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LIVE: We're sharing the latest updates on @NASAMoonBase, our lunar habitat where astronauts will work and live. x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbnNoโ€ฆ
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We fired a really cool rocket engine - and broke some records while we were at it. ๐Ÿ”ฅThis Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine produced more than 4,000 pounds of thrust, and included a 300-second continuous burn, which is believed to have set the record for longest duration hot firing of an RDRE engine to date. Watch it fire: youtu.be/DjnC8KvakKk
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The US and China will share a land border.. on the moon.
For the first time, but probably not the last, NASA and the United States are counting on Blue Origin to deliver a meaningful win on the Moon. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0โ€ฆ
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Where do we dig? Here!
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Hey @TransAstra_Corp I'm not sure the contact form on your website is working. Please DM me.
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Marc Andreessen just dropped ~105 mins on Lenny's Podcast covering AI, jobs, careers, and why everyone is panicking about the wrong thing. Just the clearest macro framework I've heard on where AI actually lands. My notes: ๐Ÿญ. ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜. US productivity growth has been running at half the rate of the 1940-1970 era and a third the rate of 1870-1940. The global population is declining below replacement in dozens of countries, including China. Without AI, we would be panicking about economies shrinking from depopulation, not job loss. The timing is almost miraculous. This is what Andreessen means when he says the real boom has not started yet. We have been in a 50-year productivity drought, and most people do not even realize it. ๐Ÿฎ. ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ'๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ. Isaac Newton spent decades trying to transmute lead into gold and never succeeded. AI does something more powerful: it converts sand (silicon) into thought. The most common material in the world is the rarest output. This one metaphor reframes the entire AI conversation. You do not have a job loss problem. You have a philosopher's stone sitting on your desk that you are not using enough. ๐Ÿฏ. ๐—”๐—œ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜. The best coders right now are not reporting 2x productivity. They are reporting 10x. The gap between "pretty good with AI" and "elite with AI" is widening, not narrowing. This is the most important signal for career planning right now. If you are just using AI to do the same job slightly faster, you are leaving the real leverage on the table. ๐Ÿฐ. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐— ๐˜€, ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€. Every engineer now thinks they can be a PM and designer. Every PM thinks they can code and design. Every designer knows they can do both. And they are all correct, because AI enables each role to absorb the tasks of the other two. I have seen this firsthand in the investing world. The analyst who can build models and write narratives is 5x more valuable than someone who can do only one. The same convergence is happening in the product. ๐Ÿฑ. ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ง-๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ. ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—˜-๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. Scott Adams could not have created Dilbert by being the world's best cartoonist or the world's best business mind. He needed both. The additive effect of two skills is more than double. Three skills are more than triple. Larry Summers puts it differently: don't be fungible. The person who can code, design, and ship a product is no longer a unicorn. They are the new baseline for "extremely valuable." If you are only one of those three things, you are increasingly replaceable. ๐Ÿฒ. ๐—๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜€. ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ. ๐—๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜. Executives never typed their own emails in the 1970s. Secretaries printed incoming emails and hand-delivered them. Both roles survived the transition, just with different task sets. The same will happen with AI and coding, PM work, and design. Everyone obsessing over "will my job disappear" is asking the wrong question. The right question is: which tasks in my job are about to rotate, and am I ready to pick up the new ones? ๐Ÿณ. ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. We went from human calculators to machine code to assembly to C to scripting languages. Each layer was dismissed by the previous generation. Each time, the new layer won, and total coding employment grew. AI coding is the same pattern, not a rupture. The Perl programmers of 2005, laughing at JavaScript, are the C programmers of 1995, laughing at scripting. History rhymes, and it always rewards the people who adopt the next abstraction first. ๐Ÿด. ๐—”๐—œ ๐˜๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. One-on-one tutoring is the only method proven to move a student from the 50th to the 99th percentile (Bloom's two sigma effect). It used to require being born into royalty. Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle. Now, any kid with a phone can access the same quality of personalized instruction. This is the most under-discussed consequence of AI. Every parent reading this should be supplementing their kid's education with structured AI tutoring right now. Not next year. Now. ๐Ÿต. ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ. Progress in bits masked stagnation in atoms. The built world is barely different from 50 years ago. Same bridges from the 1930s, same dams from the 1910s. Cartels, monopolies, unions, and regulations prevent the rate of change that people had 100 years ago. This is also why AI will not transform everything overnight. Institutional sclerosis is real. Healthcare alone could take a generation. If you are building in atoms, budget for a war of attrition, not a blitzkrieg. ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ. ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป. Within a year of ChatGPT's launch, five American companies, five Chinese companies, and open-source all had roughly equivalent models. DeepSeek emerged from a hedge fund in China and basically replicated the American labs' work. The smartest AI insiders privately admit there aren't many real secrets among the big labs. This is the most honest take I have heard from a top-tier VC. No one knows if the value accrues to models, apps, or infrastructure. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you certainty they do not have. ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ. ๐—”๐—œ ๐—œ๐—ค ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€. Human IQ caps around 160 because of biology. Current AI models test around 130-140. There is no theoretical ceiling stopping AI from reaching 200, 250, or 300. The concept of AGI as a "human equivalent" will be a footnote because AI will race past that threshold. This is the frame that makes the "will AI take my job" debate feel small. We are not building a replacement for human thought. We are building something that will be better than the best human thought has ever been. ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐˜€. Layer one: AI redefines products. Layer two: AI redefines jobs within companies. Layer three, which has not dropped yet: AI redefines the very concept of having a company. The holy grail is the one-person, billion-dollar outcome, and the best founders are chasing it. Satoshi did it with Bitcoin. Instagram and WhatsApp came close with tiny teams. The question is no longer if this is possible with software. The question is how many of these we will see in the next five years. AI is the philosopher's stone. The question is whether you pick it up. The full podcast is worth your time. Link in replies.
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AI in 2027: Idea-to-execution time shrinks dramatically. Get ready, gentlemen.
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Nixon would ask why they are not using spoons instead of shovels.
zohran mamdani gave out $35 per hour to shovel snow to any person, so naturally each side walk intersection is now being shoveled by like 7 ppl. this is exactly how the government operates: without thinking about any second order affects & also because spending other pplโ€™s money (tax) is super duper easy. show me the incentives & i will show you the outcome.
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I'm huge on Lunar Industrialization and "off-worlding" industry. But how do we prevent the globalisation trap? If 90% of industry happens in space, are we not putting ourselves in a very fragile position?
Jeff Bezos says there is โ€œno Plan Bโ€ for Earth and argues that heavy industry, including factories and data centers, should be moved to the Moon and orbital stations to protect the planet. What do you think about this?
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Humanity's greatest unifying "us vs them" moment (aka asabiyyah) will not be the arrival of aliens. It will be the arrival of a runaway AGI... and that moment is getting close. @Peter_Turchin @LudwigNverMises @whatifalthist
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You can build the best Extraction Shooter in the world and people will say you're "dropping the ball".
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Jamie Dimon calls out the WEF to their faces... The moderator: "OK. We're running out of time."

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Brian Armstrong deserves an award for evangelizing for Bitcoin at WEF in Davos. France Central Bank governor says he trusts central banks more than 'independent issuers of Bitcoin'. Armstrong clarifies: "Bitcoin is a decentralized protocol. There's actually no issuer of it."
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Same energy
This is the funniest video I've seen in such a long time. I've been laughing for like an hour.
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True heroes don't wear capes. In their moment of greatness, they muster the courage, honour, and love to protect their civilization when it matters most. Boris & Sofia Gurman
Dashcam video shows couple trying to stop gunman before they were killed in Bondi attack bbc.in/450osbQ
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Mel Gelderman ๐Ÿ’ซ retweeted
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I've been using my @solanamobile Seeker phone daily for 1.5 months. Here are my favorite gem apps I've found: > @LinceFinance offers tailor-made auto yield strategies from 6% to 38% APY, based on your risk. > @useDecal provides smart payments. Thanks to @nickfrosty for early access. They're still developing, but future use cases look promising. > @tokencom_ integrates CT feed with trading. You can instantly buy tokens when your favorite creators tweet. Cool idea. Excited about what's ahead for the Seeker ecosystem ๐Ÿ“ฑ
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This was legitimately one of the best conversation Iโ€™ve had in all these years. Awesome call @youfadedwealth
Are Memecoins Ever Coming Back? @tokencom_ InfoFi w/ Instant Payouts?! @tunnl_io x.com/i/broadcasts/1PlKQOYkeโ€ฆ
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Are Memecoins Ever Coming Back? @tokencom_ InfoFi w/ Instant Payouts?! @tunnl_io x.com/i/broadcasts/1PlKQOYkeโ€ฆ
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About to go live on @youfadedwealth stream. Talking about @tokencom_
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If youโ€™d bought $DUPE on this post by @rasmr_eth youโ€™d be up 123% right now. Nice work @tokencom_
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