Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance) on X (original) (raw)

Writing at corememory.com and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker

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(Wild, Wild Space) +

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(Don't Die).

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  This might be the coolest real estate business in the world. Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and built a telescope farm. They're managing hundreds and hundreds of scopes for other people and offering super dark skies and fiber internet so that folks can take amazing
  
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  Put the cartels in charge of higher education
  
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  The world's richest human and the secretary of transportation just casually hammering out disaster relief on X. What a bizzarely sane moment in the midst of our long national nightmare that is an election year
  
  
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  VC the other day told me, "We've lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn't care about much anymore."
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  A single tab in Chrome on my laptop is consuming 102,400 times the amount of memory as the entire Apollo Guidance Computer
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  SpaceX is now on to its second generation of reusable rocket technology and all of Europe is still just like, oh, well, crap, we never thought it would work in the first place and did NOT plan for this outcome
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  At least one third of the podcast industry is the same 30 people interviewing each other
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  Boeing was paid billions more than SpaceX to be seven years late on a mission it could not complete . . . And will now be rescued from total disaster by SpaceX Never forget, many bureaucrats wanted to sole source all of this to Boeing.
  
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  @MrBeast
  is 26. You can't run for President until you're 35. My prediction is he runs in 2036 and raises 10x his nearest competitor by turning the whole campaign into an ongoing gameshow. After he wins, the American Experiment is considered complete.
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  700 of 770 OpenAI employees saying they will go now. What is the board going to be board of?
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  There's just no way Steve Jobs releases this mess. He would have demeaned someone until that battery weighed nothing and fit in the headset
  
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  2005 could not comprehend this paragraph
  
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  Is there a secret stash of federal contractors with lots of rockets and satellites we don't know about?

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