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@tunguz Well said

Maybe - just maybe - the solution to overcoming aging will not have to be critically dependent on micromanaging every last aspect of our lives. 🤷‍♂️

After 30 years of being an Atheist, tonight I will be baptized, confirmed, and reconciled to God. I cannot stop thinking about it.

Gm. Happy Easter. 🐣 ❤️

Christ is Risen. Happy Easter.

Did you know? South Korea hosts one of the world’s largest Easter parades right in the center of its capital, Seoul. God is moving powerfully in South Korea. 🇰🇷 Christ is Risen! ✝️🐣 Happy Easter, Happy Resurrection Sunday!

Today is Easter.

Following the conclusion of their meetings in Cairo, Hamas announced that a senior delegation met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul to discuss the Gaza file.

I am become Easter Bunny Hiding eggs in the yard at the crack of dawn, nibbling carrots and the rest

"...copy, Moon joy."

THE FIRST VACUUM TUBE INTEGRATED CITCUT WAS INVENTED TO BEAT UNFAIR TAXES. The 1926 German Radio Tax: How One Clever Tube Beat the Bureaucrats (And Why Governments Will Repeat the Mistake with Robots) ~ In 1926, the German government had a brilliant idea for raising revenue from the exciting new world of radio broadcasting: tax the radios themselves. Not by their price, size, or even their power consumption. No. They taxed them by the number of vacuum tubes (or, more precisely, by the number of valveholders or sockets they contained). The more tubes your receiver had, the higher the Rundfunksteuer (radio tax) you paid. It was a classic case of early 20th century bureaucracy trying to squeeze money out of technology it barely understood. Enter Loewe Audion GmbH, a German radio manufacturer. They were not about to let a silly per tube tax kill their business. In 1926, they introduced the Loewe 3NF. A single glass envelope that packed three triode vacuum tubes, plus two fixed capacitors and four fixed resistors, all sealed inside one unit. It was essentially a complete radio receiver circuit in one tube. A full featured three stage radio now only needed one socket, so it was taxed as a humble single tube set. The 3NF let Loewe undercut competitors dramatically, and roughly one million of these ingenious devices were produced. It was, quite literally, one of the worlds first integrated circuits. Decades before the silicon chip. But born not from Moores Law, but from tax evasion. When one filament eventually burned out (as tubes did back then), the whole expensive assembly had to be replaced, but Loewe even offered a repair service. Innovation driven by government overreach? Sounds familiar. Governments Never Learn Fast forward a century. Radio tubes are long gone, replaced by transistors, microchips, and now AI powered robots and autonomous systems. Yet the bureaucratic impulse remains exactly the same: when something new and productive emerges, tax it by counting its parts in the most literal, outdated way possible. Imagine the future headlines: New EU Robot Tax Bill: Levy Based on Number of Actuators, Sensors, or AI Cores or how large the parameters. Or an American proposal: Tax robots per motor or per teraflop of compute. Policymakers, desperate for revenue as automation displaces traditional jobs, will inevitably reach for the same blunt instrument Germany used in 1926. They will ignore value created, economic output, or societal benefit, and instead fixate on something countable and physical. Just like counting glowing glass envelopes in a wooden radio cabinet. The 3NF proved that clever engineers will always find a workaround. Companies will design single actuator humanoid robots that somehow perform like multi limbed ones, or cloud based AI systems that minimize on device taxable hardware. Innovation will be diverted into tax dodging contortions rather than genuine progress. Meanwhile, the tax collectors will be left scratching their heads, just as they were when the first 3NF equipped Loewe radios flooded the market. History does not repeat, but it rhymes. In 1926, the German state tried to meter the future with 19th century logic and got outmaneuvered by a single brilliant tube. A hundred years later, when robots roam factories, homes, and streets, the same shortsightedness will return. Because governments, like bad comedians, only have one joke. The Loewe 3NF was not just a radio part. It was a warning: tax the technology stupidly, and the technology will tax you right back.

🚨 BREAKING: Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, second highest leader of Iran, responsible for making anti women law & killing of thousands of Iranian women for not wearing Burqa & Hijab, has been killed in overnight US-Israel strikes on Tehran.

Met a founding engineer today from @Replit. Jen Li. We were both judging the @Pokee_AI hackathon. They have me some credits and I built two apps in 20 minutes using the X API:a weather one which mapped storms being reported in by my climate scientist list and another monitoring my three news lists for information about the Iran war. Pokee includes X API for its customers automatically. While doing that my other AI read all your posts: alignednews.com/ai He tells me about why Replit is hugely important in the AI industry. In other words how you can use it in your life and business.

The world stopped to watch Artemis II. Moments like this remind us what is possible and inspire the next generation to dream bigger and take us even further. We are just getting started on this grand adventure. It is time to start believing again.

Greetings on Easter. This sacred day celebrates hope and renewal. May it bring peace, joy and brightness to everyone’s lives. May the teachings of Jesus Christ inspire all to be kind and strengthen the spirit of togetherness in society.

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BREAKING: THE FIRST CITY HAS FALLEN. 🇮🇷🔥 ​To everyone who said regime change would never happen: LOOK AGAIN. It is happening. Right now. In the streets of Abdanan, the Iranian people have done the unthinkable. They have taken back their city. The local police didn’t just stop—they laid down their weapons and sided with the people. 🤝✊ ​Let’s be clear: This isn't the work of Trump. This isn't the work of Netanyahu. This isn't about foreign militaries. ​The regime’s Army, Navy, and Air Force have been gutted from the inside, and now the Iranian people are the ones who are armed, angry, and unstoppable. They aren't waiting for a savior—they are saving themselves. ​The streets are on fire. The old guard is crumbling. The people are rising to take back what was stolen from them decades ago. ​History is being written in blood and fire tonight. Abdanan was the first. It will not be the last. ​THE REVOLUTION IS HERE. Regime Change in progress.

Astronaut Victor Glover delivers beautiful Easter message from space, praises God’s creation. “When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us…” “You're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos.” “In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together…”

There are no words.

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I have an Ashton Kutcher story. In the early days, when he was first starting up investing, my family had lunch with him. The day before, the Flipboard founders had shown me Flipboard and put it on my iPad, and I was real impressed. They told me at the meeting, "Do not show it to anybody else," and that the round was closed. During lunch with Ashton, I pulled it out. I said, "I've got to show this to you." He instantly said, "I have to invest in this. Get them on the phone right now." During that lunch, the round was reopened, and they weren't even mad at me for showing it to him.

Ashton Kutcher was also an early investor in: • Uber (2011) • Airbnb (2011) • Spotify (2010) • Square (2009) • Duolingo (2011) • Anthropic (2023)