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@SawyerMerritt @JoNationLive @SpaceX Good post. Nice to have it all in one spot. Everyone deserves to get a piece of investment into this amazing future

@JoNationLive @SpaceX Nah, I want as many retail investors as possible to be educated on all this so they feel prepared.

I’ve been asked by many to create one comprehensive post explaining how to prepare for @SpaceX’s IPO if you use one of the brokerages listed in SpaceX’s S-1 filing to allocate IPO shares to retail investors. Here it is: Fidelity: 1) $500,000 minimum account balance required to participate (including IRAs, individual, etc, but excluding 401k). 2) Enter an indication of interest. The indication of interest provides Fidelity with the maximum number of shares a customer is interested in purchasing. 3) Confirm your indication of interest shares on Fidelity's website after the registration statement has been declared effective and the offering has priced, which is typically after 7 PM ET on the night of pricing. Indications of interest may not be confirmed prior to the registration statement being declared effective and the offering pricing established. By confirming your indication of interest, you are placing an order to buy shares at the offering price. If you do not confirm your indication of interest, you will not be eligible for an allocation of shares. 4) Allocation of shares will occur on the morning following pricing and is usually complete before 9:30 AM ET. An alert will be sent once allocations are complete, and you can check your account to determine whether you were allocated shares. If you receive an allocation of shares, you must have adequate funds available to settle the purchase in the settlement date which is typically the trade date plus one business day. 5) You may increase your indication of interest up through the close of the indication of interest period. You may decrease or cancel an indication of interest until share allocation takes place. Once share allocation takes place, your indication may not be canceled or modified. Charles Schwab: 1) $100,000 minimum account balance required to participate (including IRAs, individual, etc, but excluding 401k). 2) On Schwab's website, under the Trade tab, select the IPO page to view the Calendar of Offerings, a list of upcoming IPOs. Once the IPO offering window opens (expected first week of June), investors will have the ability to submit a Conditional Offer to Purchase (COTP), also known as an Indication of Interest, from this page. 3) During an IPO's open COTP window, select Start COTP to review offering details and the preliminary prospectus. Then select the green button to proceed to the Eligibility Questionnaire, which is required to confirm investors meet eligibility criteria and are not restricted (per FINRA rules) from participating. After completing the questionnaire, you'll be able to indicate how many shares you're interested in purchasing based on the price range provided. Select Confirm to submit the COTP. 4) After the COTP has been submitted, regularly monitor the IPO page, which will indicate the Status of Your Conditional Offers to Purchase (COTPs), the expected pricing date, and current pricing status, plus any changes in the prospectus. When the IPO has been priced, you will affirm your COTP. You must affirm your COTP once the effective price is established in order to be eligible to purchase shares. To do so, select Affirm Now to review and finalize the share quantity. Robinhood: 1) There's no minimum account size requirement, but you must have enough buying power to cover your requested shares if you are allocated any. You must have an individual brokerage account. Retirement, custodial, and multiple investing accounts are not eligible for IPO Access. 2) Make sure IPO Access is enabled in your Robinhood app. Turn on your IPO notifications so that Robinhood notifies you when the SpaceX IPO comes online. 3) Request Shares: Once the IPO is announced and available, you can request shares through the app or website. This is a request for IPO shares. By placing a conditional offer to buy (COB), you’re asking for the opportunity to purchase a quantity of shares at the IPO price. An investor may place, edit, or cancel a COB after the initial price range is published and before the confirmation period ends. 4) Allocation is random and not guaranteed. The number of shares you request factors into how many you actually get, but it doesn’t affect the likelihood that you’ll get any allocation. You may get all, some, or none of the IPO shares you request. E*Trade: 1) E*TRADE does not publicly list a specific minimum account size required to participate in IPOs, but contact them to double check. That said, allocation priority for “hot” IPOs may still favor larger or more active accounts in practice, even if there’s no official minimum balance requirement. 2) Be a U.S. resident, have an active E*TRADE account (Individual, Joint and IRAs are all eligible) and complete the investor profile questionnaire. 3) Sign up for IPO alerts. 4) Submit a conditional offer to buy ("COB"). As part of this submission, you specify the number of shares and the maximum price you are willing to pay per share. COBs can only be submitted via the New Issue Center. A COB may be submitted once an offering is listed as "open" up until the status is changed to "closed." COBs that have already been submitted may be amended or cancelled after an offering is "closed" up until the status is changed to "allocate." At this point, no further changes may be made to a COB and you are bound by the terms of your COB. If there is no material change in an offering, customers will not need to reconfirm their COBs. If you have submitted a conditional offer, you must have available buying power to cover the full amount of your conditional offer in the account through which you submitted the conditional offer. 5) Shares are allocated to eligible accounts as a proportion, or percentage, of the size of their COB. The percentage is based primarily on the number of shares provided to E*TRADE for sale to its customers and the size of the overall demand for shares from E*TRADE's customers. Given the expected high demand for this offering and the limited availability of shares available for sale to E*TRADE customers, many COBs may not be allocated shares (according to E*Trade). Additionally, in many instances, allocations will be significantly smaller than the size of shares requested in a customer's COB. 6) E*TRADE makes its allocations after the pricing of the overall offering but before the stock begins trading. E*TRADE will inform customers via alert or email whether they have been allocated shares. Any allocation should be reflected in the relevant customer account once that allocation has been processed by E*TRADE. Sofi: 1) There is no minimum account balance/size requirement. Have an active Self-Directed Invest account. 2) Go to the “IPO Investing” section in the app or website 3) Select the IPO 4) Complete the IPO suitability questionnaire 5) Submit an “Indication of Interest” (IOI), which is basically a non-binding request for shares. 6) When the IPO is officially priced, SoFi will notify you to confirm your order. NOTE: Don’t be surprised if you receive fewer IPO shares than you requested, or none at all. Demand for the limited number of IPO shares available to retail investors will likely be extremely high, and each participating brokerage will only receive a limited allocation of shares to distribute to retail investors. For our international friends, keep in mind that @SpaceX said in their S-1 filing that allocations will also be made to retail investors by the underwriters, which include: • Goldman Sachs • Morgan Stanley • Bank of America • Citigroup • J.P. Morgan • Barclays • Deutsche Bank Securities • RBC Capital Markets • UBS Investment Bank • Wells Fargo Securities • Allen & Company • Cantor • Needham & Company • Raymond James • Societe Generale • Stifel • William Blair • BTG Pactual • ING • Macquarie Capital • Mirae Asset Securities • Mizuho • Santander so you can try reaching out to one of these places if you have assets with them and you may be able to request an allocation of some shares. I've already seen that happen with some Goldman Sachs clients. Lastly, and I stated this in a previous post, @SpaceX specifically stated in their S-1 filing that any purchase of their Class A common stock in this offering through these platforms will be at the same IPO price, and at the same time, as any other purchases in this offering, including purchases by institutions and other large investors, which means any retail investors that are lucky enough to get allocated some SpaceX IPO shares will pay the same price as the big guys. This will likely be the largest retail IPO share allocation in history, by far. If you have more questions, reach out directly to your brokerage and/or bank. And no, this post wasn't written by AI lol. Not financial advice.

@ValerioCapraro the fact that this needs to be DENIED just 5 years after LLMs hit public consciousness tells you how shocking the pace has been.

Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold, put it neat and clear: "Today's systems are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn't matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it's far, far from what a true invention, or someone like Ramanujan, would have been able to do." This is the elephant in the room that many AI enthusiasts prefer not to see, or are actively trying to hide. Erdős problems are well defined, often combinatorial, on finite spaces. They are exactly the kind of problems on which current AI can achieve spectacular performance with a lot of compute and knowledge. A neural network can search a huge graph of possibilities. It can recombine existing knowledge at unprecedented scale. It can discover surprising solutions inside an already defined conceptual space. But true invention is something else. True invention is not only solving a problem. It is inventing new objects, new dimensions, new connections. It is inventing new problems. From resolving to inventing there is a discontinuity that we don't know how to bridge. We are making extraordinary tools. But we are nowhere close to AGI.

@kevinolearytv This entity is using money as a leverage to boost voices that actually exist and create a critical mass of dissent. People will line up to this agenda and this it is all their own idea. One such idea is "Billionaires BAD" Both the far right and left are well on their way to that

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions. I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law enforcement and raised concerns directly with contacts at the White House. This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented. There’s a coordinated PR war happening around energy infrastructure and data centers, and we’re not going to ignore it.

@webisticsdawg @kevinolearytv did u watch it? He said Chinese communist party!

@kevinolearytv name the countries involved dumbass

anthropic.com/news/chris-ola… "We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend." -Chris Olah Which institution has EVER been truly immune to pride, ambition, geopolitical pressure and self-interest? :(

@tayarndt @itskaveriirl can u give examples of what exactly u r doing?

@itskaveriirl It is definitely possible. Local models is the future, and welcome to using them. Me personally, I build several apps at incorporate local models, and I’m also fine-tuning them to fit my own workflow. It’s very powerful once you can figure out what you would like to do with them.

bro i just ran an ML model directly on my iPhone no API. no internet. just... my phone thinking why did nobody tell me this was possible 😭 #CoreML #iOSDev #mlx

@SethSHowes why did you pick this specific project?

I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage entirely at home. As far as I know, this is the first time this has been done. I didn’t step foot in a lab once. Every step - from saliva collection, to running the sequencer - took place in a single room with a dining table + kitchenette. Six weeks ago, I had never done wet lab biology before. I used an Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo - the only commercially available sequencing device portable enough to do 30x human genome sequencing at home. Biggest takeaway - I could build something that combined software, hardware, and molecular biology far faster than I thought was possible. I can name >100 specific instances where AI helped me solve a technical problem that would previously have blocked me because I lacked access to a domain expert. For example: how do I save my sequencing run when my DNA extraction yield is 4x lower than I need it to be, and I have this limited set of reagents to hand? To make this work, I had to navigate multiple disciplines: - writing software to monitor sequencing runs and orchestrate remote GPU infra for basecalling - learning + executing 5 hour long molecular biology protocols - building a hardware device to quantify DNA concentration Apologies for the hyperbole, but I feel super lucky to be living in 2026. A few weeks ago I decided to sequence a human genome to 30x at home. Then I actually did it. And I did it really quickly.

@SethSHowes @antinertia this is amazing. It would be great if you could do a complete write up on exactly how you prompted claude, your thought process. I feel like we could all learn from people who use AI so effectively!

@antinertia claude & brain is all you need

@siddsax This jobcalypse has been demoralizing to me as a 50+ software engineer coming out of a 3 year illness and recovery. I look around and wonder should I even bother retooling and trying to go back. Does this market have place for people like me?

@elonmusk @olsenbdnr Some of us have brains that don't carry all the detail in our brains all the time. If I am in the middle of a problem I can tell you every miniscule detail. But once it is solved, the detail goes away and it becomes intuition. I guess I'll never work for Xai. cheering u on though

Evidence of exceptional ability and asking how they solved hard problems down to the brass tacks level is what matters. Those who actually deserve credit know the details of the solution, because it was so hard it got seared into their brain. The phonies and posers who falsely claim credit will flounder at the second or third level of detail.

Conducted 2 technical interviews today. Reminded me how serious of a task this is. You get to decide potentially the next n number of years the person you are interviewing within the span of 30 minutes or so. I have nothing but hate towards those who conduct interviews without a care asking dumb leetcode hard questions they themselves couldn’t solve if the shoe was on the other foot.

@siddsax @Kling_ai @ThineAI who made this video? you should give that account some credit and share the name

Funny thing is both the video and it's script are AI generated. Video by @Kling_ai 3.0 & script by @ThineAI

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

@siddsax haha! I'd totally watch this

@idahopatriot47 @elonmusk Good for you! But even as I support your absolute right to say that, my indoctrination is so strong that a part of me winced a little reading "beautiful white republican". We never see the white descriptor ever. It is usually unsaid. Usually see "beautiful < insert ethnicty/race>

@elonmusk I am unapologetically a beautiful white republican! I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a liberal!!

@BradGordonMTT @SenSanders what happened to them?

@SenSanders New technology always raises the level of comfort for society and creates more jobs than it displaces. e.g., Broom factory workers didn't all starve to death when vacuums hit the market.

Question for Musk: You tell us not to worry about the jobs that’ll be wiped out by AI & robotics because the government will provide everyone with “universal high income.” Really? How will that be paid for when you can’t even support a 5% tax on your $817 billion in wealth?

@SenSanders Bernie, can you try and be a part of the solution? Elon has expressed a goal, which should make you happy. Instead of being confrontational, take him at his word and reach out to work out a solution that is not ideologically dogmatic

@IamTheKaz @BrianRoemmele Good luck in your venture! AI ethics is definitely evolving since we don't quite know the boundaries of its capabilities.

@sl80107 @BrianRoemmele Teaching kids how to properly use AI as a tool is a bit more timeless than that. I expect to teach what AI truly is, how it works and about AI ethics. I would more than likely cover some of the same things @BrianRoemmele does in his posts.

Thank you @BrianRoemmele for your take on this. I get so frustrated at the fear mongering and hate toward progress.

@MazeLove14 you have not experienced Islamic extremism. I would suggest u do some more research. This is worlds apart. but yes religious craziness is bad all around

@EcZachly with your mom? that is sweet. it goes by so fast -life. Cherish these times

I took the longest break from DataExpert.io since I founded the company 3 years ago and nothing exploded! For the last 17 days: - no sales pushes - no advertising - no GitHub commits (my longest no commit streak since 2014) - no sponsorships Instead: - saw 4 countries with my mom (Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark) - connected with my ancestors in Gørløse, Denmark - deeply relaxed for the first time in many years Sometimes taking a step back from your business is the only way to truly see your life in a more complete way!

@EcZachly some more of those mistakes. -Stay too long. -believe the corporate BS and NOT ASK for a salary bump. True story: once my boss said he could go back and ask for 5% more if I wanted. I said nah! when this product ships I will get that and more without having to ask. yup doh!

Most career decisions are made like France selling Louisiana. In 1803, France was overwhelmed: - wars everywhere - short term pressure - immediate cash needs So Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the US for $15 million. That’s about $450 million in today’s dollars. At the time, it probably felt rational. Fast forward to 2026: The economy sitting on former Louisiana territory is now worth roughly $8 TRILLION annually. If Louisiana Purchase territory were its own country, it would likely be the: - 3rd largest economy on Earth - larger than California - more than double France’s economy Cumulatively, that land has generated an estimated: $250–300 TRILLION in economic activity. That means the US has seen roughly a: 54,800,000% return on investment. All because France optimized for the short term. A lot of careers work the same way. People: - quit too early - abandon compounding too soon - optimize for immediate salary bumps - underestimate skill accumulation - underestimate network effects - underestimate geographic leverage The hardest part about long-term bets is they usually look stupid for years before they look obvious. One good “Louisiana Purchase” decision in your career can change your entire financial trajectory. Your: - location - skill stack - network - distribution - industry choice can compound for decades. What’s the “Louisiana Purchase” bet you’re trying to make in 2026?

@KevinNaughtonJr I have a theory, can some HR person in the know confirm this? I think they estimate a percentage of the remaining employees will quit after being demoralized and overwork due to layoffs. So they don't have to pay severance.

when google did layoffs a few years ago tons of people found out they were laid off because they couldn't badge in after commuting to the office multiple people on my team and neighboring teams were affected by the layoffs but the crazy thing is i know people who were rehired within a few months of being let go i think companies just have a large margin of error when they do these things. they figure the handful of people they incorrectly lay off will pale in comparison to the cost savings they reap by removing a large percentage of the workforce these layoffs feel so dystopian nowadays especially since meta employees ended up learning the exact day the massive cuts would happen imagine having to do your job the last few weeks knowing that thousands of people were going to be laid off by the end of the month i actually don't think these layoffs should surprise people since businesses will always do what's best for business and it's best to accept that notion when you join any company never be loyal to a company because a company will never be loyal to you you have a 9+ digit employee number at these companies for a reason because you're literally just a number these companies don't owe you anything and this should feel freeing since it should make you realize you don't owe them anything either don't feel bad about quitting don't feel bad about taking vacation don't feel bad about signing off early employees should min-max employment the same way companies min-max employees