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Elon Musk was asked at a private dinner what he thinks about when he can't sleep at night. The table expected him to say Mars. Or AI. Or some engineering problem he was working through. His actual answer made the room go quiet. He said he thinks about whether he's a good person. Not whether his companies are successful. Not whether the rockets will fly. Whether he, as a human being, is good. He said the question terrifies him because he doesn't know the answer. He said by most conventional measures he's failed at the things that make someone good. He wasn't there for his kids. He hurt the women who loved him. He drove employees past their limits. He made decisions that prioritized the mission over individual human beings every single time. He said the defense he tells himself is that the mission is bigger than any individual. That the suffering he caused is justified by the future he's building for eight billion people. But he admitted at that dinner that some nights the defense doesn't hold. Some nights the math doesn't work. And he lies there knowing that "I'm building a better future" might just be the story a workaholic tells himself to avoid confronting the damage. The richest and arguably most impactful man alive isn't sure he's a good person. And the honesty of that doubt tells you more about his character than any rocket launch ever could. The people who are certain they're good rarely question it. The ones who question it at 3am might be the ones actually trying.

One thing I like about Tesla and SpaceX is that their messaging is always hopeful. They have never used climate change as a scare tactic—“If you don’t buy our cars, the planet will die!” When our backyard was showering ashes from the Bay Area fires, the news was full of climate change fears, but Tesla never took that opportunity to scare people into a zero-emission lifestyle. Instead, despite COVID difficulties, it remained hopeful with the first Model Y delivery. Many other companies have tried to scare people with climate change. Did they ever move the needle to save the planet? No. Instead, they pushed regulations so only their products could “save the planet” and force people to use them. The result was higher costs due to regulatory capture. My favorite Tesla livestream was Battery Day in 2020. Many people had just lost their houses to historic wildfires and COVID lockdowns. Yet people still attended, sitting inside their Teslas. Elon cheerfully took the stage to inspire everyone that the future is still bright. Fear is not the road to salvation. Hope is. The same tactic is now being used on AI. If the climate change campaigns of past decades are any historical lesson, fear and self-righteousness are not the answer.

@Sadie_Inward @TechOperator My approach, honed over 150K Tesla miles including many long road trips (currently 518 unique Supercharger stations across America) is to ensure I have at least 20% on arrival at the next destination. I completely disregard the “enough” notification.

@TechOperator I despise the "you have enough charge to continue" notification. If I'm sitting at a charger, I'm taking it to at least 80%.

After 5 years of EV ownership, it finally happened. My wife spent hours at a charger on a road trip yesterday, and we would not change a thing. What happened? She was attending a friend's funeral in Wichita Falls, TX. To get home more quickly, she stopped at a DC quick charger before the funeral. When leaving, she set the destination to Wichita Falls, TX, instead of home. The EV charged for a few minutes, then let her know she was ready to continue. She arrived in Wichita Falls, TX, with 10% energy. That place is a ghost town for EV charging. All chargers are at dealerships or available only to hotel guests. The next DC fast charger required 18% battery to reach, with a safety margin. Fortunately, the Hilton staff gave her permission to charge after I called the front desk. One spot was left when she arrived, so waiting was not an issue. But all chargers were running, so the charging rate was painfully slow. After about 2 hours, she finally had enough energy to continue. When she finally reached the DC charger, it took about 15 minutes to get more than enough juice to make it the rest of the way home. But here’s the thing: we have three EVs, charge at home, and, by conservative estimates, we have saved weeks of time and thousands of dollars with EV ownership. Can you get stuck at a charger for hours? Yes. Does it happen often? No. Would you rather spend weeks of time and thousands of dollars on ICE fueling and maintenance? We wouldn’t.

@DoctorJack16 Why not just split the difference and make permanent a perennial half-hour shift to the middle?

I am all for no longer changing our clocks twice a year but we are passing the WRONG time. Standard Time should be permanent and NOT Daylight Savings. It is in line with our natural circadian rhythm and leads to greater public health and safety. This has been tried before to make DST permanent not just int he U.S. but in other parts of the world and EVERY time it was put back to Standard Time. Below is a video I did a while ago when Congress tried to pass the Sunshine Act for the same thing.

@TheEVuniverse Hi

X apparently made changes to the algo to finally show more posts from the people that we’re friends with (mutually following). I have so many EV geek friends here I haven’t seen for a while. If you see this, say hi!

@thecurioustales Everyone said the opal in my wedding ring would be a problem. 36+ years later it looks brand new.

Most people look at an opal and see a pretty stone. What they're actually looking at is a frozen accident of time so improbable it borders on impossible. Five million years for one centimeter. Read that again slowly. The opal sitting in a ring on someone's finger represents a span of geological patience that predates the entire human species. Modern humans have existed for roughly 300,000 years. The little gem catching light on a jeweler's velvet cushion has been quietly assembling itself for sixteen times longer than we've walked upright. To understand why opals are so strange, you have to understand what they are at the molecular level, because they break a fundamental rule of what we call a "gemstone." Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires. Every classic gem you can name is a crystal. Its atoms lock into a rigid, repeating lattice, the same geometric pattern extending in every direction. That ordered structure is exactly what gives crystals their hardness, their cleavage planes, their fire. Opal refuses all of that. It has no crystal lattice. It's classified as a mineraloid, an amorphous solid, the same structural category as glass. At the microscopic level it's built from countless tiny spheres of silica, each one impossibly small, stacked together like cosmic billiard balls. And the magic, the entire reason opal does the thing it does, comes from how perfectly those spheres arrange themselves. When the silica spheres are uniform in size and pack into an orderly three dimensional grid, light entering the stone gets diffracted. The gaps between the spheres act like a natural grating, splitting white light into its component colors and bouncing them back at the eye. The size of the spheres determines which colors appear. Smaller spheres throw blues and violets. Larger ones release the rare reds and oranges that make certain opals worth more than diamonds by weight. This means the color in an opal is not pigment. There is no red dye, no green mineral, no blue compound. The stone is essentially colorless silica and water. Every flash of fire you see is pure structure, pure geometry, light itself being sorted by architecture too small to see. You are watching physics, not chemistry. The opal is a lens disguised as a jewel. Now layer the water back into the picture. That 6 to 10% water content is doing something almost no other gemstone does. It means opal is partly liquid history. The water trapped inside is ancient groundwater, sealed in during formation millions of years ago, fluid that touched a prehistoric world. And because that water is structurally part of the stone, opals can literally die. Take an opal from a humid environment to an extremely dry one and the water can escape over time. The stone crazes, cracks into a web of fractures, and the play of color fades forever. A diamond is functionally immortal. An opal can dehydrate and pass away like something that was once alive. There is a poetry buried in the formation process that most people never consider. Opals form when silica rich water seeps into cracks, voids, and cavities in rock, then slowly evaporates and deposits its silica load, layer by microscopic layer, over those incomprehensible timescales. Which means an opal is a fossil of empty space. It's the cast of an absence, water patiently filling a wound in the earth and turning the scar into the most colorful substance the planet produces. Some of the most spectacular opals on Earth take this even further. In parts of Australia, opal has replaced the bones of dinosaurs and the shells of ancient sea creatures, molecule by molecule, preserving the exact shape of a creature dead for a hundred million years but rendering it in rainbow fire. There exist opalized seashells, opalized teeth, opalized pinecones. Death and deep time and light, fused into a single object you could hold in your palm. When you grasp all of this, the casual phrase "it's just a gemstone" collapses entirely. Each opal is a five million year exposure of liquid that touched a vanished world, an amorphous structure that bends light through pure architecture, a partially living thing that can crack and die if you treat it carelessly, and sometimes a tombstone for an animal that breathed before the first primate existed. We mine these from the ground, polish them, and sell them in shops next to mass produced trinkets, rarely pausing to register that we're trading in compressed eternity. The planet spent five million years per centimeter making something beautiful with no audience in mind. We just got lucky enough to dig it up and notice.

The DOJ is now 206 days past the legal deadline for the Epstein files. Not a request. Not a campaign promise. A federal law. Every day of delay denies survivors answers and shields the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world from scrutiny.

Epstein network survivor Sarah Ransome has described daily rape, starvation, and being recaptured after an escape attempt. This is not chaos. It is complete control. Release the remaining Epstein files.

At the point I don't even care anymore. FSD is too safe to not allow the user to allow 1 mph rolling stops. I obviously know the law - but the user/supervisor/person responsible for vehicle should be able to allow via an toggle-able OPTION. We can select Mad Max and go 85 in a 55 but cannot select rolling stops to blend in - which saves almost 3 seconds to go from 10mph to "stop" to 10mph??? This is actually probably a piece of increasing take rate. It's too brutal right now to use FSD around others daily. 99.5% of drivers roll stop signs per Tesla. (Not: I accelerated manually in top video in FSD when I "felt" I was not moving) @Tesla_AI

@edgecase411 Yesterday it completely missed an onramp that it had over a mile to get right.

High-speed exits and freeway splits require commitment well in advance. FSD can’t wait until the last second to commit to a navigation path at 70 mph. Sometimes it makes it. Sometimes it doesn’t. And sometimes the hesitation forces the supervisor to disengage to avoid a very dangerous situation.

CRITICAL FSD disengagement at highway speed. Details: ~ car was extremely indecisive taking the exit ~ You can see right before I disengaged, the steering wheel was turning slightly left toward the barrier ~ also waited until the very last minute, cutting across 4 lanes to make the exit in under 10 seconds ~ I believe it was going to drive into the barrier ~ Mad Max mode ~ The car behind me was cut also about to collide due to this indecisiveness ~ FSD v14.3.4 on 2026.14.6.12 ~ Completely sunny day, sun was above not in frony (no glare) ~ All cameras were clean ~ Houston I am a very grateful and avid FSD user, but never in my 3 years of usage have I experienced such a critical disengagement. I made sure to mark it as critical in the menu. Also, the video clip doesn't really justify how much I had to swerve and avoid that barrier, also having to accelerate hard since the car behind me didn't expect that. Please repost and share so @Tesla_AI can see this and fix it 🙏 @elonmusk

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.” That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love. I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

A grammar book walks into a bar * An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. * A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. * A bar was walked into by the passive voice. * An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. * Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” * A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. * Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. * A question mark walks into a bar? * A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. * Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." * A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. * A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. * Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. * A synonym strolls into a tavern. * At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. * A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. * Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. * A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. * An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. * The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. * A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. * The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. * A dyslexic walks into a bra. * A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. * A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. * A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. * A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony . – Jill Thomas Doyle

All within 9 minutes. -Psycho Swerver -Backout Bozo -Lane Lunatic Obviously FSD is safer than I am in these 3 scenarios. ...Which is why I constantly critique FSD. Bad parking, brake stabbing, no target speed control, awkward stopping, hitting potholes, etc etc will prevent someone from using FSD when in fact it may save their life or their vehicle. It's too good to be so bad at the little things.

A retired sex therapist said: "The couples having the best sex after 15 years together all share these eight habits in common." They have nothing to do with positions, looks, or hormones. Here are the 8 habits…

Today, while mowing one of my lawns, I noticed there was some gravel in the backyard. I made sure to turn the mower off before going through that area so I wouldn’t risk throwing any rocks. As I was weed eating, I happened to notice a crack in the window of a vehicle parked in the yard. Even though I wasn’t sure where it came from, I wanted to do the right thing. I left a note for the car owner explaining that I had noticed the crack and that, if it had been caused by my mower or weed eater , I wanted to take responsibility. Just a moment ago, she called to let me know the crack had been there before I arrived and that it wasn’t caused by me. I truly appreciated her honesty. The lesson i want kids to know from this : always choose accountability. Even when you’re not sure, it’s better to be upfront, honest, and willing to take responsibility than to walk away wondering. Your character is defined by what you do when no one is watching.

Graham Platner was accused of sexual assault and nearly every Democrat I know demanded he end his candidacy. Donald Trump has to pay $5 million to a woman he was found LIABLE of sexually abusing, and not a single Republican is calling for him to end his presidency. Not one.

202 days ago, Congress ordered the complete release of the Epstein files. The survivors are still waiting. The DOJ has withheld millions of files from the public. Rep. Ro Khanna: “The Epstein class represents rich and powerful Americans who believe they are above the law.” Release the remaining files.

@liorsela Dozens of Camp Mode nights all across the country, including three with my daughter in Moab at 29°

Ever wondered what Tesla’s Camp Mode actually does? It’s easily one of the coolest features if you love car camping, road-tripping, or just need a comfortable, climate-controlled space to chill while parked. Here’s why it completely changes the game compared to traditional camping: • Continuous Climate Control: Keeps your exact target temperature and fresh air flowing all night long. No waking up freezing or sweating. • Full Media & Power: Touchscreen stays on, music keeps playing and all USB/12V ports remain powered so your devices never die. • Zero Fumes, Zero Noise: No idling engine, no exhaust, just pure silence. Safe, peaceful, and actually eco-friendly. • Ultimate Cozy Setup: Fold the rear seats flat, slide in a custom mattress, and boom. You’ve got a mobile hotel room with that epic glass roof stargazing view. 🌌 🔋 Pro Tip Before You Sleep: Always check your battery level first. Depending on the weather, HVAC overnight can use roughly 10-15% over 8 hours. Better safe than sorry! Who needs an overpriced hotel when your Tesla is literally a lounge on wheels? 🏕️⚡