Aaron Slodov

it was a tremendous honor to host USTR this morning at atomic hq. we deeply believe and practice how technology & production combined with midwest grit lead to global competitiveness. this is the future of manufacturing.

@garthsc @_panthalassa huge, congrats!

Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr and many other incredible investors. The mission: unlock the ocean as another planetary-scale energy resource for humanity. First stop: compute.

We have the first speaker lineup for the first event of SF Deep Tech Week 2026. It's about hardware and manufacturing. There's a few T of future enterprise value here. Recognize anyone? @bscholl @EdwardMehr @jordannoone @jimbelosic @aphysicist

@Ryanrz operation warp speed

@aphysicist What have you seen in the last 40 years that makes you think the US political system could competently manage this even if it were only a $10B program?

first of all, never trust mckinsey (they're traitors), secondly this is a hilarious joke because if we were serious, it would take 2 years and $10 billion to ensure permanent american dominance for a domestic actuator supply chain. unbelievably cheap price for a $50T race.

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical-…

@mcuban people learning this need to take an intro physics class to learn the difference between precision and accuracy

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time. Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output. Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable. Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second. Am I wrong ?

@Gore_Burnelli because i know it's possible

@aphysicist why do you think its only two years? genuinely curious.

@energybants wow, huge

Breaking: Brookfield and The Nuclear Company teaming up to deliver GW-scale nuclear Proud to announcing a joint venture between The Nuclear Company and Brookfield to deliver Westinghouse reactors, including to manage the completion of AP1000s in South Carolina. From the day I discovered nuclear energy my goal has been to build as much of it as possible for the world. Today, with my team at @thenuclearco, we're taking a huge step towards that. It's been an honor to work as Chief of Staff for proven builder-CEO @JonathanWebbKY alongside our legendary Chief Nuclear Officer @TheNuclearJoe as we build the team and technology that can finally fix the nuclear plant deployment problem in the West. I've been an advocate for nuclear energy long enough to see the revolution in public appreciation for this wondrous technology, but just being popular isn't enough. We have to be able to build on-time, on-budget, with proven designs that are repeated over and over with an experienced and disciplined project management team using the best emerging tech. That is precisely what we're doing at The Nuclear Company. I'll be sharing more going forward as we deliver on the awesome potential unlocked by today's announcement.

@UnreliableNarr6 the sad thing is that we do, it's a willpower problem

@aphysicist You don’t have the technology to pull it off and boastful comment on X won’t get you there. While the U.S. was out of the game it changed. You talk like throwing money solves everything. Your arrogance is laughable.

@Xaraphim it's quite literally because people are unserious about this

@aphysicist if the math is so simple why is this not happening? or is it happening and i’m just uninformed

@elonmusk can you imagine the factory to make this kek

Size does matter

manufacturing is peter thiel's dream = competition is for losers = everyone has a $10B+ lane to swim in

the biggest issue w/ founders poisoning the well for other founders, is that investors actually listen, which slows the pace of reindustrialization. not to mention how deeply unpatriotic and dishonorable this behavior is amongst other builders. sadly, many investors think it's actually a smarter play to concentrate capital on a single winner. unfortunately they don't realize manufacturing is impossible to monopolize by its nature. there's too much capital and opportunity to be this petty.

also if you read this and think or say to yourself, this is just capitalism, skill issue, capital war, and any other garden variety mental gymnastics justifying it, you're part of the problem

@Xaraphim just get on whatsapp and find a chinese supplier who says they can make them for you (pose as a customer), go visit, live in factory for a month, profit

who can get me up to information on chinese turbine development programs , for power generation and aero as close to the source as possible, ideally something with minimal media bias even better would be scientific information or first hand experience thank you for being attentive to this matter

What a time for U.S. manufacturers. Government is calling for innovative solutions to address some of America's most complex manufacturing and materials challenges relevant to the U.S. energy sector. Below is a list of top areas of interest. This isn't a surprise. The National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and a slew of Executive Orders have signaled a surge in demand for these capabilities. For reindustrialization. To supercharge the defense industrial base. And now we're seeing the specific calls for innovation. One example: Department of Energy's HPC4EI initiative released a solicitation a few days ago. It's an opportunity for U.S. manufacturers to participate in collaborative projects with DOE national labs' supercomputing capabilities and technical expertise to strengthen domestic supply chains and enhance U.S. industrial competitiveness. Some of the solutions they are most interested in: - Overcoming qualification and certification barriers for advanced materials (time, cost) - Scaling and manufacturability / reducing cost and risk in scaling up advanced materials - Computational methods that reduce technical, cost, and supply chain risks for rare earth elements, battery materials, etc - Multifunctional materials w/ combined structural, thermal, and electrical performance - Advanced thermal management solutions for power electronics, semiconductors, computing systems - AI/ML driven materials informatics, end-to-end digital thread platforms, smart manufacturing approaches that enable faster development, reduced costs - Modeling of material systems that enable cost-effective domestic production -- e.g. rare-earth-free magnetic materials, substitutes for critical minerals - Advanced reactors, turbine systems, grid-scale storage - Simulation of advanced manufacturing methods Modeling of high-throughput machining, finishing, and forming technologies that deliver greater precision and reliability at scale - AI/ML and smart manufacturing platforms to optimize process control - Technologies that improve productivity optimization in energy-intensive industries - Chemicals and fuels -- process innovations, novel reactor and separation technologies, advanced materials development for chemical manufacturing - Iron and steelmaking, aluminum, and other metals -- innovative processes for primary metals production, methods to optimize productivity, methods to decopperize steel - Food and beverage products processing that optimize efficient recovery and reuse of waste energy, extend product shelf life, minimize waste - Cement and concrete, asphalt, and glass process innovations, alternative source materials, novel material composition, and solutions to reduce waste - Forest products, including novel dewatering or drying technologies and improved pulping and chemical recovery processes - Equipment and processes that improve industrial process heating, including reducing cost, improving efficiency, or enhancing product quality - Non-thermal processes for cost-competitive separations and treatments - Industrial technologies that can ensure grid reliability amidst industrial demand growth - Technologies that enable production of fit-for-purpose water -- e.g. reduce direct water consumption of data centers Concept papers due May 27.

@emmajo socialists

need a slur for idea guys who are unemployed yet somehow also too busy to execute on any of their ideas

not quite. data centers sit alongside drones, chips, munitions, ships, energy and 100 other things the industrial base needs to be shocked back to life to build. our destiny is hyper-industrialism, not a shrewd retreat from bullying atoms around.

@TaylorLorenz can you investigate and write on the anti-AI money too pls

Read my full story here 👇🏻 wired.com/story/super-pa…

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG.