Steven Carleton

@ianmiles Genius social media sells itself. It transforms. We wind up craving it when earlier we were clueless. Not a narcotic, or something ingested, but something that compels us to plugin and wait for more.

Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: "The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo." We all know Elon is relentless about quality. As Marc puts it: "Do you want the best car in the world or not, right? Like that's Elon's mentality... And it's working very well." But at a recent event, Elon took this mindset to a completely different level. He dropped a perspective so jarring that Marc initially thought it was a joke. Elon’s thesis? "You shouldn't even have to have your name on the product. It's just obvious. Everybody knows." The logic is brutal but simple. If you build the undeniable, undisputed best thing in the world, everybody uses it. And because everybody uses it, you don't need to slap your branding all over it to prove it's yours. Think about that. We spend endless hours agonizing over marketing, tweaking brand colors, and putting our logos on every square inch of what we build. But the ultimate flex isn't a flashy logo. The ultimate flex is building something so undeniably brilliant that its mere existence is the brand.

@aleksthgrt I'm sorry, but I forget now...when was the last free and fair election you won sir?

🇧🇾 Belarus President Lukashenko: "I am not a dictator; I do not have the resources to dictate. But Trump has those resources, and he is dictating in Venezuela, in Cuba, he is trying to dictate in Iran... he has those resources."

@WWIIpix Whilst tearful Germans mourned their loved ones and wondered how it had come to this. And how could they start over with the world once again united against them in such anger.

This day in 1945, SS-Obergruppenführer Steiner refused to attack with Army Detachment upon realizing his units were inadequate and understrength to counterattack at Berlin. Hitler fell into a tearful rage against his generals, and declared that the war was lost. #WW2

@Elonvisiony02c Uh, what now?

@elonmusk Just to be clear, SpaceX just delivers the payload to orbit (drops the package at the door). It doesn't care about the contents. That's up to the clients.

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@RussianSpoof I think you're a tiresome bot, fronting a failing war of aggression.

🇷🇺 A surprising moment involving Vladimir Putin He accidentally walked past a blind woman in the crowd but what happened next caught everyone off guard. Instead of moving on, he stopped, turned back, and made sure to personally acknowledge her a small moment that spoke volumes. Sometimes, it’s the unexpected gestures that leave the biggest impact. What do you think about this moment ?

@jacksonhinklle Mr. Putin, aren't you trying to destroy the state of Ukraine in a hideous war of aggression? You've supported the most vile regimes on the planet, reviled even by your own people, when they once had a voice. Your tiresome dirges aren't changing any hearts and minds.

🇷🇺 "People who destroy whole nations do not have the right to teach us democracy and the values of living freely," --Putin.

@ShangguanJiewen Hmm...Just heard they are demanding all their civil employees hand in their passports. No more foreign travel. Why? PRC tour groups are sought all over the world. They are polite and respectful. What is the problem Chairman Xi?

"China is collapsing" Really? The view from China does NOT support that unserious or any other adjacent claim. China is the most advanced nation humanity has ever known. Don't believe me. Come see it for yourself. 👇

@Certifiedksd @KatieMiller Of course, orbiting solar arrays which aren't affected by clouds or nightfall. They don't need vast tracts of land. They beam their energy down to collector stations, which can store or distribute it to entire continents across a unified, redundant grid. Someday we hope.

That's exactly where the world should be going to🔥 Solar is The Source of Energy, The Earth intercepts 0.000002% of the Sun's total energy output and that is still even 10,000 times greater than what the whole earth consumes😂, the whole world could be covered in solar panels and still not be able to use all the solar energy it's able to intercept 😅😅

Solar met 75% of global electricity demand growth in 2025. Clean power covered all new demand, so fossil generation didn’t rise for the first time since 2020. Solar electricity is on track to become by far the biggest source of power.

@scaleindependen @Urgent_Russia24 "constantly at war for the last 200 years" that's factually wrong, bot

@StevenCarleton9 @Urgent_Russia24 Honest question: Vassal of USA that has invaded Venezuela, Iraq , etc. and it’s constantly at war for the last 200 years and wants to break up your nation into little pieces. versus a state that has not invaded and won’t break you up and will treat you more like a partner?

🇷🇺 Russia cuts off Kazakh oil deliveries to Germany via the old Soviet Druzhba pipeline. The move is seen by Moscow as payback for Germany's ban on Russian crude. Putin responds in kind...

@RuthChika12 @SpaceNews_Inc LEO supports global internet and phone access and geo-navigation, not to mention the classified military systems. All major nations are racing to deploy their own orbiting networks. Sorry but the cat is out of the bag, as it were.

This is a environmental disaster waiting to happen. We already have a massive space debris problem, and now we’re launching $8 billion worth of 'credit lines' and hardware that will eventually just be high-tech space junk. We’re turning Low Earth Orbit into a landfill for the sake of a cloud.

China backs orbital data center startup with $8.4 billion in credit lines spacenews.com/china-backs-or…

@Tank_Archives The Kirov started as a crucial Czarist armory, one of the first in Russia. The Bolsheviks expanded it to produce heavy armor. Unlike the vast works centered around Kharkov, Kirov's machine tools could not be moved to the Urals during the nazi invasion. It survived the siege.

#OTD in 1941 the Kirov factory was allowed to cease producing spare parts for the KV-1 to focus on setting up KV-3 production. This decision backfired two months later when the Germans invaded and the KV-3 was not even close to completion. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@elonmusk Humanity isn't dying. This will be the real driver of robotics. Simple folks will just move up the value chain, as happened with the early industrial age. We will live longer, work less, and let automation do the grunt work. What will folks do with such long future lifespans?

This collective suicide of humanity needs to turn around!

@ShangguanJiewen No, the PRC subsidizes its roughly 100 hundred EV car 'ventures'. Its totally against the WTO, but the PRC doesn't care. The CCP has flagged EVs as strategic and so it must dominate by any means necessary. Thanks bot.

The real reason you can't get Chinese EVs in the USA, is that US brands can't compete with the speed of Chinese innovation. Chinese engineering would wipe out US companies. That's how far ahead China is, technologically.

@XueJia24682 You mean a massive real-estate boom and crash? Enormous office towers and apartments abandoned and empty? These can be seen from space. The PRC's central planning has run amok. Why not let the Chinese people work the market system they invented so long ago?

✨🇨🇳Xi Jinping:To build a modern socialist country in all respects, we must, first and foremost, pursue high-quality development. Development is our Party’s top priority in governing and rejuvenating China, for without solid material and technological foundations, we cannot hope to build a great modern socialist country in all respects.

@WWIIpix Lucky it didn't set off the ammo. Tanks are going to get hit. If the vehicle gives the crew a strong chance to survive, well...there's always more tanks.

North of Cologne, Germany, a knocked out American M26 Pershing tank, hit by a Nashorn tank destroyer, March 1945. The projectile penetrated the lower front armor, passed between the driver's legs and set the turret on fire. The entire crew bailed out safely. #WW2

@saorbats @Tank_Archives They could tow vehicles back for service with 'headless' tank chassis or heavy tractors. Perhaps @Tank_Archives could explain, but the Red Army by 1943 was quite good at quickly repairing tanks. Was this done in the field, or at central depots?

@Tank_Archives Do the soviets have tanks transports? I know they used trains but what about when fight was not near a railroad? Engines will die before they get into the enemy.

#OTD in 1942 the People's Commissar of Tank Production announced considerable rewards for anyone who could increase the lifespan of the T-34's engine. The top prize aimed at a lofty goal of 350 hours of service with lesser awards for 300 and 250 hours. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

@Tank_Archives Not exactly capitalism, but incentives do drive innovation. The short engine life was due to imprecise parts. As Soviet industry learned mass production and quality control, they began to see micron precision. Parts became truly interchangeable across factories.

@Tank_Archives Stalin was very involved with the major Soviet weapon programs. But despite the propaganda, I don't think he pushed anything not supported by STAVKA and the Military Council. Not true of Hitler. His desperate late-war mania had no bounds, according to Speer's memoirs.

#OTD in 1945 the Red Army captured the hulk of the sole complete Maus tank which the Germans demolished because it broke down during their retreat. The tank sat there for months until someone realized it didn't look like any known type of German tank. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII