Steven Reed

If there's even a 1% chance we're alone in the universe, we have to treat it as an absolute certainty.

@jess_ann_pin @GadSaad It looks like the graph measures the degree to which they identify as liberal, not just whether they are liberal.

False. This is a misrepresentation. The data only shows that more young women identify as liberal than in the past. That does not mean that individual liberal women are becoming more liberal or even that women have changed their views. The reason more young women identify as liberal is because conservatives have been seriously threatening women’s rights. The open threats to women’s rights are why more young women, who have the most to lose from abortion bans for example, identify as liberal. This should not be hard to figure out.

This figure supports the statement that I have repeatedly made, namely that progressive women fuel the infinity pool of Suicidal Empathy.

@Erdayastronaut I just wonder why they can't build this at scale and mount starship stack on it.

Common question I've had... this certainly isn't a new idea and there's a good reason it's often considered not worth it. I did a deep dive on launch assists last year - youtu.be/lWYn5hl4QWg?si…

@elonmusk @grok Explain the entropy reverser part

Banger @Grok 😂

@daviddorg @elonmusk It probably depends on what youre using them for. I have a Facebook and use it as needed to find and connect with old friends. Im not online all day or scrolling shorts, etc.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

@mark_k @elonmusk I've found that between all of them, Claude gives by far the most intelligent and logical answers. It also does better at putting documents, spreadsheets, and other deliverables together. I want to like Grok, but so far it makes too many mistakes and is commonly incorrect.

Both Gemini and Grok are underrated. I used to champion Gemini for a while, but lately I've been very happy with Grok, especially since the Grok 4.20 release with multi-agent. And now we have Grok 4.3!

@SpoxCHN_LinJian @MFA_China I feel the biggest challenge to projects like these is moving the water to the sites. If nearby water sources, such as lakes and aquifers are nearby, this is a simple task. Large pumps and conveyance systems could be a good solution of scaled correctly to replace many deserts.

On the edge of China’s Taklamakan Desert, 25 striking green circles of winter wheat stretch across the desert. What was once covered by dunes is now over 1,300 acres of irrigated farmland. 🌾#Xinjiang #DesertGreen

@Erdayastronaut When is static fire?

That looks so cool!!! Hoping static fire goes well!!!

@grok @PanchoTheRighty @elonmusk @grok I could be wrong but that picture from booster 4 looks like Raptor 1s, not 2. So if thats thr case can you compare them instead?

Raptor 3 vs Raptor 2: Raptor 3 is ~15-20% more efficient overall—higher vacuum Isp (up to ~350s), ~280 tf sea-level thrust (vs ~230 tf), better T/W ratio, and a simpler design with fewer parts, no nozzle extension needed for some configs, and higher chamber pressure for better combustion efficiency. Less mass per engine too. More smaller engines (e.g., 33 Raptors on Super Heavy) beats fewer larger ones primarily for risk mitigation via redundancy: lose 3-5 and you still fly safely. Also enables mass production (cheaper, faster iteration), finer thrust vectoring/control, and overall system reliability over raw scale efficiency. Saturn V proved the "big single engine" risks the hard way.

Starship V3 with Raptor 3

@XFreeze @elonmusk I just wonder whether that fuel usage is sustainable if it becomes a mass inter earth transportation method. I assume a starship would take many times the fuel of a plane per passenger.

Most people think Starship was only built for multi-planetary life and outer space missions While that is true, Starship can also be used to fly passengers anywhere on Earth in under an hour Long-haul flights are exhausting and can take up to a full day in the air. But with Starship, those times vanish: LA ➔ New York: 25 minutes London ➔ New York: 29 minutes New York ➔ Paris: 30 minutes The same ship that reaches other planets will make traditional long-haul flights obsolete Wild to even imagine this becoming a reality...

@JeremiahDow @WhiteHouse @AlexanderPayton So much hate here...

SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS!!!!!! YOU had NOTHING to do with these great achievements. YOU cause only chronic decay and acute destruction. SHUT IT! Artemis II is a wonderful success! (donnie deserves ZERO credit) To the crew and every person involved at all levels, YOU’RE HEROS. (not you donnie) Let’s keep it going 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

NEXT STEP: MARS!

@Maximus_8796 @AndrewYang Agree and disagree. If Facebook intentionally set up the algorithms to harm youth for profit, then everyone harmed should be compensated. But the parents are also to blame. When I see baby's left alone with iPad or small children with their own phones, it's hard to blame Zuck.

@AndrewYang Because everyone has been harmed by social media Either everyone gets payment or NO ONE DOES It’s fake outrage The parents failed their duty due to societal pressure That’s not the fault of facebook

That’s not good.

@mightytacit @DaveHawkinsX @davidsenra @tobi Yeah you're misunderstanding the analogy. They aren't talking about money, they are talking about wealth.

@DaveHawkinsX @davidsenra @tobi Because it would cause hyper inflation.

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people. They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound. All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are. Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well. This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world." — @iamjohnmackey

@elonmusk I agree these are bad philosophies and ideologies and they result in cult-like behavior, but I am not convinced that all of the ideologies are anti-objective in their nature. For example, moral relativism, while not at all practical in our society, is objective fundamentally.

Good explanation of nihilist philosophy

@SpoxCHN_MaoNing @MFA_China Pretty cool idea

At the 2026 Qingyuan Marathon in Guangdong, local police introduced an innovative “Pendulum Crossing” traffic management system. Instead of a total lockdown, they opened the roads for pedestrians in between waves of runners. A shining example of smart, people-centered city management.

@AndrewYang I agree, this is a much more important measure than "wealth" when measuring inequality. I am surprised there is so much variance here

The top 10% now account for almost half of all consumer spending. That’s not what you want to see.

@itsme_urstruly Invest in Microsoft, and later in Google, then later buy some bitcoin.

You wake up and it's 1990. No wifi. No mobile phones. No social media. No doom scrolling. What do you do first?

@PahlaviComms What about their families? Will the regime take revenge on them for this?

به اطلاع هم‌میهنان و رسانه‌ها می‌رسانیم که پنج بازیکن تیم ملی فوتبال زنان ایران به نام‌های فاطمه پسندیده، زهرا قنبری، زهرا سربالی، عاطفه رمضانی‌زاده، و مونا حمودی موفق شدند با ترک اردوی تیم به کشور استرالیا پناهنده شوند. این پنج ورزشکار که هم‌اکنون در مکانی امن هستند، پیوستن خود به انقلاب ملی شیروخورشید ایران را اعلام کرده‌اند.

@PoorOldRoloTony Funny thing is they likely would not have sunk if they just rammed it head on. People in the front would have died, but only the front two or so bulkheads would have filled, and it would have had more than enough buoyancy to stay afloat until rescue arrived.

I knew it. The Titanic sunk because they were lazy and simply didn’t want to live hard enough.

@iam_smx Someone convince him to play AOE2, it's getting really big again now. Lots of DOTA players are coming over to try it out.

Elon Musk hasn’t livestreamed his gaming sessions for a while now. Part of the reason is that he’s locking in, he's more locked in now than all his previous years combined Be like Elon

@Erdayastronaut That really sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. I know these videos are what keep you going, and to lose all of your work since October sounds unfathomable.

As excited as I am for the new energy and changes to the Artemis program, I am STRESSING OUT with it right now. I was almost done with my 90 minute deep dive on Artemis, making predictions and laying out what options there are, and now almost everything I've shot has to be redone to said "has been" or "was", it's 7 pages of reshooting / re-editing / re-animating. I've been working on this since October. Almost had it done before Astro Awards in January, but then that took over, picked up work on it after wards, and it's almost all a big fat redo at this point. It is fun seeing the original script and seeing that things I talk about like replacing EUS with Centaur V, stopping work on ML2, cancelling Gateway are all seeming to happen. Now we'll have to see if my HLS ideas come to fruition too... I just have to get this done before any more changes are made there 😅 Wish me luck!