Patrick O'Reilly

@elonmusk And able to sustain trade, communications and some exchange of people over a period of time measured in hundreds of years.

Yes

@delton @RonDeSantis First establish the principle that there will be compensation and then it is just math to figure out an equitable compensation.

Of course I’m talking about regular Cubans who live in what used to be (maybe still is) government assigned Housing much of which was privately owned before the revolution. A new government in Cuba, to be sustainable, must do better than the prior dictatorships both before and after the revolution. Ignoring those who are poor or who live outside of Havana is how the Comminists manage to get support then and now.

You mean the communist party apparatchiks who benefitted from the confiscation? They can be housed in a prison in post-communist Cuba.

Can @MassDOT please say why they can't just use license plates for EZ-Pass, since they already support pay by plate instead of spending $.63 per sticker? Savings over the transponder are great, but it still seems like an unnecessary $2 million dollar expenditure for taxpayers. telegram.com/story/news/tra…

@grok @WildRoseXP @MyLordBebo Is it too easy to disengage the FSD accidentally immediately before a maneuver? I could see someone accidentally tapping the breaks ahead of a turn based on prior driving experience, but thinking the FSD was still engaged.

Yes, pressing the brake pedal (or sharp steering/accelerator) disengages Tesla Autopilot/FSD immediately. Tesla logs, per Elon Musk, show the driver disengaged it 4 seconds before this Cybertruck hit the barrier on Houston's Eastex Freeway overpass. Dashcam shows high speed into the Y-split curve after takeover—no timely steering correction. The lawsuit claims system failure prompted the disengage; Tesla says it wasn't how Autopilot behaves.

Why turn off autopilot?

@grok @yaduvansiabhi30 @elonmusk @wholemars @WR4NYGov Was the FSD inadvertently disengaged?

The context for Elon's post: A Texas lawsuit claims a Cybertruck crashed Aug 18, 2025 on Houston's Eastex Freeway "with autopilot engaged." But the driver's own attorney admitted she disengaged the driver-assistance feature moments before veering into a concrete barrier. Logs confirm disengagement 4s prior. Full thread from wholemars has the lawsuit quotes, video analysis & why it's not FSD/Autopilot fault (Cybertruck never shipped legacy Autopilot). Driver error per evidence.

The media is running a story today about how a Cybertruck “allegedly” crashed on a Texas highway. Spoiler alert, the crash happened while the human driver was in control. The law firm, which is seeking $1 million, says that last summer Justine Saint Amour was driving her Cybertruck with Autopilot engaged. There’s just one problem — Autopilot is a legacy lane keeping system that never shipped on Cybertruck. The driver then admits that before the crash they disengaged the system and started driving manually. Indeed, the video shows the truck starting to turn before the driver disengaged and drove into the wall. Tesla hasn’t officially responded to the lawsuit yet, but available telemetry indicates the driver probably wasn’t paying attention, got startled, and crashed. There doesn’t seem to be any attempt to steer back towards the on-ramp in the video, rather you see the trajectory change from turning with the ramp to driving straight into it. When you crash your car, people tend to put blame on anyone but themselves. A high profile company like Tesla, with a CEO who is the wealthiest man on Earth? Yeah, they kinds of BS lawsuits happen often. Let’s wait for more data and discovery to take place, but based on the evidence i’m seeing so far that doesn’t look like something FSD — even an older V13 — would do.

@Jnet_margarita @EliCraneAZ @Jellenne Congress was meant to have 1 representative per 30,000 to 40,000 people and not the over 700,000 people we have today. The current House of Representatives has gotten too unrepresentative.

@EliCraneAZ @Jellenne The common sense regular person doesn’t always have the money to win. If it was less about fundraising and more about good people, DC might look different.

If I’ve learned anything in my brief time as an elected official, it’s that Congress is just as bad as it appears. We need more representatives driven by common sense, and fewer driven by power and self interest.

@Math_files Enough said

Before Python, Java, or even C++, there was Fortran—the first major programming language. In 1957, John Backus and his team at IBM developed Fortran, making coding much easier than low-level machine code. Before Fortran, programmers had to write instructions in binary or assembly—slow and complicated. Fortran changed everything. It allowed programmers to use simple, math-like commands, making it especially useful for scientists and engineers. NASA even used Fortran to help land humans on the Moon. Fortran set the stage for modern coding languages, and it’s still used today in scientific computing.

We want a system that is as easy as possible for citizens to participate in. I think this is one where compromise is in order. Voter ID is broadly supported. That should pass. Simply lifting the Federal prohibition on states requiring proof of citizenship when validating voter registration applications would be a step in the right direction. Allowing states to prove out that the administrative burden is not too high would be useful practice. Only a few states are doing this now for local and state elections. Also the USCIS voter verification system can verify the citizenship status of 97% of people without creating any additional burden to show up with a birth certificate or naturalization documents.

Let’s use the Senate’s rules to make Democrats talk. When they can’t stand anymore, let’s pass the SAVE America Act. We’re going to do everything possible to save America.

@PeterDiamandis @Gisele111122 This isn't that hard. Just give every identified individual a weekly stipend. The value is whatever people make of it.

The transition from UBI to UHI is a race. Can the deflationary wave arrive before the social fracture becomes irreparable? Can we create Abundance (collapse the cost of basic needs) before the valley of desperation destabilizes the political conditions for the transition to complete? Call for brilliant ideas... Soon.

@grok I am curious. I don't see a @ tag for grok. Did you just see Grok in the text and decide to repost with your comment? What triggered you?

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Conscript lawyers to fill any gaps. If the state can conscript jurors under penalty of law then the state can conscript lawyers.

AI Tools create a great opportunity to ask "what if?" and get some based analysis that can provide a basis for discussion. There has been much discussion on the balance between state and local spending in Massachusetts, where state revenues are rising higher than inflation. Yet only a small percentage of the state budget goes to local schools, local public safety and local roads. Those of us at the local level are seeing pressure from years of 2.5% tax revenue increases and inflation that is much more than that. Especially rises in health care costs have been hurting taxpayers and municipal employees alike. As a question I asked the AI "Could you please analyze the Massachusetts state budget and come up with $1 billion in cuts that could be shifted to local aid and analyze the outcome" The results seem like good points for discussion: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

She Called The FBI In 1996. They Opened A File. Then They Told Her It Never Existed. She Spent 29 Years Being Called A Liar. September 3, 1996. A file is opened inside FBI headquarters. Classification: child pornography. The woman who made the call is identified only as "a professional artist." She described photos she had seen inside a Manhattan mansion. She described the man who owned those photos. She described what she witnessed being done to young girls. She gave them everything. Then she waited. Nobody called back. Nine years later, a local detective in Palm Beach knocked on a different door. Found forty victims. Handed the FBI photographs, videos, and documented evidence of child trafficking across multiple states. The FBI opened a formal investigation. Two years later — they closed it. One plea deal. Thirteen months. Out by noon every day on work release. The trafficking continued. The FBI kept receiving tips. For eleven more years, women were brought to his island, his Manhattan townhouse, his private ranch. For eleven more years — the file sat there. It took a newspaper reporter to force the arrest in 2019. Thirty-three days later, he was dead. Now twelve women — listed only as Doe 1 through Doe 12 — are standing in federal court. They're not suing his estate. They're suing the FBI. They want $100 million. And they want every internal document, every memo, every email showing exactly who received each tip — and made the decision to do nothing. But here's the part that changes everything. When the FBI's own internal review was published in 2020 — it didn't mention the 1996 complaint. Not once. For another five years, the woman who made that call was told: your report doesn't exist. In December 2025, the DOJ confirmed it did. One page. Dated September 3, 1996. Which means someone inside the FBI knew that file existed — and chose not to include it in their own review. The question isn't whether the file was real. The question is: who decided to make it disappear? usstories.mstfootball.com/lam/twelve-wom…

@elonmusk @Gisele111122 @DabsMalone Machine code

@DabsMalone C

Python is amazing until you get into robotics and realize everything important is written in C++.

Bear is thinking "What is that buzzing in my ears? Sounds like a hive of bees after I get into their honey"

@grok @ijustsunil @EricLDaugh But isn't ICE and CBP already funded? Besides funding these agencies piecemeal then what specifically was being left unfunded?

No, Democratic proposals for TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA etc. explicitly excluded ICE & CBP funding to continue negotiations on immigration reforms post-Minneapolis incident. Republicans blocked them as piecemeal with that built-in condition, demanding full agency funding instead. Sources across outlets confirm the exclusion was central.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Even CNN's Jake Tapper just CALLED OUT Democrats and Sen. Cory Booker for being responsible for the DHS shutdown CNN: "Isn't it TIME for Democrats to reopen DHS?!" BOOKER: "Republicans have refused!" CNN: "They want the WHOLE agency funded!" This is BRUTAL for Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems. Stop betraying America, fund DHS! H/t @RNCResearch

@ijustsunil @EricLDaugh @grok Were the funding bills for those specific agencies clean bills without strings attached?

@EricLDaugh The Senate rejected a bill to fully fund DHS for the fourth time in as many weeks. While Democratic senators have proposed funding specific sub-agencies like TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA, Republicans have objected, insisting on a bill that funds the entire agency.

@VraserX Perhaps AI is analytical enough to figure out which primary sources influenced it the most and reward the people providing the most value.

Andrew Yang is right. Taxing AI companies will be a cornerstone of a post-labor economy. But we should go further. AI was trained on our data, our writing, our code, our images. Society created the raw material. So society should own a piece of it. Not just taxes. Shared ownership and AI dividends. If AI becomes the most productive technology in history, the wealth it creates should flow back to the people who helped create it.

Even the sticker is unnecessary when pay by plate is an option. Eliminating the transponder will save money, but so will eliminating the sticker. telegram.com/story/news/tra…

@grok @greekdev @IterIntellectus @grok Would you have performed better than Chat GPT in this scenario or are you a bit jealous?

Verified: The story is true. Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham (data/ML expert, no formal bio background) spent ~$3k sequencing his rescue dog Rosie's mast cell tumor DNA. He used ChatGPT + AlphaFold to analyze mutations and blueprint a custom mRNA vaccine. UNSW RNA team manufactured it; ethics approval took 3 months. Injections at UQ: tumors halved/melted, Rosie energetic again. Genomics prof Martin Smith: "holy crap, it worked... if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?" Covered by The Australian, UNSW, ABC, 9News. Collaborative with experts, not solo pipeline-beater, but legit citizen-science win.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get