![balajis's tweet photo. One thing I want to stress: this is the Flight 93 Administration.
What that means is: many in the administration really are smart, well-intentioned men who managed to rush the cockpit against all odds, take control of the plane from abolish-the-police ideological terrorists, and are now trying to avert a crash landing. Some also do get how difficult the strategic situation vs China and the debt and so on is.
But if you look at the numbers, the plane's relative descent has been going on for decades and is now likely irreversible:
Even this relative descent might not be the end of the world if the US exported tomatoes and cars. However, it mainly exports dollars. And the issuer of the global reserve currency can't tolerate a gradual decline, because losing money printing ability will mean an Argentina-like tumble to something like the #50 spot rather than a graceful descent to #2.
That's what underpins the push to retain or even expand empire, a push that is now nearing the end of the line. For obvious reasons, the American public doesn't really want to hear this kind of truth, and it's also not obvious that saying it would help.
Anyway: I'm not constrained in that way, so I can speak the truth as I see it. I may of course be wrong, but citations follow.
CITATIONS
[1]: Clip of Hegseth on the Shawn Ryan pod before he became Secretary: "If 15 [Chinese] hypersonic missiles can take out our ten aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?"
https://t.co/gred8qeq9H
[2]: Video of Raytheon CEO explaining that they can't decouple from China:
https://t.co/ZLuzmQS2od
[3]: Clip of former US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire US Navy combined:
https://t.co/qz2LKzTkKt
[4]: Pentagon-commissioned Govini study showing that the US military is made in China: https://t.co/8XcKYw98cy
[5]: Pentagon is reportedly withdrawing from China to focus on the Western hemisphere:
https://t.co/uOl5QYTWU1
[5b]: See also @DoggyDog1208 on how China may have scaled so fast that it obviated the Thucydides trap: https://t.co/TLTirAYKAK
[6]: Dollar inflation is global taxation:
https://t.co/Je8ddU1xyc
Yields up, gold and digital gold at all time highs:
https://t.co/ItY6Vnb3Qj
[7]: Graph from @LukeGromen showing the debasement of the Roman denarius vs the debasement of the American dollar:
[8]: Elon is our best guy, and went all in, and concluded that he did his best. He further noted on the All-In Pod that the US government is simply beyond fixing:
https://t.co/ih1O9gWo0t
If you combine his notes with Dalio, Turchin, the Sovereign Individual, the Fourth Turning, and frankly dozens of other commentators at this point...what emerges isthat something comparable to the end of the USSR is approaching, a national insolvency.
[9]: I wrote a piece on an Internet-native version of the special economic zone, the Special Elon Zone. Essentially, take some abandoned piece of land, keep most of the laws, but sunset select old regulations so that we can build at the speed of physics not permits:
https://t.co/fKdLlAWxQ4
[10]: Here's a bit more on the shift from Christendom to the West, which will be comparably important to the shift from the West to the Internet. It isn't just the American dollar decentralizing to the Internet via Bitcoin, but American society.
https://t.co/JG6wTzSpom
[11]: The Internet is currently intangible, but it won't always be so. See this post on how popups are the new startups:
https://t.co/Npc8zbPbCm
[12]: The concept of "Internet First" is simultaneously a play on words of "America First" but also "mobile first". It's a technopolitical strategy. It observes that the Internet is the first thing you check in the morning, and the first place you go for your transactions and your communications, and actually also the first place for ostensibly Nation First political movements.
The logic is that ultimately the Internet will come from the background to the foreground, and that 21st century ideologies will be built explicitly on Internet First grounds.
Or as Larry Page put it, "If you look at the different kinds of laws we make, they're very old. The laws when we went public we're 50 years old...A law can't [necessarily] be right if it's 50 years old, like it's before the Internet, that's a pretty major change."
https://t.co/iLWZ1Ztz5b](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3dHTxSWwAAOJIk.jpg)
![balajis's tweet photo. One thing I want to stress: this is the Flight 93 Administration.
What that means is: many in the administration really are smart, well-intentioned men who managed to rush the cockpit against all odds, take control of the plane from abolish-the-police ideological terrorists, and are now trying to avert a crash landing. Some also do get how difficult the strategic situation vs China and the debt and so on is.
But if you look at the numbers, the plane's relative descent has been going on for decades and is now likely irreversible:
Even this relative descent might not be the end of the world if the US exported tomatoes and cars. However, it mainly exports dollars. And the issuer of the global reserve currency can't tolerate a gradual decline, because losing money printing ability will mean an Argentina-like tumble to something like the #50 spot rather than a graceful descent to #2.
That's what underpins the push to retain or even expand empire, a push that is now nearing the end of the line. For obvious reasons, the American public doesn't really want to hear this kind of truth, and it's also not obvious that saying it would help.
Anyway: I'm not constrained in that way, so I can speak the truth as I see it. I may of course be wrong, but citations follow.
CITATIONS
[1]: Clip of Hegseth on the Shawn Ryan pod before he became Secretary: "If 15 [Chinese] hypersonic missiles can take out our ten aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?"
https://t.co/gred8qeq9H
[2]: Video of Raytheon CEO explaining that they can't decouple from China:
https://t.co/ZLuzmQS2od
[3]: Clip of former US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire US Navy combined:
https://t.co/qz2LKzTkKt
[4]: Pentagon-commissioned Govini study showing that the US military is made in China: https://t.co/8XcKYw98cy
[5]: Pentagon is reportedly withdrawing from China to focus on the Western hemisphere:
https://t.co/uOl5QYTWU1
[5b]: See also @DoggyDog1208 on how China may have scaled so fast that it obviated the Thucydides trap: https://t.co/TLTirAYKAK
[6]: Dollar inflation is global taxation:
https://t.co/Je8ddU1xyc
Yields up, gold and digital gold at all time highs:
https://t.co/ItY6Vnb3Qj
[7]: Graph from @LukeGromen showing the debasement of the Roman denarius vs the debasement of the American dollar:
[8]: Elon is our best guy, and went all in, and concluded that he did his best. He further noted on the All-In Pod that the US government is simply beyond fixing:
https://t.co/ih1O9gWo0t
If you combine his notes with Dalio, Turchin, the Sovereign Individual, the Fourth Turning, and frankly dozens of other commentators at this point...what emerges isthat something comparable to the end of the USSR is approaching, a national insolvency.
[9]: I wrote a piece on an Internet-native version of the special economic zone, the Special Elon Zone. Essentially, take some abandoned piece of land, keep most of the laws, but sunset select old regulations so that we can build at the speed of physics not permits:
https://t.co/fKdLlAWxQ4
[10]: Here's a bit more on the shift from Christendom to the West, which will be comparably important to the shift from the West to the Internet. It isn't just the American dollar decentralizing to the Internet via Bitcoin, but American society.
https://t.co/JG6wTzSpom
[11]: The Internet is currently intangible, but it won't always be so. See this post on how popups are the new startups:
https://t.co/Npc8zbPbCm
[12]: The concept of "Internet First" is simultaneously a play on words of "America First" but also "mobile first". It's a technopolitical strategy. It observes that the Internet is the first thing you check in the morning, and the first place you go for your transactions and your communications, and actually also the first place for ostensibly Nation First political movements.
The logic is that ultimately the Internet will come from the background to the foreground, and that 21st century ideologies will be built explicitly on Internet First grounds.
Or as Larry Page put it, "If you look at the different kinds of laws we make, they're very old. The laws when we went public we're 50 years old...A law can't [necessarily] be right if it's 50 years old, like it's before the Internet, that's a pretty major change."
https://t.co/iLWZ1Ztz5b](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3dF8-dXMAArUSp.jpg)
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Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it
myself.
I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help:
Name the flavor or suggest ingredients
Or design the pint packaging
Tag @yobencohen, @MagnumGlobal use #JusticeforPalestine to submit
Use your voice when Ben & Jerry’s can’t — to secure peace, justice, and dignity in Palestine
#FreeBenandJerrys
We stopped to get some medjool dates in the Ziz valley and they are by a huge margin the best dates I've ever tasted. Apparently the variety originated there.
One thing I want to stress: this is the Flight 93 Administration.
What that means is: many in the administration really are smart, well-intentioned men who managed to rush the cockpit against all odds, take control of the plane from abolish-the-police ideological terrorists, and are now trying to avert a crash landing. Some also do get how difficult the strategic situation vs China and the debt and so on is.
But if you look at the numbers, the plane's relative descent has been going on for decades and is now likely irreversible:
Even this relative descent might not be the end of the world if the US exported tomatoes and cars. However, it mainly exports dollars. And the issuer of the global reserve currency can't tolerate a gradual decline, because losing money printing ability will mean an Argentina-like tumble to something like the #50 spot rather than a graceful descent to #2.
That's what underpins the push to retain or even expand empire, a push that is now nearing the end of the line. For obvious reasons, the American public doesn't really want to hear this kind of truth, and it's also not obvious that saying it would help.
Anyway: I'm not constrained in that way, so I can speak the truth as I see it. I may of course be wrong, but citations follow.
CITATIONS
[1]: Clip of Hegseth on the Shawn Ryan pod before he became Secretary: "If 15 [Chinese] hypersonic missiles can take out our ten aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?"
https://t.co/gred8qeq9H
[2]: Video of Raytheon CEO explaining that they can't decouple from China:
https://t.co/ZLuzmQS2od
[3]: Clip of former US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire US Navy combined:
https://t.co/qz2LKzTkKt
[4]: Pentagon-commissioned Govini study showing that the US military is made in China: https://t.co/8XcKYw98cy
[5]: Pentagon is reportedly withdrawing from China to focus on the Western hemisphere:
https://t.co/uOl5QYTWU1
[5b]: See also @DoggyDog1208 on how China may have scaled so fast that it obviated the Thucydides trap: https://t.co/TLTirAYKAK
[6]: Dollar inflation is global taxation:
https://t.co/Je8ddU1xyc
Yields up, gold and digital gold at all time highs:
https://t.co/ItY6Vnb3Qj
[7]: Graph from @LukeGromen showing the debasement of the Roman denarius vs the debasement of the American dollar:
[8]: Elon is our best guy, and went all in, and concluded that he did his best. He further noted on the All-In Pod that the US government is simply beyond fixing:
https://t.co/ih1O9gWo0t
If you combine his notes with Dalio, Turchin, the Sovereign Individual, the Fourth Turning, and frankly dozens of other commentators at this point...what emerges isthat something comparable to the end of the USSR is approaching, a national insolvency.
[9]: I wrote a piece on an Internet-native version of the special economic zone, the Special Elon Zone. Essentially, take some abandoned piece of land, keep most of the laws, but sunset select old regulations so that we can build at the speed of physics not permits:
https://t.co/fKdLlAWxQ4
[10]: Here's a bit more on the shift from Christendom to the West, which will be comparably important to the shift from the West to the Internet. It isn't just the American dollar decentralizing to the Internet via Bitcoin, but American society.
https://t.co/JG6wTzSpom
[11]: The Internet is currently intangible, but it won't always be so. See this post on how popups are the new startups:
https://t.co/Npc8zbPbCm
[12]: The concept of "Internet First" is simultaneously a play on words of "America First" but also "mobile first". It's a technopolitical strategy. It observes that the Internet is the first thing you check in the morning, and the first place you go for your transactions and your communications, and actually also the first place for ostensibly Nation First political movements.
The logic is that ultimately the Internet will come from the background to the foreground, and that 21st century ideologies will be built explicitly on Internet First grounds.
Or as Larry Page put it, "If you look at the different kinds of laws we make, they're very old. The laws when we went public we're 50 years old...A law can't [necessarily] be right if it's 50 years old, like it's before the Internet, that's a pretty major change."
https://t.co/iLWZ1Ztz5b
![balajis's tweet photo. One thing I want to stress: this is the Flight 93 Administration.
What that means is: many in the administration really are smart, well-intentioned men who managed to rush the cockpit against all odds, take control of the plane from abolish-the-police ideological terrorists, and are now trying to avert a crash landing. Some also do get how difficult the strategic situation vs China and the debt and so on is.
But if you look at the numbers, the plane's relative descent has been going on for decades and is now likely irreversible:
Even this relative descent might not be the end of the world if the US exported tomatoes and cars. However, it mainly exports dollars. And the issuer of the global reserve currency can't tolerate a gradual decline, because losing money printing ability will mean an Argentina-like tumble to something like the #50 spot rather than a graceful descent to #2.
That's what underpins the push to retain or even expand empire, a push that is now nearing the end of the line. For obvious reasons, the American public doesn't really want to hear this kind of truth, and it's also not obvious that saying it would help.
Anyway: I'm not constrained in that way, so I can speak the truth as I see it. I may of course be wrong, but citations follow.
CITATIONS
[1]: Clip of Hegseth on the Shawn Ryan pod before he became Secretary: "If 15 [Chinese] hypersonic missiles can take out our ten aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?"
https://t.co/gred8qeq9H
[2]: Video of Raytheon CEO explaining that they can't decouple from China:
https://t.co/ZLuzmQS2od
[3]: Clip of former US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire US Navy combined:
https://t.co/qz2LKzTkKt
[4]: Pentagon-commissioned Govini study showing that the US military is made in China: https://t.co/8XcKYw98cy
[5]: Pentagon is reportedly withdrawing from China to focus on the Western hemisphere:
https://t.co/uOl5QYTWU1
[5b]: See also @DoggyDog1208 on how China may have scaled so fast that it obviated the Thucydides trap: https://t.co/TLTirAYKAK
[6]: Dollar inflation is global taxation:
https://t.co/Je8ddU1xyc
Yields up, gold and digital gold at all time highs:
https://t.co/ItY6Vnb3Qj
[7]: Graph from @LukeGromen showing the debasement of the Roman denarius vs the debasement of the American dollar:
[8]: Elon is our best guy, and went all in, and concluded that he did his best. He further noted on the All-In Pod that the US government is simply beyond fixing:
https://t.co/ih1O9gWo0t
If you combine his notes with Dalio, Turchin, the Sovereign Individual, the Fourth Turning, and frankly dozens of other commentators at this point...what emerges isthat something comparable to the end of the USSR is approaching, a national insolvency.
[9]: I wrote a piece on an Internet-native version of the special economic zone, the Special Elon Zone. Essentially, take some abandoned piece of land, keep most of the laws, but sunset select old regulations so that we can build at the speed of physics not permits:
https://t.co/fKdLlAWxQ4
[10]: Here's a bit more on the shift from Christendom to the West, which will be comparably important to the shift from the West to the Internet. It isn't just the American dollar decentralizing to the Internet via Bitcoin, but American society.
https://t.co/JG6wTzSpom
[11]: The Internet is currently intangible, but it won't always be so. See this post on how popups are the new startups:
https://t.co/Npc8zbPbCm
[12]: The concept of "Internet First" is simultaneously a play on words of "America First" but also "mobile first". It's a technopolitical strategy. It observes that the Internet is the first thing you check in the morning, and the first place you go for your transactions and your communications, and actually also the first place for ostensibly Nation First political movements.
The logic is that ultimately the Internet will come from the background to the foreground, and that 21st century ideologies will be built explicitly on Internet First grounds.
Or as Larry Page put it, "If you look at the different kinds of laws we make, they're very old. The laws when we went public we're 50 years old...A law can't [necessarily] be right if it's 50 years old, like it's before the Internet, that's a pretty major change."
https://t.co/iLWZ1Ztz5b](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3dJGghXgAA-5Mn.png)
Last week, I gave a talk called "The Muslim Technologist."
The core question: how do we move past permissibility ethics ("is this tech halal?"), toward one where our community builds with values in mind?
This essay is a synthesis of these ideas. I'm excited for you to read.
@RaoulGMI Same and its something that was an issue with Claude before. Essentially LLMs (right now) struggle with tasks beyond 50 minute human equivalents, a form of long term reasoning.
She's eight.
If you are an American, you must listen to this.
American hero—25 years service, 12 deployments, Purple Heart, Bronze Star & ARCOM Medalist, etc—talks about the conditions he witnessed in Gaza.
Conditions that your government has a big hand in, and your tax money is paying for.
@AskPerplexity convert this to a video of hitting a forehand
@solana omar.sol
@arlanr Congratulations Arlan! Can't wait to see what the future brings
True. Don’t be a coward.
If you didn't speak out against *both* woke censorship and Trump's attempts to suppress criticism of Israel at universities, you're not a genuine free speech advocate. You're just a partisan hack who pretends to care about free speech when it suits you.
Pivot
Deporting illegal immigrants proved to be too hard so they pivoted to deporting legal immigrants.
Build and install an App on your iPhone in 15 minutes without writing code.
@amasad Theo Von is the man
@wholemars Health insurance is mandatory yet many people in this country can’t afford life saving care. Unless you work in health care or over 50yo, you haven’t really dealt with health insurance.
@AravSrinivas Is there a google trends kind of tool for perplexity searches?
Why are folks are so pissed at @patrickc's tweet? It's because, unlike a lot of people, he actually knows what Israel is doing
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