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John Quin

@JohnQuin72

Adelaide, South Australia Katılım Ekim 2011
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Race@multiplanet1·
There is a room inside SpaceX that fewer than 20 people have ever entered. It has no official name. Employees call it the Vault. There are no windows. One door. No phones allowed inside. No laptops. No recording devices. A Faraday cage built into the walls blocks all wireless signals. What happens inside that room has shaped more of the modern world than most people will ever know. This is where Musk makes his actual decisions. Not in board meetings. Not on Twitter. Not in the public interviews where he says provocative things and the media argues about whether he's a genius or a villain. Those are theater. Necessary theater, but theater. The real decisions happen in a room with no signal, no recording, and no audience. Every major SpaceX milestone was decided there first. The decision to attempt landing a rocket on a drone ship. The decision to build Starship out of steel instead of carbon fiber when every engineer said steel was outdated. The decision to build Starlink. The decision to bid on military contracts that Boeing and Lockheed had monopolized for decades. Each of these decisions looked insane from the outside. Each one was the product of hours in a room with no noise. Musk has talked about this principle indirectly. Never naming the room. But describing why it exists. He said the quality of a decision is inversely proportional to the number of people in the room when it's made. He said most CEOs make their worst decisions in meetings and their best decisions alone. The room is his technology for being alone. In a world where every thought is interrupted by notifications, every strategy session has 15 people with competing agendas, and every CEO is performing confidence for an audience, Musk built a physical space where none of that exists. No signal means no interruption. No phones means no distraction. No audience means no performance. No recording means no self-censorship. What remains when you strip all of that away is the only thing that matters for decision making. The actual problem and your actual thinking about it. Most people have never experienced this. They think they've thought deeply about something. They haven't. They've thought about it between notifications. They've thought about it while performing thinking for an audience of colleagues. True thought requires the absence of everything except the thought itself. I don't have a Faraday cage. But I started creating my own version. Two hours per day. Phone in another room. No laptop. Just a notebook and the problem. The first week felt almost physically painful. My brain kept reaching for stimulation that wasn't there. Phantom phone checks. The urge to quickly look something up that was actually the urge to escape the discomfort of uninterrupted thought. By week three the quality of my thinking changed in ways I can measure. Solutions appeared that never surfaced during normal screen-filled days. Connections between ideas formed that couldn't form when attention was fragmented across 30 browser tabs. Most people live at 5% signal and 95% noise. They make every decision inside that noise and wonder why the decisions are mediocre. Musk built a physical space that inverts the ratio. 95% signal. 5% noise. The decisions that come from that environment are categorically different from anything the noise produces. You don't need a Faraday cage. You need two hours, a closed door, and the discipline to leave your phone in another room. The best decision you'll ever make will come from the quietest room you've ever sat in. The rockets are impressive. The room that decided to build them is the actual invention.
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Ryan Bale
Ryan Bale@rbalephoto·
Just under 4.5ft tall, fully 3D printed V3 Starship/Super Heavy
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Britta | NoSoup4Knowles
Britta | NoSoup4Knowles@nosoup4knowles·
Candace: *nuclear war on Erika* Jeremy: *confirms one fact about George* Candace: JEREMY'S TRYING TO RUIN MY LIFE
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Jason Cohen 🇺🇸
Jason Cohen 🇺🇸@JasonJournoDC·
💥NEW: Bill Maher on WHCD Shooting: "If you’re one of these people — and there’s many in this country — who watched that and was disappointed the president wasn’t killed, you’re not a good person. Or a smart person." "He's NOT Hitler!"
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Britta | NoSoup4Knowles
Britta | NoSoup4Knowles@nosoup4knowles·
If I'm wrong about Erika Kirk (I'm not), the worst I'll be guilty of is defending a woman from being tried without evidence. If you're wrong about Erika Kirk, you'll be guilty of making a widow's life a living hell after an unspeakably horrific tragedy.
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Michael Malice
Michael Malice@michaelmalice·
There's lots of people out there who still believe that Erika Kirk had nothing to do with the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Cinema Shogun
Cinema Shogun@CinemaShogun·
I don’t believe the FED SLOP narrative about Cole Allen at all. Candace Owens and George farmer both fled the country right before this attack. I think it’s possible they could be involved. Join me as I launch an 8 month investigation into what really happened. I will be making accusations framed as questions and will refer to my dreams for evidence. There’s no way I’m letting them get away with this.
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John Quin
John Quin@JohnQuin72·
@Jvnior @nikitabier Should have been demonized for trying to make me read that tome of a post
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Jvnior
Jvnior@Jvnior·
I’m going to say the truth. I’m a Muslim Palestinian on X. Yesterday my X payouts went from $8,000 every 2 weeks to $1,000. I complained about it to @nikitabier. Many Zionist accounts targeted me. Told him to remove my monetization. 3 hours later, my monetization is gone. Look… if it’s temporary, I get it. I deserve it. But if it’s a permanent ban, then hear me out: The rollout of creator payouts on X initially transformed the platform into a place where time invested actually paid off for many users. Engagement translated into real revenue, encouraging consistent posting, community building, and honest discourse. It rewarded creators who showed up daily, fostering an ecosystem that felt merit-based and alive. But now, the signals from the platform point in the opposite direction: reduced visibility for certain content, algorithmic tweaks that favor “original” or “high-quality” posts while punishing others, and reports of sudden drops in impressions for accounts that step outside approved lanes. We’re essentially being told we shouldn’t spend as much time here anymore, at least not in the ways that built the payout culture in the first place. That shift undermines the very incentive structure that kept users hooked and contributing. This creates a deeper problem. People won’t simply stop engaging because the algorithm or moderation policies discourage it; they’ll adapt in messy ways. Some will chase whatever metrics still reward visibility, leading to more performative, low-effort content or echo chambers. Others will grow frustrated, posting less or migrating frustrations elsewhere. The result is more division & chaos, not less. When the promise of open participation collides with opaque restrictions, whether labeled as anti-spam, anti-manipulation, or “freedom of speech, not reach”, trust erodes. Users feel gaslit: the platform profited from our time and attention when it suited growth and revenue goals, only to dial back the oxygen once that foundation was laid. We all know the trajectory this follows. It starts with throttled reach for posts that don’t align with evolving internal priorities. Then come temporary restrictions, demonetization, or “temporary labels.” Eventually, for too many, it escalates to full suspension or permanent silencing. Elon Musk positioned X as the free speech platform, a digital town square where ideas could compete without legacy gatekeepers. Yet persistent complaints about shadowbanning, especially for critics of the platform or its owner, alongside massive account suspensions (hundreds of millions cited for manipulation in recent years) and selective deboosting reveal the gap between rhetoric and reality. “Freedom of speech, not reach” sounds principled until reach becomes the quiet enforcer of conformity. Payout incentives pulled creators in; visibility controls risk pushing them out or forcing self-censorship to stay viable. That’s why I’m dropping all my links here: link.me/jvnior. I’m stepping back to focus on streaming. I will post a YouTube video that lays out everything that’s unfolded on X since January. The threats on my life, the defamation, the doxxing, the false reports, the bans. Everything. I truly appreciate every bit of support from everyone along the way. I love you all. I’m going take a break unless @nikitabier responds to me. This break is necessary for my mental health as this is weighing heavier than it should. I never did this for money. But if X genuinely wants to retain the creators who built its energy, it needs to confront whether it’s truly delivering on the free speech promise or just managing a more sophisticated version of a dictatorship. The chaos ahead won’t fix itself.
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Matthew Camenzuli
Matthew Camenzuli@Matt_Camenzuli·
Somebody made a machine that runs just like the Australian political system. Note how the blackness runs between the blue bottle and the red bottle. Note that it is a closed system. Like an infinity loop.
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Cis Siberian Orchestra
Cis Siberian Orchestra@CisSiberian·
@KingOffX_ LMAO, all of Dave Smith's friends are disappearing and he's going to realize while his friends were getting paid by the SPLC he was being retarded for free.
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King of X
King of X@KingOffX_·
Nick Fuentes fled the country. Candace Owens fled the country. Ian Carroll is 'taking a long break'. Jake Shields isn’t posting like he used to. Jackson Hinkle has clearly slowed down. So what exactly is going on with the woke right?
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Written by J.K. Rowling
Written by J.K. Rowling@rowlingmore·
‘Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.’ J.K. Rowling on Twitter/X.
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Jimmy Failla
Jimmy Failla@jimmyfailla·
The Southern Poverty Law Center is DENYING allegations that they staged hate crimes and is referring all questions to their spokesperson, Jussie Smollet.
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
Trying to do a 5K in your 40s:
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
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The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee·
Get A Look At These HORRIFYING Pictures Of What Happens When You Don't Have An Abortion buff.ly/YeojsU2
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Klara
Klara@klara_sjo·
Communists fucked up boiling water once so now we can't have cheap and efficient electricity
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Dave Rubin
Dave Rubin@RubinReport·
Which Panican wants to hand me my “I told you so” award? Trump has been running the same negotiation playbook forever. Pressure, escalation, chaos… then leverage a deal. We’ve watched it happen again and again. This wasn’t complicated. It was basic pattern recognition. While some people were panicking, others were paying attention. Now we move to Phase 2. Iran is largely neutralized. The Strait is reopening. The war is de-escalating. Markets are already reacting. That’s not a small win—that’s a global reset. This forces movement everywhere else. Russia and Ukraine get pulled closer to a real negotiation. China has to think twice about Taiwan when the U.S. just proved it will apply overwhelming pressure when it matters. And for the first time in decades, there is a real path to stepping back from endless Middle East entanglements. Look at the region. It’s no longer just Israel. You’re seeing alignment across countries that historically were nowhere near each other. The world is safer today than it was yesterday—and it’s about to get even safer over the next few months as this locks in. And yes, let’s be very clear about this: This happened because of Donald Trump. Not the pundits. Not the podcasters. Not the panic merchants. Trump. Now comes the real opportunity. With global stability improving, we can finally refocus inward at full speed. Immigration, housing, affordability, healthcare, infrastructure, AI, rebuilding American strength where it actually matters. We are entering a new American era—economically, technologically, and yes, even in space exploration. This is what the start of a new frontier feels like. So here’s the assignment: Put your phone down. Go build something. Start a family. Create. Get outside. Do something real. Stop listening to the Panicans. Onward 🇺🇸
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