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Stating that women do not have penises is conservative. Stating that the scientific method is superior to ancestral tribal dances for seeking truth is conservative. Supporting a rational immigration policy is conservative. Defending freedom of speech & freedom of inquiry is conservative. Stating that cultures that don't kill gays are superior to those that do is conservative. Basically, rationality is conservatism. Parasitic irrationality is progressivism.

Ever since I saw a photo like this in 2018 I wanted to do this. It took me 8 years, but I finally got it.

And so it begins… LA City Councilmen Hugo Soto Martinez & Ysabel Jurado have unveiled a plan to let "noncitizens" VOTE in LA elections There are 1.5 million noncitizens in LA 15% of their entire population

US fertility rates just hit another record low In 2025, the US general fertility rate fell to 53.1 - the lowest level ever recorded Japan, South Korea, and Germany have already been shrinking for years. Japan has been shrinking for years, South Korea’s population has already started to decline, and Germany would be shrinking without immigration Now the UK joins them - deaths will outnumber births every single year starting in 2026 No economy grows without people No pension system survives without young workers No culture persists without families having children This is the slowest civilizational crisis in human history

xAI has Released Voice Cloning in API Console in US 🇺🇸

Starlink is seriously just awesome.

The dangerous notion that all people are interchangeable stems from the blank slate myth. Excellent IQ post, Penny. Great work.

This release shows increased cost efficiency to run the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with Grok 4.3 sitting comfortably on the Pareto frontier for intelligence versus cost Driven by 37.5% lower input token prices and 58.3% lower output token prices, it costs $395 to run the Intelligence Index evaluations, an overall ~20% decrease from Grok 4.20 0309 v2

Our new 125 kW Basecharger is designed for longer dwell times and overnight charging of Semis. It's the "home charging" for heavy-duty fleets. It features a fully integrated design that eliminates the need for a separate AC-to-DC cabinet, simplifying installation. The 6 meter cable offers layout flexibility for all depots. Up to 3 Basechargers can be daisy-chained on a single breaker (sharing 125 kVA) to further reduce installation and operational costs.

I'm discovering the use of agent mode on Grok Imagine. It's a revolution in the use of generative AI.

Today is the start of a very important day in the AI world... the trial between Elon and Sam/OpenAI begins today in Oakland Federal Court. The jury selection is happening right now in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and opening arguments are expected Tuesday. The civil jury trial is projected to last 2-4 weeks, with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers making the final call. So let me tell you why this fight all came about. 1/ In 2015 Elon co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and others as a nonprofit to develop artificial general intelligence safely and openly for the benefit of all humanity... this was supposed to NOT be for profit or for closed corporate control. Elon was a major early funder, contributing around $38-44 million (~60% of early seed funding) plus resources like compute and recruiting. 2/ Then, Elon left the board in 2018 over disagreements for the direction of the company and Microsoft’s growing role of the company. 3/ Later, OpenAI took billions from Microsoft, restructured with a for-profit arm, initially “capped profit,” now more commercial... went closed-source in practice, and exploded in value with ChatGPT. FYI, the current valuation of OpenAI now sits at ~$852 billion and the company recently completed restructuring with a for-profit entity reporting into a nonprofit foundation. Now, with the trial, Elon is saying Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI breached the founding charitable trust and agreement by turning it into a “wealth machine” that prioritizes profits and insiders over the original mission. He claims they deceived him about their plans... This lawsuit was originally filed in November 2024, was withdrawn, and then revived in early 2026. And just this Friday, April 24, Elon voluntarily dropped the fraud claims to “streamline” the case and keep the jury focused on the mission issue... proceeding on breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment. This is what Elon is looking to get back from Sam and OpenAI: a/ substantial damages, with stakes in the $100B+ range, with many reports saying it's in the range of ~$134B and the winnings will be given to the nonprofit/charity arm and will NOT benefit Elon personally b/ possible unwinding/restructuring to restore the original nonprofit mission c/ leadership changes (e.g., getting rid of Altman/Brockman from key roles). On the other side, OpenAI is claiming: a/ Elon knew about and once supported commercialization steps, saying he even explored merging with Tesla or gaining control himself b/ OpenAI calls the suit competitive sabotage from rival Elon's company xAI and says this is driven by jealousy over OpenAI’s success This is SUCH an important trial in the world of AI... people may not fully understand. The reason is bc Elon has repeatedly warned that profit-driven, closed-source AGI is very dangerous. This is his chance to enforce the original “benefit humanity” mission he helped create and walked away from in 2018. A big win will hurt OpenAI’s valuation, upcoming IPO plans, Microsoft partnership, and market dominance/customer perspective of the company... and this will also force real changes in how the world’s leading AI lab operates, influencing the entire AI race and future regulations. For me, Sam Altman straight up CANNOT be trusted with the future of AGI, and this trial proves why Elon was right to fight it. This is the same guy who got fired by his own board in 2023 for not being “consistently candid,” then crawled back in and turned the nonprofit “open for humanity” promise into a closed-source, Microsoft-bankrolled profit machine worth hundreds of billions. Elon was the one who put up the early cash and vision to keep AI safe and beneficial for all of us... not to create a trillion-dollar insider club. If Altman gets away with rewriting the rules after the fact, it sets a dangerous precedent that mission-driven tech is just marketing fluff. I believe Elon isn’t doing this for ego or rivalry... he’s really doing it bc someone has to hold the line before profit-over-people AGI becomes unstoppable. This one’s personal for the man who actually wants to understand the universe instead of just cashing in on it. Humanity needs Elon to win. And that's who I'm rooting for!

Today marks the start of the Elon Musk v.Sam Altman trial. Two opposing worldviews. Sam Altman transformed a non-profit organization into one of the world's most profitable companies for his own enrichment. Elon Musk, who did everything he could to limit the development of AI and, faced with a wall of incomprehension, launched Grok to offer a solution that puts the search for truth at the heart of its search engine. The trial is of paramount importance. Elon Musk has already stated that, in the event of a victory, any proceeds he receives will be donated to a charity. I don't know about you, but for the good of humanity, I hope Elon Musk wins. Verdict on May 12th

Sam Altman cannot be trusted. • The OpenAI board fired him because he was not always honest with them. They said he should not control powerful AI. • A major report talked to over 100 people and saw secret papers. It says he has almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the truth. People who worked with him say he lies easily but still wants everyone to like him. • Top scientist Ilya made 70 pages of notes before the firing. They showed Sam was not honest with the team and board about safety rules. • He changed OpenAI from a nonprofit that Elon helped start to a for profit money making business. It was meant to be open for everyone with no personal gain. • He trained OpenAI on Twitter data without permission. • He keeps lying and shows a lack of transparency. • He poached xAI staff and took sensitive info illegally. • He dropped core safety promises to race for growth and money. Old team members say his big expensive AI projects around the world are too dangerous. • An ex OpenAI board member flat out called him a liar. This is not just talk. It is what the people closest to him said and what the facts show. When the folks who worked with him say he cannot be trusted.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

From space to your phone, Starlink Mobile is now available to deliver data, voice, video, and messaging to @docomo customers in Japan 🛰️❤️📱

Elon Musk turned down all shares when he left OpenAI because he believed nonprofits are not meant for self-enrichment. "The reason I founded OpenAI was because I was concerned, based on my conversations with Larry Page, that he was not sufficiently concerned about the dangers of AI. At my birthday party, he, in front of a large group of people, called me a speciesist, for favoring humanity over computers. So after that, I was like, We got to have some counterbalance to Google, because Larry doesn't seem to care if humans make it or not. So I thought, what's the opposite of Google? It would be an open source nonprofit, and that's where the word open, in OpenAI comes from. It means open source. I provided all the money, recruited the key people, and taught them everything I know. I actually even got them to deal with Microsoft. And for all that, I did not seek any financial reward whatsoever. The reason I actually took down the offer for shares is because, I mean, I felt like what are the shares, and why like nonprofits supposed to have shares? Nonprofits are not supposed to be self enrichment, so that's why I turned on the offer of shares." — Elon Musk

The advantage of having eyes all around

Cole Allen didn’t need to go down a fringe rabbit hole to become radicalized. He just needed to believe the MSM’s inflammatory rhetoric, lies, and hoaxes about Trump.

The main difference between Elon Musk and Sam Altman: Elon Musk actually changes the world for the better and saves lives: Tesla accelerates clean energy and has saved thousands of lives on the roads. SpaceX is making humanity multi-planetary. Starlink connects and saves millions in wars and disasters. Neuralink gives hope to the paralyzed. He pays a very heavy personal price for it — endless attacks, lawsuits, media smears, and a broken personal life. Sam Altman? He mostly just takes. His technology (ChatGPT) still struggles to genuinely help people with real problems — hallucinations, lies, and fabrications instead of real answers. He turned OpenAI from “for the benefit of humanity” into a profit machine. And the suspicious death of whistleblower researcher Suchir Balaji, who was highly critical of OpenAI, still raises serious unanswered questions. One builds the future and saves lives. The other takes the money and plays games.

We have a left-wing violence problem in America. After 3x attempts on Trump, Charlie, Kavanaugh, Scalise and more… I wake up everyday with a knot in my stomach about what will happen next.