Chuck Cate

Follower of Christ. Husband. Father.

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Danny Bernstein @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Dan + Shay @DanAndShay]

Honored to be singing the National Anthem at the @FIFAWorldCup opening ceremony tonight! 🇺🇸

[Inspirenaire @Inspirenaire]

Take heed

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good interview

[IPO Newsroom @IPONewsroom_]

JEFF BEZOS JUST EMERGED FROM STEALTH WITH A $41 BILLION AI STARTUP CALLED PROMETHEUS

$12 billion raised. Valued at $41 billion. Coming out of stealth today.

The backers: Bezos personally, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.

The mission: do for engineering and manufacturing what large language models did for text.

Bezos is calling it an "artificial general engineer." Instead of training on words from the internet, Prometheus ingests data from the physical world to accelerate the manufacturing of skyscrapers, smartphones, jet engines, and everything in between.

In Bezos' own words: "Something that today was going to take 100 engineers 10 years to build, if you can change that to taking 10 engineers one year to build, you're just going to get way more things built."

This is Bezos' first CEO role since stepping down from Amazon in 2021. He's co-leading it with Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive.

(Source Semafor)

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

The anger and frustration are justified. The official vote count says @spencerpratt fell short of the general election, due to the surge of mail-in ballots that shifted the results at the last moment. But this fight is far from over.

There is a direct, legal path for him to become Mayor: a recall of whoever wins in November. Both Bass and Raman are cut from the same ideological cloth, and public dissatisfaction with their records is already widespread.

Here are the facts on timing and process:
The new Mayor will be sworn in on December 14. California law requires 3-month waiting period before a recall can begin. That opens the window in mid-March 2027 to file Notice of Intention.

Circulation of petitions starts 28 days later. We then have 120 days to gather approximately 330,000 valid signatures—15 percent of registered Los Angeles voters. Once certified, the City Council must schedule the special recall election within 88 to 125 days.

On that ballot, voters will decide whether to remove the Mayor and, if so, select a replacement. Spencer’s name will be on it, backed by the bipartisan momentum that has grown sharply since the mail-in ballot issues surfaced. The recalled mayor CANNOT run to replace herself. They’re DONE. And DSA/communists wouldn’t dare run someone against their own people. A blank slate - an election without Bass OR Raman is >50% answer “YES” to the recall question.

Angelenos across party lines now see the pattern, and both potential incumbents remain deeply unpopular.

This is how we correct the outcome. The energy and organization already exist. And unlike the local political machine, we can fundraise nationally—supporters from every corner of the country who want to see real change in Los Angeles can contribute directly. AND stay ahead of real or potential fraud this time.

The path is clear. The support is building. We have the opportunity to set this right.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Jimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don’t need a U-Haul…I have nothing left to pack 🤷‍♂️

[From the Land of Sky Blue Waters 🇺🇸 @HammsLager]

So "Pride Month" is in full effect.

As such, I think it's a great time to remember the sage words from the master, Norm Macdonald, and his thoughts Pride.

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

Only you can save LA. Vote Spencer Pratt

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

An embarrassing self-own from Nithya in her commercial, where she actually reveals her "crowd of supporters" is just 30 paid actors packed into a closed set. LOL. I don't have to hire actors to get a crowd. All I have to do is show up, and real Angelenos step up. We are winning.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent CONFIRMS the $250 bill with President Trump's face on it is ALREADY in the works

"There is proposed legislation in front of the House, in front of the Senate to change the [law] so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on a $250 bill."

"At Treasury, we prepare things in advance. So we have prepared in advance that if the legislation is passed, but we will stick to the law."

[The Angel 🖤 @Angel_150913]

In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.

[Caleb Hull @CalebJHull]

On the way from Dallas to DC, our @AmericanAir pilot announced there was a special passenger on board.

Awesome. 🦅

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Holy smokes. Stephen Miller says he believes that the fraud and waste being uncovered by the Anti-Fraud Taskforce is so widespread, that dealing with it could balance the budget:

"This is the fastest in history that a government task force has traveled from creation to action."

"Fraud is every bit as bad as President Trump said it was, and even worse ... I believe from what I've seen, from what I've heard, that we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the Treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible."

If that's even 50% true, we owe it to the American people to not stop until every red cent of fraud is rooted out.

[Hermeus @hermeuscorp]

Supersonic. Mach 1.21.

Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 is now the world’s first privately developed, unmanned supersonic jet and the fastest unmanned aircraft flying today.

This flight makes Hermeus the fastest company in aviation history to go from founding to supersonic flight - exactly 364 days after the maiden flight of our first aircraft.

Now, we fly faster.

A special thanks to @DIU_x, Director @OwenWest91, Maj. Gen. Joe "Solo" Kunkel, and Deputy Director Kyle Norman.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This trend will continue for many years

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions.

I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law enforcement and raised concerns directly with contacts at the White House. This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented. There’s a coordinated PR war happening around energy infrastructure and data centers, and we’re not going to ignore it.