why do all the alt-right pronatalist influencers talk about increased genetic mutations from older women conceiving children but they don't talk about the fact that sperm contribute far more of the mutations and have a much steeper aging curve relative to eggs?

read this as lebron at first and was like DAMN

WOAH The Boeing spacecraft still attached to the ISS is now emitting "sonar" sounds? Good example of how complex systems engineering can start failing in extremely unexpected ways

Man I really love the United States Where else in the world can you have a gov official publicly trashing the ridiculous policy of a gov regulator & that same official trashing.. is a commissioner at the agency he's trashing! Proud to live in a country where dissent is allowed

who was causing the backlash Chamath Palihapitiya ??

In relation to founder mode from this weekend... I find it hard to take any professionally successful straight man seriously That is over 35 and hasn't married and had children Reveals a complete lack of judgement and understanding of the purpose of life itself

father mode just dropped

when you "founder mode" too hard and ten minutes later HR/Legal tells you to take that shit down

I couldn't be more excited to begin working with the brilliant delian and the rest of the Founders Fund team starting today. If you're building a company or considering starting one, I'd love to chat — my DMs are open!

reach out to jannik if your startup is better understood by an investor with an astrophysics background than an MBA:

been on a civil war kick lately (feels appropriate given how divisive this election feels) highly recommend this book by Erik Larson

"founder mode" has existed for two days, we still don't know what it is, and it's already sexist

Great panel on defense innovation with delian, Sam Gray with the Silicon Valley Defense Group, and Nick Estep from the Defense Innovation Unit at the Northeast Indiana Defense Summit 🇺🇸

Thank you Jim Banks for having me out to your defense forum Always great to discuss how we can help the DoD modernize re-entry technologies through high cadence flights from our space factories!

God why is the tech industry so embarrassing We are just not serious people

I guess people are talking about Miami today. Counterpoints: - The a16z GPs that moved to Miami are still here - a16z recently led a massive round into Exowatt (Miami-based) - Miami had $155m in seed rounds in H1 '24, 11% of SF In conclusion, all the haters are retarded incels

We are happy to announce that Varda received our FAA reentry license for our upcoming second mission launching in early November. This flight will advance pharmaceutical research as well as fly several payloads in support of NASA and other government partners.

The Moon Landing is America's greatest feat. However as we faced off against the USSR, we succumbed to a mimetic competition Our only shot of winning, was to adopt the enemy's philosophy... Communism. A communistic top-down state-driven program got us to the moon first, but