BlockBladeRunner

2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@Dialectiks I called this years ago. Once you see them essentially scanning areas as they're capturing I knew it was more than a game

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

How to Reindustrialize America? Turn WW2 Navy Shipyards into Robot Factories

SF and NYC both have massive pieces of criminally under-utilized real estate: Alameda Air Base, and Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thousands of acres of land situated right next to major cities that could become the worlds leading example of how to build a robotic industrial center.

Let's call them what they could become:
National Acceleration Zones

Alameda Naval Air Station (NAS) is 20 minutes from SF, undeniably the techno-capital center of the world. There's 2,800 acres of land that was pivotal in the US response to Pearl Harbor - in July 1945 there was two million man-hours of work logged at NAS. It's been operationally closed since 1997 and today there's still massive tracts of land zoned for industrial use that mostly sit empty apart from a few companies that have taken over some empty warehouses.

NAS has deep water ports and rail connections and is situated right next to Port of Oakland. It's 20 minutes by ferry to the Embarcadero. SF and Oakland are both going through massive upheavals in city governance, getting rid of corrupt and bureaucratic leaders who have squandered city resources and are reorienting themselves towards sensible pragmatic governance.

Brooklyn Navy Yard isn't as expansive as Alameda Navy Air Station, at only 300 acres, but its 15 minutes by ferry or 30 minutes by walk + subway to downtown Manhattan. It also has deep water ports and rail connections to the rest of the continent. The company managing the yard is actively looking for ways to use the space - a lot of it is literally sitting empty.

Starting new cities is a great idea, but to accelerate manufacturing and build centers of technology you need to attract the worlds best and brightest. The problem is these people often have a lot of options about where to live and what their lives look like, and they want to maximize their life experiences. It's unlikely the worlds leading roboticist wants to move their family to an island in the Caribbean, or North Atlantic, where there are no good schools, universities, restaurants, shops, etc.

The best people want to live in the best places and they compete hard for the right to do so. If you want them to also build the best technology, there is an incredible opportunity right under our noses in the form of these Navy Shipyards in both SF and NYC that are massively under-utilized and both have already been developed to integrate with existing rail lines and accommodate deep water shipping.

Lets turn these WW2 historical landmarks, where America built the arsenal of democracy, into world leading examples of what a truly modernized and high technology center of innovation can look like.

Thousands of acres of robot factories within 20 minute commute of a city you already want to live in. That's the future.

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@RichardGage_911 Do you believe this has any relationship to why the guv was trying to have a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instead of going to trial?

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@IvankaNews_

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

Cold day in hell has arrived.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

I'm finally coming around. #Bitcoin fixes Social Security. I've got the plan:

The Social Security Trust Fund now owns about $2.7 trillion in Treasuries. It should sell all of those Treasuries and buy Bitcoin. This buying will surely send Bitcoin to the moon, especially since a new QE program will be required to buy all the Treasuries sold by the trust fund.

Assuming the Social Security Trust Fund manages to buy 25% of all Bitcoin, and that by the time it buys its last satoshi, Bitcoin is at $20 million, the Social Security Trust Fund will be worth over $100 trillion. The unfunded liability of Social Security is now estimated at just $23 trillion over the next 75 years. The Trust Fund will have such a large surplus that there will be no more talk of tax increases or raising the retirement age. Everyone wins. The Trust Fund could then use all the Social Security payroll taxes it collects to buy more Bitcoin, supporting the price of Bitcoin and maintaining the value of its only asset.

There’s just one small wrinkle. With all Social Security tax revenue being used to buy Bitcoin, how will the government pay its benefits? It's not like the Trust Fund could sell Bitcoin to cover those payments, as it would crash the market. So, like all true Bitcoiners, it must HODL.

Fortunately, there is a workable solution. The government declares Bitcoin a reserve asset, then deposits its Bitcoin as collateral at the Federal Reserve, which provides the cash needed to pay Social Security benefits. This arrangement is better for the government than the Fed holding Treasuries, as it doesn’t have to pay interest on Bitcoin, nor is there principal to repay. The Fed can simply HODL Bitcoin on its balance sheet indefinitely—the ultimate diamond hands.

After Bitcoin fixes Social Security, the government can move on to fixing everything else with Bitcoin. It's too bad it took Satoshi so long to come up with this cure-all.

[Dan Held @danheld]

@PeterSchiff Holy shit I never thought I’d see you become bullish on Bitcoin.

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@aphysicist

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨Here is a list of all of Kamala Harris’ media related disbursements from FEC filings August 2023 - October 2024.

It’s broken down into monthly spending totals, top 20 recipients, a distribution of disbursement sizes, spending by type of media, temporal patterns, and trends.

Enjoy digging through the data, Internet 🫡

https://t.co/qGzoqRZsnz

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@AlpacaAurelius as well as a moral good*

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@AlpacaAurelius Think of how much federal spending is saved (medicare/medicaid/VA) more labor in the market, etc... its economically right aside from a moral good.

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

Tariffs are pro environment.

Reduction in cheap goods being sent across the world in polluting ships and planes.

Massive reduction in cheap fast fashion filling the worlds landfills and polluting us with microplastics.

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@kevin_b_b6 Really good points, lets game this out further.

Think of the amount of carbon emissions saved from that much less goods being sent across the world.

How about the reduction in all the fast fashion that is plaguing the worlds landfills.

Tariffs are environmentalist!

[George @BehizyTweets]

Charlie Kirk is calling for a Trump DOJ investigation into ActBlue for their illegal donation scheme, which involves using the names of elderly people to launder foreign money into Democrat campaigns.

Election Watch has uncovered $100s of millions in laundered cash, not just in federal races but in almost every election in all 50 states. Many State Attorney Generals and even Speaker Mike Johnson have confirmed Election Watch's research.

People need to go to jail. This will be a RICO case.

Video: @charliekirk11

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@MarioNawfal

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

@DerrickEvans4WV Shoot first, ask questions later sort of attitude. While not explicitly against the constitution there does tend to be a separation of powers. The VP is president of the senate.

The supreme court would likely get involved to deem this constitutional.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Someone should make a proxy system to simulate mars latency and projected bandwidth and start figuring out how to make effective use of the internet from mars. Good hobby project.

Easy to imagine individual apps or sites optimized for offline use, but how do you take advantage of everything else? Assume you update a local cache with every incoming Starship, but any topical interaction eats the full latency, so you wind up sending a query to an AI on earth to batch up as much relevant data as possible for you to consider a half hour later.

Figuring out how to make a heavily server based web site operate without the server is almost like the neural networks learning how to simulate games just by playing them.

In a mature earth/mars environment you would have a fairly dense string of Starships in Hohmann transfer at once between earth and mars. Interesting to consider whether using them as a chain of point to point repeaters could be better than direct line of sight transmission between planets.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

When the left complains that Elon owns X and has too much power, it's hilarious to remember that THEY FORCED HIM TO BUY IT! He tried to back out and they literally took him to Delaware court and forced the sale. They legally forced Elon to destroy them! 😂

[Gordon 🐂 @GordonGekko]

I think about this guy every day

[BlockBladeRunner @squiresjg]

Fantastic story: worth the listen.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This is the most powerful story of the year.

@howardlutnick watched as more than 650 of his employees died during the September 11th attacks, including his brother and his best friend.

Howard is then faced with a decision — shut down his company or use the business to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the families of his dead colleagues.

This story is the epitome of the American spirit. Howard doesn't quit, but instead uses his skills, talent, and leadership to create one of the greatest comebacks in modern history.

I promise Howard's story will challenge you to be a better human. Enjoy!