Stella

après moi, le déluge.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

q emocionnnnn ❤️ Elecciones presidenciales en Colombia, en VIVO: Abelardo de la Espriella aventaja a Iván Cepeda por más de 420.000 votos - Infobae https://t.co/J09bUyeinZ

[Stella @sdm_stella]

Trust God enough to ask.

Love God enough to seek Him.

Have faith enough to keep knocking.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

😩🪭

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Universal high income is coming.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

LOL

[Andrew Kuhn @FocusedCompound]

SpaceX will IPO tomorrow

Here's the bull case:

Target valuation is $1.75 trillion

But that's just on Earth

There are 8 planets in our solar system

That's $14 trillion in potential value

But when you factor in the other 100 billion planets in our galaxy?

$1.4 septillion.

Woah.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

now this a feast for the eyes or soul? whichever is more profound

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Stella @sdm_stella]

@ioangrillo why would a private business owner supplement UBI? your “gotcha” moment was clumsy

[Stella @sdm_stella]

I said this one week ago. universal income has been tested & has proven to reduce poverty & malnutrition. it is the only way to control possible mayhem since AI is moving faster than humans can grasp their head around it

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

pure economic systems are theoretical ideals but nothing compares to laissez faire capitalism

[Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump]

Loved this video mashup.

Good luck to all the entrepreneurs doing the hard, meaningful work of building!

1. Value is everything
Build something people genuinely want, not something clever.
A business only works if it creates value and can capture it.

2. Solve real, painful problems
The strongest companies remove friction, save time, or eliminate frustration.
If it feels optional, it likely is.

3. Distribution matters as much as product
A great product without reach is invisible.
Winning companies obsess over how they get in front of people.

4. Focus is a competitive advantage
Most people dilute their energy.
Great founders concentrate on a few high-leverage moves and ignore the rest.

5. Speed compounds
Iteration beats perfection.
Launch, learn, refine, repeat, faster than feels comfortable.

6. Simplicity scales
The best businesses are easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to explain.
Complexity is friction disguised as sophistication.

7. Mindset is not soft, it is structural
Resilience, long-term thinking, and tolerance for discomfort are not personality traits, they are requirements.

8. Build for longevity, not noise
Short-term hacks create spikes.
Enduring companies are built on trust, brand, and consistency.

9. Leverage is the force multiplier that transforms effort into scale.
Technology, media, capital, and people multiply output.
The goal is not to work harder, but to work in systems that scale.

10. Execution is the separator
Ideas are abundant.
Relentless, disciplined execution is rare.

The essence : find a meaningful problem, solve it simply, distribute it aggressively, and execute with focus over the long term.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

low key just like the sound of opening a soda can, idc to drink it.

[Stella @sdm_stella]

luis diaz saves the day 😻🇨🇴

[Stella @sdm_stella]

sad to see Orbán go & might i add, it’s quite ironic prominent EU figures keep mentioning security issues in their congratulatory remarks when the EU is increasingly unsafe

[Stella @sdm_stella]

isn’t this what neville goddard said?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” — Ben Okri

[Stella @sdm_stella]

i was in brickell key two nights ago, can’t believe it was the last time i was seeing the old mandarin 💔 good times

[Joel Franco @OfficialJoelF]

MANDARIN ORIENTAL MIAMI DEMOLITION

[Stella @sdm_stella]

@LibertyLockPod @GovRonDeSantis well said

[Stella @sdm_stella]

:)))

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

How people who have no idea that the Strait of Hormuz even exists are living right now

[Stella @sdm_stella]

@_frederickjames whoa you’re too cool for me. i’m definitely going to try & share my feedback haha

[Stella @sdm_stella]

tetris stresses me out

[Stella @sdm_stella]

i have the same sentiment about using “literally” unnecessarily or excessively

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

SAYING “I THINK” BEFORE STATING YOUR OPINION IS LITERALLY YOUR TICKET TO THE PERMANENT UNDERCLASS.