José Ancer

Hobbyist intellectual & consigliere to elite tech startups. Dad to 3 w/ Mrs. of 15+ yrs. @UTAustin (Philo/Econ)+ @Harvard_Law. Geopolitics is my sportsball.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

Critical commentary about "tech bros" and "mediocre white men" has been circulating the news and mediasphere lately. This inspired me to write another (a third) essay in my years-long rumination on "diversity" in the startup and broader tech world.
https://t.co/W9YZSfMURl

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@anothercohen Reminds me of that Bezos story from Princeton where he’s racking his brain on a physics problem, and a bro looks at it, pauses for a few seconds, and gives an answer. Then writes 3 pages showing his mental math.

And Jeff is like, “at that moment I decided to quit physics.”

[José Ancer @ancerj]

America is a lot of things. A LOT.

One of those things is, “Our Asians are better than your Asians.”

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Most impressive thing I’ve ever seen.

I would like to invest my entire net worth in Cognition now

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Boring Company building a tunnel from Long Beach to the Inland Empire so we can move containers on electric self-driving chassis at 100 mph average speed (versus ~10 mph today) would transform American logistics forever.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@CaseySoftware He yearned.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

I want nuclear-electric flying cars, heated swimming pools in the middle of winter, perfectly lush green lawns in the middle of the desert, indoor skiing in the middle of summer.

The opposite of this.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is just sad.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@Dalrymple Reputations change. I think both Cadillac and Lincoln have nice aesthetics today. The former is much more new money (but mercifully less gangster rapper), the latter old money. But I like both vibes.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

Bad time for me to mention that Cadillac and Lincoln have clearly surpassed Mercedes and BMW on aesthetics?

Well, I said it anyway.

[Investor_NICK @Investor_NICK_]

Volvo -25% (LOD was -31%) … nuked on a big swing from profits a year ago to a 5.6B SEK Q3 operating loss. Will also cut 2,500 jobs with 2,000 of them being in Sweden. China sales dropped -50%. Europe just getting hammered.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

The Factory in Phoenix That Could Save American Manufacturing https://t.co/W58prtcEv6

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@robkhenderson they just like us fr

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@arctotherium42 much easier to slash budgets because the money isn't there and isn't going to be there, than to say "actually, we have the money, but we're going to spend it in this other much more rational way."

political economy rules everything around me. burn it down. build anew later.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

you have a moral duty to ensure your children do not become downwardly mobile naive brats who justify burning down everything you, your parents, grandparents, etc. built.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

“Your shops that got looted were nice, okay, but we’re starving.”

People looked this girl up and her dad is a corporate executive who worked for Shell.

What a smug psychopath.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

The public supports her- that’s why she makes a sign.

They blame the school when the school is protecting the other children from her child.

She needs to take responsibility for being a bad mother.

But no politician (right or left)will ever say this.

[José Ancer @ancerj]

💀 POV

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

messaging my wife a link containing proof of her husband cheating on her from an anonymous instagram account and then when she clicks on it texting her to let her know she failed the family phishing test and she has to retake my cybersecurity course

[José Ancer @ancerj]

Brazil election to impact rare-earth race as West seeks China balance https://t.co/6cdXeIOykW

[José Ancer @ancerj]

Add it to your Halloween playlist.

Nightmare https://t.co/u5eils0vsy via @YouTube

[José Ancer @ancerj]

the world needs pre-school teachers, and it needs navy seals. neither is superior. society collapses without both of them.

but very very *very* bad things happen when the seals start telling the pre-school teachers how to teach, or the teachers tell the seals how to... seal.

[L'Encre Discrète @LEncreDisce6hj]

Une famille juive nommée Karnofsky, qui a émigré de Lituanie aux États-Unis, a eu pitié d'un garçon de 7 ans et l'a accueilli chez elle.

Là, il séjourna et passa la nuit dans cette maison familiale juive, où, pour la première fois de sa vie, il fut traité avec gentillesse et tendresse.

Lorsqu'il se couchait, Mme Karnovski lui chantait des berceuses russes, qu'il chantait avec elle.

Plus tard, il apprit à chanter et à jouer diverses chansons russes et juives.

Au fil du temps, ce garçon est devenu le fils adoptif de cette famille.

M. Karnofsky lui a donné de l'argent pour acheter son premier instrument de musique, comme c'était la coutume dans les familles juives.

Plus tard, lorsqu'il devint musicien et compositeur professionnel, il utilisa ces mélodies juives dans des compositions telles que St. James's Hospital et Go Down Moses.

Le garçon a grandi et a écrit un livre sur cette famille juive qui l’a adopté en 1907. Et il parlait couramment le yiddish avec fierté.

En mémoire de cette famille et jusqu'à la fin de sa vie, il a porté l'étoile de David et a déclaré que dans cette famille il avait appris « à vivre une vraie vie et avec détermination ».

Le nom de ce petit garçon était Louis Armstrong. Ce petit garçon s'appelait Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Louis Armstrong parlait fièrement couramment le yiddish et « Satchmo » signifie en yiddish « grosses joues », un surnom que certains disent que Mme Karnofsky lui a donné !

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The entire AI infrastructure complex is now in a bear market.

Drawdown since all time high

> GE Vernova: -22%
> Quanta: -24%
> Eaton: -18%
> Vertiv: -47%
> Bloom Energy: -32%
> Constellation Energy: -33%
> Coreweave: -67%
> IREN: -64%

Either a falling knife or a generational buying opportunity, depending on which side of the AI debate you sit on

[José Ancer @ancerj]

:: low-key whistle ::

[Michael Millerman @millerman]

Claude just discovered an unpatchable zero day vulnerability in rawlsian liberalism

[José Ancer @ancerj]

@arcticinstincts Explain this to me, if you don’t mind? How do the Finns play into everything?