Chris Beach

What a difference a headline makes.

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EPISODE 147: The New Era of Software Abundance @JTLonsdale visits @ScottWu46 & @russelljkaplan at @cognition HQ 00:00 Episode intro 01:35 Why technical talent & execution matters in AI 06:10 Do young people have an edge in the AI era? 08:26 Cognition's rapid growth 11:55 The new era of software abundance 14:30 Cognition engineers don't type code anymore 19:20 "Never sleep while Devin is idling" 21:25 The case for AI disinflation 23:50 How Devin generates 12X productivity gains 28:25 Cognition for government / taking on complex, broken systems 36:40 The AI race / competition with Anthropic 39:00 Forward deployed engineers? 43:40 How fast are LLMs improving? 47:10 The AI-led small business explosion

I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday

This is horrible. Government getting its mitts on your kids ASAP instead of being at home with parents. Society doesn’t need more parents in the workforce. We need more kids cared for at home by loving Moms and Dads. Fight this with every breath.

.@KLoeffler to @JTLonsdale on the scandal of DEI contracting: The Biden administration "moved it up from a 5% statutory target to 15% of all government contracting. And it went to about 80% no-bid contracts!" Joe Lonsdale: There's a woman named Margarita Howard. Did you hear about this one? She lived in a 14,000 square foot mansion after her company secured hundreds of millions of 8(a) [contracts]... People just got really, really, really rich... no one was even looking for years, and they just kept getting so rich off these things. Kelly Loeffler: And politically, the Biden administration really promoted this. I mean, they moved it up from a 5% statutory target to 15% of all government contracting. That's why the program almost doubled under Biden. And it went to about 80% no-bid contracts. Joe Lonsdale: Just giving to their friends. Kelly Loeffler: Just no bid. Single, sole source. Joe Lonsdale: Just if you are connected in to the Democratic Party friend who's running it... Kelly Loeffler: You will get this contract. Joe Lonsdale: You just get it. Kelly Loeffler:  And it's massive. And there won't be any checks and balances on you, so it'll never be verified. We're doing the first audit of this program in 45 years. It's never been looked at. We've already kicked a thousand people out of the program. Joe Lonsdale: Shouldn't these people be prosecuted? Kelly Loeffler: Well, that's part two...

EPISODE 146: AI, Culture, and Attention as Currency @JTLonsdale welcomes @jakepaul & @geoffreywoo to Austin 00:00 Episode intro 02:20 On stage with President Trump 06:00 Attention is the most valuable currency 08:00 The origins of @AntiFund and backing OpenAI, Anduril, Ramp, and others 09:10 Betr + Polymarket and the future of prediction markets 14:58 Launching Sora with OpenAI 16:14 Are you worried about AI slop? 19:10 How AI is changing culture; revival of in-person events 21:20 Who should become a creator? 24:30 Fighters as cultural icons 31:30 How to win the culture

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I have been dreaming of this day for a long time. Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders. It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. arenamag.com/silicon

BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

Kansas has a bill that requires K-12 schools to teach the horrors of communism, like the Texas legislature passed with @InstituteCicero's support. But leftist special interests are lining up to turn lawmakers against it. Let's help freedom win in KS, and take back our schools!

@travisk Don't call it a comeback 💪🇺🇸

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Travis Kalanick is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. The bad guys took his company. But they never broke his spirit. He rebuilt from scratch. And now he’s back.

Not a plot, @nypost. California has lost millions of residents over the past decade. Every week, more companies announce they’re leaving and taking jobs with them. We want to create a California that’s affordable and that provides economic opportunity to everyone.

$9 BILLION of fraud in California, $400M in Minnesota & billions more in govt contracting scandals...  @KLoeffler is supporting USA’s ownership economy with SBA, while exposing massive fraud schemes, and just getting started.  It's time to restore trust and competence in govt.

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EPISODE 145: SBA Administrator @KLoeffler on Exposing Billions in Fraud & What AI Means for Small Business @JTLonsdale sits down with @SBA_Kelly What's the staggering scale of fraud she's uncovering?  How is she working with Palantir & other top talent to ensure it never happens again? Plus, how is AI impacting small businesses? Could this be a golden age for Main Street America?  00:00 Episode intro 01:40 Farming to finance 04:46 Building Bakkt & institutional infrastructure for crypto 09:00 AI & the future of small business 13:58 How to supercharge manufacturing in America 16:15 Exposing billions in fraud 18:50 The scandal of minority contracting 20:25 Using Palantir to investigate fraud 27:15 The NGO grift scheme 29:50 Optimism for the future

Special interests have captured California. Despite being the 4th largest economy in the world and having the highest taxes in the country, California is unaffordable, we don’t build enough housing, our cities are unsafe, and we’re experiencing net migration out of the state. We need to act to save California.

We wrote the first check into Quince and never shared our thesis publicly At the time, D2C was radioactive and 'affordable luxury' sounded like an oxymoron. Today they raised at $10B. We couldn't be more excited. Here's why we believed — and why we think it's still early! 8vc.com/resources/quin…

Very proud to announce our early investment (and double down) on @ArmadinSecurity, founded by the legendary Kevin Mandia, Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater Autonomous AI agent swarms that attack like the best adversaries — so corps find the kill chains before they do armadin.com/blog-posts/arm…

@bugmango Well said

I'll echo hundreds of stories shared here, that Charlie Kirk's assassination, and the mainstream left's response, permanently altered my worldview. It left me speechless. I realized there is truely something wicked, evil, sinister brewing deep in the hearts of those who would celebrate something so vile as the murder of husband, father, and public debator and defender of free speach. I didn't even watch the guy or know much about him before his assassination, but after catching up on him, I realize I hold 90% of the same views he held, and that those who celebrated his death would celebrate my own if I were so outspoken, courageous, and productive as he was. It made me realize that my method of 'staying out of politics', 'toeing the line', 'third-wayism', trying to play the 'both sides have really good points and are sincere and lets all get along' etc was no longer tenable, and that for all the faults, hypocrisy, and cringe that plagues the mainstream right, what we have on the left was overt celebration of the most profound Evil I can imagine. Again, this is coming form someone who didn't know much at all about Charlie Kirk, I cannot imagine how much this event galvanized those who followed him closely.