Atlas Warner

Independent voice. Western mythologist.

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

Brilliant invention

[Samyaza Speaks @SamyazaSpeaks]

The Biblical Experience

Music: Holy Place by BENNETT

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Balzac was right when he said: When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes.
When they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

@FoxNews That might stick. We’ll refer back at this era as “The Silent War”. The WW3 / Cold War 2.0 / Arms race 2.0. - The reorganization of the world order, the new batch of energy wars, the race for AI, drones, robots and autonomous weapons. - The Silent War.

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

@elonmusk Watch this explainer video to have your mind blown. This shows how Starlink actually works. https://t.co/zD99L0JQCt

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥 https://t.co/y0u9TiiBEE via @YouTube

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥 https://t.co/y0u9TiiBEE via @YouTube

[Marhelm @MarhelmData]

Insane footage as passenger on a bus records going over the Panama Canal as fuel tanks explode

Confirmed authentic footage by our team on the ground in Panama

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

If you're still not convinced the reason Trump attacked Iran is energy and China, here's Dick Cheney explaining it in detail 8 years ago in his biographical film 'Vice'

Can't make this up

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

Roughly 20% of global liquefied natural gas (LNG) up in flames.

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

@elonmusk 4.20 is giving great results in the chat. The agent collaboration is the key. What xAI is really missing is a great agent harness - CLI. There are options out there to use with xAI API but none of them are great. We need an official Grok CLI for coding or knowledge work!

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

@pmarca Both conclusions are true. It spikes the ability to produce and the delusions of grandeur. I’m enjoying it very much.

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

Watch this for two minutes. They make a profoundly important point about attempting to disarm a rogue AI system. "Why can't we just shut it off?" https://t.co/IBDlsiWPJI

[Atlas Warner @AtlasWarner]

I teeter back and forth between optimism and doomerism. I don’t want to be a doomer. I’m optimistic about my prospects, but they would take out scores of jobs so that I could get paid. That’s what everyone is building right now. This scenario looks more plausible every day.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

We are going to miss office jobs more than you think. https://t.co/6829id4rME

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Oh the irony...

[malinvestment.jpeg @malinvested]

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics.

“Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….”

The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The Left compares their own civilisation with utopia and therefore hates it.

The Right compares their own civilisation with barbarism and therefore loves it.