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Electricity production is the best metric for the true strength of any large-scale economy imo

Bill Murray is back as Peter Venkman. And he’s busting Slimer in a car commercial! ‘GHOSTBUSTERS’ director Gil Kenan reunites them for Rivian’s Halloween spot, complete with a new Ecto-R1. You’ve got to see this 👀🚨

It turns out DIGGER is a work of pure cinematic genius. Strongly recommend, 4+ stars. Don’t read anything about it or pay attention to anything anyone says, just go.

I’d like to report a robbery: it’s the City of Miami budget! These Miami Mafiosos just passed a $3.7 BILLION budget filled with grift and graft. The commission didn’t double in size, the population didn’t double, the city workforce didn’t double, lord knows the quality and quantity of our services haven’t doubled — the cost of government DOUBLED. This mayor and commission are going to bankrupt the city — while enriching themselves and their cronies… #BecauseMiami

Today we’re launching doxx.net, enabling Agentic Defined Networking for everyone. We raised $38M from @a16z, @AnimoVentures and Focal.vc. Create private networks for you and your AI agents, without a server in the middle. 38M+ threats blocked since December. Our first private-network call was a freedom call. Now it’s your turn.

77 and 85. Not the ending anybody wanted, but not the season anybody expected either. PECOTA had this team at 66 wins before Opening Day. Sixty six. The Cardinals sold at the deadline, traded away Dustin May and Lars Nootbaar, played most of the second half without any real Wild Card math left to hold onto, and still found a way to make this year matter. That says everything about who this roster actually is. Because here is the truth, this was never really about the record. It was about JJ Wetherholt looking like a Rookie of the Year candidate from day one. It was about Jordan Walker breaking out into a genuine All-Star and taking home a Home Run Derby trophy in the most dramatic fashion possible. It was about Ivan Herrera and Riley O’Brien (tough 2nd half) joining him on that All-Star roster. It was about Joshua Baez walking into the big leagues and hitting 3 home runs in his very first game, something nobody in the history of this sport had ever done. This roster gave us more new names to fall in love with than any Cardinals team in recent memory, and that is not nothing, that is the whole point of a season like this one. It was also about the Tarps Off crew. About a stadium that had gone quiet the last couple years finding its noise again, about Oli buying out a section for college kids because they made the building feel alive. About a fan base that could have checked out completely and instead showed up anyway, cautiously, honestly, but showed up. So yeah, 77 and 85 is not a number anyone is thrilled about. But this team punched well above its expectations, gave us a legit young core to build around, and reminded this whole city what it feels like to actually enjoy watching Cardinals baseball again. That is a foundation. The record was never going to tell the real story of 2026. See you next year. Bird szn never really ends, it just goes into hibernation 🤝

Miami is entering the quantum era. ⚛️ Through a new partnership with IonQ, FIU will become the first university in Florida to acquire a full-stack quantum computer, the Superion 256, expected on campus in 2027. From clean energy to cybersecurity to drug discovery, our researchers and students will help shape what's next. bit.ly/4y8LXMl

"Moats" are the most BS thing in startups. No such thing exists when you start. Google, Apple, Meta can always "just build it". Defensibility is built in increments. Small, immensely focused teams outpace the biggest companies on earth. Investors, get over the moat obsession.

Thanks to President Trump’s leadership on AI: — a million new jobs have been created around the AI buildout; — 401(k)s are up ~12% this year as AI capex and productivity lift the market; — America is re-industrializing, including the first large private investments in power generation and the grid in a generation; — In rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, teachers just received $50,000 bonuses from data-center tax revenue. Because the media portrays AI only as a menace, people tell pollsters they “don’t like AI.” Their behavior says otherwise. AI products are the fastest-adopted technology in history — faster than the internet or the iPhone. People like the tools, the jobs, and the tax base. President Trump understands the media hoax cycle better than anyone else. That is why he is refusing the “pause” that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are demanding. A pause would not make America safer. It would hand the frontier to China. That would be a disaster for the American economy and for national security.

🚨BREAKING: Jensen Huang just EXPOSED Dario and Altman’s "Rogue AI" grift to avoid getting sued into oblivion under EXISTING law “Don't let this doomsday narrative cause somebody to relieve them of the laws that currently exist. Go and read between the lines. They're actually not asking for more laws; they're asking to be relieved of the laws we do have.” ABSOLUTE TRUTH NUKE

Our Franklin, Louisiana team just completed the hull flip for our third Marauder, a major production milestone, with Marauders 4 and 5 already moving through the line behind it. Our first Marauder is on the water, with a second close behind. We're moving fast to meet the urgency of the moment. With the expansion of our Franklin shipyard, we’re building the capacity to produce 20 Marauders every year, equivalent to one every 18 days. Congratulations to the entire Franklin team for making it happen. We're just getting started.

I’m so proud of the entire Falcon 9 team (ok the whole SpaceX team)! Landing a rocket (over 10 years ago) paved the way for Falcon to change the game on getting payloads to orbit. Falcon 9 is a mostly reusable system that is far more reliable, far more economical and far less wasteful than its “use once and toss” rocket counterparts. Starship is Falcon 9’s successor and will be both fully and rapidly reusable (think airplanes) and that will make for a very exciting space future. Congrats once again to the Falcon 9 and broader SpaceX team!

Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess. You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it.

Ahhhh Doug Eddings….I believe I addressed his behavior and attitude a while back. Not surprising at all!

D-I athletics right now: • UCLA: $219M cumulative deficit • Rutgers: $516.9M in cumulative shortfalls since joining the Big10 • Iowa State: $147M projected budget gap • NC State: $18.5M projected deficit • Dozens of varsity programs eliminated in the last year • New fees passed to fans More money than ever, still not enough. Fewer opportunities. Greater instability. This isn’t what college sports should be.