Kyle Nelson

Microsoft needs to start charging a bit per PR. Otherwise GitHub is effectively getting DDOSd by LLM code commits

An absolute must watch! Pure rocket cinema! So thankful @spacex produced a video with this much behind the scenes and story telling!!! Loved seeing McGregor get some much needed love too!

@yatharthmann Yes 🚀

SpaceX.

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

@bscholl Maybe in the short to medium term. Long term this seems unlikely

Unpopular opinion: AI will not reduce net employment, might actually increase it. To wit: AI-enabled coding increases Boom’s demand for software engineers. Because AI enables everyone to code, we now need more people to ensure architecture foundation is solid.

@niccruzpatane 🤣🤣🤣

I can see where VW got their inspiration for their new steering wheel buttons.

@niccruzpatane Wow… epic fail. All they had to do is make the necessary buttons more tactile and make software and touch screen on par with Tesla

Volkswagen revealed the interior of its new ID.3 Neo yesterday. VW’s CEO said the previous model’s interior (right image) "definitely did a lot of damage" to the brand due to the lack of buttons and physical controls. In the new ID.3, VW has added back physical climate control buttons, a volume knob, more buttons on the steering wheel, and actual window switches.

First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

The fact that this woman is celebrating tonight should tell you everything you need to know about the future of Hungary and the rest of Europe.

@RadicalFalk absolutely nails all the issues with living in modern day Germany (Europe).

@elonmusk @RichardDawkins I would love this! If anyone can make this happen, just do it

@RichardDawkins Bring them all back, especially the dinosaurs. Fake it if you have to.

You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me. Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious? You are the fraud.

@bscholl Soo coool! Go team @boomsupersonic ! Let’s get those commercial supersonic jets in the air!

As we enter the build phase for our first engine, Boom is moving to video updates for our investors. Here is our most recent investor update (financial info redacted). Hint: there is an Easter egg 🥚

@spaceandtech_ So freaking cool

Sunbird is a nuclear fusion-powered spacecraft concept developed by Pulsar Fusion to reduce deep-space travel time. It uses a Dual Direct Fusion Drive powered by deuterium and helium-3 and is designed to act as a space tug from low Earth orbit. Still in development, it could become the fastest self-propelled spacecraft ever built if testing is successful.

Marc Andreessen thinks Elon Musk hasn't just built successful companies, he might have actually cracked the code on how to manage for the next hundred years. The fundamental problem with any traditional organization that has multiple layers of management is what Andreessen brilliantly describes as "compounding lies." Every layer distorts reality just a little bit more until the original mission is completely lost in the bureaucracy. Musk’s method completely destroys that outdated corporate structure. It relies entirely on an extreme focus on substance and getting straight to the truth. By stripping away the noise, he has figured out the exact blueprint to reconcile being a chaotic fountain of ideas with being a ruthless, systematic builder.

@IvanLandabaso Some cool startups in that list!

A list of 36 Spanish startups that raised €300M+ in March 2026. All likely hiring:

@CuriosityonX So inspiring! We are explorers again 🚀

BREAKING NEWS🚨: Four humans just passed the point where NO person has EVER been. Artemis 2 crew is now officialy the farthest humans from Earth in ALL of history. 252,757 miles from Earth Let that satisfyingly terrify you.

Moonday 🌕🇺🇸🚀