Happy Birthday, To the one and only, Satoshi Nakamoto

Mask Off Moment This is an anonymous account I use to post a bunch of deep tech content on X covering heavy industry, light industry, technology trends, industrial bottlenecks, weird explainers and esoteric insights. iykyk. A lot of very talented people (many of whom run amazing companies) DM me saying please keep posting “this is the best content on X”. I get DMs from VCs asking about companies, and DMs from LPs asking about industrial and economic theories. This is all very flattering, and whilst I sometimes post a bit sporadically I do try and make the effort to tap out a new post most days. The quality of people who follow @object_zero_ is frankly phenomenal, it’s a real privilege to have this channel in my pocket. 40k followers including world leaders, centi-billionaires, serial inventors and entrepreneurs, world renowned scientists, and engineers. I would say it’s a mix, but the reality is that it’s not a mix at all, it’s an extremely high mean and median. I have posted about shipbuilding, nuclear power, the Kroll process, silicon carbide, laser interferometry, heavy steel forging, machine learning, design engineering, CFD, manufacturing methods, power transmission and HVDC. I post about energy and commodities and industry and global macroeconomics. I post about mines and prospecting, minerals on the sea bed and drilling and producing hydrocarbon basins. Don’t worry… I’m not leaving. I’m not ill and I’m not asking for anything. A quick apology… I would post here more often, except I don’t have the time. I am able to post with a bit more breadth and depth because I am genuinely engaged in these things. I don’t want to be presumptive, but I think the people who have reached out to talk to me about their work would attest to this. I simplify a lot of the posts so I don’t collapse the audience, but if you reach out in the comments or DM you can get much sharper commentary. So what is this post? Well, it’s time that I start talking about what I am actually doing irl, who I am, what I am engaged in. Some people on X already know some loose details, some people have met me as Object Zero. But irl, I work about 5,000 hours a year and have done so for 20 years, I believe hard work puts you in a privileged place. It changes you. Over the years I’ve invented and developed new industrial technologies, I’ve built big things, I’ve executed major capital projects. I feel I understand what the world needs in the 2030s and where we are falling short. If you believe you are capable of such things, then you have an obligation to society to go and do them. I am confident I know what it’s possible to do, and what it takes to get it done. I intend to solve our energy infrastructure, generation and transmission and the big BTM loads that are emerging. I’ve already hired the best people in the world for this, people who have architected $6bn assets, people who have commanded $40bn fleets. I’ve hired the best research faculty from the best university. This isn’t a game. We’ve already built and tested the first prototypes, we are already completing the permission processes, the licences and the permits. All the elements already exist, it just needs 21st Century system integration. Because technology has changed, the past is already obsolete, the genie is out of the bottle, the 21st century is getting built on a Western tech stack and/or an Eastern tech stack. There is no in between, there is no middle ground. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses, but if we want freedom we’re going to have to earn it again. We are going to build the biggest products (by mass) that have ever been manufactured, we are going to build a lot of them. They’re going to change the world, and we’re going to get more of this…

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Reminder not having a long commute is one of the biggest life upgrades. You never normalize against this, like you would a very good or very bad event (the commuting paradox, described in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics). Moving closer to work or going remote is worth it

we know things are bad

אז למה טראמפ תמך בנתניהו? כתבתי על זה טור לידיעות אחרונות הבוקר....

Lavrov will visit Tehran on Monday for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Ministry says.

Italy like France. Outside Milan Cathedral. A symbol of Christianity under siege. Fires, clashes, and devastation beneath its spires. This is no celebration — it is a collapse. They are burning the heart of Milan while everyone watches and records it. This is a war on our history, culture, traditions, and identity.

Shocking poll results of the Shia community in Lebanon. If the survey was not conducted by a reputable company, Statistics Lebanon, I would have dismissed it because the results show a truly stunning collapse of support for Hezbollah among the Shia community. This collapse is an undeniable fact based on my conversations with Shia friends in Lebanon, following social media production by Shia (including videos and thousands of comments on popular Facebook pages for Shia communities), and the testimonies of Shia journalists and scholars. Still, the numbers are surprising. The most shocking results: - 42% of Shia feel disappointed, angry or worried about the conduct of the leadership of Hezbollah - 37% trust in Hezbollah greatly, 22.4% trust to some extent, 23.6% do not trust Hezbollah much, 15% do not trust Hezbollah at all. Previously 85% expressed trust in Hezbollah - 52% do not trust Hezbollah's social & service institutions (likely due to favoritism in distribution) - 52.4% do not trust the media outlets affiliated with Hezbollah. - Only 2% would prefer to send their children to schools run by Hezbollah (Mehdi and Mustafa schools) - 42.3% believe Hezbollah has not achieved any of its goals and that the costs of the war were exceedingly high 25% believe Hezbollah achieved only part of its goals and the costs of the war were exceedingly high. A total of 67.4% put together. 14% say it's too early to tell - 63.3% support a deal with Israel (either direct talks, through mediation, or a total regional agreement) - 9% support a deal that will be sponsored by Iran - 66.4% support handing over Hezbollah's weapons to the state 29.6% support preserving Hezbollah's weapons - 51.1% see he Lebanese Army as the biggest contributor to guaranteeing security in the long run 16.5% see Hezbollah this way - 71% Believe war & peace decisions should only be made by Lebanon's leadership 12% Support Hezbollah making its own decisions on these matters - Only 5% believe using force is legitimate to express opposition to the government's position on disarming Hezbollah - 80% see their Lebanese identity as more important than their sectarian or partisan affiliation Source: al-Jadeed TV discussion with the CEO of Statistics Lebanon youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_e5rTC…

There's a lot of new standards and confusion around how agents find, use, and pay on the agentic web. I mapped all twelve standards in one place: what each does, who's behind it, and what's actually live. Check it out!

The ultimate privilege of being a billionaire is being celebrated for doing a shitty job. Caught @lucy_guo’s DJ set in Singapore last night, and honestly, it was one of the most amateur sets I’ve ever seen. She barely seemed familiar with the equipment or even her own set. Beats were out of sync, cues were missed, and the whole thing felt under-rehearsed. Yet the crowd was incredibly forgiving. Most people stuck around, until some just couldn’t take it anymore. Money can't buy talent, but apparently it can buy applause.

1/9 יאללה רכילות הון סיכון, וכאן עם כמה זוויות מעניינות. כולל הטוב, הרע והמכוער ב Pro-rata rights, שיזמים לרוב לא מכירים ולוקחים כמובן מאליו/ וכאן יצרו חתיכת פיצוץ. ולאר-אטומיקס חברה מגניבה, על גבול המד"ב, שמפתחת כורים גרעיינים קטנים. המטרה העיקרית שלהם תהיה להזרים חשמל לדאטה-סנטרס שכמובן מריצים AI. ורעבים לחשמל.