Gerrit Lansing

Tons of respect for Act Blue. Game on. boston.com/news/politics/…

@martial_mather @jobsbygeorge @elonmusk @jakobdiepen @DiscipulusVent ^

@jobsbygeorge @elonmusk @jakobdiepen taken care of at @DiscipulusVent

hey @elonmusk can you make an “xcombinator”?? the future of the USA needs a leader/fund that solely focuses on: - reindustrialization - hardware - software for hardware - manufacturing / industrials - defense tech - mining etc.

@redsteeze Bobby Rush’s interview about winning this is incredible

The next thing that happened is Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records somehow magically got leaked. The rest is, well you get it.

-> Team Civilization.

As always, there is a 'technical reason' the mistake happened. But strange that it always happens to one party. nypost.com/2026/03/20/us-…

This is election interference. @OpenAI @sama

@Gaurab @Ciszek Classic mess-with-the-political-primary-opponent tactic. Always works

We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.

@rustbeltkid1 A bunch of that square is the old IL6 congressional district, where 1,400 manufacturing shops existed 10-15 years ago. Most still there I imagine.

There has been no greater "trapped by economics" scenario in the history of the United States The once independent small towns with machine shops and 1000 of farms will give way to a DFW style economic megalith All happening on top of the best soil on planet Earth

@NateAFischer Just a bunch of dads who grabbed oozies and radios

The 80s were definitely a high point in American aesthetic

@mcgillmd921 🫡

I am undertaking a long journey. I’m reading Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. As I finish each chapter, I’m reading ancient sources about the emperors covered in that chapter. I just finished chapter XI about Claudius Gothicus and Aurelian. Now I am going to read about them in the Augustan History and Zosimus.

@NatHalberstadt youtu.be/pQGtucrJ8hM?si…

I really need a printer that has zero screen, wifi, or bluetooth connection. I just want to be able to plug a usb cord printer --> computer Hit print, and have it actually work every time

@auren Distribution into Hill offices is a still a barrier, though easier to blast far and wide with X.

legacy DC think tanks are dying because they're INSANELY slow and don’t innovate. almost any policy paper today could have been written 20 years ago. niche startup think tanks with fast turnaround are eating the big institutions alive.

@SantiagoPliego Legendary tweet

Our team could use a card that: - Works in the Sahel, gray-zone Antarctic regions, and recently Donroe Doctrine'd parts of the world - Multi-modal rail switching: credit, debit, Lightning network, etc. - No foreign transaction fees - $2,500 annual Hilux rental credit - $5,000 annual Skyhook credit - $1,000 annual contingency logistics credit - Integrated low-power LoRa tracker beacon - 3x points on private airstrip fees - doubled to 6x if airstrip meets Saba or Courchevel Rules (<1,312ft length or >18.5% gradient) Who's building this?

Haha

Bulk Actions are live in the @WinRed beta portal! We are finishing up utilities and merch shortly and then getting ready to make the new portal fully available for all candidates on WinRed. The new portal is significantly faster and a major time saver for fundraising teams.

@WillManidis Rudderless ship is the exact analogy. The central question of our time is “who’s in charge?” Dutch setup really is unique. All the way back to Rome the senate functioned as the brits did- it was icky to get your hands dirty with real commerce. Just own land and make rent.

@jawwwn_ @ssankar @andrewrsorkin He doesn’t miss

Palantir CTO @ssankar on Anthropic and the DoW: “The degenerate case is: it’s tyranny by tech bro.” “Just because you have deep knowledge in one area— you may not have all the facts in other areas.” “Edward Hall built the Minuteman missile. His younger brother Theodore Hall was one of the youngest Manhattan project scientists.” “Theodore, in his infinite wisdom, thought— because I’m a genius physicist, I’m also a geopolitical strategist. The world will have world peace if two countries had the bomb.” “He walked into the NY trade mission of the Soviets and gave them critical secrets to the bomb.” “You might say— every death since 1949, since Soviets got the bomb, due to communism— some of that blood’s on his hands.” Via CNBC

@dioscuri Eh. IMO Just focus it around Alcibiades and you’ll hit most of the big events

We need this for Classical Greece. Open at Thermopylae, build through the golden age, then watch it all unravel in the Peloponnesian War. Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Socrates. The finale is the hemlock.

@mbrasseaux11 @Max_Docksey @SusieWiles 🤝🫡

It’s an absolute honor to fight in the trenches with @SusieWiles on a day to day basis. One of the greatest Chiefs of Staff this country has ever seen 🇺🇸 Praying for a speedy recovery, but just like everything else she does, she will win!

@2112Power @MFA_China 🤝

@nedryun Amazing story My old man was at Munich games too

Still won the silver medal and ran a 3:37 1500 which is still mind blowing to me. But the headlines essentially blared he was a loser, he only got the silver. Mind you he’s only 21 at the time. Comes home and it’s a struggle. Summer of 1969 steps off the track in the middle of the AAU championships. He needs a break. Essentially retires. But a year of so later decides he’ll make a comeback. Total up and down, roller coaster of a ride. He’s putting in the work, 120 miles a week, but some races are disasters, others are good. Comes into the 1972 Oly Trials. Makes a tactical mistake in 800 finals, goes too soon, ties up in homestretch, gets passed by three others and loses out on 3rd spot by inches. Has to come back in 1500. This time he doesn’t make a mistake and just annihilates everyone over the last 150. The finish of that race makes the cover of Sports Illustrated. He goes to Toronto not too long after and runs a 3:52 mile on a cinder track, third fastest time in history behind his two WRs. He’s primed, ready to go, in shape to break WR in 1500 in Munich. But his 3:52 is entered as a 1500 time and he’s put in the wrong opening heat. He tells USOC officials of the mistake. They tell him not to worry, it’s just opening heat. 500 m from finish in that heat he’s tripped, he goes down so hard he’s knocked out for about 11 seconds. Gets up and finishes but out of qualifying spot. Howard Cosell tells my dad he’ll help write the appeal to be reinstated and he does. But the appeal is rejected even though it’s clear my dad was fouled. After years of sacrifice it was all gone in a split second. My dad had just come to Christ in May of 1972. He had every right to be angry and bitter, and it took him awhile to get over the Munich fall and forgive. It could have ruined him. It didn’t. I was texting with him about this incident this morning; he sent the pic and hadn’t seen it before. I told him it could have destroyed him, but it didn’t. He forgave. He replied, “Only God can do that.”

I think about this moment for my dad. He was 25. Third Olympics. WR holder in the mile, 1500, 800. 1968 Olympics he’s been the favorite even though it was held at Mexico City and a mile of altitude. Despite that, and having mono that year and pulling a hamstring, he. . .