Lucas Shaiman

30 | New York | Opinions are my own

[david friedberg @friedberg]

if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…

[America @america]

The State of California is not allowing the federal government to audit their voter rolls.

Wonder why that could be…

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The xAI master plan was right under our nose all along...

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Google and Anthropic paying SpaceX $2.17 Billion per month for compute is literally just the tip of the iceberg.

Deals like this are going to explode once SpaceX AI satellites scale up.

Morgan Stanley projects SpaceX revenue hitting $3.4 Trillion by 2040. Revenue is going to be nuts.

I don’t see how SpaceX doesn’t become the most valuable and important company in the world in the next couple of years. They’re the passageway to cheaper, more sustainable AI compute for all companies.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Concerning.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Jeff Bezos on America's spending and taxes:

"We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3%. We have a spending problem."

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Mom how did we get so rich?

Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight.

Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever.

Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

[Tyler Winklevoss @tyler]

ARREST THE GRIFTERS who steal all the taxes

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The male urge to own a diversified HoldCo with multiple cash flowing businesses that dividend proceeds back to the parent company for capital redeployment

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@C_3C_3

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

@Matt_E_Baumann Don’t show your child this in 10 or 20 years

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 David Friedberg Says California Has a TRILLION DOLLAR Debt Problem

“Promises were made, but the promises were never funded … California has such a heaping liability problem that now you're seeing all the rats jumping off the ship.”

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Top doomer.

[America @america]

California now says they don’t have enough money to finish building their high-speed rail system and are asking for $125 billion more.

CBS: “That’s more funding than Amtrak has received in its history, and still leaves a shortfall of roughly $90 billion.”

[Jason Robertson @JRobFromMN]

Ihan Omar Promoted "Feed Our Future"

Ihan Omar Volunteered at "Feed Our Future"

Ilhan Omar got Donations from "Feed Our Future"

One of the heads was convicted of $250M in Fraud

Read that again $250 MILLION

He gets a year in jail

One Year, like 365 days

Thats less than 3rd degree assault and 5th degree drug possession...which would be hitting someone and hurting them or having a baggie of Meth

This is insane

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

The double standard is impossible to ignore.

When a Muslim man threw handmade bombs at a group of protesters while shouting "Allahu Akbar," your first instinct was to blame and label the protesters you disagree with. You downplayed the attack by calling it merely "an explosive device," with no mention of the perpetrator’s religion or the religious chant.

Yet in this latest case, you immediately led with the fact that the suspect was a member of a "Jewish" group.

This selective framing reveals a clear bias. You apply one standard to one group and an entirely different one to another.

Such blatant inconsistency is reprehensible.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.