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“It is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out: no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form, but in the people’s hearts, their memory abides and grows. It is for you to try to be like them”
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New Founding retweeted
The biggest AI risk is not Skynet.
The biggest AI risk is heavy regulation entrenching 2-3 major players and outlawing all competition, giving those 2-3 players outsized epistemic authority.
If the AI market develops in an organic way, it will be competitive and commoditized.
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New Founding retweeted
If you actually want to learn we recorded a long podcast covering some of these topics
Building Startup Cities - Balaji Srinivasan | #84
In today's episode of the New Founding Podcast, Nathan Halberstadt (@NatHalberstadt) sits down with Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis), Nate Fischer (@NateAFischer) and Josh Abbotoy (@Byzness) to explore how Ridge Runner neighborhoods and startup societies (like the Network School) can outcompete failing blue one-party states.
They discuss American cultural conditions, India & the diaspora, institution-building, and more.
Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
2:30 – RidgeRunner Creed
11:42 – America as a Startup Society
17:09 – What Really Builds Trust?
23:13 – Measuring Community
31:33 – Inside Network School
39:48 – Urban Exit
44:36 – Crypto Equity & Real Estate
51:13 – Co-ops & Rent-to-Own
1:04:50 – Off-Grid Villages for Builders
1:08:37 – Debt, Declining Trust & Empire
1:23:34 – India and the Diaspora
1:51:10 – Building High-Trust Communities
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New Founding retweeted
The future of warfare is now and our administration is reading the room loud and clear. Excited to see this go live! 🔥
Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program is live, and we’re raising the stakes once again, allocating $450 million toward roughly 60,000 drones. Awards will be split evenly across two mission sets, with an option to buy up to 40,000 more.
Deep Strike and Close Quarter Battle (CQB) mission sets return from Phase 2, with tougher scenarios and a faster pace. Both will be tested in GNSS- and comms-denied environments.
Learn more and apply here: info.nstxl.org/-drone-domina…
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New Founding retweeted
There’s a lot to unpack here…
🚨 NOW: Anthropic chief DARIO just walked up and said President Trump helped put his Super Intelligence worries at ease
"If we do this right, we work with the President and everyone here, we can win safely!"
Imagine that, all it took was DONALD J. TRUMP getting involved and the tables are turning!
No more SI dooming, no more surrendering to China.
America will remain number one BOTH for national and economic security, as long as Trump is president 👏🏻
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While some concern about data centers is valid, some seems to be driven by something more.
This piece posits a spiritual crisis driving some of the most hysterical opposition to AI.
Excited to have @CJohnsonAELI debut in AmRef on the spiritual connection between AI doomerism and Christian faith! Important insights into the current debate around AI.
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Critical approach to life, and one that will only grow more important.
While these examples build on extensive domain knowledge (which will remain valuable), AI can increasingly help with that. It cannot replace the curiosity and drive to gather inputs, test suggested solutions, and figure out how to solve problems.
Today, I met with the previous owner of my Viper to help him with his new Gen 3 Viper.
He was quoted $800 to fix his A/C. The part alone would be $650. A few weeks ago, I stopped by and traced the same leak back to a Schrader valve. Today, I stopped by, and in 15 minutes, replaced the faulty valve.
The valve cost $1.
The total service cost was $40
I returned home to find my furnace not working. Of course, me being me, I plopped down next to it to start diagnosing the issue.
I've never worked on a furnace before- no big deal, let's figure it out.
First, I listened to it... high pitched buzzing... don't hear a fan.
Then, I looked for anything to help me. I found a cover, then underneath, a flashing light. I looked around for any indicator of what that light meant... found it.
It's flashing 12 and 33. I read those codes... heater is shutting down because of too much heat... air not venting.
Maybe there's something blocking the filter? Remove filter, turn it off and back on. Nothing.
Then, I stick my hand into the fan, let's spin it by hand... it's not frozen... and OUCH! the motor is hot!
So I say to myself "if the motor is hot, not seized, the control board is putting out useful codes, power and gas are both operational... then it's probably the capacitor.
Overnighted on Amazon? $10.
To have an HVAC guy handle this for me? Probably $400.
This post isn't about HVAC. You should have the natural curiosity and desire to figure things out. Not just because they're cool, but because being able to understand the systems you use is the difference between a broken part being an inconvenience or a bankruptcy.
Competence starts with Curiosity.
Be Curious.
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New Founding retweeted
Meritocracy was not what produced American innovation.
Yes, American culture has always embraced entrepreneurship and ability, alongside an array of other norms.
But the technocratic idealization of aspects of this in “meritocracy” is more correlated with American stagnation.
Meritocracy isn't the problem. It's the solution. And the fact that both parties are now moving toward wholesale rejection of meritocracy spells the end of American innovation, freedom, and strength.
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Not to be dramatic but agentic Ai has been a life changer for me as a solo entrepreneur guy.
Back of the envelop math tells me I’m at 45k in savings and profit added since I started using it 3 weeks ago, not to mention the quality of life improvement or the equivalent cost for an employee to do similar work slower.
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We will see many stories like this.
AI is a powerful tool for high-agency people.
Not to be dramatic but agentic Ai has been a life changer for me as a solo entrepreneur guy.
Back of the envelop math tells me I’m at 45k in savings and profit added since I started using it 3 weeks ago, not to mention the quality of life improvement or the equivalent cost for an employee to do similar work slower.
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New Founding retweeted
Unless you live under a rock, you know that unmanned vehicles are critical to winning future wars. But a lot of people have zero clue that last month the Trump admin fundamentally changed the game on how (and more importantly WHERE) these systems are made going forward. 🧵1/6
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New Founding retweeted
He needs to be buying land from @UsaRidge
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, says he's living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI's Memphis supercomputer site 🏜️
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New Founding retweeted
Turn it into an article
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.
Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.
The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.
It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.
Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.
True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.
Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.
We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
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Far too many red states accept fraud, dysfunction, and ideological grift in their cities, simply accepting that as a way that “blue” cities operate.
But cities are creations of the state, and there is no reason they should accept this from any subordinate government.
The city only exists and gets away with ANYTHING at the behest of the state, is how the Texas constitution works.
It’s time for a bolder right to step in and turn off cities’ grift and mayhem, and fix a lot of the nonsense.
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Despite ongoing conflicts on the right, there is an enormous opportunity for statesmanship.
Where the left will remain inherently divided, we have the potential for a real coalition—if we can move past abstract divisions and unite around responsibility for our country.
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