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It’s not a Billionaire Tax It’s an unrealized gains tax, a property tax, a forced liquidation tax, an asset inventory exercise, a privacy invasion, an exit incentive — take your pick But using the language of your opponent is the first step to losing

AI for Low-Pesticide Agriculture @garrytan Farmers are stuck in a bad loop: use more chemicals, get diminishing results, pay more, take on more risk. And they can't just stop, because if pests win, crops die. AI that can identify individual weeds in real time, robotics that can treat one plant instead of blanketing a field, and new biological solutions mean this problem finally looks solvable.

@tbpn @RickCarusoLA That would be James “Jimmy” Dean, same guy who did the landscaping for The Promenade in Westlake Village.

Rick Caruso (@RickCarusoLA) explains why he included curbs and gutters at The Grove as intentional design choices: "They're there because your eye picks it up." "If we had built The Grove as a flat plaza without curbs and gutters, you wouldn't read it in your mind as a street." "The rhythm of the trees, the rhythm of the streetlights. We study all of that stuff." "We actually had a landscape architect on The Grove who threatened to quit because he wasn't going to design curbs and gutters. He said, 'People are going to trip.' I said, 'People don't trip walking around cities. Why are they going to trip here?'"

when will @linear be acquired by @openai?

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@ChrisBellNor droner og muslimer

Hold alt som kan forårsake skade eller utsette disse stavkirkene for risiko langt unna. Stavkirkene er blant det fineste vi har i kulturarven vår og burde egentlig hatt vakthold 24 timer i døgnet.

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.

In a rare on-record statement, Sergey Brin tells me: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.” nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…

@eytanhalon deport

"No one will protect you, fucking Jews!" Shameless and terrifying Jew-hatred directed at an Israeli independence day celebration yesterday in central Oslo. The authorities must take real and immediate action to protect Norway's Jewish minority from violent antisemitism.

Trump Enters Ceasefire Talks With Democrats buff.ly/zOXHcML

One side of the political spectrum keeps trying to kill the other side. One side celebrates murdering babies, selling their body parts, and chopping off kids genitals. One side continuously releases violent repeat criminals that are preying on our women and children, while lying and saying that they support women. One side wants dudes to compete against our girls in sports, and force our girls to change with them in the locker room. One side willingly invites criminals and miscreants from the third world to live among us with impunity, even going as far as to protest when sex offenders are shipped back home. One side gleefully riots and burns down cities when they don’t get their way. This isn’t hyperbole. The Democratic Party is a party of depravity.

Ohh my god it’s true California Democrats wrote in the Billionaires Tax Bill they can amend the tax to apply to all California residents by a simply 2/3 majority with no votes needed from residents The legislative authority clause allows future 2/3 majority amendments by the Legislature (no voter approval needed) if they further the Act’s purposes This enables broadening, like lowering thresholds to include more people or making it recurring. This turns the “Billionaire Tax” into something substantially wider Section 50308 defines the scope (who qualifies as an “applicable individual”) Meaning everyone This bill is a Trojan horse

Relative to Americans with a high school education, Americans with graduate degrees are twice as likely to support political violence. More education = higher support for political violence. It couldn't be otherwise.

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." —Henry Ford

🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨 I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them… And guess what? NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks. When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question. I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing. Let that sink in. My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn. They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing! They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this: Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR: Whether Europe stands with us or not… Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not… Whether your politicians grow a spine or not… I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪 #RezaPahlavi‌ForIran @PahlaviReza

@andersostlund where is the hate? americans just wish you would take better care of yourself. europe has not been weaker than now for several hundred years.

Why is it the American goons hate Europe so incredibly much?

@Reuters this is a really bad idea. this is parents job, not the government.

Norway said it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16, making technology companies responsible for the task of age verification reut.rs/4czE7BO

@paulfoleylaw @AdamThierer in practice regulations always protect the incumbent they form a new barrier to entry

@AdamThierer This is simply not accurate.

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.

Well, you guys all wanted to know who paid the $100k to unlock this pod. Am very pleased to reveal it was @jimbelosic and @sendcutsend, who, in addition to unlocking this for everyone, have come on as new podcast sponsors as well. We plan to do some special things for you all. You complained. Jim saved the day. He is wise.

Robert Greene explaining why reading books changes how you think.