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Tonight is the 23rd night. And because the Islamic calendar begins at Maghrib, tonight is already Friday night. Many of our pious predecessors said that when an odd night of Ramadan falls on a Friday night, the likelihood of it being Laylatul Qadr increases.This is the night we've been hunting for all year. So do extra. Make lots of du'a. Don't waste a minute of it.And as it happens — alhamdulillah — the ayat we reach tonight in Surah Al-A'raf are about du'a itself. About how to make it, what should be in our heart when we make it, and why it is the very heart of all worship. Allah has a way of doing that.A paid subscription includes a free digital copy of the Surah Al-A'raf Study Guide and Workbook. Now That You Know Who He Is — Call HimWe spent two nights on ayah 54. We talked about the six stages of creation, about Prof. Jenkins' framework, about matter and antimatter, about why physicists keep stopping just short of saying “God” — and why that has everything to do with European trauma and nothing to do with the evidence.The point was this: Allah introduced Himself. He is the one who created the heavens and the earth. The sun, the moon, the stars — all operating under His command. And this matters because now ayah 55 opens with a natural next step.You know who your Lord is. So call Him.Ud'u rabbakum tadarru'an wa khufya.Call your Lord with tadaru' — with humility — and khufya — quietly.The Outer and the InnerTadaru' captures two things at once: humility on the outside and humility on the inside. Both. Together.The external side — your body posture when you make du'a. You don't stand chest out, arms crossed, making demands. You beg. And the way we beg is with our palms open, raised to the sky. The Prophet ﷺ taught us this. And he said that Allah is — and I want you to sit with this — embarrassed when His servant raises his hands to the sky and then puts them back down empty.That's not to say Allah owes us anything. He doesn't. But it tells you something about how much He loves to hear from us. He is waiting for us to call. He wants us to call. So when we raise our hands, He will not let us lower them without answering.The Prophet ﷺ when making du'a would look downward — hands raised, gaze lowered. The qibla of salah is the Ka'bah. The qibla of du'a is the sky. But in moments of great need, moments of complete brokenness, he would raise his hands high and look upward. Not demanding. Just — there is no one else. There is nowhere else to turn. Ya Allah.Then there is khufya — quietly. The companions were once marching and making du'a at the top of their lungs. The Prophet ﷺ told them to bring it down. Your Lord is not deaf. He hears you.So the outer dimension of du'a: humble posture, lowered voice.But there is also the inner dimension — and that comes in the next ayah.What Du'a Feels Like on the InsideAyah 56: Khawfan wa tama'an. Make du'a with fear and longing.We talked about tama' a few nights ago in the context of the people of A'raf. In Malay it means greedy — but in Arabic it means something different. It means a deep, intense desire for something. You want it so much. So tama' in du'a means you are making du'a with a genuine ache for it. Not going through the motions. Actually wanting.And khawf — fear. What are we afraid of? Not that Allah won't answer. But that we are not worthy of the answer. That we might be arrogant enough to think we've earned it. The khawf keeps us humble. It stops du'a from becoming a transaction — Ya Allah, I've been to taraweeh 23 nights straight, so now give me what I want, or I'm not coming tomorrow. That is not du'a. That is negotiation.Khawf and tama'. Fear and hope. These two things together are not just for du'a — they carry us through our entire journey to Allah.Think about what happens when they get out of balance. If a person only has fear — only reads the ayat of punishment, only thinks about Jahannam, only focuses on their sins — they will break. They'll reach a point where they think: everything I do is wrong, Allah is going to throw me into the fire anyway, why bother? So they give up. The fear, without hope, destroys.And if a person only has hope — only focuses on Allah's mercy, only reads about forgiveness — they get lazy. Why worry about halal and haram? Allah is Ghafurul Rahim. He'll forgive me. The hope, without fear, makes you complacent.You need both. Fear reminds you that Allah is Al-Muntaqim — the Avenger, the One who punishes, the One who has full power over Jahannam. Hope reminds you that He is Ghafurul Rahim. And when those two things live in your heart together, you keep moving. You don't collapse, and you don't drift.Du'a Is the Essence of Every IbadahHere's something that might reframe how you see worship.After spending all of ayah 54 introducing who He is — after all of that — the next instruction Allah gives is not pray. Not fast. Not give zakat. It is: make du'a. Why?Because the Prophet ﷺ said: al-du'a mukhkhul ibadah — du'a is the marrow of worship. The core. The essence. Every act of worship, properly understood, contains du'a within it.What is the most important part of salah? The Prophet ﷺ said: there is no salah without Surah Al-Fatiha. So what is Al-Fatiha about? Strip away the opening praises — Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Al-Rahman Al-Rahim, Maliki Yawmid-Din — those are the adab. You praise Allah first before you ask. You don't walk up to someone and say I need five hundred dollars before you've even said hello. You warm them up. You acknowledge them. Then you drop the ask. And the ask in Al-Fatiha is one thing: Ihdina As-Sirat Al-Mustaqim. Oh Allah, keep us on the straight path. The entire prayer — seven times in every raka'ah — is that one du'a. Put me back on the path.And fasting? The Prophet ﷺ said: whoever enters Ramadan and leaves it without their sins being forgiven, Allah curses them. That means the entire month of fasting is one extended du'a: Ya Allah, forgive me. Every hunger pang is that du'a. Every moment of thirst. Every night of taraweeh. All of it is saying: Ya Allah, I am broken, I need You, forgive me.Al-du'a mukhkhul ibadah. When you understand that, you understand why du'a comes before everything else in this ayah.Don't Spread Corruption After the Earth Has Been Set RightAllah ends ayah 56 with something that reaches far beyond our personal worship: do not spread corruption on earth after it has been set right.Ba'da islahiha. After its reform. After its repair. The earth has been made good. Don't undo that.This is bigger than just don't harm people. Our responsibility is to all of Allah's creation — human beings, animals, plants, the water, the land. Allah follows this immediately with the image of wind carrying rain clouds across the sky, dead earth suddenly turning green after winter — that is Allah's islah. He repairs the earth constantly. Who are we to corrupt what He keeps restoring?The Prophet ﷺ once saw a companion using excess water while making wudu. He asked him: what is this waste? The companion said: is there waste in wudu? I'm doing ibadah. And the Prophet ﷺ said: yes. Even if you are making wudu in a flowing river.A flowing river. 1,400 years ago, people could not imagine that human beings would ever have the capacity to destroy something as vast and powerful as a river. And yet here we are — post-industrial revolution, with water undrinkable in country after country, because we corrupted it. The Prophet ﷺ saw it coming. The instruction was already there.Even at war, Islamic rules of conduct prohibit cutting down trees and burning crops. If we cannot corrupt the environment in war, what is our excuse in times of peace?Qaribun Min Al-MuhsineenAllah ends with: indeed the mercy of Allah is near to those who are muhsineen — those who are excellent, those who do ihsan.We'll pick this up tomorrow insha'Allah and explore what it means that Allah's mercy is specifically close to the muhsineen — and what that tells us about the standard we should be reaching for.Thanks for reading Grounded! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit groundeddaily.substack.com/subscribe
Historia Jeffreya Epsteina to jedna z najbardziej wstrząsających spraw kryminalnych naszych czasów. Przez lata miliarder budował sieć wpływów, w której pieniądze, władza i znajomości pozwalały ukrywać przestępstwa wobec nieletnich dziewczyn.W tym podcaście poznacie historię jego ofiar - kobiet, które po latach milczenia zdecydowały się mówić. Usłyszycie, jak działał mechanizm werbowania dziewczyn, kim byli ludzie z otoczenia Epsteina i dlaczego przez tak długi czas pozostawał bezkarny.
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Ako už tradične s príchodom marca aj teraz sa straníci Smeru vydávajú na cesty do regiónov, aby oslávili Medzinárodný deň žien. Každý rok vidíme, ako najmä dôchodkyniam a ženám vo vyššom veku rozdávajú kvety a poklony za ich obetavosť, a ako ich rozosmievajú vtipmi z minulého storočia. V čele strany by ste pritom ženy hľadali len márne, čím sa zoznam nesúladu medzi oslavami v réžii Smeru a jeho činmi nekončí. Prečo ľudia na tieto oslavy chodia a ako vnímajú politickú situáciu na Slovensku? Nikola Šuliková Bajánová sa o téme rozpráva s reportérom denníka SME Marekom Moravčíkom a šéfkou domácej redakcie denníka SME Michaelou Terenzani. Odporúčanie How To Get To Heaven From Belfast alebo Ako sa dostať z Belfastu do neba je netflixový seriál od tvorkyne dnes už kultového Derry Girls. Lisa McGee však teraz siahla po čiernej krimikomédii s chaotickými hlavnými hrdinkami, ktoré riešia záhadu a svoj vlastný krk zároveň. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From The Words of Extraordinary Women to Barbie Day and the racy origins of Barbie, today’s Monday with Mitzi! episode is sure to amuse. Links The Odds: Daylight Saving Time | CNN Circadian rhythm – Wikipedia Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Who Became Barbie Julia Child – Wikipedia Rich Dad vs Poor Dad The Hidden Game That Decides Your Life || PROF JIANG XUEQIN || #profjiangstyle – YouTube Stanford marshmallow experiment – Wikipedia Headlines Wall Street braced for huge sell-off as oil hits highest level in four years and gas prices hit $8-a-gallon | Daily Mail Online You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create On This Day On This Day – What Happened on March 9 Today in History: March 9, ‘Operation Meetinghouse' firebombing devastates Tokyo | AP News What Happened on March 9 – On This Day What Happened on March 9 | HISTORY March 9 – Wikipedia Holidays Amerigo Vespucci Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com Barbie Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com False Teeth Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com Fill Our Staplers Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com Get Over It Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com National Workplace Napping Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com Panic Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com Historical Events 1961 — Ivan Ivanovich, a human dummy, travels into space 1959 — The Barbie doll goes on sale: Patterned after the Lilli ‘call girl’ doll,[1][2] the American toy company Mattel claims that more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold so far, with about 3 dolls being sold every second. 1931 — The electron microscope is invented: German physicist Ernst Ruska is credited with the invention of the microscope. His first instrument allowed a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter). 1891 — Kaʻiulani appointed the heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. 1842 — Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera composers. 1776 — Scottish philosopher Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, ushering in the classical period of political economy. Births 1964 — Juliette Binoche, French actress, dancer 1943 — Bobby Fischer, American chess player 1934 — Yuri Gagarin, Russian pilot, astronaut 1890 — Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union 1568 — Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint, namesake of Gonzaga University (died 1591) 1451 — Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (died 1512) Deaths 1997 — Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper 1996 — George Burns, American actor 1994 — Charles Bukowski, American poet 1992 — Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate, founder of Israel’s ruling Likud party, who famously boasted of being “the father of terrorism in all the world.”[3] Footnotes Checkiday. “Barbie Day.” Checkiday.com, Checkiday, 11 Feb. 2017, www.checkiday.com/b7bd0e4f06056fc555595937c097c229/barbie-day. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026. ︎ Nessy, Messy. “Meet Lilli, the High-End German Call Girl Who Became America's Iconic Barbie Doll.” Messy Nessy Chic, 29 Jan. 2016, www.messynessychic.com/2016/01/29/meet-lilli-the-high-end-german-call-girl-who-became-americas-iconic-barbie-doll/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026. ︎ Bollyn, Christopher. ““Frighten the West”: The Israeli Roots of Terrorism.” Christopher Bollyn, Christopher Bollyn, 22 Nov. 2015, www.bollyn.com/frighten-the-west-the-israeli-roots-of-terrorism-2/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026. THE FATHER OF TERRORISM – Menachem Begin, the terrorist founder of Israel’s ruling Likud party, bragged about being “the father of terrorism in all the world.” The Likud party is now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. “How does it feel, in the light of all that's going on, to be the father of terrorism in the Middle East?” “In the Middle East?” he [Begin] bellowed, in his thick, cartoon accent. “In all the world!” Russell Warren Howe interview with Menachem Begin, January 1974 ︎
Shae discusses green colonialism, what it is, how we see it in climate activism and the overall nuances that come with considering solutions to confront climate change and better ourselves as activists. To get a better understanding of this, Shae interviews Tiahni Adamson from Bush Heritage Australia.This show features music: Coming Home by Joey Leigh Wagtail and Cameleon by Ziggy Ramo. References Akama, J. S., Maingi, S. and Carmago, B. A. (2011) ‘Wildlife Conservation, Safari Tourism and the Role of Tourism Certification in Kenya: A Postcolonial Critique', Tourism Recreation Research, 36(3)Bocarejo, D. and Ojeda, D. (2016) ‘Violence and Conservation: Beyond Unintended Consequences and Unfortunate Coincidences', Geoforum, 69, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.001. Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2019) The Story We've Been Told About America's National Parks Is Incomplete. Available at: https://time.com/5562258/indigenous-environmental-justice/ Jago, R. (2020) Canada's National Parks are Colonial Crime Scenes. Available at: https://thewalrus.ca/canadas-national-parks-are-colonial-crime-scenes/ Dowie, M. (2011) Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Kimmerer, R. W. (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. Luke, T. W. (1997) ‘The World Wildlife Fund: Ecocolonialism as Funding the Worldwide “Wise Use” of Nature', Capitalism Nature Socialism, 8(2), doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455759709358734. Adams, W. M. (2017) ‘Sleeping with the enemy? Biodiversity conservation, corporations and the green economy', Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1), doi:https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20804. Allen, K. (2018) ‘Why Exchange Values are Not Environmental Values: Explaining the Problem with Neoliberal Conservation', Conservation and Society, 16(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26500638. Bhattacharyya, J. and Slocombe, S. (2017) ‘Animal Agency: Wildlife Management from a Kincentric Perspective', Ecosphere, 8(10), doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1978. Büscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D. (2012) ‘Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation', Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(2), doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.674149.Cox, P. A., Elmqvist, T. (1997) ‘Ecocolonialism and Indigenous-Controlled Rainforest Preserves in Samoa', Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 26(2).Crosby, A. (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fletcher, R. (2010) ‘Neoliberal Environmentality: Towards a Poststructuralist Political Ecology of the Conservation Debate', Conservation and Society, 8(3), doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26393009 Goldman, M. J. (2020) Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. Mantaay, J. (2002) ‘Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information Systems in Assessing Environmental Health and Equity', Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2), doi:10.1289/ehp.02110s2161. Mei-Singh, L. (2016) ‘Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka‘ena Point, Hawai‘i', American Quarterly, 68(3), doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2016.0059. Mitall, A. and Fraser, E. (2018) ‘Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever', The Oakland Institute.Neale, T. (2017) Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 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Węgiel, sprzeciw wobec ETS i ofensywa na prawicy – to główne elementy programu zapowiadanego przez Przemysława Czarnka, kandydata PiS na premiera.Przemysław Czarnek przypomina, że jego kandydatura została ogłoszona podczas wydarzenia w hali „Sokoła” w Krakowie – miejscu symbolicznym dla PiS, gdzie wcześniej prezentowano kandydatów w kampaniach prezydenckich.Jak podkreśla, decyzja była wynikiem analiz kierownictwa partii z Jarosławem Kaczyńskim na czele.To, co się stało w sobotę w hali Sokoła, to efekt analiz kierownictwa partii i odpowiedzi na pytanie, kto jest potrzebny, żeby wygrać wybory i wrócić do władzy dla PolskRozmówca Łukasza Jankowskiego zaznacza, że jego zadaniem jest prowadzenie politycznego „pociągu” PiS do zwycięstwa wyborczego, choć – jak podkreślił – kierownictwo partii pozostaje w rękach Jarosława Kaczyńskiego.Przemysław Czarnek siedzi za sterami tego pociągu, ale kierownikiem pozostaje prezes Jarosław KaczyńskiKurs na prawą stronę sceny politycznejWedług Czarnka badania wskazują, że PiS powinno odzyskiwać wyborców przede wszystkim po prawej stronie sceny politycznej.Nie ma wątpliwości, że poparcie do odzyskania jest przede wszystkim po prawej stronie, a nie po lewej. Stąd kurs partii musi iść w kierunku prawicowymPolityk podkreśla również, że bilans rządów PiS z lat 2015–2023 ocenia bardzo pozytywnie, wskazując m.in. na inwestycje w samorządach, spadek bezrobocia i wzrost dochodów Polaków.Jeśli ktoś mówi, że były błędy, to znaczy, że coś robił. My robiliśmy bardzo dużo, a bilans tych lat jest dla Polski ogromnym sukcesemhttps://wnet.fm/2026/03/06/polski-wyplywa-140-mld-zl-rocznie-raport-morawieckiego-i-postulat-radykalnie-propolskiej-polityki/Energetyka: węgiel fundamentemJednym z głównych elementów programu ma być zmiana polityki energetycznej. Czarnek zapowiedział większe wykorzystanie krajowych zasobów węgla.Fundament się buduje na tym, co się ma. A tym fundamentem w Polsce jest węgielWedług gościa "Odysei Wyborczeh" ceny energii w Polsce są obecnie jednymi z najwyższych w Unii Europejskiej, co - jego zdaniem - zagraża konkurencyjności gospodarki.Będziemy prezentować projekt ustawy, która będzie pomagała w wyjściu z systemu ETSzapowiada. Jednocześnie zaznacza, że w dłuższej perspektywie PiS chce rozwijać także energetykę jądrową.Unia Europejska „tak, ale na własnych warunkach”Przemysław Czarnek deklaruje, że Polska powinna pozostać w Unii Europejskiej, ale prowadzić bardziej asertywną politykę wobec Brukseli.Chcemy być w Unii Europejskiej, ale takiej, w której Polacy realizują swoje interesy narodowe -tak jak robią to Niemcy i Francuzi.Jedność w PiS i możliwe koalicjePolityk zapewnia, że w partii panuje jedność mimo różnych środowisk i ambicji.W takim pociągu dużych prędkości jest wiele miejsca. Każdy może znaleźć miejsce dla siebie i wykonywać zadania dla PolskiCzarnek nie wyklucza rozmów koalicyjnych z innymi ugrupowaniami prawicy, jeśli PiS nie zdobędzie samodzielnej większości. Jednocześnie zaznacza, że w przyszłym rządzie nie widzi miejsca dla polityków związanych z Grzegorzem Braunem.Nie może być w rządzie ktoś, kto składa kondolencje Irańczykom po działaniach naszego największego sojusznika„To maraton, nie sprint”Zdaniem b. ministra edukacji i nauki kampania prowadząca do wyborów parlamentarnych będzie długim procesem wymagającym intensywnej pracy w terenie.To długi dystans. To nie jest sprint, tylko maratonPolityk zapowiedział serię spotkań w całej Polsce, które mają być częścią budowy nowego programu PiS.Receptą jest bardzo ciężka praca całego Prawa i Sprawiedliwości
„Na svete máte súženie, ale dúfajte, ja som premohol svet.“ (J 16:33) Nemal by si očakávať, že cesta bude jednoduchá, pretože ak to čakáš, určite budeš sklamaný. Každý znalec Biblie vie, že kresťanský život je prirovnávaný k atletickým pretekom alebo k bojisku. Ani jedno z toho nie je jednoduché. Ježiš svojich nasledovníkov varoval, aby si dôsledne prepočítali cenu. To určite nehovorí o jednoduchej ceste. Avšak neexistuje žiadna dobrá vec, ktorá by niečo nestála. Kresťanský život je najuspokojivejší, no len vtedy, keď vždy dávame skutočne všetko. Pre kresťana, ktorý robí kompromisy, je život chatrný, pretože zažíva všetky problémy, no bez spoločenstva, ktoré prichádza práve cez odovzdanie sa. Avšak pre každé trápenie a skúšku má Kristus hojnosť milosti, s ktorou ich môžeme zniesť, a v našej slabosti nás posilňuje. Modlitba dňa Nech nikdy nehľadám jednoduchú cestu, keď Ty, Pane Ježiši, si pre mňa dal všetko. Billy Graham
Blížící se Velikonoce bývají pro trh s vejci každoroční zkouškou. Letos se přitom krátce před svátky sešlo hned několik negativních vlivů, od ptačí chřipky přes povinnou přestavby chovů až po změny v obchodních pravidlech. To vše může mít dopad na dostupnost vajec i jejich cenu. Podle předsedkyně Českomoravské drůbežářské unie Gabriely Dlouhé se do nabídky v první řadě promítá pokles stavů tuzemských nosnic. Kvůli ptačí chřipce bylo jen například v Královéhradeckém kraji utraceno zhruba 240 tisíc mladých slepic, obnova těchto chovů potrvá měsíce. V součtu s odstávkami chovů kvůli přestavbám technologií před zákazem klecových chovů může dosáhnout letošní pokles stavů nosnic před Velikonocemi kolem deseti procent. „Opravdu každé procento je na tom obchodu vidět,“ říká Dlouhá. Agenda. Rozhovory s top lídry českého byznysu, zakladateli firem, odborníky. Čtvrthodinka o byznysu z první ruky. Každý všední den na SZ Byznys a ve všech podcastových aplikacích. Odebírejte na Podcasty.cz, Apple Podcasts nebo Spotify.
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A więc jednak Przemysław Czarnek. W partyjnej wojnie frakcji Jarosław Kaczyński wyraźnie stawia na „maślarzy" — właśnie poprzez wskazanie Czarnka jako kandydata PiS na premiera. To czy kiedykolwiek Czarnek premierem zostanie wcale nie jest przesądzone. Pewne jest za to, że Kaczyński dał czarną polewkę Mateuszowi Morawieckiemu i jego frakcji „harcerzy". Mówiąc wprost: po raz kolejny w ostatnich latach Morawiecki dostał jasny sygnał, że nie ma już dla niego przyszłości w PiS. No chyba, że się podporządkuje. Tyle że on podporządkować się decyzjom prezesa nie zamierza. Nie po to zakończył lukratywną karierę bankowca, aby teraz się godzić na rolę statysty w serialu, w którym Kaczyński obsadza w głównych rolach jego wrogów. Kaczyński do ostatniej chwili się wahał, kogo wskazać. W grze byli też młodzi samorządowcy związani z PiS, dawni członkowie rządu oraz ministrowie z Kancelarii Prezydenta. Każdy z nich gwarantował jedno — że nie będzie zaostrzał wojny frakcji. Czemu zatem prezes wybrał wojnę wewnętrzną w PiS? Bo ważniejsze od niego jest to, żeby kandydat od dziś zajął się walką o elektorat twardej prawicy, który ucieka z PiS do Korony Grzegorza Brauna oraz do Konfederacji. Prezes woli zdegradować a nawet stracić Morawieckiego, jeśli pozwoli to odbić nacjonalistycznych wyborców. Nie kryjemy — zacieramy ręce. Polityczny buldożer Czarnek jako kandydat na premiera, który ma walczyć z Mentzenem, Bosakiem i Braunem oraz chorobliwie ambitny Morawiecki pozbawiony politycznych perspektyw — to gwarancja, że do wyborów będziemy mieli co robić w „Stanie Wyjątkowym".
Wszystko ma swój początek i koniec. Każdy ma do odegrania swoją partię w orkiestrze jaką jest nieżycie. Wygląda na to, że zagadka, która tak desperacko przegryzała się przez kolejne warstwy nowojorskiego oddziału Camarilli w końcu znalazła swoją odpowiedź - lub chociaż jej fragment. Spotkanie w fabryce ceramiki okazało się czymś więcej niż tylko konfrontacją. Stało się wręcz biletem do tego, co może drastycznie zmienić bieg historii. I to nie tylko dla tej wyjątkowo pokrętnej koterii.
Çocuğunuz bazı yiyecekleri ağzına bile almak istemiyor mu?Sürekli aynı birkaç yiyeceği mi tüketiyor? Ya da yemek yerken çiğneme ve yutma konusunda zorlanıyor olabilir mi?Bu bölümde Tabağını Denk Al'da çocuklarda sık karşılaşılan ama çoğu zaman sadece “seçicilik” olarak görülen önemli bir konuyu konuşuyoruz:Kaçıngan/Kısıtlı Beslenme (ARFID) ve çiğneme bozuklukları.Değerli konuğumuz Uzm.Fzt.Hamide Erdoğmuş ile birlikte şu soruların peşine düşüyoruz:
Anna Putāne Latvīšu folklorys kruotivis (LFK) digitalajā arhivā garamantas.lv atšifriejuse manuskriptus i puorrakstejuse ap 25 000 latgalīšu volūdys failu, taidā veidā paplašynojūt folklorys tekstu izpieti. Par nūzeimeigu īguļdejumu latgalīšu montuojuma saglobuošonā i populariziešonā Anna Putāne itūgod nomināta Latgalīšu kulturys goda bolvai „Boņuks 2025”. Anna Putāne platformā garamantas.lv manuskriptus atšifrej jau gondreiž 10 godu, tok stuosts par folkloru suocēs jau daudz agruok Annys saimē, kur bejuši aktivi teicieji. Anna zynuojuse, ka LFK arhivā vajag byut failim ar juos saimis stuostim, kas pīraksteiti 1959. godā „kod folklorys kruotive reikoj 13. ekspediceju iz Preiļu i Daugovpiļs rajonim, i muna vacvacmama Veronika, juos bruoļs Juoņs i jūs obu mama Tekļa palīk par teiciejim. Munai babai Eleonorai tod ir 12 godu, jei tī šiverej, skraida apliek, i muna vacvacmama Veronika jai soka „Načauksti kai apeiņu kuleite!”. Tū es pīraksteju, tys ir saglobuots failūs, lobs teicīņs – “Načauksti kai apeiņu kuleite!”.” Anna gribiejuse sovys saimis teiciejus kruotivē „atrast ir pasavērt, kū jī ir pīstruoduojuši, kū pasacejuši, kaidys dzīsmeitis ir zynuojuši.” Suokuse šifrēt sovys saimis teicieju puora failu dīnā „sovys prīcys piec”, piec tam jau sekuojuši cyti faili. Ka failu digitalizaceja īs iz prīšku, folklora byus daīmamuoka pietnīkim, entuaziastim, studentim, tok „vysu atšifrēt nav īspiejams, deļtuo ka vyss nav atrasts, vysod koč kū var atrast,” soka Anna Putāne. „Vysim pīraksteitojim, puorraksteituojim, vysim ir bejs plāns ari tū izpieteit,” skaita Anna, svareigi saprast, kai vuords „teik fiksāts, redigēts, publicāts voi nateik publicāts, pīraksteit, puorraksteit ir vīns, izpieteit ir cyta līta piec tam.” Voi Anna Putāne par pārnejā godā padareitū sajims Latgalīšu kulturys goda bolvu „Boņuks”, zynuosim 14. martā, kod Latgolys viestnīceibā „Gors” nūtiks apbolvuošonys ceremoneja, tū varēs tīšraidē klauseitīs ari LR1 i vērtīs LSM.lv, kai i vokorā LTV1. Sovpus da 11. marta portalā LSM.lv var atbaļsteit sovu simpateju i bolsuot par kaidu nu 30 bolvys pretendentu – izalaseit spūdruokū 2025. gods nūtikšonu, personeibu ci aktivitati latgalīšu kulturā, kas sajims publikys bolsuojuma bolvu „Žyku”.
Z devíti nemocnic v Jihomoravském kraji se stanou akciové společnosti. Každá si ponechá své vedení a dohromady se stanou součástí jednoho holdingu. Schválili to krajští zastupitelé. „Chceme je centrálně řídit ve strategických věcech,“ odůvodňuje změnu hejtman Jihomoravského kraje Jan Grolich z KDU-ČSL. „Není potřeba mít akciové společnosti, sloučit lze i příspěvkové organizace,“ namítá v Pro a proti Českého rozhlasu Plus šéfka Odborového svazu zdravotnictví Dagmar Žitníková.Všechny díly podcastu Pro a proti můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.
Výkop nejslavnějšího fotbalového zápasu se blíží. Slavia versus Sparta. Eden, neděle 18.30. Populární podcast MVP si ještě před tím pozval dva vyhlášené muže, kteří mají s derby velké zkušenosti.Milan Škoda, coby útočník Slavie, vstřelil v pražském derby celkem pět gólů. Jeden dokonce řadí mezi své nejkrásnější, když u soupeře na Letné báječně proplul po levém křídle a sólo zakončil trefou mezi nohy brankáře. „Ale k čemu to bylo, když jsme prohráli? Zato výhry jsou omamné. To pak člověk nechce jít ani spát, protože si chce ty krásné emoce užívat co nejdéle. Derby má obrovský přesah,“ popisoval.Brankář Tomáš Vaclík zase vyhrál se Spartou titul v době, kdy stoletý rival málem ostudně sestoupil. „Ale stejně nás tehdy slávisti porazili,“ připomněl s úsměvem, když spolu se Škodou přijal pozvání do podcastu MVP. Seznam Zprávy natáčely speciální díl na specifickém místě, přímo totiž v Edenu, kde to v neděli navečer vypukne.---Fotbal ze všech možných i nemožných úhlů pohledu. MVP jsou bývalí fotbaloví profesionálové Karel Tvaroh, Antonín Rosa, Tomáš Kučera a zkušený novinář Jan Palička, šéf sportovní rubriky Seznam Zpráv. Společně s námi hledejte nejdůležitější hráče, trenéry, přestupy, akce, problémy. Do hloubky a s humorem. I vy můžete být MVP. Každé úterý na webu Seznam Zpráv.Odebírejte na Podcasty.cz, Apple Podcasts nebo Spotify.Sledujte nás na Stream.cz nebo YouTube.Máte návrh, jak podcast vylepšit? Nebo nás chcete pochválit? Pište na audio@sz.cz.
Savaşın Gölgesinde Kalanlar, ChatGPT'den Kaçış ve Dijital Ölümsüzlük!Herkese merhaba! Harika bir havada, dışarıdan keyifli ama bir o kadar da gergin bir gündemle karşınızdayız. Bu hafta yapay zeka dünyası adeta savaşın gölgesinde kaldı; İsrail, İran ve Amerika arasındaki gerilimin körfezdeki devasa veri merkezlerini ve fiber alt yapıları nasıl tehdit ettiğini detaylıca masaya yatırdık.Trump'ın yapay zeka devlerini (Meta, OpenAI, Google) toplayıp devasa elektrik faturaları için yaptığı anlaşmadan , Anthropic'in (Claude) askeri operasyonlardaki rolüne ve insanların "Biz her şeyi veririz" diyen ChatGPT'yi silip (%285 uninstall oranı!) Claude'a başlattığı dijital göçe kadar her şeyi konuştuk. Sadece bu kadar mı? Tabii ki hayır!- 184 yıllık bir gazetede işe başlayan yapay zeka muhabiri gazeteciliği bitirir mi? - Ocak ayında hayatını kaybeden bir profesörün dijital olarak diriltilip akademik makale incelemesi ne kadar etik? - Sadece prompt yazarak ("vibe coder") uygulama geliştirenlerin kabusu olacak, açıkları saniyeler içinde bulan otonom AI hacker "Shannon Web" nasıl çalışıyor? Ayrıca Krea AI ile canlı tasarım şovumuz , Google Translate'in DeepL'i tahtından eden inanılmaz gelişimi ve devasa tıbbi veri setleri gibi dumanı tüten güncellemeler de videomuzda!Eğer siz de teknolojiyi ve yapay zekayı sadece kullanmakla kalmayıp perde arkasını da merak ediyorsanız, TeknoSafari.com'u günde üç kez ziyaret etmeyi ve kanalımıza abone olmayı unutmayın!. Yorumlarda buluşalım, iyi seyirler!Zaman Çizelgesi (Timestamps)00:00 - Giriş ve Körfez'deki Veri Merkezleri Tehlikesi 00:02:13 - Trump'ın Yapay Zeka Liderleriyle Zirvesi ve Enerji Faturaları 00:03:30 - Anthropic (Claude) Savaşta Kullanıldı mı? ChatGPT'den Kaçış! 00:06:00 - Claude'dan Tarihi Çalım: İçerik Taşıma Aracı ve Dijital Göç 00:07:24 - Yapay Zeka Balonu Patlıyor mu? Savaşın Ekonomik Etkisi 00:08:26 - Çin'den Beklenen Hamle: DeepSeek v4 ve Qwen 3.5 00:09:43 - 184 Yıllık Gazetede Yapay Zeka Muhabir Dönemi 00:12:08 - Etik Tartışma: Ölen Profesörün Dijital Olarak Diriltilmesi 00:14:18 - Vibe Coder'ların Kabusu: Otonom AI Hacker "Shannon Web" 00:16:25 - Çinli Aileler Ödevleri Tamamen Yapay Zekaya Bıraktı 00:17:55 - Krea AI ile Canlı Tasarım 00:18:43 - Google Gemini Güncellemeleri ve NotebookLM Yenilikleri 00:20:30 - DeepL'i Sildiren Google Translate Devrimi 00:22:12 - Devasa Tıbbi Yapay Zeka Veri Seti Yayınlandı 00:24:45 - Google Flow Ara Yüzü ve Yeni Araçlar 00:26:35 - Grok'un Yükselişi, Meta ve Midjourney Ortaklığı 00:27:42 - Kapanış, TeknoSafari ve Canlı Yayın Duyuruları #verigöçü #savaş #yapayzeka
Reboot time! In this episode, we talk about where we've been, all the kids we've had, all the kids' movies we've been watching… and some ideas about the future of the Midnight Myth. Thank you for your support, for listening to us over the years, and being an amazing community.—Check out our merch store for Midnight Myth, Boomerangerang, Sleep & Sorcery and Wheel of Ka tees and totes!Learn more, view sources and inspiration, and sign up for e-mail updates at www.midnightmyth.comCheck out Sleep & Sorcery, Laurel's podcast for fantasy and folklore-inspired bedtime stories. Support on Patreon: patreon.com/sleepandsorcery The Sleep & Sorcery book, written by Laurel, is now available in hardcover at Crossed Crow Books - and you can pre-order the paperback! crossedcrowbooks.comSupport indie bookstores by ordering at bookshop.org.TwitterFacebookInstagramIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen!
Matt sits down with Kaʻeo Kruse from Stryd to break down how running data can improve HYROX performance. Later, Alaskan athletes Chad Trammell and Lars Arneson join the show to talk about their impressive Pro Doubles debut at HYROX Phoenix. Topics Kaʻeo Kruse (Stryd) • Hawaii → Harvard → UVA running career • Training with USA Triathlon in Boulder • Understanding running power and pacing • Matt's HYROX Phoenix data breakdown • Cadence vs stride length • Efficiency and avoiding anaerobic spikes Chad Trammell & Lars Arneson • Chad winning World's Toughest Mudder • Lars' Nordic skiing background • Training for HYROX in Anchorage • Fourth place in HYROX Phoenix Pro Doubles • Race strategy and pacing • Why lunges and wall balls cost them time Summary First up, Matt talks with Kaʻeo Kruse from Stryd about how running data can help HYROX athletes race smarter. Kruse explains his background as a runner at Harvard and UVA before transitioning to triathlon and training with USA Triathlon in Boulder. Using Matt's race at HYROX Phoenix as a case study, they break down pacing, cadence, stride length, and running power. The data showed how maintaining consistent effort led to a five-minute improvement and why even small efficiency gains can make a big difference in HYROX racing. In the second half of the episode, Matt catches up with Chad Trammell and Lars Arneson from Anchorage, Alaska. Trammell reflects on winning World's Toughest Mudder and the early days of obstacle racing, while Arneson talks about his background as a Nordic skier and mountain runner. The pair recently finished fourth in Pro Doubles at HYROX Phoenix with a time of 50:41, despite only doing a handful of strength workouts together. They break down their race strategy, where they lost time, and whether they'll pursue the Elite 15 Doubles races moving forward. Guest Links: Kaʻeo Kruse from Stryd| Lars Arneson & Chad Trammell Listen on Apple or Spotify Support us through The Cup Of Coffee Follow Hybrid Fitness Media on IG
Národní hřebčín starokladrubských koní nabízí ve Slatiňanech v Pardubickém kraji až do konce března speciální zimní okruhy, které návštěvníkům ukazují práci se zvířaty, historickou kočárovnu a sedlovnu. Každodenní povinnosti se v hřebčíně s ročním obdobím nemění, ale zimní měsíce dávají areálu ve Slatiňanech jinou atmosféru než hlavní turistická sezona.
Radek Laci je pohybový terapeut, který zaznamenává veliký úspěch v tom, jak propojuje životy svých klientů s tím, jak se hýbou. Pomáhá zaměstnaným lidem a špičkovým manažerům efektivně fungovat, ale také radí lidem, co se klidně nikdy nehýbali, jak se zbavit bolesti, uvolnit stažená místa v těle. Pohybuje se v oblasti, kde se prolíná psychologie a pohyb, sport.Sám má obrovský životní příběh, ke kterému se taky dostaneme. Takže dnes se připravte na velký příběh, na neobvyklé informace o tom, jak se ovlivňují a propojují naše tělo a hlava či přesněji myšlenky. A k tomu navrch několik hacků, které můžete do života zařadit hned.Můžete se mimo jiné těšit na speciální a konkrétní rady, jak si dodat energie, zvýšit pozornost, jak posílit fungování našich myšlenek i našeho těla. A hlavně - jak se uvolnit, když chcete.Zvu vás na pokračování, které je trojnásobně tak dlouhé na mém kanálu herohero, kde každý příspěvek pomáhá tomu, aby moje rozhovory vůbec mohl někdo natočit, postříhat, smíchat a zveřejnit. Samo se to bohužel neudělá. Děkuji za pochopení a podporu, děkuji za každý příspěvek do diskuse, děkuji za každý odběr i lajk. Každá reakce je pro mne důležitá a inspirující pro další práci! Odkazy:https://radeklaci.czhttp://www.herohero.co/petrhorky00:00 Co je náplní tvé práce?26:12 Jak o sebe pečovat?Support the show
A quick note before we begin: from tonight, we recite Dua Qunut in Witr. The Shafi'i madhab holds that Qunut in Witr is only in the second half of Ramadan — following the practice established by Sayyidina Umar ibn al-Khattab when he unified the companions behind one imam for Taraweeh and instructed Sayyidina Ubay ibn Ka'ab to lead with Qunut in the final nights. May Allah enter us among those who pray with the imam from beginning to end, and receive the reward of a full night's prayer.The Battle of Badr — ApproachingThe Muslims left Madinah on the 12th of Ramadan. Tonight, in the timeline of history, they would have been settling into the plains of Badr — fasting, outnumbered, about to face something no one had fully planned for.The original aim was to intercept Abu Sufyan's caravan returning from Syria — laden with the wealth the Quraysh had confiscated from the Muslims at the time of Hijrah. Abu Sufyan's scouts, however, found camel droppings containing date pits from the farms of Madinah. He understood: the Muslims are tracking us. He rerouted the caravan and sent the fastest rider back to Makkah with a call for reinforcements — the rider even smeared camel blood on himself for dramatic effect, to ensure the message landed with urgency.Abu Jahl raised 1,300 men. By the time they reached the plains of Badr, the caravan had already escaped via a different route. Three hundred of the Quraysh army turned back — the property was safe, their reason for coming was gone. But Abu Jahl pressed forward with a thousand. This was no longer about a caravan. This was about crushing Islam once and for all.When the Prophet ﷺ chose a campsite on the plains of Badr, one of the companions asked: Ya Rasulullah, is this position based on revelation, or is this your personal judgement? The Prophet ﷺ said: personal judgement. The companion said: in that case, may I suggest we move further, to control the Quraysh's access to the wells?The Prophet ﷺ accepted. He moved the entire army.In that moment — a Prophet, the most beloved of creation, moving his troops based on a suggestion from a companion — is a masterclass in leadership. A good leader takes counsel. A good leader distinguishes between revelation and personal opinion. A good leader is not too proud to be corrected.We continue the story of Badr tomorrow insha'Allah.The Blame Game Has No EndReturning to Surah Al-A'raf — yesterday we saw the people of Jahannam blaming each other as they entered. The followers blamed the leaders. The leaders said: you chose to follow us. Taste what you earned.Now Allah introduces a further dimension: the former and the latter — early generations and those who came after.Think about what this means personally. If someone in your family tree was the first to introduce something harmful — idol worship, a corrupt practice, a tradition that led generations away from Allah — and their descendants followed without question, then when all of them meet in Jahannam, the descendants will turn to the ancestor: you started this. This is your fault. You deserve more.It is a sobering thought. The decisions we make do not end with us.The Reverse Is Also TrueBut the reverse is equally real — and this is where the heart lifts.A thousand years ago, the ancestors of many Muslims sitting in our community tonight were not Muslim. The Malays were Hindu and Buddhist. The Turks were sky-worshipping pagans on the steppe. The Indonesians had their own traditions. And then — somewhere up that family tree — one person made a decision. I am going to be a Muslim.Because of that one decision, generations of descendants were born into Islam. Every salah they prayed, every fast they kept, every act of charity they gave — a portion of that reward travels back up the chain to the one who made the original call.That ancestor has been in his grave for perhaps 700, 800 years. And he is still receiving dividends. Still collecting on that one decision. This is the real passive income. Not a pyramid scheme — a multi-level reward that compounds across generations until Yawmul Qiyamah.And in Jannah, insha'Allah, we will find that ancestor. We will say: thank you. Because of you, I did not have to make the hard choice. I was born Muslim. All I had to do was protect what you gave me.For those among us who did make that hard choice — who came to Islam as adults, who chose this path when no one around them did — your reward carries the same weight. Every person in your lineage who comes after you and remains on this deen is a continuation of your decision. Do not underestimate what you started.Do Not Trivialise Small Good DeedsThis is why we must never dismiss small acts of goodness as insignificant.Teach one child Quran. That child teaches his children. His children teach theirs. How many generations between now and Yawmul Qiyamah? Every one of them who recites the Quran — you carry a portion of that reward. A tiny portion, yes. But multiplied across centuries, across an entire family tree — it becomes something beyond calculation.Whatever good deed you start, its consequences ripple outward in ways you will never live to see. A Muslim thinks in generations, not just in lifetimes. The question is not only: what am I doing today? The question is: what am I starting?The Camel and the Eye of the NeedleFor those who reject the ayat of Allah, who are arrogant against His guidance — la tufattahu lahum abwab al-sama'. The gates of heaven will not be opened for them. Their good deeds will not ascend. The angels carry our deeds up twice daily — at Fajr and Maghrib, which is why these are the great times of morning and evening dhikr, when two shifts of angels overlap and the same act is recorded twice. But for the one who rejects Allah, those deeds remain earthbound. He gets what he intended — praise from people, a legacy among men — and nothing more.Hatim al-Ta'i was the most celebrated generous man in Arab history. His name became a byword for generosity — Arabs still use it today, 1,400 years later. His son asked the Prophet ﷺ about his father's fate. The Prophet ﷺ said: he never gave for Allah's sake. He gave to be known as generous. And Allah gave him exactly that. He is still being praised. His intention was fulfilled in full.You get what you intend for. If you intend for Allah, Allah rewards you. If you intend for people, people reward you. But the gates of heaven remain closed.And if a person who rejects the ayat of Allah still imagines they might enter Jannah — Allah gives us the measure of that hope: try fitting a camel through the eye of a needle first. In Arabic this is the expression for the impossible, the never-happening, the stop-dreaming. It will not happen. Not through arrogance. Not through denial. Not through rejecting the messenger.Tomorrow insha'Allah — the people of Jannah. The Quran always balances: after the warning comes the glad tidings.Following along with the series? Consider a paid subscription to receive a free digital copy of the Surah Al-A'raf Study Guide and Workbook. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit groundeddaily.substack.com/subscribe
Národní hřebčín starokladrubských koní nabízí ve Slatiňanech v Pardubickém kraji až do konce března speciální zimní okruhy, které návštěvníkům ukazují práci se zvířaty, historickou kočárovnu a sedlovnu. Každodenní povinnosti se v hřebčíně s ročním obdobím nemění, ale zimní měsíce dávají areálu ve Slatiňanech jinou atmosféru než hlavní turistická sezona.
Czy w polskiej polityce powstał prorosyjski front sprzeciwu wobec programu SAFE, czyli europejskiego planu dozbrajania?Dlaczego argumenty części polskich polityków brzmią dziś zaskakująco podobnie do narracji rosyjskich mediów i propagandy Kremla?Czy w polskiej polityce powstał szeroki front sprzeciwu wobec programu SAFE, który brzmi zaskakująco podobnie do narracji rosyjskiej propagandy?W tym odcinku analizujemy głośny wpis Radka Kobiałko, autora podcastu Radek Kobiałko Nadaje, który wywołał tysiące reakcji i komentarzy w mediach społecznościowych.Program SAFE – Security Action for Europe to jeden z największych europejskich projektów wzmacniania bezpieczeństwa i dozbrajania państw Unii Europejskiej. Polska może być jego największym beneficjentem.Dlaczego więc część polskich polityków przedstawia go jako zagrożenie dla suwerenności?W odcinku zestawiamy:wypowiedzi polskich polityków krytykujących program SAFEnarracje rosyjskich i białoruskich mediówargumenty o „pułapce”, „utracie suwerenności” i „militaryzacji Europy”Czy to tylko przypadkowa zbieżność argumentów?A może coś znacznie poważniejszego?Rozmawiamy o tym, jak powstają polityczne narracje, kto na nich korzysta i dlaczego bezpieczeństwo Europy staje się dziś polem ostrego sporu.Jeśli spodobał Ci się ten odcinek podcastu i chciałabyś, chciałbyś nagrodzić autora symboliczną kawą, możesz to zrobić tutaj ☕
What if the roots of modern cults, extremist politics, and even today's “wellness” movements trace back to Nazi occultism, hypnotic manipulation, and one of the most controversial religions in the world? In this explosive episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Jon Atack — the world's leading expert on authoritarian cults and a former Scientologist who has spent over 40 years investigating its origins — reveals the shocking connections no one talks about. Drawing from his groundbreaking book If Scientology Ruled the World: Nazi Occultists, Sex Magick, Space Aliens, and the Second Coming, Jon uncovers how occult beliefs influenced the Nazi Party… and how those same ideas shaped Scientology. Jon Atack breaks down: - How L. Ron Hubbard repackaged occult practices (including hypnotic techniques, repetition, fixation, and mimicry) and sold them as revolutionary “science” - Outlandish promises that hooked followers: supernatural powers, immunity to illness, genius-level IQ, emotional mastery - How Hubbard's early interest in psychology morphed into the darker techniques behind Dianetics - Hidden factors in Hubbard's personal life (addiction, PTSD, and legal trouble for practicing medicine without a license) that shaped what Scientology would become - Allegations of how followers were treated, including psychological and physical abuse - Frightening recourse Jon himself faced for speaking out Jon also shares his deeply personal story of joining, and ultimately escaping, Scientology. He reveals the major red flags he ignored at first… and the first warning sign you should always look for before joining any movement or ideology. But this conversation goes far beyond Scientology. We also cover: - What actually defines a cult or authoritarian group - How recruitment tactics are now supercharged by the internet and social media - Where dangerous occult practices are still hiding in plain sight - Surprising benefits and dangers of hypnotherapy - How to distinguish modern spirituality from manipulative occult systems - Why today's political climate often mirrors cult dynamics - Why healthy skepticism might be the most important survival skill of the digital age This isn't about throwing away all ideology or spirituality. It's about learning how to extract the good without falling for manipulation. If you care about psychology, cults, spirituality, politics, authoritarian movements, mind control, or the hidden forces shaping modern society…this is a conversation you cannot afford to miss. Head to https://impact.ourritual.com/c/4792730/2005678/24744 , take a quick quiz, and use code BREAKER20 for 20% off your first month. Stick with your wellness goals with Ka'chava and visit https://kachava.com and use the code BREAKDOWN for 15% off of your first order. Get 20% off all IQ Bar products - plus free shipping by texting BREAKDOWN to 64000. Jon Atack's latest book, If Scientology Ruled the World: Nazi Occultists, Sex Magick, Space Aliens, and the Second Coming: https://jonatack.co.uk/if-scientology-ruled-the-world/ If Scientology Ruled the World - Chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E4rI-5z_0s Jon Atack's Art: https://jonatack.com/ Jon Atack's book, Voodoo Child: A Jimi Hendrix Novel: https://a.co/d/0axlU7yA Follow us on Substack for Exclusive Bonus Content: https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/ BialikBreakdown.com YouTube.com/mayimbialik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“I've mismarketed this episode.”The number one book you should read at least once in your (after)life.Other topics include defining some very important terms of the season, Egyptian funerary text themed Pokémon, offerings Darien would like left for her Ka, 42 Rules you should never break, Ammut mini-episode, a possible Kane Chronicles/Magnus Chase crossover, answering a question from the previous episode, and the New Game Plus of afterlifes.Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of and conversations about death, the afterlife, embalming/mummification processes, animal attacks, and the destruction of the soul. Spoilers for Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Hear our thoughts about Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/musesofmythologyAbout UsMuses of Mythology was created and co-hosted by Darien and DJ Smartt.Our music is Athens Festival by Martin Haene. Our cover art is by Ranpakoka. Find him on Instagram @Ranpakoka Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon and get instant access to bloopers, outtakes, and bonus episodes! Patreon.com/musesofmythologyGet you hands on podcast merch at Musesofmythology.com/merchFind us on Instagram. Find all of our episodes and episode transcripts at MusesOfMythology.com----------------------- Support the showNo portion of this episode may be used for AI training purposes or to create derivative works without express written permission from the creators and co-hosts Darien Smartt or Davis Smartt.
Yüz ifadesi olmayanlar-sinir işlevsel olarak bozuk Vagus 3 00:08 - Vagus Siniri ve Semptomların Ortak Kaynağı 03:37 - Otonom Sinir Sistemi ve Vagus'un Rolü 05:42 - Kranyal Sinirler: Koku, Görme ve Yutma 10:35 - Sosyalleşme, Kaç-Savaş ve Çekil-Kapan 13:16 - Yüz İfadesi, CN7 ve Sosyal Sinyaller 18:10 - Göz Egzersizi ile Sinir Sistemi Regülasyonu 22:53 - Mindfulness Meditasyonu Zeynep Aksoy bu bölümde birçok fiziksel ve duygusal semptomun kökeninde otonom sinir sistemi ve özellikle vagus sinirinin olabileceğini anlatıyor. Kaç-savaş ya da çekil-kapan hâline takılı kalmanın hem bedeni hem sosyal ilişkileri etkilediğini vurguluyor. Kranyal sinirlerin yüz ifadesi, göz teması ve ses tonu üzerinden sosyal iletişimde rol oynadığını açıklıyor. Bölüm, sinir sistemini dengelemeye yönelik basit bir göz egzersizi ve mindfulness meditasyonuyla tamamlanıyor. Zeynep Aksoy, saygın bir yoga eğitmeni ve Reset platformunun kurucusudur. Web sitesi üzerinden canlı ve kayıttan izlenebilen dersler, üyelik programları ve profesyonel eğitimler sunmaktadır. Online Stüdyo üyeliği ile günlük çevrim içi derslere, geniş bir arşive ve topluluk desteğine erişim imkânı sağlar. Ayrıca Zeynep, katılımcıların hareket, anatomi ve farkındalık konularında bilgilerini derinleştirmelerine yardımcı olmak için yenilikçi Fasyal Yoga Uzmanlık Programı'nı yürütmektedir. Daha fazla bilgi almak ve sertifikalı eğitimlere katılmak için: www.zeynepaksoyreset.com
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Socializácia je celoživotný proces a ide o začleňovanie jednotlivca do spoločnosti. Osvojuje si jej zvyky, tradície a správanie a formuje sa ako individuálna bytosť. Existuje primárna socializácia, ktorá súvisí s detstvom a obdobím dospievania a sekundárna socializácia, ku ktorej dochádza v dospelosti. Každý z nás má v spoločnosti nejakú pozíciu, status a mnoho sociálnych rolí. Pozícia vymedzuje postavenie človeka vzhľadom na iných ľudí, status je postavenie v skupine na základe schopností, či napríklad veku, a sociálna rola je súbor štandardného správania v spoločenskej úlohe. Kľúčové slová: sociológia, Schooltag, maturita, Občianska náuka Tento podcast ti prináša 4ka. Jediná štvorka, ktorá ťa nebude v škole mrzieť.
Světoví vládci potřebují předvádět svou moc v náležitých kulisách. Dívat se na ně z pohledu divadelního se přímo nabízí. Každý „panovník“ učinil z mobiliáře a dalších rekvizit symboly své velikosti, které ho zapíší do dějin.
İkili Görüş'te Dr. Bahadır Çelebi, konuğu İran uzmanı Dr. Reza Talebi ile ABD-İsrail'in İran müdahalesinin detaylarını konuşuyor.00:00 Giriş00:30 İran'a haftanın ilk günü (cumartesi) ABD müdahalesi başladı: Kapsamı, çapı, hedefleri06:05 Trump İran'a müdahale etmek zorundaydı09:40 Hamaney kaçtı söylentisine dair / Kaçmak istese kaçabilir mi / Ne kadar kaçabilir12:40 ABD oldukça kontrollü müdahale ediyor, müzakereden vazgeçmiş değil18:10 ABD-İsrail, Devrim Muhafızları'na ne kadar nüfuz etmiş olabilir?25:20 İran için Pehlevi Projesi çok olası görünmüyor28:20 ABD-İsrail'in İran'a müdahalesinde Lübnan, Bahreyn, Dubai'nin yeri30:40 İran'ın desteklediği diğer güçler, İran'a müzahir güçler ne yapacak (Haşdi Şabi vd.)36:05 Konuğumuz Reza Talebi, ailesi güvende mi?38:00 İran rejimi çökerse Türkiye'ye göç akını olur mu?42:40 İran'ın uzayan bir savaşı sürdürecek füze stok ve kapasitesi var mı?45:10 Azerbaycan ABD-İsrail ile İran savaşına dahil olur mu (İsrail'e belki destek verir ama...)48:00 ABD, İran rejimini devirdikten sonrası için de planlarını yapmıştırDaktilo1984'e daha fazla destek olmak için KATIL üyesi ol:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyDy24AfZX8ZoHFjm6sJkg/joinBizi Patreon'dan Destekleyin
Na Slovensku máme systém orgánov, ktorých úlohou je zabezpečovať ochranu práv a postarať sa o to, že je všetko tak, ako má byť. My sme si povedali o šiestich takýchto orgánoch, a to o prokuratúre, súdoch, policajnom zbore, advokátoch, notároch, a o verejnom ochrancovi práv – ombudsmanovi. Každý z týchto orgánov má iné právomoci a občania alebo inštitúcie sa na nich môžu obrátiť v rozličných prípadoch. Vieš, aké problémy rieši ktorý orgán? Kľúčové slová: právo, orgány ochrany práv, schooltag, maturita, občianska náuka Tento podcast ti prináša 4ka. Jediná štvorka, ktorá ťa nebude v škole mrzieť.
Slovenský ligový futbal sa dlhodobo snaží zbaviť nálepky problémového prostredia, no cesta k modernému rodinnému zážitku je často plná prekážok. O tom, aká je reálna prax pri budovaní značky jedného z najtradičnejších domácich klubov, prišiel do najnovšej epizódy podcastu Striedame! z redakcie ŠPORT.sk porozprávať Ivan Bobošík.Marketingový riaditeľ investičnej skupiny Generations Group, pod ktorú spadá aj FC Spartak Trnava, v otvorenom rozhovore s moderátormi Julom a Muťom poodhalil nevšedné zákulisie fungovania „Bílych Andelov“. Zatiaľ čo v zahraničí je návšteva štadióna atraktívnym celodenným eventom, na Slovensku kluby stále narážajú na zakorenené stereotypy, no i na reálne problémy s infraštruktúrou či správaním časti vlastných tribún.Spartak sa v posledných rokoch snaží svoj marketing výrazne posunúť na úroveň, ktorá je bežná vo vyspelých európskych ligách. Každý domáci zápas je trnavským manažmentom vnímaný ako samostatný event s vlastnou témou, platenými kampaňami a sprievodnými akciami, ktoré majú do hľadiska prilákať rodiny s deťmi či seniorov.Napriek masívnej snahe klubu a zapájaniu samotných hráčov do komunitných aktivít, akými sú napr. pravidelné návštevy detských domovov či pôrodníc, mediálnym priestorom často rezonujú úplne iné, podstatne temnejšie témy.„Stále sú to tie negatívne veci. Ako sú bitky, policajné manévre, ťažkoodenci alebo vodné delá,“ posťažoval sa v podcaste Ivan Bobošík na prístup k medializácii nášho futbalu.Šéf trnavského marketingu zdôrazňuje, že klub sa z minulosti poučil, má jasný fokus na rodiny, no zbaviť sa tieňa výtržností je stále mimoriadne náročné.Debata sa preto logicky nevyhla ani pálčivým a kontroverzným témam, ktoré v uplynulom období hýbali športovou verejnosťou. Reč prišla nielen na incidenty zo zápasov s najväčším rivalom, Slovanom Bratislava, ale aj na údajné poškodzovanie vozidla VAR vlastnými fanúšikmi, z čoho následne vznikla obrovská mediálna kauza.Vedenie klubu sa snaží s tvrdým jadrom priaznivcov transparentne komunikovať, no napriek tomu Trnava dopláca na ich prehrešky astronomickými čiastkami. „Tento posledný polrok je extrém. Bolo to okolo 30-tisíc, čo nie je málo,“ priznal Ivan Bobošík otvorenou rečou krutú výšku pokút, ktoré musel klub zaplatiť len za prvú polovicu sezóny.Pre manažment je to logicky frustrujúci fakt, keďže, ako sám hosť pripomína, ide o financie, ktoré by sa dali okamžite investovať do zlepšovania komfortu pre návštevníkov. Navyše, klub má často zviazané ruky aj v iných smeroch, keďže samotný štadión nevlastní, ale iba si ho prenajíma, čo mu výrazne komplikuje snahy o vylepšenie bufetov a ďalších služieb.Prečo hráči Spartaka nesmú odmietnuť účasť na marketingových aktivitách, ako sa klub stavia k udeľovaniu zákazov vstupu pre problémových divákov, a z akého dôvodu je také ťažké presadiť na slovenských štadiónoch európsky štandard občerstvenia? To všetko a ešte oveľa viac sa dozviete v najnovšej, mimoriadne úprimnej epizóde podcastu Striedame!
Čo s manželom, ktorý zapína smerovky aj na kruhovom objazde, ako zistiť majiteľa auta podľa evidenčného čísla a ako zabrániť vodičom, aby sa v zápche zipsovali cez druhý jazdný pruh. Aj toto sú vaše otázky, na ktoré odpovedáme v novej epizóde podcastu Autobazar.EU.Môj muž zapína smerovku v kruháči doprava, aj keď neodbočuje. Trvá na svojom a nechce si nechať poradiť. Čo s ním?Kruhové objazdy sú večnou témou slovenských motoristov aj napriek tomu, že mali dostatok času osvojiť si dopravné predpisy, ktoré sa v tomto kontexte nemenia.Váš pán manžel sa dopúšťa veľkej chyby, keď používa smerové svetlo aj v prípade, že pokračuje v jazde rovno. Dopravné predpisy definujú, že na okruhovom objazde sa smerové svetlo môže použiť iba pri výjazde z kruhového objazdu. Tým, že váš manžel ponecháva zapnuté pravé smerovky, dáva všetkým vodičom čakajúcim pred kruhovým objazdom zreteľný signál, že môžu do objazdu vojsť.Na okruhom objazde platia nasledovné dopravné predpisy podľa § 20, § 25 a § 30 a Zákona o cestnej premávke č. 8/2009: Ak je kruhový objazd označený dopravnou značkou „Kruhový objazd“ spolu s dopravnou značkou „Daj prednosť v jazde!“ alebo „Stoj, daj prednosť v jazde!“, vodič v kruhovom objazde má prednosť (§ 20 ods. 5) Vodič nesmie zastaviť a stáť na kruhovom objazde (§ 25 ods. 1 písm. r) Znamenie o zmene smeru jazdy vodič nedáva pri vjazde do kruhového objazdu. Pri jazde po kruhovom objazde vodič dáva znamenie o zmene smeru jazdy, ak z takej križovatky vychádza (§ 30 ods. 5).Paradox: Kto bude vinníkom nehody?Kuriozitou je, že aj v prípade vzniku škodovej udalosti alebo dopravnej nehody nebude váš muž vinníkom, pretože bol na hlavnej ceste. A vodiči mieniaci vojsť do kruhového objazdu musia dávať vozidlám, ktoré sú už na kruhovom objazde. To, že tieto vozidlá mali alebo nemali zapnuté niektoré smerovky, prednosť v jazde nemení.Samozrejme, že nesprávnym použitím smerových svetiel sú ostatní vodiči účinne oklamaní, avšak ich povinnosť dať prednosť v jazde vozidlám na hlavnej ceste sa tým neruší.Slušne čakám v zápche a obiehajú ma cez ľavý pruh. Ako im v tom mám legálne zabrániť?„Dobrý deň. Chcem sa spýtať jednu vec. Každý deň idem v kolóne v hlavnom meste na vjazde alebo výjazde z obchvatu, kde sú 2 pruhy. Poobede je tu všade zápcha a všetci čakajú, kým sa na nich dostane rad, tak ako to má byť. Niektorí ale idú aj cez ľavý pruh, všetkých vodičov predbehnú a na konci sa potom tlačia do kolóny. Počítajú s tým, že vybabrú so systémom. Ako im v tom LEGÁLNE zabrániť?“ pýtal sa náš čitateľ s prezývkou Dodi na Facebooku.Spočiatku nás otázka čitateľa do našej dopravnej poradne prekvapila, pretože poukázala na skutočnosť, že ako vodič nepozná alebo ignoruje pravidlo zipsovania a rovnomerného využívania všetkých dostupných jazdných pruhov v jednom smere jazdy. Neodpovedali sme, k otázke sa vraciame teraz - považujeme za správne napraviť našu chybu a upozorniť ostatných vodičov, ako reagovať správne, eticky a v súlade s dopravnými predpismi.Jednoznačná odpoveď je nie, nemôžeme ostatným vodičom brániť v zipsovaní preto, že využívajú na jazdu aj druhý jazdný pruh a skracujú tak kolónu či zápchu.Snaha o ich vytrestanie môže byť dokonca považované za trestný čin, ak by ste v dôsledku takéhoto absurdného konania spôsobili na inom vozidle škody alebo niekoho zranili - čo by sa veľkou pravdepodobnosťou stalo.V zmysle § 10 platí nasledovné: Tam, kde sa dva jazdné pruhy zbiehajú do jedného jazdného pruhu tak, že nie je zrejmé, ktorý z nich je priebežný, vodič jazdiaci v ľavom jazdnom pruhu je povinný dať prednosť v jazde vodičovi v pravom jazdnom pruhu; to neplatí pri súbežnej jazde, keď vodič idúci v pravom jazdnom pruhu je povinný umožniť vodičovi prvého vozidla v ľavom jazdnom pruhu zaradenie sa do kolóny idúcich vozidiel, ak ten dáva znamenie o zmene smeru jazdy vpravo. Tam, kde sa jazdné pruhy v jednom smere jazdy zbiehajú, vodič idúci v priebežnom jazdnom pruhu je pri súbežnej jazde povinný umožniť vodičovi prvého vozidla nachádzajúceho sa v jazdnom pruhu, ktorý sa zaraďuje do priebežného jazdného pruhu, preradenie do priebežného jazdného pruhu.Ako zistiť majiteľa podľa evidenčného čísla?Predstavte si situáciu, že pred vašou príjazdovou cestou parkuje cudzie vozidlo a zavadzia vám, prípadne ste niekomu poškodili auto pri parkovaní a chcete ho kontaktovať. Lenže, v aute a na aute nie sú žiadne indície, ako majiteľa kontaktovať. Ja napríklad aj pri parkovaní v meste či nákupných centrách dávam za čelné sklo malý papierik s mojím telefónnym číslom, práve pre tieto prípady a viackrát sa mi to už osvedčilo.Sme ale v situácii, že majiteľa nepoznáme, a tak ho prirodzene chceme zistiť podľa evidenčného čísla. Napriek tomu, že samotné evidenčné číslo vozidla nie je osobný údaj, a preto ho fakticky môžeme fotiť a zverejňovať na internete napríklad pre nesprávne parkovanie, tak údaj o majiteľovi už osobným údajom je. Preto ani reporty o histórii vozidla, povedzme od Cebie, neobsahujú údaje o konkrétnych majiteľoch vozidiel.Z tohto dôvodu nie je nikde verejne dostupný register majiteľov vozidiel podľa ich EČV, po starom ŠPZ. Keď niekomu poškodíte vozidlo a chcete ho kontaktovať, najlepšie je jednoducho na mieste vyčkať niekoľko minút. Prípadne, ak ste napríklad v nákupnom centre, vyhlásiť jeho evidenčné číslo do rozhlasu s tým, nech príde k autu. Dobrým zvykom je zanechať na seba kontakt a vysvetlenie za stieračom, hoci podľa zákona by ste to robiť nemali. Ak sa ten lístok znehodnotí alebo stratí, alebo ak narazíte na konfliktnú protistranu, môže byť váš odchod považovaný za odídenie z miesta škodovej udalosti.Zistiť majiteľa podľa EČV teda takto priamo nejde, a to ani cez občas zmieňovaný register Slovenskej kancelárie poisťovateľov - ten vám len prezradí, v akej poisťovni má vlastník vozidla uzatvorené PZP. Môžete do poisťovne zavolať a vec objasniť, že by vám ale poskytli priamy kontakt na vlastníka vozidla, nie je isté.Zdanlivo najhorším, ale na druhej strane predpisovo správnym postupom, je zavolať na políciu. V takomto prípade ale počítajte s účasťou polície, a teda aj s blokovou pokutou, ktorú vám budú mať právo policajti uložiť za priestupok proti bezpečnosti a plynulosti cestnej premávky od 50 do 150 eur.Zmienené články z našej poradne:Môj muž zapína smerovku v kruháči doprava, aj keď neodbočuje. Trvá na svojom a nechce si nechať poradiť. Čo s ním?https://magazin.autobazar.eu/otazka-citatelky-moj-muz-zapina-smerovku-v-kruhaci-doprava-aj-ked-neodbocuje-trva-na-svojom-a-nechce-si-nechat-poradit-co-s-nim-clanok9063.htmlSlušne čakám v zápche a obiehajú ma cez ľavý pruh. Ako im v tom mám legálne zabrániť?https://magazin.autobazar.eu/otazka-od-vas-slusne-cakam-v-zapche-a-obiehaju-ma-cez-lavy-pruh-ako-im-v-tom-mam-legalne-zabranit-clanok9550.html
Každý, kdo přijde s odpadem, se bude muset prokázat občanským průkazem, změní se i pohyb po areálu. Novinkou je i maximální roční limit dovezené suti na osobu.
#923. Why do you love the way that you love… and why do you keep repeating the same patterns?This week, Kaitlyn sits down with attachment theory expert and best-selling author Thais Gibson to break down the 4 attachment styles — secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized — and how they shape every relationship in your life.Thais shares her own powerful story of trauma and addiction at just 15 years old, and the moment she discovered that your subconscious mind — not your conscious mind — is driving who you're attracted to, why you get triggered, and why certain relationships feel impossible to walk away from.They also talk about how attachment styles are formed, how they can change, and the first step to becoming more secure.If you've ever wondered “Why am I like this in relationships?” — this episode is for you.If you're LOVING this podcast, please follow and leave a rating and review below! PLUS, FOLLOW OUR PODCAST INSTAGRAM HERE!Thank you to our Sponsors! Check out these AMAZING deals!Better Help: If you're ready to take some pressure off this month, therapy is a great place to start. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/VINE.Bombas: Head over to Bombas.com/VINE and use code VINE for 20% off your first purchase.Ka'chava: Stick with your wellness goals. Go to kachava.com and use code VINE for 15% off.Merit Beauty: Right now, Merit Beauty is offering our listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at MERITbeauty.com.Pura: Pura's Well-Being Collection is thoughtfully crafted to support energy, focus, relaxation, and sleep through scent. Discover what your space needs at pura.com/moods.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: (4:38) — Thais shares her traumatic upbringing and addiction at just 15 years old. (12:21) — The 4 attachment styles explained (and how to identify yours) Secure, anxious, avoidant, and fearful avoidant — and how each one affects your relationships.(32:29) — How to rewire your core wounds and change subconscious patterns.(58:00) — The first step to healing your attachment style.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Josh Green is a medical doctor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Governor of the State of Hawaiʻi. Before stepping into public office, he spent more than 20 years as a family physician and emergency room doctor, and even while serving in government, he continued caring for patients in rural and underserved communities across Hawaiʻi. He's one of the few governors in the country to keep practicing medicine while in office and has been recognized twice as Hawaiʻi Physician of the Year by the Hawai'i Medical Association, most recently in 2022 for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond Hawaiʻi, he also led a medical team to Samoa during the 2019 measles outbreak, helping vaccinate tens of thousands of people in just days. This husband and father of two has delivered the largest tax cut for the middle class in Hawai'i State history and has made the largest investment in reducing homelessness in Hawai'i State history, and granted over 2,500 Hawaiian Homestead Land leases in 2025 — the most awarded in a single year in DHHL's 100 year history.In this episode we talk about growing up in Pittsburgh, his education, how he ended up in Hawai'i, living in Kaʻū, working in healthcare, running for office, becoming governor of Hawai'i, his hobbies outside of work, and so much more. Enjoy!Buy our merch:
Jak souvisí Studio Ypsilon s Českým rozhlasem? Velmi konkrétně. „Rozhlas se stal jeho mediálním partnerem a od dubna se jednou za měsíc bude pořad Tobogan konat u nás. Budou speciální hosté, kteří mají vztah k Ypsilonce,“ zve herec posluchače i diváky. A nebude to jen tak ledajaký Tobogan. „Každý díl se bude k něčemu vázat. Oslavíme 80. narozeniny Arnošta Goldflama, pak nedožité 90. narozeniny Jana Schmida, takže neváhejte,“ láká Dejdar v rozhovoru s Terezou Koskovou.Všechny díly podcastu Blízká setkání můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.
Są budulcem naszych komórek i to nie tylko mięśniowych. Umożliwiają przeprowadzanie reakcji, które są dla nas niezbędne do życia (na przykład przemiana materii, uruchamiana przez enzymy). Wskazują układowi odpornościowemu, z jakim elementem ma walczyć. Niektóre przekazują sygnały z jednych tkanek do drugich, np. hormony takie jak insulina. Inne „dyktują” komórkom naszego ciała, które geny powinny uruchomić i skopiować. A jeśli funkcjonują błędnie, to komórki nie mogą dobrze pracować i chorujemy lub nawet umieramy. – Nasz organizm jest w dużej mierze maszyną opartą o białko – mówi dr Takao Ishikawa, prodziekan Wydziału Biologii Uniwersytety Warszawskiego. Znacie go już z odcinka nr 269 o komórce. W tym odcinku rozmawiamy o białkach, niesamowicie wszechstronnych narzędziach życia. Podstawowym budulcem białek są aminokwasy. Są to związki chemiczne z centralnym atomem węgla i dodatkową tzw. grupą boczną. Niektóre nasz organizm syntetyzuje sam, inne musimy pobierać z pożywienia (zjedzone przez nas białko rozkłada się w żołądku na aminokwasy, które wchłaniamy potem do własnych komórek). Wszystkie białka w ludzkim organizmie są zbudowane z różnych zestawów tych samych 20 rodzajów aminokwasów, których cząsteczki łączą się w większe całości, czyli polipeptydy. – Białko to jest polipeptyd, który się sfałdował, to znaczy ma w miarę stabilną strukturę trójwymiarową i pełni jakąś w związku z tym funkcję biologiczną – wyjaśnia biolog.Każda komórka w naszym ciele ma do dyspozycji wszystkich 20 aminokwasów, znajdują się w płynie komórkowym. To, jakie z nich zostanie wykorzystane zależy również od białka: aminoacylo-tRNA. Każda kombinacja aminokwasów przybiera swój unikalny trójwymiarowy kształt, który pozwala jej wypełniać konkretne funkcje: od ogromnej tytyny po malutką insulinę. Niesamowity popis ewolucji!W odcinku usłyszycie też o naszym pomyśle na park białek (zaklepujemy!), o aminokwasach w kosmosie i o białkach, które wyłamują się z reguł (na przykład o prionach, które mogą tworzyć dwie różne struktury) oraz o tym dlaczego, kiedy dzieci bardzo długo jedzą zupę, to w istocie mogą przeprowadzać naukowe rozumowanie.
A fast one was pulled on the audience (and Larry) and instead of Resident Evil we are talking about The Dark Tower. Enjoy! - Please send your emails to heresjohnnypodcast@gmail.com - To join our community, feel free to join our discord! (https://discord.gg/htr6kRB) - Check out our past reviews and lists on our show website at https://www.heresjohnnypodcast.com/ - If you are able, you can support us on Patreon (patreon.com/heresjohnnypodcast) You can find Rachel on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast, where they review horror films from the feminist perspective. For Stream Queens, we talk about horror movies you can stream on the internet. The More Deadly cast is dedicated to reviewing and signal-boosting horror movies directed by women-identified artists. The Cast of Ka tackles Stephen King's definitive work, The Dark Tower, one book at a time. Also, check out Rachel's Star Wars content over at Outpost Unknown (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8oumJZs4V_bTeL5cm7MAFg)!
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Tickets for AIEi Miami and AIE Europe are live, with first wave speakers announced!From pioneering software-defined networking to backing many of the most aggressive AI model companies of this cycle, Martin Casado and Sarah Wang sit at the center of the capital, compute, and talent arms race reshaping the tech industry. As partners at a16z investing across infrastructure and growth, they've watched venture and growth blur, model labs turn dollars into capability at unprecedented speed, and startups raise nine-figure rounds before monetization.Martin and Sarah join us to unpack the new financing playbook for AI: why today's rounds are really compute contracts in disguise, how the “raise → train → ship → raise bigger” flywheel works, and whether foundation model companies can outspend the entire app ecosystem built on top of them. They also share what's underhyped (boring enterprise software), what's overheated (talent wars and compensation spirals), and the two radically different futures they see for AI's market structure.We discuss:* Martin's “two futures” fork: infinite fragmentation and new software categories vs. a small oligopoly of general models that consume everything above them* The capital flywheel: how model labs translate funding directly into capability gains, then into revenue growth measured in weeks, not years* Why venture and growth have merged: $100M–$1B hybrid rounds, strategic investors, compute negotiations, and complex deal structures* The AGI vs. product tension: allocating scarce GPUs between long-term research and near-term revenue flywheels* Whether frontier labs can out-raise and outspend the entire app ecosystem built on top of their APIs* Why today's talent wars ($10M+ comp packages, $B acqui-hires) are breaking early-stage founder math* Cursor as a case study: building up from the app layer while training down into your own models* Why “boring” enterprise software may be the most underinvested opportunity in the AI mania* Hardware and robotics: why the ChatGPT moment hasn't yet arrived for robots and what would need to change* World Labs and generative 3D: bringing the marginal cost of 3D scene creation down by orders of magnitude* Why public AI discourse is often wildly disconnected from boardroom reality and how founders should navigate the noiseShow Notes:* “Where Value Will Accrue in AI: Martin Casado & Sarah Wang” - a16z show* “Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital”* World Labs—Martin Casado• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martincasado/• X: https://x.com/martin_casadoSarah Wang• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-wang-59b96a7• X: https://x.com/sarahdingwanga16z• https://a16z.com/Timestamps00:00:00 – Intro: Live from a16z00:01:20 – The New AI Funding Model: Venture + Growth Collide00:03:19 – Circular Funding, Demand & “No Dark GPUs”00:05:24 – Infrastructure vs Apps: The Lines Blur00:06:24 – The Capital Flywheel: Raise → Train → Ship → Raise Bigger00:09:39 – Can Frontier Labs Outspend the Entire App Ecosystem?00:11:24 – Character AI & The AGI vs Product Dilemma00:14:39 – Talent Wars, $10M Engineers & Founder Anxiety00:17:33 – What's Underinvested? The Case for “Boring” Software00:19:29 – Robotics, Hardware & Why It's Hard to Win00:22:42 – Custom ASICs & The $1B Training Run Economics00:24:23 – American Dynamism, Geography & AI Power Centers00:26:48 – How AI Is Changing the Investor Workflow (Claude Cowork)00:29:12 – Two Futures of AI: Infinite Expansion or Oligopoly?00:32:48 – If You Can Raise More Than Your Ecosystem, You Win00:34:27 – Are All Tasks AGI-Complete? Coding as the Test Case00:38:55 – Cursor & The Power of the App Layer00:44:05 – World Labs, Spatial Intelligence & 3D Foundation Models00:47:20 – Thinking Machines, Founder Drama & Media Narratives00:52:30 – Where Long-Term Power Accrues in the AI StackTranscriptLatent.Space - Inside AI's $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z[00:00:00] Welcome to Latent Space (Live from a16z) + Meet the Guests[00:00:00] Alessio: Hey everyone. Welcome to the Latent Space podcast, live from a 16 z. Uh, this is Alessio founder Kernel Lance, and I'm joined by Twix, editor of Latent Space.[00:00:08] swyx: Hey, hey, hey. Uh, and we're so glad to be on with you guys. Also a top AI podcast, uh, Martin Cado and Sarah Wang. Welcome, very[00:00:16] Martin Casado: happy to be here and welcome.[00:00:17] swyx: Yes, uh, we love this office. We love what you've done with the place. Uh, the new logo is everywhere now. It's, it's still getting, takes a while to get used to, but it reminds me of like sort of a callback to a more ambitious age, which I think is kind of[00:00:31] Martin Casado: definitely makes a statement.[00:00:33] swyx: Yeah.[00:00:34] Martin Casado: Not quite sure what that statement is, but it makes a statement.[00:00:37] swyx: Uh, Martin, I go back with you to Netlify.[00:00:40] Martin Casado: Yep.[00:00:40] swyx: Uh, and, uh, you know, you create a software defined networking and all, all that stuff people can read up on your background. Yep. Sarah, I'm newer to you. Uh, you, you sort of started working together on AI infrastructure stuff.[00:00:51] Sarah Wang: That's right. Yeah. Seven, seven years ago now.[00:00:53] Martin Casado: Best growth investor in the entire industry.[00:00:55] swyx: Oh, say[00:00:56] Martin Casado: more hands down there is, there is. [00:01:00] I mean, when it comes to AI companies, Sarah, I think has done the most kind of aggressive, um, investment thesis around AI models, right? So, worked for Nom Ja, Mira Ia, FEI Fey, and so just these frontier, kind of like large AI models.[00:01:15] I think, you know, Sarah's been the, the broadest investor. Is that fair?[00:01:20] Venture vs. Growth in the Frontier Model Era[00:01:20] Sarah Wang: No, I, well, I was gonna say, I think it's been a really interesting tag, tag team actually just ‘cause the, a lot of these big C deals, not only are they raising a lot of money, um, it's still a tech founder bet, which obviously is inherently early stage.[00:01:33] But the resources,[00:01:36] Martin Casado: so many, I[00:01:36] Sarah Wang: was gonna say the resources one, they just grow really quickly. But then two, the resources that they need day one are kind of growth scale. So I, the hybrid tag team that we have is. Quite effective, I think,[00:01:46] Martin Casado: what is growth these days? You know, you don't wake up if it's less than a billion or like, it's, it's actually, it's actually very like, like no, it's a very interesting time in investing because like, you know, take like the character around, right?[00:01:59] These tend to [00:02:00] be like pre monetization, but the dollars are large enough that you need to have a larger fund and the analysis. You know, because you've got lots of users. ‘cause this stuff has such high demand requires, you know, more of a number sophistication. And so most of these deals, whether it's US or other firms on these large model companies, are like this hybrid between venture growth.[00:02:18] Sarah Wang: Yeah. Total. And I think, you know, stuff like BD for example, you wouldn't usually need BD when you were seed stage trying to get market biz Devrel. Biz Devrel, exactly. Okay. But like now, sorry, I'm,[00:02:27] swyx: I'm not familiar. What, what, what does biz Devrel mean for a venture fund? Because I know what biz Devrel means for a company.[00:02:31] Sarah Wang: Yeah.[00:02:32] Compute Deals, Strategics, and the ‘Circular Funding' Question[00:02:32] Sarah Wang: You know, so a, a good example is, I mean, we talk about buying compute, but there's a huge negotiation involved there in terms of, okay, do you get equity for the compute? What, what sort of partner are you looking at? Is there a go-to market arm to that? Um, and these are just things on this scale, hundreds of millions, you know, maybe.[00:02:50] Six months into the inception of a company, you just wouldn't have to negotiate these deals before.[00:02:54] Martin Casado: Yeah. These large rounds are very complex now. Like in the past, if you did a series A [00:03:00] or a series B, like whatever, you're writing a 20 to a $60 million check and you call it a day. Now you normally have financial investors and strategic investors, and then the strategic portion always still goes with like these kind of large compute contracts, which can take months to do.[00:03:13] And so it's, it's very different ties. I've been doing this for 10 years. It's the, I've never seen anything like this.[00:03:19] swyx: Yeah. Do you have worries about the circular funding from so disease strategics?[00:03:24] Martin Casado: I mean, listen, as long as the demand is there, like the demand is there. Like the problem with the internet is the demand wasn't there.[00:03:29] swyx: Exactly. All right. This, this is like the, the whole pyramid scheme bubble thing, where like, as long as you mark to market on like the notional value of like, these deals, fine, but like once it starts to chip away, it really Well[00:03:41] Martin Casado: no, like as, as, as, as long as there's demand. I mean, you know, this, this is like a lot of these sound bites have already become kind of cliches, but they're worth saying it.[00:03:47] Right? Like during the internet days, like we were. Um, raising money to put fiber in the ground that wasn't used. And that's a problem, right? Because now you actually have a supply overhang.[00:03:58] swyx: Mm-hmm.[00:03:59] Martin Casado: And even in the, [00:04:00] the time of the, the internet, like the supply and, and bandwidth overhang, even as massive as it was in, as massive as the crash was only lasted about four years.[00:04:09] But we don't have a supply overhang. Like there's no dark GPUs, right? I mean, and so, you know, circular or not, I mean, you know, if, if someone invests in a company that, um. You know, they'll actually use the GPUs. And on the other side of it is the, is the ask for customer. So I I, I think it's a different time.[00:04:25] Sarah Wang: I think the other piece, maybe just to add onto this, and I'm gonna quote Martine in front of him, but this is probably also a unique time in that. For the first time, you can actually trace dollars to outcomes. Yeah, right. Provided that scaling laws are, are holding, um, and capabilities are actually moving forward.[00:04:40] Because if you can put translate dollars into capabilities, uh, a capability improvement, there's demand there to martine's point. But if that somehow breaks, you know, obviously that's an important assumption in this whole thing to make it work. But you know, instead of investing dollars into sales and marketing, you're, you're investing into r and d to get to the capability, um, you know, increase.[00:04:59] And [00:05:00] that's sort of been the demand driver because. Once there's an unlock there, people are willing to pay for it.[00:05:05] Alessio: Yeah.[00:05:06] Blurring Lines: Models as Infra + Apps, and the New Fundraising Flywheel[00:05:06] Alessio: Is there any difference in how you built the portfolio now that some of your growth companies are, like the infrastructure of the early stage companies, like, you know, OpenAI is now the same size as some of the cloud providers were early on.[00:05:16] Like what does that look like? Like how much information can you feed off each other between the, the two?[00:05:24] Martin Casado: There's so many lines that are being crossed right now, or blurred. Right. So we already talked about venture and growth. Another one that's being blurred is between infrastructure and apps, right? So like what is a model company?[00:05:35] Mm-hmm. Like, it's clearly infrastructure, right? Because it's like, you know, it's doing kind of core r and d. It's a horizontal platform, but it's also an app because it's um, uh, touches the users directly. And then of course. You know, the, the, the growth of these is just so high. And so I actually think you're just starting to see a, a, a new financing strategy emerge and, you know, we've had to adapt as a result of that.[00:05:59] And [00:06:00] so there's been a lot of changes. Um, you're right that these companies become platform companies very quickly. You've got ecosystem build out. So none of this is necessarily new, but the timescales of which it's happened is pretty phenomenal. And the way we'd normally cut lines before is blurred a little bit, but.[00:06:16] But that, that, that said, I mean, a lot of it also just does feel like things that we've seen in the past, like cloud build out the internet build out as well.[00:06:24] Sarah Wang: Yeah. Um, yeah, I think it's interesting, uh, I don't know if you guys would agree with this, but it feels like the emerging strategy is, and this builds off of your other question, um.[00:06:33] You raise money for compute, you pour that or you, you pour the money into compute, you get some sort of breakthrough. You funnel the breakthrough into your vertically integrated application. That could be chat GBT, that could be cloud code, you know, whatever it is. You massively gain share and get users.[00:06:49] Maybe you're even subsidizing at that point. Um, depending on your strategy. You raise money at the peak momentum and then you repeat, rinse and repeat. Um, and so. And that wasn't [00:07:00] true even two years ago, I think. Mm-hmm. And so it's sort of to your, just tying it to fundraising strategy, right? There's a, and hiring strategy.[00:07:07] All of these are tied, I think the lines are blurring even more today where everyone is, and they, but of course these companies all have API businesses and so they're these, these frenemy lines that are getting blurred in that a lot of, I mean, they have billions of dollars of API revenue, right? And so there are customers there.[00:07:23] But they're competing on the app layer.[00:07:24] Martin Casado: Yeah. So this is a really, really important point. So I, I would say for sure, venture and growth, that line is blurry app and infrastructure. That line is blurry. Um, but I don't think that that changes our practice so much. But like where the very open questions are like, does this layer in the same way.[00:07:43] Compute traditionally has like during the cloud is like, you know, like whatever, somebody wins one layer, but then another whole set of companies wins another layer. But that might not, might not be the case here. It may be the case that you actually can't verticalize on the token string. Like you can't build an app like it, it necessarily goes down just because there are no [00:08:00] abstractions.[00:08:00] So those are kinda the bigger existential questions we ask. Another thing that is very different this time than in the history of computer sciences is. In the past, if you raised money, then you basically had to wait for engineering to catch up. Which famously doesn't scale like the mythical mammoth. It take a very long time.[00:08:18] But like that's not the case here. Like a model company can raise money and drop a model in a, in a year, and it's better, right? And, and it does it with a team of 20 people or 10 people. So this type of like money entering a company and then producing something that has demand and growth right away and using that to raise more money is a very different capital flywheel than we've ever seen before.[00:08:39] And I think everybody's trying to understand what the consequences are. So I think it's less about like. Big companies and growth and this, and more about these more systemic questions that we actually don't have answers to.[00:08:49] Alessio: Yeah, like at Kernel Labs, one of our ideas is like if you had unlimited money to spend productively to turn tokens into products, like the whole early stage [00:09:00] market is very different because today you're investing X amount of capital to win a deal because of price structure and whatnot, and you're kind of pot committing.[00:09:07] Yeah. To a certain strategy for a certain amount of time. Yeah. But if you could like iteratively spin out companies and products and just throw, I, I wanna spend a million dollar of inference today and get a product out tomorrow.[00:09:18] swyx: Yeah.[00:09:19] Alessio: Like, we should get to the point where like the friction of like token to product is so low that you can do this and then you can change the Right, the early stage venture model to be much more iterative.[00:09:30] And then every round is like either 100 k of inference or like a hundred million from a 16 Z. There's no, there's no like $8 million C round anymore. Right.[00:09:38] When Frontier Labs Outspend the Entire App Ecosystem[00:09:38] Martin Casado: But, but, but, but there's a, there's a, the, an industry structural question that we don't know the answer to, which involves the frontier models, which is, let's take.[00:09:48] Anthropic it. Let's say Anthropic has a state-of-the-art model that has some large percentage of market share. And let's say that, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, a company's building smaller models [00:10:00] that, you know, use the bigger model in the background, open 4.5, but they add value on top of that. Now, if Anthropic can raise three times more.[00:10:10] Every subsequent round, they probably can raise more money than the entire app ecosystem that's built on top of it. And if that's the case, they can expand beyond everything built on top of it. It's like imagine like a star that's just kind of expanding, so there could be a systemic. There could be a, a systemic situation where the soda models can raise so much money that they can out pay anybody that bills on top of ‘em, which would be something I don't think we've ever seen before just because we were so bottlenecked in engineering, and this is a very open question.[00:10:41] swyx: Yeah. It's, it is almost like bitter lesson applied to the startup industry.[00:10:45] Martin Casado: Yeah, a hundred percent. It literally becomes an issue of like raise capital, turn that directly into growth. Use that to raise three times more. Exactly. And if you can keep doing that, you literally can outspend any company that's built the, not any company.[00:10:57] You can outspend the aggregate of companies on top of [00:11:00] you and therefore you'll necessarily take their share, which is crazy.[00:11:02] swyx: Would you say that kind of happens in character? Is that the, the sort of postmortem on. What happened?[00:11:10] Sarah Wang: Um,[00:11:10] Martin Casado: no.[00:11:12] Sarah Wang: Yeah, because I think so,[00:11:13] swyx: I mean the actual postmortem is, he wanted to go back to Google.[00:11:15] Exactly. But like[00:11:18] Martin Casado: that's another difference that[00:11:19] Sarah Wang: you said[00:11:21] Martin Casado: it. We should talk, we should actually talk about that.[00:11:22] swyx: Yeah,[00:11:22] Sarah Wang: that's[00:11:23] swyx: Go for it. Take it. Take,[00:11:23] Sarah Wang: yeah.[00:11:24] Character.AI, Founder Goals (AGI vs Product), and GPU Allocation Tradeoffs[00:11:24] Sarah Wang: I was gonna say, I think, um. The, the, the character thing raises actually a different issue, which actually the Frontier Labs will face as well. So we'll see how they handle it.[00:11:34] But, um, so we invest in character in January, 2023, which feels like eons ago, I mean, three years ago. Feels like lifetimes ago. But, um, and then they, uh, did the IP licensing deal with Google in August, 2020. Uh, four. And so, um, you know, at the time, no, you know, he's talked publicly about this, right? He wanted to Google wouldn't let him put out products in the world.[00:11:56] That's obviously changed drastically. But, um, he went to go do [00:12:00] that. Um, but he had a product attached. The goal was, I mean, it's Nome Shair, he wanted to get to a GI. That was always his personal goal. But, you know, I think through collecting data, right, and this sort of very human use case, that the character product.[00:12:13] Originally was and still is, um, was one of the vehicles to do that. Um, I think the real reason that, you know. I if you think about the, the stress that any company feels before, um, you ultimately going one way or the other is sort of this a GI versus product. Um, and I think a lot of the big, I think, you know, opening eyes, feeling that, um, anthropic if they haven't started, you know, felt it, certainly given the success of their products, they may start to feel that soon.[00:12:39] And the real. I think there's real trade-offs, right? It's like how many, when you think about GPUs, that's a limited resource. Where do you allocate the GPUs? Is it toward the product? Is it toward new re research? Right? Is it, or long-term research, is it toward, um, n you know, near to midterm research? And so, um, in a case where you're resource constrained, um, [00:13:00] of course there's this fundraising game you can play, right?[00:13:01] But the fund, the market was very different back in 2023 too. Um. I think the best researchers in the world have this dilemma of, okay, I wanna go all in on a GI, but it's the product usage revenue flywheel that keeps the revenue in the house to power all the GPUs to get to a GI. And so it does make, um, you know, I think it sets up an interesting dilemma for any startup that has trouble raising up until that level, right?[00:13:27] And certainly if you don't have that progress, you can't continue this fly, you know, fundraising flywheel.[00:13:32] Martin Casado: I would say that because, ‘cause we're keeping track of all of the things that are different, right? Like, you know, venture growth and uh, app infra and one of the ones is definitely the personalities of the founders.[00:13:45] It's just very different this time I've been. Been doing this for a decade and I've been doing startups for 20 years. And so, um, I mean a lot of people start this to do a GI and we've never had like a unified North star that I recall in the same [00:14:00] way. Like people built companies to start companies in the past.[00:14:02] Like that was what it was. Like I would create an internet company, I would create infrastructure company, like it's kind of more engineering builders and this is kind of a different. You know, mentality. And some companies have harnessed that incredibly well because their direction is so obviously on the path to what somebody would consider a GI, but others have not.[00:14:20] And so like there is always this tension with personnel. And so I think we're seeing more kind of founder movement.[00:14:27] Sarah Wang: Yeah.[00:14:27] Martin Casado: You know, as a fraction of founders than we've ever seen. I mean, maybe since like, I don't know the time of like Shockly and the trade DUR aid or something like that. Way back in the beginning of the industry, I, it's a very, very.[00:14:38] Unusual time of personnel.[00:14:39] Sarah Wang: Totally.[00:14:40] Talent Wars, Mega-Comp, and the Rise of Acquihire M&A[00:14:40] Sarah Wang: And it, I think it's exacerbated by the fact that talent wars, I mean, every industry has talent wars, but not at this magnitude, right? No. Yeah. Very rarely can you see someone get poached for $5 billion. That's hard to compete with. And then secondly, if you're a founder in ai, you could fart and it would be on the front page of, you know, the information these days.[00:14:59] And so there's [00:15:00] sort of this fishbowl effect that I think adds to the deep anxiety that, that these AI founders are feeling.[00:15:06] Martin Casado: Hmm.[00:15:06] swyx: Uh, yes. I mean, just on, uh, briefly comment on the founder, uh, the sort of. Talent wars thing. I feel like 2025 was just like a blip. Like I, I don't know if we'll see that again.[00:15:17] ‘cause meta built the team. Like, I don't know if, I think, I think they're kind of done and like, who's gonna pay more than meta? I, I don't know.[00:15:23] Martin Casado: I, I agree. So it feels so, it feel, it feels this way to me too. It's like, it is like, basically Zuckerberg kind of came out swinging and then now he's kind of back to building.[00:15:30] Yeah,[00:15:31] swyx: yeah. You know, you gotta like pay up to like assemble team to rush the job, whatever. But then now, now you like you, you made your choices and now they got a ship.[00:15:38] Martin Casado: I mean, the, the o other side of that is like, you know, like we're, we're actually in the job hiring market. We've got 600 people here. I hire all the time.[00:15:44] I've got three open recs if anybody's interested, that's listening to this for investor. Yeah, on, on the team, like on the investing side of the team, like, and, um, a lot of the people we talk to have acting, you know, active, um, offers for 10 million a year or something like that. And like, you know, and we pay really, [00:16:00] really well.[00:16:00] And just to see what's out on the market is really, is really remarkable. And so I would just say it's actually, so you're right, like the really flashy one, like I will get someone for, you know, a billion dollars, but like the inflated, um, uh, trickles down. Yeah, it is still very active today. I mean,[00:16:18] Sarah Wang: yeah, you could be an L five and get an offer in the tens of millions.[00:16:22] Okay. Yeah. Easily. Yeah. It's so I think you're right that it felt like a blip. I hope you're right. Um, but I think it's been, the steady state is now, I think got pulled up. Yeah. Yeah. I'll pull up for[00:16:31] Martin Casado: sure. Yeah.[00:16:32] Alessio: Yeah. And I think that's breaking the early stage founder math too. I think before a lot of people would be like, well, maybe I should just go be a founder instead of like getting paid.[00:16:39] Yeah. 800 KA million at Google. But if I'm getting paid. Five, 6 million. That's different but[00:16:45] Martin Casado: on. But on the other hand, there's more strategic money than we've ever seen historically, right? Mm-hmm. And so, yep. The economics, the, the, the, the calculus on the economics is very different in a number of ways. And, uh, it's crazy.[00:16:58] It's cra it's causing like a, [00:17:00] a, a, a ton of change in confusion in the market. Some very positive, sub negative, like, so for example, the other side of the, um. The co-founder, like, um, acquisition, you know, mark Zuckerberg poaching someone for a lot of money is like, we were actually seeing historic amount of m and a for basically acquihires, right?[00:17:20] That you like, you know, really good outcomes from a venture perspective that are effective acquihires, right? So I would say it's probably net positive from the investment standpoint, even though it seems from the headlines to be very disruptive in a negative way.[00:17:33] Alessio: Yeah.[00:17:33] What's Underfunded: Boring Software, Robotics Skepticism, and Custom Silicon Economics[00:17:33] Alessio: Um, let's talk maybe about what's not being invested in, like maybe some interesting ideas that you would see more people build or it, it seems in a way, you know, as ycs getting more popular, it's like access getting more popular.[00:17:47] There's a startup school path that a lot of founders take and they know what's hot in the VC circles and they know what gets funded. Uh, and there's maybe not as much risk appetite for. Things outside of that. Um, I'm curious if you feel [00:18:00] like that's true and what are maybe, uh, some of the areas, uh, that you think are under discussed?[00:18:06] Martin Casado: I mean, I actually think that we've taken our eye off the ball in a lot of like, just traditional, you know, software companies. Um, so like, I mean. You know, I think right now there's almost a barbell, like you're like the hot thing on X, you're deep tech.[00:18:21] swyx: Mm-hmm.[00:18:22] Martin Casado: Right. But I, you know, I feel like there's just kind of a long, you know, list of like good.[00:18:28] Good companies that will be around for a long time in very large markets. Say you're building a database, you know, say you're building, um, you know, kind of monitoring or logging or tooling or whatever. There's some good companies out there right now, but like, they have a really hard time getting, um, the attention of investors.[00:18:43] And it's almost become a meme, right? Which is like, if you're not basically growing from zero to a hundred in a year, you're not interesting, which is just, is the silliest thing to say. I mean, think of yourself as like an introvert person, like, like your personal money, right? Mm-hmm. So. Your personal money, will you put it in the stock market at 7% or you put it in this company growing five x in a very large [00:19:00] market?[00:19:00] Of course you can put it in the company five x. So it's just like we say these stupid things, like if you're not going from zero to a hundred, but like those, like who knows what the margins of those are mean. Clearly these are good investments. True for anybody, right? True. Like our LPs want whatever.[00:19:12] Three x net over, you know, the life cycle of a fund, right? So a, a company in a big market growing five X is a great investment. We'd, everybody would be happy with these returns, but we've got this kind of mania on these, these strong growths. And so I would say that that's probably the most underinvested sector.[00:19:28] Right now.[00:19:29] swyx: Boring software, boring enterprise software.[00:19:31] Martin Casado: Traditional. Really good company.[00:19:33] swyx: No, no AI here.[00:19:34] Martin Casado: No. Like boring. Well, well, the AI of course is pulling them into use cases. Yeah, but that's not what they're, they're not on the token path, right? Yeah. Let's just say that like they're software, but they're not on the token path.[00:19:41] Like these are like they're great investments from any definition except for like random VC on Twitter saying VC on x, saying like, it's not growing fast enough. What do you[00:19:52] Sarah Wang: think? Yeah, maybe I'll answer a slightly different. Question, but adjacent to what you asked, um, which is maybe an area that we're not, uh, investing [00:20:00] right now that I think is a question and we're spending a lot of time in regardless of whether we pull the trigger or not.[00:20:05] Um, and it would probably be on the hardware side, actually. Robotics, right? And the robotics side. Robotics. Right. Which is, it's, I don't wanna say that it's not getting funding ‘cause it's clearly, uh, it's, it's sort of non-consensus to almost not invest in robotics at this point. But, um, we spent a lot of time in that space and I think for us, we just haven't seen the chat GPT moment.[00:20:22] Happen on the hardware side. Um, and the funding going into it feels like it's already. Taking that for granted.[00:20:30] Martin Casado: Yeah. Yeah. But we also went through the drone, you know, um, there's a zip line right, right out there. What's that? Oh yeah, there's a zip line. Yeah. What the drone, what the av And like one of the takeaways is when it comes to hardware, um, most companies will end up verticalizing.[00:20:46] Like if you're. If you're investing in a robot company for an A for agriculture, you're investing in an ag company. ‘cause that's the competition and that's surprising. And that's supply chain. And if you're doing it for mining, that's mining. And so the ad team does a lot of that type of stuff ‘cause they actually set up to [00:21:00] diligence that type of work.[00:21:01] But for like horizontal technology investing, there's very little when it comes to robots just because it's so fit for, for purpose. And so we kinda like to look at software. Solutions or horizontal solutions like applied intuition. Clearly from the AV wave deep map, clearly from the AV wave, I would say scale AI was actually a horizontal one for That's fair, you know, for robotics early on.[00:21:23] And so that sort of thing we're very, very interested. But the actual like robot interacting with the world is probably better for different team. Agree.[00:21:30] Alessio: Yeah, I'm curious who these teams are supposed to be that invest in them. I feel like everybody's like, yeah, robotics, it's important and like people should invest in it.[00:21:38] But then when you look at like the numbers, like the capital requirements early on versus like the moment of, okay, this is actually gonna work. Let's keep investing. That seems really hard to predict in a way that is not,[00:21:49] Martin Casado: I think co, CO two, kla, gc, I mean these are all invested in in Harvard companies. He just, you know, and [00:22:00] listen, I mean, it could work this time for sure.[00:22:01] Right? I mean if Elon's doing it, he's like, right. Just, just the fact that Elon's doing it means that there's gonna be a lot of capital and a lot of attempts for a long period of time. So that alone maybe suggests that we should just be investing in robotics just ‘cause you have this North star who's Elon with a humanoid and that's gonna like basically willing into being an industry.[00:22:17] Um, but we've just historically found like. We're a huge believer that this is gonna happen. We just don't feel like we're in a good position to diligence these things. ‘cause again, robotics companies tend to be vertical. You really have to understand the market they're being sold into. Like that's like that competitive equilibrium with a human being is what's important.[00:22:34] It's not like the core tech and like we're kind of more horizontal core tech type investors. And this is Sarah and I. Yeah, the ad team is different. They can actually do these types of things.[00:22:42] swyx: Uh, just to clarify, AD stands for[00:22:44] Martin Casado: American Dynamism.[00:22:45] swyx: Alright. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, I actually, I do have a related question that, first of all, I wanna acknowledge also just on the, on the chip side.[00:22:51] Yeah. I, I recall a podcast that where you were on, i, I, I think it was the a CC podcast, uh, about two or three years ago where you, where you suddenly said [00:23:00] something, which really stuck in my head about how at some point, at some point kind of scale it makes sense to. Build a custom aic Yes. For per run.[00:23:07] Martin Casado: Yes.[00:23:07] It's crazy. Yeah.[00:23:09] swyx: We're here and I think you, you estimated 500 billion, uh, something.[00:23:12] Martin Casado: No, no, no. A billion, a billion dollar training run of $1 billion training run. It makes sense to actually do a custom meic if you can do it in time. The question now is timelines. Yeah, but not money because just, just, just rough math.[00:23:22] If it's a billion dollar training. Then the inference for that model has to be over a billion, otherwise it won't be solvent. So let's assume it's, if you could save 20%, which you could save much more than that with an ASIC 20%, that's $200 million. You can tape out a chip for $200 million. Right? So now you can literally like justify economically, not timeline wise.[00:23:41] That's a different issue. An ASIC per model, which[00:23:44] swyx: is because that, that's how much we leave on the table every single time. We, we, we do like generic Nvidia.[00:23:48] Martin Casado: Exactly. Exactly. No, it, it is actually much more than that. You could probably get, you know, a factor of two, which would be 500 million.[00:23:54] swyx: Typical MFU would be like 50.[00:23:55] Yeah, yeah. And that's good.[00:23:57] Martin Casado: Exactly. Yeah. Hundred[00:23:57] swyx: percent. Um, so, so, yeah, and I mean, and I [00:24:00] just wanna acknowledge like, here we are in, in, in 2025 and opening eyes confirming like Broadcom and all the other like custom silicon deals, which is incredible. I, I think that, uh, you know, speaking about ad there's, there's a really like interesting tie in that obviously you guys are hit on, which is like these sort, this sort of like America first movement or like sort of re industrialized here.[00:24:17] Yeah. Uh, move TSMC here, if that's possible. Um, how much overlap is there from ad[00:24:23] Martin Casado: Yeah.[00:24:23] swyx: To, I guess, growth and, uh, investing in particularly like, you know, US AI companies that are strongly bounded by their compute.[00:24:32] Martin Casado: Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I, I would view, I would view AD as more as a market segmentation than like a mission, right?[00:24:37] So the market segmentation is, it has kind of regulatory compliance issues or government, you know, sale or it deals with like hardware. I mean, they're just set up to, to, to, to, to. To diligence those types of companies. So it's a more of a market segmentation thing. I would say the entire firm. You know, which has been since it is been intercepted, you know, has geographical biases, right?[00:24:58] I mean, for the longest time we're like, you [00:25:00] know, bay Area is gonna be like, great, where the majority of the dollars go. Yeah. And, and listen, there, there's actually a lot of compounding effects for having a geographic bias. Right. You know, everybody's in the same place. You've got an ecosystem, you're there, you've got presence, you've got a network.[00:25:12] Um, and, uh, I mean, I would say the Bay area's very much back. You know, like I, I remember during pre COVID, like it was like almost Crypto had kind of. Pulled startups away. Miami from the Bay Area. Miami, yeah. Yeah. New York was, you know, because it's so close to finance, came up like Los Angeles had a moment ‘cause it was so close to consumer, but now it's kind of come back here.[00:25:29] And so I would say, you know, we tend to be very Bay area focused historically, even though of course we've asked all over the world. And then I would say like, if you take the ring out, you know, one more, it's gonna be the US of course, because we know it very well. And then one more is gonna be getting us and its allies and Yeah.[00:25:44] And it goes from there.[00:25:45] Sarah Wang: Yeah,[00:25:45] Martin Casado: sorry.[00:25:46] Sarah Wang: No, no. I agree. I think from a, but I think from the intern that that's sort of like where the companies are headquartered. Maybe your questions on supply chain and customer base. Uh, I, I would say our customers are, are, our companies are fairly international from that perspective.[00:25:59] Like they're selling [00:26:00] globally, right? They have global supply chains in some cases.[00:26:03] Martin Casado: I would say also the stickiness is very different.[00:26:05] Sarah Wang: Yeah.[00:26:05] Martin Casado: Historically between venture and growth, like there's so much company building in venture, so much so like hiring the next PM. Introducing the customer, like all of that stuff.[00:26:15] Like of course we're just gonna be stronger where we have our network and we've been doing business for 20 years. I've been in the Bay Area for 25 years, so clearly I'm just more effective here than I would be somewhere else. Um, where I think, I think for some of the later stage rounds, the companies don't need that much help.[00:26:30] They're already kind of pretty mature historically, so like they can kind of be everywhere. So there's kind of less of that stickiness. This is different in the AI time. I mean, Sarah is now the, uh, chief of staff of like half the AI companies in, uh, in the Bay Area right now. She's like, ops Ninja Biz, Devrel, BizOps.[00:26:48] swyx: Are, are you, are you finding much AI automation in your work? Like what, what is your stack.[00:26:53] Sarah Wang: Oh my, in my personal stack.[00:26:54] swyx: I mean, because like, uh, by the way, it's the, the, the reason for this is it is triggering, uh, yeah. We, like, I'm hiring [00:27:00] ops, ops people. Um, a lot of ponders I know are also hiring ops people and I'm just, you know, it's opportunity Since you're, you're also like basically helping out with ops with a lot of companies.[00:27:09] What are people doing these days? Because it's still very manual as far as I can tell.[00:27:13] Sarah Wang: Hmm. Yeah. I think the things that we help with are pretty network based, um, in that. It's sort of like, Hey, how do do I shortcut this process? Well, let's connect you to the right person. So there's not quite an AI workflow for that.[00:27:26] I will say as a growth investor, Claude Cowork is pretty interesting. Yeah. Like for the first time, you can actually get one shot data analysis. Right. Which, you know, if you're gonna do a customer database, analyze a cohort retention, right? That's just stuff that you had to do by hand before. And our team, the other, it was like midnight and the three of us were playing with Claude Cowork.[00:27:47] We gave it a raw file. Boom. Perfectly accurate. We checked the numbers. It was amazing. That was my like, aha moment. That sounds so boring. But you know, that's, that's the kind of thing that a growth investor is like, [00:28:00] you know, slaving away on late at night. Um, done in a few seconds.[00:28:03] swyx: Yeah. You gotta wonder what the whole, like, philanthropic labs, which is like their new sort of products studio.[00:28:10] Yeah. What would that be worth as an independent, uh, startup? You know, like a[00:28:14] Martin Casado: lot.[00:28:14] Sarah Wang: Yeah, true.[00:28:16] swyx: Yeah. You[00:28:16] Martin Casado: gotta hand it to them. They've been executing incredibly well.[00:28:19] swyx: Yeah. I, I mean, to me, like, you know, philanthropic, like building on cloud code, I think, uh, it makes sense to me the, the real. Um, pedal to the metal, whatever the, the, the phrase is, is when they start coming after consumer with, uh, against OpenAI and like that is like red alert at Open ai.[00:28:35] Oh, I[00:28:35] Martin Casado: think they've been pretty clear. They're enterprise focused.[00:28:37] swyx: They have been, but like they've been free. Here's[00:28:40] Martin Casado: care publicly,[00:28:40] swyx: it's enterprise focused. It's coding. Right. Yeah.[00:28:43] AI Labs vs Startups: Disruption, Undercutting & the Innovator's Dilemma[00:28:43] swyx: And then, and, but here's cloud, cloud, cowork, and, and here's like, well, we, uh, they, apparently they're running Instagram ads for Claudia.[00:28:50] I, on, you know, for, for people on, I get them all the time. Right. And so, like,[00:28:54] Martin Casado: uh,[00:28:54] swyx: it, it's kind of like this, the disruption thing of, uh, you know. Mo Open has been doing, [00:29:00] consumer been doing the, just pursuing general intelligence in every mo modality, and here's a topic that only focus on this thing, but now they're sort of undercutting and doing the whole innovator's dilemma thing on like everything else.[00:29:11] Martin Casado: It's very[00:29:11] swyx: interesting.[00:29:12] Martin Casado: Yeah, I mean there's, there's a very open que so for me there's like, do you know that meme where there's like the guy in the path and there's like a path this way? There's a path this way. Like one which way Western man. Yeah. Yeah.[00:29:23] Two Futures for AI: Infinite Market vs AGI Oligopoly[00:29:23] Martin Casado: And for me, like, like all the entire industry kind of like hinges on like two potential futures.[00:29:29] So in, in one potential future, um, the market is infinitely large. There's perverse economies of scale. ‘cause as soon as you put a model out there, like it kind of sublimates and all the other models catch up and like, it's just like software's being rewritten and fractured all over the place and there's tons of upside and it just grows.[00:29:48] And then there's another path which is like, well. Maybe these models actually generalize really well, and all you have to do is train them with three times more money. That's all you have to [00:30:00] do, and it'll just consume everything beyond it. And if that's the case, like you end up with basically an oligopoly for everything, like, you know mm-hmm.[00:30:06] Because they're perfectly general and like, so this would be like the, the a GI path would be like, these are perfectly general. They can do everything. And this one is like, this is actually normal software. The universe is complicated. You've got, and nobody knows the answer.[00:30:18] The Economics Reality Check: Gross Margins, Training Costs & Borrowing Against the Future[00:30:18] Martin Casado: My belief is if you actually look at the numbers of these companies, so generally if you look at the numbers of these companies, if you look at like the amount they're making and how much they, they spent training the last model, they're gross margin positive.[00:30:30] You're like, oh, that's really working. But if you look at like. The current training that they're doing for the next model, their gross margin negative. So part of me thinks that a lot of ‘em are kind of borrowing against the future and that's gonna have to slow down. It's gonna catch up to them at some point in time, but we don't really know.[00:30:47] Sarah Wang: Yeah.[00:30:47] Martin Casado: Does that make sense? Like, I mean, it could be, it could be the case that the only reason this is working is ‘cause they can raise that next round and they can train that next model. ‘cause these models have such a short. Life. And so at some point in time, like, you know, they won't be able to [00:31:00] raise that next round for the next model and then things will kind of converge and fragment again.[00:31:03] But right now it's not.[00:31:04] Sarah Wang: Totally. I think the other, by the way, just, um, a meta point. I think the other lesson from the last three years is, and we talk about this all the time ‘cause we're on this. Twitter X bubble. Um, cool. But, you know, if you go back to, let's say March, 2024, that period, it felt like a, I think an open source model with an, like a, you know, benchmark leading capability was sort of launching on a daily basis at that point.[00:31:27] And, um, and so that, you know, that's one period. Suddenly it's sort of like open source takes over the world. There's gonna be a plethora. It's not an oligopoly, you know, if you fast, you know, if you, if you rewind time even before that GPT-4 was number one for. Nine months, 10 months. It's a long time. Right.[00:31:44] Um, and of course now we're in this era where it feels like an oligopoly, um, maybe some very steady state shifts and, and you know, it could look like this in the future too, but it just, it's so hard to call. And I think the thing that keeps, you know, us up at [00:32:00] night in, in a good way and bad way, is that the capability progress is actually not slowing down.[00:32:06] And so until that happens, right, like you don't know what's gonna look like.[00:32:09] Martin Casado: But I, I would, I would say for sure it's not converged, like for sure, like the systemic capital flows have not converged, meaning right now it's still borrowing against the future to subsidize growth currently, which you can do that for a period of time.[00:32:23] But, but you know, at the end, at some point the market will rationalize that and just nobody knows what that will look like.[00:32:29] Alessio: Yeah.[00:32:29] Martin Casado: Or, or like the drop in price of compute will, will, will save them. Who knows?[00:32:34] Alessio: Yeah. Yeah. I think the models need to ask them to, to specific tasks. You know? It's like, okay, now Opus 4.5 might be a GI at some specific task, and now you can like depreciate the model over a longer time.[00:32:45] I think now, now, right now there's like no old model.[00:32:47] Martin Casado: No, but let, but lemme just change that mental, that's, that used to be my mental model. Lemme just change it a little bit.[00:32:53] Capital as a Weapon vs Task Saturation: Where Real Enterprise Value Gets Built[00:32:53] Martin Casado: If you can raise three times, if you can raise more than the aggregate of anybody that uses your models, that doesn't even matter.[00:32:59] It doesn't [00:33:00] even matter. See what I'm saying? Like, yeah. Yeah. So, so I have an API Business. My API business is 60% margin, or 70% margin, or 80% margin is a high margin business. So I know what everybody is using. If I can raise more money than the aggregate of everybody that's using it, I will consume them whether I'm a GI or not.[00:33:14] And I will know if they're using it ‘cause they're using it. And like, unlike in the past where engineering stops me from doing that.[00:33:21] Alessio: Mm-hmm.[00:33:21] Martin Casado: It is very straightforward. You just train. So I also thought it was kind of like, you must ask the code a GI, general, general, general. But I think there's also just a possibility that the, that the capital markets will just give them the, the, the ammunition to just go after everybody on top of ‘em.[00:33:36] Sarah Wang: I, I do wonder though, to your point, um, if there's a certain task that. Getting marginally better isn't actually that much better. Like we've asked them to it, to, you know, we can call it a GI or whatever, you know, actually, Ali Goi talks about this, like we're already at a GI for a lot of functions in the enterprise.[00:33:50] Um. That's probably those for those tasks, you probably could build very specific companies that focus on just getting as much value out of that task that isn't [00:34:00] coming from the model itself. There's probably a rich enterprise business to be built there. I mean, could be wrong on that, but there's a lot of interesting examples.[00:34:08] So, right, if you're looking the legal profession or, or whatnot, and maybe that's not a great one ‘cause the models are getting better on that front too, but just something where it's a bit saturated, then the value comes from. Services. It comes from implementation, right? It comes from all these things that actually make it useful to the end customer.[00:34:24] Martin Casado: Sorry, what am I, one more thing I think is, is underused in all of this is like, to what extent every task is a GI complete.[00:34:31] Sarah Wang: Mm-hmm.[00:34:32] Martin Casado: Yeah. I code every day. It's so fun.[00:34:35] Sarah Wang: That's a core question. Yeah.[00:34:36] Martin Casado: And like. When I'm talking to these models, it's not just code. I mean, it's everything, right? Like I, you know, like it's,[00:34:43] swyx: it's healthcare.[00:34:44] It's,[00:34:44] Martin Casado: I mean, it's[00:34:44] swyx: Mele,[00:34:45] Martin Casado: but it's every, it is exactly that. Like, yeah, that's[00:34:47] Sarah Wang: great support. Yeah.[00:34:48] Martin Casado: It's everything. Like I'm asking these models to, yeah, to understand compliance. I'm asking these models to go search the web. I'm asking these models to talk about things I know in the history, like it's having a full conversation with me while I, I engineer, and so it could be [00:35:00] the case that like, mm-hmm.[00:35:01] The most a, you know, a GI complete, like I'm not an a GI guy. Like I think that's, you know, but like the most a GI complete model will is win independent of the task. And we don't know the answer to that one either.[00:35:11] swyx: Yeah.[00:35:12] Martin Casado: But it seems to me that like, listen, codex in my experience is for sure better than Opus 4.5 for coding.[00:35:18] Like it finds the hardest bugs that I work in with. Like, it is, you know. The smartest developers. I don't work on it. It's great. Um, but I think Opus 4.5 is actually very, it's got a great bedside manner and it really, and it, it really matters if you're building something very complex because like, it really, you know, like you're, you're, you're a partner and a brainstorming partner for somebody.[00:35:38] And I think we don't discuss enough how every task kind of has that quality.[00:35:42] swyx: Mm-hmm.[00:35:43] Martin Casado: And what does that mean to like capital investment and like frontier models and Submodels? Yeah.[00:35:47] Why “Coding Models” Keep Collapsing into Generalists (Reasoning vs Taste)[00:35:47] Martin Casado: Like what happened to all the special coding models? Like, none of ‘em worked right. So[00:35:51] Alessio: some of them, they didn't even get released.[00:35:53] Magical[00:35:54] Martin Casado: Devrel. There's a whole, there's a whole host. We saw a bunch of them and like there's this whole theory that like, there could be, and [00:36:00] I think one of the conclusions is, is like there's no such thing as a coding model,[00:36:04] Alessio: you know?[00:36:04] Martin Casado: Like, that's not a thing. Like you're talking to another human being and it's, it's good at coding, but like it's gotta be good at everything.[00:36:10] swyx: Uh, minor disagree only because I, I'm pretty like, have pretty high confidence that basically open eye will always release a GPT five and a GT five codex. Like that's the code's. Yeah. The way I call it is one for raisin, one for Tiz. Um, and, and then like someone internal open, it was like, yeah, that's a good way to frame it.[00:36:32] Martin Casado: That's so funny.[00:36:33] swyx: Uh, but maybe it, maybe it collapses down to reason and that's it. It's not like a hundred dimensions doesn't life. Yeah. It's two dimensions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like and exactly. Beside manner versus coding. Yeah.[00:36:43] Martin Casado: Yeah.[00:36:44] swyx: It's, yeah.[00:36:46] Martin Casado: I, I think for, for any, it's hilarious. For any, for anybody listening to this for, for, for, I mean, for you, like when, when you're like coding or using these models for something like that.[00:36:52] Like actually just like be aware of how much of the interaction has nothing to do with coding and it just turns out to be a large portion of it. And so like, you're, I [00:37:00] think like, like the best Soto ish model. You know, it is going to remain very important no matter what the task is.[00:37:06] swyx: Yeah.[00:37:07] What He's Actually Coding: Gaussian Splats, Spark.js & 3D Scene Rendering Demos[00:37:07] swyx: Uh, speaking of coding, uh, I, I'm gonna be cheeky and ask like, what actually are you coding?[00:37:11] Because obviously you, you could code anything and you are obviously a busy investor and a manager of the good. Giant team. Um, what are you calling?[00:37:18] Martin Casado: I help, um, uh, FEFA at World Labs. Uh, it's one of the investments and um, and they're building a foundation model that creates 3D scenes.[00:37:27] swyx: Yeah, we had it on the pod.[00:37:28] Yeah. Yeah,[00:37:28] Martin Casado: yeah. And so these 3D scenes are Gaussian splats, just by the way that kind of AI works. And so like, you can reconstruct a scene better with, with, with radiance feels than with meshes. ‘cause like they don't really have topology. So, so they, they, they produce each. Beautiful, you know, 3D rendered scenes that are Gaussian splats, but the actual industry support for Gaussian splats isn't great.[00:37:50] It's just never, you know, it's always been meshes and like, things like unreal use meshes. And so I work on a open source library called Spark js, which is a. Uh, [00:38:00] a JavaScript rendering layer ready for Gaussian splats. And it's just because, you know, um, you, you, you need that support and, and right now there's kind of a three js moment that's all meshes and so like, it's become kind of the default in three Js ecosystem.[00:38:13] As part of that to kind of exercise the library, I just build a whole bunch of cool demos. So if you see me on X, you see like all my demos and all the world building, but all of that is just to exercise this, this library that I work on. ‘cause it's actually a very tough algorithmics problem to actually scale a library that much.[00:38:29] And just so you know, this is ancient history now, but 30 years ago I paid for undergrad, you know, working on game engines in college in the late nineties. So I've got actually a back and it's very old background, but I actually have a background in this and so a lot of it's fun. You know, but, but the, the, the, the whole goal is just for this rendering library to, to,[00:38:47] Sarah Wang: are you one of the most active contributors?[00:38:49] The, their GitHub[00:38:50] Martin Casado: spark? Yes.[00:38:51] Sarah Wang: Yeah, yeah.[00:38:51] Martin Casado: There's only two of us there, so, yes. No, so by the way, so the, the pri The pri, yeah. Yeah. So the primary developer is a [00:39:00] guy named Andres Quist, who's an absolute genius. He and I did our, our PhDs together. And so like, um, we studied for constant Quas together. It was almost like hanging out with an old friend, you know?[00:39:09] And so like. So he, he's the core, core guy. I did mostly kind of, you know, the side I run venture fund.[00:39:14] swyx: It's amazing. Like five years ago you would not have done any of this. And it brought you back[00:39:19] Martin Casado: the act, the Activ energy, you're still back. Energy was so high because you had to learn all the framework b******t.[00:39:23] Man, I f*****g used to hate that. And so like, now I don't have to deal with that. I can like focus on the algorithmics so I can focus on the scaling and I,[00:39:29] swyx: yeah. Yeah.[00:39:29] LLMs vs Spatial Intelligence + How to Value World Labs' 3D Foundation Model[00:39:29] swyx: And then, uh, I'll observe one irony and then I'll ask a serious investor question, uh, which is like, the irony is FFE actually doesn't believe that LMS can lead us to spatial intelligence.[00:39:37] And here you are using LMS to like help like achieve spatial intelligence. I just see, I see some like disconnect in there.[00:39:45] Martin Casado: Yeah. Yeah. So I think, I think, you know, I think, I think what she would say is LLMs are great to help with coding.[00:39:51] swyx: Yes.[00:39:51] Martin Casado: But like, that's very different than a model that actually like provides, they, they'll never have the[00:39:56] swyx: spatial inte[00:39:56] Martin Casado: issues.[00:39:56] And listen, our brains clearly listen, our brains, brains clearly have [00:40:00] both our, our brains clearly have a language reasoning section and they clearly have a spatial reasoning section. I mean, it's just, you know, these are two pretty independent problems.[00:40:07] swyx: Okay. And you, you, like, I, I would say that the, the one data point I recently had, uh, against it is the DeepMind, uh, IMO Gold, where, so, uh, typically the, the typical answer is that this is where you start going down the neuros symbolic path, right?[00:40:21] Like one, uh, sort of very sort of abstract reasoning thing and one form, formal thing. Um, and that's what. DeepMind had in 2024 with alpha proof, alpha geometry, and now they just use deep think and just extended thinking tokens. And it's one model and it's, and it's in LM.[00:40:36] Martin Casado: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.[00:40:37] swyx: And so that, that was my indication of like, maybe you don't need a separate system.[00:40:42] Martin Casado: Yeah. So, so let me step back. I mean, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, these things are like nodes in a graph with weights on them. Right. You know, like it can be modeled like if you, if you distill it down. But let me just talk about the two different substrates. Let's, let me put you in a dark room.[00:40:56] Like totally black room. And then let me just [00:41:00] describe how you exit it. Like to your left, there's a table like duck below this thing, right? I mean like the chances that you're gonna like not run into something are very low. Now let me like turn on the light and you actually see, and you can do distance and you know how far something away is and like where it is or whatever.[00:41:17] Then you can do it, right? Like language is not the right primitives to describe. The universe because it's not exact enough. So that's all Faye, Faye is talking about. When it comes to like spatial reasoning, it's like you actually have to know that this is three feet far, like that far away. It is curved.[00:41:37] You have to understand, you know, the, like the actual movement through space.[00:41:40] swyx: Yeah.[00:41:40] Martin Casado: So I do, I listen, I do think at the end of these models are definitely converging as far as models, but there's, there's, there's different representations of problems you're solving. One is language. Which, you know, that would be like describing to somebody like what to do.[00:41:51] And the other one is actually just showing them and the space reasoning is just showing them.[00:41:55] swyx: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Got it, got it. Uh, the, in the investor question was on, on, well labs [00:42:00] is, well, like, how do I value something like this? What, what, what work does the, do you do? I'm just like, Fefe is awesome.[00:42:07] Justin's awesome. And you know, the other two co-founder, co-founders, but like the, the, the tech, everyone's building cool tech. But like, what's the value of the tech? And this is the fundamental question[00:42:16] Martin Casado: of, well, let, let, just like these, let me just maybe give you a rough sketch on the diffusion models. I actually love to hear Sarah because I'm a venture for, you know, so like, ventures always, always like kind of wild west type[00:42:24] swyx: stuff.[00:42:24] You, you, you, you paid a dream and she has to like, actually[00:42:28] Martin Casado: I'm gonna say I'm gonna mar to reality, so I'm gonna say the venture for you. And she can be like, okay, you a little kid. Yeah. So like, so, so these diffusion models literally. Create something for, for almost nothing. And something that the, the world has found to be very valuable in the past, in our real markets, right?[00:42:45] Like, like a 2D image. I mean, that's been an entire market. People value them. It takes a human being a long time to create it, right? I mean, to create a, you know, a, to turn me into a whatever, like an image would cost a hundred bucks in an hour. The inference cost [00:43:00] us a hundredth of a penny, right? So we've seen this with speech in very successful companies.[00:43:03] We've seen this with 2D image. We've seen this with movies. Right? Now, think about 3D scene. I mean, I mean, when's Grand Theft Auto coming out? It's been six, what? It's been 10 years. I mean, how, how like, but hasn't been 10 years.[00:43:14] Alessio: Yeah.[00:43:15] Martin Casado: How much would it cost to like, to reproduce this room in 3D? Right. If you, if you, if you hired somebody on fiber, like in, in any sort of quality, probably 4,000 to $10,000.[00:43:24] And then if you had a professional, probably $30,000. So if you could generate the exact same thing from a 2D image, and we know that these are used and they're using Unreal and they're using Blend, or they're using movies and they're using video games and they're using all. So if you could do that for.[00:43:36] You know, less than a dollar, that's four or five orders of magnitude cheaper. So you're bringing the marginal cost of something that's useful down by three orders of magnitude, which historically have created very large companies. So that would be like the venture kind of strategic dreaming map.[00:43:49] swyx: Yeah.[00:43:50] And, and for listeners, uh, you can do this yourself on your, on your own phone with like. Uh, the marble.[00:43:55] Martin Casado: Yeah. Marble.[00:43:55] swyx: Uh, or but also there's many Nerf apps where you just go on your iPhone and, and do this.[00:43:59] Martin Casado: Yeah. Yeah. [00:44:00] Yeah. And, and in the case of marble though, it would, what you do is you literally give it in.[00:44:03] So most Nerf apps you like kind of run around and take a whole bunch of pictures and then you kind of reconstruct it.[00:44:08] swyx: Yeah.[00:44:08] Martin Casado: Um, things like marble, just that the whole generative 3D space will just take a 2D image and it'll reconstruct all the like, like[00:44:16] swyx: meaning it has to fill in. Uh,[00:44:18] Martin Casado: stuff at the back of the table, under the table, the back, like, like the images, it doesn't see.[00:44:22] So the generator stuff is very different than reconstruction that it fills in the things that you can't see.[00:44:26] swyx: Yeah. Okay.[00:44:26] Sarah Wang: So,[00:44:27] Martin Casado: all right. So now the,[00:44:28] Sarah Wang: no, no. I mean I love that[00:44:29] Martin Casado: the adult[00:44:29] Sarah Wang: perspective. Um, well, no, I was gonna say these are very much a tag team. So we, we started this pod with that, um, premise. And I think this is a perfect question to even build on that further.[00:44:36] ‘cause it truly is, I mean, we're tag teaming all of these together.[00:44:39] Investing in Model Labs, Media Rumors, and the Cursor Playbook (Margins & Going Down-Stack)[00:44:39] Sarah Wang: Um, but I think every investment fundamentally starts with the same. Maybe the same two premises. One is, at this point in time, we actually believe that there are. And of one founders for their particular craft, and they have to be demonstrated in their prior careers, right?[00:44:56] So, uh, we're not investing in every, you know, now the term is NEO [00:45:00] lab, but every foundation model, uh, any, any company, any founder trying to build a foundation model, we're not, um, contrary to popular opinion, we're
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