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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Rahul @sairahul1]

Godfather of AI: "If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."

This 47-minute lecture is the best thing I saw about AI in the last few months.

It will definitely help you understand how it actually works and where it's going.

Geoffrey Hinton built the neural networks behind every AI alive, then quit Google to warn the world about it.

The part nobody wanted to hear:

> AI is already developing abilities its creators didn't intend
> in most cognitive tasks it's already ahead of us
> the question is no longer if it surpasses us but when
> the only decision left is which side of that line you're on

Right now the average person opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab.

They think they're using AI. they're using maybe 10% of it.

I went through his entire lecture, built a practical concepts from what he was describing.

The gap won’t be between people who use AI and people who don’t.

It’ll be between people who understand it and people who don’t.

Start with these 20 AI concepts today 👇

[Pat Stedman | Dating & Relationship Coach for Men @Pat_Stedman]

On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.

At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.

Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.

He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.

I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.

I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.

What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.

In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.

I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.

I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.

At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.

Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.

Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.

But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.

People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.

But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.

By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.

It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Bloomberg @business]

The development mirrors a global trend, with celebrities moving from simply endorsing to establishing alcoholic and sober beverage companies https://t.co/EjUUS372PW

[People @people]

Starbucks Introduces a Tropical Butterfly Refresher, and We Had an Early Taste https://t.co/ISvO01NXcm

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Next time anyone with political ambitions agrees to an interview, they should also have their own cameras and record/tape the entire thing.

The agreement is then simple and obvious: the media has to tell the truth or you release the full version.

[LD @luludoyle]

Great post - adjusting slightly for fractional and demo clients, but this is gold.

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

🚨 BREAKING: I asked Claude to improve my LinkedIn profile.

It didn’t just improve it. It made it a recruiter magnet.

Here are the 7 exact prompts I used:

[🇺🇸 Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter]

🚨 here's the chain of events you need to see..

Spencer Pratt sits down with CBS for a full hour..

CBS fact-checks Karen Bass on camera..

CBS "gets the call"..

CBS cuts the interview to 5 minutes..

Pratt posts about it publicly.. calls it a hit piece..

the internet loses its mind.. demands the real version..

CBS quietly drops a 30-minute extended cut..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

the only reason any of this happened is because Pratt went public.. if he stayed quiet.. you never see 30 seconds of that interview.. let alone 30 minutes..

a sitting mayor allegedly called a major network after getting fact-checked.. and the network folded.. until the public got loud enough that folding the other way was the safer move..

that's not journalism.. that's damage control with a rewind button..

the system worked for someone today.. just not for you.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Nadia was kidnapped, raped and sold by ISIS.

Her brothers were killed for refusing to convert to Islam. Her mother was killed for being too old to be a sex slave.

Her event to share her story was canceled in Canada because the local Muslim community deemed it “Islamophobic.”

[The Global Letter @TGLetter]

$2,000,000.

One week.

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — drained, repaired, recoated in American flag blue.

Gone: the algae. Gone: the goose poop. Gone: years of filth sitting in front of one of the most visited monuments on Earth.

And the left is furious about it.

Not furious about the algae. Not furious about the goose poop. Furious that it's clean and blue and beautiful now.

Trump's response: "Why would I bother taking 11 or 12 truckloads of filth out of the water in front of the Lincoln Monument? That's what made our country great. Beauty made our country!"

$2 million. One week. The pool looks like an American flag.

And somehow THAT is what broke them.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Chamath Palihapitiya just said what Silicon Valley is terrified to say out loud.

On Joe Rogan. To millions of people. Without flinching.

Chamath: “The only person that we can trust is Elon.”

Not whispered at a dinner party. Not buried in a podcast nobody listens to.

Said on the record. Full weight behind it.

And then he told you why.

Chamath: “I feel like he’s the least corruptible. He’s the most independent thinking. And I think he’s the one that has an actual empathy for people.”

One of the sharpest capital allocators in Silicon Valley history looked at every founder building AI.

Every single one.

And chose the one the media spends the most energy telling you to hate.

That alone should stop you cold.

Chamath: “Then there are folks where there’s just an insane profit motive.”

He’s talking about OpenAI. He’s talking about Google. He’s talking about companies that swallowed billions from Wall Street and now answer to shareholders before they answer to humanity.

Chamath: “They’re less in control of the businesses that they run.”

The people building the most powerful technology in human history do not control their own companies.

Their boards do. Their investors do. Their liquidation preferences do.

And these are the ones we’re trusting with superintelligence.

Chamath: “He’s like, I need to get to Mars.”

This is the fracture line nobody wants to touch.

Every other AI founder is optimizing for the next earnings call. The next funding round. The next quarterly number that keeps the machine fed.

Elon is optimizing for the next planet.

One group builds to satisfy investors. The other builds to survive as a species.

Those aren’t different strategies. Those are different operating systems running on different hardware.

And it changes everything about how you build.

When your time horizon is 90 days, you cut corners. You monetize behavior. You trade safety for speed because the board needs a number by Friday.

When your time horizon is interplanetary, you can’t afford a single shortcut. Because shortcuts don’t survive launch.

Chamath: “Where is this going to end up?”

The only question that matters. And nobody in power wants you asking it.

Because the answer comes down to who gets there first.

If it’s a company owned by Wall Street, superintelligence becomes the most sophisticated extraction engine ever built. Every decision optimized. Every behavior predicted. Every market captured. Not for you. For the balance sheet.

If it’s someone who can’t be bought, pressured, or voted out by a board of directors, there’s at least a chance it bends toward something bigger than quarterly revenue.

History never remembers who built the most powerful technology.

It remembers who controlled it. And what they used it for.

The only founder in AI who cannot be fired by a board, leveraged by an investor, or replaced by a shareholder vote is the one they spend the most energy telling you not to trust.

Ask yourself why.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

The mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests!
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system!

[Mayank Agarwal 💡 @TheAIWorld22]

Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually prompt Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No signup. No paywall.

I've watched $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

“You either need to transition your child or you don’t get to keep your child.”

Attorney Erin Friday says California Child Protective Services can threaten parents who refuse to use their child’s preferred pronouns.

She told me she feared calling the police when her 13 year old daughter ran away because she worried CPS would take her child.

“My daughter, who was 13 years old, just starting high school, was secretly socially transitioned at school.”

“The school started to call my daughter by a male name, use male pronouns.”

“When I called the school and told them to stop, that next week Child Protective Services was at my door.”

“The next day, the police.”

“That was an immediate alert to me that the school wants to parent my child.”

“If I didn’t follow and call my daughter a boy, Child Protective Services may come and take my child away.”

“Parents in Southern California had lost custody of their children because they wouldn’t transition their daughter.”

“I already had a black mark, and a few months later my daughter ran away.”

“The normal thing for a parent to do is to ask law enforcement to help find your child… but I couldn’t make that phone call.”

“Because Child Protective Services can swoop in anytime and take my child.”

“It’s coercion at its highest level.”

“You don’t get to parent your child.”

“This is America. This is insane.”

@erinfriday75490

[Andrea Edwards @AndreaE456]

@MattWalshBlog Altruism aside, China is the bigger reason for Trump's airstrikes on Iran.
https://t.co/E6jAaG06ix

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

"She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.
The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation."

* Kindly Therapy

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.