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@AdamRose_RE This is a game changer. Listen to what and how he finds a VA. And where. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fra…

@liorsela I also hate the periodic schedule to see my mechanics “friends”, doesn’t happen anymore. 😔

Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes once said he lives below the poverty line by choice. While dating the richest man alive, she watched him live like a broke college student. No house. No possessions. Same meals every day. Sleeping wherever the factory needed him that week. She said she once realized she hadn't seen him eat sitting down in three days. She said something that stuck with me. He doesn't experience pleasure from things. Not cars. Not houses. Not luxury. The only thing that produces visible joy is progress. A rocket landing. A production target hit. His face would change when a test succeeded in a way it never changed for anything else. Including her. This is why SpaceX sends a stuffed mascot named Asteroid to space. A normal CEO would think it's unprofessional. Musk does it because even a toy leaving Earth is progress. The mission includes everything. Even play. Most people work to fund comfort. The comfort becomes the point. The work becomes the cost. Musk eliminated the gap entirely. Every dollar, every hour goes to the mission. Nothing leaks. The thing you think you want is not the thing that makes you extraordinary. The willingness to stop wanting it is.

@elonmusk And on Mars and the Moon.

Boring Company’s goal is to solve traffic in cities and one day build Hyperloop high-speed transit between city centers

@HustleBitch_ Next analyze how current dealerships actually sell maintenance services. There’s no incentive to make vehicles not have maintenance

🚨 FORMER TESLA PRESIDENT ADMITS ELON USED THE DOMINO’S PIZZA APP TO REINVENT HOW PEOPLE BUY CARS — AND THE STORY IS BLOWING PEOPLE’S MINDS Former Tesla president Jon McNeill is going viral after revealing the bizarre moment Elon Musk pulled up the Domino’s pizza app during a meeting… because Tesla customers needed 64 CLICKS just to buy a car online. Elon’s reaction? “How many taps does it take to get a pizza?” Answer: • 10 taps Buying a Tesla at the time? • 64 clicks • endless loan documents • nonstop forms • massive friction Elon became obsessed with stripping the process down after realizing most of the paperwork wasn’t even legally required. So Tesla started going bank-to-bank asking: Why does buying a car need to feel harder than ordering dinner? Most banks reportedly refused to cooperate. Then one Midwest bank CEO finally agreed to test a radically simplified system… and Tesla allegedly eliminated around 40 clicks from the process almost overnight. Now people online are saying this perfectly explains why Tesla disrupted the entire auto industry while traditional dealerships kept drowning customers in paperwork, waiting rooms, and sales tactics. Did Tesla accidentally expose how outdated the entire car dealership model really was? 📹: kencoleman

Let's talk about Cuba. Take away the Soviet checks, the Venezuelan oil, the Chinese rescue boats and the Iranian friends. What is actually left? An island with nothing to sell and nobody left to pay the bill. No oil worth seizing. No industry worth taking. No strategic mineral buried under the sugarcane. By every material measure that a normal country is judged on, Cuba leads nowhere. It is a sixty year money sink that bled every patron foolish enough to adopt it, and then outlived them. So you might be asking, why has Trump set his sights on it? Why is Marco Rubio counting the minutes like a man watching the last grains run out of an hourglass he flipped over himself? Why are they even bothering? Not for what's under the ground, for sure. There's nothing under the ground. They're going after what's above it. Because Cuba was never a country to the people who ran it. It was a billboard. The single surviving advertisement that filthy communism could plant itself ninety miles from the most powerful nation on earth and refuse to die. That was the whole product. Not sugar. Not rum. Not nickel. The export *was* the communism. Cuba sold the world a story that communism could outlast America, and for sixty years it kept that story on life support so every campus radical and every jungle guerrilla and every tin pot revolutionary had a poster to point at, while the island was crumbling under the weight of the Castro regime. That propaganda abomination is about to die and I, for one, couldn't be happier about it. You cannot sell the dream of the worker's paradise while the workers cook on firewood in the street and the hospitals run on flashlights. What is collapsing on Cuba, besides the buildings and the barely functioning cars, is the last functioning piece of evidence that the filthiest idea of the last century ever worked anywhere. Cuba's only real export was communism, and it's about to be permanently discontinued. And the world will be lighter for it.

Here's the simple reason ruminant meat (beef, lamb) is metabolically superior to monogastric meat (chicken, pork). Monogastrics store whatever they're fed. Grain goes in, linoleic acid ends up in the fat. Pork fat now runs around 20% PUFA. Chicken fat around 25%. The bird and the pig are, in 2026, walking vehicles for the seed oils they were finished on. Ruminants are built differently. The four-chambered stomach biohydrogenates polyunsaturated fats, converting unstable plant oils into stable saturated and monounsaturated fats before the fat is ever laid down. Grain in. Beef fat still around 2-4% PUFA. The cow eats the seed oil substrate and quietly disarms it on the way through. The pig and the chicken eat it and pass it on to whoever is eating them next. Beef and lamb: built-in detox. Pork and chicken: storage tanks for the food system you were trying to avoid. If you've cut seed oils out of the cupboard but you're still eating chicken every day, the bottle isn't gone. It's just on a plate.

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

@alt_w_v_g @SantiagoAuFund Difference between an education & schooling…

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week She said the campus was beautiful I asked what's the tuition She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost I made a note She said don't make a note I said I always make notes She said this isn't a deal I said everything is a deal She closed her eyes She said we'd discuss it Saturday I agreed Saturday 7:02am She came downstairs in her Saturday robe Coffee in hand I had my cargo shorts on The dining room had been cleared The projector was on The analyst was at the head of the table Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops He had been there since 6:44am I texted him at 11:14pm Friday The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped in the doorway She said what is this I said you said you wanted to discuss it She said this is not a discussion I did not respond She sat down anyway The analyst stood He said good morning ma'am She did not respond He sat back down A printed deck in front of each seat A fourth copy in case Slide 1 Tuition Schedule $38,500 per year Thirteen years $500,500 nominal Before escalators The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade With escalators $648,000 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Opportunity Cost Even before escalators $38,500 invested annually 10% nominal return S&P long-run average since 1928 By his eighteenth birthday $944,000 My wife said we can afford it I said I know that's not the slide Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65 $83 million She was quiet The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table 8% return $31 million 10% return $83 million 12% return $222 million She did not look She said this isn't about money I said it's always about money She said no it isn't I said then what is it about She did not answer She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment I said I can the analyst already did slide 6 He flipped to slide 6 She did not look She said the school is the best in the city I said best is a feeling She said it produces the best students I said the students were already the best before they got there She said our son deserves it I said our son deserves $83 million My son walked in He is five Dinosaur pajamas He looked at the projector He looked at the open deck on the table He looked at slide 3 He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax The analyst opened a new tab My wife looked at the ceiling He said what's the discount rate The analyst set down his pen She closed her eyes He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation The analyst stopped typing He looked at me I did not say anything She stood up Sat back down He said dad can I help I said yes He pulled up a chair The analyst handed him a printout He started reading My wife watched him read She watched him for a long time She said his name He looked up She said do you like school He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions She did not respond She looked at the ceiling She walked out of the room The analyst started packing up He said should I follow up Monday sir I said no follow up needed He'll be fine Sent from my iPhone

@SebastianS27675 @newstart_2024 @buckedup I can see that, but I trust bucked up & I can taste the creatine when eating them

@White_RhinoCap @newstart_2024 @buckedup I believe it was during this appearance on Diary of a CEO that Rhonda Patrick cited a study showing creatine gummies on the market have almost no creatine in them. Had something to do with difficulty in dosing when dealing with gummy.

Rhonda Patrick dropped a wild science nugget on Diary of a CEO. It made me rewind twice. After 21 hours with zero sleep, a single high dose of creatine (~25-30g or 0.35 g/kg) didn’t just fix the brain fog. It made people perform better than when fully rested. (Key 2024 study by Gordji-Nejad et al. using brain imaging.) I’ve powered through too many all-nighters on caffeine and stubbornness. This felt like a real cheat code. It makes you wonder what else our biology can do with the right fuel. Would you try a high-dose creatine reset on your roughest sleep-deprived days? Or does 25-30g sound insane?

@Alan_X @elonmusk Rocket fuselage still have residual propellant inside even after even 98-99% empty. We destroyed to kill somebody a FROG II missile fuselage in Iraq in 2003 and the explosion was bigger than the C4 we placed on it.

@elonmusk I watched it from start to finish. I was amazed as to how quickly it cleared the launch pad and how fast it was! The satellite deployment system was very creative! The landing caught me off guard though. It was a nice easy touchdown but why did it explode when it fell over??

@elonmusk Wow to be in there & be apart of that team!

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink For the dumbfucks, it’s not designed to survive tip overs in the ocean. The explosion is expected. The point was a pinpoint flip and splashdown on target. Which it did. Thus it’s a success.

@patel_patriot @RISEAttireUS 🤣 the hair it’s in the hair

Marco Rubio finding he has to be the new DNI (H/T @RISEAttireUS for making this for me)

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system. The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned. King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable. Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure. The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning. The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

@unusual_whales Explain it to me like I’m 5….

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A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub. The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at sci-bot.ru and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet. Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years. Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker. Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field. And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once. She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science. The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually. So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it. The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy. That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done. 15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights. Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. Sci-hub.se. Sci-hub.ru. Sci-hub.ee. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up. Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science. She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport. The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about. She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall. Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious. What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing. Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page. A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on. The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down. She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.

@Codie_Sanchez #367 reason I hated working at corporate jobs.

Life without HR at your company.