American an European friends,
I’m so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become.
Don’t make the same mistakes we did.
The only peaceful solution is to send them back to their countries of origin they love so much.
We cannot coexist. It will be them, or us.
In August 2025, Gaza was officially declared famine-stricken. Now, a year later, new rigorous data says that the territory has one of the region’s lowest levels of severe child malnutrition.
@Olivia_Reingold reports on the Unicef-led data that has triggered a debate over whether the original famine declaration was correct.
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
יש אנשים בודדים שישראל היתה נראית אחרת לגמרי אילו בחרו לשבת בבית ולא לעשות יותר מדי.
אביגדור וילנץ הוא כנראה בטופ 10 בכל הזמנים. כן. גם בהתחשב במנהיגים המדיניים והפוליטיים.
הרבה אנשים טובים בהייטק מחפשים עכשיו עבודה.
אז בנינו מאגר חינמי שמרכז משרות הייטק פתוחות בישראל:
https://t.co/AFR2jG1uTu
כרגע יש בו 9,000+ משרות מ-5,000+ חברות, והוא מתעדכן רציף.
בלי paywall.
בלי טריקים.
אם זה יכול לעזור למישהו שאתם מכירים, שלחו לו או עשו ריפוסט 🙏
מארק אנדריסן על מה שהופך את אילון מאסק לבלתי מנוצח.
״אני לא מכיר עוד מנכ״ל שפועל כמו שהוא פועל.
צריך לחזור אחורה לתעשיינים של סוף המאה ה19 ותחילת המאה ה20, אנשים כמו הנרי פורד, אנדרו קרנגי, תומאס ווטסון, אנדרו מלון וקורנליוס ונדרבילט.
הם ניהלו את החברות שלהם בצורה מאוד דומה לאופן שבו מאסק מנהל.
הדבר המרכזי הוא המחויבות החריגה של המנהיג להבין לעומק את מה שהחברה עושה, להכיר כל חלק בעסק, להיות ממש בתוך השטח, לדבר ישירות עם האנשים שעושים את העבודה ולהבין מהם את הבעיות האמיתיות, ואז להיות פותר הבעיות הראשי של הארגון.
זה בעצם מה שאילון עו��ה. בכל שבוע הוא מגיע לאחת החברות שלו, מזהה את הבעיה הכי גדולה שיש לחברה באותו שבוע, ופותר אותה. הוא עושה את זה שבוע אחרי שבוע, 52 שבועות בשנה, ובסוף כל אחת מהחברות שלו פתרה את 52 הבעיות הכי גדולות שלה באותה שנה.״
מארק משווה את זה למנכ”לים רגילים יותר, שבדרך כלל מגיבים לבעיות עם תכנון, ��גישות, מצגות ודוחות.
הגורם השני שמארק מצביע עליו הוא היכולת של אילון למשוך אליו טאלנטים יוצאי דופן.
הרבה מהאנשים הכי טובים בעולם רוצים לעבוד איתו, כי אם אתה עובד עם אילון, רף הציפיות ממך הוא בשמיים. הוא ידע מי אתה, מה עשית, מה עשית השבוע, והאם אתה לא עומד בקצב. ואם אתה לא סוחב את המשקל שלך, הוא גם יכול לפטר אותך באמצע פגישה.
אבל אם אתה מחויב לחברה כמו שהוא מחויב, עובד קשה ובאמת טוב במה שאתה עושה, הרבה אנשים שעבדו איתו אומרים שזו הייתה החוויה הכי טובה בחיים שלהם.
מארק מזכיר משפט מפורסם של עובד חדש שהגיע לSpaceX מחברת תעופה וחלל אחרת, ואמר שזה מרגיש כאילו זרקו אותו ל��וך אזור מזעזע של יכולת. כולם מסביבו פשוט היו טובים בצורה קיצונית.
ובסוף, הוא טוען שהיכולת הטכנית של אילון היא עוד יתרון תחרותי מול מנכ״לים לא טכניים.
״כשאילון מזהה צוואר בקבוק, הוא לא מבקש מס��נכ״ל ההנדסה לדבר עם דירקטור, שידבר עם מנהל, שידבר עם מהנדס, שיכתוב דוח שייבדק בעוד שלושה שבועות.
במקום זה, הוא הולך ומוצא אישית את המהנדס שבאמת מבין את הבעיה, יושב איתו בחדר, ופותר איתו את הבעיה.
וזה גם מה שמייצר נאמנות כל כך חזקה, במיוחד אצל האנשים הטכניים שעובדים איתו. הם יודעים שאם הם נתקעים מול בעיה שהם לא מצליחים לפתור, אילון מאסק יכול להגיע, לשבת איתם כל הלילה מול המקלדת או מול קו הייצור, ולעזור להם להבין איך פותרים את זה.״
האסטרטגיה החדשה של טראמפ מול איראן עומדת לטלטל את כל עולם האנרגיה
בתחילת המלחמה, לטראמפ הייתה אסטרטגיה שניסתה להפחית את מחירי הנפט כמעט בכל מחיר, כדי למזער את גלי ההדף מחסימת הורמוז. ��כל מחיר, כולל להסיר סנקציות מנפט איראני בים, שהביא *להגדלת* היצוא האיראני (בזמן שהמתחרים מהמפרץ חסומים) ובשילוב עם המחרי הגבוה - הם הכניסו ערימות של כסף.
בעיני זו הייתה אסטרטגיה מזעזעת, וכתבתי את זה כאן כמה פעמים, ונראה שבסוף גם האמריקאים הבינו את זה ושינו כיוון לחלוטין. עכשיו ארה"ב היא זו שחוסמת את הנפט האיראני מלצאת, ויש לזה השפעה בשטח: התנועה בהורמוז הגיעה לשפל שכמעט לא נראה (מתחילת השבוע עברו 16 ספינות כולל כולם), ומחיר הנפט הגיע ל-114 דולר לחבית ברנט, *הכי גבוה שהיה מתחילת המלחמה*. אבל לשם שינוי, יצוא הנפט האיראני צונח. טראמפ יכול, מבחינתו, למשוך זמן - ולתת לאיראן להתבשל במיץ של עצמם.
אלא שכמובן, גם לאסטרטגיה הזאת יש טריידאוף אכזרי: המפרציות לא יכולות לייצא, והדלק בארה"ב (ובכלל בעולם) ממשיך להתייקר. למעשה, התחושה בשוק האנרגיה היא שאנחנו עומדים בפני שיבוש *ממושך* של אספקת הנפט העולמית, כשעד כה קיוו לשיבוש זמני קצר. ויש לזה השלכות גדולות.
קודם כל, יצואני הנפט האמריקאים מרוויחים בענק. ארה"ב הפכה השבוע ליצואנית נפט גולמי בנטו לראשונה מאז 1943 (!) כשלרוב היא מייצאת בעיקר מוצרי דלק סופיים. טראמפ מתחיל לבחון דרכים להגביר את ייצור הנפט והגז של ארה"ב בטווח הארוך. אבל לא רק הנפט מרוויח: מדדי האנרגיה המתחדשת גם של ארה"ב וגם של ישראל זינקו החודש ב-14% (!)
זה לא רק עניינים של טווח קצר - לדעתי המשקיעים מבינים שנפט וגז עומדים להיתפס בעתיד כהרבה פחות אמינים, ויחד עם הביקוש העצום לחשמל בשל מהפכת ה-AI, זה ידרוש המון אנרגיה מתחדשת. לא כתבתי על זה עד עכשיו, אבל לדעתי גם זו אחת הסיבות שאיחוד האמירויות פורשת מקרטל הנפט הבינ"ל OPEC: הם מריחים לאן נושבת הרוח, ומעדיפים להגביר ייצור ולהרוויח כמה שיותר גם על חשבון דלדול המאגרים, מתוך הנחה שבעתיד יצטרכו הרבה פחות נפט. צריכת החשמל של איחוד האמירויות עצמה גם מתחילה לנוע הרבה יותר לאנרגיית שמש ולגרעין.
בקיצור, דברים ��דולים לפנינו. כדאי מאוד לעקוב.
Taiwan's Stock Market Overtakes UK Stock Market In Total Value!!
What does this mean?
1. AI Boom
2. UK dropping (IMHO) will lose its status as second financial center. It is in terminal decline.
3. "Secondary" stock markets can grow a lot based on emerging tech and global trends. Taiwan is driven by AI boom. Imagine Tel Aviv Stock Exchange becoming home to Cyber and Defense Tech or Abu Dhabi (ADX) focused on Infrastructure or global south.
4. Taiwan is a critical part of next economic boom. We can't afford to lose it.
5. Not one European stock exchange is in the top 7.
source: @FT
Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://t.co/8igjazz1On
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״כל מי שרוצה ליצור יותר ממה שהוא לוקח זוכה להערכתי.״
בראיון ל@nikhilkamathcio מאסק נשאל מה העצה הכי טובה שלו ליזמים:
״אני מאוד מעריך כל מי שרוצה לבנות. כל מי שרוצה ליצור יותר ממה שהוא לוקח זוכה להערכתי. זה הדבר המרכזי שכדאי לשאוף אליו. ליצור יותר ממה שאתה לוקח ולתרום לחברה.
אם אתה רוצה ליצור משהו בעל ערך כלכלי, אל תרדוף אחרי זה ישירות. עדיף לשאוף לספק מוצרים ושירותים מועילים שיתנו ערך כלכלי.
אם תעשה את זה, הכסף יגיע כתוצאה מכך, ולא מתוך רדיפה ישיר�� אחר כסף.
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זה נשמע מאוד מובן מאליו, אבל בדרך כלל אם מישהו מנסה לגרום לחברה לעבוד, הוא צריך לצפות לעבוד קשה מאוד ולקבל שיש סיכוי משמעותי לכישלון. ואז פשוט להתמקד בכך שהתפוקה תהיה שווה יותר מההשקעה.
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