Rest in peace, Michael FitzGerald. A good man, and one of the wisest and funniest founders we've funded. He called me three weeks ago to thank us. He didn't want to die without doing that. Typically selfless of him.

(1/54) “We begin in darkness. A siren screams. The invaders come from the desert in a cloud of dust. The king gathers his army at a mountain castle. A single battle decides our fate. The battle burns, the din of drums, the clash of axes, the spark of swords. The dirt turns clay

(2/54) “I couldn’t find it anywhere. Even on the streets of Tehran—it was nowhere to be seen. The Iran I knew was gone. Everywhere I turned it was nothing but black: black cloaks, black shrouds. The universities were closed, the libraries were closed. Our poets, our singers, our

(5/54) “The meaning of our most important words I learned from my mother. Rasti: Truth. I never heard her tell a lie. Neeki: Goodness. I never heard her gossip. And Mehr: Love. We were three brothers and five sisters, but she loved us all equally. There were no assigned places at

(6/54) “One New Year our whole family took a bus to Qom— one of the holiest cities in Iran. When we arrived in the city it was like stepping back in time. This was a different kind of Islam. It wasn’t my father’s. It wasn’t even my mother’s. It was an Islam from fourteen hundred

(7/54) ”In Shahnameh there’s one word that Rostam uses more than any other: Daad. Justice. Daad is a simple concept. It means that everyone gets what they deserve: both good and bad. Everyone gets a fair share. The Nahavand of my childhood was very poor. People would come to our

(8/54) “There’s only one way for love to begin in a traditional society. With the eyes. At the dinner table Mitra disagreed with everything I said. If I said ‘red,’ she said ‘green.’ If I said ‘spice,’ she said ‘sweet.’ But there was something between us. I could see it in the

(9/54) “The club was called Niroo. The Force. There were ten of us. We were all so different. But we were like charms on a bracelet—united by our love for Iran. It was nothing important: we’d graffiti our slogans onto walls. We’d stand on busy street corners and try to convert

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Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂 It’s a shame that Amplitude bailed out your failing startup, giving you money to make your full time job spewing garbage takes like this one. Gross. Just eat your big political L and go away.

Absolutely incredible. Congrats SpaceX! Only in America 🇺🇸❤️

This. 100%. Happens in every sufficiently well-developed western nation.

Make no mistakes. The LA fires have been entirely preventable. Our green-washed regulators are at fault.

Firetech in 2030 🧵 4 years ago, during the horrible 2020 wildfire season, I was inspired to work on the wildfire mission. Wildfires.org has since become an official US Forest Service partner, and has shipped & deployed a NEPA-accelerating software with US National Forests

OpenAI They don’t actually have the money

Closed source, opaque, censorious, politically manipulative vs open source and free is not the winning position the US needs.

75% of U.S. 8th graders aren’t proficient in math right now. If we don't fight to fix that for our kids immediately, then we are failing them and dooming our nation to a future dominated by China. Those are hard facts & unfortunately they don’t care about our feelings.

Legalize merit and stop Anti-Asian Racism in California

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