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The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
Okay! I just got my first ChatGPT ad shown today
Looking forward to how it ruins the experience from here on
not a tested hypothesis (yet!), but a pattern I’ve noticed:
the best way to go “viral” might be talking about virality itself a lot.
the word itself creates curiosity, sets an expectation, and gives people a reason to pay attention.
“We might build something incredibly useful” is not a sufficient justification for letting private companies race toward technologies that could cause irreversible, civilization-scale harm.
We learned this lesson with nuclear weapons.
AI shouldn’t require the same mistake.
Not to flex or anything, but back in the day, when she was at the prime of her career and had a massive fan following, she was following only one account on Instagram, and it was our page.
Used to receive tens of messages from her fans every day. ♥️
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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
YoNo retweeted
We're raising our pre-seed. Here's the honest version of where we are and what we're building.
The ask: $500K pre-seed.
The problem we're solving: less than 2% of stablecoin supply touches real commerce. Not because the rails are bad. Because the billing engine, settlement routing, and reconciliation infrastructure above the rails hasn't been built. We're building it.
The product: Ribbit is the settlement engine for onchain commerce. Pull payments (automated billing without per-transaction signing), Yield-to-Pay (savings yield funds subscriptions automatically), flexible settlement (merchants configure any token or split ratio), POS + online from one network, sub-second finality, no chargebacks.
The traction: True pull payments demo live and working. 4-5 merchant MOUs in progress. Merchant onboarding beginning now.
The team: Ex-Paytm (400M+ users), Ex-Verifone (scaled B2B POS systems), 14+ years in consumer fintech, product, design, and backend infrastructure. We've built at scale before.
The timing: GENIUS Act regulatory clarity. Visa, Stripe, Mastercard all repositioning around stablecoin orchestration. The window is open.
The use of funds: 45% engineering and Move developers, 25% infrastructure and security, 20% MOU-to-pilot conversion, 10% GTM and BD.
We're not asking for a leap of faith. We're asking for capital to convert working technology and signed merchant intent into a live product.
If you're an investor building a position in stablecoin infrastructure, payment orchestration, or onchain commerce. we should talk. DMs open.
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Today we're introducing TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), a foundation model trained to predict how the human brain responds to almost any sight or sound.
Building on our Algonauts 2025 award-winning architecture, TRIBE v2 draws on 500+ hours of fMRI recordings from 700+ people to create a digital twin of neural activity and enable zero-shot predictions for new subjects, languages, and tasks.
Try the demo and learn more here: go.meta.me/tribe2