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CEO @ PDTI | Hard science → working systems
Jun 4 5 tweets 2 min read
Here's how the current American dream is broken.
Here's how we're going to fix it by example🧵 2/
AI magic & hype at it's finest.
Hyperscalers: $320B AI capex.
Capex growing 46% faster than sales.Image
May 31 15 tweets 8 min read
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
May 22 9 tweets 3 min read
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…
May 14 9 tweets 3 min read
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. ↓ 2/

andrewpiskadlo.substack.com/p/cost-of-chaos
May 13 9 tweets 3 min read
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.

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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
Sep 16, 2025 10 tweets 5 min read
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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Aug 28, 2025 8 tweets 3 min read
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🎉

1/🧵 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

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Aug 25, 2025 13 tweets 4 min read
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The U.S. just sent 3 Aegis destroyers, a sub, and 4,000 Marines toward Venezuela for “counter-narcotics.”

Moves like this don’t just stay in the Caribbean—they hit oil, CPI, and politics at home.

Full article + charts here: ⬇️ 2/
Last time U.S. naval pressure spiked (Iran), Brent jumped 10% overnight.

CPI went from -0.1% → 0.3% MoM.

Independent approval dropped almost 2 pts.

Even limited interventions trigger inflationary shocks + political costs.MoMo CPI v Brent Crude have been more correlated post pandemic but generally are moderately correlated.
Jul 30, 2025 10 tweets 4 min read
🧵 Duggar’s testimony under oath didn’t just crack the CDC’s narrative—it detonated it.

This is what was said. What was denied. And what it revealed.
Start with the lie. Christopher Duggar, former CDC vax rollout lead, told the jury the CDC never changed its definition of “vaccine.”

“I don’t think so.”

The change is documented. Permanent.
One of the most consequential semantic shifts in federal regulatory history. Image