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Jun 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Here's how the current American dream is broken.
Here's how we're going to fix it by example🧵
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 AI magic & hype at it's finest.
Hyperscalers: $320B AI capex.
Capex growing 46% faster than sales.Image
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 Deep tech is convergence.
Multiple disciplines. One product. Image
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 Builders keep their IP.
The incentive to ship stays with the builder.
pioneeringdeep.tech/journal/credoImage
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May 31
Six years ago May 26, 2020 I was torn in half by a 38-ton excavator.

Workmen's Comp priced my right arm at $66,369.88. Here's how I crushed their denial for treatment on round one🧵
2/
 Six years ago May 26, 2020.

Rice-Eccles Stadium. A 38-ton excavator tore me in half and threw me into its engine.

Right arm: 4th and 5th degree burns to muscle and bone. Amputated below the elbow. 14 fractures. Comminuted maxilla.

The kevlar/nomex gaiter from my wildland firefighting work saved my face.Image
3/
 The Utah AMA Guide priced the arm + brachial plexus + facial disfigurement at 57% whole person impairment. $66,369.88. That is the cap.

Workmen's Comp is no-fault in all 50 states. You cannot sue your employer for damages.

May 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM: ESIS emailed me the denial. Take the payout. No more care. They were done.
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May 22
June 13, 2025. Vance Boelter gives his housemate $900 in cash, four months of rent in advance. Texts: "I may be dead shortly."

Six hours later, two MN legislators shot in their homes.

Methodology for detecting someone like Boelter on public record BEFORE June 14🧵 Image
2/
 Federal record is sealed. Likely stays that way.

This thread isn’t about whether Boelter acted alone.

It’s about a methodology question with a 50-year answer.

andrewpiskadlo.substack.com/p/detectable-a…
3/
 1981: Tversky & Kahneman prove “200 saved” and “400 lost” produce opposite choices on identical math.

1984: Cialdini names six levers. Sales floors, fundraising, intel recruitment.

2014: Cambridge Analytica weaponizes them at 87M-profile scale.

2017: PNAS confirms ad susceptibility at p<0.001.Image
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May 14
I started a Substack. First piece up.

Most chaos is leadership choice. Some is physics. Some is human cruelty. Each demands a different preparation. Confusing them is what kills you, your project, and your supply chain. ↓
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andrewpiskadlo.substack.com/p/cost-of-chaos
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Leadership chose cheap Chinese sourcing. I argued for US sourcing because the supply risk was visible. I was mocked for adding cost.

Project killed Jan/Feb 2025. Tariffs hit. The engineer who designed our 16-ch EMG board: "Yeah, whatever I designed, that's way more expensive now."Image
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May 13
Why I built PDTI.

After years watching the Capital Crunch eat good ideas, AI-layoffs cut good engineers, and the extraction cycle reproduce itself — my cohort and I stopped believing it has to be this hard.

🧵 Image
2/
 There should be a place where someone with a real deep-tech idea can ship equipment, regulatory support, capital, no hidden motivations, no IP capture.

So we built one. Image
3/
 Why this matters now.

Real wages turned negative. The top 1% now holds roughly what the entire bottom 90% does combined (Fed Reserve DFA, Q3 2025). 45% of Americans say buying a home isn't foreseeable for them — up from 28% in 2017 (Gallup).

Capital concentrating. Capability extracting. Opportunity receding.

We call it the extraction cycle. We built @PDTInstitute to break it.

Full credo → first reply.
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Sep 16, 2025
My first statement on the Charlie Kirk political assassination and political terrorism @TPUSA

I was 25 m to Charlie's right. We all witnessed Evil then. Now what, who's responsible, how do we find them?

I want @MrsErikaKirk and Charlie's kids and family to hear me first

1/🧵
When I got to @UVU around 10:20ish and walked into the amphitheater (courtyard)... It didn't feel good

I saw all the ledges. I saw where Charlie would be speaking.

I felt like I was getting ready to witness another Butler

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I made many new friends. It was something powerful about the people there and @charliekirk11

How many people he's reached. I loved hearing from all of you.

There was a theater major, bouncing up and down on her heels waiting to see him. But couldn't miss her class at 1 PM.

Otherwise they'd know then.

Name another major political organizer like this changing the direction of the country. I dare you.

You might end up accurately in the 1960s to find another similar character.

Which is why his Assassination is so telling. Just what does the left represent now?

3/Image
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Aug 28, 2025
CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez was fired by the White House just hours ago after accusing RFK Jr. of “weaponizing public health.” Four other senior CDC doctors resigned the same day.

A monumental shift🎉

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RFK Jr.’s policy changes on COVID-19 vaccines:

1. End federal recs for healthy kids & pregnant women
2. Limit access to 65+ & high-risk adults
3. End blanket EUA; require case-by-case decisions under 65
4. Purge entrenched vaccine divisions inside CDC

2/
CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) tried to push through an mRNA approval while Kennedy was away on May 31

They overplayed their hand.

Everyone in MAHA lost their cool😎 - I made this at the time👇

That gave him the pretext to can them

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