Other Michael

Don't argue with communists online. They got nothing to do all day.

@spencerpratt It better be. Its my #3

It's OK to love America.

@JonahDispatch Communism literally took tens of millions of people. Poor, working, rich. And put them in the ground.

And how did China do that? It wasn’t through “socialism.” That was Mao’s project. The cultural revolution killed tens of millions of Chinese through dumbass collectivism. Then Deng allowed for markets. And boom, hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty. China held on to command and control politics but introduced limited freedom in economics and did more to alleviate poverty than socialism ever did. But you people envy the authoritarianism and so you lie and propagandize for it. Shame on you.

@FreddyLA7 No. You are the envoy of American hospitality

This is all so insane. We found this when we got back to our room. And then someone even sent cupcakes to our room. I genuinely don’t understand how it got to this point. We’re just normal World Cup tourists.😭😭

@3AWNeilMitchell Not the country but certainly its current state. I think that's what the issue is.

Boomers need to fight back in this generational war. They are apparently loathed . Which is simply nonsense . They built this country

Thank god we're not a bunch of stupid monkeys.

@peterrhague To their credit it is impressive how effective they have been at pacifying the population. Every atrocity you think this is the one that breaks the camels back, but no the public endures on.

The Anthropic rugpull is a bit of a mini-Sputnik moment for European leaders. They have had a few of these recently, discovering the hard way just how far behind the continent has fallen in the past 20 years or so. Its not going to get better. There will be another shock from the space side as well. This year, China will likely crack first stage reuse, get into the business of serious megaconstellations. At the same time, Starship - which to European leaders is nothing more than an explosion every couple of months - will get to orbit and start ramping up cadence. Everyone who understands the sector knows whats coming, but politicians here will be convinced its all smoke and mirrors until they wake up one day seeing both the US and China with a decades long lead over them in another critical sector.

@bourscheid I wish all the other people that got handouts could be so useful

The federal minimum wage was last raised in July 2009, to $7.25/hr. Elon Musk wasn't even a billionaire then. He was borrowing money from friends to pay his bills. The minimum wage is still $7.25/hr. Musk became the world's first trillionaire today, thanks to our tax dollars.

@shivon I imagine you have to sacrifice being as much a father as you'd like a be to do these things. All endeavours have a sacrifice. Many make this sacrifice for much less. Humanity next step is into space. Thank you.

Little koalas on their favorite snuggle tree

@VoteRandyFine @FloridaGOP Neo Nazi is lazy. He's an idiot but you undermine your argument mislabeling

I have cancelled my appearance at this event. If the @FloridaGop wants to host a Neo-Nazi rally, they will do it without me.

@CynicalPublius Whenever I hear clever.

I am sad this did not gain traction. I thought it was clever. Oh well. Too clever by half I guess.

@brivael You're right it's not over until it's over but the trend and all the evidence show that's the conclusion. Your women are raped and children murdered and nothing changes. Its over.

Hier un ami m'a dit: "le UK, c'est fini." On me dit souvent la même chose de la France. "La France, c'est fini." Je comprends d'où vient ce sentiment. Les chiffres de l'immigration, la dette, les rues de Londres et de Paris, les institutions capturées. Le constat est largement exact. Mais la conclusion est une erreur. Et pas une petite erreur d'analyse. Une erreur mortifère. Voici pourquoi. Dire "le UK c'est fini" ou "la France c'est fini", ce n'est pas un diagnostic local. C'est une capitulation globale que vous n'avez pas encore avouée. Parce que le UK et la France ne sont pas des pays comme les autres. Ce sont deux des trois matrices de l'Occident. La common law, l'habeas corpus, le Parlement de Westminster. Les Lumières, les droits de l'homme, le Code civil. Si ces deux-là tombent définitivement, vous ne perdez pas deux pays. Vous perdez la preuve que le modèle fonctionne. Et le mécanisme est implacable: si le wokisme, qui n'est que le communisme après sa mutation des années 70, gagne en Europe, il ne s'arrête pas en Europe. Une idéologie qui a survécu à la chute de son propre empire ne s'arrête pas à une frontière. Elle a déjà traversé l'Atlantique une fois, en 1966, par Johns Hopkins. Elle retraversera dans l'autre sens. L'Occident tient ensemble ou tombe ensemble. Regardez la carte de ce qui est en jeu. Les États-Unis, le Canada, le Royaume-Uni, l'Irlande. La France, l'Allemagne, l'Italie, l'Espagne, le Portugal, le Benelux, la Suisse, l'Autriche. Les pays nordiques. La Pologne, les Baltes, la Tchéquie, toute cette Europe centrale qui a déjà payé pour savoir. Et les avant-postes: l'Australie, la Nouvelle-Zélande, le Japon, la Corée du Sud, Taïwan, Israël. Ce n'est pas une liste de pays. C'est une seule civilisation distribuée sur quatre continents. Abandonner un nœud, c'est affaiblir tout le réseau. Maintenant, le point que tout le monde oublie quand il désespère. Les plus grands d'entre nous ont désespéré aussi. Peter Thiel a raconté la scène dans son interview au New York Times. Un dîner avec Elon, pendant la campagne de 2024. Thiel lui dit: si Trump perd, je quitte le pays. Et Elon répond: "There's nowhere to go. There's nowhere to go." Il n'y a nulle part où aller. Thiel rentre chez lui et comprend deux heures plus tard ce qu'il vient d'entendre: Elon ne croyait plus en Mars. Plus comme projet politique. Parce qu'il avait compris que le gouvernement socialiste et l'IA woke le suivraient jusque sur Mars. L'homme qui construit des fusées pour fuir la Terre avait conclu que la fuite était impossible. Et qu'a-t-il fait de ce désespoir? Il n'a pas émigré. Il n'a pas abdiqué. Il a compris que puisqu'il n'y a nulle part où fuir, il n'y a qu'une option: se retourner et combattre. Ici. Maintenant. C'est exactement le bon raisonnement, et il vaut pour le UK et pour la France: il n'y a pas de sortie, donc il n'y a que la reconquête. Et la reconquête a déjà commencé. Ouvrez les yeux sur ce qui s'est passé en trois ans. L'idéologie qui semblait invincible en 2020 est en train de crever de partout. Les programmes DEI démantelés les uns après les autres dans les plus grandes entreprises américaines. Les universités forcées de rendre des comptes pour la première fois en cinquante ans. La censure qui régnait sur les réseaux, brisée. Les électorats occidentaux qui, élection après élection, rejettent le logiciel. Ce qui se vendait comme le sens de l'Histoire se révèle pour ce que c'était: une mode portée par la peur, et la peur a changé de camp. Et au centre de ce retournement, un fait sans précédent: l'homme le plus riche de l'histoire de l'humanité, en route pour devenir le premier trillionaire, a décidé de consacrer sa fortune, ses plateformes et ses machines à détruire cette idéologie. Pas à s'en accommoder. Pas à acheter la paix. À la détruire. Jamais, dans toute l'histoire de la guerre froide, le monde libre n'a eu un atout pareil. Les dissidents soviétiques écrivaient des samizdats à la machine à écrire. Nous, nous avons les fusées, les modèles d'IA et le réseau de distribution mondial de l'information entre les mains de gens qui ont choisi notre camp. Alors non, le UK n'est pas fini. La France n'est pas finie. Une nation n'est finie que le jour où ses bâtisseurs le décrètent, et le décréter, c'est précisément le but de guerre de l'adversaire. Le déclinisme n'est pas de la lucidité. C'est l'idéologie ennemie qui tourne dans votre propre tête, qui vous fait faire son travail gratuitement. Il n'y a jamais eu autant d'espoir pour le monde libre. Le vrai. Pas le mirage de 1989, quand nous avons célébré la victoire sur une adresse vide. Cette fois, nous savons où est l'ennemi, nous savons comment il fonctionne, et les hommes les plus capables de la planète sont enfin entrés dans la bataille. Le pessimisme est un luxe de spectateur. Nous ne sommes pas des spectateurs. Au travail.

AI can feel like those simple grind games; incremental progress but there is no end. And it's got the added benefit of randomness. If you were to make a corporate gotcha it would be this.

@MaheshDhokia @Lotus_indrajit @elonmusk @Coinvo Shouldnt you be happy the English saved India?

@NinjaGinga03 @Lotus_indrajit @elonmusk @Coinvo And Singapore and Hong Kong? Which continent are they in?

ELON MUSK: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism."

@brivael That is a good point overall. Before this couldn't be done because travel and information were slow. Also with tools individual output is higher making for smaller teams. This has more implications than just business. Will be interesting

Karpathy said something we all read without really understanding it. Elon Musk doesn't run the biggest companies in the world. He runs the biggest startups in the world. And he's the only person on Earth who knows how to do that at this scale. That nuance isn't a detail. It's becoming the standard, and I think in ten years it will be the only acceptable way to run a company. What Karpathy describes is a man who refuses growth by default. Small teams, deeply technical. No middle management to filter the information. Engineers and code as the only source of truth, never a VP's slide deck. A CEO who spends half his time talking directly to the people who build, not five layers up in an ivory tower. And a personal obsession with removing bottlenecks one by one, by hand. Most people read this as the eccentricity of a genius. I read it as a job description. Because this model implies a few non negotiables. Being a polymath. You cannot understand the real state of your company if you only speak one language. You need to drop into the code, climb back up into go to market, open the cap table, read a contract, challenge an architecture. Every layer, every node. Being curious about everything, not as a hobby, as a necessity. Curiosity is the tool that gives you a complete map of your organization. Without that map, you fly blind and you outsource your judgment to people who have every incentive to hide the truth from you. Not wanting to be liked. This is the part nobody owns. You cannot make the right calls and give real feedback if your deep need is to be appreciated. The need to please is the number one enemy of quality. It turns every decision into a social negotiation and every piece of feedback into a lukewarm compliment. And the last point, the most important one. Building for humanity, not for profit itself. When abundance arrives, profit for the sake of profit loses all meaning. The only thing left is whether what you build actually moves people forward. That's what justifies the intensity. It took me years to understand this. In every company I worked at, I couldn't understand why the CEOs, and even the CTOs, lived in their ivory tower. Disconnected from the product, disconnected from the ground, managing slides instead of managing reality. It felt absurd to me. Almost professional malpractice. And then I understood the real reason. People, and organizations, on average never question the status quo. They endure it. The ivory tower isn't a strategic choice, it's the default state of any structure you let grow without friction. Nobody decides to become disconnected. You become it because it's the path of least resistance. Musk didn't invent a magic method. He just refused the default. His entire singularity fits in one sentence: being a permanent force against the entropy of his own company. That's the real standard coming. Not the size of the teams. The refusal of the status quo as a daily discipline. And most companies will die not because they were wrong, but because they never thought to ask themselves why they did things the way they did.

@0xTib3rius The answers were hard coded. Need a new test

My god, its incredible.

@MasterMaliq What if I told you the Messiah was God.

Only God can save me… I don’t need a messiah.❌

@HackingLZ The future is pay to win

Love this timeline. “These models are too expensive, we don’t have the budget.” Ooh, shiny new model that costs even more!

@LeighWolf Sort of. The standard is the standard. I doubt she's going to get anyone killed besides falling on them. What's her job? You think she's going to be wounded in a combat zone. Probably not even deployable.

You might think, "Oh, that's so mean. Why would they make fun of her like this?" Well, to be frank, fatties get people killed in the military. There's a reason obesity is grounds for separation. We had a supply Marine who became a provisional machine gunner during a firefight in Afghanistan. Landing support Marines (logistics support) fended off the Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in 2012. Anyone, at any time, could be called upon to exert enormous physical strength to protect themselves and those around them. Obese troops are simply incapable of doing so. Fat is incompatible with military service.

@Prathkum Refinement comes after. Price of computers would never have come down if they tried to make them affordable first.

Hot take: We don't need a more powerful model like Mythos right now. GPT-5.5 (5.6 coming soon), Opus 4.8, and similar models are already more than capable for most use cases. What we need to solve is the cost problem. If AI keeps getting significantly more expensive, 99% of developers won't be able to afford these models at scale and will end up going back to manual coding.