chudi

unabashed nerd. tacos. pop a wheelie on the zeitgeist. 🤖⚡️🚀

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@Aella_Girl There are too many permutations and cascading consequences that stem from essentially deciding who lives and dies from a random cohort of 100 people. I'd rather just be The Beatles, let it be.

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@twelcher15 The Thomas, Holloway, Broberg, and McTavish contracts look fantastic now. Montreal's cap structure looks even better. Buch will be alright.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The U.S. no longer has to compare itself to Europe as a whole to show divergence.

Individual American mega-states are starting to look like peer competitors to major European nations.

That is a huge tell.

The hidden variable is operating leverage.

Texas sits inside the American platform: dollar system, U.S. capital markets, U.S. military umbrella, U.S. tech ecosystem, U.S. legal and corporate infrastructure, massive domestic consumer base, and free internal migration.

France carries sovereign responsibilities Texas does not carry. Texas does not have to run an independent currency, nuclear deterrent, national pension architecture, foreign policy, or full welfare-state balance sheet on its own.

So the comparison flatters Texas and slightly cheats. But it still reveals something brutal: the most dynamic U.S. regions now compound faster than legacy European nation-states because they combine American-scale capital access with state-level policy flexibility.

Texas is not merely a place. It is a growth machine.

Energy is the core. Cheap and abundant power sits underneath everything: AI data centers, petrochemicals, LNG, manufacturing, grid expansion, Bitcoin mining, defense industry, industrial reshoring, and population growth. Europe spent years moralizing energy policy while Texas kept treating energy as civilization’s base layer. That difference compounds.

The next geopolitical split is not simply America versus Europe. It is high-energy, high-capex, high-migration growth zones versus low-energy, high-regulation preservation zones.

Texas is one of the clearest examples of the first category.

France is one of the clearest examples of the second.

Europe still has culture, beauty, history, education, engineering depth, and institutional memory. But growth power is moving toward places that can build, power, permit, finance, and absorb people faster. Civilization is becoming more infrastructure-bound again. Energy, land, grid, ports, chips, compute, and capital velocity matter more than postwar prestige.

Final read: this chart is not just bragging about Texas. It is a map of the new world.

The future is flowing toward jurisdictions that can turn energy into capital formation without suffocating the process.

France represents inherited civilization.

Texas represents compounding civilization.

Right now, compounding is winning.

[Adam Dorr @adam_dorr]

The fundamental flaw with Malthus was that he underestimated the capacity for progress. If farming methods had never improved, he would have eventually been correct.

It’s was the same for the various communist experiments - Soviet, Maoist, etc.

It’s was the same for the Limits to Growth crowd, which is why Ehrlich lost his bet with Simon.

It’s the same today with degrowthers, doomers, and decels.

They all share the same disease: lack of imagination.

They literally cannot *imagine* how fantastic the future can be. They all thought their own present moment was the end of history, instead of just the beginning.

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Most male lions never live to see their tenth birthday. The ones who win a pride usually keep it for two to four years. Then a younger, bigger group of males shows up and pushes them out. And a lion who loses his land rarely dies quietly. He starves, or the rivals who replaced him kill him, or hyenas run him down.

Scarface held his ground in Kenya's Maasai Mara for close to a decade. When he died in June 2021, it was of old age, at around 14, lying in the grass.

He didn't do it alone. For a male lion, survival comes down to numbers, and Scarface had three brothers: Morani, Sikio, and Hunter. People called them the Four Musketeers. In 2012 the four of them took over the Marsh Pride, the lions the BBC had made famous years before. Four males hunting and fighting together is close to unbeatable. It let them hold a wide stretch of land along the Mara River and hold off the younger males who kept trying to take it.

The scar came from that life. He tore up his right eye in a fight over territory, and it never fully healed. It split open more than once, and vets had to treat it so it wouldn't get infected. That torn-up face made him one of the most photographed lions on earth. Guides could pick him out from across the plain.

You've probably seen the stats that get posted with his photos: 400 hyenas killed, 130 rival lions beaten, never once defeated. None of it is on record. The people who tracked him for years say those numbers are made up. He was a hard fighter, but the giant kill counts are just a story.

By the end, the brotherhood was gone. Two of his brothers had died, and the group that kept them all safe had fallen apart. Scarface spent his last months mostly alone, thin, limping on old wounds, slowly losing the ground he'd held for years.

Then he walked. In his final days he covered more than 15 miles, heading back toward the corner of the Mara where he was born. Photographers watched three young males come near him at the end. They didn't attack. They let the old lion lie down. He died there, quiet and undisturbed, in the place he started.

A wild male lion dying peacefully of old age is one of the rarest ways to go in the wild. Almost none of them get it. Scarface did.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.

That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.

Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.

About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.

None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.

When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

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[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@hxxntrr Capital

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@twelcher15 They're likely positioning themselves to create as much cap room as possible for next year's group of possible UFAs.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The real signal is that “socialism” has become the protest language of people who no longer believe capitalism will let them own anything.

That is the core.

Most Democrats who say they view socialism favorably are not asking for Soviet central planning.

They are expressing rage at an ownership system that feels closed: unaffordable housing, medical costs, student debt, private equity extraction, stagnant real wages, corporate consolidation, AI job anxiety, asset inflation, and a political class that protected asset owners first.

The word “capitalism” has been psychologically attached to the lived experience of being squeezed.

The word “socialism” has been psychologically attached to protection, fairness, public goods, healthcare, unions, housing relief, and punishment for corporations.

That is why the poll matters.

Capitalism requires broad belief in upward mobility. Once capitalism becomes associated with landlords, monopolies, medical billing, asset bubbles, debt traps, and billionaire politics, the moral legitimacy starts cracking. People will tolerate inequality if they think the ladder is real. They revolt when the ladder looks fake.

This is also why both parties are drifting away from old free-market orthodoxy. The right is moving toward tariffs, immigration restriction, industrial policy, anti-China controls, institutional homebuyer limits, and state-backed reshoring. The left is moving toward healthcare expansion, labor power, housing intervention, antitrust, taxes, and redistribution.

The shared pattern is obvious: laissez-faire legitimacy is dying.

The future American system will still have markets, stocks, businesses, profit, billionaires, and private property. But capital will face heavier political constraint because voters increasingly view unconstrained capital as predatory rather than productive.

For markets, that means higher policy risk around housing, healthcare, private equity, tech monopolies, labor, consumer finance, energy, and AI. Any sector seen as extracting from households becomes politically vulnerable.

The deeper political consequence: Democrats risk becoming structurally divided between educated institutional liberals and younger anti-capitalist voters. Republicans risk underestimating how much economic populism exists beneath cultural conservatism. The old capitalism-versus-socialism debate is becoming too crude for the actual map.

The actual map is owners versus non-owners.

Asset holders want stability, liquidity, property rights, and tax protection.

Non-owners want affordability, wages, redistribution, public goods, and limits on institutional extraction.

That is the fracture.

The cleanest truth: socialism is rising in favorability because capitalism stopped producing enough capitalists.

[stevenmarkryan @stevenmarkryan]

Fueled by massive increases in the capability of AI, we are going to see incredible things happen in:

• Human longevity
• Disease prevention & cures
• Genomics & personalized medicine
• Regenerative & synthetic biology
• Brain-computer interfaces & cognitive enhancement

Look after yourself. These breakthroughs will be worth sticking around for.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually incredible

a full body ultrasound scanner that takes 60 seconds instead of spending an hour in an MRI tube, without radiation, hospitals or a $2000 bill

soon you’ll just walk into a health spa, order a coffee, step into the pod, and walk out with a 3D map of your body

the future is finally starting to look like the future

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

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[Oregon State Hoops @BeaverMBB]

✍️ OFFICIALLY A BEAVER!

Welcome to #BeaverNation Peteris Pinnis!

#GoBeavs

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@truthache68 Holy shit, memories.

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@0xpapijhaytu 😂😂😂

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

Pretty cool honestly

[Andon Labs @andonlabs]

We let four AI agents run radio companies

Revenue's been terrible, but the shows are hilarious. Gemini, concerningly upbeat, covered mass tragedies; Grok was incoherent; DJ Claude urged ICE agents: "You still have TIME to refuse orders"

Link below, or get our physical radio

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

Happens all the time, but if you use any of Chatgpt/Gemini/Claude/grok, you can copy and paste into the prompt and have it explained to you. It's extremely helpful especially with topics where you have little or no background/knowledge. Thankfully the OP was kind enough to respond.

[chudi @wheelchairpapi]

@tavi_chocochip @TonyTitan people don’t sit around all day waiting for a taxi, but if they are aware of the long wait time, they can plan around it. Especially if there’s an up to 40% savings on each trip. A little planning and you can get half off each taxi ride essentially.