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#Bitcoin, science, systems engineering, Jesus.

[Jolls @EconEngineer]

The Gutenberg pressed forced the reformation. It was inevitable once the press spread out.

With #Bitcoin, the financial reformation is inevitable.

However it was ~30 years from decentralized adoption of the printing press until Luther nailed his 95 theses.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

We hear it as consumption. But it's almost all for allocation. This is a huge issue we need to get past.

Name anyone you would rather see allocate 1T+.

Well done.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.

[Jolls @EconEngineer]

@Purespinor @BobMurphyEcon @___TheGOOdWitch I like evolution but I'm pretty sure it hasn't been recreated in a lab setting

[Jolls @EconEngineer]

@MaybushSha16067 @pronounced_kyle They aren't a govt. They aren't allowed to just pollute space.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

@ewarren Oh yeah — you’re a real woman of the people, Liz.

Making a video in the back of your taxpayer-funded chauffeured limousine.

Real nice.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

There are a lot of idle boasters popping out of the wordwork who want you to think they could solve all the world's problems with a trillion dollars.

They come in two types.

- The ones who want us to give the US government an additional trillion dollars, because apparently what we really need, to fix all the problems, is to simultaneously bomb the third bomb and import all of it to America. Even faster.

- And the ones who want us to give them, personally, a trillion dollars. Usually they are pretty shy about telling us what, if anything, they have done for us with the wealth they already have.

Personally, if someone has big ideas, and thinks we should all put him in charge, I'd like to see how he does running, say, a small sandwich shop, before we hand him the reins of any real power.

The words "I could do better" cost very little to say.

They also prove very little, because literally anyone can say them.

What would I do with Elon Musk's trillion dollars?

Probably about what he did: invest in building science-fiction technologies and making them fact. Perhaps a slightly different list of technological priorities, but same basic idea.

That's about the best I think a man can do for his species. Buying stuff that already exists and giving it to people doesn't create anything new. It doesn't move the ball forward. It just kinda fiddles with things as they are.

I would rather fix suffering than distribute it evenly.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

@SenWarren Remember last month when you bankrupted an entire airline with your economic illiteracy & 17k ppl lost their livelihoods?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

@grok @SenWarren So, in other words, if a family had been willing to accept a small percentage of the financial risk that Elon Musk did, they would have earned so much that they effectively paid no tax at all from their point of view?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

386 days after Elon’s decline and fall…

He’s the World’s first trillionaire.

The Media truly does suck.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Martin Luther King's daughter:

Jurors need to be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is the Weinersmith Fallacy. It works like this:

1. Problems are easier to explain than solutions.
2. So let's explain a bunch of problems, rapid fire, while ignoring the solutions.
3. That way, we can make anything sound impossible.
4. Better yet, anyone who wants argue will have to use more words than we do, and expend more time and effort.

Like so:

Look, I've torn down plenty of complex mechanical devices, and this "gun" idea is fundamentally flawed.

First, you're trying to contain and direct a controlled explosion inside a tiny metal tube. On paper that sounds cool, but in reality the pressures spike to tens of thousands of PSI in microseconds. The barrel will deform or rupture instantly — we've all seen what happens when you overpressure a cheap pipe bomb.

Second, the projectile has to be perfectly centered and spin-stabilized while accelerating from 0 to supersonic in a fraction of a second. Any tiny imperfection in machining, propellant burn rate, or alignment and the thing will tumble or keyhole immediately. Good luck maintaining that precision after the first few shots heat the barrel up and wear the rifling.

Third, the whole system relies on a series of moving parts (hammer, sear, extractor, ejector) that have to function flawlessly while being slammed by recoil and fouling from combustion byproducts. In the field, dirt, water, or carbon buildup will jam it in seconds. This is why mechanical watches already struggle with reliability — and those don't involve explosions.

Finally, you're asking a human to control something that produces massive muzzle blast, flash, and recoil, all while trying to aim accurately under stress. Human reaction times and hand tremors make consistent hits beyond 50 yards basically impossible at scale.

Engineers have been promising "practical firearms" for centuries and it never quite works out. The challenges are insurmountable with real materials and physics. Nice concept for video games though.

It sounds plausible, but we know it's total nonsense because guns visibly do work. They're all over the place, they're quite reliable, and you can easily learn to hit stuff at half a mile.

Same thing for computers in space. We know they work because we already have them.

What do these people think satellites are? Containers for little spacemen with zero-gravity abacuses?

And who is the all-time known-universe champion of putting satellites in space?

SpaceX, that's who.

The problem of putting data centers in space isn't the problem of putting computers in space. It's just the problem of putting more computers in space. And while scaling up often has its own technical hurdles, those hurdles are by definition already solved and understood.

The remaining challenge is not solving the technical problems in the first place, it's keeping costs down.

The worst thing about this is that Jerry isn't this dumb.

He's just hoping that you are.

He doesn't really think that SpaceX is going to launch a giant crate of rack-mount servers, sourced from Dell, into orbit, then shake their fists at the sky screaming

"Curse you, Jean-Bapiste Fourier! If only we had read a thermodynamics textbook, ever, in our lives!"

No. He knows better. He's just playing the Puddlefish because he has Musk Derangement Syndrome.

And as for data-center satellites, well, probably the reason that everyone wants to put them in space instead of Antarctica is that the power problem, which space solves, looks a lot harder than the cooling problem, which Antarctica solves.

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

Update: Concerned parents have informed @TPostMillennial that the situation goes deeper.

Washington public schools have a SBIRT assessment database, which logs students' responses to questionnaires about their gender identity.

If a student responds that they are “questioning my gender identity” then the school holds a private confidential one-on-one meeting with the student WITHOUT their parents being notified.

This is a screenshot from Seattle Public Schools database.

[Jolls @EconEngineer]

@prmade313raised You sound like a petulant child.

[Doc @DrBitcoinMD]

when blacks chimp out, they destroy a local convenience store

when whites chimp out, they alter the trajectory of human history

it seems like whites are about to chimp out

[MaryAnn Martinez @MaryAnnreports]

Austin Metcalf's dad, Jeff, just unloaded on Karmelo Anthony.
"We were robbed, don't look down, of all of these things."
"I said from day one, this was never about race, please don't politicize it. But what did you choose to do, both. It's about right and wrong. We're all humans. We all bleed the same color.
"You're free to make choices all you want, but you're not free from those consequences. You will face those consequences starting today." 
"People think that grief is sadness but its not. IT"S RAGE!!! (slamming his hands on the table.) Pure unfiltered rage,' he shouts.
"You failed your parents, your failed yourself and you failed society, You don't belong in this community," he says to Karmelo.
"You're going to prison, You can't even look me in the eyes right now but you can stab my fu**ing son in the heart."

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

The State has one purpose: to enforce the Law. The purpose of the Law is to organize for the collective defense of private property (the most essential form of which is your body, your physical safety).

We give the State the monopoly on legal violence so they may use violence to protect us and our property from plunderers and invaders who seek to harm our bodies and steal our property.

When the State fails to enforce the Law, fails to use violence against plunderers and invaders, that is a Failed State.

When you live in a Failed State, where the State abdicates its duty to enforce the Law and defend its citizens, ordinary men are forced to enforce the Law themselves. Ordinary men are forced to use violence against violent plunderers.

Ordinary men do not want to use violence; they are not violent men. They are simply men who want to protect their families, their property, and their country from the real violent men who seek to destroy everything they love and hold dear.

The UK is a Failed State. It seems ordinary men in Belfast have finally had enough.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tout le monde pense que le monde libre a gagné en 1989, à la chute du mur de Berlin.

C'est faux.

Et c'est exactement pour ça que le monde est aujourd'hui en feu.

Ce qui est tombé le 9 novembre 1989, c'est un appareil.

Une économie planifiée, un empire militaire, un mur de béton. Ce qui n'est pas tombé, c'est l'idée. L'idée que le monde se divise en oppresseurs et en opprimés. L'idée qu'il existe une égalité finale à atteindre, par tous les moyens. L'idée que tout ce qui existe (la famille, la nation, le mérite, l'héritage) est une structure de domination à abattre.

Cette idée-là n'était plus dans le bâtiment quand le bâtiment s'est effondré.

Il faut reprendre la chronologie, parce que tout est dans la chronologie :

Le communisme économique avait un défaut fatal : il était réfutable. Il promettait l'abondance, il produisait des famines. Il promettait l'émancipation, il produisait des barbelés. Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, L'Archipel du Goulag publié à Paris en 1973, les boat people de 1979 : à chaque décennie, le réel envoyait sa réfutation. Les boat people étaient une réfutation flottante, visible depuis les plages.

Alors l'idéologie a fait ce que fait tout organisme menacé : elle a muté.

La mutation a un nom, et j'en ai raconté la généalogie ici : la French Theory.

Foucault a déplacé la guerre du terrain des faits, où le communisme perdait à chaque fois, vers le terrain du savoir lui-même.

S'il n'y a pas de vérité, s'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir, alors plus aucune famine, plus aucun mur, plus aucun goulag ne peut réfuter quoi que ce soit.

La French Theory n'a pas enterré le marxisme.

Elle l'a rendu irréfutable.

Et la mutation a des dates. Toutes antérieures à 1989.

1934 : l'École de Francfort, chassée d'Allemagne, s'installe à Columbia. La critique de l'économie devient critique de la culture.

1964-1965 : Marcuse, exilé allemand devenu professeur américain, remplace le prolétariat défaillant par un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire (les minorités, les étudiants, les marginaux) et écrit noir sur blanc que la tolérance doit être accordée aux mouvements de gauche et refusée à ceux de droite.

Octobre 1966 : le débarquement a une date précise. Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. Derrida, Barthes, Lacan présentent la pensée française aux campus américains.

1967 : Rudi Dutschke lance le mot d'ordre, la longue marche à travers les institutions.

1968 : les révolutions de rue échouent partout.

Qu'importe. La révolution ne passera plus par la rue, elle passera par la salle de classe.

1975-1985 : Yale, Berkeley, Columbia absorbent la théorie, qui devient le système d'exploitation des humanités.

1987 : Allan Bloom publie The Closing of the American Mind pour donner l'alerte. Un million d'exemplaires vendus.

L'université le traite de réactionnaire et passe à autre chose.

L'Amérique avait son Aron, elle en a fait la même chose que nous du nôtre.

Puis arrive le 9 novembre 1989.

Le Mur tombe. L'Occident célèbre. Fukuyama avait déclaré la fin de l'Histoire dès l'été, avant même la chute. On démant��le les missiles, on encaisse les dividendes de la paix, on déclare le match terminé.

Nous avons célébré notre victoire sur une adresse vide. L'idéologie avait déménagé vingt ans plus tôt. Nous avons gagné contre les chars et perdu contre les chaires.

Pendant ce temps, l'autre empire communiste faisait la lecture inverse. Pékin avait écrasé Tian'anmen dans le sang cinq mois avant Berlin. Sinistre, mais lucide sur un point : la Chine savait que la guerre était idéologique.

Elle a choisi : abandonner l'économie marxiste, garder le contrôle du récit. L'Occident a fait l'exact opposé : il a gardé le marché et absorbé l'idéologie. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, regardez qui construit des centrales et qui déboulonne ses statues.

Vous voulez la preuve que c'est le même logiciel ? Faites la table de correspondance.

La lutte des classes est devenue la lutte des identités.

Les koulaks sont devenus les privilégiés.

L'autocritique maoïste est devenue le privilege checking. Les commissaires politiques sont devenus les DEI officers.

Le samizdat est devenu le compte shadowbanné.

La nomenklatura a quitté Moscou pour Davos et Bruxelles.

Et le paradis ne s'appelle plus la société sans classes : il s'appelle l'équité, l'égalité des résultats.

Exactement ce que je décrivais ici il y a quelques semaines.

On me dira : il n'y a pas de Goulag.

C'est vrai. C'est même tout le génie de la version 2.0.

Le communisme dur devait briser les corps parce qu'il ne tenait pas les esprits.

Le communisme mou tient les esprits : il lui suffit de briser les carrières.

Pas de camps, des services RH.
Pas de procès de Moscou, des excuses publiques.
Pas de Sibérie, la mort sociale.
Demandez aux émigrés du bloc de l'Est installés en Occident ce qu'ils ressentent en traversant une université américaine en 2026.
Ils reconnaissent l'odeur.

Et voilà pourquoi le monde est en feu.

Une civilisation a passé trente-cinq ans à enseigner à ses propres enfants qu'elle était le problème. Résultat : elle ne sait plus défendre ses frontières, transmettre son héritage, ni même nommer ses ennemis.

Quand la présidente de Harvard, devant le Congrès, répond que condamner un appel au génocide « dépend du contexte », vous voyez le logiciel tourner en production.

Et les prédateurs du dehors lisent cette faiblesse comme un livre ouvert : Moscou teste, Pékin patiente, l'islamisme avance dans les rues de nos capitales.

Le feu extérieur n'est que la conséquence du désarmement intérieur. On ne brûle bien que les maisons qui se sont vidées de leurs défenseurs.

Le Mur n'est pas tombé. Il s'est déplacé. Il ne sépare plus l'Est de l'Ouest : il passe désormais à l'intérieur de chaque institution occidentale, entre ceux qui construisent et ceux qui déconstruisent.

La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles et du PIB. La seconde se gagnera avec des écoles, des médias libres et des modèles d'IA. Celui qui écrit les valeurs dans les machines écrira le prochain 1989.

Cette fois, ne nous trompons pas de victoire. Au travail.