It was a great night.

@DavidMoss, @DevinOlsenn, and @Scotsrule08 are proud to announce that we have successfully completed the world’s first Canada coast to coast fully autonomous drive! We left Horseshoe Bay Terminal in Vancouver. BC 4 days & 21 hours ago, and now have ended in Halifax, NS at the Tesla Showroom (3,760miles/6,051km) This was accomplished with Tesla FSD v14.3.3 with absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers.

With a phenomenon that looks like a mind virus, we have people entering into the ideology with good intentions, never thinking that they are limiting themselves. ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf w/ Advisor @peterboghossian & @ReidN

ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH. TWICE. The only thing bigger than Starship will be the SpaceX IPO. 🚀🚀🚀

Compulsory rules always set the parent up as an adversary. A social media ban creates a whole new arena of adversarial relationships between kids and the adult world. When you become a gatekeeper, then you become someone that the kid is trying to figure out how to deceive, lie to, get around... ~Conjecture Institute Cofounder @astupple with Advisor @peterboghossian

“You’ve sort of been the prophet crying out in the wilderness,” says Jeremy Boering about James Lindsay. Jeremy is exactly right. James (and Michael O’Fallon) has been so far ahead of the curve it’s insane. He was ahead during the emergence of the woke left, and he has been ahead during the emergence of the woke right. But this isn’t because he’s a wizard (although maybe, who knows at this point lol). It’s because he has carefully studied ideas. Not merely people, drama, or partisan politics, but the ideas behind everything that make the cultural and political wheels turn. It’s not magic. It’s discipline. Anybody can do it. And James has inspired many more to do the same, including myself. That’s the path forward: become dangerous by studying ideas and gathering knowledge, while also having the moral courage to stand alone when everybody else tries to ruin you, which is exactly what James has done. A must-watch interview. 👇 @JeremyDBoreing @ConceptualJames @SovMichael

SpaceX base on the Moon before the release of Artemis in theaters?

Highest recommendation.

Project Hail Mary Review w/ Reid and Brett x.com/i/broadcasts/1lKQRvnBX…

“Project Hail Mary” - 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Seen it twice and looking forward to speaking about it with @peterboghossian and @ReidN soon. My “geeky gripe” for now (spoiler!) is the technological synchronicity issue - long discussed in astrobiology 101. But that’s ~true ∀ such sci-fi.

Where does “woke” come from? Not vibes. An epistemology. Three assumptions that change how truth works. 🧵

Upgrade your epistemology, upgrade your persuasion techniques. conjectureinstitute.org/ streetepistemology.com/

Just chilling, recording a podcast. Nothing out of the ordinary about to happen. 😅

🚨 Parliament just announced it's leaving X - abandoning nearly 1 million New Zealanders on this platform in an election year. We've written to Speaker Gerry Brownlee. Parliament doesn't belong to Parliamentary Service. It belongs to the public. You don't get to decide 933,000 Kiwis don't matter because you dislike the platform. When Parliament leaves, the authoritative information disappears. The users don't. Full media release → fsu.nz/blog/parliaments-with… #FreeSpeechNZ #NZPolitics

Me @ToKTeacher, @ReidN, @astupple, @tomhyde_, @Falliblemusings, @tomas_no_h, @ZakeryMizell, @Edwindoit and more did a tribute to @DavidDeutschOxf whose ideas have changed my world. progreshion.blog/p/why-you-s…

I'll say again... Criticism of Islam is not racist, it's culturalist For example, disapproving of Female Genital Mutilation is not racist Criticism of Islam is Islamosceptic. There is no phobia involved in criticising a religion. That's for spiders Life of Brian is not Christophobic. The Pythons did not have a phobia about Christianity. We were sceptical about some of its adherents Trying to win arguments by changing the meaning of words is a cheap debating trick

Alex Karp just said what every other tech CEO is terrified to admit: the world doesn’t split three ways. It splits two. And second place is extinction. Europe watches. Everyone else becomes a customer. The fight is binary. America or China. One owns the future’s operating system. The other lives inside it, powerless. Karp: “There are only two cultures that are going to win in the next year. It’s going to be us or China.” Technology isn’t neutral. The builder’s values get hardcoded into everything. If we don’t own the chips, the models, the infrastructure, the beliefs embedded in the next century won’t be freedom or rights. They’ll be surveillance and control. Karp: “If we are not the ones controlling the violence, we will not be dictating the rule of law.” AI is a weapon system. Not potentially. Inherently. Restraint doesn’t buy peace. It guarantees defeat. If the Constitution matters, if speech matters, if any of it matters, America has to win technologically. Power doesn’t negotiate values. It imposes them. Thinking caution earns respect is suicidal delusion. The enemy isn’t slowing down for ethics debates. They’re building at war speed while we workshop guardrails. Karp: “No one is coming to defend you. You have to defend yourself.” No cavalry. No referees. No shared humanity saving the day. Just two civilizations in a cage match for permanent control. Outbuild them or surrender everything. Not eventually. Now. Because losing this race doesn’t mean second place. It means your children grow up under a system that doesn’t even pretend you have rights.

Civilised nations do not appease those whose aim to destroy them. Congratulations to the Japanese people for downvoting these communists. There is a lesson to be learned here. 🇯🇵

"There's a difference between the substance of an idea and how you treat it." ~Conjecture Institute Fellow @dela3499 w/ Ambassador @ToKTeacher, @ReidN, & @PF_Jung

I (embarrassingly) majored in "women's studies" in college and I can tell you firsthand, this is exactly the epistemic emptiness they teach you from day 1 Everything is "rooted in" something "systemic" Systemic racism. Systemic oppression. Systemic harm What’s missing (and what you see exposed when Peter starts asking basic questions) is that students are never even taught how to reason about systems. They’re not taught to define what a system is, what its components are, how those components interact, or how causality flows through it In an actual systems framework, you would be expected to specify mechanisms: inputs, incentives, feedback loops, constraints, failure modes. You’d have to explain how a policy, law, or institution produces a measurable outcome, and why. You’d have to show at least some kind of work! Instead, students are taught a style of communication that substitutes vocabulary for explanation. “Systemic” becomes a conversation stopper rather than a starting point. It signals moral seriousness while insulating the claim from scrutiny. If someone asks for clarification, that’s treated as hostility rather than curiosity So when this kid confidently says “America is systemically racist” but cannot answer the simplest follow-up — what is the system, exactly? — it's not even really his fault It’s the predictable result of a pedagogy that rewards moral fluency over analytical thought They're really, really good at invoking the word “system” to explain everything, while explaining absolutely nothing (For what it's worth: teaching myself about systems is how I thought my way out of feminism... and then eventually left the left. I cannot believe "women's studies" is a real academic program. It's bananas)

Me: “It’s bizarre that Tesla isn’t at a higher valuation.” @ReidN “Because institutional investors are beholden to an empiricist epistemology. They need an observation [historical data] from a company's financials to put into a spreadsheet before they take any kind of future revenue seriously enough to model it going forward." Thoughts? @Stevenryanmark @farzyness @JOBhakdi @TeslaLarry @NickGibbsIAG @RandyWKirk1 @herbertong @NYKChannel @iamtomnash