David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱

Independent Candidate Congress in 2008, CEO, Tech & Econ Maven, Seaplane Pilot, Founder of Electromagnetic Launch and Maxwell Aircraft. Political Wisdom & Humor

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

Posted this on our business site, Electromagnetic Launch, Inc. I think it's pretty cool.

https://t.co/2SrgTMNdAA

[Electromagnetic Launch, Inc. @HTSLauncher]

Launching Rockets With Electricity - YouTube https://t.co/ejmKfLJJuC

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Here is a prime example of LA’s success combating homelessness and housing under leadership like Nithya Raman and Karen Bass.

One hotel bought in 2020 for $8M is still vacant and will now cost $625,000 per homeless individual ($20M total).

LA is pure fraud. Good luck.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

You are now trending for 13 days straight because you still haven't done anything to hold your racist professor accountable, @CarnegieMellon.

You are not going to sweep it under the rug again.

She needs to go, now.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

They are cowards

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

You are now trending for 12 days straight because you still haven't done anything to hold your racist professor accountable, @CarnegieMellon.

You are not going to sweep it under the rug again.

She needs to go, now.

[Alpha News @AlphaNews]

DHS lawyer says Minnesota judges coordinated to block immigration enforcement

DHS General Counsel James Percival said Judge Patrick Schiltz's comments in a New York Times article demonstrate "profound bias against DHS and the current admin."

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

You should not be able to graduate from high school without having listened to this.

[Trixi @TrixiHQ]

Milton Friedman earned $500,000+ in consulting fees advising Reagan and Thatcher on how to run trillion-dollar economies.

He walked into a room with one prop and spent fifty minutes dismantling everything you think you know about poverty, immigration, and government.

The prop was a pencil.

Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976. University of Chicago. A man whose phone call could move bond markets, whose books changed how forty governments collected taxes, set interest rates, and decided who eats.

Nobody in the world knows how to make a pencil. Wood from the Pacific Northwest. Graphite from South America. Rubber from Malaysia. A brass tip nobody in the room could trace. Thousands of people across a dozen countries cooperated to put it in your hand. None of them spoke the same language. None of them knew each other existed. Nobody gave a single order.

The price system did it alone.

He uses that pencil to explain why the Soviet Union was always going to collapse, why minimum wage laws are the most anti black legislation ever passed in America, why free immigration built this country in 1880, and why it cannot work the same way today, for one specific reason nobody wants to say out loud.

Someone in the audience pushes back. Immigration. Women's wages. Inherited wealth. Mexican labor.

He does not flinch once.

Friedman died in 2006. The pencil still costs less than a dollar. The governments he warned are still making the same mistakes, in the same order.

[WealthLens @WealthLens_]

In 1979, a talk show host looked at one of the most influential economists alive and told him, on live television, that capitalism ran on greed.

Milton Friedman had won the Nobel Prize in Economics three years earlier, in 1976, for his work on monetary theory and consumption analysis.

Phil Donahue, host of the highest-rated daytime talk show in America, asked him directly whether the concentration of power and profit under capitalism had ever given him a moment of doubt.

Friedman didn't pause before answering. "Well, first of all, tell me, is there some society you know that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed?"

He kept going, arguing that only capitalist societies built on voluntary exchange had ever lifted large numbers of people out of poverty, while every attempt to replace self-interest with central planning had made things worse.

Donahue tried one more angle, asking who would organize a fairer society if not government. Friedman's answer to that question is still being clipped and argued over online more than four decades later.

Their exchange lasted less than two minutes inside a much longer interview about the Great Depression, auto bailouts, and price controls, and it's become one of the most replayed moments in the history of televised economics.

Was Friedman right that every system runs on self-interest whether we admit it or not, or did he dodge the real question about inequality? Say which side you land on in the comments, then watch the full exchange below.

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

@StarTribune will you dare cover this? Need some time to double check sources? O.K. But if you spike this story, every single one of your subscribers should quit.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

So Peggy Flanagan, the MN Dem Senate nominee, has a good friend who apparently has an autism center that’s under investigation for fraud

You will never guess his name…

Nimco Ahmed.

It just never ends

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

So Peggy Flanagan, the MN Dem Senate nominee, has a good friend who apparently has an autism center that’s under investigation for fraud

You will never guess his name…

Nimco Ahmed.

It just never ends

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

This continues to be the single best answer to any question ever asked about American history.

This are the real facts about the founding, all of which have been buried by people who want you to believe the American founding was evil and oppressive.

Never apologize for America. It is the beacon of light to the world.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Maher on the “genocide” lie in Gaza.

There is NO genocide.

This MUST go viral.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Exactly!

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

I’m prepared to believe this is a good thing worthy of celebration. Still, whoever drafted this tweet has left more questions than answers. What exactly did you fix? Where did the pollution come from? If pollution was in fact the problem…..or maybe it was a flow problem, or a salinity problem from some unknown cause. Or?

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

So very cool to have a non-bureaucratic leader at NASA. Is this a great country or what?

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

The second space race is coming down to months, not years. Fortunately, @POTUS’ national space policy and the resources from Congress have given us an advantage. Now we need to move with urgency, return American astronauts to the Moon, and get underway on nuclear power and propulsion. The next race should never be this close!

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

Crazy.

[Charles V Payne @cvpayne]

Yep

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

You will never manage the deficit spending or our always surging debt with just one budget. You must have two budgets, one for borrowing for long term items, better known as a capital budget, and another for day to day expenses, better known as an operating budget. So long as you mix the two, politicians will lie about what is an “investment”. Let the truth and sunshine in on our horrible federal budget.

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

I so want to do this. My swim fins are packed!

https://t.co/IOiX6yHnUv

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

Nature Backs Government Registration of Scientists to Fight ‘Misinformation’ | National Review (What could possibly go wrong! 🤦) https://t.co/o622bqs1Hf

[David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @davidgdillon]

Boring? Maybe, but this is what good government looks like.

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

Florida is the epicenter of emergency management talent, training, and frontier technology, and the number one state for workforce development. As our great state continues to grow, our emergency management workforce must expand and adapt to meet the needs of Floridians.

That’s why we are launching the Coalition for Operational Readiness in Education (CORE) Program partnerships at colleges and universities, starting at @FIU in Miami. Florida students should be able to receive a world-class education, gain meaningful professional experience, and build successful careers right here in our state.

CORE will provide opportunities for students to earn valuable certifications, participate in disaster operations to serve their communities in times of need, and pursue in-demand careers in emergency management.