Bret Swanson
@bretswanson
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Analyst of technology, the global economy, and far more complex phenomena — his four children / infonomena substack com / @entropyecon / @brownstoneinst
http://entropyeconomics.com
Joined February 2009
“The goal is not to bring back old industries & old jobs with old capital goods [but] to help traditional industries — manufacturing, transportation, retail, healthcare, food, education, energy — to transform…using a mix of physical capital and cutting edge technology.”
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Supply creates its own demand. (JBSay.) Confidence engine. A.I. is like electricity. The world’s about to get SO much better. Zoomers rule. (So does Gen X.) Tremendous optimism boost to start 2026.
In Packy McCormick's recent deep dive on a16z, he writes, “What a16z aims to do is provide legitimacy and power [for startups]”. a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have been building the venture firm to provide entrepreneurs with legitimacy and power for almost two
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Huge. Until now, China performed overwhelming share of lithium refinement.
Tesla Lithium Refinery
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A.I. gets a giant boost because we already built the distribution network. Internet: 1995-2025 —> fiber, broadband, mobile. $3 trillion over 30 years. A.I.: 2025-2030e —> chips, networking, power. $3 trillion over 6 years.
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Mayor Musk 🎩
Silicon Valley technologists exiting California should move to Starbase, Texas. Tech won 97.74% of the vote there. It’s populated by engineers. It’s what tech used to be. And Elon is the de facto mayor. This is how tech wins democratically. Voting with feet, wallet, and ballot.
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🚀🛰️👊
President Trump is restoring America’s technology leadership. NEW today, the FCC authorized SpaceX to deploy & operate up to 15,000 next-gen satellites — enabling even better, faster, and more advanced Internet services in the country. 🚀🇺🇸🚀🇺🇸🚀🇺🇸🚀
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As @Keir_Starmer and the Eurocrats crack down on @X and other thoughtcrime venues… …LEO XIV exalts free speech ✝️🗣️
Pope Leo XIV to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See: “It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be
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@RapidResponse47 They literally flipped the pyramid upside down like South Park said to do. 😂
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BREAKING: @elonmusk 's xAI has bought an 5 additional 380MW of natural gas turbines from South Korea's Doosan Enerbility. The first two units are scheduled for delivery by the end of 2026. This will power an additional 600,000+ GB200 NVL72 equivalent size cluster (or 350,000 +
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Highly possible no U.S. president will ever be born between 1961 (Obama) and 1984 (Vance). In other words, no Gen X. Which, by the way, tends to be the most rational, least insane generation.
Birth year of winning candidate of the last nine presidential elections in the US: 1946 1946 1946 1946 1961 1961 1946 1942 1946
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Soft Power Squared. Between ~2008 and 2012, with the intro of smartphone App Stores and cloud computing, app downloads went from zero to 60 billion in four years. A totally new software industry. Then came SaaS. A.I.-powered software will deliver even bigger transformations.
ive done more personal coding projects over christmas break than i have in the last 10 years. its crazy. i can sense the limitations, but i *know* nothing is going to be the same anymore.
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Sage >>> Skip.
SLOWLY seems to be the key word for you and so many others, Skip! But please, keep doubting our QB, our coach, our team. Don’t change a thing. And….GO IU ❤️🤍❤️🤍
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Record year for satellites. 🛰️ Total worldwide of around 4,308 birds launched into space. @Starlink alone accounted for 3,080 in 2025 and now has ~9,384 operational.
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Record year for satellites. 🛰️ Total worldwide of around 4,308 birds launched into space. @Starlink alone accounted for 3,080 in 2025 and now has ~9,384 operational.
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I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive! I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles) This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2
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Even the sub-par clinical trials contra-indicated the shots. More deaths and hospitalizations among the vaxxed. The trial warnings proved catastrophic. AFTER rollout, around the world, highly vaxxed nations suffered explosions of both Covid deaths and non-Covid deaths.
@doritmi @JReinerMD We are talking past each other. We are going to have to disagree. We were told that the goal of mass vaccination with the covid shots was to prevent hospitalization and death. But the RCTs never looked for these important endpoints. It is a massive flaw in the evidence base.
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The Censorship Boomerang. 🪃
A major reason that things have gotten so crazy for the center-left is that because they were able to enforce consensus so easily socially they stopped feeling the need to justify policy empirically. Appreciating empiric reality is a major break that keeps things from going off
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The EU has declared all out information war on its own residents and citizens. The stuff of nightmares.
This Post by Prof. Dr. Henrike Stahl @StahlHenrieke is so important and informative that I (machine) translated it entirely into English. Pls read if you want to know about the pseudo-legality of the EU sanctions regime. Brilliantly explained. Had to make several parts. EU
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