This is Marcus Agrippa. His genius would revolutionize Ancient Rome and the world. Let's dive into the forgotten story of one of the greatest architects of all time... 🧵

1/ Global Strategic Update: The global security environment is currently defined by cascading, interconnected crises that severely strain global stability and reshape the geoeconomic competition between the United States and China. This is a brief update on two of the globe's

Key to renovating old buildings: leave some patina. Don't quite finish everything. Don't make it perfect. How to balance the art and science of making that happen? A mini manifesto 🧵

BREAKING: Iran has named Alireza Arafi as their interim Supreme Leader following the death of Khamenei. He's known for: 1. Being a long-time insider in Iran’s political hierarchy 2. Spending decades within Iran’s theological and political institutions 3. Being appointed by

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🚨 Do you understand what just happened? New York wants to ban AI from answering questions about medicine, law, and engineering. Let me translate that for you: > The industries charging you $500/hour just lobbied to make sure you can't get the same answers for free. > This

New York wants to ban you from asking AI a question You're sitting on the bathroom floor at 11pm. Your kid is screaming. The rash is spreading up his arm. You're holding your phone with one hand and holding him with the other. You don't have insurance. You don't have $400 for

I’m preparing for a 1970’s reboot at this point. Gas shortages Inflation Higher interest rates Slow economy Unstable markets with high volatility. Lost decade It’s all lining up.

Those living in the Hundred Years’ War did not know that they were living in a hundred year war.

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Alt-X (At-X) builds AI agents that turn real estate deal documents into fully built underwriting models in Excel automatically, with every number cited back to the source. Congrats on the launch, Ryan Samadi and Michael! ycombinator.com/launches/PjC-a…

In 1958, #Buffalo studied building a 40,000-seat stadium downtown near the Memorial Auditorium, with a heliport and parking/road infrastructure. The idea was to create a downtown sports complex called Crossroads Center.

Let’s be perfectly clear… If Trump agrees to these 10 points, Iran won. They leveraged the Strait of Hormuz, and won.

The whole idea of "incompetent to stand trial" is fucking nonsense. If you're too "incompetent" to understand that you shouldn't butcher an innocent woman on the train, you should die. Period. Arrest, convict, execute. You are not fit to be a part of human society. How many more

Happy Tax Day! It’s good to remember that the Top 1% of earners pay 46% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 50% of America pays for just 2%.

Buying a new car is an act of philanthropy. Rory Sutherland made the case on the Alex O'Connor's podcast: when you buy a shiny new luxury vehicle, you take the massive depreciation hit so someone much poorer than you can drive essentially the same car a few years later for half

30 years of grinding in a business… And the building it sits in is worth more than the entire operation. There is a lesson here.

"Long before Americans had a nation or a Constitution, we first had a culture, a character, a language and a creed… The American Patriots who pledged their lives to Independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their

For multifamily 60 day due diligence period is a joke. Really 30 day due diligence period is as well. (For existing assets, nothing to do with development). It shouldn’t take you more than a week or two max to walk/inspect the entire property and review any documents. Shit

"did you ever feel like you werent gonna escape the permanent underclass?" "yeah, and i never did. so what?"