Devon Gleason
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Devon Gleason
@DevonGleason
📍Denver | #BeCowboy | WME-IMG | @PBR | CU-Boulder Alum | @CUBuffsRalphie Handler | Board @westernsportsf | Luke 12:24-26
USA Katılım Temmuz 2009
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We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.
Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.
It will accomplish 4 things (at least )
1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization
Which will
2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption
Which will
3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x
Which will
4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like
At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally.
Thoughts ?
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@mcuban This is why I am, and always have been, bullish about experiential, sports/entertainment, live events, etc.
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Message to entrepreneurs Your product is their feature
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Ban stock trading by the President.
Ban stock trading by the Vice President.
Ban stock trading by members of Congress.
End the corruption.
Dave Levinthal@davelevinthal
Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year, and many trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions. From @samuellarreal_ & @LlanosJackie of @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/donald-t…
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@IterIntellectus All of this should be built with local code, hosted on your local machine. Easy to build.
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they just killed like 200 startups
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@aakashgupta If this doesn't showcase government's inability to solve problems....and lack of focus on constituents vs profit driving initiatives - I don't know what does. Inept.
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Colorado just told 1.5 million people they can't water their lawns. The state is still green-lighting AI data centers that each drink as much water as a town of 50,000 people. Reservoirs at historic lows.
One Colorado Springs utility has 95,000 acre-feet of total water access. Ten data centers are in line asking for up to 117,000. If every project gets approved, the utility has to more than double its entire water supply. None of those data centers exist yet. The inquiries already exceed what the system holds.
On March 16, Governor Polis activated Phase 2 of the state's Drought Response Plan. First time in nearly six years. Nine days later, Denver Water declared Stage 1 drought and put mandatory watering restrictions on 1.5 million customers. First time since 2013. Federal managers ranked this year's snowpack 45th out of 46 years on record.
Two days before the Denver Water vote, the only bill that would have required data centers to publicly report water use died in a Colorado Senate committee.
The state has 56 small data centers today. QTS Realty Trust is building Colorado's first hyperscale east of Denver. It qualified to build in Aurora because city code now prohibits new evaporative cooling. Denver has no equivalent rule.
A single hyperscale pulls as much water as a town of 50,000 people for cooling. The power plants behind it pull more. On-site water use across five Western states is projected at 21,600 acre-feet by 2035. Counting upstream electricity generation, it climbs to 89,700.
Xcel projects Colorado data centers will need 8.5 gigawatts by 2040. Roughly another Denver metro's worth of power.
Global AI bought 400 acres near Windsor for a campus targeting 1,000 megawatts.
Colorado's alfalfa farms used 394 billion gallons last year. The water budget was already overdrawn before the cooling towers came online.
Disclosure was the floor. The bill still died.
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There are some men who don’t just build companies, but shape entire industries and cultures. Mr. Ted Turner is one of those people.
Many know him as a media mogul...transforming modern media through CNN, TNT, TBS, and the Braves. He helped redefine how the world consumes news, sports, and entertainment.
I know him as a champion of the American West. I was blessed to know Mr. Turner through the Ralphie Program at CU-Boulder and countless visits to his ranches. He was obviously ambitious, unconventional at times, and deeply American.
His work to preserve our shared land, traditions and culture, in my opinion, far exceed his impact on modern media. But that's just the cowboy in me. Regardless, he had a profound impact on American life and will be deeply missed.
Rest in Peace Mr. Turner! Either Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!
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@evolvjj @JillFilipovic It's a giant cop out....screen time is for lazy parents
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@JillFilipovic Actually screens are a great way to make parenting easier and the evidence is weak that they do any lasting harm.
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Parenting is hard etc but I’m sorry if you’re allowing your toddler 2-3 hours of screen time per day you actually are failing them and you’re failing as a parent. This past week I saw at least a dozen toddlers running around with devices, some with phones clipped to their strollers(!). Your toddler has only been in the world for a short time. It’s still very interesting to them if you let them look up at it.
Camus@newstart_2024
Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use. 60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s. Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction. We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable. This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore. We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health. Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?
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@JillFilipovic It's far easier to just give your child a screen and not actually be a parent today. We've done it for thousands of years without screens - there's no need to have 20 min of relief...it's just an excuse for laziness. Doing your children a disservice.
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@HopeSchepp Pretty wild how many out of state folks are here and don't even bother learning how to drive in the snow. No conditions are bad enough to cause this with the right tires and some know-how
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As a citizen of Colorado, I am deeply concerned about how dangerous our roads have become.
The recent 75-vehicle pileup on I-70 wasn’t just a weather event… it was chaos. Dozens of vehicles, multiple crashes, and people injured on a stretch of highway we all rely on.
And the truth is, this keeps happening.
Yes, we live in a state with harsh winter conditions. But this is also about preparedness, infrastructure, and accountability. We know these storms are coming, yet we continue to see massive, preventable pileups that put lives at risk.
Colorado families deserve to feel safe on our roads.
Enough is enough. It’s time for stronger enforcement, better preparedness, and real solutions to prevent these dangerous situations from happening again.
foxnews.com/us/colorado-hi…
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@PBOpodcast @theficouple Another way to word this…
Let’s say it’s your last day to live. Would you take the $132,000 and pay off your mortgage or invest it in the stock market?
Or would you live your life?
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@theficouple Another way to word this question....
Lets say your house is Paid off, but you have nothing saved.
Would you take a $132,000 Loan @ 4.8% to invest in the stock Market?
Does this change the perspective?
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Let’s say you had $132,000 in the bank.
But you also have a $132,000 mortgage at 4.8%.
Would you invest the money in the stock market or pay off the house?
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@realkarenjean @BLMNational Is this better for forest health than letting wildfires and nature run their course?
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Went to the mountains in Colorado to touch rocks and grass over the weekend and saw massive work that was done for fire mitigation.
This was Bureau of Land Management Forest, @BLMNational which is why the work actually got done. Colorado State officials wouldn’t have done a damn thing.
Thank you for keeping the forests managed. Also shout out to @Interior @forestservice @EPA @LeeMZeldin .
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@Vibrato444 @ClintFiore Agree to an extent. I was like this as a kid. Difference was I was in the country. Plenty of room to not impact others. Kids I see are ripping bikes middle of busy streets, neighborhoods with no room to take a leak in your own back yard without a neighbor seeing. Not the place
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@ClintFiore I've begun to see some and I support this 100%.
Young boys become good men by doing fun, sometimes crazy stuff.
If this is the modern version of building a treehouse- Hell yes.
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My bro in suburban Denver says there's an absolute "plague" of kids on e-bikes and e-dirtbikes bombing around the streets and neighborhoods at high speeds.
7-14 year old boys equipped with capabilities they're not mature enough to handle safely, drive like banshees through yards and intersections and golf courses etc.
I don't see too many of those here in small town TX and when I do they don't seem to be terrorizing anyone.
Curious if this is happening where you live or not. Is this a big deal?
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@ClintFiore BRO...literally just left dinner in Cherry Creek an hour ago. Three young boys, ripping e-bikes down the middle of 3rd street - causing a scene, yelling the F word at each other, burn outs, SUPER disrespectful and entitled kids. I'm all for boys being boys - but this ain't it
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@andrewjiang Incredible 😂 I've been known to "over spreadsheet" everything with my family. Perfect opportunity to replicate and take this up a notch.
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built “Palantir for Family Trips” for our Yosemite weekend with friends
it has:
- route playback and convoy tracking
- meal logistics
- family readiness + expense tracking, and
- a full ops timeline for mission success
absolutely unnecessary, but worked surprisingly well
(repo 🔗below)
fabian@fabianstelzer
Palantir, but for organizing children’s birthday parties who’s building this?
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@dayele @nikkiglyn @CBSNewsColorado I was going to say, I said nothing about our sitting President or the other points mentioned...the fact is that Colorado's recent governance has severely reduced our quality of life (trash, drugs, crime, public safety, education declining, etc) while running up a massive deficit.
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@nikkiglyn @DevonGleason @CBSNewsColorado Instead of ‘orange man bad,’ how about holding your own elected officials accountable? Texas and Florida prove better governance works — people and businesses are moving there with their feet. Colorado turned blue, and the rest is just the inevitable consequences.
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Hundreds of Colorado business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave the state cbsnews.com/colorado/news/…
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@nikkiglyn @MonkeyHiyoshi @CBSNewsColorado @grok verify the claim that CO ranks #3 in education for K-12
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@MonkeyHiyoshi @CBSNewsColorado CO ranks #3 in education while TX ranks 40 ish but hey again if you LOVE TX so much please go, leave. FLEX in TX if that's your thing. BYE.
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@nikkiglyn @CBSNewsColorado We’re not talking about 187k small biz LLCs, Karen. Also “Looks after their roads?” Lmao 🤣 I’m a native. We have potholes every 3 feet. Good schools? Denver public schools are not safe, teachers are pushing wildly inappropriate subject matter. Our state has been destroyed.
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@CBSNewsColorado The 100 companies who have left are from 2022-pres. The net loss is around 27. Also CO has more than 187k new business filings in 2025 alone. Yes some biz are leaving for 'tax free' TX but I like a state that looks after their roads, has good schools, etc. You don't? BYE. LEAVE.
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In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud.
Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match.
Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines.
Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past.
That's exactly what Altman wants you to think.
Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings...
A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion.
If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem.
Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this:
Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language.
xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity."
Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise.
An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits.
That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking.
Just look at what he did this week:
Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins.
Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally.
That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense.
He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back.
OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg.
They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy."
That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win.
Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak.
OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery.
Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion.
The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away.
And the timing couldn't be worse...
OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them.
A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth.
This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist.
Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama.
The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER.
And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.
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@morganlinton Built my own version of this, aptly named ATLAS after Ayn Rand's book. Been a game changer for my day to day
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Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.
So here it is.
I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.
Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.
70% of the time? They didn't need it.
The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.
I got angry enough to build something about it.
I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."
6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.
I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.
But something shifted.
Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.
I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.
If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.
EVchargeright.com
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