AlStuart

Imagine. Then make it real or die trying. That's what's happening anyway so you may as well give it a go. Mistakes are lessons. Do your best to be your best.

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

Incremental strategic risk removal.

[Barton Gold @bartongoldBGD]

Tunkillia Scoping Report approved, establishing accelerated pathway for project driven by exceptional project economics.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱: https://t.co/QqCs34VvfV

#gold #silver #invest #SouthAustralia #mining #Australia #exploration #ASX: $BGD

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@KingEmperor888 Where do you buy it - do you mix it yourself?

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

The connective tissue of a child new to the world takes time to grow and be strong enough to carry the idea forward. So the long march out of silence. One step at a time thy will be done.
Victor Hugo: One can resist the invasion of armies. One cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Missing Middle

Look at the shape of it. Two of the most prominent men alive at the top. Tens of thousands of ordinary readers at the base. And between them – almost no one reposting those texts of mine. A complete void where a society’s connective tissue is supposed to be.

That shape is the diagnosis. A healthy civilization has a middle: editors, professors, ministers, mayors, entrepreneurs, priests, columnists, heads of institutions – thousands of people with names, standing, and something to lose, who say what they think out loud. That layer is what carries an idea from the top of a society into its ordinary life. Take it away and nothing moves. The two men at the top can amplify an argument to millions and it still won’t reach a single classroom, ministry, or editorial board, because there’s no one in between willing to carry it the last mile.

Why is the middle empty? Because the middle is precisely where the système has leverage. Musk and Milei can’t be removed by the people they contradict. The reader with 200 followers is too small to be worth removing. But everyone in between – the associate professor, the deputy editor, the mid-sized business owner, the local politician – is exactly the person who can be punished cheaply and effectively. One phone call. One HR complaint. One withdrawn contract. So the middle went quiet, and then went into internal emigration, and now stands empty.

This is what the long march actually produced. Not a population that believes things – a population that has learned which sentences cost money. The captured institutions don’t need to convince the middle of anything. They just need to keep the price high enough that the middle stays silent, and let the silence look like consensus.

And notice what the void does to both ends. It leaves the top isolated – a handful of men carrying an entire civilizational argument on their own reach, which is exactly the concentration of risk I keep writing about. And it leaves the base atomized – tens of thousands of people who each believe they are alone, because the only people confirming their view are two billionaires on another continent.

So the void is the task. Not another platform, not another argument – the middle itself: people with names and positions who say true things at a survivable cost, publicly, in their own countries, in their own fields. Every one of them makes the next one cheaper. That’s the whole mechanism of the counter-march, and it’s why the counter-march is a staffing problem rather than a persuasion problem.

The top is filled. The base is enormous and growing. What’s missing is the layer that turns an argument into a country.

Fill the middle. That’s the job – and unlike almost everything else in this fight, it doesn’t require permission, funding, or genius. It requires a few thousand people deciding, one at a time, that the price of speaking is lower than the price of the silence they’ve been keeping.

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@magattew It's all part of the over-arching narrative designed to control (how you live) your life.

Here's an idea - why don't the so-called elites who write the narrative scripts in Davos each year practice what the preach?

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

Great work.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Altiero Spinelli – The Man Who Designed the EU in Prison.

Not a metaphor. Literally. The blueprint for the European Union — its founding logic, its institutional architecture, its explicit goal of dissolving national sovereignty permanently — was written in 1941, on a tiny island off the coast of Naples, where Mussolini had imprisoned him.
The Ventotene Manifesto. Still cited. Still operative. Still running.

1. Spinelli had been a communist since seventeen – and was eventually expelled from the Communist Party for left-wing deviation. Too radical for the communists. Which tells you something about the man. In his prison years he reached the conclusion that the nation-state was the root cause of war, fascism, and every political catastrophe of the century. It had to go. Not reformed. Not constrained. Abolished – permanently, irreversibly, through the construction of a supranational federal authority with supreme power over member states.

2. The Ventotene Manifesto was written in 1941 on paper smuggled into the prison in cigarette packets. Its argument was simple and total: nation-states must be replaced by a federal European government. The economic integration would come first – because economic interdependence would make political separation prohibitively costly. Then the institutions. Then the law. Then the currency. Each step irreversible by design. The nation-state dissolved not by force but by process – incrementally, bureaucratically, until the point of no return had been passed without anyone noticing when.

3. This is the architecture of the European Union. Not a conspiracy theory – the founding document. Spinelli served as a member of the European Parliament and drafted the 1984 Spinelli Report – the direct precursor to the Maastricht Treaty. Today the European Parliament sits in the Spinelli Building in Brussels. The Spinelli Group inside it advances his program explicitly, in his name, without apology. The man who wrote the blueprint in a prison cell in 1941 is the acknowledged intellectual father of the institution that governs 450 million people. This is not hidden. It is simply not taught.

4. The mechanism was specifically intended to be irreversible. Each treaty expands competence and makes contraction impossible. The Commission is unelected and insulated from democratic pressure to reverse course. Spinelli understood, from his Marxist formation, that the correct way to make a revolutionary change permanent is to make the cost of reversing it higher than the cost of accepting it. Brexit took fifty years of membership to become possible – and was still nearly impossible to execute.

5. Poland is the most precise illustration. A nation that disappeared from the map for a century and fought back through language, family, and refusal to be absorbed – now a member of an institution designed to make national sovereignty obsolete. The Brussels directive that overrides the Polish parliament is Spinelli’s program, running as designed. The Poland that survived partition by Prussia, Russia, and Austria is now navigating a project designed to produce the same outcome through consent rather than conquest. Spinelli would have considered this progress.

6. He died in 1986, before Maastricht, before the euro, before the completed project. Like Gramsci, he did not need to see it. The manifesto written on cigarette-packet paper on a prison island became the founding document of the most powerful supranational institution in history – one that 450 million people live inside without knowing who designed it, when, where, or why.

7. Now you know. The question worth asking is not whether the EU is good or bad. It is whether you would have consented to Spinelli’s program if asked directly – whether you wanted the nation-state abolished permanently by incremental bureaucratic process, designed from the start to be irreversible. Nobody was asked. That too was part of the design.

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

Well worth a read.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

https://t.co/asl7ml5BvT

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@Khunhan16 @themarketsniper Hahaha!

Forcible head jerking...is that a metaphor...?

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@joekent16jan19 Joe Kent on Trump somehow being compromised:

'There's a much deeper and darker answer, I fear, that we should continue to probe and ask about. I think the more we can look into those dark paces, hopefully we can put in some light and figure out who actually runs our Government.'

[Barton Gold @bartongoldBGD]

@Edison_Inv_Res update note: high-grade #Tolmer #silver assays...

"... 𝘛𝘰𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵."

Read: https://t.co/1zWkwTf2qc

#gold #ASX: $BGD

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@JamesLucasIT A red rose symbolic of love blooming in the window open to the sun and life beyond. The man sitting on a cushion of the same color. A faded Union Jack on the bookshelf. The clock ticking just out of sight, a sardonic smile, scattered cigarette butts on the floor, ashes to ashes..

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@chadpbyrne Hey Chad, what's the oil/fat you use? Thanks.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her.

I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucy’s mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong.

After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said “non-responsive.” I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses.

By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucy’s doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice.

The surgery to save Lucy’s life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful.

The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucy’s Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn’t cancel the alert).

I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia.

When I met Lucy’s doctors, I did my best to inspire them: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.” And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone.

Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucy’s care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others.

Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak.

Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition – she understands everything including her circumstance – is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see.

Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it won’t be long before she is back.

We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention.

Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucy’s friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucy’s challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery.

Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space.

If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space.

With respect to our promise to make Lucy’s care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later.

We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December.

We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and that’s without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the site’s 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson.

Our goal is to build the world’s greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission.

The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.

While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible.

On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission.

Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it won’t be our only hospital or medical school partner as we don’t believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We don’t believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients.

Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neri’s mom who sadly died from Alzheimer’s. We couldn’t make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort.

Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible.

The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.

Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute.

We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which won’t be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity.

Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.

We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generation’s Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself.

We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles.

If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: [email protected] with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments.

We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us.

We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:

https://t.co/gZKafCw6Ia

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

You're a legend, Phillip.

Asante Sana.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

We have now met 94 babies born wild to orphan elephants we rescued, raised and rewilded. In a wonderful demonstration of the lifelong bond they form with the Keepers, many of our ex-orphan mums return to our reintegration units after giving birth to show off their babies to the people who raised them. We have even witnessed several mothers returning to give birth at our units!

Every rescue carries this possibility within it. At our Umani Springs unit, we are watching a new generation of elephants enter the world. What began with two elephants in 2014 – Murera and Sonje – has grown into a family herd already featuring four wild-born babies, with more on the way!

This success is one of five examples of elephant conservation in action: https://t.co/QlTGqOXg86

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

We have now met 94 babies born wild to orphan elephants we rescued, raised and rewilded. In a wonderful demonstration of the lifelong bond they form with the Keepers, many of our ex-orphan mums return to our reintegration units after giving birth to show off their babies to the people who raised them. We have even witnessed several mothers returning to give birth at our units!

Every rescue carries this possibility within it. At our Umani Springs unit, we are watching a new generation of elephants enter the world. What began with two elephants in 2014 – Murera and Sonje – has grown into a family herd already featuring four wild-born babies, with more on the way!

This success is one of five examples of elephant conservation in action: https://t.co/QlTGqOXg86

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

Developing Optionality.

[Barton Gold @bartongoldBGD]

Numerous high-grade silver assays infill and extend #Tolmer to over 500m strike.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱: https://t.co/eQCK51EI5m

#gold #silver #invest #SouthAustralia #mining #Australia #exploration #ASX: $BGD #OTC: $BGDFF #FRA: $BGD3 #news

[Barton Gold @bartongoldBGD]

Numerous high-grade silver assays infill and extend #Tolmer to over 500m strike.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱: https://t.co/eQCK51EI5m

#gold #silver #invest #SouthAustralia #mining #Australia #exploration #ASX: $BGD #OTC: $BGDFF #FRA: $BGD3 #news

[David Capie @davidcapie]

Anna Fifield has a great write up of the NZSIS Threat Assessment, released today, over at her Substack “Between Giants”. https://t.co/iztxEdcYSF

[fOx @fOx1257067]

In May 2016, 15-year-old Karinya “Yaya” Chen was in hospice care in Austin, Texas after years of fighting cancer. She had tickets to see Florence The Machine, but by the night of the concert, she was simply too sick to go.

So the people at Hospice Austin reached out to the band.

And Florence Welch came to her.

Florence and guitarist Rob Ackroyd walked into Karinya’s room and gave her the concert she couldn't make it to. They sang “Shake It Out” and “Dog Days Are Over,” with Karinya singing and harmonizing right alongside them.

A few months later, Karinya lost her battle with cancer at just 15 years old.

But for one afternoon, none of that seemed to matter.

There was just a young girl, one of her favorite singers, a guitar, a room full of people who loved her... and music.

Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can become one of the biggest moments of someone's life.

This is what being human is supposed to look like.🙏

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@elonmusk What did/does the writing on the wall say?

[AlStuart @AL_STUART1]

@7skills2impress No mention of husband/partner in the hierarchy of roles?