(((Charles Fishman))) 💧

(thread) The idea that going to the Moon was expensive, a big show that led nowhere, gave us nothing but Tang and Velcro — that's all silliness, even if it is the conventional wisdom. We misunderstand Apollo, almost completely.

@MarisaMarucci @united Just got the bag fee refunded. There is some justice in this world.

Petraeus: The U.S. has used many advanced munitions and missile interceptors. It has to get the arsenal of democracy going again. Right now, the arsenal of democracy is in Ukraine, not the United States. 4X

Petraeus: Tanks cannot maneuver anymore. Armored vehicles cannot survive. You cannot even drive vehicles in the 35-km death zone on either side of the front, because drones can fly into trenches and kill people. This is a vast change. 2/

Petraeus: The U.S. has not remotely learned the lessons it should from Ukraine. This is the future of war: Ukraine alone uses 10,000 drones a day, and 90% of Russian casualties are caused by drones. That should force institutional change. 1/

Thinking about death and dying. This Kyle Busch story is so sad. Prayers for him and his family. A few things to take away. First, the way you think you'll die is rarely how it will happen. A good friend is a doctor. He once told me that the number of times a patient passes from a heart attack but it ends up they also had cancer is wild. It's crazy that a guy who spent a huge part of his life driving crowded ovals at 190 mph succumbed to what started as a head cold. Second, infections are scary as hell and they're getting more dangerous (and more common) all the time. I've fought some crazy infections, most from trail run wipeouts, and it's wild how quickly they can set in. My worst was actually from a dog scratch. I was play-fighting with my lab and she scratched me. The tiniest scratch you can imagine. Literally a SPECK of blood on my arm. Knowing I get infections, I immediately cleaned it, doused it with alcohol, then Bacitracin. My SOP. No matter. Still got infected. I also watched my mom spiral with a hospital staph infection after surgery a couple years ago. Came within an inch of losing her and it set in FAST. Lots of reasons infections are becoming more common and more dangerous, including global antibiotic overuse. The lesson: take cuts and scratches seriously and pretty much expect you'll get an infection if you spend any time as an inpatient at a hospital. Infections are lethal and becoming more so. Third and final point. You are the ONLY true advocate for your health. If you're fighting something, don't be the hero. Take the time to get healthy. It's easy to say, hard to do. We all try to push through and make the flight, lead the meeting, etc. despite being under the weather. I'm not saying you should unplug with every sniffle, of course, but recognize we can (and often do) make matters worse by fighting through. Something pretty innocuous turns into something worse and costs us more if we don't listen to our body, even more so as you hit 40, 50 and beyond. Life is weird, man. You never know when your number is going to be called. Busch's story is an extreme example and a wake-up call for all of us. So sorry for his family's loss. 🙏

the funniest part of replacing receptionists with AI will be realizing nobody actually documented half the things jessica the front desk person just magically handled every day.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Can someone explain to me how an H1B visa holder can leave their job to go back the their country of origin to apply for permanent residency and somehow keep the job that qualified them for the H1B? I’m so confused

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT" WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

Holy moly! I finally got around to looking at SpaceX $SPCX filings for IPO...how the heck is SpaceX doing THIS BAD financially!? - 2025 Revenue growth was just 33% - In Q1 2026 Revenue growth has slowed to just 15%! 🤯 - X + xAI + Grok had a COMBINED 2025 Revenue of just $3.2 Billion. Twitter, BY ITSELF, before Elon bought it had $5 Billion+ in annual revenue! So Elon has managed to combine Twitter with xAI+Grok and still REDUCED Twitter revenue by 40% in 3 years! 🤯🤯 Mind. Blown! If it wasn't for the xAI deal with Anthropic, which is estimated to be worth ~$15 Billion per year, SpaceX would be TOAST! My read on this is that Anthropic, the company that Elon was making fun of until 2 months ago, just saved @elonmusk's SpaceX! @DarioAmodei should've asked for 10% of SpaceX for that deal! It's safe to say I will be requesting exactly -0- shares of the SpaceX IPO. I think I'm going to get all the shares I want! P.S. despite the abysmal financials, SpaceX is an absolutely amazing company - StarLink, Falcon 9 and if Starship gets working, are all absolutely incredible achievements of humanity - big fan of the company - not the stock or the $1.7 Trillion+ valuation!

It looks like the newly renovated Freedom Plaza is getting even more new statues. The one on horseback was planned, but there are now a dozen more statues lining the northern and southern edges of the plaza.

@maustermuhle We are in a golden age of statues. There may be some deals ahead in the secondary market.

@maustermuhle It needs fucking trees. This "plaza" is awful in the summer. There is no escape from the sun.

@ChrisCillizza don't make me defend Trump, but it's pretty clear that he was referring to his future daughter in law when he said that.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

@JoyceWhiteVance The people Trump wants to pay were convicted by juries or pled guilty before judges. The Biden DOJ didn't decide they were guilty. The criminal justice system did. The $1.8 billion rewards those convictions. That is what "weaponization" actually means in this settlement.

6/ Nvidia makes 75% profit on every item it sells, on average. Walmart makes 3%. It's a funny world — capitalism. I'm glad Nvidia exists. But I'm also glad Walmart exists (in the big picture), and glad they're willing to work so hard for 1/25th the profit of Nvidia. # # #

5/ Even if Nvidia grows revenue by 85% again between this year & next…a year from now, it will still be a little smaller than Walmart in total sales. Nvidia will soon be bigger than Walmart, of course. It's profitability dwarfs Walmart. As does its market cap. —>

4/ Those numbers show how crazy profitable NVDA's artificial intelligence chip business is. But they also show the mind-boggling scale of WMT. For every $100 in revenue NVDA has, WMT has $233. NVDA selling products that cost $45,000 for one. WMT's average product: $4.15. —>