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[T @ttimothytran]

My patent got issued. I’m officially an American inventor now! 🤓💡

https://t.co/xdoagUVFJJ

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Most of our billionaires and "Titans of Industry" today are in tech or finance…

They make apps or move numbers on a screen. One reason I think Elon deserves respect is that he’s actually building things. Cars, rockets, satellites, chips, factories.

We need more Elons.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Friendly reminder that the AI data center water crisis doesn’t exist

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

What *actually* great looking cities look like

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Chongqing has become a paradise for cosplayers and cyberpunk-style photography.

[Michelle @D162Michele]

They say China steals technology from the West.
So how come I’ve never seen this technology in the West?🤔

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

When I tell young family members I had kid birthday parties at @McDonalds they think it’s weird, but honestly it was awesome.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

We're basically on the verge of outsourcing the future again. We've been begging for reindustrialization for decades. Begging for local jobs and tax revenue. Begging for energy grid upgrades. Begging for uptick in skilled blue collar work.

Now it's all happening and people are fighting it.

I read someone today: "In the industry we're watching this as if the entire world suddenly had strong opinions on carpet warehouses."

Do you think that will stop the AI build out?

Zero chance.

It will just go overseas. And folks think, great! As long as it's not here!

Your grandpa's pension fund, the local electrician guild and your local tax revenue disagrees. But here we are.

Mass psychogenic illness is a strange, strange beast.

[Naval @naval]

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

America is incredibly far behind in robotics

This is existential

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

The data center panic feels exactly like the anti-GMO movement.

A bunch of technical claims that sound scary and reasonable until you spend 10 minutes actually looking into them.

Then when one claim falls apart, it’s immediately replaced with another.

At some point it stops being about water, jobs, or the grid and starts being “I already decided this technology is evil, now help me justify it.”

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

A data center is almost comically tame as industry goes. No smokestacks. No ore piles. No molten steel. No freight trains of coal. Mostly a very large box containing computers, electrical equipment, cooling systems, and an expensive humming noise. And even this is apparently too industrial for us.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

In a poll of 25 different countries, Americans are the most anti-AI.

The most pro-AI countries are South Korea, India, Israel, and Nigeria.

What happened to us? We used to believe in ourselves and the future.

Now we're a nation of pessimists and cowards.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The greatest privilege of my life is being able to work with incredible people to create amazing products

[T @ttimothytran]

@Noahpinion Touché, but this is honestly apart of a bigger problem. America has become a culture of anti tech and anti building, blocking us from greater prosperity.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. electricians union leader calls for more data centers, arguing the AI infrastructure boom is creating a “generational” opportunity for blue-collar workers.

[T @ttimothytran]

Yes 🙌

[Jonathan Robe @RobeJonathan]

The ultimate American dream

[T @ttimothytran]

@farzyness @PeterDiamandis Specifically outside the coastal areas. Doing it in the south and midwest would help the most.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

If you are anti-datacenter, you are pro-Cancer

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

I've been spending some time learning about the legacy education system and the rise of alternative schools in the US, and it's so interesting to see the same Uber vs. Taxi phenomenon playing out again.

Same story: the incumbent controls a sector for decades, with laws and funding protecting its monopoly. When alternatives emerge, the first reaction is to try to defend the status quo.

The actors change, but the underlying structure looks the same (not a perfect analogy, but close):

Taxi driver → teacher
Medallion holder or fleet owner → school district
Taxi commission → state education bureaucracy
Taxi medallion → operating authorization

They will argue that the new services aren't properly regulated, reliable or safe. But consumers vote with their feet and wallets, and the rising demand makes it clear that something is deeply broken in the legacy system.

And it's also quite sad because many people working inside the incumbent system aren't benefiting from these privileges or getting rich in the process. They are not the owners of the means of production.

Many taxi drivers rented medallions or borrowed heavily to buy one just for permission to work. When Uber arrived and the license value collapsed, those drivers got rugged.

Teachers are in a similar position. They are underpaid, short on resources and have little control over their school districts.

Florida's school-choice programs are starting to change that. About $8,000 per participating student now follows the family instead of automatically going to the assigned district school. Parents can use it at eligible microschools and other independent providers.

Former public-school teachers are already using that opening to build schools of their own. Weirdly enough, many others will keep fighting to defend the very system screwing them.

If you're a talented education professional, don't waste time fighting. Leave the legacy system and open your own school.

[T @ttimothytran]

@naygozalova Touché ☺️

[T @ttimothytran]

There is nothing in this world that I can control other than my own actions.