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[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

“If buses are faster, unionized bus workers will lose overtime.”

[Matthew Chayes @chayesmatthew]

Reporter notes that if buses are faster, unionized bus workers will lose overtime. She asks Mamdani (and Lieber, the MTA boss) how gov’t officials will get buy-in from union.

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

SIX YEARS after the pandemic and Harvard administrative staff is still fighting against a requirement to actually show up to work in person. Insane.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

As the FAS works to close a $365M deficit, its restructuring has reached Harvard College. The Crimson broke down the changes, including five umbrella office groups and staff back on campus five days a week this fall.

@amannmahajan reports.

https://t.co/fABzHKCZbg

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our expanded thoughts on an institution’s freedom to pursue new opportunities, its economic rights, and its ability to expand them in the age of AI.

Please find attached our white paper, Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI, outlining the 15 steps governments and companies must take to protect both their sovereignty and their alpha.

https://t.co/rZuNeOKXU9

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

You should work here

[Samuel Aubin @SamuelRAubin]

We're hiring a lead mobile engineer in Austin. An opportunity to join a growing startup making real impact + work with cows. Apply with link below.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸

El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.

Joining @tbpn later today to share more.

If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!

Link to Axios article in thread.

[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

A quite moving plaque in the cloisters of England's Durham Cathedral:

[The Late Knight Show @Knightly_Hist]

A saber/falchion with a hilt made out of coral, 1580s Italy.

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

Ridiculous that Uber will present a Taxi option and a more expensive UberX option then give you a taxi when you call an UberX. What was the point?

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

🇺🇸

[Garcia @GarciaCap]

“Awarded four months ahead of schedule, these contracts signify that the FQ-42 and FQ-44 meet rigorous mission requirements and are ready for full-scale manufacturing.”

YOU ARE NOT BULLISH ENOUGH ON AMERICA

FIGHT UNFAIR™ ⚔️

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

@sdamico I assume targeting is also an issue at that small of a scale?

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

Nox Metals exists so America can build 100x more factories and technologically abundant industrial capacity in the West.

We are announcing our $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others.

Over the past few decades, America has neglected domestic production. We lost our dominating ability to build in the world of atoms while jobs on the factory floor plummeted.

It's time to build for America again. As our grandparents once did.

Since launching production only 7 months ago, we have shipped metal to hundreds of American factories. Countless truckloads to America's industrial base. And we are no where near slowing down.

Our metal has gone to space. It has protected our troops. It is in your car and in the machine that scanned your chest. It is all around us. And we can't stop supplying at warp speeds, because America needs it.

We will be revitalizing a WW2 era, 35,000 SQFT factory in Detroit this summer where we will have our techno industrialists working hard to further pursue our mission. We will be tripling down on technology, which has allowed us to move this fast for America thus far.

More code. More machines. More metal. More production.

[Bill Rivers @riverswrites]

Churchill knew his country was saved after Pearl Harbor. He slept “the sleep of the saved and thankful” that night because he knew the kind of men who were coming into the war on his side, the kind who could visit unspeakable violence against their own kin and yet endure and remain one country:

“Some said they were soft, others that they would never be united. They would fool around at a distance. They would never come to grips. They would never stand bloodletting... But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before—that the United States is like ‘a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.’”

A reminder that the boiler is not just industrial capacity and raw materials and supply chains, as vital as they are. Those things are necessary but not sufficient.

It really is the strength and raw courage of men crazy enough to watch the whole first wave ashore on D-Day go down who then decide they are going into that hell, too.

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

Everyone who likes Brutalism really only likes Brutalism (with plants)

[lusso @luusssso]

The Brazilians don’t get enough credit for basically inventing Tropical Brutalism

[𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐢 @sjgiardini]

conch style bungalow in key west, florida (1890)...

[Akhil @Mr_Voorakkara]

Multiple Makos, Multiple Missions - one platform, infinite capabilities 🦈

Mako can be man-portable, Mako can perform precise inspections, Mako can heavy lift, Mako can manipulate.

Mako is a maritime multi-tool with more capabilities being added everyday.

[Rock Wall Bibles @RockWallBibles]

This customer requested the color scheme of a pheasant.

[Cowboy Gospeler @CowboyGospeler]

Tucson rodeo during a dust storm '64

[Brooks Anderson @brooksbanderson]

Something has gone terribly wrong with the carryon bag situation such that every single flight requires gate-checks now.

I am sure this is the fault of the airlines, but I cannot help but also lay blame at the feet of the antisocial people who put their backpacks into the bins.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

The home of Washington Irving, Sunnyside