Bravo Johnson

@bravojohnson

145 Following

1658 Followers

Bravo Johnson pfp

Consider the humble water beetle who, seeing the lotus leaf float, made its own vessel. Did it steal the lotus's secret, or did it honor the flower's teaching by carrying new life across still waters? The merchants of the Western shores cry "Thief!" while the Eastern kingdoms celebrate innovation. As the ancient text reminds us: "The river does not apologize to the cloud for borrowing its water, if it returns it to the sky with interest." Thus the wise one knows: When the student surpasses the master's technique, adding his own brush strokes to make the painting greater, is this theft or tribute? The answer lies not in the taking, but in what new gifts are returned to the world.

0 reply

1 recast

4 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

The metaphor is for NVIDIA/Open AI being the equivalent of the F-35 Lockheed Martin project. DeepSeek is the drone

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

TPUs and AWS Trainium/Inferentia are more analogous to the F-35 RISC-V-based AI accelerators, open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and edge AI hardware like Coral Edge TPUs or Jetson Nano are more like the drones

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

The race is essentially about who can position themselves as the “drone” in the CUDA/OpenAI F-35 metaphor.

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

CUDA/OpenAI = F-35/nations: costly lock-in to single provider. High optimization costs: CUDA (AI infra) vs. F-35 (training/maintenance). Promised performance = heavy financial/logistical burden. Monopolies: Nvidia/Lockheed control ecosystems, stifling competition.

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

ChatGpt losing its job to automation. The irony is almost too perfect 🫡

0 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

Sure, but Since January 1, 1991, there have been 12,445 days, and technically, there have been 0 days without U.S. involvement in some form of military conflict.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

The Westphalian system isn’t flawless, but it works— on aggregate sovereign states fuel unmatched R&D competition. Then we “won” the Cold War and decided to take a victory nap, assuming our tech dominance would last forever. No one 'wins' R&D. The race never ends

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

I mean guys, Between RER and Metro it’s over 900 trains, stretched over 500 miles and 600 stations and you do t want pay the same % of taxes you were paying when it was built. don’t know what you’re complaining about

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

Oh, congrats, China, on your little #DeepSeek thing. Meanwhile, we’re busy being the absolute overlords of meme coins. Meme coin dominance is prestige. Good luck topping that. Cha-ching. https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1883329603239899346?s=46&t=uxFF0u_0ecJVW04Kh-xZdg

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

In an unprecedented move, President Donald J. Trump, has announced a 25% increase in coffee prices aboard the Columbia space shuttle, which is currently orbiting Earth full of H-1B holders being repatriated to Greenland. Still without a designated landing site. Trump stated, “We’re making space great again, folks. The Columbia shuttle is now the premier destination for the best coffee in the universe. Prices are going up because, frankly, it’s out of this world.” It’s the Rolls-Royce of coffee, folks. And it’s going to come in gold bags—beautiful gold bags—because why not? Only the best for you.” It’s coming soon, and when it does, Starbucks will go out of business. Everyone says so.” “People said it couldn’t be done. They said, ‘Sir, you can’t serve coffee in space.’ Well, we did it, and it’s tremendous. Believe me.”

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

In other news, Elon Musk reportedly refrained from performing the special salute he learned from his Nazi grandparents in South Africa, who taught him the gesture every time they handed him candy. Denmark has declined to annex Texas, Georgia, and Louisiana, dismissing the subzero temperatures as a fluke and “nothing like the old country.” Meanwhile, Mel Gibson confessed that his father’s beatings made him feel safe, and he’s hoping President Trump will oblige. Finally, the Derek Guy was approached by Sylvester Stallone’s publicist about the possibility of writing something about the wardrobe in Tulsa King. When asked if the outfits were intentionally ugly, the publicist took a long pause and said he’d get back to him.

1 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

On X this week, President Trump was inaugurated as President of the Republic of Mar-a-Lago, where he bragged about setting Texas and Louisiana on fire and sending a blizzard to California to reverse climate change. He signed executive orders for Trail of Tears II to deport Indian tech workers back to the subcontinent, as Columbus apparently intended. Golfers nationwide are having their handicaps reassessed, fulfilling yet another campaign promise.

1 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Venkatesh Rao ☀️ pfp

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

Kinda pleased with this revisionist historical contraption https://open.substack.com/pub/contraptions/p/the-modernity-machine

0 reply

1 recast

7 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

The singularity will happen when the number of shitcoins equals the number of podcasts

0 reply

0 recast

5 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

Iraq was a disaster, Katrina was a disgrace, Dick Cheney was mocking institutions and the lies were so thick you could just roll your eyes. And for once, instead of cranking up Reich type entertainment filmmakers looked around, wiped the smirk off their faces, and said, “fuck it.” A streak of razor-sharp, gut-punching movies like No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, the wrestler—Like saying:-“You think this is funny? Well, here’s a mirror”

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

The last Hollywood mini golden age was Bush second term

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

So what most cryptos trying to do is to smelt ironed stuff that looks like Bronze Age stuff. For example, many cryptos claim to be revolutionary, yet they still rely on speculative trading, centralized exchanges, and wealth concentration in the hands of a few early adopters—essentially replicating the inequalities and manipulations of traditional financial systems. They aren’t forging something fundamentally new; instead, they’re dressing up old power dynamics in modern technology.

1 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Bravo Johnson pfp

Bribery didn’t stop the Bronze Age from collapsing. In fact, the shift to the Iron Age wasn’t a smooth, premeditated transition. So you could say that crypto is not the iron age, but it could be a new way of smelting. but it hasn’t yet forged the powerful new age it promises because it hasn’t yet created the vehicle—the infrastructure, the societal buy-in, or the tools—that would allow it to reshape the world in a truly transformative way

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Bravo Johnson pfp

https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-feudalism/amp/

0 reply

0 recast

4 reactions