Daniel Belazaima

Stay strong 🇺🇦!!!

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Reddit

[BestWeather @bestweather_]

Portugal ativamente contra as noções mais básicas de planeamento, conforto térmico e ecologia urbana.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Akash Maniam @ManiamAkash]

russia bombed Kyiv's sleeping civilians for five hours. russia wants to terrorise a peaceful population into submission.

Why do we let them?

Close the skies. Use their assets to arm Ukraine. Stop buying their energy. Isolate them from the world. Come on

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The only way the war truly ends is by Russia losing and leaving every inch of Ukrainian territory. You can call that a "negotiated settlement" if you want, but it’s the truth. Anything else would be at best a pause before Russia resumes its attempt to destroy Ukraine.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Beautiful

[Fred Fella @FredFellaIMO]

Arm Ukraine to the teeth, and then give them some more.

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

Europe is one of the best places in the world to live, but one of the hardest places to build and scale a company.

After 5+ years in France, following 16+ in the US, I have a conflicted admiration for Europe.

On the one hand, Europe has great potential. When I lived in the US, I was skeptical of the European quality-of-life argument. But after getting used to Sunday morning markets, walkable cities, and 4.5 meter ceilings, I get it. There are things that you simply cannot import or experience as a tourist.

These things can make Europe very attractive for creative and intellectual work. I honestly believe some parts of Europe are the “best neighborhood” in the planet. But that’s not the full story.

I am not only a husband and a dad. I am also an entrepreneur. I founded a company in the US 12+ years ago that has offices in the US and Chile and clients throughout the world. I live in France, yet I have not opened a subsidiary here. That is telling.

We once hired someone in France through one of those remote employment platforms. The person received about 5,000 euros net per month, which is considered a very good salary here. But the total cost to the company was closer to 13,000 per month.

That makes hiring feel less like a relationship between a company and a worker, and more like renting someone from the state. At the same time, you take an enormous amount of legal and administrative responsibility. The presumption is that all companies should operate like a 1960s car manufacturer. The response is simple. Don’t set up operations in Europe.

But this is not a remote-work story. I know many small entrepreneurs in France who do not want to cross the threshold from being a one-person activity to becoming an employer. They sometimes refuse a new customer to stay small and avoid the obligations that come with hiring one person. That should worry us.

Many social protections here are described as being provided by the state, but in practice, a lot of the cost and complexity of the implementation falls on the administrative shoulders of entrepreneurs. That is reasonable for a large energy company or bank. But for a small business, it is the difference between an entrepreneur waking up on a Monday to think about product or paperwork.

Growth is not the enemy of the European social model. It is what enabled it. Much of the quality of life we enjoy here today dates back to growth incubated in the past. Growth that is increasingly hard to find. France once led frontier industries, like bicycles in the 1860s, cinema in the 1890s, and aviation and automobiles soon after. Since then, Europe built a more humane social model. But that model was built on the assumption that Europe and the US were the only two rich and industrialized places in the world.

That is no longer true. Global competition in the 21st century is not what it used to be 50 years ago, and the padding built to protect us, may have grown into the handbrake that constrains the growth of the small and flexible firms we need to compete in new frontier sectors.

We should be able to be critical about Europe in our own terms, without comparing ourselves to the US or China. Innovative parts of Europe, like Sweden or Switzerland, operate differently and provide clues. Sweden has embraced a dynamic of capitalization in its pension system for a long time in a continent where fewer people buy stocks. Switzerland, a place that shares an enormous amount of geography and culture with its neighbors, is built in part on strong internal competition among its cantons.

But neither can light a candle to a French open-air market on a Sunday morning. A market where cash is king, and for a reason.

Europe may be the best place in the world to live. But it is also one of the most challenging places to build and scale an innovative activity. The goal is not to weaken the European model. But to get to a place where we can lead again by example. The world will follow us, but only if we are ahead.

[Figure @Figure_robot]

We're now on Day 4 of nonstop autonomous operations with F.03 humanoid robots running 24/7 until failure https://t.co/8rwx3c4Uf3

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

💔 Russia is a terrorist state, one murdering civilians with missiles with impunity as the richest nations with the most powerful military forces in the world right next door choose every day not to stop it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The oldest hotel in the world is The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan and has been in business since 705 AD.

The crazy thing is that it’s still a family business. For 52 generations.

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

Children playing in the Temple of Diana, 1973, in Évora, Portugal.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Turns out the 0 gram shoe is that time Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila did the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon barefoot and set a world record of 2:15:16 while winning Gold.

He was late addition after another runner got injured and the shoes they gave didn’t fit, so he went shoeless.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I bet I can think of one exclusion or exemption...

[Daniel Belazaima @DBelazaima]

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[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen.

From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump estimated this would be a 4-6 week operation.

Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our core military objectives in 38 days.

More on that tomorrow morning from @SecWar and Chairman Caine!

The success of our military created maximum leverage, allowing President Trump and the team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace.

Additionally, President Trump got
the Strait of Hormuz reopened.

Never underestimate President Trump’s ability to successfully advance America’s interests and broker peace.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending with this…

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

Dumb people are impressed by complexity.

Smart people are impressed by simplicity.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Folding croissants with chocolate filling.
https://t.co/Gh9rUGHTAD