Addison Salzman

Mostly tweeting about things that fly and #BigStructuralChange. Born at 360 ppm.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

The simple fact is that if @TerraformIndies can make hydrogen for <$1 per kilogram, it becomes cheaper to make hydrocarbons from sunlight and air than mine them out of the ground.

(This also makes Casey a decabillionaire)

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime

[Addison Salzman @AddisonSalzman]

@AlecStapp @dwarkesh_sp @collision @elonmusk Similarly, large airports consume as much energy in the form of jet fuel as the entire metro areas surrounding them consume in the form of electricity.
https://t.co/GNgqwjQtFC

LHR consumes as much jet fuel as the equivalent of 25% of the entire UK electricity grid!

[Aaron Levie @levie]

https://t.co/lXehx9mkQJ

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Thousands, and then millions, of American small businesses, including many iconic brands, will go bankrupt this year if the tariff policies on China don’t change.

🧵

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers.

I have never felt so intimidated by my peers

The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

The US government has been spending billions on cancer funding. Cancer! They're buying cancer! That is literally what it says on the purchase orders.

[Addison Salzman @AddisonSalzman]

@alexisxrivas @elonmusk Idk, seems like a pretty good use of money if DoD is concerned about our adversaries using large scale social engineering to manipulate us? Though clearly we’re willing to just do it to ourselves

[Addison Salzman @AddisonSalzman]

@alexisxrivas @elonmusk Thankfully you can literally just google this yourself to find that
1. Contract was awarded by DARPA during 1st Trump admin
2. Contract is for “Active Social Engineering Defense”
3. Thomson Reuters Special Services is a research firm serving defense customers (not a news outlet)

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Every day I see something I am convinced I hallucinated. Today, this was that.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The big lessons from the L.A. wildfires are:
1. The insurance industry is in big trouble
2. Climate change is a real problem
3. We need much more proactive forest management and less environmental regulation
4. We need to harden our homes against fire

https://t.co/WsdrOkrjeH

[Seva @SevaUT]

60k likes on this. it's time for me to stop being angry about stupid people and instead figure out how to legally scam them

[Carlos Lozada @CarlosNYT]

Word of the day

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week:

The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse.

The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections.

Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance.

Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.)

That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot.

Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs.

Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful.

Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well.

Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem.

If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem.

Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most.

That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern.

More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition.

Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory.

The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Remember: a huge portion of our tax code expires next year. The main material impact of this election will be to set the terms of the extensions.

You have the choice to turn the dial towards "rich people have more money" or "poor people have more money" - choose the latter!

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

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[Clem 🏆 @TheClemReport]

If you get an I Voted sticker for voting early, you should be able to scan it on your TV and all political ads should be replaced by normal commercials

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

After completely failing to reshore ANY manufacturing to America during his time in office, Trump now wants to cancel the one policy that has managed to reshore manufacturing to America.

This is ridiculous and awful.

https://t.co/11E450bTOP

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Honestly, this was an incredibly ad by Kamala Harris.