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Caleb Watney
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@calebwatney
co-founder @IFP // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it
Brookland, DC
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    Caleb Watney
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    May 14
    How it started // How it's going
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    Caleb Watney
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    Caleb Watney
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    May 3, 2024
    Remember when Skype had a 15-year lead on video conferencing and then completely lost the market during a global pandemic + remote work boom?
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    Caleb Watney
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    Nov 22, 2022
    A chart to keep in mind this week as your relatives bring up their political views ☕️
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    Caleb Watney
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    Oct 7, 2024
    How can you not think about the Roman Empire?
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    Caleb Watney
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    Jul 13, 2024
    You laugh, but "adopt simple best practices the rest of the world adopted decades or centuries ago" is exactly the spirit that American infrastructure policy needs right now
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    Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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    Jul 12, 2024
    Sorry, Mr. Rat. The all-you-can-eat buffet is coming to an END. We're the FIRST administration doing the work to get millions of tons of trash off our sidewalks every day. First containers for businesses and now the official NYC Bin for small apartment buildings. This is how we
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    Caleb Watney
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    Nov 8, 2024
    This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery
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    There seem to be grave concerns about the integrity of the research. MIT announced that they "conducted an internal, confidential review and concluded that the paper should be withdrawn from public discourse." economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-… wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-sa…
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    Caleb Watney
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    Jun 14, 2025
    Someone at Novo Nordisk failed to pay a $450 maintenance fee, which would have kept its patent on Ozempic in force for another two years... A very expensive mistake!
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    Caleb Watney
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    Nov 25, 2020
    One of the most insane details of our current ordeal is that the Moderna vaccine was actually designed in two days. In January. nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/…
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    Caleb Watney
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    Sep 16, 2025
    Explain your ideology in one chart (okay actually three)
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    Caleb Watney
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    Feb 25, 2022
    The world is so insane right now that we're all breezing by the fact that the head of the Russian space agency threatened to... drop the International Space Station on us...??
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    Caleb Watney
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    Oct 25, 2024
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    Bloomberg
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    Oct 24, 2024
    TSMC has achieved early production yields at its first plant in Arizona that surpass similar factories in Taiwan, a significant breakthrough for a US expansion project initially dogged by delays and worker strife trib.al/c6XdKvH
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    Caleb Watney
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    Nov 23, 2021
    New tracking poll shows all-time high support in the US for nuclear energy ⚛️
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    Caleb Watney
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    Dec 9, 2021
    The CCP is terrified that the US will someday fix its high-skilled immigration pipeline