Bill Brown

Family man, former architect @ PXG, @RLCAZ secretary, @AZLD5GOP PC/SC, frmr GoDaddy, historian, and Objectivist. Loves energy, geopolitics, biology, psychology.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

They like their hollowed-out skin suit just fine, thank you very much. @EricAllie in daily @smerconish newsletter.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

Not sleeping, deeply relaxing.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

Yep.

(Toyota also did this with EVs until they lost their nerve and replaced their chairman/CEO.)

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

Is Apple going to "do a Bradbury" as we say in Australia, and come out the winner from the AI capex wars after everyone else comes-a-gutsa?

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@Hedgeye

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

That's what desperation looks like.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Cash flow no longer covers the AI capex bill, so hyperscalers are funding it with record debt:

Hyperscaler bond issuance has soared to $150 billion YTD, more than the prior two years combined.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

From here.
https://t.co/LEcO6hK09b

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

I like this.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

Amazing use of browser technology.

[David Hodge @DavidHodge]

It's live and free, no signup: https://t.co/4DXeRJydpv

Start at the beginning. October 1957 — one beeping aluminum sphere, alone up there. Then watch the sky fill to 15,000+. Here's Sputnik 1, the object that kicked it all off:

https://t.co/npBwH3W7OV

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@MrExaminer Actions are directed by the mind. If actions are directed by force, the mind is disconnected and mindless compliance is the result.

So I would say that force limits freedom of the mind, which results in limited freedom of action because the two are inseparable.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@TimothySandefur Her but I struggle to think how she could be on a bill given our current set up.
https://t.co/HMFYePgix9

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

This may have been a good answer by Spencer Pratt, but he IS largely running for his brand and to create a new career…

The proof of this is that if he wasn’t doing for a MAGA career, he would disavow Trump at every possible opportunity. But he doesn’t, thus dooming his chances.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

It's going to be hard for @RonDeSantis to fight this meme. (J.D. Vance has it worse, for sure.)

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

Marco Rubio realizing he has to become a popstar to perform at the nation’s 250th.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Daylight reveals the extent of damage caused to Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) and the surrounding area of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, following last night’s massive explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn during a Static Fire Test. Significant fire damage to the launch pad, tower, and other infrastructure can be seen - which will undoubtably require months of repairs - while debris from New Glenn lay scattered around LC-36.

Photo credit: @asherbphotos @tweetsiphotos @LaunchHeavenX

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

Reminds me of this great Jack Handey essay (from his esteemable collection What I'd Say to the Martians).
https://t.co/0ptn4WTzV3

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@exjon Unfortunately, this only happens if my wife dies before me. She's said "absolutely not."
https://t.co/B6vZrwkVqy

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

I am his dad. My kids know exactly what to do when I die: start working on my burial catapult.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@JordanSchachtel It was a nice try on her part.

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

Wherein I introduce the notion of "synonym dictionaries," which are not thesauri.
https://t.co/GteMGzyXRp

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

If you like dictionaries (I prefer the compact, one-volume The Oxford Universal Dictionary, BTW), then I bet you'll be floored by Crabb's English Synonyms. It's a synonym dictionary, which is quite distinct from a thesaurus in that it gives you gradation.

https://t.co/RdW7Hlm2F4

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

I checked my shelves and there's also Funk & Wagnalls Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions from 1947.

https://t.co/s4lPUuBx7E

[Bill Brown @billbrown]

@thewaronbeauty Which refers one to "adverse"
https://t.co/oomyV84kll