S. Parker Harrison

Nerd-dad. Onchain. Space the Final Frontier. I think therefore I am. Above all, to thine own self be true.

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@SandyofCthulhu How’d he survive?

I’d guess he was on a boat. A raft of some sort.

Curious: does this dovetail w Eden being in North America? And that is why Cain/Bigfoot is in North America too, rather than in, say, the Fertile Crescent where civilization restarted after the flood?

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously.

You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order.

But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history.

That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it.

And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create.

The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it.

If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@nickisanders Coinbase is now an AI company.

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@Polymarket Who?

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@nickisanders So.
Just read X all day?

[andrew chapello @chapello]

What breaks when you bolt a stablecoin onto existing AP:

1/ Your ERP has no field for a wallet address
2/ Approval flows assume a 1-2 day window that's gone
3/ Sanctions screening runs in batch, settlement runs in seconds
4/ Audit trail expects a bank statement, not a block explorer

The coin is easy. The plumbing around it is the work.

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@brookejlacey Tough life. :)

[Art Hits Hard @nightwriter22]

Director Denis Villeneuve considers Rendezvous with Rama his first true hard sci-fi film—grounded, realistic, and closer in style to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than Dune’s epic scope.

Eric Roth wrote the screenplay. The production will showcase Villeneuve’s signature slow-burn tension, vast minimalist visuals, and immersive practical/VFX sequences inside the giant alien cylinder.

The project will be budgeted at $190–250 million but is currently behind Villeneuve's upcoming James Bond film.

[Balaji @balajis]

Far left: we need to tear down the system
Center left: we need a system
Center right: we need positive-sum games
Far right: we need to win zero-sum games

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”

“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?

We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:

The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.

That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

We live in a Sci-Fi Universe.
3 minutes, people. Put your big boy pants on.

https://t.co/XoVlxQFgEj

[Handre @Handre]

The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output.

This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest.

Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose.

You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes.

Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning.

Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

[Travis Chapman @Travispaints]

This R-2 unit has a bad motivator! My painting in acrylic

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: "If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together."

Artemis II pilot Victor Glover reflects on the crew's historic mission from inside the U.S. Capitol, shifting the focus away from distance records and onto the team that made it possible.

Glover makes one thing clear: this wasn’t about four names on a crew list, it was a shared journey, powered by everyone watching, supporting, and pushing the mission forward.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

[movie tweets @lauren_w67]

Give me a 3 hour movie of this please

[S. Parker Harrison @HarrisonSParker]

@CNviolations Outdoor boys FTW!!!

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Florida to California via the Moon is a domestic flight until another country proves otherwise