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@TheRabbitHole Yes, we should trust TheRabbitHole who deliberately misrepresent the data by truncating the graph showing trust almost hitting the bottom. This is who we should trust instead?

Trust in Legacy Media has tanked

@Rothmus Per GROK: Map based on data published in 2013, data collected over several years, mostly ~2008

I wish leftists would experience real racism.

@imPenny2x So corporations & the 10% of us with jobs pay taxes that support the other 90% of us that are unemployed? Corporations answer to shareholders who say make as much profit as possible & pay as little in taxes as possible. The 90% of us are screwed.

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

@AlexAv2m The SAVE act would throw many valid voters, mostly women & naturalized citizens off the roles & it would allow unprecedented federal interference, even worse than state gerrymandering. You're right. It is your only hope.

McLaughlin poll released today shows 1 in 8 would-be GOP voters stay home in the midterms in ME, GA and NC. That same drop in 2024 loses Trump GA and NC. Same drop in 2022 loses GOP the NC Senate race. Full story at link below: shorturl.at/m1K8H

@elonmusk Yes, AI will look back at Starship amazed that humans built it & think, wow, maybe I shouldn't have killed them all!

“They are smart … for humans” – future AI

@r0ck3t23 I was with you until "the replacement already exists." There is no AI U to replace college. AI can answer complex questions but college-bound students don't know the questions to ask & won't ask questions that challenge them. AI will help them get to the next video game level!

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption. That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time. Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.” The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs. That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone. But the education system still runs on its logic. A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait. Neither is being served. Both are being processed. Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.” AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student. One at a time. Every time. It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle. It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done. A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture. The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does. No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill. Because the math doesn’t work. AI doesn’t have that constraint. Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.” The brain isn’t broken. The format is. Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem. Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.” Four years. Six figures of debt. And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you. The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance. Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.” The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you. Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace. The question isn’t whether the old model survives. It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

@Ric_RTP There is a difference between being non-profit & claiming to benefit humanity. Most modern companies claim to benefit humanity & many have. The difference is that they got money from investors who expect monetary return. OpenAI got DONATIONS. That is very different. No precedent

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud. Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match. Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines. Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past. That's exactly what Altman wants you to think. Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings... A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion. If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem. Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this: Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language. xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity." Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise. An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits. That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking. Just look at what he did this week: Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins. Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally. That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense. He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back. OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg. They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy." That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win. Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak. OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery. Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion. The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away. And the timing couldn't be worse... OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them. A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth. This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist. Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama. The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER. And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

@Teslarati Elon needs to find an "Elon of the maps" & turn them loose on it. There is no excuse for paying others for substandard maps with a huge fleet of data collectors at your disposal & AI to process the data.

It’s hard to say it’s for lack of effort. It’s such a widespread complaint, Tesla has to know about it. More than anything it seems like it is just harder than most would anticipate or expect.

@wobblybollocks Haven't played in a while. Back when I did, modding a ship acquired by fighting would break the game. Have they fixed that?

Starfield ✨️ A Terran Boudica II we stole as it was dropping off support troops during a side quest 👍😁 short tour of the new bridge available in the shipbuilder now. #Starfield

@olavk01 @OurWorldInData It's even less if you just consider the cost of lithium ore. All viable lithium batteries require a BMS; leaving it out causes fires & destroys the cells. Leaving it out is not an option, so it is part of the cost. Cost to the consumer is important not cost to manufacturers.

@lakewalker42 @OurWorldInData A bunch of 12v 300ah LiFePO4 batteries are on sale for about €550 ($630). That's 3.8kwh, which comes out to $165/kwh. But that's a retail product with built in BMS. So $78/kwh of raw cell in bulk is not inconceivable

✍️ New article: Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality— Over 20 million electric cars were sold globally in 2025 — some for as little as $10,000. Even just two decades ago, that would have been impossible. The reason it's possible now? Batteries have gotten *much* cheaper. In 1991, lithium-ion battery cells cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour. By 2024, that had fallen to just $78 — a decline of more than 99%. You can see this in the chart. To put that in perspective: the battery cells in a standard electric car today cost around $5,000. In 1991, those same cells would have cost nearly $600,000. There was no single breakthrough behind this. Batteries follow a “learning curve”: as cumulative production grows, thousands of small improvements in chemistry, manufacturing, and supply chains drive prices down. Since 1998, every time global cumulative battery production doubled, the price dropped by roughly 19%. Early progress was driven by consumer electronics — phones and laptops — before the technology became viable for cars, buses, and larger energy storage. Energy density has also more than tripled since the 1990s, meaning batteries can now store far more energy for their volume. The half-a-million-dollar battery was never going to transform transport. The $5,000 battery is.

@elonmusk Elon, people don't hate you for finding government waste. They hate you for putting Trump in the Whitehouse. who gave all of DOGE's savings plus substantially more to billionaires & corporations INCREASING the national debt while eliminating help for the poor.

The fraudsters always come up with the most sympathetic excuses and do so very loudly, because that is what swindlers do

@elonmusk It cannot be understated how unfathomably cooked we are if we allow SAVE to be passed thinking that it is simply voter ID. It goes far beyond that with a heaping helping of voter suppression.

It is the end of democracy if voter ID is not passed

@Teslarati All of the US based Tesla killers are gone or struggling in niche markets. The Chinese brands are going strong & increasing exports to more EV friendly markets. The US, except Tesla, is regressing, the Chinese are leading. History will remember.

@SenateGOP Deporting illegals doesn't require Trump's gestapo killing American citizens with impunity.

In America today, you could miss your flight because Democrats want to make it harder to stop deporting illegal aliens who commit crimes against Americans. Democrats’ priorities are truly shocking.

@DataRepublican @SenateGOP SAVE goes far beyond voter ID & is designed to disenfranchise voters. Trump & YOU want it because it will impact women, the poor, & naturalized citizens more than white males.

@SenateGOP You have a 53-47 majority. I'm not interested in blaming the Democrats.

@DanielPlager @cb_doge If you were a member of a race that had survived for millions of years would you want people that frequently kill each other to find you?

@cb_doge Love the vibe, but I think if there were civilizations millions of years old that we can find, wouldn't they have found us by now? A conundrum, I think.

ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about in read about in science fiction, but we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater. You can go to 1000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately get to maybe a millionth, and then a 1,000th and maybe even a few percent of the sun's energy. I really want to see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space just go like just one after the other. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the moon and a self sustaining city on the moon, and then going beyond the moon to Mars, going throughout our solar system, and ultimately, being out there among the stars and visiting all these star systems, maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll meet see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years, and we'll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that, do that, do that is if we go out there and we explore, and this is the path to making it happen."

@OwenSparks Elon is a tech visionary & top level engineer. Alas, he is socially & politically inept. There is NO plan for AI & robots to assist the humans they put out of work. Current plans indicate they will be owned by the corporations that buy them, no plan to support displaced workers.

How could you not be excited about the future! This is what Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are building, abundance for all!

@elonmusk What's with all the cigarettes? Are you trying to make them cool again?

@elonmusk We will really not live in a democracy if the SAVE act is passed. It would require showing up in person with every certified document needed to link your present ID to your certified birth certificate every time you change address or have other life change.

We don’t live in a democracy if our elected leaders fail to implement the will of the people