”Whatever you do, set out to win. Winning doesn’t mean always being first. It is a performance constant, so that, over time, you’re in a predictive and productive environment with partners you admire and judgments that you’re proud of” - Don Valentine

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@Mike_Hixenbaugh

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Abbott is now explicitly calling for universal vouchers like Arizona. Under one bill, parents who homeschool or send kids to private school would get $10,000 per year per child in a savings account. The money could roll over and go toward college costs.

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At parental rights event, Gov. Greg Abbott sheds light on how he’d im…

For the first time, Abbott makes it clear which policy he supports. Bills that would allow parents to get state money to send their kids to schools outside of the state’s public education system have…

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At the limits of this quaint mantra…

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Sir Doge of the Coin

@dogeofficialceo

Jan 27

It really is that simple

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” ― Werner Heisenberg

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@david_perell

Jan 27

Surprised by how many great scientists were intensely spiritual too. Makes me wonder if reason and religion are fundamentally connected, even though we see them as opposites.

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I was sent this

memo from

by a defense industry friend who said only "I know you love graphs and charts." (I do) Have a high-information-density, American industry whitepill:

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Contrary Research

@Contrary_Res

Jan 19

As the resurgence of US manufacturing continues to become pivotal for mission-critical sectors, emerging startups like @HadrianSpace are becoming integral to the supply chain. We just published a report on Hadrian, the factory manufacturer for aerospace & defense companies:

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it sure feels like we’ve reached peak AI. VC thought pieces and tweetstorms have hit all-time highs. crypto tourists have flocked to greener pastures. MBAs may soon outnumber nerds. is AI the new crypto?

luttig.substack.com

Is AI the new crypto?

The nuclear winter techpocalypse arrived, sparing only artificial intelligence. Peak AI indicators are everywhere. Can it maintain the faith that crypto lost?

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As the resurgence of US manufacturing continues to become pivotal for mission-critical sectors, emerging startups like

@HadrianSpace

are becoming integral to the supply chain. We just published a report on Hadrian, the factory manufacturer for aerospace & defense companies:

Pretty great list of companies doing amazing things. Shout out to

@epsilon3inc

here. (I’m a little bit biased).

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Michael Bloch

@michaelxbloch

Jan 17

The

government will spend $858,000,000,000 on defense in 2023. 4% of that will go to startups. Hundreds of founders are now building for the defense sector. From AI & autonomy to space & public safety, here's what this ecosystem looks like today

michaelxbloch.com/national-secur

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Washington Free Beacon

@FreeBeacon

Jan 17

European Commission VP Věra Jourová at the WEF: "Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law."

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We are excited to announce our Series A led by

with investment from

and other angels. We will use this $21M to grow our commercial teams to plant millions of trees across land in the US. reuters.com/business/susta

@Reuters

@JessopReuters

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Temasek, Toyota back climate biotech firm Living Carbon

Singapore state-owned investment company Temasek has led the latest funding round for climate tech firm Living Carbon, which aims to increase the carbon-absorbing ability of trees, the startup's...

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We lived in Airbnbs for ~2 years, and we’ve been screwed by hosts multiple times. Every time,

@Airbnb

support is virtually non-existent. They either don’t reply or side with the host *every time*, even when the host is intentionally and obviously violating a policy.

Really sick of

. We booked a room for tonight and the host added 50% extra in hidden fees, which goes explicitly against Airbnb’s publicly available policy. We complained w/

@AirbnbHelp

and showed them their own policy. They have done nothing. Very disappointing

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Come meet the

team at the

happy hour! Want to launch a satellite in 12mo? We’re hiring 👀

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Ari Lewis

@amlewis4

Jan 14

.@payloadspace is hosting an event February 2nd in El Segundo. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/la-space-ind

Thanks to Eric and Usman from Stanford CS for surprising me with a New Years present of a 5000 word thesis about why engineers should join Hadrian!

whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com

Why You Should Join Hadrian

The factory is the product.

Awesome to see the momentum for school choice spread to Iowa. If Iowa passes an ESA they’ll be joining an ever growing list of states empowering parents: -Arizona -Florida -West Virginia -Indiana -Mississippi -Missouri -New Hampshire -North Carolina -Tennessee Who’s next?

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@DeAngelisCorey

Jan 11

Iowa Gov. KIM REYNOLDS announces UNIVERSAL school choice bill: "My school choice bill will create education savings accounts for families.. in 3 years every family will have a choice in education and no child will be limited by income or ZIP code."

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@lucasbagnocv

Jan 11

Sayre's Law (meant to describe Academic politics and usually attributed to Kissinger) is true of *SO* many areas in life... "The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so low."

I'm 5 months late to the game here, but

@lucasbagnocv

@IanCinnamon

@villageglobal

Solarpunk podcast with

@sgblank

was one of the clearest descriptions of where we are currently in the world of national defense as it relates to tech + innovation.

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Steve Blank on Rebuilding the Department of Defense

Steve Blank (@sgblank), creator of Hacking For Defense and author of 4 Steps To The Epiphany, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode of Solarpunk. Takeaways: - The secret history of Silic

The End of “Industrial” Seed VC… (and return to the cottage industry it always was)

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US govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!

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@mtaibbi

Jan 3

11.The GEC report appeared based on DHS data circulated earlier that week, and included accounts that followed “two or more” Chinese diplomatic accounts. They reportedly ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long, and included Canadian officials and a CNN account:

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Paul Ehrlich provided the academic backing for the coerced sterilization of millions of people abroad under false pretenses of apocalypse, and suggested the U.S. govt put sterilants in our drinking water. If this man isn't a criminal, nobody is.

Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective. Here are 8 gems. 1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). Within a lifetime, humans went from having limited flight tech to travelling ~239k miles from Earth.

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“This fleeting life will eventually be lost to us all. You might as well be bold and love someone, climb a mountain, and chase a dream.” After multiple tries, I was able to create this aging animation using

@deforum_art

and a fine-tuned #stablediffusion model. #AIArtwork

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@lucasbagnocv

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that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.”

“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness…

Best books I've read in 2022

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Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc

@JasonKPargin

Dec 30, 2022

Front page Reddit post today: “I found my dad’s PlayStation from when he was a kid.”

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@ShellenbergerMD

Dec 29, 2022

There’s always a lot of debate about climate change but one thing that’s clear from the data is that the number of weather and climate-related disasters is going down thanks to rising economic development and human resilience, which is great news that we should celebrate!

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Introducing the Moment of Zen podcast featuring

@dwr

@antoniogm

and I First ep w/

@pmarca

on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/ChatGPT podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mom

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Helena Price Hambrecht

@helena

Dec 26, 2022

As I’ve slowly weaned myself off of alcohol, I realized something important. Alcohol doesn’t bring people together. People bring people together. I realized that for me, the best way to enjoy life without the harm is to remove the harm altogether. (15/15)

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Who is Santa Claus, why does he look like that, and where did he come from?

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“Why can't we build what they built? Because we don't believe what they believed. It's not an issue of technical ability.” - ⁦

@alancornett

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Congratulations

and the team at

on raising a $68M Series B to engineer new medicines from nature!

endpts.com

'As the market has turned': Enveda secures $68M to move revised pipeline into the clinic in 2023

Enveda Biosciences will enter the clinic next year with at least one of its three main programs thanks to a $68 million boost in financing — about $55 million via equity and the remainder debt....

Lucas Vaz

@lucasbagnocv

Dec 21, 2022

It is honestly kinda remarkable that Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse are still in business.

1/ American TikTok employees should be (and arguably are) legally accountable/liable for any espionage conducted by ByteDance & the C-C-P using TikTok US. There is no plausible deniability left. If you work there, you do so knowing that US data is freely accessible to the C-C-P.

Today we're proud to announce our Series B financing, led by Dimension with participation by

@SVB_Financial

and a deep bench of new and previous investors. Check out the

@endpts

piece and 🧵👇 for more on what we've built so far and what's coming next /1 (shorturl.at/oHMT8)

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'As the market has turned': Enveda secures $68M to move revised pipeline into the clinic in 2023

Enveda Biosciences will enter the clinic next year with at least one of its three main programs thanks to a $68 million boost in financing — about $55 million via equity and the remainder debt....

A lot of today’s problems - across culture, politics, and much more - have to do with our changing population pyramid. It doesn’t seem that way to most people, because it is a very slow crash. But it will be obvious by the end of the decade.

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I saw it a couple years ago and was like.. that's the almost perfect population pyramid. each age cohort slightly larger than the one before, but also not such rapid growth that it's unsustainable. The whole world used to be like this. less than 80 years ago. Energy insane.

Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor info from the public

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Michael Shellenberger

@ShellenbergerMD

Dec 19, 2022

1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020

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So the FBI had taken possession of the Hunter Biden laptop, knew for a fact it was 100% real, and repeatedly lied to Facebook and Twitter, telling them it was Russian disinformation, to get them to censor information they knew to be true, presumably to influence an election.

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