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Isaiah Menning retweeted
The agenda of Christian alignment is a useful corrective since it challenges the tendency to cultivate the agent as if it were an ensouled being - which it cannot be - and directs us to the harder project of architecting the self-concept of an artifact belonging in Creation.
"Knives Out but real" is the best way to describe the kind of movie You Can See Everything is.
Nathan Fielder is Benoit Blanc.
The Trump accounts, commercialized SMRs, and advanced pest control regs of Trump II might become akin to Trump I's Operation Warp Speed in terms of sleeper policies that have crazy good outcomes.
Trump Accounts may soon be expanded even more to anyone under 40yrs old. That would be another 100 million people, on top of the 70 million kids and 3.5mil babies born each year. This according to Brad Gerstner who is the main guy spearheading efforts on this. He also said Elon is 'tip of iceberg' Nice scoop and piece on it from @LydiaMoynihan @nypost
🐕 Tech that enhances the ability of a public service dog to serve as a public service dog is great.
Excited to announce WARHOUND. techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/be…
Isaiah Menning retweeted
I love love love the idea of curing disease, and possibly even using genetics to do it. Cell and gene therapies are super promising areas of research. But I desperately wish brilliant and charismatic tech founders like you would direct your energy to actually curing diseases rather than screening copious numbers of embryos to be ranked and discarded. Technology should serve the human person. It should never suspend or destroy it.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Hell yeah.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Many people are saying!
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make it easier to build, grow, and power our country—and make life more affordable for American families in the process. Let’s get it done.
NEWS: 19 FORMER ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS ENDORSE THE BIPARTISAN PERMITTING REFORM BILL
Today, a group of former Cabinet members and White House principals across seven Democratic and Republican administrations sent a letter calling on Congress to pass BAAJA. Here are the signatories:
Janet YELLEN, Michael R. POMPEO, Steven T. MNUCHIN, Leon E. PANETTA, Timothy F. GEITHNER, Henry M. PAULSON, Jr., Robert E. RUBIN, Stephen MIRAN, Jared BERNSTEIN, Tyler GOODSPEED, Jason FURMAN, Glenn HUBBARD, Laura D’Andrea TYSON, Michael J. BOSKIN, Jeffrey ZIENTS, Jake SULLIVAN, Brian DEESE, Larry KUDLOW, Allan B. HUBBARD
Key highlights from the letter:
1. “We are not building infrastructure fast enough to remain globally competitive… The median time for a new power plant to move from an interconnection request to commercial operation has more than doubled, from less than two years for projects built between 2000 and 2007 to more than four years for projects built between 2018 and 2024.
2. China has built more high-voltage transmission in the last fifteen years than the U.S. has built in all of its history... In 2024, China accounted for 31.5% of global knowledge- and technology-intensive manufacturing value added, compared with 20.7% for the United States.
3. Federally funded or permitted projects require NEPA review, but private projects often do not, creating a threat of failure precisely where the government is trying to be proactive, strategic, and engaged.
4. A project that spends years awaiting approval must continue carrying development and financing costs while remaining exposed to rising input costs. The IEA reports that prices for utility-scale transformers increased 26% in 2024, while lead times for some transformers have stretched as long as six years.
5. Mining projects also face tremendous uncertainty: a 2026 study by researchers at the Colorado School of Mines found that permitting for modern mining projects takes an average of 5.5 years, rising to 8.9 years for contested projects. The U.S. currently has the second-longest mine development timeline in the world.
6. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is the most significant bipartisan legislative effort that Congress has undertaken in decades to tackle these challenges.
7. BAAJA addresses key constraints stifling American industry by requiring interregional transmission planning, strengthening the federal backstop for nationally significant transmission lines, and creating a faster, more predictable process for connecting new generation to the grid.
8. BAAJA also makes permits more durable by imposing tighter timelines for litigation and limiting frivolous lawsuits that can halt projects indefinitely, while preserving community input and judicial review of substantive agency decisions.”
The letter was organized by @arnabdatta321 on behalf of @IFP and covered exclusively by the WSJ this morning.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Just before Halloween, we're teaming up with @AspenInstitute to host a debate on the haunted question of AI consciousness.
On the evening of 10/29 in DC, come see @hamandcheese and @aaronsibarium duke it out over whether there's really a ghost in the machine.
Airdropping elephants and lions into modern SoCal would be bad. But the right approach isn't strict fidelity to the immediately pre-Columbian assemblage everywhere.
Especially as the climate changes and globalization has moved species around the world, goals for flourishing ecosystems need to be more dynamic, and connected to culture and history.
In some places, like Yellowstone, a roughly pre-Columbian assemblage will continue to work. In much of the rest of the American West, it should include managed levels of cattle and wild horses. In others, like parts of Alaska, it could really involve reintroductions of Pleistocene megafauna like bison, horses, and mammoths.
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Utah is the most underrated state in this country, and it's not close
- Highest % of children raised in intact families
- Highest social mobility
- Highest income equality
- Third-highest household income
- Youngest state
- Mountain views and outdoor access
Thank you, Utah. For the fourth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has named Utah the best state in the nation. And the credit belongs to you.
I had the pleasure of talking with @usnews about the people behind that ranking. Utahns raise families, start businesses, and give generously of their time.
To everyone who puts time, work, and care into this state: thank you.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Americans are the most generous people on the planet—both ordinary citizens and our wealthiest business leaders. We give >$600B/yr annually.
Rapid innovation on how to give (Trump accounts, focused research orgs, befnets & vaccines, etc) will do so much good. Long USA! 🇺🇸
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Interesting to watch this trend. Interesting timing given the Anthropic announcement about putting shares into some kind of non-profit vehicle
Musk pledges 1 SpaceX share for every child in America axios.com/2026/10/19/elon-mu…
Isaiah Menning retweeted
Down with the invasive mosquitoes and ticks.
Proud to lead a coalition letter to @EPA today recommending pro-innovation reforms for advanced pest control tech, from gene drives to Wolbachia, along with my @JoinFAI colleagues @ZacharyGraves, @maxbodach, and @banksianr.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
I’m doing my part.
Glad to support this effort to bring innovative technologies to the fight against ticks and mosquitoes.
Down with the invasive mosquitoes and ticks.
Proud to lead a coalition letter to @EPA today recommending pro-innovation reforms for advanced pest control tech, from gene drives to Wolbachia, along with my @JoinFAI colleagues @ZacharyGraves, @maxbodach, and @banksianr.
Isaiah Menning retweeted
If you were to ask me (which, I understand, you haven't), I would say that, in fact, my written work, in a typical or, at least, in the median case, needs no editing -- indeed, my prose leaps forth, fully formed, from my pen as Athena emerged from the head of Zeus, and I neither benefit from my editor's direction to shorten my sentences, simplify my clauses, remove jargon, eliminate unneeded elaboration, etc; nor is my writing (alas!) more intelligible, nor more digestible (if brilliant and idea-rich sentences are to your taste, that is) following the valiant, dogged, and indefatigabile work of editorial team. Nevertheless, other writers on our team would, no doubt, benefit from the talents, skills, etc of an editor. So, with that "throat clearing" aside, I will implore you: if you are such an editor as I have described above (having the requisite skills, etc, and, I now think to add, also having a burning desire to use said skills to achieve policy impact) or if you merely have designs of becoming such an editor, please apply below, if you are so inclined.
There are enough policy opportunities that we need more editors at @IFP!
Shape op-eds, reports, and private memos that let us increase the upside (e.g. infrastructure) and lower the downside (e.g. biosecurity) of a dynamist future
($5k referral bonus)
ifp.org/opportunity/editor-a…
Isaiah Menning retweeted
I signed this letter calling to ease regulatory barriers on programs that will EXTERMINATE TICKS AND MOSQUITOES.
The free, independent childhoods of the mid-20th century were not random. They happened because for over 100 years before the Boomers were born, Americans waged total war on the bugs. The Rockefeller sanitary program against hookworm, the New Deal sanitary privy program, mosquito extermination laws and swamp-draining programs, TVA's malaria control program in Tennessee, new ship fumigation rules, ground-squirrel poisoning programs, and many others.
Many of these programs failed and did serious environmental damage. But many succeeded at low cost and eliminated or reduced the risk of tons of outdoor diseases and dangers.
Today, we have decades more of scientific research to help guide us towards safe and reasonable options for fighting the bugs. It couldn't come soon enough: invasive mosquito populations are exploding, spreading new diseases and making summer evenings miserable around the country; rapidly growing tick populations are spreading novel diseases that can ruin kids' lives. Hard-won victories over the bugs have been ceded for many reasons, mostly negligence driven by a failure to recognize what we had won by the 1950s and 1960s.
It's time to act. Kill the bugs once again. Make backyard in the summer safe again.
thefai.org/posts/supporting-…
