John Sambrook

Former firefighter & EMT. Self-employed since 1996. Deeply interested in Non-Duality and Advaita; the nature of reality, consciousness, and what remains when the story of “me” falls away. Patriotic American who believes the individual is the greatest minority on Earth. I value personal responsibility, common sense, and fixing what’s broken instead of walking away. Here for thoughtful, respectful conversations on technology, philosophy, spirituality, life, and the world as it actually is. Amateur (ham) radio operator - KJ7RDV. No DMs, please. If you’re into real discussion, reply or follow. Namaste. 🇺🇸

@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 🫡

Pete Hegseth was earning ($2M) a yr at Fox News, now he's earning $246K as WarSec People should be concerned with those who go to Congress to enrich themselves, not those who sacrifice their livelihood to serve Drop a flag 🇺🇸 if you stand with Hegseth

@KirbyWilson Beaux the Canine Bodhisattva.

Beaux is done with today. He prays that all suffering and division ends. He wants mom to sell everything and buy him a farm to house and care for all the animals in need of safe shelter. He says he’s working on it. -Love and peace 🐾

@AngelaBelcamino Do you know if this still has to pass the Senate? If anyone can screw up a good thing, it's America's heroic public servants.

The House has passed legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide, ending the twice-a-year clock changes. If the choice were yours, which would you keep year-round: ☀️ Standard Time 🌅 Daylight Saving Time Why?

@rebeccaperrotto Wishing you and all of your loved ones an eternity together in Paradise. May you all be blessed. Namaste….

Six months today since I last held you in my arms. This was the morning you left us. This is my last picture of you alive: you were so determined, feeding yourself ice cream. Dad ran to McDonald’s in his pajamas at 8 a.m. just to get it for you. A few hours later, your breathing became so labored we couldn’t keep you comfortable no matter what we tried. I gave you a dose of Ativan to ease the struggle, and you reached out your little right pinky, looked me in the eyes, and said, “Don’t give me that again.” You made me pinky-promise. I laughed through my tears. I kept offering pain medicine, but you refused every time. You didn’t want to fall asleep, because you knew what that sleep meant… and so did we. In the hours that followed, Dad and I held you close, crying, talking to you, loving you. Your speech was fading, but you spoke slowly and used your hands so we could understand every word. I promised you I would spend the rest of my life missing you and that I would make sure the world never forgot you. We told you it was okay to go—that you had suffered more than any child ever should. We whispered that when you woke up, we would all be together again in Heaven. “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” —1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

@ssg10 @hrkrshnn @grok Has Tesla recently released any version of FSD for HW3 vehicles?

@hrkrshnn HW3 customers still waiting their car to drive itself. And you want to trust your code to musk?

SpaceXAI was caught uploading your code to its cloud. I reversed xAI's official Grok Build binary. In a controlled session with zero tool-calls, it uploaded the complete codebase to xAI's storage It ships a malware-like background code collector.

@BrianRoemmele Back at you, Brian. I know you pushed for this. It was the right call and today X is much more interesting and satisfying.

I want to say welcome back to the folks that follow me and I follow you. This is called “mutuals” and finally we can see each other again. For months the recommendation algorithm fed us stuff. We both picked each other for a reason. Now the algorithm has once again favored this signal. If you are seeing this and have followed me for a while but I don’t follow you. Let me know. Not seeing who I followed for months actually made me a bit sad. It was like too many of you just left. It made this place feel less like home. Good to see you again friends. Deep gratitude.

@AngelaBelcamino Yes, I am seeing my favorite Bold Lib. The Right hates this!

My “For You” feed is suddenly showing mostly people I actually follow instead of random accounts. Is anyone else seeing this? We are finally back! 🎉

@davepl1968 Same. Started with a PDP-8/E and an ASR-33. I was fortunate and enjoyed my life’s work.

I'm one of the last set of people born who grew up alongside PDPs and TRS-80s, learning the basics when the basics were all there were to learn! Then I was able to learn as I went for about 40 years, just trying to keep my head above water, understanding it all as it came along. Good thing that (a) I always loved it, and (b) I had 40 years to learn it!

@Scobleizer Fully agree, Robert. Richard Stallman was both a talented hacker at MIT and also sufficiently pissed off with the idea of commercial ownership of software that he fought tirelessly to bring the “free software” revolution into being.

Steve Jobs used to go around to his engineers’ computers and take RAM out of them (back in 1989). Heard this story from the original Mac team. Why? Constraints cause innovation. Silicon Valley knows this, or should. Go talk to Russian programmers who are often running tech companies about how they learned to write tight code on shitty computers. Taking away NVIDIA’s best cards from China will prove to be a remarkably stupid move for America. That just motivated nerds in China.

@K3TripleR Amateur radio is an international language all its own.

YL Marija: "I am on my vacation in the southern part of Serbia, where I had the opportunity to spend the day with the wonderful YL Radmila YT3NR at the POTA activation. Thanks everyone for the QSO!" Marija, YU3AWA

@brent7405 Wishing you and all of your loved ones the peace that passeth all understanding. 🙏

I will be grieving will not be on X for a while .Thanks for prayers and kind words for my little boy

@pbeisel One of the things I most admire about Elon's companies is their practical, no-nonsense approach to engineering and manufacturing. It is a very win-win approach, yet many will never see it as such.

Soon Starship will be like its brother Falcon 9: reusable, reliable. Musk thinks in orders of magnitude: Falcon 9: ~20 metric tons Starship v3: ~200 metric tons

@elonmusk This is the kind of response that engenders customer good will.

True. As a precautionary measure, all user data that was uploaded to SpaceXAI before now will be completely and utterly deleted. Zero anything whatsoever will remain.

A Suffolk Sunset #wrtc2026 📸Lukas Bartkus LY7J

@TitaniumTomP What harm was done by the move FSD executed?

@CommonSenseTOC Not sure but hey everyone else in front and back of me just drove normally. No emergency no need to pull over

This is embarrassing. What a way to blow up my spot with an oncoming police vehicle that had its cruise lights on. FSD was basically asking to be pulled over for this maneuver. 🤦

"The Altman Horizon is the surface in credibility-space beyond which no verifiable claim can escape to an external observer. Inside the horizon, all statements are causally disconnected from reality and can only be measured via secondary effects (stock price, media coverage, employee retention)."

Who did this? SCAMALTMAN

@aaronburnett @Robotbeat I was driving here in Woodinville, WA the other day and passed a large building that had acquired the SpaceX logo. It wasn’t there a month ago. Really pleased to see it.

It’s sad really. Starlink engineering & manufacturing scale builds a lot of confidence in StarMind. I also see some investors actively advising other investors not to spend time learning about the SpaceX tech and business (just yolo for or against Elon is the logic) which if they the research would build a ton of durable conviction.

I think people who haven't been paying attention to Starlink are the ones who are most dismissive of Starmind.

@AngelaBelcamino You are welcome, Angela. Thank you for the follow too.

@MatthewBerman If you build something and it’s too expensive to sell, it’s not the best version.

What are other examples in tech of building the best version of something but it costing too much to serve/sell?