“Visit the #Startups and they look like throwbacks to the 1950s. Firms drape their walls with vast American flags. They deck their offices with the parts of customised cars. They adopt prosaic company names, such as General Matter, Varda Space Industries and Metal Cross, that echo the General Electrics and General Motors of America’s #industrial heritage more than the twee nomenclature of Silicon Valley.

Young, buff #entrepreneurs, almost all men, bench press and brandish wrenches; they do anything to distinguish themselves from what they see as #software #dilettantes farther north.

#SiliconValley may be the cradle of modern life, from artificial intelligence (#AI) to burrito deliveries. #Gundo is its equivalent in hardware innovation—and the harder it is to build, the better.”

This isn’t the opening lines of a new #NeilStephenson novel. It’s a story where patriotism meets USA machinists and Engineers designing and build tangible things using material instead of computer science.

#SummerReading <https://economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/americas-fight-back-against-china-starts-in-los-angeles-in-flip-flops> / (paywall) / <https://archive.md/ZhLSO>

4-0 #Gundo
5-0 #Haaland

Making it look easy now.

#MCFC #MCIRBL #UCL