Stu Vanden Heuvel

Rugged Individualist. Dad to Miles.

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

Update.

🎉Happy New Year from Mr. & Mrs. Vanden Heuvel

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

Calm before the storm

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

Out of touch take

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

🚨 BREAKING: CONGRESS JUST VOTED TO END THE IRAN WAR 🚨

FOUR REPUBLICANS BETRAYED THE PARTY.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This is how you do a great startup video

Humble and chill and a real cool backstory

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨TRENDING🚨

This video of a young Andy Reid getting CHEWED OUT on the sideline by Mike Holmgren after the wrong play was called has resurfaced.

Reid took the blame for Brett Favre’s mistake:

“I hope you still love me after I get my ass whipped here

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

🤣

[doomer @uncledoomer]

just finished this renovation for a satisfied customer who bought it as a fixer-upper off some dumbass boomer who didn't know what he had. And we added a dozen parking spots as well

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

h/t

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

All the naysayers in the comments

[MLB @MLB]

Jacob Misiorowski threw 10 pitches in the 1st inning:

102.4 MPH
103.0 MPH
102.8 MPH
102.7 MPH
103.2 MPH
103.3 MPH
103.3 MPH
103.5 MPH
103.1 MPH
103.6 MPH

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

The may be his worst stat of all

[ESPN Madison @ESPNMadison]

The Wisconsin #Badgers did not have a player selected in the NFL Draft for the first time since 1978.

#OnWisconsin | #NFLDraft

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

This is awesome

[いまにっちゃん✯Imani-chan @Imanicchan1908]

今日は京都でアメリカを感じられる僕の大好きなイベントにきています🇺🇸❤️‍🔥
最高😍

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

Went through TSA today in Denver and declined the face scan (personal SOP).

The disgruntled lady said “you better get used to this, it’s required in the UK and France and will be here soon.”

What a weird thing to say. This is America! We rarely emulate Europe.

[Husk @huskirl]

Was that natural?

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Powerful and true.

[Giannis Antetokounmpo @Giannis_An34]

Year 13 ✅📖

This has been one of the toughest seasons of my career, but as they say, like a phoenix from the ashes, I’ll rise.💯

To the city of Milwaukee, MY city, thank you for the unwavering love and support. 🤎

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

What is going on in Menomonee county?

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

americans in the southeast of the US have a 20 year shorter life expectancy than those elsewhere

insane difference

why?

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

More companies will do this. They should!

[Engineering at Meta @Meta_Engineers]

Today we're announcing LevelUp: a free, four-week training program that takes people with no prior experience and prepares them to work as fiber technicians on data center construction sites across the US.

We built this program with CBRE because the fiber technician field, and the broader construction industry, is facing a nationwide shortage at a time when data center demand is higher than ever.

How it works:
🔧 Classroom instruction, hands-on labs + team activities covering transferable technical skills

🎓 Graduates have the opportunity to work at Meta's US construction sites through our contractor network

🤝 Open to everyone from recent high school grads to mid-career professionals

Since 2010, Meta's data center projects have supported 30,000+ skilled trade jobs during construction + 5,000+ permanent operational roles. LevelUp is about building the pipeline to keep that going.

Learn more: https://t.co/9XluD5IHbz

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

What a scene

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

@PalmerLuckey Make Orwell Fiction Again

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

@ShawnRyan762 @grok Good time to reread Freedom’s Forge 🇺🇸

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Minnesotans lost $9B in taxpayer dollars to just 14 Medicaid programs under Tim Walz’s administration.

Today, every single Democrat in Rules Committee voted to block an investigation into that fraud.

Absolutely disgusting.

[Stu Vanden Heuvel @StuVH]

i often think which product is worse.. but i have no choice but to use:
Salesforce or Zoominfo