Max Sharpe

Trust, but verify. ★★★★★ #gobucks

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Personally? Oh man.

This is just a tweak on Peter’s question which most of you know:

“What is something you feel is good and needs to be done, but on which almost no institution agrees with you and will fight to destroy you with their full force at a deeply personal level?”

Where to begin??

Undermining faith in Anthony Fauci’s and Francis Collins’ scientific behavior during a pandemic.

Calling attention to the fact that the president of the United States with launch code responsibility was obviously demented during his presidency.

Opposing high levels of immigration for completley non-xenophobic reasons.

Openly discussing asymmetries in patterns of religious martyrdom attacks.

Fighting the loss of the word “Genocide” via coordinated social campaigns.

Pointing out that the history of Peer Review is retconned and fictitious and obviously false.

Fighting irreversible surgeries pushed on children leading to a reproductive holocaust.

Calling for an end to Diverisity-Equity-Inclusion and opposing “Black Lives Matter”, despite their branding genius, even during the Summer of Floyd.

Pointing out that conspiracies are well documented and ubiquitous and fighting for responsible conspiracy theorizing.

Promoting my own technical work and insisting that scientists get paid handsomely.

Etc. Etc.

You’re asking the wrong person. It seems I stand up for what I believe is deeply good and what is misperceived as evil all day, every day. This has stupidly become close to my whole life at times. I’m so bored by how silent everyone is. I can’t fathom it. “Managed Reality” has turned evil.

Something is pushing pure evil, disguised as “good” down our throats 24/7 via the institutions. And almost everyone puts up with it. I do not.

But: Thanks for the question.

A great one!

[Naamoney @Naamoney_]

If I could hang a video on a wall it will be this one.

[NFL @NFL]

No. 21 on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2026…

@Seahawks QB Sam Darnold! @NFLFilms

[Leland @ItsLeland]

HOLLLLLYYYYY SHHHHIITTTTT

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Marijuana is disgusting. Regular use is a one way door to becoming a retard and a loser.

Go out. Have a glass of wine. Be social. Get some sun. Take an uber. Fin.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

It’s not 1% a year for 5 years.

It’s a one time 5% tax on all assets and it will kill entrepreneurship in California.

Here is an example:

John Doe starts a company. He takes a nominal salary - say $150k for this example - and the rest in equity in the company. Let’s say he owns 20%. He raises VC capital in 2026 from someone that invests $100M into the company and values the company at $6B. This means his 20% is “worth” $1.2B.

I put it in quotes because he can’t actually sell. He has a paper value that putatively says he’s a billionaire. But he actually lives on $150k because that is what his income is. Just because someone decides to make a bet on the business does not mean some bank account in your name magically gets created with $1.2B in it.

Under the proposed tax, however, John Doe would now owe $60M in cash to California in 2027.

How will he pay it?

Is there some buyer you know of, that the rest of the market doesn’t, that will do a deal at the max value when there is a distressed seller like John Doe who needs money he doesn’t have to pay taxes on value he also doesn’t have!

Now imagine that after the tax is assessed, in early 2027, the company takes a write down to $200M. Now his share is $40M. But he still owes $60M. Again, there are no buyers for his shares per se.

He still only makes $150k/yr.

What is this person supposed to do? He now has a “worth” of $40M but owes California $60M.

Should he declare bankruptcy now because he tried to start a business but was retarded enough to do it in California?

So did you really get the billionaires??

No. Because the mega billionaires have already left or are tax structured to minimize the tax or will fight it.

You will, however, drag a bunch of young, energetic folks who want to make things and hire people into bankruptcy court.

Awesome work, Ro. You should be proud.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

5 million mike Tysons vs 1000 Ironmans

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This keeps happening to innocent people

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Sacks exposes the Motte and Bailey fallacy happening in AI debates.

@DavidSacks "Be honest about what's happening today. In the first three years after the launch of AI chatbots, there's been no discernible disruption to the labor market, and the early studies and data are showing wage increases and actually job increases.

And there's definitely job increases in blue collars because of the construction boom."

@Jason "This has been our first debate club corner.

Every week we're going to teach you how to debate better here."

[Max Sharpe @MaxSharpe96]

Me: Hey Grok, define Aura.
Grok:

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

hahahahaha

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

“Nick Emmanwori has got to win Defensive Rookie of the Year”

- Jon Gruden

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

I am asking my deep tech brothers to up their opsec.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

LFG!!!

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Peter Thiel on DEI, woke culture, and political correctness in 1996:

“The multicultural educator at Stanford used say, ‘I started looking for racism everywhere, and I started finding racism everywhere.’ And indeed he did— if you look for anything everywhere, you will start finding it everywhere.”

“If you’re a feminist and believe everything that is longer than it is wide is a symbol of male oppression l, then you will start finding sexism everywhere.”

“When you start looking for racism everywhere, and start finding it everywhere, it’s only a small step to finding racists everywhere. There’s nothing wrong with that if the racists are really out there, but I’m going to suggest to you, they really aren’t. The problems of racism, sexism, other forms of oppression, have been vastly exaggerated, and as a result, people get unjustly accused. A culture of complaint leads to a culture of blame.”

[Max Sharpe @MaxSharpe96]

@chanluh The right man won

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

NFL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
2016 - J Bosa (Ohio State)
2017 - Marshon Lattimore (Ohio State)
2019 - N Bosa (Ohio State)
2020 - Chase Young (Ohio State)
2022 - Garrett Wilson (Ohio State)
2023 - CJ Stroud (Ohio State)
2025 - Henderson or Egbuka (Ohio State)

This is absolutely insane.

[Brady Henderson @BradyHenderson]

Mike Macdonald went out of his way to mention how well DT Byron Murphy II played yesterday.

"He was absolutely dominant. Probably singlehandedly won us a football game on defense. He absolutely played lights out. I know I didn't answer your question, but it's worth mentioning.”

[buck @SoldierBuck__]

A Love Letter to Christopher Nolan

[buck @SoldierBuck__]

Greatest director of this generation

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

King Kong (2005) never got the love Peter Jackson poured into it. The CG still holds up, and the Kong vs. T-rex throwdowns remain some of the dopest action beats of the 2000s. An underrated giant.