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💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.
We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.
I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.
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FYI, Peter Thiel's comments on the Iran War were already public here.
At his third Antichrist lecture in Nashville, Peter Thiel talks about the International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, the United States, and the Iran War.
He describes the ICC as part of the emerging ideological architecture of the Antichrist, likening language on the ICC's website to the antichristic talk of peace and safety in 1 Thessalonians.
Thiel notes that the ICC's arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have limited where they can travel. The ICC warrant meant Netanyahu couldn't visit Poland on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp; though Poland's president said he wouldn't enforce it, Poland's authority to defy the ICC wasn't clear, and so the Israeli PM didn't come.
While condemning what he describes as the neoconservatives and George W. Bush people—we "made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East wars," and "you're not supposed to torture people"—Thiel says the ICC was already emerging as an issue under that administration, citing a 2003 memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on what he called the judicialization of international politics.
The investor interprets former VP Dick Cheney's condemnation of Trump as an effort to buy favor with the ICC, "probably too late." He says he's come to suspect that the threat of an ICC warrant is a sword of Damocles over the Trump administration amid the Iran War. Thiel describes himself as skeptical of that war, saying it is possible the US will lose the soft power war before outlining a mildly esoteric interpretation of US policy on the ICC.
Thiel says that, on the surface, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's condemnation of the ICC might look like a favor to Israel. In his reading, though, it could be a means of protecting Rubio or War Secretary Pete Hegseth from potential future warrants that could be enforced by a left-wing president.
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I’m excited to announce that former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and National Security Advisor to the Vice President Andy Baker is joining American Moment.
Andy helped build the President’s America First foreign policy. After spending 13 years as a Foreign Service officer in the State Department, he joined JD Vance’s Senate team as his national security advisor.
Andy is not just right on the issues; he is smart and extremely skillful. He followed JD Vance to the White House where he served Vice President Vance as his National Security Adviser and President Trump as his Deputy National Security Adviser.
We founded American Moment in 2021 on the hopes that the issues upon which President Trump ran would outlast his presidency in the Republican Party.
I met Andy when he joined JD’s Senate office, and have been impressed again and again that someone with his commitment to this country’s interest was in the fight with us to re-establish American interests abroad.
Andy has since become a friend of American Moment. His wife and children have gotten to know our team. His children are a testament to his and his wife’s care and steadfastness.
He has spent time investing into our Fellows, advising and encouraging them in their careers in government. They are doing the hard, unglamorous work to serve President Trump and have told me that they feel stronger knowing that Andy Baker is in their corner.
Those of you who have worked with Andy know that he dedicates his heart, mind, and soul to anything in his way.
This is the biggest hire American Moment has made so far, and we are honored Andy has chosen to dedicate his time and talent to our people.
The road ahead requires planning and support both in and outside of government. We’re excited that Andy has decided to take his next step with us.
🚨 NEW: American Moment is proud to welcome Andy Baker as Senior Advisor
Baker previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and National Security Advisor to Vice President Vance.
“Andy is a luminary in the conservative movement and is leading the charge on creating a new class of foreign policy staffers. We’re thrilled to have him hang his hat with American Moment.” — CEO @NickSolheim
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money is a bet on the future and the imperial power best positioned to instigate and control discontinuities across the world, to bet on futures itself, on itself as future
Reading a history of the bond market recently, and the author noted that Britain defeated Napoleon mostly because their consol bond market left the British military much better funded than France’s weak post-revolutionary capital markets.
One Alexander Hamilton studied the British bond market, and then consolidated American revolutionary debt into one tradable market, which gave birth to what became the New York stock exchange, Liberty bonds, and the world’s largest capital markets.
An army might march on its stomach, but it’s borrowed money that pays for the food and ammunition, and the one who can borrow the most generally wins.
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Let me get this straight - @politico published a false story saying the exact opposite of what this now-released story says and their explanatory note says they "mischaracterized" the events? I don't think that word "mischaracterized" means what you think it means!
Wiles ‘offered positive reinforcement’ for press secretary’s Fox News interview ahead of her exit, but had no direct role in setting it up.
Note: This replaces an earlier post that mischaracterized Wiles’ role in connection with the interview.
politi.co/3Wp30Md
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UPDATE: Specific mitigation guidance for the recently identified PHP critical vulnerabilities is now available. Secure your servers today. Guidance and technical steps here: nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Rel…
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
Founders that post like this are a critical national security risk and should be investigated, maybe?
