Nox Metals exists so America can build 100x more factories and technologically abundant industrial capacity in the West. We are announcing our $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others. Over the past few decades, America has neglected domestic production. We lost our dominating ability to build in the world of atoms while jobs on the factory floor plummeted. It's time to build for America again. As our grandparents once did. Since launching production only 7 months ago, we have shipped metal to hundreds of American factories. Countless truckloads to America's industrial base. And we are no where near slowing down. Our metal has gone to space. It has protected our troops. It is in your car and in the machine that scanned your chest. It is all around us. And we can't stop supplying at warp speeds, because America needs it. We will be revitalizing a WW2 era, 35,000 SQFT factory in Detroit this summer where we will have our techno industrialists working hard to further pursue our mission. We will be tripling down on technology, which has allowed us to move this fast for America thus far. More code. More machines. More metal. More production.

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future. you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine. i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success. i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk. let’s leave it at that then. perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

To all my Austin people, go to Church Row Tejas BBQ off of Anderson Mill

3 months ago we opened @ReservoirFarms. 1 hour from Silicon Valley. 90 minutes from SF. it's become the densest concentration of agtech startup activity on the planet. founders, growers, robots, real dirt. every single day. July 8 we open the farm to the public for the first time. you should come. more details soon.

Once of the best National Anthems you’ll hear

David Friedberg: California’s Voting System Looks Fraudulent, But It’s Working Exactly as Designed @friedberg believes California’s extremely loose election laws enable “appointments” not free elections. Why? The voting data in LA makes no statistical sense. “ Pratt's post-election mail-in ballots declined by 1/3. So statistically, the population of people that send in their ballots late reduced for Pratt by 1/3, increased for Nithya Raman by 80%, and Karen Bass 10% less, if you just look at the mail-in ballots before and after election day as a comparison. I don't know if there's a sociopolitical way that you can assess those statistics and assume that these are individuals casting their individual vote for who they think should be Mayor of LA. Basically, the concentration of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles. But when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in person, mail-in before, mail-in after Election Day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire on how did this sort of a sociopolitical shift happen in such a way that it did? Now, there was a report published, and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges that they saw arise in that midterm election because of some of the legislative changes that were made. First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state. What that means is that any individual in the state of California has the right to go and collect ballots from any other individuals, regardless of relationship, fill them out, and send them in. California, two years later, 18 months later, also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered in the state of California would get a ballot, so tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out. Then there was another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote. You don't need to prove your citizenship. You can use a gym membership card as an example. So anyone can register to vote. There is no proof of ID when you get a ballot. There is no demonstration that the person who fills out the ballot has anything to do with the individual who's supposed to be voting that ballot, and it is legal for an individual to go out and collect hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting processes. So there's nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended. It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a, quote, ‘free election’ in California.”

I love this guy @spencerpratt losing might end up as a win for LA Keep fighting ⚔️

Get a box freezer and buy a whole cow, @Jason. I have a ranch less than an hour away from you to connect you with

Alright. Time to clue y’all in 👀 on what we’re building right now Project Mini Me 1/7th scale prototypes of the full size Dynamo GigaDrone. - Ford F-150 sized.
- Two 8 foot rotors.
- 250 lbs.
- 180 peak horsepower.
- Twin EMRAX axial flux motors with DTI inverters. Why build them? We have a few big architecture calls left to lock on the full-size aircraft. Driveshaft or no driveshaft. Rotor spacing. Rotor overlap or not. General airframe structure. We've modeled all of it to diminishing returns. Now it's faster and cheaper to build and test. Mini Me is also flight school. Deploy, test, and iterate flight software, control laws, and flight dynamics. Learn how to actually fly a tandem. Iteration cycle in days. All of this informs decisions for our GigaDrone. Right now we’re mid build on an iron bird: The entire drone minus the airframe, bolted to a table. Motors, inverters, high voltage, flight computer, sensors, software. Next up: - Rotor spin-ups on test stand - Airframe fabrication - Integration into airframe - Tethered tests Flights - Broken parts - Fixes - Data - Decisions More to come! Just bought some GoPros 👀

These guys are artists. Moment Motor takes classic cars and turns them electric. It's two to four months of work and can cost $175,000. Tons of people in tech land send their cars to Austin to get modernized. Full episode here.

Man, old cartoons kick ass.

This is what I’ve begged for. Churches have long had huge plots of urban land. In a world where residents get pushed to suburbs, they should try to keep members close. This is awesome for Mueller. Yo king @YIMBYLAND, you see this? connectcre.com/stories/austi…

Does this mean my latte gets cheaper…?

I'm starting a new event for Austin creators, builders, artists, and engineers! Bring whatever you're working on, show it off science fair style, or just come check out all the different projects. RSVP or apply to demo: austindemoday.com

Started a journey to a 455 lb bench press PR. Let’s see how this goes. I’ve been using AI as my trainer for years and have switched to @claudeai. Hit 408 lbs today

Weird that the only photos @americanhousing has on Google are of steaks? @YIMBYLAND @rileymeik @DeveloperHarris

this is a role where you get to redefine the base assumptions of homebuilding since we’re vertically integrated we not only decide on what to build it but how to build it

Spencer Pratt: "When I am Mayor, I will direct LAPD to treat unauthorized occupants as criminal trespassers. I will partner with the City Attorney for 72-hour expedited removals via streamlined unlawful detainer courts, and we will eliminate the menace of professional squatters."

Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance. Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.