@jstein_star Look if they cough up 50% equity without any U.S. earnest money for the shares, I'm not going to be mad. I would just consider it a treasury donation. Of course that wouldn't stop Sam from basically running it to the ground. Maybe he thinks its an exit strategy for him.
Like many, I thought the Family Zoning Plan was finally going to bring cranes to San Francisco.
Think again!
The new law is technically active, but I am hearing developers won't touch it because the law is subject to a massive CEQA lawsuit from "Neighborhoods United SF". They aren't risking millions on a 350ft upzone while the lawsuit winds its way through the courts.
And guess who is co-funding the lawsuit? The Telegraph Hill Dwellers. Yes, good old Aaron Peskin.
Nothing says "for the people, not the powerful" quite like weaponizing shadow studies and air quality complaints under the guise of environmentalism to protect your private Telegraph Hill views.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hold these three facts in your head at the same time, because Washington apparently can't...
Fact one:
The Pentagon reportedly raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest designation that exists.
That's the tier reserved for top adversaries like China and Russia, rating Israel above every American ally and above some of America's actual enemies.
The White House calls the reporting "false" and Israel categorically denies it, but the accounts are sourced to multiple current and former U.S. officials across two major outlets.
Fact two:
Netanyahu sent a personal letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman endorsing a resolution to phase out U.S. military aid over a decade and replace it with what he called, in his own words, "my plan": a shift from aid to joint defense partnership spanning missile defense, AI, drones, and cyber.
Fact three:
A separate but parallel measure, Section 224 of the defense bill, would mandate structural integration: joint weapons production, linked military systems, and shared data between the two countries.
Two distinct legislative tracks, one direction: permanent entanglement with the country the Pentagon just reportedly flagged as a critical espionage threat.
Any functioning political system would treat fact one as disqualifying for facts two and three.
You do not wire your military networks into a government your own intelligence agencies say is running an "unhinged" collection campaign against your officials.
Counterintelligence 101 forbids it.
If China's leader sent a personal letter to a congressman describing his plan for U.S.-China defense integration while the Pentagon caught Chinese spyware on American officials' phones, every name attached to the bill would be under investigation by Friday.
Israel does both in the same month and gets a committee markup.
That gap is the most precise measurement we have of how compromised the system actually is.
Source: NYT, Reuters
Writer: Daniel
@Joel_P_Atkinson Of course the Chinese could care less and hope for this outcome. Bogging down the U.S. in the middle allows them to consolidate hard and soft power in Asia. What kind of threat do Israel defense firms, their outputs or state actions pose to Chinese hegemony? No strategic threat
@TheChiefNerd Yeah but I just read the study, and they didn't include any pre & post bloodwork, to at least characterize neuro-inflammatory markers.
@ZaidJilani This is true but they also went ahead and bought Russian missile interceptors which can give Russia critical information about NATO stealth radar profiles
@bilawalsidhu It doesn't follow any of my instructions. It's extremely limited on constraint handling. Basically maximum two or three asks per generation or it's the luck of the draw for out of distribution questions.
@morganlinton@KullAxel It sucks and it's worse than pro despite benchmarks.
Coding usually needs varied thoughts and more weights to code things out of distribution
Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona.
Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti.
L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano.
Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.