Watch Medal of Honor recipient @FlorentGroberg address a Vets hackathon earlier this year, plus sign-up to join a team of forward-thinking veterans and service members in our November 2021 Vets hackathon. fallin.today/

New stunning UFO-related videos released by Pentagon. 🎥: The Department of War

The Navy has a program called SkillBridge, which is a U.S. Department of Defense program that lets active-duty service members (any rank) gain civilian work experience through internships, apprenticeships, or training with approved industry partners during their last 180 days of military service. My current command is denying any & all SkillBridge requests. What’s the point of having a program if no one can use it? @SecWar @SECNAV

Turns out black mirror was a very good source for startup ideas.

Working on a big update to the website for the podcast. Now you can see the video portion of the podcast as well. Please go and explore

In the future, AI may be debating whether humans are conscious.

My own title was, “If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?” If Claudia is unconscious, her behaviour shows that an unconscious zombie could survive without consciousness. Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?

🥈Got 2nd in the elevenlabs x turbopuffer hackathon. I won THOUSANDS in turbopuffer credits and the highest elevenlabs subscription tier! I'll be using turbopuffer in my launch of nootropic.ai and I have some great ideas to take advantage of elevenlabs!

I'm back on X. Took a couple months hiatus after the death-threat phone calls to my family from the crypto weirdos. They can all fuck right off, permanently. I will not agree to speak of crypto again, so don't ask, not even in person. Thank you for respecting my family's privacy on this. I've been trying to find some lipstick on the LinkedIn pig, and god damn if it isn't a weird, weird place. Almost all negative signal there has been suppressed, and also all quirkiness, it's all smoothed and oversaturated and Stepford-Wives-y. Always been like that, but now it has been terminally infected by AI writing, which has sent it into a spiral, and it's worse than it has ever been. (Note that I never use AI to write, I've taken to using comma splices as a shibboleth.) Everyone on LinkedIn writes their posts with (bad) AI. C-suites, coaches, leaders, principal engineers, product managers--they all have the same banal writing, the same stupid tells. It's like combovers, do they really think nobody else is going to notice? I could sort of stomach LinkedIn when it was just a weird cult. But when everyone started sporting AI combovers, I had to nope out. There are no human cognitive contributions happening there. So fuck it, I'll take the weirdos here along with the great people. I don't think you can find the one without the other. I am officially back, howdy howdy, will post a lot. Feels good. DM me and say hi.

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

Sam Altman predicted in 2024 that a one-person billion-dollar company "would have been unimaginable without A.I., and now it will happen." He just emailed the NYT saying he won a bet with tech CEO friends over when it would arrive, and that he "would like to meet the guy." The guy: Matthew Gallagher, 41. Spent $20K and two months building a GLP-1 weight-loss telehealth company out of his living room in LA. The stack: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok writing code. Midjourney for images. Runway for video ads. ElevenLabs handling customer calls. Custom AI agents stitching it all together. $401M revenue in year one. On track for $1.8B this year.

Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra. In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.

ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps. nbcnews.com/politics/nationa…

Bob Mueller was one of the most honorable and patriotic men I ever knew. I once asked him “What made you who you are?”. Without hesitating a second, he said: “the United States Marine Corps.”

When I get to Heaven, St Peter’s gonna say, “How’d you earn your livin’ boy? How’d you make your pay?”

From 2003, FBI Director Robert Mueller on a Princeton classmate who was killed in Vietnam: "He became an example for me and a number of others as to the type of service one should undertake in order to pay back some of the gifts that have been given to us..."

A lot will be said about former FBI Director Robert Mueller, following his death Friday at 81. In addition to the rest, he was a survivor of a hellacious combat deployment in Vietnam. He suffered a gunshot wound in combat in April 1969 as a member of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines.

Bob Mueller was a Marine. He served in the Vietnam War where he earned a Bronze Star with Valor and a Purple Heart. cbsnews.com/news/robert-muel…

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Since the start of the war in Iran, at least 232 U.S. troops have been wounded, according to a U.S. official. The majority of those injuries are traumatic brain injuries. abcnews.link/WOJXhYu

🎤 6 Things I Learned as a #SXSW 2026 Mentor (and Why You Should Do It Too) Check it out my recap here on my #substack 🔗: open.substack.com/pub/nolanf… @sxsw #SXSW2026