Robert Pittard

@skibidiquasar @Andercot I have been thinking of a global map app that is like the grokapedia of maps. Where there is a truth seeking AI and humans that collect and collaborate to organize the truth .

Someone should make this but for WW2, real time replay, all possible information ingested, every action report, troop movement, battle, news release, etc.

@WilliamShatner @elonmusk I'll donate

So @elonmusk sent me some money via the #XMoney system. It’s not a ton of money but enough to get in trouble with! 😝 I’m thinking that the best way to test this system out is to send out XDollars to raise money for my charity. My thought right now is that if you make a donation and I’ll send you an Elon X dollar! What are the bragging rights worth for a dollar from Elon? Plus you become a member of Xmoney! 🤔I’d have to check with Elon to see if this is OK 👌🏻 with his team but I thought it would be a great way to kickstart adoption and make money for my charity. Give it a thought. I’ll be back in about 8 days.

We're scared to report the truth. I have a piece of equipment that's critical for an up coming mission. It was selected for a division level excess equipment turn-in, due to incorrect faults that the previous owning unit were reporting. The equipment is functional. Now, I'm fighting and having to provide justification to people who don't want to have to explain that we're reporting statues “incorrectly“. I'm getting support at my immediate level. I see this attitude far to often among young commissioned types. Making decisions mostly on "I don't want to look bad or get yelled at" or "we already sent up the request there's no changing it now." Fear based decision making process. Ground maintenance is doomed to fail, at least in my CMF it's the least funded. Paper 5988s change to many hands before they get put into GCSS-Army. Often times it doesn't happen.

Dig to 2015.. 🇺🇸 IS THE ARMY KILLING MERITOCRACY WITH TRUTH AVOIDANCE? (And dooming us in the next peer fight?) We reward compliance over courage. Green slides over truth. Zero-defect careers over warfighting lethality. Wong & Gerras exposed it in 2015: Ethical fading + mutually agreed deception = officers forced to fake readiness, bury failures, and lie to survive. The brutal cost right now: Friction-embracers get non-selected or mediocre OERs Safe optics players climb to command Units hit CTCs fragile → mauled by OPFOR because gaps stayed hidden Trust dies. Cynicism wins. Innovation stalls. In LSCO vs. peers, the force that rewards moral courage, brutal honesty, prudent risk, and fast failure-learning wins. Radical authenticity is the fix. The ONLY path to real meritocracy + dominance. x.com/i/status/20126…

@elonmusk @WilliamShatner 👋🏻

@WilliamShatner Much appreciated, Captain 😂 Would you like to join the 𝕏 Money exclusive beta test? Send credits anywhere in the galaxy!

🥺😢😔So you want me to Venmo you a couple bucks until payday‽ 🤷🏼

@KTB_500 @infantrydort @CynicalPublius @SeanParnellASW Going to NTC should be like going to the super bowl. You to prove your systems, training, and your talent management. NTC will 100% tell you if you have the right or wrong person in a position.

YES I AM SAYING THIS! 🚨If you have to TURN DOWN the Rheostat of the OPFOR you didn't train Your Unit well enough!🇺🇸‼️ It is not the responsibility of the Operations Group or OCs to Train your Unit, it is the Leadership of the Training unit. You can't expect miracles in 10 days when the past year didn't yield results. OWN IT, then FIX IT! ITS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY! #ARMY #fixit #ArmyTransformation

@DrPhiltill I ask cause helicopters have problems landing in degraded visual environment.

@sat5heavy There are various strategies. One is to use only inertial data during final descent. Get an accurate position fix before the dust starts blowing.

A student I’m working with, Noah. He built a test rig to study how dust behaves along the plume reflection planes for a multi-engine lunar lander, using a crane to lower it to the lunar regolith simulant like a lunar landing. This is just cold-compressed gas, not hot fire thrusters, and it is ambient pressure, not vacuum, but it is valuable to study the phenomenology of dust behavior in complex flow fields and it is a first step before higher fidelity but more expensive tests.

NTC should be a crucible where you face an adversary that knows 80% of your TTPs. When you're done getting your ass kicked, you have expert, unbiased OCTs that give commanders and units fact-supported analysis. Then that unit should have the grit and audacity to adapt to an enemy that can all but predict our next move. We have demonstrated our TTPs and doctrine for the last 20-plus years. If you think China or Russia turned a blind eye to that... CTC rotations should be at least the second-hardest thing we do. With combat being the sprint, we should already be running when we get to our CTC rotations. IMO of course. 😅

Do you believe that Training Units should have the OPFOR lethality, size, constraints, Attack times, position of forces, etc. Turned down with the "RHEOSTAT" for Rotational Unit Training objectives or success??

@RCownie @CRainsZombie @shortword @grok fact check this guy. Does Starlink serve as a proof of concept for data centers in space?

@CRainsZombie @shortword Total bandwidth of each satellite is about 25Gbps. Data centers are transitioning from 400Gbps fiber towards 1600Gbps. [Of course, with much more bandwidth inside the datacenter.]. Give it up, you have no clue.

For years Starlink sats have had blade servers on them. Not small ones. High spec servers with TBs of storage, loads of ram and decent CPUs. As of today, I estimate that SpaceX has between 30k and 40k servers in space. This is around 9MW of solar powered compute flying around our heads. Or a decent sized data centre. - he’s already done. - doubters don’t understand

I have never experienced what I'm experiencing right now in my unit. Lack of urgency. Very little mission focus. Ownership is gone. They have the staff here tied up in back to back meetings they never have time to analyze and make calculated decisions on any of the information .

@infantrydort @johnkonrad @CynicalPublius Almost as bad as telling me how many units have not made their gates for employment on their mission line and been de-certified for deployment. I will wait right here for that answer

OOOuCH. Fair but.... OUCH

@anothercohen Need this for windows

This is the most autistic thing I've ever vibe coded. A Mac app that turns your wallpaper into a 3D Earth view with day/night depending on where in the world you are. Can toggle: * Weather * Live flights * Zoomed views * Pollen/Air Quality * Globe spin Should I publish it?

@elonmusk Say we're mid lunar city construction or even post, something happens to earth. Can the lunar city survive and then establish a settlement on Mars?

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

@sentdefender You need to include more context. Your bais is showing.

As part of yesterday’s release of several million pages of documents by the Justice Department under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, multiple email chains between SpaceX founder Elon Musk and convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, including a conversation from December 2013 in which Musk made plans to visit Epstein on Little Saint James. In one of the emails from late 2012, Musk can be seen asking Epstein: “What day/night will be the wildest party on =our island?”

@ndstudio hr.ippsa.army.mil, remove excess clicks.

To federal government agencies: if you have small blogs or static sites and you'd like them to be redesigned at no cost, please reach out

@Sanjay_Jhewpta @KTB_500 Same

@KTB_500 Simply pointing out simple problems gets you a seat on the sidelines.

This is called loosing you seat at the cool kids table. In Pete Hegseth's book *The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free*, he discusses how the military's "cool kids table" shifted during the "woke" era—away from valuing combat experience, lethality, and proven leadership toward favoring those who aligned with progressive ideologies, diversity quotas, and political correctness. He argues that true warriors and patriots who displayed unapologetic love for country or focused on warfighting were sidelined, no longer invited to the influential seats of power. **Reference:** Pete Hegseth, *The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free*

@elonmusk @Rainmaker1973 Someone needs to start building versions of these for Mars. In a form factor that can be lowered to the surface by Starship elevator.

@Rainmaker1973 Always thought this was such a cool design

A machine that builds itself. Or how a crane is assembled using the same crane.

@KTB_500 @BlastingThrough @DOWResponse @FancyFancyBear1 Being critical of your units ability to communicate and complete the mission 100% earns you place on the bench. Gets you looked over.

🇺🇸 NCOs: The TRUE Backbone of Our Army—Leaders Who Enable Lethality Through Unbreakable Standards and Discipline Tying back to my recent posts on team-level fixes and empowering the tactical edge: Senior leaders, our job isn't to coddle—it's to **enable** NCOs with iron will and unbreakable ethics. These are the leaders who live the hard job every day: enforcing standards, building discipline, forging warriors in the crucible of training and accountability. They don't just train—they instill the ethos that wins fights. Secretary of War @PeteHegseth laid down the line: **Restore warfighting ethos. Rebuild lethality.** No distractions, no lowered bars, no tolerance for anything that erodes readiness. His push for stricter fitness, grooming, and performance standards across the force (including twice-yearly checks for all ranks) signals the end of excuses. This is the mandate we needed. But the culture that preceded it? One that **degrades our warriors** by punishing those who enforce reality. NCOs who call out failures in discipline or readiness often face backlash, sidelining, or worse—because the system prioritizes "positive vibes" over hard truths. This risk-averse mindset avoids discomfort, skips real after-action rigor, and erodes trust at the lowest level. Result: Unprocessed standards slippage, moral injury from inconsistent leadership, and units that look good on paper but crumble under pressure. We cannot afford this anymore. - **Ruthlessly remove barriers** to lethality: Bureaucracy, soft policies, anything that handcuffs NCOs from enforcing the line. - **Ruthlessly support the backbone**: Give NCOs the tools, authority, and cover to do their job—back them when they hold the standard, not throw them under the bus for optics. - Discipline isn't punitive—it's the foundation of lethality. Standards build resilience, trust, and unbreakable units. NCOs of iron will and unbreakable ethics are what separate good units from elite ones. They enable lethality at the sharp end. Senior leaders: **Have their backs** with action, not words. Execute Hegseth's vision. Protect the enforcers. Raise the standard. **This we will defend.** Senior leaders and NCOs: Share your stories—how has backing (or failing to back) standards impacted your unit? Reply or tag someone who needs to step up. #Army #NCO #Lethality #RaiseTheBlack #WarfightingEthos #ThisWeWillDefend see if this works #Minneapolis

@boringcompany South Padre Island to Starbase Texas. Then vehicle and pedestrian tunnels from Launch pad to production, and production site to Massey's.

Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge! Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we'll pick a winner, and build it…for free! Details: boringcompany.com/tunnelvision Criteria: -Usefulness (good bang for the bore) -Stakeholder Engagement (get hyped) -Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Feasibility (success is physically possible) Prufrock was designed to build mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years - so let’s build!

@elonmusk @Ryanair Don't you need an in-house way to get people and cargo to starship? Run it as is untill you need the hardware to shuffle people to p2p, while shuffling starlink demand.

@Ryanair Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge?

perhaps you need Wi-Fi @elonmusk?

@RyanHansenSpace @elonmusk @Ryanair Yes

@elonmusk @Ryanair I know nothing about running an airline but I volunteer as tribute