Agota

Vet70+ competitive fencer: epee, foil, saber. Enjoy music. Love my dogs.

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@SpaceX Congratulations! Bravo SpaceX team!

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@SpaceX This is like reading the best science fiction novel!

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

Surprise: ceiling of my hotel room. Now I cannot fall asleep until I find the names of the craters.

[Fencing @FIE_fencing]

The countdown is ON. Tbilisi, get ready. ⚔️🔥🤺

The Veteran World Championships are heading to Tbilisi, Georgia, from 9–17 October.🇬🇪

Are you ready? 👀

#fencing #escrime #esgrima #tbilisi #georgia

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@FIE_fencing On the way ✈️ … looking forward seeing my 🤺 friends again…

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@Starlink on BA 👏!

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

Stag two of packing for the tournament. Shoutout to @skbcases to be my reliable travel companion for 15+ yrs.

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

Packing fencing equipment - epee, foil & saber - in a golf bag is a logistical endevor! 🤣

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@theallinpod @Jason Sorry, but it won‘t happen so fast. „ Normies’“age and $ are still major hurdles.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

That sound.. 😅

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

America's Next 250: Remember Who We Are

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[The AI Colony @TheAIColony]

🚨 BREAKING: Apple is officially releasing iOS 27 to all users TODAY!

iOS Biggest upgrade.

Here are 9 mind-blowing features you cannot afford to miss:

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@ScienceNews Since I started to take oc seasonal allergy med - now Allertec -, mosquitos almost never bite me. Before, I was their favorite.

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad.

Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again."

For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition.

The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code.

Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building companies where you either understood manufacturing or you failed.

SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade, how one physical iteration costs months and millions. No hotfix. No rollback. Physics doesn't negotiate.

Boyle: "Training two generations of engineers."

The product was never the cars. It was the people.

Look at who's founding America's hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn't Stanford or MIT. It's time on a factory floor at SpaceX or Tesla.

They learned to weld. They learned that "impossible" means unsolved engineering, not violated physics. They learned that failure in the physical world compounds, because nothing reverts.

Elon didn't just build companies. He rebuilt industrial knowledge that had been decaying for thirty years while the country's best minds chased digital scale.

He made atoms matter again. Made manufacturing the hardest problem worth solving. Made physical engineering prestigious in a way it hadn't been since humans walked on the moon.

Boyle: "Work with their hands again."

Five words that sound quaint. They describe the moment America started building again.

The blueprints for the Saturn V still exist. No one can build one from them.

Knowledge that lives in hands doesn't survive on paper. It dies in a single generation of neglect, and no archive brings it back. That is how a civilization loses the ability to make things while still holding every document that explains how.

America was one generation from that. It got the generation back instead.

The best technical talent no longer asks which app to build. It asks what should exist that doesn't. From engagement metrics to launch cadence. From scaling users to scaling factories.

That shift outlives every vehicle and spacecraft he delivered. Products obsolesce. Engineers who know how to make things do not.

We stopped coding the future. We started machining it, welding it, breaking it until physics signs off.

Those engineers are training the next wave now. The School of Elon doesn't need Elon anymore. It's self-sustaining, spreading through a generation that learned the higher calling is building real things.

That isn't a business achievement. It's a civilization remembering how to make things.

You can copy a design. You can't copy a generation that knows how to build one.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

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I'm not what you'd call a keen observer of the political climate in our country, but I do pay attention, broadly, to what's going on within our two parties. Watching the latest from @billmaher, I was reminded of how we struggle to reconcile our support for an idea we might like, if it’s promoted by a politician we hate. And vice versa. Here though, we have an opportunity - Democrats, in particular - to speak out loudly and clearly against an ideology that has been proven, demonstrably, to be a really bad idea.

It’s alarming to see how quickly communism has been embraced by so many, but it's even more alarming, to see how many have yet to condemn it, in favor of sheltering under a “big tent.” This week, Gavin Newsom dismissed concerns over Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and progressive candidates winning key primaries, stating he would gladly campaign for them. He argued that the party must be in the "addition, not subtraction business" to retake control of Congress.
Not that anyone asked me, but…wow. The candidates that Newsom is referring to here are not subtle. They have clearly articulated precisely what they want, and exactly what they will try to accomplish if they gain power. No borders. No police. No prisons. No Senate. From each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities, and so forth. They are literally quoting Karl Marx, and they are literally on the record as desiring to completely dismantle our government and replace it with actual communism. And the Governor of California says he will campaign on their behalf, if doing so will result in a Congressional win. Truly amazing.

Seems to me, that this is best opportunity Democrats will ever have to make some kind of reasonable appeal to Independents, and those not on board with this administration. This is a chance to affirmatively distance themselves from an ideology that has caused more human suffering than any other scheme dreamt up by man. And yet, they have not.

I understand how unpopular President Trump is in the eyes of many. But if the DSA continues to grow in popularity, and the Democrats actually campaign on their behalf, I think it’ll be the largest political blunder in my lifetime. Unless of course, I’m wrong, and the DSA expands to swallow the Democratic Party, and communism winds up on the ballot. In which case, Ronald Reagan’s warning will haunt us all.

“Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.”I

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

Landed today 36 years ago. It was a big decision. I’m happy and grateful to be here.

[Agota @AgotaBalot]

@WHLeavitt @elonmusk AAA

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The AI infrastructure boom is generating strong demand for skilled blue-collar workers. In fact, there’s a shortage of electricians, fiber technicians, and mechanical tradespeople needed to build and maintain AI data centers. Meta’s new $115M America’s Workforce Academy provides paid training plus job guarantees for exactly these roles. This is the kind of practical jobs training program that we need more of.