
Silicon Valley discovers patriotism, immediately makes it weird
A breathless 9-point manifesto from someone who definitely attended the right Stanford parties and now can't stop thinking about moral obligations, AI weapons, and whether federal employees are being underpaid. It's equal parts venture-capital sincerity and DARPA fanfiction, wrapped in the kind of pseudo-intellectual urgency that suggests the author has been reading too many defense think-tank white papers while also believing the iPhone was humanity's peak achievement. The whole thing radiates 'concerned billionaire at a podcast recording studio' energy—vaguely inspiring until you realize it's just nationalistic flex fiction with better grammar than usual.