Cola Buskirk Gahm

@a16z; @bookselessar

[Cola Buskirk Gahm @nmbkirk]

Hi everyone! I started a small publishing house (@BooksElessar) to reprint important works that have gone out of print.

My first print is available for purchase now on Amazon with many more to come :)

https://t.co/D0iGPVzXvB

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[U.S. DOGE Service @USDS]

BUILT TO LAST 🇺🇸

[a16z @a16z]

Happy birthday, USA.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress.

[a16z @a16z]

On Easter morning earlier this year, Artemis II Mission Pilot Victor Glover spoke these words:

"Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special.

But we're the same distance from you, and I'm trying to tell you—just trust me—you are special.

In all of this emptiness—this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe—you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together."

In this piece from astronautical engineer William Whittenbury, a deep dive on the historic Artemis II mission that brought us back to the Moon, and why Glover's words ring true: https://t.co/HKnNYqsn2S

[Doug Bernauer @DougBernauer]

Great discussions with Secretary Wright about Radiant's testing and commercial plans. He's so full of energy!! Also he knows his tech and wanted to know all the numbers for our unique fuel design, transportability, and above grade concrete shield(pictured)

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts.”

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

What metric matters most for space warfighting?

Daily Mass to Orbit.

Today, we can launch 10 tons to LEO daily, thanks to @SpaceX. That's a Falcon 9 ~every two days.

Elon wants to grow that 240x with Starship — and we will need to grow that fast to maintain our advantage.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

This is the #1 most important chart from this report.

Thanks to SpaceX, the US has a head start in reusable rockets — but China is catching up fast.

We could see multiple Chinese rockets hit Level 3 in 2026.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

https://t.co/nSLXvrldtv

[Stephen Limbaugh @StephenLimbaugh]

After so many artists backed out, God has stepped in as the great dramatist, architect, musician, painter, and dedicator of the 250th.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/puLXpatHvd

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Make our Sun sentient to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.

Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.

So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.

But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.

Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.

He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.

And he loves it.

That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

“The unmanned surface vessel, a Saronic Corsair, located the crew, who had spent two hours in the waters off the coast of Oman and brought them to shore.”

Never been prouder of the @Saronic team. 🇺🇸💪🚀

[a16z @a16z]

https://t.co/maFczBPtvZ

[a16z @a16z]

American defense companies are proving that operations can run at "machine speed".

The Pentagon hasn’t yet figured out how to support them in the field at the same tempo.

In fact, past automation efforts went poorly and ended up actually needing more people.

That’s obviously a big problem, but the alternative – not automating sustainment at all – locks us into a model that will surely lead to failure in the next conflict.

a16z's @JohnAguillard and @rmcentush on the sustainment bottleneck in autonomous warfare and how to fix it: https://t.co/HX9wp7bA8f

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

This is wild... Russia seems to be threatening a *commercial* satellite that provides imaging services to Ukraine:

▸ starting about two weeks ago, Russia started maneuvering five (!) of their classified satellites to the same orbital inclination as the ICEYE satellite

▸ these burns were big, on the order of 100 m/s, clearly using chemical propulsion given the speed of the burns — very expensive and deliberate maneuvers

▸ as of last Friday, all five Russian satellites are now co-planar, at ~97.8° inclination, with three of ICEYE's satellites, and aligned in other orbital elements (e.g. RAAN) that make it clear they're specifically targeting this set

▸ I am a little skeptical that Russia is specifically targeting -X36 — there are two other satellites at the same inclination/RAAN (-X37 and -X38) — but the Russian sats are now all within striking distance of -X36, which is why people are concerned about it specifically; the closest cross-track distance is an estimated 500 meters (!!), all while the satellites are orbit 550 kilometers above Earth

▸ Russia has unleashed a cyberattack on a commercial satellite before (Viasat), and it is official Russian policy that commercially-owned infrastructure that aids in military efforts "may be legitimate target[s] for a retaliatory strike.”

▸ there's speculation that this could be a precursor to an RPO mission (meaning: physically grabbing the satellite or some other kind of non-kinetic attack like blinding/jamming)

Worth tracking closely. And unfortunately more evidence that space is militarizing, fast.

[Morgan Gress @morgangress]

“I’m grateful for AI. It’s helping fuel the one of the biggest reindustrialization push in the US in a century with real capital and will to build massive projects again.”

“The process knowledge we’re gaining from high-tech data centers alone will deliver dividends for decades.”

“We’re at the dawn of a new industrial age, and AI is powering the jobs and opportunities that come with it.”

@espricewright @MilkenInstitute

[David George @DavidGeorge83]

https://t.co/QXVYrAv6H4