Anyone who just made generational wealth on this SpaceX IPO, firstly congrats, secondly, hit me up if you're interested in investing in the cultural infrastructure that will produce the conditions to actually get us to Mars. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Arena Magazine Issue 008 Launch. @Nominal_io

This is an interesting future scenario for Europe, but it makes the common European mistake of thinking that ASML provides some form of leverage over the U.S. ASML only makes 15% of its EUV machines internally and its most critical components are supplied by the U.S., Japan, and Germany. You cannot make an EUV machine without many American-made components, including an irreplaceable light source. In addition, ASML's Brion unit in Santa Clara (which it acquired in 2007) supplies the computational lithography stack. Both of these can be denied to ASML under the Foreign Direct Product Rule.

The gatekeepers in publishing are 80% woman and are so far to the left they lack a theory of mind for the male audience they’re supposed to serve. Terrible “Dad books” are being published. The straight male demographic for these books notices and stops buying them. The publishers then blame men instead of themselves. Give me 10 minutes and I could come up with a dozen potential “dad book” topics that would sell.

This is an incredibly exciting project. Felix is the real deal. Reminds me of a young British Michael Mann.

"Victory is a dirty word." In the latest Principals, @ELuttwak — strategist, combatant, rancher — talks to @carsonjbecker about post-heroic warfare, broken procurement, and why Caesar can't arrive in an era that won't fight. Read it at @arenamagdotcom

California is a real time contest between the smartest people on Earth trying to invent the future and the dumbest people on Earth trying to return us to the stone age.

The perfect magazine doesn't exi...

I knew the photos would be good I knew they would enhance my perception of the universe and inspire me I still completely underestimated them

Moon

artemis space mission photos are so beautiful

Incredible picture.

the lion does not concern himself with the energy supply chains of his allies

アメリカ人はデカくてマッチョで自信家で、最初は日本人を見下すような言動もするけど根はお人よしレベルに親切で、毎日ハンバーガーとステーキを食べ、アメ車のオープンカーを乗り回し、HAHAHA!!って陽気に笑う星条旗ビキニの人たちです ぼくは昔アメリカ人の事をゲームで勉強したから詳しいんです

This is a deeply misunderstood point. Many people think the Saturn V was just a German rocket design and don't appreciate how far Americans took the technology that originated in Britain and Germany post war. "GE and Pratt & Whitney engineers synthesized British centrifugal jet engines with German axial-flow compressor research, creating jet designs that went from 2,000 pounds of thrust with tens-of-hours lifespans during the war to over 10,000 pounds of thrust with 1,000 hour service lives, enabling a generation of supersonic fighters and long-range bombers. Other GE engineers were in the deserts of west Texas as part of Operation Fireball, where they made major improvements to the V-2 missile’s guidance and control systems, subsystem performance, and system integration. Engineers from Rocketdyne improved the V-2 engine design, ultimately building the F-1 engine which remains the most powerful single-chamber liquid rocket engine ever flown, reliable at 1.5 million lbf (pound-force) while the German engine could only generate 25 tons of thrust and routinely destroyed itself via pressure oscillation. The V-2 rocket failed more than 30% of the time it was launched during the war; American engineers brought the frequency down to under 5%. By the mid-1960s, approximately 5% of the U.S. GDP funded new weapon systems and NASA’s Apollo Program, transforming U.S. industrial capacity. The Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was deployed in five years and required simultaneous breakthroughs in rocket engines, lightweight structures, inertial guidance, and reentry physics. The Apollo moon landing came eight years after zero human spaceflight capability. The Archangel spy plane program went from concept to the first flight of a plane that could fly 85,000 feet in the air at speeds exceeding Mach 3 in four years. Boeing took the 747, the largest and most advanced commercial aircraft ever built, from initial concept in 1965 to planes rolling off production lines 28 months later in a project that required building a factory that remains the largest building by volume in the world today." arenamag.com/articles/steali…

アメリカという国は、格差は激しいし薬物汚染はひどいし政治は(ご存知の通り)終わっているしで、どうしてあんな国が大国面して回っているのだろうと思っていたんだけど、最近タイムラインに10000件ほど流れてくるありえないサイズの肉塊の山の写真を見て、その物質的豊かさを急速に理解させられている

Opening Night for America's Pastime. 🇺🇸 x #SFGiants

Starbase at night as @SpaceX prepares for preflight testing.

Foundations are among the most important organizations reshaping society. Philanthropy should then be understood as an exercise of power. Because of this finding alternative ways private wealth can be managed and spent is one of the most promising ways to fight decline.

I am excited to see my article with @Ben_Reinhardt published today. In the near future we will see trillions of dollars of wealth generated in Silicon Valley and the question of how this wealth can be used to drive lasting human progress is an important one. The default answer shouldn't be the broken models of the past and this article was an attempt to outline a better path forward.