Patrick Blumenthal

This decade will be full of crises. The solutions will not be found in consensus frameworks—but in the anomalies they fail to explain. I started a frontier tech fund last year to continue investing in these anomalies. @ByrneHobart & @TobiasAHuber are joining the next phase.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has launched a programme to support the development of AI innovators — K4 Startup Studio. All projects are assessed by military experts and end users — service personnel — under real combat conditions. Four teams will receive grants of $250,000…

grateful that superhuman recognizes a fortnight as a legitimate unit of date measurement

California should flourish. But right now, our cost of living is insane, wildfires rage, homelessness is everywhere, and red tape chokes our ability to solve any of it. I’m 6th generation Californian Dick Lucas and I’m running for State Assembly to unshackle California.

what books published in the last 25 years will still be read in 100 years?

made this helpful mnemonic for people struggling to learn about U.S. tanks

In Ukraine, the startup ecosystem is powered by soldiers. @PatrickJBlum explains how active-duty special forces are building battlefield tech between combat rotations — raising money, launching products, and closing capability gaps they’ve experienced firsthand.

Spruce Goose Poster, 1947

for what the U.S. just spent moving fighters to the Middle East, we could have: - cured cancer (3 times over!) - ended homelessness - bailed out masayoshi son - invaded iraq - given every American 25 million dollars

the transatlantic accent lives on in the autistic diaspora

top gun maverick is on track to be the most predictive movie of the century

starting a petition to declare F14s an endangered species to stop this from happening