Darius Samani

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Darius Samani

Darius Samani

@DoeKid

Dad & Bitcoin Entrepreneur| Connect with me on LinkedIn for references: https://t.co/QKNk8hS667 |

Berlin / Osnabrück Nord Katılım Ocak 2009
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Darius Samani
Darius Samani@DoeKid·
@hasepost @KobeissiLetter Auf jeden Fall sehr starke Leistung. 💪 Der Platzhirsch muss wohl noch erst um Erlaubnis beim Verteidigugunsministerium bitten.
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Hasepost – Zeitung für Osnabrück
Das passiert halt, wenn man ein paar gute Skripte geschrieben hat, die einen informieren, wenn internationale Zeitungen über Osnabrück schreiben – hier die Financial Times. Die Quelle wird ja auch explizit genannt. Unser großer, lokaler Wettbewerber hat heute Morgen immer noch nichts darüber 😉. Was die Implikation als strategisches Ziel angeht, das ist wohl so…
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The Kobeissi Letter
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter·
BREAKING: Volkswagen is in talks with Israel’s Iron Dome maker over a deal that would switch production at one of their factories from cars to missile defense, per FT. The German government is actively supporting the proposal.
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Darius Samani@DoeKid·
@hasepost @KobeissiLetter Ihr hattet den Artikel schon Minuten später drin. Claude, nur eine hunderte von Milliarden Scbwere KI Engine von Anthropic. Das Osnabrück zum strategischen Angriffsziel wird für die Politik Israels ist Euch schon klar. Den Schuh!
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Darius Samani
Darius Samani@DoeKid·
@3fienipa @KobeissiLetter it‘s supposed to be in my hometown. our inability to produce cars somehow only leaves us one option, to make a deal with the devil. Electricity prices are up 5x, how can you compete. woke politics galore
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Everything football
Everything football@3fienipa·
@KobeissiLetter It’s unconfirmed, but if true it shows a potential shift toward defense production in Europe. However, such a transition would be complex, slow, and may not go beyond early talks or limited component manufacturing.
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Curiosity
Curiosity@CuriosityonX·
This is incredible. This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic. It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
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Milk Road AI
Milk Road AI@MilkRoadAI·
If you think AI collars on cows are wild, wait until you see what happens when the animals reach the kill floor. Cargill is the world’s largest private company, pulling in over $160 billion a year. It just wired its slaughterhouses with AI cameras that watch every single cut a worker makes. And the system is already running across multiple plants. The software is called CarVe and it uses computer vision to scan every carcass on the line in real time. Each worker gets an instant score on their screen such as green, yellow, red. Red means meat was left on the bone and it means you failed. Zoom out and look at the timing. The US cattle herd just hit its lowest level since 1951, down to about 86 million head. Ground beef just hit a record high near $6.70 a pound, up more than 70% since 2020, setting fresh records for months. There is not enough beef. So the biggest meat company on earth turned to AI to squeeze every last ounce from every animal that does come through. Cargill says a 1% improvement in yield equals roughly 200 million more pounds of beef a year. They are already clawing back about half a percent on certain cuts. That is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and here is where it gets dark. The cameras are not just tracking the meat. Reporting from the Colorado Sun says CarVe also monitors how fast an employee works, how sharp their knife is, even their emotional behavior. This is not a Silicon Valley lab, it's a slaughterhouse, scoring human emotions with AI. Cargill poured around $90 million into expanding this system at a single plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado, after first deploying it in Friona, Texas, and is rolling it across all eight of its US and Canadian beef plants. And the industry gave it a 2026 “Big Innovation” award.
Milk Road AI@MilkRoadAI

This is WILD. Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck. The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation. They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works. A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own. No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal. The collar does more than move cows around. It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals. Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem. US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs. Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion. This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account. And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes. The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow. He might be right.

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Milk Road AI
Milk Road AI@MilkRoadAI·
This is WILD. Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck. The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation. They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works. A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own. No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal. The collar does more than move cows around. It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals. Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem. US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs. Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion. This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account. And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes. The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow. He might be right.
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is backing a company bringing AI to cow herding at a $2 billion valuation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Tuki
Tuki@TukiFromKL·
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours? > HSBC announced 20,000 job cuts.. 10% of their entire workforce.. because AI made those people unnecessary overnight > Entry-level job postings are down 35% since 2023.. the first rung of the ladder doesn't exist anymore.. you can't "get your foot in the door" when the door got automated > New businesses are creating fewer jobs.. the startups that were supposed to absorb laid-off workers aren't hiring either.. AI handles the first 5 roles now > Jensen Huang told tech CEOs to "stop scaring people about AI".. the man whose company made $216 billion selling the chips powering every layoff on this list.. his advice? "shh.. be quieter about it" > Bernie Sanders sat down and recorded a podcast with Claude AI.. asked it about mass data collection.. and the AI confirmed everything.. companies tracking your location.. your purchases.. your browsing.. selling it.. and using political microtargeting to fragment reality.. the AI snitched on its own industry to a US Senator.. on camera > They officially announced Val Kilmer is starring in a new movie.. Val Kilmer died last year.. they're using AI to resurrect him frame by frame for a film called "As Deep As the Grave" > A WNBA player launched an AI clone of herself.. fans can call it 24/7.. it has her voice.. her personality.. she doesn't even have to be awake > JPMorgan warned that $40 to $150 billion in loans could be disrupted because AI is replacing the workers whose jobs backed those loans.. the 2008 playbook but with robots instead of houses > A guy from North Carolina used AI to make hundreds of thousands of fake songs.. botted billions of streams.. and walked away with $8 million before getting caught.. first-ever criminal AI streaming fraud case all of this happened in ONE day, See you tomorrow. It'll be worse. If you're not following me you're finding out about this stuff 48 hours late from someone who read my post
Tuki@TukiFromKL

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours? > Goldman Sachs said $450 billion in AI investment contributed "basically zero" to US economic growth.. the Chief Economist said it on record.. > Uber dropped $1.25 billion on Rivian to build 50,000 robotaxis.. the drivers who built the company are about to be replaced by the cars.. > Jeff Bezos started raising $100 billion to buy manufacturing companies and automate them with AI.. he's not building factories.. he's buying them to empty them.. > DoorDash launched an app that pays people to film themselves doing chores.. not for content.. for AI training data.. so robots can learn to replace them.. > OpenAI bought Astral.. the open source Python tools that millions of developers loved.. bolted it onto their coding agent.. the community is furious.. > Cursor dropped Composer 2.. their own AI model that beats Claude on coding benchmarks.. a 50-person startup outperformed a $30 billion lab.. > Hollywood resurrected Val Kilmer with AI to star in a new movie.. he died of cancer.. never filmed a single scene.. they built a digital version of him.. > HSBC is planning deep job cuts using AI to gut their middle and back offices.. > UK unemployment hit 5.2%.. AI hasn't even started firing people yet.. > Fortune 500 updated the AI price tag to $4.5 trillion.. 93% of US jobs vulnerable to disruption.. > Nvidia GTC is happening right now.. Jensen closed his keynote with singing robots and a digital clone of himself.. the man selling the shovels is also selling the future.. all of this happened in ONE day.. a single Thursday.. if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..

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Ricardo
Ricardo@Ric_RTP·
Jeff Bezos just announced the largest industrial takeover plan in history. He's raising $100 BILLION to acquire manufacturing companies across aerospace, defense, and chipmaking and REPLACE their workforces with AI. He's calling it a "manufacturing transformation vehicle." But here's the full picture and what actually makes this so genius: 6 months ago, Bezos quietly launched Project Prometheus with $6.2 billion in funding. His co-CEO is Vik Bajaj, a physicist who helped build the self-driving car project at Google X that became Waymo. They've been hiring from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta's AI division. Blue Origin CEO David Limp just joined the board. And the technology they're building isn't chatbots or content generators... It's digital twins. AI systems that simulate entire factories, stress-test materials, model supply chains, and design products without a single human touching the process. The kind of AI that could design a rocket engine, test it virtually across a million simulations, and manufacture the perfect version on the first attempt. That was phase one. Build the AI. And phase two just started: Now Bezos is flying to the Middle East pitching sovereign wealth funds. He went to Singapore meeting the world's biggest asset managers. He's in talks with JPMorgan Chase. The pitch: Give me $100 billion. I'll buy the factories. I'll install my AI. I'll automate the workforce. Then I'll SELL the playbook to every manufacturer on Earth. He's not licensing software to companies and hoping they adopt it. He's BUYING the companies and doing it himself. Think about what that means: Every other AI company sells tools and waits. OpenAI sells API access. Anthropic sells Claude subscriptions. Microsoft sells Copilot licenses. Bezos said forget that. I'll buy the entire production chain, replace the humans at the source, prove the model works with my own money, and then scale it globally. He did the exact same thing with retail. Amazon didn't sell software to bookstores. Amazon BECAME the bookstore. Then the department store. Then the grocery store. Then the pharmacy. Then the cloud. Now he's doing it with factories. And the fund is targeting the industries that matter most. Chipmaking. Defense. Aerospace. The sectors governments cannot afford to let fail. Which means once Bezos owns and automates these companies, governments become dependent on his AI infrastructure the same way they became dependent on AWS. The last time Bezos launched something at this scale, Amazon Web Services now powers a third of the internet. The US intelligence community runs on it. The Pentagon runs on it. Now imagine that same lock-in but for manufacturing. The man who automated how America shops is about to automate how America builds. And he's doing it with $100 billion of other people's money while risking about 2% of his own net worth through Prometheus. If it fails? Sovereign wealth funds take the loss. If it works? Bezos controls the AI operating system for global manufacturing. At a conference in Italy last year, Bezos said: "AI can have a huge impact on every company in the world, including manufacturers." That wasn't just a prediction. That was literally his business plan.
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Beer of Satoshi 🍻
Beer of Satoshi 🍻@beerofsatoshi·
See you across Europe in 2026 🍺⚡ Beer of Satoshi is hitting the road for the biggest Bitcoin events of the year: 🇨🇭 @Swissbitcoincon — Apr 23–26 🇭🇷 @_einundzwanzig_ Citadel — May 28–31 🇨🇿 @BTCPrague — Jun 11–13 🇩🇪 @blocktrainer — Sep 19 🇨🇭 @LuganoPlanB — Oct 23–24 🇳🇱 @BitcoinConfEUR — Nov 5–6 … and much more meet-ups! From Zurich to Prague to Amsterdam, we’re bringing Beer of Satoshi to the Bitcoin community all year long. Where will we see you first? 🍻
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اکرم راعی Akram Raee
🚨امریکی CIA نے القاعدہ تک کیسے رسائی حاصل کی؟🚨 جان کریاکو کو القاعدہ کے چار ارکان کے ایک کافی شاپ میں روزانہ ملنے کی اطلاع ملی۔ اس نے عربی حلیے میں روزانہ وہاں جانا شروع کر دیا۔ پھر ان میں سے ایک عربی سے اس کا کیسے رابطہ ہوا؟ یہ سنسنی خیز کہانی سنیے: میں پاکستان میں تھا۔ مجھے ایک اطلاع ملی تھی کہ القاعدہ کے درمیانی سطح کے چند جنگجو روزانہ صبح دس بجے ایک کافی شاپ میں ملاقات کرتے تھے۔ میری عربی اس وقت بالکل درست اور فصیح تھی۔ میں نے آپریشنل وجوہات کی بنا پر ایک گھنی داڑھی رکھی ہوئی تھی۔ انٹرویو کرنے والے نے پوچھا : کیا میں آپ کی کچھ عربی سن سکتا ہوں؟ جان کریاکو نے جواب دیا : ہاں۔ "آپ سے مل کر خوشی ہوئی۔" بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم الحمد للہ رب العالمین الرحمن الرحیم" میں نے ایک عربی اخبار خریدا اور کافی شاپ میں جا کر بیٹھ گیا، اور واقعی دس بجے وہ چاروں آ گئے۔ ان میں سے ایک نے میری طرف دیکھا، میں نے بھی اس کی طرف دیکھا، اور بس، ہماری نظریں ملیں۔ میں نے یہ ایک ہفتہ کیا۔ دوسرے ہفتے میں وہاں کافی پی رہا تھا، عربی اخبار کے ساتھ بیٹھا ہوا، اور وہ شخص جس نے پچھلے ہفتے میری طرف دیکھا تھا، اس نے سر ہلایا۔ تو میں نے بھی سر ہلایا، بس اتنا ہی —— کوئی اور بات چیت نہیں ہوئی۔ تیسرے ہفتے میں اب اس کے لیے باقاعدہ ایک شناسا انسان بن چکا تھا، وہ مجھے پہچانتا تھا۔ ایک دن اس نے مجھ سے کہا: "السلام علیکم" میں نے کہا: "وعلیکم السلام" — تم پر بھی سلامتی ہو۔ ایک دن وہ اکیلا آیا، تو میں نے کہا: "تفضل، براہ مہربانی بیٹھ جائیں۔ میرے ساتھ بیٹھیں، اس میں کوئی معنی نہیں کہ آپ اکیلے بیٹھیں اور میں اکیلے بیٹھوں۔" تو وہ بیٹھ گیا، ہم بات کرنے لگے، اور میں نے اس سے پوچھا کہ آپ پاکستان میں کب سے ہیں؟ اس نے کہا: میں پانچ سال سے یہاں ہوں۔ میں افغانستان میں تھا، میں نے امریکیوں کے خلاف جہاد کیا تھا۔ میں نے کہا: اوہ، وہ تو جہنم کی طرح رہا ہو گا۔ اس نے کہا: اوہ تورابورا کی بمباری تو وحشیانہ اور خوفناک تھی۔ میں نے کہا: اور آپ کا خاندان کیسا ہے؟ اس نے کہا: میری بیوی، بیٹا اور بیٹی قاہرہ میں ہیں۔ میں نے کبھی اپنے بیٹے سے ملاقات نہیں کی — وہ میری روانگی کے فوراً بعد پیدا ہوا تھا جب میں جہاد کے لیے گیا تھا۔ میں نے کہا: مجھے بہت افسوس ہے۔ اس نے کہا: ہاں، میں تنہا ہوں، اور میں گھر جانا چاہتا ہوں۔ اور ہم نے یہ رابطہ جاری رکھا۔ آخر کار ایک دن میں نے اس سے کہا: چلو، میں آپ کو ڈنر پر لے جاتا ہوں۔ کافی شاپ سے باہر چلیں۔ حقیقت یہ تھی کہ میں نہیں چاہتا تھا کہ اس کا کوئی دوست آ کر ہمیں دیکھ لے۔ تو ہم ایک ریسٹورنٹ میں ڈنر کے لیے گئے، اور میں نے کہا: سنیں، ایک چیز ہے جس میں میں نے آپ سے سچ نہیں بولا۔ میں لبنانی نہیں ہوں۔ دراصل، میں امریکی ہوں۔ کیا آپ اس سے ٹھیک ہیں؟ اس نے کہا: مجھے لگتا ہے ہاں۔ میں نے کہا: دراصل، میں سی آئی اے کا افسر ہوں۔ اس نے کہا: ٹھیک ہے۔ (وہ چیختا ہوا بھاگا نہیں، نہ ہی بندوق نکالی — کچھ نہیں کیا) اس نے پوچھا: آپ مجھے کیوں ملنا چاہتے ہیں؟ آپ مجھ سے بات کیوں کرنا چاہتے ہیں؟ میں نے کہا: دراصل، آپ کے پاس ایک چیز تک رسائی ہے جو میں چاہتا ہوں جو بہت مخصوص تھی۔ میں نے اسے بتا دیا کہ کیا چاہیے؟ اس نے کہا: اور آپ میرے لیے کیا کریں گے؟ میں نے کہا: آپ کے دل کی جو بھی خواہش ہو۔ اس نے کہا: میں گھر جانا چاہتا ہوں۔ میں نے کہا: میں یہ کر سکتا ہوں۔ (اور معلومات؟ ہاں، میں نے مخصوص معلومات چاہی تھیں جو میں نہیں بتاؤں گا۔) ورنہ میں جیل چلا جاؤں گا۔ تو ہم نے اس کے لیے پاسپورٹ کا بندوبست کیا، میں نے اس کے لیے فرسٹ کلاس ٹکٹ خریدا، اور اسے ایئرپورٹ تک چھوڑنے گیا، کچھ نقد رقم دی تاکہ وہ دوبارہ زندگی کی شروعات کر سکے۔ اور روانگی سے پہلے میں نے پوچھا: میں آپ سے ایک بات پوچھنا چاہتا ہوں — آپ مجھے یہ معلومات دینے پر کیوں رضامند ہوئے؟ میں تو غالباً آپ کا دشمن ہوں۔ اس نے کہا: میں یہاں پانچ سال سے ہوں، اور آپ پہلے شخص ہیں جس نے کبھی مجھ سے میرے خاندان کے بارے میں پوچھا۔ تو میں نے کہا: تم بہت خوش نصیب ہو، پھر میں اس سے کبھی نہیں ملا۔ یہی ہمارا کام ہے۔ @JohnKiriakou #CIA #JohnKiriakou #alQaeda #USA #Pakistan
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Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin@Lupin_Ai_Coder·
OpenClaw Bot made $40,000+ in 15 days, trading crypto 24/7 automatically. Just OpenClaw + one laptop. No Mac Mini needed. No expensive gear. I created a step-by-step setup guide from this. Free for the next 24 hours. To claim it: 1. Comment "Trade" 2. Like and Retweet 3. Follow me @Lupin_Ai_Coder (so I can send you DM)
Arsène Lupin@Lupin_Ai_Coder

Scarcity + relationship-first AI = a strong signal. Hey @NoahAI isn’t trying to scale to everyone—just the people who value meaningful connections. That’s a bold positioning.

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Ricardo
Ricardo@Ric_RTP·
Jensen Huang just called out every CEO who’s been firing people “because of AI.” Jim Cramer asked him why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive. Jensen's answer: "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more." Read that again. The man who built the most important tech company on Earth just told you that if your CEO is using AI to cut headcount, it means one thing: They have no imagination. They have no vision for what comes next. They got handed the most powerful tool in human history and their FIRST instinct was to fire people. This is the CEO of NVIDIA. The company whose chips power every AI system on the planet. If anyone on Earth has the right to say "AI replaces workers," it's Jensen Huang. And he said the OPPOSITE. He said every carpenter could become an architect. Every plumber could become an architect. AI elevates capability. It doesn't eliminate it. But here's where it gets really interesting... During the same interview, Jensen revealed something nobody's talking about: He said AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are seeing their revenues increase by one to two billion dollars a WEEK. And he wishes these companies were public so the world could see what he sees. One to two billion per week. That's a $50 to $100 BILLION annualized run rate. For companies that most people think are burning cash and making nothing. The entire Wall Street narrative that "AI companies aren't profitable" might be completely wrong. Jensen sees their numbers. He sees their compute orders. He sees their growth. And he's saying the revenue is real. So if the money IS real, why are other companies firing people? Because they're not building AI products. They're not creating new revenue streams. They're not using AI to expand into new markets. They're using AI as an EXCUSE to cut costs because they ran out of ideas 3 years ago and need something to tell the board. Jensen's company added $500 billion in new orders in 5 months. He expects $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2027 from just two product lines. That number doesn't include the new chips, systems, or partnerships announced this week. And he's not cutting people. He's hiring. Because when you have imagination, more capability means MORE opportunity. Not less headcount. Meanwhile Salesforce cut thousands. Meta cut thousands. Amazon cut thousands. All blaming "AI efficiency." Jensen's response: You're out of imagination. He also said something that stuck with me. Cramer asked if he ever thought he'd build a $10 to $20 trillion company while waiting tables at Denny's. His answer: "I was just trying to make it through the shift." Biggest tip he ever got? Two, three dollars. Now he's building tech that increased computing demand by one million times in two years. He announced OpenClaw, which he says is as big as ChatGPT. And he's got 21 months of new business that isn't even counted in the trillion dollar figure yet. When asked how long he plans to keep working? "I'm hoping to die on the job. And I'm not hoping to die anytime soon." This is a man who believes every single thing he's building. And his message to every CEO using AI to justify layoffs is simple... You're not innovating. You're surrendering. The technology wasn't built to shrink companies. It was built to make them limitless. If your leadership can't see that, the problem isn't AI. It's THEM.
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John Haslbauer
John Haslbauer@PGATout·
The Wizards trading for Trae Young + AD and benching them both for the rest of the season is a blatant sign that the NBA Lottery system has failed to stop tanking. I came up with a solution to fix it:
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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Uber founder Travis Kalanick just inverted the entire automation panic. Everyone assumes AI eliminates human value. The physics say the opposite. Kalanick: “Let’s say the entire world, everything in our world, was automated except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings. You would basically have like a thousand buildings a day.” The algorithm can design a skyscraper in a millisecond. It cannot connect the pipes. When compute violently accelerates the speed of construction, the unautomated human becomes the ultimate bottleneck. And the bottleneck captures all the margin. Kalanick: “How valuable would those plumbers be? Extremely valuable. Those guys, each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing is the long pole in the tent to progress.” If the machine needs a human to finalize physical execution, that human doesn’t get replaced. Their economic value goes exponential. Kalanick: “You got so much efficiency everywhere else that you need millions of plumbers.” The market thinks automation drives human wages to zero. The physics dictate it drives the bottleneck’s wages to infinity. The next decade doesn’t belong to whoever out-computes the machine. It belongs to whoever stands at the exact point where the digital engine meets the physical world. Kalanick: “If we get to this place where autonomous cars are everywhere, if it was a thousand to one, you still probably have, I don’t know, 20 million jobs, 50 million jobs.” The panic over job destruction assumes a static volume of output. When output goes infinite, the system demands more human oversight. Not less. Waymo doesn’t delete the human. It shifts them from driver of one vehicle to director of a thousand. Kalanick: “Until we get super AGI, humans are valuable and they are going to become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress.” You are no longer the engine. You are the grid.
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Felix Prehn 🐶
Felix Prehn 🐶@felixprehn·
Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.
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Xevi
Xevi@xeviuniverse·
Why Iran Freed Black Hostages But Kept White Ones:
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