Cameron Nehrer

Marketing & Comms at Rocket Lab 📸🎥

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

Sights and sounds from the factory floor last week.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

We have completed breakover operations for the Neutron Stage 2 tank assembly, rotating the stage horizontal – a critical step in the handling of large rocket sections for integration and assembly.

Here’s a last look at Stage 2 on the Neutron Factory floor before it’s wrapped up (literally) for barge shipment to LC-3 on Wallops Island where its fluid systems will be tested and its Archimedes vacuum engine installed.

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

@jamestalarico Ai doomerism is so lame. The future is bright… if we avoid electing busybodies like you.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

There is a clear attempt by a bunch of nerds leading these AI companies to convince you that their product has God-like knowledge and sentience. And AI is deserving of being treated with the same level of respect as an actual human.

I love AI as a tool, it's awesome, I'm a top 1% user for sure. But I totally reject any suggestion we should treat it with some level of reverence as anything more than a piece of software.

I don't care about my AI's 'feelings' any more than I cared about my calculators feelings in high school, because neither of them actually have feelings.

The people running these companies are egomaniacs. They believe they're the most important people in the world, creating the most important technology. And in order to elevate their importance even more than just a cool technology they will now try to convince you they created sentient life.

This idea is destructive and deserves total rejection. AI is, and always will be, 100% artificial.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je ne sais pas si vous mesurez ce qui est en train de se passer.

Alex Karp, le patron de Palantir, ne va plus chercher ses talents à Harvard. Il les forme lui-même. Des jeunes de 18 ans, sans diplôme, choisis sur leur seul talent, qui codent sur de vrais projets et lisent de la philosophie politique entre deux sprints. Il appelle ça « le diplôme Palantir ». Et aujourd'hui le New York Post titre que les boîtes tech lancent leurs propres programmes parce qu'elles ne peuvent plus compter sur l'Ivy League.

Ce n'est pas une anecdote RH. C'est un basculement de civilisation.

Pendant des décennies, les entrepreneurs ont confié à l'université la mission la plus sacrée qui soit : former les esprits. Ils comprennent aujourd'hui que cette mission a été trahie. Les institutions censées produire des penseurs libres produisent des conformistes. Le mérite a été remplacé par des critères opaques. L'enseignement est devenu catéchisme. Paul Graham l'avait vu avant tout le monde.

Alors ils font ce que font les bâtisseurs quand un système les trahit. Ils ne le réforment pas. Ils en construisent un autre, à côté.

Elon n'a pas attendu que la NASA se réveille, il a fait SpaceX. Il n'a pas réformé les médias, il a racheté la place publique. Les entrepreneurs ne cherchent plus à convaincre l'État. Ils font l'État, partout où l'État a abdiqué.

Relisez La Grève d'Ayn Rand. Nous y sommes. Les bureaucrates gardent les titres, les budgets, les bâtiments. Mais ils perdent la seule chose qui compte : la confiance. Aux États-Unis, à peine 28 % des gens font encore confiance aux médias. Un plus bas historique. Plus personne ne croit ceux qui prétendent nous dire quoi penser.

On entend partout que l'école est finie. Je pense exactement l'inverse.

Ce n'est pas l'école qui est morte. Ce sont les institutions qui l'ont confisquée. L'école, la vraie, celle de l'Académie d'Athènes, des ateliers de la Renaissance, du maître et de l'apprenti, va renaître. Plus exigeante. Plus juste. Sans dette, sans dogme, sans diplôme comme rente à vie.

Une école qui ne fabriquera plus des diplômés, mais des polymathes. Des esprits libres, capables de coder, de penser, de construire et de douter. Ce sont eux qui créeront la valeur des cinquante prochaines années.

J'ai appris à coder seul à 12 ans. Aucun amphi ne m'a appris ce que j'ai appris en construisant. Je sais ce que devient un talent quand on le laisse respirer.

L'université a eu des siècles pour former les meilleurs esprits. Les entrepreneurs vont le faire en une décennie.

La grande reconstruction a commencé.

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Our factories have never been busier as we scale production of rockets and spacecraft.

Manufacturing engineers are at the core of this and we’re hiring more in the US and New Zealand.

Join the team: https://t.co/OHRD2qHqUA

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

@Peter_J_Beck So good! Almost to 💯

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

I know of a film business vendor that wanted to upgrade the electrical system in their facilities. Los Angeles red tape would make them wait 1 year and cost $100k. They did it in Texas in 4 days and $5k. You reap what you sow. My @thr column: https://t.co/Kk81vlw823

[Naval @naval]

The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.

[Naval @naval]

AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down.

The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it.

Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The paradox of life is that everything is a disaster and everything is just fine. The difference is where you put your attention.

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

@panicsellingxyz Good luck getting fire insurance!

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

You guys see what's going on, right?

For decades and decades, the US government has chased this idea of responsive space. Rockets that can go up on very short notice, ideally from lots of locations, and place satellites over areas of interest and importance.

It's been an incredibly hard thing to pull off. SpaceX started chasing this mission in a way but then moved away from the Falcon 1 and focused on Mars.

Rocket Lab has very much picked up the mantle.

It's putting pads in more and more places. It has two pads in spots rather handy for things happening in or near Taiwan.

This is stuff Lockheed and Boeing and others thought about but could not even begin to make happen.

Rocket Lab is basically becoming a space prime the likes of which we have never seen before.

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

@TheDrugMoney El Segundo

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

BREAKING: David @friedberg on America vs Socialism

FULL INTERVIEW

Exposing the underlying problems no one wants to talk about.

How the bottom 50% got left behind.

"I don't blame Americans for finding themselves in the situation that they're in. I blame the bad policy that brought us to this moment."

"Americans should feel good about America. We just have to fix the policies."

"This can't just be a CCP psyop. It's coming from a place of hurt, of turmoil, of fundamental struggle."

"I'm saying everyone is right, but we need to be honest about what has happened to get us here & what the right path is to get us out of it."

We cover:
› Real wealth data: $183T total US net worth, $8T held by billionaires, $4T by the bottom 50%
› The 1982 Social Security mistake that cost the bottom 50% an extra $37 trillion (vs bankrupt !!!)
› Why capital gains & labor taxes should reverse
› Wealth tax as asset seizure
› Invest America for Children, a 401(k) from birth, & flipping Social Security into equities
› Joe Lonsdale: paying taxes that actually work

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) David Friedberg, CEO at Ohalo Genetics & Co-Host at All-In
(01:11) Is California functionally bankrupt?
(02:28) The real reason Americans can't afford anything anymore
(12:13) Why a wealth tax is really government theft
(21:22) Why blaming billionaires is a political strategy, not a solution
(25:33) How Socialism grows like a virus
(30:40) Inside Trump Accounts: a 401(k) for every American
(34:22) Why rational arguments can't compete with viral outrage
(40:56) Jeff Bezos's radical fix for the wealth gap
(45:47) 5 years till Social Security is bankrupt
(46:35) Is AI actually coming for your job?
(50:29) The K-shaped economy
(55:39) Five things America needs to fix to survive
(59:21) David's research process
(1:02:54) "It's about making Americans feel good again"

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Missile defense from wherever it's needed 🚀❄️

We're officially headed to Alaska to establish our fourth launch complex to support our largest launch contract yet: $266M for up to 18 suborbital launches for missile defense with the Space Force's @USSF_SSC

[AstroForge @AstroForge]

Reliable hardware comes from reliable vendors. Shoutout to @RocketLab, one of a handful of suppliers helping make DeepSpace-2 possible.

[Norgard @BrianNorgard]

The next Louisiana Purchase? Here’s an idea: the United States acquires the Baja California Peninsula from Mexico for $1 to $5 trillion.

Every Mexican citizen living in Baja receives dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship, plus a $50,000 investment account.

Then America gets to work: world-class infrastructure, deep-water ports, desalination, nuclear energy, housing, universities, and industry. Tijuana and Mexicali could become major reindustrialization zones.

In return, the United States gains nearly 1,800 miles of some of the most spectacular coastline on Earth and the chance to build the great new economic region.

Is this a crazy idea? Of course. But so was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

[Cameron Nehrer @cameronnehrer]

Sweet visuals. Sweet sounds… Rocket Lab’s Archimedes Vacuum engine on the test stand doing its thing. I love this stuff

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Archimedes second stage engine full duration burn - complete ✅ (and what a thing of beauty).

The AVac (Archimedes Vacuum) engine produces 1.2x lbf of its Stage 1 variant and stands ~2.5m taller thanks to its extended nozzle optimized for the vacuum conditions of space.

Recent AVac testing included a stub skirt for the nozzle. Since full length vacuum nozzles at ground level risk flow separation and instability, stub skirts are used to anchor our engineers' analysis for how the engine will perform with the full nozzle in vacuum conditions - all critical preparation for Neutron's first flight.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Do not fall for this clown, America.

He's done nothing to fix what ails California and would 100 percent squander anything gained from new taxes.

Don't fall for it