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Marc Musgrove

@MarcMusgrove

Dad | Kayaker | Techie | Brit in Cali | Global Comms Consultant | Ski Instructor @KirkwoodMTN @SkiHeavenly @VailResorts

South Lake Tahoe, CA Katılım Haziran 2008
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Your Costco membership costs $65. Fill up once a week, save about 25 cents a gallon on a 15-gallon tank, and you pocket $195 a year in gas savings. The membership pays for itself by April. Costco barely breaks even on every gallon it pumps. The $65 fee is the actual product they're selling you. Gas stations sit at 747 of Costco's 914 warehouses. Last year, fuel accounted for about $27 billion, or around 10% of the company's total sales of $270 billion. But a Wall Street analyst at Mizuho put it bluntly: Costco earns "penny profits" per gallon. They move 8 billion gallons a year, enough to fill about 12,000 Olympic swimming pools, and the fuel itself barely moves the needle on their bottom line. The money comes from membership fees. Fees make up just 2% of what Costco collects, but they generate 73% of the company's gross profit (the cash left over after paying for everything they sell). 90% of US members renew each year. 147 million people worldwide carry the card. Cheap gas makes the membership feel worth it, and the membership fee funds almost the entire business. That math explains why Costco is now opening a gas station with no warehouse attached. The location is in Mission Viejo, California, on the lot where a Bed Bath and Beyond used to sit. Forty pumps, 17,000 square feet, members only, opening late June. Costco's chief financial officer said on the company's most recent quarterly earnings report that about half of all members who gas up at Costco also walk into the warehouse and buy something. A standalone station kills that shopping trip entirely. Walking away from billions in in-store spending looks crazy at first glance. But gas prices are running $3.98 a gallon nationally right now, up 27% from last year because of the Iran war. The gap between Costco and the Chevron down the street can hit 20 to 30 cents per gallon at those prices. A standalone Costco pump in a busy suburb is the cheapest billboard the company has ever built. Every driver who sees those lower prices has a reason to get a membership. Every member who fills up has a reason to keep renewing at $65 next year. The station doesn't need to sell groceries. It needs to protect the fee that funds 73% of Costco's profit. A second standalone is already under construction in Honolulu, set to open in 2027. If both work, Costco can start pushing into crowded cities where a full-sized warehouse (about three football fields of floor space) would never fit, but a gas canopy on a dead retail lot will. Costco figured out how to charge you $65 for the privilege of buying cheaper gas, then use that $65 to fund three-quarters of their profit. The standalone station is the same play, just without the warehouse in between.
Pubity@pubity

CostCo will soon be opening their first standalone gas station, with plans to open more locations if this one succeeds. It'll have 40 pumps and prices much cheaper than competitors, but will only be accessible to CostCo members.

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Losty
Losty@Losty2·
@anishmoonka When will they add Charging? (BYD Superchargers preferred, But This Country being scared of it....) That would be a great add to Warehouses mainly, Sales more and Cafe, But... Will the Standalone have a Cafe?
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Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦
Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦@frontlinekit·
📢 We're moving to DUBAI 🥳 A huge thank you to everyone who has been with us throughout our four-year journey here in 🇺🇦 Ukraine. His Royal Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has invited me to lead 🇦🇪 Dubai's Anti-Drone Air Force. See you later, alligators 👋
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Marc Musgrove
Marc Musgrove@MarcMusgrove·
@CarsonRanger @HVconditions @skiheavenly I think that’s what they are saying - gondola closed so sightseeing is available at the tram instead. And if they let you walk around at the top, you can easily walk down the cat track to Lakeview and eat lunch.
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HeavenlyConditions
HeavenlyConditions@HVconditions·
5:30| MTN FORECAST: Tomorrow’s forecast calls for high winds. Due to the forecast, the Gondola & Top of Gondola ops will not open tomorrow 2/24. We will offer sightseeing at the Tram. Forecasted weather may impact ops-delayed opening, reduced terrain, & wind holds are possible.
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Kirkwood Conditions
Kirkwood Conditions@KWconditions·
7:00 | Rd Update PER CALTRANS- HWY 88 Is closed from Dew Drop (Amador Co) to 5 mi west of Picketts Jct (Alpine Co) - Due to snow Carson Pass and Carson Spur both remain CLOSED at this time We will continue to update as we learn more or- Visit- roads.dot.ca.gov/roadscell.php?…
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Kirkwood Conditions
Kirkwood Conditions@KWconditions·
7:15 | Road Update Per Caltrans- Hwy 88 Carson Pass and Hwy 89 Luther Pass are currently OPEN, with Chain Controls in Effect(East/Tahoe). Hwy 88 CARSON SPUR- CLOSED DUE TO SNOW, NO ETO.(West/Jackson) We will update you here as soon as we learn more or roads.dot.ca.gov/roadscell.php?…
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Marc Musgrove
Marc Musgrove@MarcMusgrove·
@shai_wininger @Tesla Presumably this is being trialled in AZ to see if the concept works and then rolled out to CA etc? How will it work with a mix of FSD and human driving. At times, we still need to drive when FSD has some issues currently.
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Shai Wininger
Shai Wininger@shai_wininger·
#TeslaFSD is 2X safer than humans, so why are Tesla owners still charged so much to insure their cars? In the last couple of months, we've been hard at work with the @Tesla team on something that will change that forever. Announcing: Lemonade Autonomous Car Insurance for FSD Here’s what’s coming…👇 --- For the full experience, play while reading this thread: open.spotify.com/track/7cMFjxhb…
Shai Wininger@shai_wininger

If @elonmusk is game, we'd be happy to explore insuring Tesla FSD miles for (almost) free.

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JAK
JAK@Bikeski2Jeff·
@pitsenberger Is that the only building in Clarksville?
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Adventures in California History
Sam Kyburz's house on the old Lincoln Highway, Clarksville, CA. Kyburz is notably credited in some historical accounts with recommending Coloma as the site for Sutter's sawmill (where gold was discovered in 1848 by James Marshall, sparking the California Gold Rush). The small town of Kyburz in El Dorado County is named after him.
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Marc Musgrove
Marc Musgrove@MarcMusgrove·
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

THE ALGORITHM STAYED IN BEIJING They told you TikTok was sold to America. They lied. December 18, 2025. The most sophisticated information operation in human history just received official U.S. blessing. The deal structure they hope you never read: ByteDance retains 20% direct ownership. ByteDance “affiliates” retain 30%. Combined: majority economic interest still flows to Beijing. But here is what changes everything. The algorithm never left China. Per sources familiar with the agreement: ByteDance will continue to own and update the recommendation engine. American “auditors” will observe. Observe. Not control. Not own. Not modify. You are witnessing the birth of algorithmic colonialism. 170 million Americans will wake up tomorrow believing their feeds are now “American.” They will scroll content served by code written in Beijing, optimized in Beijing, updated in Beijing. The attention of half the U.S. population under 30 remains architecturally tethered to Chinese servers. Oracle gets cloud hosting fees. Silver Lake gets a press release. Larry Ellison gets a photo op with the President. China keeps the engine that shapes American reality. This is not a divestiture. This is a licensing agreement disguised as sovereignty. The precedent now established: Any nation can maintain psychological infrastructure inside America as long as the holding company has a Delaware address. What was sold: A corporate shell. What was retained: The machine that decides what 170 million people think about next. January 22, 2026. The deal closes. The algorithm stays exactly where it has always been. Welcome to the age where ownership is theater and code is control. The empire that writes the algorithm writes the future. They did not sell TikTok. They rebranded it.

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Brendan May
Brendan May@bmay·
This is glorious.
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Teslaconomics
Teslaconomics@Teslaconomics·
For most companies, this feature would be the main headline event. Today I had Grok in my Cybertruck start my day with a motivational quote from Elon Musk. Then I told it to take me to the Apple Visitor Center. Then the Tesla store. Then coffee at Starbucks. While driving, it told me the weather, updated me on how $TSLA was doing, while I just sat there, completely hands-free, watching my Tesla take me exactly where I asked, all in real-time. Then I sipped my morning tea from my Tesla mug. I danced in my seat a little bit bc I was happy. And my Tesla handled the entire drive. Just my voice and no stress. This is what the future looks like, and it’s only possible bc of the power and synergy of Tesla FSD and xAI’s Grok. Once you experience this, just 1 time, there’s no going back. I feel bad for all my doubters and haters who had to drive themselves manually to work today… bc I didn’t.
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Jeremy Judkins
Jeremy Judkins@jeremyjudkins_·
To celebrate the Ford Lightning being cancelled, I’m pulling this video out of the Jeremy Vault.
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Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover@jsnover·
I'm dying here 🤣🤣🤣
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

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