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Soñar no cuesta nada, si me dejan , vuelvo a casa para ver hacer este proyecto realidad!
The answer is yes. The space economy will transform the Dominican Republic. "Launch On Demand brought a dream to Oviedo. Oviedo is going to change because of Launch On Demand." These words humble us and sharpen our focus during every step of the road to launch. Because before the rocket, before the payload, before the countdown, there are people. Adults and kids alike in Oviedo and across the Dominican Republic are waking up and seeing themselves as engineers, technicians, and scientists. And beyond space, the supporting industries required to sustain a project like this will bring opportunity that reverberates across the entire nation. We're here to give them the gravity assist. youtu.be/9U9aXZIkgCY?si=brQq…
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I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.
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People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick." It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period. The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety." The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead
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Why he never sees @jaimemaussan1 with the latest sightings from around the world. They already have 2 spheres dated 12,500 years.. search buga sphere
Replying to @Badaliensinfo
He posted something last year wondering why no one had great clear footage of UFOs since everyone has phone cameras now (or something like that). I replied with a video from my phone of the Falcon 9 second stage flying over me one evening just after sunset. It looked really cool— like a bright orb with a fuzzy cloud around it going west to east. But my footage kinda sucked. I said— this is why, and I was even prepared for the event. 🤷‍♀️
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Replying to @Badaliensinfo
He posted something last year wondering why no one had great clear footage of UFOs since everyone has phone cameras now (or something like that). I replied with a video from my phone of the Falcon 9 second stage flying over me one evening just after sunset. It looked really cool— like a bright orb with a fuzzy cloud around it going west to east. But my footage kinda sucked. I said— this is why, and I was even prepared for the event. 🤷‍♀️
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Starlink Mobile V2 coming next year will be a game changer for global connectivity! Thank you @FCC
Thanks to President Trump, America is leading the world again. 🇺🇸 Today, the @FCC approved two major transactions that mean faster Internet, stronger competition, & global leadership in next-gen Internet from space (D2D). These FCC approvals unlock big wins for consumers!
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🚨 200 Ways Home Robots Could Help You Reach 101 by 2029! 🤖💪 At 66 and working toward major weight loss, I’m excited about robots taking over the hard stuff so I can focus on walking, eating healthy, and enjoying life. Here are the key highlights from the full 200 tasks (realistic for 2026–2029 humanoids specialized bots): 🧹 Daily Home Care (Biggest energy saver) •Full cleaning: vacuum, mop, dust, bathrooms, kitchen deep cleans •Laundry: wash, fold, put away, iron, repairs •Organizing & decluttering every room 🍳 Kitchen & Nutrition Powerhouse •Grocery ordering unpacking •Dishwasher handling kitchen reset •Indoor garden: plant, water, harvest fresh veggies/herbs for your diet 🛠️ Maintenance & Upgrades •Painting walls & touch-ups •Installing grab bars, handrails, non-slip mats, smart safety devices •3D printing custom tools, grips, organizers, and mobility aids 🛡️ Home Safety & Health •Hazard removal fall prevention •Medication reminders emergency alerts •Air quality, leaks, smoke detectors monitoring 🚗 Errands & Outdoor •Bring in deliveries, manage mail/recycling •Robotic lawn mowing, weeding, watering •Basic car care: wash, tire checks, maintenance alerts 👕 Clothes & Creativity •Sewing repairs custom comfortable clothes •Wardrobe organization & alterations 📈 Bonus Life-Changing Tasks •Teach new skills •Guide safe exercises •Help sell 3D prints or content online for extra income Imagine 4–6 hours freed up every day — no heavy lifting, no tiring chores, consistent healthy meals from your own garden, and a safer home. Perfect for sustainable weight loss and active aging! This future is closer than you think. Humanoids like 1X NEO and Optimus are launching soon. Which task would YOU want a robot to do first? Drop your #1 below! 👇 #HomeRobots #Longevity #AgingInPlace #Robotics #LiveTo101 #FutureTech #SeniorLife
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You soak your beans overnight to reduce phytic acid. You sprout your grains to neutralise the antinutrients. You boil your spinach to break down oxalates. You ferment your legumes to make them digestible. You roast your nuts to deactivate enzyme inhibitors. You pressure cook your lectins. You peel, you blanch, you discard the cooking water. Hours of preparation. Multiple appliances. A pantry full of techniques refined over millennia by humans desperately trying to make plants less hostile to the people eating them. All this effort. All this ceremony. To render the food slightly less determined to harm you. Or you could feed the plants to a cow. Let its four-chambered fermentation system handle the entire operation across 24 to 48 hours of specialised bacterial digestion. Then eat the cow. Zero phytic acid. Zero oxalates. Zero lectins. Zero antinutrients of any kind. Just complete bioavailable protein, every essential amino acid, B12, iron, zinc, creatine, and the fat-soluble vitamins, all packaged in a form your body recognises without a 12-step preparation manual. The cow already did the soaking, sprouting, boiling, and fermenting. It's called ruminant digestion. You're eating the finished product. Beef is the ultimate plant-based food. All the nutrition the plant pulled from the soil, none of the chemistry the plant deployed to stop you eating it. The carnivore isn't avoiding plants. He's outsourcing the detoxification to an animal evolved over 50 million years to handle it. And then he's sitting down to dinner like a civilised person, instead of standing over a stockpot at 11pm wondering why his kale still tastes like punishment.
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NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE SPIRIT AIRLINES SITUATION ACTUALLY IS RIGHT NOW. Everyone is watching Duffy's press conference. Nobody is connecting what the government actually did here. Here's what you need to understand: → Spirit was bleeding cash in 2022 — JetBlue offered $3,800,000,000 to save it → The Biden DOJ sued to block the deal in March 2023 — argued it would "raise prices for consumers" → A federal judge sided with the DOJ in January 2024 and killed the merger → Elizabeth Warren went on camera and called it a "Biden win for fliers" → JetBlue walked away in March 2024 and paid a $69,000,000 breakup fee just to escape → Spirit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2024 → Spirit filed for bankruptcy AGAIN in August 2025 → The airline the government "protected" no longer exists They're showing you a Transportation Secretary losing his temper on camera. They're NOT showing you that the government blocked a $3,800,000,000 rescue deal to "protect competition" — and now there is no airline AND less competition. → Spirit is gone → JetBlue lost $69,000,000 in breakup fees → Every Spirit route is now either dead or absorbed by larger carriers → The price-sensitive travelers Warren claimed to protect have fewer options and higher fares The DOJ argued the merger would harm consumers. The merger dying harmed consumers. "History has judged the denial of the JetBlue-Spirit merger under Biden as a MASSIVE MISTAKE." That's not a political opponent saying it. That's the sitting Transportation Secretary. On the record. In public. It's a collapse. Many people will regret not following me sooner, trust me.
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Medication cascade from a single statin prescription: - Month 1: statin prescribed for a cholesterol number - Month 3: muscle pain develops (CoQ10 depleted by the drug itself) - Month 4: NSAIDs prescribed for the muscle pain - Month 8: liver enzymes elevated (from the statin) - Month 10: cognitive decline begins (the brain is 25% cholesterol by dry weight) - Month 12: blood pressure rises (CoQ10 depletion affects heart muscle) - Month 14: ACE inhibitor added for the blood pressure - Month 18: fatigue deepens (mitochondrial dysfunction worsening) - Month 20: antidepressant prescribed for the "low mood" - Month 24: glucose control deteriorates (statins increase diabetes risk by 30%) - Month 30: metformin added to the pile Started with one drug for one number on a chart. Ended with five drugs managing the side effects of the first drug. Each one billed to the NHS or your insurer. Each one a recurring revenue line for life. The original cholesterol number? Lower. The patient? Worse in every measurable way. Modern medicine, working as designed.
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Elon said something that stuck with me. He said the hardest part of being him isn't building the rockets, it's caring about everyone he can't save. That single line changes how you see him. Most people think the secret to Musk is intelligence. Or work ethic. Or risk tolerance. They miss the real thing. His edge is that he has a heart. In a world optimized for cold optimization, where every CEO is trained to maximize shareholder value and minimize emotional exposure, Musk does the opposite. He builds what moves him. He fights for what matters to him. A 15 year old girl named Liv Perrotto designed a Shiba Inu plush in 30 minutes. She had cancer. Stage 4. The plush was her contribution to Polaris Dawn, the SpaceX mission that flew higher than any private spaceflight in history. She named it Asteroid. The plush flew. It became the mission's zero g indicator. The first thing that floated when they hit space. Liv died in January. Before she died she wrote eight wishes for Elon. The eighth one was simple. Make Asteroid the official mascot of SpaceX. She knew she wouldn't see it happen. She wrote it anyway. When the request reached Elon, he didn't have to respond. He's the richest man alive. He gets thousands of dying wishes. Most go unanswered, that's just math. He answered this one. He said yes. Asteroid is now the SpaceX mascot. Because a 15 year old girl drew a dog and asked the most powerful man in the world to remember her. This is the part nobody understands about Musk. He could have ignored it. The optimal capital allocation move was to ignore it. The brand calculation said ignore it. The lawyers said ignore it. He didn't ignore it. People debate whether he's a genius or a clown, a hero or a villain, a savior or a scammer. They miss the point entirely. The reason he keeps winning isn't his intelligence. It's that he hasn't optimized away his humanity. The other tech founders are smarter at certain things. They have better processes. Better PR teams. Better political instincts. None of them would have made Asteroid the mascot of SpaceX. Most of them couldn't tell you the name of a child who died of cancer last year. That's the gap. That's the moat. That's why he beats them all. In a world that rewards detachment, Musk's superpower is that he still feels things. The Tesla mission was personal. The SpaceX mission is personal. Neuralink is personal because his son was non-verbal until eight. Even the Twitter purchase was personal, his obsession with free speech tied to his own censoring. Every project is downstream of something he actually cares about. That's why he can work 100 hours a week for 20 years without burning out the way normal people do. Burnout comes from doing things that don't match your values. He's never had to do that. Liv didn't get to see her plush become the SpaceX mascot. But she wrote it down before she died, and the most powerful man alive said yes, because somewhere underneath the rockets and the satellites and the AI companies and the trillion-dollar valuations, he's still the kid who cried watching cartoons. Most people lose this by 30. They call it growing up. It's actually atrophy. @elonmusk kept it. That's the whole secret.
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Don’t buy Tesla stock You’ll make too much money 😇#tsla
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been using FSD since 2018, don’t get why others don’t know it exists
I no longer understand anyone buying any car other than a Tesla Where are you people living where driving is fun? Any decent city and traffic makes it unbearable Seems insane not to have self driving at this point
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Repost this if you’ve been a $TSLA shareholder over 5 years. 🤘🏻
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Elon Musk just put a number on the flaw at the center of Nvidia’s empire. Wall Street has not done the math yet. Nvidia’s Blackwell is the most sought-after silicon on Earth. Every AI lab wants it. Every sovereign nation is bidding for it. Blackwell runs every model, for every company, in every data center on the planet. That universality built the empire. It is also the fracture point. Musk: “We believe the AI5 chip will be about a third of the power of an Nvidia Blackwell for roughly comparable performance. And much less than 10% of the cost.” One-third the power. Comparable performance. Less than ten percent of the cost. Musk: “This is a chip that is very much optimized for the Tesla AI software stack. It’s not meant to be a general purpose chip.” Nvidia builds silicon that serves a million different customers. Every transistor spent on universal compatibility is a transistor not dedicated to one task. Tesla is building silicon for exactly one customer. Itself. When you strip away every function you will never call, you do not get a lesser chip. You get a weapon. Here is what the market refuses to see. Data centers drink unlimited power from the grid. Robots run on batteries. Musk: “In order to have a functional robot, you have to have a great AI chip. And it needs to be an inexpensive chip and it needs to be very power efficient.” You cannot put a Blackwell inside a walking machine. It would drain the battery before it crossed the room. The entire AI revolution lives inside air-conditioned buildings bolted to the electrical grid. Musk is not competing for that market. He is engineering the silicon that survives outside of it. One-third the power is not a spec sheet footnote. It is the physics threshold that severs intelligence from the wall socket. Without that number, every robot on Earth stays tethered. With it, the algorithm walks. Less than ten percent of the cost is not a pricing strategy. It is the line where a machine brain stops being a capital expenditure and becomes a commodity component. When the chip inside a humanoid costs less than the motors in its legs, you do not manufacture hundreds of robots. You manufacture millions. Wall Street is valuing the AI revolution by who dominates the data center. Musk is building the only silicon designed to leave one. Nvidia built the brain of the cloud. Musk is building the brain of the physical world. No one has priced that in yet.
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Diversification sucks the air of your wealth!
Another great article by Cern. Out of 29,754 stocks studied over the past century, just 1,082 stocks (3.6%) created 100% of net wealth. The remaining 96.4% of stocks collectively matched Treasury bills. $TSLA will over time be a significant portion of the wealth ever created by the market.
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SAUDI ARABIA—US—IRAN—INCENTIVES FOR US & ISRAEL TO FINISH THE JOB In exchange for continuing the fighting, Saudi Arabia offered the U.S. an unprecedented package of economic and strategic incentives. Key points in the offer: • $100 billion transferred directly to finance American war costs • Full and immediate normalization with Israel after the fall of the regime • Direct oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to the port of Ashdod, turning Israel into a major energy hub • Investment of approximately $1 trillion in the U.S. economy purchase of $500 billion in American weapons • Establishment of a new regional defense alliance, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other moderate countries under an American umbrella • Joint naval force to control the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb • Funding of strategic U.S. bases in Israel • Joint reconstruction fund for a post-regime “secular and moderate” Iran ME: WOW!
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And if you want one, here is my referral code teslabacon.com
“I spent 1 year with a Tesla and realized one thing: I was 100% confident in my misinformed opinions. I used to be an EV skeptic. I was wrong. Here are the 5 things that changed my mind: Charging - I thought gas stations were better. I was wrong. Waking up every morning to a “full tank” is the single best benefit of ownership. No more stops in the rain or snow. It’s a total game-changer. One-Pedal Driving - I didn't think braking could be improved. Wrong again. Regenerative braking is so intuitive that I almost never touch the physical brake pedal. Going back to a two-pedal internal combustion engine feels clunky now. Full Self-Driving (FSD) - I said I’d never let a computer drive for me. Now? I’m convinced it drives better than I do. The improvements this year have been mind-blowing. This tech is going to provide massive mobility for the elderly and disabled. The Screen vs. Buttons - I used to tell friends, "I like knobs and buttons." I laugh at that now. Thinking I need physical buttons is like missing the BlackBerry keyboard. The touch interface is intuitive, clean, and constantly improving. Performance - I knew it would be fast, but it’s absurd. It replaced a high-end German sports car, and the Tesla handles and accelerates significantly better while still being a practical family vehicle. Ignorance was bliss because it made me feel smart, but day-to-day ownership of the Model Y proved me wrong. If you're on the fence, the experience is likely much different from what you imagine.”
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Uber lightspeed to bankruptcy. Play by play
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welcome to the new middle ages of AI fiefdoms
Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder. The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago. For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the same logic the Roman Army invented. Small teams report to a leader → Leaders report to managers → Managers report to executives. The whole structure exists for one reason: to route information up and down the chain. That's it. The whole system exists to solve a bandwidth problem. Jack's argument is simple: AI solves it better. Block built what they call a "world model" - a continuously updated picture of everything happening across the company. Every decision. Every customer. Every transaction. Every bottleneck. In real time. No status update needed. No weekly sync. No manager to translate what's happening on the ground into language the executive can understand. When the world model carries the information, you don't need the layers. So they eliminated them. Block now runs on three roles: Individual contributors who build. DRIs who own specific outcomes for a fixed period. Player-coaches who develop people while still doing the work themselves. No middle layer. The system handles coordination. The humans handle the work. I've coached thousands of founders. The number one problem is always the same: information latency. By the time a problem surfaces from your front line to leadership, it's already compounded. By the time a decision travels back down, the damage is done. That lag costs you deals, people, and momentum. And most founders accept it as the price of scale. Block is trying to prove you don't have to anymore. I think they're right. Because the hierarchy was never the point - it was just the best tool we had. The moment something better exists, the layers eventually collapse. This is either the biggest structural shift since the 1850s - or it breaks at scale like everything else before it. Either way - every founder should be asking the same question: how much of your org exists just to route information? If the answer is "most of it" - that's your problem. And your opportunity. -DM
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