Peter de Vietien

Using a finance startup to self fund a fusion company, and trying to prevent socialism from destroying America.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

Thus I repeat: Socialism is a more immediate threat than AI, nuclear weapons or climate change

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

The left loves George Floyd and hates Elon Musk, that’s all you need to know

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I just bought a Tesla Model Y

Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced.

I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@RabbiPoupko Very much under appreciated.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Because they were not raised by a Beijing algorithm.

[Rob Maurer @robmaurer]

Remember a couple weeks ago when everyone was saying a 100x price/sales was crazy for SpaceX and all of a sudden it’s like 39x? Shows how dumb that type of analysis is 😅

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Trump has almost completely ended refugee admissions, asylum admissions, and cut permanent immigration authorizations by 50% and H-1B authorizations by 25%.

Follow: @AFpost

[White Papers Policy Institute @WhitePapersPol]

Incredible.

@CIS_org found that 51% of legal immigrants and 61% of illegal immigrant households rely on a major welfare program.

We can reasonably infer that while Americans struggle, a significant part of the GDP of other counties comes from US welfare dollars.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@MilesTrav Kinda wild. X axis is dilated

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@FoxNews Hero

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Four teens allegedly tried to rob a former Marine at gunpoint outside his own home. Seconds later, the plan unraveled.

Jheyco Borda Chura says he was installing a dashcam in his truck when the group approached and demanded his keys, phone, and belongings. Instead of handing them over, he says he grabbed the perp's gun.

Doorbell video captures the chaotic struggle and a shot fired from the gun.

Then Borda's father and younger brother sprint into frame to help the veteran.

Police say the family held the suspects until officers arrived, and remarkably, no one was injured.

[New York Post @nypost]

Marine veteran fights off 4 hooded teens who tried to carjack him at gunpoint in broad daylight https://t.co/sfw9Y300H0

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@RONAGENT86 @JustJenRX I bet Gemini would do it 😂

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

Really, the degree to which these charges are valid would depend a lot on the video evidence.

If he was violently assaulted and had reasonable fear of severe bodily harm, self defence is warranted. If he wasn't, and it was a flagrant, impulsive issue of something like pride or ego, then use of lethal force 'in self defence' isn't warranted.

It seems video evidence is primary to assessing this.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

Please check my math 😂:

2026 Humanity consumes ~22 TW, so incident sun power in 2026 earth units is 180,000 TW / 20 TW

= 9,000 '2026 Earths'.

Assume land is 30% of earth's surface, so 100% of land is 2,700 2026 Earths. So 1% of land is earth is 27 2026 Earths (in raw luminescence).

Then, realizable annual energy production for that 1% of land: divide by 5 twice, first for 20% efficiency and second for 5 'full sunlight hours'/day, to get 27/25 = One 2026 Earth in realizable energy production for 1% of all land covered in solar panels.

So yeah. 1% of land = 100% of today's total primary power production, so 300% of 2026 global electricity production.

30% increase of 2026 electricity use per 0.1% of land seems like a decent trade for me, for at least the first 1%.

And, of course, fusion plug: 300% electricity increase using terrestrial fusion is probably less than 0.00,001% of all land, and with time, potentially lower fully considered raw resource consumption per kWh than solar, owing mostly to the fuel being seawater... Maybe Gen 3 reactors, we still don't have Gen 1.

Space solar plug: You get all 24 sunlight hours in space instead of 5, so any metric around solar gets 5x better in Space. IMO solar is epic for space, probably even better than fusion since cost of light harvesting surface area goes to zero. But, fusion would still definitely be better for propulsion. Vastly higher power density.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

I liked @davidpattersonx's post about solar, so I added a calculation:

"Covering 1% of all land on earth in solar panels would produce 300% of today's global electricity production."

Useful, easier than I expected ratio.

[David Scott Patterson @davidpattersonx]

The Sun is more powerful than nuclear weapons.

The Sun produces over 2 billion times more energy than hits the Earth.

The Sun strikes the Earth with a continuous 175,000 terawatts of power.

Every minute, the Earth receives as much energy from the Sun as would be released if every nuclear weapon on Earth were detonated.

Every ten minutes, the Earth receives as much energy from the Sun as total global electricity production for a year.

If every nuclear weapon on Earth were detonated, it would release as much energy as global electricity production for a month.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@HodlMagoo America hasn't been capitalist for a lonnnnnnnng time.

Going back to 1900 America, the way America was for the first 124 years, would fix 99% of the problems we have today, and would lead to a complete revival of everything good, honest, hard working people hold dear.

[Peter de Vietien @peterdevietien]

@chalavyishmael https://t.co/fr20hfpTN4

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

I’m proud to endorse .@DarializaforNY for Congress. The daughter of a single mom and case worker, Darializa has dedicated her life to fighting for people too often left behind by government. She’s helped free neighbors wrongfully detained by ICE and has long believed in a politics rooted in affordability, dignity, and community. Her campaign is powered by working people ready to reject a politics of big money and demand something better. Let's go win this.