Pleased to announce we closed @8VC Fund 7; $1.5B capital to partner w/ top talent in this US-led AI Industrial Revolution! Productivity, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, et al. We are too busy crushing it to make a new video; what an exciting time in the innovation world! 🇺🇸

As a side note, if we are in a “simulation” (and who is to say what the almighty calls His reality), it might be powered by a singularity in a higher-dimensional multiverse.

If we get the cool sort of aligned ASI that gives us effectively infinite intelligence to build and create at scale, we will likely end up building black holes and harnessing them for energy, manufacturing, and quantum simulations. For a spinning (Kerr) black hole, efficiencies reach ~10–42% of the infalling rest-mass energy converted to usable radiation - far surpassing nuclear fusion (~0.7%) or even antimatter annihilation in practicality for bulk use. Quasars demonstrate this on galactic scales. A civilization could feed asteroids, waste, or dedicated fuel into a disk around a stellar-mass or mini black hole and harvest the output with collectors or Dyson-like structures. Spheres around stars are child’s play versus gravitational singularity industry. I’m generally opposed to over-regulation, but we’d want to be very careful where we build these and who is in charge of them 🤣.

Solid adage.

“Fuck you communists, this is our home and you can’t have it” 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Watch President Donald J. Trump's Full Speech on American Exceptionalism at Mount Rushmore on the eve of America's 250th:

Even as our innovation world accelerates and opens up bright new possibilities, old cronyism and bad policy has driven up housing & healthcare costs to painful levels. This volatile mix is paired with a youth educated in mediocre schools which were largely conquered by a cultural & activist left (mostly NOT taught the principles of our founding); a youth that is beginning to vote. Our next 250 years will be defined by the next couple decades. We must do better on all fronts. Will we remain free and prosperous, with a society that unlocks opportunity for all, and stops either cronyism or government power from abusing our freedom? Or will we be reduced to petty squabbles, with envy and tribal partisan battles handing unchecked power to the worst of each side? Thank you to all my friends and fellow Americans who continue to fight for our people and our nation - and for liberty, integrity, and honor. We are not of any party; we are a people united in a great nation that is the last, best hope for freedom on Earth.

Happy 250th birthday to the USA 🇺🇸! The world is lucky to see a civilization defined by the unlimited potential of man when he is free, and by a govt programmed to check its own limited power. I’m proud to be an American, and to fight to protect her principles and her people.

This is what happens without natural rights, and a society that’s taught to value freedom and truth as core principles. This young lady cop, who seems to like bossing people around, is clearly steeped in a culture which says: “not making others uncomfortable trumps free speech”.

The cop thinks she’s a Kindergarten teacher - that the UK is a bunch of little kids she and the state boss around for their own good. It’s very simple: if some people can’t hear speech that bothers them without “breaching the peace”, arrest those guys!! Not the one speaking out!

I can’t let this go unchallenged. That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault. The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim. The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence. What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim. The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier. In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!

The Muslim Brotherhood is taking over the Democrat party and has used Israel to distract you from it.

Dear @VP @JDVance, I was honored to see you endorse my idea of prohibiting birth tourism citizenship in U.S. Territories (which China has exploited to the hilt), and I'd like to offer you some even bolder ideas to save our national sovereignty. So far, solutions to the Anchor Baby problem have focused on the "anchors," but the SCOTUS decision requires renewing focus on the "boats" they tether and ending their incentives to give birth here. Here’s how. Take all the conditions in the original Trump EO and direct all the consequences onto foreigners who exploit "loophole citizenship" by declaring them PERSONA NON GRATA. Specifically, if an alien without legal permanent residency chooses to have a child on U.S. soil, the foreigner parents must either renounce the child’s American citizenship or lose the ability to ever again legally step foot in the U.S., their choice. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1182(f)), the President has broad power to suspend or restrict entry of any class of foreign nationals the President determines would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” The President should use this authority to deem such foreigners: 1) permanently ineligible for U.S. entry under any visa type (whether visitor, student, work, or otherwise) 2) permanently ineligible to petition for asylum, refugee, or temporary protected status 3) permanently ineligible for lottery or family based entry 4) permanently ineligible to petition for any legal residency or U.S. citizenship whatsover, including by future marriage to an American citizen. Foreigners cynically use their children as tools to get lawful access to the U.S., its resources, and its opportunities that were paid for in blood and treasure by generations of Americans that came before. Forever shut the door to that access and birth tourism would plummet overnight. But what about the people who would defy any ban or are already here illegally? That’s a tougher problem, but still addressable. The lawbreakers would have know that if they exploit “loophole citizenship” and choose not to renounce their child’s U.S. citizenship, they will have automatically moved themselves up on the deportation tracking and priority list. The president can also exercise his discretion under the INA to strip away common procedural tools immigration lawyers use to delay or withhold removal and can require expedited deportation once they are caught as we currently do with repeat offenders and criminals. Congress, for its part, should codify these changes to prevent any potential future open borders President from unilaterally undoing them. It may also need to create mechanisms for a parent covered by the EO to be able to renounce their child's American citizenship as an exercise of their parental rights, especially in cases of truly accidental births on U.S. soil. States too have a role to play in limiting perverse incentives. For example, they can require parents who are here illegally to pay for the public schooling of their children, whether U.S. citizen or not (and thereby prompt the court to revisit the wrongly decided Plyler v. Doe decision of 1982). People are furious because the biggest court rewrite of the Constitution since Obergefell has placed our national identity at the mercy of foreigners making decisions according to THEIR interests, on THEIR timing, and on THEIR terms. In the American system of government, for every egregious SCOTUS decision, there should be an equal and opposite reaction from the other federal branches, the states, and the People. It’s how our system is designed, and we should exercise that power to make sure it is Americans, and only Americans, who decide who can join our great nation.

they did it. the mad lads actually did it. i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?) early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem. processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet. each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago. since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up. to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it. when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor. the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned. we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it. huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality. while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together. what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

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To mark America's 250th anniversary, we deployed Corsair through U.S. waterways, past harbors, rivers, and coastlines that tell the story of how these waters have shaped this country's security and prosperity. For 250 years, the seas have underwritten American freedom. Up to 80% of the world's traded goods still move by water. The next 250 years will demand new solutions to protect that. At Saronic, we're building the autonomous fleets that will help secure free trade, protect peace and preserve the freedom to operate on the world's most important waters, for generations to come. Read more: saronic.com/250

If an institution is not EXPLICITLY opposed to commies & wary of them, in any of their forms, it may find itself conquered by the damn commies. This isn’t “partisan”; it’s common sense. Make sure ANY institution you support is aligned with this. Art, health, etc: No exceptions.

For some unknown reason, my left-leaning public high school history classes and textbooks never mentioned this wonderful story.

Exciting to see this after many years of amazing work by the OrcaBio team. Congrats! @8VC are proud early investors. Read more about the announcement here: businesswire.com/news/home/2…

Today, the FDA approved @OrcaBio's TREGZI cell therapy for adults with hematological malignancies (eg, cancer).  In Orca’s pivotal trial, TREGZI roughly doubled the rate of patients alive and free of serious chronic complications at one year.  Congratulations to the Orca team!

The birth years of Continental Congress members if the United States Declaration of Independence had been signed in 2026.