William Johnsen

A man who lost his voice to ALS is talking again at conversational speed. In his first week. No gala dinner did that. No foundation press release. No "commitment to awareness." Neuralink just shared early data from its speech restoration trial: one ALS participant hit 75 words per minute with a 5.8% error rate on a 125,000-word vocabulary, in the first week. For context, normal conversation runs around 120 to 150 words per minute. A few years ago, people in this condition were spelling words one letter at a time with their eyes. Now they're getting close to talking normally, in their own voice, straight from their brain. Let that sink in. A disease that slowly locks you inside your own body, and someone just built a door. And here's what's funny. For months, journalists and politicians have been telling us that Elon should "give his money away." Redistribute. Write the big check. Be a good billionaire. They have it backwards. Giving money away is the easy part. Anyone can sign a check. Most billionaire philanthropy today is reputation management. You fund a foundation, the foundation funds NGOs, the NGOs fund think tanks and campaigns, the think tanks shape policy, the media covers it warmly, and half the outlets covering it are owned or funded by the same billionaires. Everybody gets a nice headline. The money circulates in a closed loop of people who all know each other. The problem being "addressed" is still there twenty years later, because solving it was never really the business model. The business model was looking like you care. That's not philanthropy. That's crony capitalism with a charity logo on it. Now look at the other model. Give a voice back to people with ALS. Let paralyzed people control a computer with their thoughts, and push toward restoring movement. Work on giving sight back to the blind. Make electric cars mainstream and push transport toward autonomy so getting around doesn't cost a fortune. Put high-speed internet in villages no telecom company would ever bother with. Make access to space radically cheaper. Bet on robots and cheap energy that could one day make building a home affordable without signing up for 25 years of debt. None of that came from redistributing wealth. All of it came from creating it. That's the part people refuse to understand. Wealth is not a fixed pie you slice differently. It gets created when someone solves a real problem for real people at scale. And when you do that, you don't help a few thousand people with a grant. You change the baseline for billions of people, permanently, and the solution keeps getting cheaper every year. A check gets spent once. A solved problem stays solved. Gates-style philanthropy is going to fade in the coming decades. Not because the people are evil, but because the model is slow, political, captured by intermediaries and optimized for image. Gates himself has announced his foundation will shut down by 2045. Musk-style philanthropy will become the standard. It just doesn't call itself philanthropy. It's called entrepreneurship. Value creation. Capitalism. The most generous thing you can do for humanity is build something that makes an impossible thing ordinary. Ask the guy who just got his voice back.

Jeg håper at Helse Sør-Øst (som styrer sykehusene til over halvparten av nordmenn) i disse sikkerhets- og beredskapstider har vurdert om det er lurt å holde seg med et styremedlem som sprer russisk propaganda.

I will be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team this week to discuss Starshield, sanctions, and other matters pertaining to the defense of our strong ally, Ukraine. I will be assuring President Zelenskyy that anyone who attempts to limit the use of Starshield for Ukraine will be fully investigated and will be held fully accountable, to include public congressional oversight hearings, and immediate harsh and punitive budget cuts to any responsible agency or agency head. Congress will unequivocally reaffirm that Ukraine is an indispensable ally to the United States, that Russia is a self-declared enemy of the United States, and that the United States will 100% support and defend the people of Ukraine in their fight for their own freedom against this brutal, illegal, and unprovoked Russian invasion. The United States must provide any and all defensive equipment that Ukraine needs to defend itself. The United States must not import a single drop of Russian oil. Sanctions against the Russian regime must be harsher and stronger than they’ve ever been before. Each and every one of these items will be brought to the House Floor—and each and every one of these items will pass on the House Floor by an overwhelming margin. This is, after all, what Ronald Reagan would do. And this is what we will do now. Ukraine can, and will, defeat Russia. #PeaceThroughStrength

Hvis dette stemmer og er gjort med overlegg, går min @Starlink terminal tilbake til produsenten i morgen

Those are Indian warships

🔴 Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/…

Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker.

Bra reportasje i DN om en svindler som selger uvirksom behandling. Denne kvinnen risikerer å dø av kreft uten ordentlig behandling.

JP Morgan commodities team writing what many of us have been thinking: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.” I've asked the most informed energy people on the planet one question and no one has an answer..."how does this end?"