Michael Mauldin

Just wanted to remind people on X that my real focus is on astrophotography. lazytoad.com/astronomy/inde…

@lucyshow11 In Texas in the 1970s we had an undergraduate pub at Rice called "Sammy's". The drinking age was still 18. I drank Coors and Guinness, until I became a tea-totaller.

You’re in high school in the 70s/80s what’s your choice of beer? 🍺

@james_xond I'd quit if the boss failed to do so... I have an overly sensitive nose, and mold, perfume, and volatiles bother me. So it's me or the french ... perfume wearer.

Do you think a boss has the right to tell an employee to stop wearing a certain perfume because coworkers find the smell too strong or distracting?

@ketsuko243 @CynicalPublius @TheShadowIntelX I couldn't agree more. I was in universities between 1977 and 1989.

@TeamToad @CynicalPublius @TheShadowIntelX That only works so long as you actually are clustering smart people. Today, anyone and everyone goes, so you are just getting a rehash of high school. I gave up on college chem because my lab partner mouth-pipetted and no one in the lab taught her not to.

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on

@CynicalPublius @TheShadowIntelX For me the value of a university is clustering smart people together so they interact. I learned from the people around me. Getting the credential was useful later in getting my invention funded by a venture capital company, so it was not worthless.

@TheShadowIntelX It's a very interesting concept, but in some educational endeavors facilities are a prerequisite--medicine, dentistry, much of the sciences. You need subjects, instruments, sophisticated test equipment, etc. But in the liberal arts? Elon is 100% right.

I worked in HR for years. They don't do any fucking work st all.

What is one you are CERTAIN is actually true?

@StefanMolyneux So there's 32,000 of me in the USA alone.

That's why they get paid so much

@elonmusk Congratulations! Great flight.

@0hour1 Fuzzy

What’s your nickname?

@GuntherEagleman @amyklobuchar @atrupar @grok How much is it worth to keep Iran from dropping nukes on us?

@amyklobuchar @atrupar Hey @Grok, how much American tax payer money did Amy Klobuchar vote to send to Ukraine?

Trump’s war with Iran has cost Americans more than $42 billion in gas and diesel costs. That’s more than $300 per family. Not peanuts.

@kaaaash____ Cows are easier.

Be honest, Why is every software engineer’s backup plan always farming?

@JohnCornyn This is day 142 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

“The single most important piece of legislation that we the American people want is the SAVE America Act.” “We are not a free nation if we do not have free & fair elections.” 👉Today is the LAST day to vote early for Ken Paxton👈 Go vote!

@Notwokenow Ranked choice voting in theory allows to to have all the "runoffs" in advance. "I like Adam, but if Adam doesn't win, my second choice is Bob." In a country where people wouldn't buy a 1/3rd pound hamburger because they thought it was smaller than a quarter pounder, it fails.

When and why did rank choice voting start happening? We don’t have that in Kentucky so I don’t really understand it.

@MadisonCercy1 @ddupont1227 It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act!

I caught this image of the ngVLA dish talking to one of the older dishes at the @TheNRAO two days ago.

@GavinNewsom We’ve had enough fires, thanks though.

@AWRHawkins I like my left-handed Remington 700 Varmint Rifle in 308 Winchester. Comes with a trained GSD spotter!

Your favorite bolt action rifle?

All the Senate had to do was pass the SAVE America Act.