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BSc, CFA, LLD, Queen's Univ, Canada, Elec Eng, Successful hedge fund quant,Philanthropist:financial literacy,free enterprise, entrepreneurship & STEM Education.

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Joined November 2009
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Sam Altman: "We're going to see 10-person billion-dollar companies pretty soon, if I were 22 right now, I'd feel like the luckiest kid in history." The real question is whether you actually use this, or keep refusing to accept that the future runs on it. Buying the $20 plan and writing a few prompts was never going to be enough. That's exactly why you should read the guide below on the Claude features 99% of people have no idea exist.
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This research from @IanCarrollShow on USAID funding is INSANE: Ian says roughly 93% of USAID funding is estimated to be fraud - Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their friends appear to be the top money laundering recipients - The majority of sub awards being given out by USAID are all just transporting pharmaceutical products all around the world to all sorts of developing nations - It's mostly AIDS drugs (More AIDS drugs than you could ever imagine an entire planet needing) - The main company transporting all these pharmaceuticals all around the world, “ONLY 7% OF THE HEALTH COMMODITY SHIPMENTS DELIVERED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM ARRIVED AT THEIR DESTINATION” on time and in full - This means that 93% of the shipments they sent in that quarter either arrived incomplete or did not arrive within the 21 day window allotted and agreed to by the buyer - There was a contract to build a power plant in Afghanistan that was paid for through USAID, it was never finished. “it's producing 2% of the power it was intended to generate” - This happened when Hillary Clinton led the State Department “The company's CEO was indicted for siphoning money from USAID reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, because that's what USAID is for, it’s for Hillary Clinton's friends to siphon money out into their own pockets.” You’re never going to believe this, - The firm that built that power plant that never got finished and doesn’t work, they're represented by John Podesta and his lobbying group (This man was heavily involved in the PizzaGate Scandals) - It goes on to talk about how Podesta was tasked to come up with these sustainable development goals for this Council of International Development Companies - One of those companies was that's the largest recipient of USAID money there is - That same company thrived during Clinton's tenure, nabbing more contracts during the Haiti reconstruction effort than any other company After the disasters in Haiti they moved to Afghanistan - This same company continued to win lucrative USAID contracts in 2011 in Afghanistan - The project was intended to create 300,000 jobs by 2013. After two years, it had only created 2,458 jobs - In May 2009, it won a $90 million contract to grow exports and employment in the Pakistan economy Get this, “The USAID Inspector General found no measurable increase in sales or employment after the first two years of the project.” But they’re still allowed to be the largest recipient of USAID money?? Also - They were bribing the Taliban with our tax dollars not to attack their projects, “They were giving money to the Taliban basically as a protection racket” “This is the Deep State. It's been being built over the last 20 years, ever since Bill Clinton's time and even before, out of these proxy companies, these non-government organizations, these charitable organizations, all these shadow kind of organizations that you don't know about, that we don't elect, that are some of them private, some of them public, all of them in the shadows. Just wheelin' and dealin' billions and billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money that just goes into the black box of aid and then never heard from again.” Ohh, and Pfizer is the 2nd largest recipient of USAID…..
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The "Pig Book" by Citizens against Government Waste is a good starting point for Elon Musk and DOGE. Check it out: 2024 Congressional Pig Book | Citizens Against Government Waste
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Congressman Wesley Hunt Reveals Jaw-Dropping Trump Story This is amazing. In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want to leave Afghanistan, but it’s going to be a conditions-based withdrawal,” before issuing a stark warning. “If you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you,” Trump said. The translator conveyed this exact message. Trump then “reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban’s home, handed it to him, got up and walked out the room.”
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This program is super successful and has definitely changed lives. We have hundreds of students with revitalized student engagement coupled with real world skill sets and industry certifications. Congratulations.
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University presidents everywhere need to embrace this simple statement by Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida: "At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free assembly—but if you cross the line on clearly prohibited activities, you will be thrown off campus and suspended. In Gainesville, that means a three-year prohibition from campus. That’s serious. We said it. We meant it. We enforced it. We wish we didn’t have to, but the students weighed the costs, made their decisions, and will own the consequences as adults. We’re a university, not a daycare. We don’t coddle emotions, we wrestle with ideas." wsj.com/articles/the-adults-…
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Assuming you want to help "X" financially more than Apple, and you originally signed up for Twitter Premium on Apple, I would like to switch my subscription to go directly through "X" and also upgrade my subscription to Premium Plus to use Grok. I have cancelled my "X Premium" subscription on Apple IOS, but apparently it does not expire until the end of the monthly billing cycle. This must be the reason that I still can not upgrade on the "X" site directly!? Hence no Grok 'til then!?
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I just subscribed to The Free Press thefp.com/?utm_medium=web&ut… simply because I like well reasoned balanced viewpoints and no personal attacks. Unfortunately, big media has violated our trust as news filtering is dependent upon the filterer and they are all partisan.
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Replying to @elonmusk
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That is in fact what has happened. Since the 90s the right has moved a little further right, but the left has moved a lot further left.
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Distance Learning - Information and Resources - The School District of Palm Beach County - Congratulations to Superintendent Fennoy and the Palm Beach School District team for their heroic efforts in making distance learning for 180,000 students a reality palmbeachschools.org/student…
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Well said. Emphasis on "kids and teachers". "outcomes that matter" should mean that 4th "R" ... Reality.
I recommend that educational leaders not be distracted by the urgency of today’s political agenda - ask yourself - what do kids and teachers need to reach their full potential- the rest could be distracting - stay focused on outcomes that matter!
Better late than never!
The U.S. now has a corporate tax rate more in line with that of other developed countries: buff.ly/32MIYKh
Record breaking world class exhibit at the South Florida Science Center worthy of your vist ... young and old.
Looking for something to do during #SpringBreak ?!? The @SFScienceCenter has a new exhibit on the human brain. 👀🧠🔬 Students from Palm Beach Public recently visited the Science Center and gave it a rave review!!! @stilesnicholson @MPFNeuro @FAU_IBRAIN
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How good is that!! Congratulations. @stilesnicholson @djsnicholson @PBSCD @elvisepps
Congratulations to Ms. Gironda and her student J. Rousseau, 12th grade for being selected as the winner of the Superintendent's Annual Greeting Card contest. This is the second time in three years that the high school winner has been a Lake Worth High School student. @SuptFennoy
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This orange juice bar turns fruit peel waste into 3D printed cups. Via: @crassociati #engineering #3dprinters
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