🚀🎇🧬⚡️.Let's build a future of greater wealth, health, and human flourishing. Let's create big opportunities and solve big problems. The future we glimpse in our dreams is waiting. THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST: .How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised

RT @mmcassella: Pres. Trump was asked tonight whether he ever planned to release details of the Vietnam trade framework. “I don't think it….

RT @eric_hontz: Love this thread 🧵 . Up wing 🪽 is the way.

RT @GeitnerSimmons: Terrific uplifting thread (though be mindful of spoilers if you haven't seen the movie). Thoughtful observations cogent….

People living in rich countries "expend about the same number of total calories most days as hunter-gatherers, herders, subsistence farmers, foragers and anyone else living in less-industrialized nations. That unexpected finding almost certainly means inactivity is not the main.

"When you don’t know what’s coming next, the best policy is neither to become paralysed, nor to become prescriptive. Better to give people the support and the confidence to find their own way through.".via @ft.

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9/10 Not every great movie has to preach progress. But it’s worth celebrating the ones that do — especially when Hollywood so often trades in dystopia and despair. These 7 films dare to believe we can build something better. It's at least worth trying.

8/10 👶 CHILDREN OF MEN (#13): Looks dystopian—collapsing world, infertile women, extinction looming. But the miracle isn't just that a child is born; it's that people choose to protect her. We matter. Moral decisions still matter, even when the world says don’t bother.

7/10 😍 HER (#24) The AI doesn't go rogue. It teaches. It evolves. It leaves. No Skynet, no mass layoffs, no robo-rebellion. Just a soft, glowing future where machines help us become more human.

6/10 🐙 ARRIVAL (#29): Aliens arrive not as invaders but as venture partners, offering humanity a cognitive upgrade through their language. The climax chooses conversation over confrontation. Win-win cooperation. Understand first, strike later (or not at all). Be curious.

5/10🐭 RATATOUILLE (#73): A rat becomes a chef through curiosity and mastery. "Anyone can cook" isn't about mediocrity — it's a radical assertion that genius can emerge from anywhere. Progress from the unlikeliest places.

4/10 🌌 INTERSTELLAR (#89): Earth is dying because we stopped trying. Schools teach the moon landing was fake. MRI machines vanish. But Cooper refuses quiet extinction, climbs into a spacecraft, and traverses the edges of physics. Our destiny lies above.

3/10 🐈 BLACK PANTHER (#96): Wakanda isn’t a utopia because of vibranium — it’s that they do something with it. This is a movie about techno-optimism and the ethics of abundance. The real conflict? Whether to keep prosperity hidden or share it globally. T'Challa chooses wisely.

2/10 🚀 GRAVITY (#97): Most space disasters films would say "stay home." Not GRAVITY. Sandra Bullock's character survives by improvising, problem-solving, and refusing to give up. She crashes to Earth, crawls from a lake, and takes her first steps forward. Evolution 2.0

1/10 🧵 The NYT polled 500 film industry leaders for the best movies of the 21st century. Hidden in their top 100 are gems that actually celebrate human progress and resilience. Here are the most "Up Wing" films that show we can build a better future:

RT @erikbryn: Slowly at first, and then suddenly.

RT @cjscalia: A very nice review of 13 NOVELS CONSERVATIVES WILL LOVE (But Probably Haven't Read) in the @TheSpectator! Link to @PhilipWoma….

RT @Afinetheorem: One big theme in hallways at NBER (incl from conservative folks) is how damaging NSF/NIH delays/cancellations (no actual….

RT @MichaelRStrain: Pfizer, Biden Adviser Beat Journalist’s Covid-19 Speech Suit.

RT @ModeledBehavior: Has been extremely dark to watch people rocket from humans can't affect the climate and global warming is fake to clou….