Omar Uddin
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@omaruddin
Creating a better, smarter and safer future with Trustable AI, AGI & Digital Trust.
My district is $18 trillion, nearly 1/3 of US stock market in a 50 mile radius. We have 5 companies with a market cap over a trillion dollar companies. If I can stand up for a billionaire tax, this is not a hard position for 434 other members or 100 Senators. Those saying that we wouldn't have a future NVIDIA in the Bay if this tax goes into effect are glossing over Silicon Valley history. Jensen was at LSI Logic and his co-founders at Sun. He started NVIDIA in my district because of the semiconductor talent, Stanford, innovation networks, and venture funding. We have 37 times the VC money as Austin given the innovation ecosystem & Florida isn't even on the map. Jensen wasn't thinking I won't start this company because I may have to one day pay a 1 percent tax on my billions. He built here because the talent is here. AI was created with our tax dollars. ImageNet was created by Fei-Fei Li at Stanford using NSF money. This was a visual database. Hinton presented at an ImageNet conference his famous paper. The seminal innovation in tech is done by thousands often with public funds. NSF, DARPA, Stanford, Berkley, San Jose State, Santa Clara and the UCs are the foundation for what has made Silicon Valley a powerhouse. It's why we won 5 Nobel Prizes this year in the UC system. Yes, we need entrepreneurs to commercialize disruptive innovation. Stanford blazed a trail in licensing technology & partnering with the private sector. The university enabled companies like Google which began as a research project called BackRub, looking at back links to rank pages. And entrepreneurs like Brin & Page reap huge rewards when they succeed. But the idea that they would not start companies to make billions, or take advantage of an innovation cluster, if there is a 1-2 percent tax on their staggering wealth defies common sense and economic theory @paulkrugman @DAcemogluMIT @baselinescene. We cannot have a nation with extreme concentration of wealth in a few places but where 70 percent of Americans believe the American dream is dead and healthcare, childcare, housing, education is unaffordable. What will stifle American innovation, what will make us fall behind China, is if we see further political dysfunction and social unrest, if we fail to cultivate the talent in every American and in every city and town. The industrial revolution saw soaring inequality in Britain for nearly 60 years. On the continent, it lead to revolutions in France with worker uprisings (1848) and contributed to one in Russia (1917). America's central challenge is to make sure the AI revolution works for all of us, not just tech billionaires. So yes a billionaire tax is good for American innovation which depends on a strong and thriving American democracy.
@Scobleizer Disagree - ethics needed in US/capitalism: $37T debt, affordability crisis, 30 yr wage stagnation, inflation, middle class tax payers fund $100Bs subsidies corporate welfare, tax breaks, incentives, tax cuts pay to top 0.1% over next 10 yrs~$4T printed +$1T cut from healthcare?
Is there some agreement between @AnthropicAI and @grok on search now? The Anthropic API today for me started citing Grokipedia sources when using its search tool, even although Wikipedia results are higher in search engines for these queries.
FYI @realannapaulina @SenMarkKelly please fwd to Dr Loeb since he’s not on X & perhaps escalate to NASA scientists & fire incompetent political appointed NASA administers who have no expertise & who can’t represent American ppl. Also why is media not covering such events?
FYI 4+ "asteroids" of 3m-40m size close to Earth/Moon today? eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids… • 2025WK3: passed Earth at 0.296 lunar distances (LD) 11/26/25 08:54 UTC • 2025WY2: 16.045 LD 11/26/25 18:29 UTC • 2025WX3: 9.819 LD 11/27/25 11:56 UTC • 2025WB4: 3.941 LD 11/27/25 16:53 UTC
@zerohedge Welcome to the jungle
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