Hard to see how this won't lead to another US credit rating downgrade and even higher rates

Just so people understand the table stakes

The Northrop Grumman Q2 2025 hype video they just posted to Youtube features AI generated footage of an artillery crew, unclear why

Pass go, move to El Segundo, make $200k base + benefits and equity

One of my friends just raised a pre-seed and left Anduril to start a new defense hardware company They are looking for precisely (1) employee $130k-$200k base + equity If you are a RF hardware engineer with experience designing SDRs this is a fantastic opportunity DMs open

There is a $5k minimum referral bonus on this hire btw >You DM me the info for your RF savant buddy >He gets $130-$200k starting + equity as employee #1 >You get $5k (maybe more? 🤔) in cash >Solve the #1 bottleneck for deploying autonomous systems at scale >?????

A 30-year Army veteran who was the longest continuously serving Ranger in Vietnam and one of the war’s most decorated enlisted soldiers died. Patrick Gavin Tadina served in Vietnam for over five years straight between 1965 and 1970, leading long-range reconnaissance patrols deep

Half the replies saying “this is an American company 😡” Pretending somehow that UK’s defense industrial base is this vibrant healthy thing, bursting at the seams with funding and innovation—coiled and ready to strike at a moments notice! Get real guys.

Articulate, positive visions of America's future

Maybe it’s time for a landmine startup

More geopolitics kino from Dwarkesh Patel 👨‍🍳🤌

Circuit board of the Russian Iskander-K cruise missile

Nature is healing. We're getting the modern versions of the 1930s-1960s popular mechanics covers

Intel's current CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, was the CEO of Cadence Design Systems during that time.

The sheer demand for Hemostatic Dressings, TQs and other medical basics is not widely appreciated Just one US supplier I spoke with sent 1.2M units of Z-Fold hemostat gauze to Ukraine in the first 50 weeks of the conflict (This was essentially 90% of their production capacity)

Daily reminder

This thread is a gold mine with about 4-5 additional nested threads which take you from zero RF knowledge, to learning, buying, building, and operating software defined radios. Mehdi is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to get started in RF hacking, sigint, ew etc

This logo goes unbelivably hard U.S. Graphics Company

I was not expecting the future to rhyme with Call of Duty quite as much as it does