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@julest10003 @delgadostowe @SaraEisen @NYCMayor sure juju 😏

@HoloBeard @delgadostowe @SaraEisen @NYCMayor I am the wealthy. I own in NYC, the Hamptons and Miami. I own in those places because I want to hang out there, plain and simple. I don't "move millions in a single transaction under the radar" because I'm also a legitimate human. Not sure wtf you're talking abbot here.

Ken Griffin employs thousands of people in NYC and is planning to build the tallest office tower on Park Ave., investing billions more and creating thousands more jobs. (For that reason, he’s also here in NYC a lot, @NYCMayor) Meantime Miami is welcoming him and his firm, with the massive jobs, investment and tax revenue he’s bringing. Making him feel unwelcome and demonizing him seems risky. Ken left Chicago and moved Citadel hq to Miami a few years ago because of bad policy. (He also sold his penthouse there)

@julest10003 @delgadostowe @SaraEisen @NYCMayor You don't work with the wealthy do you JuJu? At KG level, you buy 🏡in NYC/London/ Singapore to move millions of dollars in a single transaction under the radar. Literally w/out regs that moving cash would require. Not b/c you like the city.

@delgadostowe @SaraEisen @NYCMayor Btw I understand thar his primary residence is currently in Miami. It was never in NYC. But he's EXPANDING his NYC footprint not shrinking it

@DicksonPau @dee_bosa 100% agree. I think its just people in Media like @CNBC are scared of AI agents & YouTube making half their work obsolete or likely 40%+ less monetizable = less valuable. That's why "journalism" industry is having such a fit: following Pareto likely 80% of media is deadweight

@dee_bosa lol demand is not inflated

.... or the metrics got worse at measuring what's real overbuild narrative could come back w a vengeance if it turns out demand is inflated

@dee_bosa how can @dee_bosa be in SF & say there's no demand? 🤨. Seriously get out an talk to AI users/builders; not fking C-Suite idiots. Its like living in TX near an oil field and getting ur info from a CEO in NYC vs just walking out and talking to the rough necks. 🤦‍♂️

@Jason @NYCMayor Dam! Its clever. 2nd & 3rd 🏘️in top global cities is the fastest below radar way to move $$$ in/out of countries, especially to/from USA. This might cut NYC off as one of those places.

@NYCMayor Don't worry folks, after he drives everyone with homes over $5m in nyc out, he will lower the extra tax to $2m homes... then $4,000+ rents... and he won't stop until the death spiral is complete.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

@joshcannonai @Jason @NYCMayor @grok I don't like it either: but you realize the governor & mayor proposed this right?

@Jason @NYCMayor @grok is this likely? How successful is the current mayor been on taxing the rich and how have past attempts at taxing the rich turned out for other states?

@Jason Why not just go to the state. Which has a history and balls to strip underperforming municipalities of their legal abilities. The city can be stripped of handling prosecutions and given it to the county or the state.

What are we doing here Austin? People can run amok? Let’s tighten things up and make the 4th or 5th time get a least a month to think it over!

@Jason its 2026 on the cusp of Mytho's, Spud, and whatever @Google releases. Yet @YouTube can't even give us a simple way to remove videos from history (web or iOs) or even easily delete shorts. Does @YouTube dev team even use @GeminiApp ? 🤦‍♂️

@MrColionNoir @Mrgunsngear @Sootch00 @jjreeves 2026 if gun review cmty can't spend 30 sec using AI 📱 app to analyze gun docs & confirm ammo is supported (*cough* HOutlaw) prevideo, talk about liability. UTube trscript w/Gemini can shred ur videos word for word. Fking wakeup.

@chamath @BillAckman @X I say fight & scorched 🔥earth. Hire good law firm, hire a small group of data people to find/document/and catalogue the paper trail using a siloed AI. Then take AI data experience & present at Plaintiff's Law Conf. & Judges Conf. to say get better or FK off.

I’ve dealt with a bunch of this nonsense in the past. It’s the “tax” I spoke about on the pod this week. It was simpler to pay it for a while because it was relatively small dollars each time (a few million here or there) but then the system realizes I am a mark and won’t stop. Then they try to come after tens or hundreds. I finally got fed up with it and drew a hard line in the sand with a bunch of folks who sued me for profits they didn’t deserve. They lost. I won. I will never settle again. Only fight.

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@Jason @twistartups I would say we count wrinkles but @jason has been hitting the moisturizer. #aginggracefully

@twistartups When was this?! Always put the date on videos from the archives! And the logo @twistartups

He decided he liked eating regular meals, so he became a software engineer Andy Weir got laid off from AOL, failed to get a single agent, and spent 10 years posting sci-fi to a blog. That blog became The Martian. The Martian then led to Project Hail Mary.

@friedberg @DavidSacks Did you see Portland is considering a "vacancy tax" for landlords?

@mass_marion @mcuban @BernieSanders I am saying the ownership is a single conglomerate HFSS (not foundation). And those sub 4 companies can act in ways to charge / extract money from each other to drive up cost (or profit) for the the over arching HFSS conglomerate.

@HoloBeard @mcuban @BernieSanders So I don’t see ownership by one of the countries biggest insurance companies. Am I missing something?

@TheTwoBs @TheLunarSurfer @WSJ 🤨Amazon found 1994 and profitable in Q4 of 2001. WNBA first season was 1997. That's 29 years of unprofitability as of 2026 vs 7.75 years. Really that's a quarter century+ of "investing in the future".

@TheLunarSurfer @WSJ So? Amazon operated for decades before it made a cent. Many other companies do the same. The owners are investing for the future

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% pay raise on.wsj.com/47yGzai

@mass_marion @mcuban @BernieSanders Marion, thank u 4 the link. Foundation is a sub of Health First Shared Services (see Part 6, Sec A, Line 6). HFSS has several sub companies: foundation, a hospital network (HFS), insurance plans (HFHP),Part VI, Section A, Line 6: doctors/providers (HFMG).

I did look it up and the ACA exchange participant insurer Health First in Florida in the article is 73% owned by Health First Foundation, Inc. and 27% By the non profit hospital system Adventist Health System . But maybe I misunderstood this. Are you mening that part of break up big medicine should be breaking of the control of the big hospital systems? Because we do need that as an adjuct to breaking up the big insurers, especially with some hospital systems owning insurance companies. @DutchRojas @DrDiGiorgio Here is the 990 for the Health First Foundation projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…

@Jason @nytimes 🤔When we say @nytimes, why can't we name names? AI is great for this data tracking not of just front facing writers but the editors & producers behind them. Journalists talk about "shining" the light on darkness. Then why not shine it on them too?

NYT proving my point… I invest in 100 amazing startups a year The @nytimes reporting is limited to anti-tech, anti-capitalism content only After 700 startup investments, their coverage is limited to political nonsense and negativity Meanwhile, every week I reach 5-10m folks across my podcasts, emails and social media. Founders: build your own following and go direct

@hubermanlab @NBTiller @NBTiller u fking kidding? Its 2026, Gemini found BOTH 2021 YouTube videos @hubermanlab mention taking TRT in like 30 sec. Maybe we should run all your videos & papers through AI and have it document all your inconsistencies b/c i'm a #skeptic as well.

PS: just because 20mg EOD didn’t reduce fertility for me that doesn’t mean that it’s the same response for other people. Some people get total shut down at that dose so not making a recommendation here! If you’re going to explore peptides or anything, you should really talk to your physician and monitor bloodwork.

@BenDempsey18 @Skint_Eastwood1 @JiuJitsuIsKing U fk kidding? Its 2026 w/AI U learn that Tenn State Law (TCA § 55-8-152) sets max speed when not posted at 30mph. & Brentwood, TN has NOT lowered it 25. Which means his speedometer helmet footage shows he was below both.

@Skint_Eastwood1 @JiuJitsuIsKing As much as I can’t stand Alan Ritchson, the other guy mostly deserved it. Ritchson was driving 21-22, not a reckless speed on that street, and his neighbor walked in front of him while driving. Then instigated the fight. Looks like his neighbor was hoping for a payday.

🚨NEW FULL FOOTAGE of Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in a street fight with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Tennessee. It captures exactly what caused Ritchson to snap and beat the crap out of Taylor.

@Rich_Cooper thought you might like the research Rob is doing on status. youtu.be/3CsZxTUnwxs?si…

@RationalMale @SartainPodcast think you will like the research Rob is doing on status and how it matters youtube.com/watch?v=3CsZxT…