John Beans

I got my glider rating in California’s wine country, which is a beautiful place to fly. But the Alps are on a whole other level. During one flight this week I started in Innsbruck, Austria. I turned the engine off above the airport and soared to Germany, over to Switzerland, through Italy before returning to Austria to turn on the engine and land later in the day. Just an amazing area to soar in. Has to be the best way to see the Alps. Will be back!

Banger 🤣🤣

@shaunmmaguire yep it went from “very good” to “always leave it on”

Tesla FSD had its "Claude Code Moment" at the exact same time (roughly last Nov - Jan) Somehow folks are sleeping on the former, while being aware of the latter My wife and I bought two Teslas over the last quarter because of FSD IT'S INSANE 🚀 (...Next up, the Grok Moment?)

@elonmusk @PeterDiamandis meet george jetson

@PeterDiamandis Amazing Abundance is pretty compelling

Humanity's greatest need right now, beyond new tech, is HOPE. A compelling, abundant vision of the future that people WANT to live in.

@pmarca marc, they are obviously rent-seeking so come up with some rent (for all of us) please and thank you

Concerning.

@LimitingThe that's too bad, you're one of the best in terms of technical content and judgement

Nailed it. My motivation on X has been killed the last month. I feel like I've been disconnected from the Tesla community in terms of content consumption and interaction. And as a frequent poster, sometimes a high quality post will do a decent number of views, but other times it won't get any. Sometimes an emoji will perform better than thoughtful analysis.

@battleangelviv I do wish it was more obvious when you're on (or off) FSD. Been saying that for years. I'd like to see a big, reassuring blue border around the whole screen when FSD is engaged. And I say this as someone who never wants to own a car without FSD.

believe the actual data not false clickbait headlines

@elonmusk @wholemars I say this as someone who would never buy a car w/o FSD: I have never understood why the FSD UI is so understated (and thus so subtle when it is disengaged). I'd prefer a big blue border around the entire screen when it is engaged. Glaring? Maybe. Reassuring? Definitely!

@wholemars As anyone knows who uses it, that video is not how Autopilot drives

This means that the entire video shown by Fox News depicts manual driving, as it only starts about 4 seconds before the collision

FIREFLY ANNOUNCEMENT PANEL – Awesome Con 2026 youtu.be/ou27uZqQJaQ?si… via @YouTube

@pmarca @elonmusk GSD is rarer than you’d think

There is no substitute for the person who Knows What To Do.

@mattvanswol @DataRepublican @HistoryBoutique 96% of what’s important isn’t politics. Hard work, trust, love, generosity, curiosity, kindness, honesty.

First of all… I love you. Second of all… no one talks about it how hard it is for liberal women who become conservatives. I watched you lose almost all your friends within a matter of a few months. But I’ve also seen you make new, better friends. We went to church. We volunteered more. We invested in community. But yes, liberals have demonized us and you, particularly, have had to bear the brunt of it. I hope more conservative women, in particular, are more outspoken. Erin will never admit this, but she has struggled far more than I have because she lost more friends (white liberal women) than I have. I’m sorry for that babe, but many friends were never friends to begin with if they left because of politics.

I had a bad day. Why am I smiling? I assure you, my soul is smiling, even brighter. Really, I had a hard few days. I saw many people in the past 3 days who used to be close friends and now ignore me. Friends whose babies I treated like my own. I very rarely cry and today for the most part I haven’t been able to stop. This is not why I’m writing. For no reason I can discern, I decided to go out in the garden and plant a native plant. I’ve been meaning to add this to one of my beds. I dug my hole, supplemented my soil, pulled the weeds around the area so it could thrive, and planted my plant. I turned to grab my hose so I could water the area and I heard HORSE trotting. i’ve never heard horse trotting around my house and I love horses as much as I love golden retrievers, which is saying a lot. I ran up to my fence and peeked my head over and what do I see… I see a young man with a cowboy hat, riding a horse in a slow trot, right behind my house. The joy, the peace, the childlike wonder I experienced in that moment was God. I’ve been talking to him all day. Praying that he help me let go of this pain and resentment I have for people who cut me out of their lives. (That is their right.) I have prayed to let go of this for months. Yet still, I dream about the friends that I lost and constantly stress about seeing them. I don’t know how to explain it, but the minute I finished planting that plant and saw that horse and listened to his trot that he seemed so proud to display and the cowboy that was in an unbreakable trance, since that moment I have been at peace. This is just a reminder to everyone that God is everywhere. He’s there to help you heal. You just have to be quiet, listen, and follow.

@Bob_Wachter Right there with ya

I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

The crazy bastard is actually doing it 😁 Buckle up!

@MatthewBerman Never forget The Bitter Lesson, for one thing.

Meta and xAI still not reaching the frontier. There are literally just a few dozen people who are capable of building frontier models. And the snowball effect of building a model that builds the next model is powerful. How does anyone catch up?

@micheal_ws18 there's tons of free stuff no one hits (push ups, walking)

Do you think more people would actually hit the gym if it was free for everyone?

@wintonARK "Big companies have lots of people, focused on a few well-supported projects. With AI, the company can more easily support more diverse projects with fewer people, and some of those people could leave and do their own projects elsewhere."

imagine you are a large public company CEO trying to manage expectations and results given your competitive position you have large portfolios of things you can generate yield from but it's hard to really motivate the workforce against things individually marginal to results (despite their being good and useful to the world.) even needle-moving opportunities you may pump the brakes on if you want to retain an option value on those prospective results since Wall Street rewards smooth-predictability over maximizing present value. you effectively hoard a knowledge workforce that can't be appropriately motivated to exploit all your angles, either due to external or internal constraints. and you are fine doing so, since many of the opportunities that you're neglecting are only available to an enterprise with your scale, distribution and resources (and you can see the obvious opportunities even if you can't get the workforce aligned on exploiting them.) now that AI is here, the pressure is on to right-size, so you cut heads since many of the workers weren't doing as much as they could have anyway (in part due to internal and external friction against pursuing those ancillary opportunities.) BUT, AI is here which allows under-resourced and subscale teams to attack those very opportunities that were previously only the provenance of incumbents. Those laid-off employees spill into a marketplace awash with entrepreneurial opportunities. Rather than working the internal politics to try to lever open a market that won't really directly impact their personal bottomline, those same workers can nimbly attack that same market and capture much more of the prospective benefit. People ask where the jobs will come from. Every day you can see the opportunity in the inane infuriating friction dealing with incumbent providers of goods and services. The world is heavily heavily under-softwared. That the incumbent response to the AI productivity advance may be to toss off a million entrepreneurial sparks... Is not bad for employment; it's good. That it may grow into a conflagration that consumes those same incumbents is a fairly delicious irony.

Do they have the same variety of amino acids as beef? Key Amino Acid Profile in Beef (Approx. per 300g raw 90% lean) Lysine: ~4974 mg (supports tissue repair) Leucine: ~4680 mg (key for muscle protein synthesis) Valine: ~2949 mg (BCAA) Isoleucine:~2655 mg (BCAA) Threonine: ~2325 mg Phenylalanine: ~2343 mg Histidine: ~1950 mg Methionine: ~1545 mg Tryptophan: ~306 mg

Since the first $325,000 lab-grown burger in 2013, prototype lab-grown meat costs have fallen by about 99–99.9%, to around $10–20 per burger.  I've tried them, and they taste just like real meat!

@LimitingThe it can be a little silo-y, tbh

Whenever I talk to people who use other information sources, I can feel the vast information gulf.

@DeadCaitBounce exact same energy

Believing Claude finds your questions insightful is like believing the stripper actually likes you

@LimitingThe How do you square this with patent openness?

Dry electrode coating is an important technology, I'm glad Tesla is going after Matthews International.

@micsolana prime example of unenforceable law

gavin newsom really said 'hey boys, heard you just got some VC funding - quick question, you suck dick?'