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"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." - Galileo Galilei

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.” — Søren Kierkegaard

After a journey lasting 9 years, 5 months, and 27 days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto, sending back these remarkable images.

Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

Once again this graph has a hold on me

Illinois has the most state pension debt in America — by a wide margin. How bad is it? IL Pension Debt: $145.49B The bottom 41 states combined: $145.77B IL population: ~12.7M Bottom 41 states: ~180M And Pritzker and his allies in Springfield are considering pension sweeteners that could add $76B+ more in costs for Illinois taxpayers. This is not sustainable. This is a crisis.

Propaganda words work so well

It was always going to be Illinois in the Final Four. 🗣️

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla

Farthest ever landing. We landed on a moon of Saturn 1.4 billion km away and most people have no idea. This is actual footage from Titan's surface. The Huygens probe dropped through orange haze for 2.5 hours before touching down on an alien world.

This is the best part of a cycle

Raoul Pal: Ethereum is a “very good product” for financial institutions “Ethereum has its Lindy Effects. It clearly works very well for what the financial markets need. They can build Layer 2s, as Coinbase has shown, that can work perfectly for their needs. If they need high security, they can use the Layer 1 chain. They have ZK and all the other stuff that’s being built. Everything is there; they just have too much capacity. But if the finance system comes, they’ll go to [Ethereum] . . . Is Goldman going to build on Solana? Highly unlikely. Is JP Morgan? Highly unlikely. Will they build their own Layer 2s? Highly likely . . . I highly doubt it will be anywhere else just because the nature of risk in the space. And ETH has a yield — it’s a very good product for financial markets.” Raoul believes Ethereum is mostly working through narrative problems that were similar to the problems Bitcoin faced when it was figuring out its store of value narrative. “We went from the left side of the [bell curve], through the mid curve — we did all of the mid-curve stuff about Lightning and payments and everything else — and came out on the other side and said, ‘It’s a store of value.’ The same will happen to ETH . . . They’re already going back to this ‘world computer’ idea. This is the platform for tokenization, and I think it will prevail over time. . . This is a compute platform that operates at global scale and is decentralized. Go use it.” Source: @KevinWSHPod (May 2025)

Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.

The uniparty in action

Did you know🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away looking at Earth today would see the Roman Empire.

My nephew saw a #Cybercar cruising around Chicago, outside of Trump Tower. 😁

@KobeissiLetter Skate to where the puck is going

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces that Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build an advanced chip manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas. Details include: 1. Musk says the “Terafab” site will include two fabs, one for Tesla’s AI and one for SpaceX’s space-based data centers 2. Musk aims for the plant to produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually, 2x current US capacity 3. Musk says current suppliers can not meet future needs for Tesla and SpaceX The AI Revolution is accelerating.

@BobMute2 @elonmusk @shanaka86 You can voice mode grok to read a post out loud

@elonmusk @shanaka86 @elonmusk any chance you guys can add a “read outloud” button for these kind of long format posts?!

Yesterday SpaceX launched 29 more Starlink satellites from Florida. Nobody cared. Routine. Another Tuesday. Here is what actually happened. Satellite number 10,074 entered an orbit where 300,000 autonomous collision-avoidance maneuvers were executed last year alone. Not by humans. By onboard machine learning that screens conjunction data from 30 million object-transit observations per day, computes probability in real time, and fires ion thrusters if risk exceeds one in a million. The industry standard is one in ten thousand. SpaceX set its threshold 1,000 times stricter and then automated the entire thing. Three hundred thousand maneuvers. That is 820 per day. Forty per satellite per year. Every single one decided and executed by AI faster than a ground controller could open the alert email. This is Tesla Full Self-Driving logic running in vacuum at 7.8 kilometers per second. SpaceX did not stop there. In January they launched Stargaze, a space situational awareness network built on the star trackers already aboard every Starlink satellite. Thirty million observations daily, conjunction screening delivered in minutes instead of hours, and they gave the data away for free to every operator on Earth. They just made themselves the air traffic control system for low-Earth orbit and charged nothing because the real product is not the data. The real product is the standard. Now connect this to last week. Terafab breaks ground in Austin. One terawatt per year of AI compute. Eighty percent allocated to space. D3 chips designed to run hotter in vacuum where radiative cooling is free. Satellites with 100-kilowatt solar arrays scaling to megawatt. Optimus robots replicating from raw materials. The Dyson Swarm bootstrap. Every analyst covering Terafab is modeling chip yields, capital costs, and process nodes. Not one of them is asking the question that determines whether any of it works: how do you manage ten thousand satellites without a single collision, and then scale that to ten million, and then to five billion? The answer already exists. It launched its 300,000th maneuver months ago. It processes 30 million observations every 24 hours. It operates at a collision-probability threshold three orders of magnitude beyond what any government or competitor has achieved. And it improves with every satellite added because more nodes means more eyes means better models means safer density. This is the orbital operating system for a Kardashev II civilization and it is already running. The Hormuz crisis proved that terrestrial supply chains are molecule-dependent and fragile. The Terafab announcement proved that Musk intends to move compute off-planet. But neither of those matter if the orbital environment becomes a debris field. The collision-avoidance AI is the gate. Without it, every satellite launched is a lottery ticket for Kessler syndrome. With it, density becomes self-reinforcing instead of self-destroying. Nobody is covering this because it is not a product announcement. It is not a keynote. It is infrastructure so foundational that it has become invisible, the way TCP/IP became invisible the moment the internet worked. SpaceX did not just build a satellite constellation. They built the nervous system of orbital civilization and trained it on 300,000 real-world decisions before anyone realized what they were looking at. The rockets are visible. The chips are headline news. The AI keeping ten thousand objects from destroying each other in silence at eight kilometers per second is the actual breakthrough. And yesterday they added 29 more nodes to the network. Routine.