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Elizabeth Wahler

@LUX4Good

Tech entrepreneur. Strategist. Advisor. Angel. Lover of visual & voice search. Global Board Member at @oceana and #SeaChangeSummerParty event chair.

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Elizabeth Wahler
Elizabeth Wahler@LUX4Good·
This post is worth translating - it communicates much of what I’ve been sharing about IRGC wanting control over the straight and shipping lanes off the coast of Yemen. “The most dangerous concern is that Iran, through the Houthis, will control #باب_المندب , the global vital strait. This is a frightening matter for the Gulf states, Egypt and the world, which they will not surrender to under any pretext.”
عبدالرحمن الراشد@aalrashed

مقالي: الحوثي لم يعد مشكلة سعودية (للسعوديين واليمنيين.. العالم لا يدور حول غزة، لديهم حربهم وإنهاؤها له الأولوية. والحوثي الآن اصبح مشكلة العالم، بما فيها دول شرق البحر الأحمر مثل العراق والخليج والصين) aawsat.news/6kaxy هل ميليشيا الحوثي مستفيدة من دخول حرب غزة؟ لا، بل مكلفة سياسياً، باستثناء الدعاية على مستوى الداخل اليمني والإقليمي، الذي قد يغيّر صورتَها السيئة، كميليشيا طائفية معتدية. وهذه المكاسب وقتية. أمَّا ما يروّج له بأنَّ استهداف واشنطن يعطى الحوثي الشرعية، فطبعاً غير صحيح، فقد سبقَ وهاجمت «القاعدة» و«داعش» و«الشباب» في الصومال ولم يمنحهم شيئاً من الشرعية. ومع هذا الاستهداف العسكري المحدود لن يفقدَ الحوثي السلطة، بخلاف «القاعدة» التي فرَّت من أفغانستان وإطاحة إمارة طالبان بعد قصفها عام 2001. إنَّما الحوثي سيصبح تحت الملاحقة والعقوبات ويزيد وضعه السيئ سوءاً. فقد تسبب تهديده الملاحة الدولية في #البحر_الأحمر في الأضرار، ليس فقط بالتجارة الغربية وإسرائيل، بل أيضاً، ب #مصر و #السعودية ودول الخليج و #العراق وكذلك #الهند و #الصين، وأصبح تأمين الملاحة قضية ملحة ومحل إجماع الأطراف على اختلاف مواقفهم. وكل هذه الدول مستفيدة من تشكيل التحالف الدولي لمواجهة الحوثي، وإن لم تشارك فيه. فحجم الملاحة والتجارة الإسرائيلية عبر البحر الأحمر صغير مقارنة حتى بالمجموعة الخليجية. الهاجس الأخطر، أن تسيطر إيران، عبر الحوثي، على #باب_المندب، المضيق الحيوي العالمي، هذه مسألة مخيفة لدول الخليج ومصر والعالم، الأمر الذي لن تستسلم له تحت أي ذريعة. وعلينا ألا ننسى أن حرب 1956 و«العدوان الثلاثي»، وقع نتيجة تداعيات تأميم والسيطرة المصرية على قناة السويس، وكذلك حرب 1967 مع إسرائيل ثارت نتيجة إعلان مصر إغلاق مضائق تيران.

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Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson@ChrisWillx·
"This is gonna be the issue between 2026 and 2028." @friedberg
Chris Williamson@ChrisWillx

What will the future actually look like? @friedberg and I sat down to discuss. 0:00 Why we fear the future 0:39 The fertilizer crisis solved 2:01 Life is getting better 4:04 East vs. West mindset 6:20 AI centralizes power differently 7:08 Technology always diffuses outward 9:30 CAR-T therapy case study 11:31 Token costs falling 1000x 12:25 The moon explained 13:50 Everyone owning a robot 16:11 Which jobs AI hits first 17:47 Who buys the robots? 19:20 TikTok proves latent entrepreneurship 21:30 Moon as staging ground 23:54 The 9km rail gun 25:46 Self-replicating robots on Mars 27:06 Fusion energy explained 29:04 How the sun works 32:13 AI cracking plasma stability 37:20 Who owns the moon? 44:33 How far is age reversal? 48:38 Yamanaka factors discovered 54:11 Longevity escape velocity 56:15 Careers in a 120-year life 1:00:07 Transhumanism and brain interfaces 1:05:05 Embryo selection and CRISPR 1:10:53 Making X-Men: transgenic humans 1:26:30 David's seed company explained 1:36:25 California's collapse 1:40:47 Unfunded pension crisis 1:41:08 The billionaire tax threat 1:42:59 Origin of the income tax 1:46:17 Wealth tax kills property rights 1:52:29 Why people vote socialist 1:54:43 Government vs. free market prices 2:02:38 The food stamp explosion 2:05:23 AOC as 2028 frontrunner 2:07:02 Tomorrowland's optimism shift Includes paid partnerships.

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Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY·
Big CA GOV debate tomorrow night on @cnn ... and to preview it is the leading Republican candidate in the field @SteveHiltonx. Can a Republican win in CA? Hilton says YES. Hear his reasons why...
Scott Jennings Show@JenningsShow

California at a crossroads. 🛣️ Is it time for a total governance overhaul? Republican candidate for CA Governor @SteveHiltonx joins the @JenningsShow to discuss how he plans to fix the affordability crisis and take back California’s streets.

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The All-In Podcast
The All-In Podcast@theallinpod·
“Union power, Litigation, and Climate Dogma”: Steve Hilton's Three Reasons for California's Housing Crisis @chamath: “ What is going on? Why are rents so high, why are homes so expensive for the 40 million residents of California?” @SteveHiltonx: “This particular issue, I think, almost captures better than anything else the underlying structural reasons why everything is so difficult in California, and so expensive. Because you've got these three structural forces that I think underpin the problem and show why a Democrat can't fix it. And the three things are union power, litigation, and climate dogma. The first part of the story is that we're just not building enough homes for the number of jobs that we are creating and the size of our population. It's a classic supply and demand situation. CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, itself is a nightmare in terms of the amount of regulation you have to comply with. The private right of action means anyone can sue. 70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing. Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions. They're used as leverage to negotiate what they call project labor agreements, where you have an agreement for the site, and usually they have one or two of these components, both of which sound great: skilled and trained workforce, which means union only, so it's a closed shop; and prevailing wage, again sounds very good, but it's 2-3x market rate wages. So both of those things inflate the cost.”
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Richard Grenell
Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell·
Carl Demaio deserves enormous credit for getting the voter ID initiative on the California ballot. He was relentless. He was focused for a very long time. We all must now support this initiative to pass voter ID in America’s largest state. This is an incredible moment for not just California, but for America. We need national money for this initiative. Changing California changes Washington, DC.
Carl DeMaio@carldemaio

CA Dems have finally made it official: they want non-citizens voting in our elections. A new measure in LA would allow the city to extend voting rights to non-citizens. This should come as no shock, but here's how we can fight back - WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=EMZkf6…

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Blake Byers
Blake Byers@byersblake·
How the 5% California wealth tax is a 67% wealth tax for Sergey Brin: >Owns 3% of GOOG. >Holds 25.3% of voting rights >Wealth tax is assessed as the greater of his ownership or voting rights. So his tax is 5% * his 25.3% voting ownership = 1.27% of the value of GOOG. >1.27% taxes / 3% ownership looks like a 42.2% wealth tax, but that's not quite right. >He has to pay the wealth tax with after-tax cash proceeds. So he needs to sell enough stock to cover 37.1% in taxes first (23.8% federal and 13.3% state). >His gross stock sale has to be 2.01% of GOOG to cover the wealth tax + federal and state taxes. >His wealth tax bill is thus 67% of his net worth (2.01%/3%) >This for 2026. There are proposals being drafted for a 2028 wealth tax. (I understand that some people see this as a feature)
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Elizabeth Wahler@LUX4Good·
All true. But they easily spent the money to qualify this for the ballot. What’s to stop from a massive PR campaign to see that it goes through that will only end up costing the state and taxpayers a tremendous amount of money and litigation? It needs to be stopped before that happens.
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Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful
Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful@kevinolearytv·
I don't think any of this is gonna work. First of all, California is the poster child for the worst managed state in the union. There's no question about it. It's poorly managed, it has lost businesses, and the billionaires have been leaving ahead of any of this debate, whether it gets passed or not. Basically this is un-American, unconstitutional, and it's impossible to implement. I don't know how they're even thinking of doing this. It's, it's crazy, and it's just more California.
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The All-In Podcast
The All-In Podcast@theallinpod·
🚨 ALL-IN INTERVIEW! CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself and How a Republican Can Win @SteveHiltonx sits down with @chamath and @Jason to discuss: -- Taxes: No tax under $100K and a 7.5% flat rate -- Housing: Why CA homes cost 3x more to build -- Education: Why CA schools spend the most but get the least -- Social: Crime, homelessness, and corruption (0:00) Intro: Steve Hilton is a Republican Brit Running for CA Governor (8:34) Zero Tax Under $100K and a 7.5% Flat Rate: Is It Fiscally Possible? (27:52) Why CA Homes Cost 3x More to Build (Unions, CEQA, and Climate Dogma) (44:50) Why CA Schools Spend the Most but Get the Worst Results (50:02) Crime, Homelessness, and the Failure to Enforce Laws That Already Exist (1:01:34) Can a Republican Actually Win California?
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David Tangipa
David Tangipa@DavidTangipa·
🚨The Billionaire tax is a Trojan Horse! You are NOT voting on a new tax, you are voting on a new tax structure! With future deficits, and an insatiable appetite for other people’s money watch this go from “Billionaires” to the “Top 1%” or any other subjective definition they need. The top 1% in assets would be anyone with a net worth around $13.7 million. In a state like California where the average home value in the Bay Area or Southern California exceed $1.5 million. A person who owns 5 homes in San Mateo and inherited or accumulated property over the last few decades would now have to pay a new tax. This could quickly go from “Billionaire” to the average generational California.
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Steve Hilton For Governor
Steve Hilton For Governor@TeamSteveHilton·
We cannot let insane Democrat taxes and regulations drive AI out of Silicon Valley! California must stay the AI Capital of the World. Steve’s 5-point plan is the roadmap: common-sense AI regulation, abundant affordable energy, bring back manufacturing jobs, transform education and training, and lower taxes plus world-class infrastructure!
Steve Hilton@SteveHiltonx

🚨 This is Silicon Valley, the world's technology capital - but insane Democrat taxes and regulations risk driving it away. Here's my plan to Keep California the AI Capital of the World: - common sense AI regulation - abundant, affordable energy - bring back manufacturing jobs - transform education and training - lower taxes and world-class infrastructure Read my plan below:

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Carl DeMaio
Carl DeMaio@carldemaio·
CA Dems got 1.5M signatures to put a costly new Savings Tax on the ballot. They call it a "Billionaire's Tax" but we found a provision in it that actually makes it the "Everyone Tax" - WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=1jdwRm…
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David Tangipa
David Tangipa@DavidTangipa·
🚨 BREAKING: Voter ID will officially be on the ballot in November! Right now it is illegal to ask for ID when you show up to vote in California. That’s straight-up insanity. In November you’ll finally have a chance to bring a basic, normal safeguard to our elections. Here are just some of the countries that require voter ID (many with biometrics too): Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Australia (in some forms), New Zealand (certain elections), and dozens more across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. 176 countries worldwide require some form of voter ID to vote. This isn’t radical. It’s common sense everywhere else. California should not be the outlier
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath·
As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth. That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed. Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly. And this is where the form below comes in... In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties. As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.
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David Tangipa
David Tangipa@DavidTangipa·
The Billionaire tax is a Trojan Horse You are NOT voting on a new tax, you are voting on a new tax structure! Watch this go from “Billionaires” to the “Top 1%” The top 1% in assets would be anyone with a net worth around $13.7 million. In a state like California where the average home value in the Bay Area or Southern California exceed $1.5 million. A person who owns 5 homes in San Mateo and inherited or accumulated property over the last few decades would now have to pay a new tax. This could quickly go from “Billionaire” to the average generational California.
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Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath·
The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax. The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don't believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure. Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will. The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn't look closely at what it actually does to you. On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval. They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval. Here's how the tax would work: As a voter, you're being asked to approve a tax that would require you to: 1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board. 2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each. 3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion. 4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing. This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself. If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages. It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.
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David Tangipa
David Tangipa@DavidTangipa·
It’s OFFICIAL! Voter ID is on the ballot in November! Send a DM if you’re looking to get involved!
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Ian Miles Cheong
Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles·
Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: "The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo." We all know Elon is relentless about quality. As Marc puts it: "Do you want the best car in the world or not, right? Like that's Elon's mentality... And it's working very well." But at a recent event, Elon took this mindset to a completely different level. He dropped a perspective so jarring that Marc initially thought it was a joke. Elon’s thesis? "You shouldn't even have to have your name on the product. It's just obvious. Everybody knows." The logic is brutal but simple. If you build the undeniable, undisputed best thing in the world, everybody uses it. And because everybody uses it, you don't need to slap your branding all over it to prove it's yours. Think about that. We spend endless hours agonizing over marketing, tweaking brand colors, and putting our logos on every square inch of what we build. But the ultimate flex isn't a flashy logo. The ultimate flex is building something so undeniably brilliant that its mere existence is the brand.
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andrew chen
andrew chen@andrewchen·
ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!
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Agarwal for Congress
Agarwal for Congress@ethanagarwal·
This morning, we are launching a seven figure ad campaign against @RoKhanna. Today is the beginning of the end for @RoKhanna. We are highlighting Ro's hypocrisy around $600,000,000 of trades since being elected to Congress. You'll find it on Hulu, YouTube, Instagram, and eventually linear. If you live in the district, you'll also be getting a mailer about the contrast of our policies. We're in this to win it.
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Elizabeth Wahler
Elizabeth Wahler@LUX4Good·
@ThisWeeknAI Incredible times. About two months ago, I build a gorgeous and feature rich website from my phone in nearly one shot using @ManusAI.
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