Manifest Destiny:
Greenland, Cuba, and the New American Colony // Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, Mike Gibson
Nick Solheim, Dr. Sumantra, and Mike Gibson came to tell us why America needs Greenland, and honestly? The math does pencil. Currently it's a chunk of land three times bigger than Texas, housing fewer people than a mid-sized concert venue, costing Denmark $500 million yearly just to keep the lights on. Between its rare earth minerals and Arctic shipping routes that dodge the usual maritime traffic jams, it's basically the world's biggest foreclosure opportunity. The plan? Copy-paste the Homestead Act, send 100,000 America frontiersmen up there, and boom: the New New England. Sure, the Danes said no last time, but winners never quit, right?
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Hereticon:
Apocalypse Ball
By Mike Solana
The Apocalypse will take place from the evening of October 28th to the morning of October 31st.
Join us for a showcase and celebration of technologies and projects so ambitious they will fundamentally transform our world for the better
— or destroy it.
Right at the peak of our last pandemic, Founders Fund hosted the first Hereticon, a "conference for thoughtcrime." Our thinking was simple: dissent is worth protecting. Most new ideas are wrong, or useless. Some are even danaerous. But from science and technology to business and faith, progress is a history of persecuted weirdos, so that is where we stand, and that is what we celebrated. In conversation, no topic was off limits: genetic modification, natalism, parapsychology, artificial consciousness, defense, pharmacology, virology, sex, God. There were lectures, there were performances, there was, randomly and happily, a marriage. Two babies were conceived at the event, two more because of it (that we know of), and new ideas were shared in quantities at least as great as drinks consumed. Obviously, we’re doing it again. But this October, while our hope is still for guests to come and speak their mind — prepare your take, your talk, your robust defense of whatever heretical concept you believe a worthy cause — we’d like to introduce a frame for your consideration: the end of the world.
https://archive.is/2025.10.20-200120/https://foundersfund.com/2024/02/hereticon-2024/
Ken #Howery is #Trump ’s ambassador to #Denmark. He:
Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter #Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion.
Thiel’s Oct 2024 #Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: #Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony”