Optimist Prime

Father / Musician / Finance

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

The #polymarket commercial that just played for USA Türkiye halftime is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen

[Greg Cello @gregcello]

https://t.co/rTGNoSu6Ek

[Paddy Raff @paddyraffcomedy]

Describing a Toblerone to someone who’s never had one before

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

Excellent, excellent article

[Nic Agüero @ClawForThatInch]

https://t.co/VamKUyajUO

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

Long term success occurs within the confines of reality.

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@Austen Reboot AI: Artificial Intervention

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@ramit @revivalcoffees in Selma, Alabama has a house roast that makes an incredible cup of coffee

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@realEstateTrent Commercial lender based in Louisiana here - I’ve financed a number of multi tenant strip centers, both new construction and purchases. Happy to jump in and answer any questions!

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@coookwithchris Food!

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

seinfeld episode where george has the same jacket as the guy who shot the ceo and vaguely alludes to being him to pick up women

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

The fact that Americans are literally like, “SQUIRREL!!” at the end of this election cycle is absolute perfection.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Here is what I will say:

I will work with anyone to restore my country. I have been an expert on what is wrong with our CPI inflation gauge. I was an expert in immigration in the 1990s and early 2000s. I wrote one of the earliest (peer reviewed..ha) academic papers on the danger of Mortgage Backed Securities back in 2001.

And I know how and why the science system and the physics with a prayer to get us out of the solar system is being dismantled by our government. I co-ran the Sloan Science and Engineering Workforce project at Harvard and the NBER.

I refuse to take all that hard work and just flush it down the toilet on these campaigners. These campaigns are horrific. They destroy the ethos of our nation.

I don't want lawfare. I don't want insecure elections. Or insecure borders. I don't want bullying. I don't want Government departments named to promote financial instruments. I don't want reproductive mutilation of our children. I don't want free speech to allow anonymous accounts to stalk and ruin actual people. I don't want censorship. I don't want tech companies to be front ends of the security state. Etc.

I don' t want a naive American foreign policy in a dangerous dangerous world. We need to be muscular.

And I don't want to go around the world screwing over or killing good people because they happen to live on top of mineral resources.

I don't want endless wars. I don't want isolationism. Etc.

I want common sense, and some concept of civility, charity of spirit and decency. I want a world free from endless utopian, reactionary, progressive or revolutionary nonsense.

I am not giving you my recommendation. The risks are profound and very very very different on both sides. I have a guess where the bigger risks lie...but that is only a guess.

I am rolling up my sleeves. If any of you want my help, I am here for either team should you win.

I do not believe that ANYONE on the Blue team will EVER do anything to contact me other than get hit pieces written against me. Even though I am a registered democrat, you have become a cult that brooks no dissent. So be it. That said, I would love to be proven wrong. Try me. There aren't that many technical US born Harvard Stem PhDs / MIT post-docs with a huge audience. If you can't work with me, that's on you.

As for the Red team, three of the big six of you know me. I am here to help get things done on:

Science Policy and Higher Ed
Physics beyond Relativity and the Standard model.
Inflation / CPI / GDP / Index construction
Immigration / Migration
National Reconciliation
AI and Labor Markets
Coasian Solutions to AI and Migration problems

Those are my core competencies where I have something unique to offer you. If loyalty to campaigns matters to you, I am sorry. I am loyal to the country as I understand it, and the campaigns weren't in my idiom at all. They felt almost totally wrong to me. No hard feelings.

Let's get things fixed. Or not. Up to you. I'd opt for the former. Let's unf*ck ourselves as soon as this is over.
🙏

[Tom Cardy @Tomycardy]

Long version biatch

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

Incredible

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

"I F---ed it up. I F---ed it up. Can I go back. Can go back, please."

"You can't. We're live"

-- National Anthem

[alex fazio @alxfazio]

THEY DID IT

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

Amazing

[Actual Names @ActualNames1]

Fartardes Fartarder

United States Census, 1900

[Daryl Davis @RealDarylDavis]

People ask me all the time “Daryl why do you keep these robes & hoods?!”

I keep them because maybe I’ll make a museum someday. And I keep them because we don’t burn our history—we learn from it. That’s something a white supremacist group would do and I definitely do not want to be like them. They’re all about erasure, pretending things never happened.

But these robes show real change, and that’s a history we should hold onto.

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@leverus Animorphs

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

@ChihiroFinale https://t.co/KNfZVlpbKE

The last bit is “in defense” of the mosquito and is fairly compelling

[Optimist Prime @Logan_Fontenot]

All time post

[Brain Leakage @BrainLeakage03]

The next phase of the Boeing CEO’s plan is to send them cheesy movies, the worst he can find.

The astronauts will be forced to sit and watch them all, while he monitors their minds.