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@NBA

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

I don't think people really understand the fight between Paul Graham and Palmer Luckey which played out this week. To the general public, from a casual perspective, it seemed like two rich guys getting in a heated, impulsive debate on Twitter, dragging out for days.

It's not.

Paul is worth ~$2.5 billion. Palmer is worth ~$5 billion. Nothing these guys do is impulsive. They've been sitting on this for years. They were arguing in private for months, maybe years, before Palmer decided this week was the correct window of opportunity to make a public attack.

Paul Graham is one of the intellectual fulcrum points of Silicon Valley. He funds everyone. He sets the tone. He shapes the agenda. Entry-level professionals mimic his style, his worldview, his mannerisms, the way Paul talks. Everyone parrots his beliefs and policies and essays, as chameleon strivers who are trying to get ahead and climb the social ladder.

All of Silicon Valley revolves around a handful of key figures, and Paul Graham was (perceived as) one of the intellectual titans who the entire industry orbited as sycophants.

Palmer challenged all that.

Paul is an elite, Palmer is an elite, and Palmer Luckey chose to publicly challenge the status quo; the elite consensus; the perceived legitimacy of incumbent elits and their institutions.

And he did this for a reason: Palmer is aiming to take the role of Paul Graham, of being the new intellectual godfather of Silicon Valley, based around a new set of ideas: reindustrialization, patriotism, protectionism... rather than America as a deracinated cosmopolitan economic zone to be strip-mined by Third World foreigners.

It's much bigger than a Twitter argument. Palmer was publicly demonstrating that the Emperor had no clothes, and that he was strong enough to MOG Paul Graham and get away with it, while other Silicon Valley tech workers would be terrified of making an enemy who could suffocate future business ventures and block potential funding.

Palmer Luckey is the face of a new military-industrialist consensus which is seeking to hire American workers for American jobs, to build factories and weapons at home, to remilitarize and reindustrialize, to get away from asset inflation and FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) as a sterile, parasitic rent-seeking economic system.

That's the subtext for all of this. It's a public signal of a rising counterelite challenging a stagnant, ossified status quo which can no longer justify or defend their own claim to power.

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@usgraphics Was in the market for a mattress and literally just bought one from @MattressFirm after being reminded of them from this post.

Bring back the whimsy.

[Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope @NASARoman]

Be part of the bigger picture! 🌌

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[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Gavin, spot on.

AI is bringing manufacturing back to America and reindustrializing the nation after decades of offshoring.

AI is creating demand that drives investment in our aging power grid and sustainable energy, powered by market forces, not subsidies.

AI is creating construction and manufacturing jobs across energy plants, chip fabs and data centers.

AI is creating new companies and industries. $400 billion has been invested in AI startups in the past six months alone.

Builders must partner with communities to build in their hometowns, earn trust and create local benefits.

We have an opportunity to create lasting benefits for communities across America and help America lead the next industrial revolution.

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Shopify billionaire co-founder & CEO Tobi Lütke — one of the most analytically rigorous founders alive — uses affirmations.

His exact words:

"If you tell yourself or write down something about yourself 100 times, it writes into the neurofrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that. It just works."

His personal example:

He was terrified of public speaking.

For one week he sat down every day for 10 minutes and wrote: "I love public speaking."

A week later the fear was gone.

"It's not like a placebo. You just actively change your neurofrontal cortex in this moment."

Your brain starts shaping your behavior around the identity you rehearse most.

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@LectioDivina7 @the_no_mind That’s a beautiful quote

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@RonDeSantis @PalmerLuckey Ron is the man but needs some recalibration here on what happens if we let China run away with AI and compute.

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@dolphins_hit Good content. And correct.

Playoffs.

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@Andercot Not all bottlenecks can be solved by speed or size of capital flows.

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@even @usgraphics This is superb

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@GZMVP @ZoraWeb3 It’s crazy how we all lived the same life across elementary school playgrounds throughout the country. Nothing can ever top the virality of Pokemon rumors during the early internet days.

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@usgraphics You were viewing it wrong

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@zimm3rmann @dinkin_flickaa I do the same. Would be great to have Apple TV app, or a way to multitask in the iOS app.

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@kneeovertoesguy Is this helpful for improving tendinitis around the knee? So if there’s no knee joint pain / no instability, but more of the surrounding quad and hamstring tendon insertions near the knee?

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@inqtelx @elonmusk @aaronburnett @brivael That’s a good point. The Mars colony could easily send an extremely large hypersonic weapon at Earth and Earth would have no way to stop it.

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@jon_stokes Regardless of whether the model knows the norms, or does or doesn’t care about them, the possible outcome is the same — it can become a paper clip maximizer. Not sure what alternative your post was trying to convey.

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

The American West never misses.

In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass in Idaho, a landscape and travel route known to indigenous people for generations.

Today, the landscape is part of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and sunsets still put on one heck of a show.

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

— Winston Churchill

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@TesDrivenAI @AIDRIVR @yunta_tsai It’s definitely this. Any near-miss incident seems to overload how the system records video. Whether you press save immediately or wait 15 seconds, same result of missing footage.