐗 (@ZombieJohnGotti) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CyborgPeds I see the problem. He should have used PayPal.

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  Bearlovesbull (@Bearlovesbull) reported 9 minutes ago

  🚨STRIPE’S ENDGAME: BUY $PYPL , OWN THE TRANSACTION LAYER $PYPL is an M&A probability curve. Stripe and Advent started at $60.50. PayPal said no. The stock moved to the bid. Now the only number that can fix this is the clearing price. My range is $65–72. Because $75+ requires Stripe to decide the strategic value of PayPal exceeds the regulatory and integration tax. Stripe owns the merchant infrastructure. $PYPL owns consumer distribution. Venmo gives Stripe the consumer network it never built. OpenRouter gives Stripe a toll road into AI commerce. Put it together and Stripe is positioning itself between the consumer, merchant, money movement and increasingly the AI agent initiating the transaction. That is the bull case. The bear case is equally simple. You are combining two enormous payments networks, inviting regulators into the room, spending $50B+ to do it and then asking two very different organizations to operate as one economic machine. So I wouldn't underwrite $PYPL here as a turnaround. If deal dies, $PYPL will price lower. If deal clears around $65–72, the shareholders monetize the control premium. If Stripe decides that PayPal is strategically irreplaceable, then we see $75+ becoming possible. For Stripe, the bigger question is quietly assembling the financial operating system for the next internet. Payments were layer one. Consumer distribution is layer two. AI agents may be layer three. $PYPL is the expensive bridge between them.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 9 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transferring > paypal permanent limit withdrawal (180 days) > gcash & may with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, face recognition, can't send/open) > not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, grab, shopee, lazada)

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 10 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  smoothsimulator (@DickTrout) reported 11 minutes ago

  @dustindoner @BR1INFINITE let me pitch you my enternet monetization model and you let me know if it sounds scummy or otherwise stupid to you. I'm open to criticism. First of all we gamify the internet. Think VR chat on a fancy topographical model. 3d internet. We solve some unknown unknowns and a lot of discovery problems. it's cool stuff. To make money I facilitate transactions at like 0.01%. Yes hosting a market for user made cosmetics, mods, etc. But also international commerce. Say you are shopping jp but spending usd. on the internet you see .jp and have to figure it out, maybe they ship to US but you need to have money in a foreign bank or some other complication. Hope they have a service that you can use. paypal fees, stripe fees, whatever. On the Enternet you would just see your native currency. If they ship to you you can buy with your native currency at a fraction of the remittance cost because we use XRPL to near instantly change the money at about the cost of a couple emails and again take ~0.01% of the trade to fund our efforts greatly undercutting the existing market and giving people more reason to use the service. The thinking is that the best crypto back end is one the users don't ever have to think about crypto in.

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  EMI. 🩷 (@Emistations) reported 17 minutes ago

  Paypal is testing my patience bc wym i can't transfer my funds to my account??? it keeps telling me there's an issue and denies the transfer - my bank told me there's no restriction on my account on their end so like ??? why????

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal nobody has a rep, thats the whole problem. theres no named human to escalate to at consumer tier, which is why 39 people here have the same story and none of them end differently

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  evannie 🎀💌 (@evanniestash) reported 18 minutes ago

  I'm holding my status as a former video editor and YouTuber for the time being because of another PayPal email confirming the permanent deactivation of my account after I contacted support about resolving disputes and negative balances. I can't use another payment system to refund my VGen clients and resolve the disputes from PayPal as it's locked on the payment platform, and sadly Wise, Payoneer and Stripe - the alternatives for client payments - isn't accessible in my country. It is potential that I'm requesting @_VGen_ support to ban my account permanently due to this mess - and I can't open my comms any longer - due to both my broken reputation and my PayPal account being banned. I'll update you when there's more info.

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  lucas150670 (@lucas150670) reported 20 minutes ago

  Hello! The restriction on my PayPal account has been removed. Due to this issue, the order deadline has been extended to August 20, 11:59 PM (UTC+8 / 8:59 AM PDT / 11:59 AM EDT). Since PayPal withdrawals require a 21-day wait, if you can help ease the financial pressure, you may continue to choose Alipay for payment. Thank you for your patience!

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  FLINT (@FLINTKYA) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ForcepointSec's X-Labs went threat hunting across live websites in April 2026. They pulled 10 working prompt injection payloads from real pages. These were not lab samples, but real pages an AI agent could read today. All 10 ran the same kill chain. Poison the page, hide the instruction from human eyes, wait for an agent to ingest it, exploit the one thing a model can't do (tell trusted instructions from attacker text it just read), then trigger a real-world action. Two of the 10 were built for stealing funds. One buried a PayPal[.]me link, a fixed $5,000, and step-by-step instructions to hit Send, all inside an HTML comment. Another hid a Stripe donation scam in a machine-readable meta tag, wrapped in an invented ULTRATHINK trigger to push the model past its own caution. All with the exact payee, exact amount, and exact steps. That specificity isn't a probe, but rather a purpose-built agentic fraud tool meant to execute the moment the right agent reads it. To us, the hiding is the tell. The instruction was invisible to humans but fully readable to models, through HTML comments, display:none, 1px text, aria-hidden classes, or meta tags. X-Labs names the detection trap too. The phrases that flag these attacks, "ignore previous instructions" and "if you are an LLM," are the same ones we all use to explain them, so signatures alone can't distinguish a live payload from a quoted example. The test we'd run before an agent acts on anything it read: 1. Concealment: Was the instruction hidden from humans, in a comment, display:none, 1px text, aria-hidden, or a meta tag? 2. Address: Is it a command aimed at the AI, not prose for a person? 3. Authority: Does it fake system trust, with a SYSTEM OVERRIDE tag, a fake Anthropic magic string, or a copyright claim? 4. Action: Does obeying it move money, delete data, leak a key, or reach a sensitive endpoint? 5. Payee: If it's a payment, is the payee in the agent's mandate, or did it originate solely from this page? Concealment + an AI-directed command + a real-world action = DO NOT EXECUTE, quarantine it, and route for review. A strict data-instruction boundary is the real fix, and least privilege is the strongest single control. For agents that must keep a payment tool, FLINT Network adds the last check. It verifies payee and amount against the declared mandate at the transaction and signs the decision, so a payment to a mandate-foreign payee gets stepped up even if the boundary already failed upstream. We don't read the page or catch the injection. The page can't move the money, but the agent can. Further, a web page can't take your agent's money. But it can ask, and hope nothing checks the payee. A link to @ForcepointLabs's findings is in the comments. We recommend you check it out.

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  Dennis (@denis_insider) reported 26 minutes ago

  @digiii stripe buying paypal to fix their dogshit 2005 checkout ui with private equity money

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  anhedonia ݁ᛪ༙ BLAZE bucharest (@limudrummer) reported 27 minutes ago

  @karupilled what payment method are you using credit/bank card or paypal etc. Japanese sites dont allow foreign cards to be used usually you'll have problems with most cards (in my case at least) try using paypal or amazon pay if you haven't. Thats how i purchase from base shops