If you are reading this and have never read MacIntyre’s After Virtue, maybe wondering what all the fuss is about, please do yourself a favor. Pick up the third edition and just start reading. You won’t regret it.

Hi, I'm Ivan - a totally-not-suspicious aerospace prodigy. I just happen to have a charming Russian accent, a past internship at Sukhoi (no big deal), and a mild obsession with drone jet propulsion systems.

American export control state capacity: ~200 people enforcing all export controls—including *two* officers in Beijing responsible for all end-use verification in China.

How we treated AI in 2023 vs 2025

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

This could literally pass as a scene straight from The Office

once again we must review that normal people are now exposed to things every day that would, literally, previously have only been madness inducing items from fairy tales and ancient legends.

Eugenics is now a permanent temptation. Every new generation will face it. Resisting it will be as difficult as it is important. It is critical that we understand children as *persons*, not products. We must not make them objects of manufature, subject to "quality controls."

Ilmassa on tänään ollut samaa, kuin silloin kun pilapiirtäjiä murhattiin: sanotaan, että no joo, onhan mielipiteistä murhaaminen aina väärin... MUTTA sitten kuitenkin samalla vihjataan, että "sitä saa mitä tilaa" ja "niin metsä vastaa", eli vähän se oli uhrin syy kuitenkin.

Always a good reminder that the people making these products are not using them. Zuck is spending his time doing MMA training, running a business, reading, buying Hawaiian real estate and talking to people. This is meant for you. Not him. He sells you plastic and rubber so he

just sold shovels during the biggest gold rush known to mankind

storytelling is the only way to impose meaning on abundance, coherence on noise, & legitimacy on power. strategy, ops, & capital are all downstream. without narrative control, none it will ever stick. this has been the core premise of my account. in a world of infinite output,

China is extremely serious about the things that matter and the West is just asleep at the wheel

That said, if china actually achieved EUV lasers, it’s impressive, but let’s be honest, this kind of leap doesn’t happen without massive espionage layered on top of R&D. Ultraviolet lithography machines, especially extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems, are among the MOST difficult

Taste is the last human aristocracy. Will define all the winners of the next 50 years Intelligence is useless. Plenty of smart people got oneshot by the algorithms long ago Most people will drown in the endless sea of synthetic perfectslop Because they're fine trading their

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his

If you ever read Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” in which he makes the case that the pre-Christian human mind is so alien to any mind infected by the ideas of Christ as to be wholly unintelligible, which he does by surveying the sheer depth and breadth of ideas which we take for

Never more relevant words to be heard with the ear of the heart in today’s world from Pope Leo XIV

I love how Polymarket was just like “what if we made it really easy to do insider trading” and built a whole company on that

Most foreign policy issues are difficult and complicated. Greenland isn’t one of them. Let’s have a look at seven points: 1. The U.S. needs Greenland for its own defense - Golden Dome, radars, basing. ▶️ The United States can do virtually anything it'd like in Greenland,