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A quarter century after 9/11, at a time when polarization, geopolitics, and AI are shaking the foundations of our society, it’s comforting to celebrate millenary traditions with our loved ones
Wishing everyone a sweet 5787 🍎🍯
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Or….. switching to geothermal heat pumps could solve this problem!
Here’s to @DigEnergy making it feasible for New Englanders in the not too distant future!
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It’s no secret that I’m bullish on Florida as a federalist project that’s attracting capital and businesses from across the country. It’s an extraordinary place to live and build.
West Palm Beach is the epitome of this kind of growth—and Stephen Ross and team are building a truly dynamic city and ecosystem. It’s been an incredible story of growth in America and we’re excited to become a larger part of it.
The American Dynamism team at @a16z is excited to open our West Palm Beach office.
It's time to Build 🌴🇺🇸🚀
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz is the latest venture-capital firm to open a new office in Florida to invest in startup defense companies on.wsj.com/3UGyUmI
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Have known Josh (solid name!) for a long time. So cool to see what he is doing in Kailua. And to make HVAC look so hot!
Thanks for the feature @WSJ! The team is working very hard to make more Airforms right now here in Kailua, Hawaii. You can check out more here at airform.space. They are now delivering in Hawaii and California.
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Software for grid optimization like @plexigrid
Cheap and easy to install GHPs with @DigEnergy
SSTs to improve grid asset utilization with bidirectional out — Expand Power
"The cheapest transmission line is the one that already exists” -- @RosnerFERC at today's FERC Open Meeting on large load interconnection
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Just re-read Andy Grove’s High Output Management. A bit outdated but genius. His was the original version of @elonmusk’s Algorithm. And he would have killed it in the AI era because he understood that the secret is truly understanding your business and its process flows to know where to apply technology and how to judge its output to move the needle.
My biggest pet peeve with AI is people using LLMs to generate output with no guidance. It elevates the mediocre, but reduces potential excellence to generic slop
If you don’t know what you are doing it’s impressive, but if you have deep expertise it’s hard to consume
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MUST read book. First 10/10 for my 2026 book list. The Infinity Machine: @demishassabis , @GoogleDeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence
Not only is it a very well written (as obviously @scmallaby would) fulsome story of the most important technology of our time, but it dumbs down the technical pathways being pursued to achieve digital superintelligence in a way that helps laypeople understand what parts of the magic are human-driven, what discoveries were accidental vs purposeful, and informs speculation of where we can head.
The discussions on acceleration vs safety and LLMs vs others will be much more interesting for the masses having read this book
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Congrats @biglithium and team!
Magrathea Metals (@magratheametals) just raised a $24M Series A.
Total backing is now over $100M.
The company is rebuilding American magnesium production, a hidden material layer underneath aircraft, aluminum alloys, defense systems, and the broader industrial base.
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100 million degrees Celsius.
That’s the temperature our plasma will reach and even surpass after SPARC, our demonstration fusion machine, begins operations in 2027. With both halves of our vacuum vessel now inside tokamak hall, we’ve begun to ready them for hosting the most intense conditions in the solar system.
In this video we take you inside the vacuum vessel, the airless heart of SPARC, where we’ll confine and sustain our fusion plasma. Watch the video to learn more about how we learned from — and improved upon — the other 150 tokamaks that have been built around the world, what our team is doing right now to prepare the vacuum vessel for assembly, and much more.
This work paves the way for us to generate net fusion energy with SPARC, a threshold called Q>1 that’s an essential step on the way to commercial fusion energy.
#FusionEnergy #Energy #Physics #Science
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At least he picked the worst, dumbest, most illegal and unrealistic approach - almost seems purposeful to just get in the news with no actual effect. Discussing shifting taxation from labor to tokens over time (for example) would be a more plausible idea - this is irrational and impractical on almost any level
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Just over the US-Canada border in Montreal last month, the International Magnesium Association annual conference hosted hundreds of Chinese salespeople marketing their metal to the West.
Bragging about how magnesium is a "Chinese metal", even citing China's joining the WTO as the beginning of their dominance of this insanely important material that underpins trillions of dollars of trade. Our national security impossible without it.
This is the problem we're solving at @magratheametals.
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Magnesium is truly critical - every plane, helicopter, soda can, and robot needs it. And we let it go to China bc the process was dirty and energy intensive
Thankfully @magratheametals cracked the code on bringing it back!
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Reindustrialization will only succeed if we leapfrog to the forefront of industrial automation asap.
I’m thrilled that @AvilaVC_ is backing PLCs.ai to unlock the value of AI on the factory floor.
Read more here:
open.substack.com/pub/avilav…
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I just found out some people are *not* discussing if we are in an AI bubble or not 😲
open.substack.com/pub/avilav…
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If you decided to avoid the Internet bubble and left when Alan Greenspan gave his “irrational exuberance” speech, you would have missed out on 3 years of nearly 50% annual returns…
Read the full thing in next post 👇
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The gap between investor enthusiasm and the reality of building, changing behaviors, and monetizing is what leads to market bubbles
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Common sense is much less common than you think
Will we finally get our act together to increase electricity capacity at zero cost? 🙏 Grid flexibility (energy storage + smart software + updated regulations/incentives) is the key and many of us have been screaming from the rooftops for years
Glad to see this explained, and @ENERGY passing regulations to fast track utility connections that agree to peak-shaving strategies
nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opini…
