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Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Wait? What did I just read? Grok 4.3 just broke the game? @xAI dropped the nuke: @Grok can now spit out full Microsoft Word docs, PDFs, PowerPoints, and Excel spreadsheets on command. No more "sorry I can’t generate files" excuses, this AI is actually useful AF @elonmusk

The dude with the nazi tattoo is now doing nazi salutes?? Where’s the outrage from @CNN @MSNBC @nytimes @AP?? The media were more upset at @elonmusk doing a hand gesture from his heart than they are at this

I’m literally shaking rn Is this Democrat candidate for US Senate in Maine Graham Platner doing the nazi salute? I’m sure CNN and MSNBC will be all over this!

@MarkJCarney For those of you who need a translation, this means printing money to bail out an international cartel of bankers and flooding the country with immigrants to pump the real estate market on which the banks rely as collateral for their debt ponzi.

look at this little guy. i designed this creature years ago. picked this scene on purpose — the hatching, the sac, the wet emergence, the fur — because i knew how badly it would have broken, every time, in every version of this tech up to now. limbs through membranes. bodies folding into themselves. things growing out of nothing. fur turning into soup. physics giving up at the moment of rupture. this one didn't. the sac deforms under pressure. the fluid behaves like fluid. the rupture is actually there, the moment where enclosed becomes emerged, and the membrane remembers what it was holding. the fur stays fur, even wet — matted, heavy, clinging the way real fur does. he has weight when he lands. i let the model contribute. the little mouth at the end wasn't in my prompt. a happy accident that wanted to stay.

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve reported an operating loss of -$18.7 billion in 2025, marking its 3rd consecutive annual loss. This brings the total 3-year loss to -$210.3 billion after the -$77.6 billion recorded in 2024 and -$114.0 billion in 2023. The losses are primarily driven by the Fed paying out more in interest to banks and money market funds than it earns from its bond and MBS holdings. Since the losses began in September 2022, the Fed has stopped remitting income to the Treasury Department, ending a streak that totaled +$1.36 trillion since 2008. However, the Fed cannot become insolvent because it quite literally creates its own money. Truly incredible.

This is where the homeless money in California goes Democrats gave a NGO $23 MILLION dollars The NGO used it to buy - A mansion in Los Angeles - $125,000 Land Rover - A second home in Greece US Attorney’s office says THEY FOUND 12 MORE CALIFORNIA NGOs doing the same thing “The U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. says they are actively investigating at least 12 other similar fraud cases here in California.”

This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations. And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds. Not a guess. Not a theory. A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it. Samsung TVs: every minute. LG TVs: every 15 seconds. Even when you're just using it as a monitor. Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

Audio of the Indian oil tanker Sanmar Herald pleading with Iranian forces to stop shooting at it in the Strait of Hormuz this morning.

"She made sure her baby was born an American," the New York Times says about an illegal alien who illegally re-entered our country after a previous deportation, which is a felony, in order to give birth to a child. The Times thought they were giving us a sympathetic story of a couple determined to give their child a better life. Instead, they gave us the poster child for why the Supreme Court needs to end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/…

Since the start of the Iran war... Sulfur: +57% Jet Fuel: +52% Urea: +51% Diesel: +48% Gasoline: +36% Fertilizer: +35% Heating Oil: +32% WTI Crude Oil: +28% Brent Crude Oil: +26% European Natural Gas: +21% Coal: +12% Palm Oil: +10% Iron Ore: +8% Rice: +7% S&P 500: +4% $VIX: -12%

Dr Oz confirms that after stopping payments to 450 hospices in California, still NOT ONE has called and asked to have their payments reinstated 450 hospices out of 450 hospices in California were fraud He says collectively they stole $750 million in just on year

Amy Eskridge Mystery Thread - The anti-gravity propulsion researcher claimed antigravity has been discovered 4 different times. And each time, was shut down and dismantled. In this interview, she says on camera she was warned THREE separate times by agencies and officials to stop her anti-gravity research. Shortly after this interview in 2022, she was found dead at 34. 'Self-inflicted gunshot wound.' No investigation details ever released. She is now the 11th scientist linked to this suspicious pattern. Watch this.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”

The British have never fully recovered from the economic damage Carney left them. Double digit inflation followed in his wake. Now it’s Canada’s turn.

🇺🇸 Police departments are about to have a very hard time justifying their fleet budgets. A Cybertruck patrol vehicle costs $24,000 to operate over five years. A Ford Police Interceptor runs $84,000, a $60,000 gap per vehicle over the same period. Most departments run fleets of hundreds. At 500 units, that's $30 million back in the budget. @Cybertruck

WHOA, TESLA JUST SOLVED THE HARDEST PROBLEM IN ROBOTICS AND IT IS EPIC! It took millions of years to perfect the human hand and Tesla just engineered a 22 degree of freedom masterpiece in a few years that makes it look easy. These April 16, 2026 patents is up revolutionary. They have turned the entire Optimus forearm into a high density powerhouse with 25 motors driving a super light, tendon powered hand that can delicately crack an egg or swing a sledgehammer with insane grip strength! Picture this: actuators packed like a futuristic engine room in a staggered cylindrical layout (tiny 12mm linear motors for the fingers plus bigger ones for the wrist), all routed through a genius cantilevered hollow wrist joint that keeps the cable highway wide open no matter how it bends: No pinching, no fatigue, no bulky junk in the palm. Just pure, puppet like dexterity thanks to flexible composite ligaments made from Nitinol (that shape memory super metal) and Vectran fabrics sandwiched with elastomeric layers. Nitinol is “memory metal” that can be brought back to the ground state under correct thermal conditions. These artificial ligaments are thicker at the base where the force is highest, with seven layer sandwiches that laugh at metal fatigue. Wires run right through the neutral bending plane so they never stretch or snap. It is biomechanical poetry. No fragile lab toy but it is built for mass production. By moving everything to the forearm and using passive spring returns, Tesla slashed part counts, cut costs dramatically, and doubled the DoF from Gen 2. Optimus V3 is about to go from folding laundry to heavy industrial tasks with buttery smooth precision, powered by AI5 chips. We are talking scalable humanoid robots that could replace physical labor, crank out a million units a year, and hit that 20k target. Elon and the Tesla team are not just innovating. They are redefining the future of work and humanity itself. This is the stuff that changes everything. Optimus V3 is going to be legendary. I cannot wait to see it in action! Patents here: patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/deta…

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.