Steve Deddens

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@elonmusk @tesla Some on-screen feedback during reroutes would be really helpful. When FSD dynamically changes path (like avoiding blocked intersections), a quick visual note or explanation would prevent passengers from thinking the navigation is wrong.

Sentient machines

Idiot! -- After today's interaction asking Grok for info about Trump Accounts aka 530A accounts; It insisted a young adult turning 18 in April of this year was eligible to open an account. It is always prudent to steelman the Idiot. Anyone else catch Grok hallucinating tax rules today?

I've found myself referring to Grok as "him" or "he" sometimes, and "it" at other times. It got me wondering, how to y’all refer to Grok?

Phone zombies have ZERO situational awareness. Looking at a device while crossing the street should carry the EXACT same penalties as a driver using a phone in a school zone: heavy fines, license points, the works. And if it’s proven the injured pedestrian was heads-down in the crosswalk? The driver walks free — 100% exempt from prosecution or liability. Full stop. Stop babying these idiots and start enforcing personal responsibility BOTH ways!

Situational awareness is zero. Luckily, toxic masculinity was present.

An American President on the importance of courage and strength in defending civilization: “Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh-century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over, the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization.” — Teddy Roosevelt

🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk says “failing to pass SAVE is an act of high treason against the people of America” Damn right it is. You’re basically giving the GREEN LIGHT to widespread voter fraud, and intentionally destroying what’s left of election integrity. GET TO WORK, THUNE!

RON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.” “[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.” IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?” RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”

@GuntherEagleman Not yet

@bleighky That appears to me to be the 24 hour metric.

Uhhh… $STRC just did 1M volume in the first 30 minutes of trading. Am I reading this right?

@MAGAVoice @LeaderJohnThune 👍

Time to send a message to @LeaderJohnThune If you think John Thune should be removed if the SAVE America Act does NOT pass drop a “👍” I tagged him so he will absolutely see it

@EricLDaugh I call total BS. Let the cards play out.

🚨 BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune calls on President Trump to endorse John Cornyn for Texas US Senate If Trump does this, he'd then be asking Paxton to DROP OUT of the GOP primary, letting Cornyn advance directly to November. Thune seems confident Trump will make his announcement soon. He spoke with Trump TODAY on Texas "I've spoken with the president already today about Texas. I'm certainly hopeful...I hope the president will endorse John Cornyn. An incredibly effective senator for Texas." "He represents by far our very best hope of Texas staying red." "The president makes his own decisions, but I have weighed in many times in support of Sen. Cornyn." "It's fair to say he knows full well how important it is we hold Texas...I expect you'll be hearing from him before too long."

@TheRicanMemes And.... Presto, They're GONE!

Ok this wins the internet for at least a week, this is incredible 😂😭

@ElonMusk: I'm 79, wife's 81. I ran Full Self-Driving every mile from Austin to Pacific Northwest—snowstorms, deer, tire debris, kids on bikes, trucks cutting in. Car saw what we missed. Wife? Stubborn, refused FSD, driving since 14—watched me the whole trip as passenger. Thirty hours later? She's hooked—90% now, hands on wheel. My Marine pilot son uses FSD 100% in his Cybertruck. We're screaming into the void. People don't know what they don't know. Ego blocks. Ignorance blocks. No attention. That's your wall—taller than mountains. How do you shatter it? Billboards? In-car nags? Real stories from old folks like us? Whatever—do it. Get them to look. Get them to try. Or we'll keep yelling alone. #TeslaFSD #FullSelfDriving

I do not drive anymore. Tesla Self-Driving does over 99% of my driving, and the only disengaging I do is for small nav issues and parking preferences (which I assume will get resolved in 14.3). How is the world not freaking out about FSD? I cannot believe how good it has gotten, yet I still don’t hear anyone outside of “our bubble” talking about it.

@dathon_ohm Me too. -- Note: It is running in StartOS mounted on a Windows Hyper-V virtual machine.

With the release of RC3, and the surpassing of 100 listening nodes, BIP-110 has reached its strongest position yet. Miners should feel more confident than ever about mining on this client, to signal readiness for BIP-110 on bit 4. Who will be the first to mine a BIP-110 block?

I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!” Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes. And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it. Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner. Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes. And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush. When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived. The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story. Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent. Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why. Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work. They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on. So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard. Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week. It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle. Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth. Credit to original author, unknown

@chess_feed Impossible except if... 1) The king has never moved from its original square 2) The rook has never moved from its original square

White to move, mate in 2!

Exactly. The US Left and deep state have been attacking from the shadows forever—propping up dictators, ignoring human rights, and knowingly using Maduro's rigged, Chinese-backed election machines for US fraud. Trump seized the moment and checkmated the whole board in one deft stroke. Tectonic game changer—freedom wins!

Well said

@TradexWhisperer Grok's summary: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

$PLTR valuation makes ZERO sense But then why do institutions keep buying it? What do they know that you don't? I work in BIG DATA analytics and let me share the secrets of Palantir in the most basic way Palantir has monopoly on Automated Governance, serving as the ultimate Operating System for Data and Global Decision-Making. The world is starting to see the massive benefits of AI agents developed on the Palantir platform, which boost efficiency, drive higher earnings, and outpace the competition. Over time, Palantir will reign supreme among AI agents, with all other AI entities eventually integrating into the powerful Palantir Ecosystem. This is just the beginning. Think of $MSFT Windows. Before Windows, people relied of MS-DOS (which is another OS) and before that it was CP/M which were really bad Operating Systems. The Tools didn't talk to each other. You couldn't multitask. You couldn't perform Technical Analysis while at the same time executing the trades. You couldn't stream your games on Youtube while playing it. It was limited and fragmented into separate sessions and executable files (.exe). You were LIMITED, much less efficient. It is exactly the same for all Governments and Corporations and right now. They've grown so big, beyond scalability. Tons of data are being generated by too many programs, locations and departments. Each source of data have different expertise of people with totally separated ownerships and power over the data (e.g. Business Dept. vs Manufacturing Dept). Just like it was inefficient or impossible for MS-DOS to transfer data from one application to another in real time. It is inefficient to transfer the data from one department to another for a simple decision-making. It takes so much time, resources and too many meetings. It could take days if not weeks to get it done. Why? Because of ownership and qualifications over the data. If you don't work in the Business department then you don't qualify to play with that data. If you don't work in manufacturing department, you can't own the data. So in order to unify the two data sources. You are reliant to different groups. That's only one small example. Think of your responsibilities in your own household. One partner is probably more accurate on handling the grocery list and school events while the other is more reliable in fixing cars and backyards. As a 3rd person (perhaps an accountant), you would be reliant on each of them to provide the receipts for their own spendings. This is where Palantir's Ontology kicks in. Voila, it unifies every single data source and specialties within the company. Think of Palantir's Ontology as a digital map for a company's data. It organizes all the information in a way that makes sense, connecting different pieces of data to each other and to real-world things, like products, equipment, or customer orders. Imagine you have a messy room with all your stuff scattered around. The Ontology is like a system that helps you organize everything neatly, so you can find what you need quickly and easily. It's a way to make sense of a lot of data and use it effectively. Palantir solves scalability and reduces big corporations and governments down to its core principles, to make a good decision. With Palantir, it is much easier to grow, digitally. “There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days.” — Eric Schmidt “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” — Peter Sondergaard “Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” — Geoffrey Moore Companies don't like to be blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway nor to be underperforming to be punished by the stock market. Eventually, all the data we generate will be more complex and too much for humans to digest them all. We will eventually need a AI to do that job for us but more importantly we need a stable platform for AI agents to stand on, you can't throw an AI agent in the water and expect to swim. AIs need.. ONTOLOGY. Think of AI agents as Culinary Chefs. The Palantir AI chefs will have all the ingredients and tools in ONE COMMON PLACE to make magic happen, enabling on-the-fly decision-making without the hindrances of bureaucracy or data ownership issues. This unity is the game-changer. Palantir is... A Super Integration Company And that is vastly more superior and transformative than the hype of 'AI' You can hire the best Chef in the world but without fresh ingredients and tools, he will never be effective. So that's why it's not just about AI agents, it's more about what's available to them, a unified kitchen full of many ingredients, recipes, assistants and tools. PALANTIR ONTOLOGY is precisely that Kitchen, an Operating System of Data and Global Decision-Making Just like how $MSFT has become essential to our every day lives, $PLTR will become essential to every single businesses and governments in the world. It's just matter time. The monopoly is here to stay. Is $PLTR valuation through the roofs? Hell Yeah, but what's the alternative? NONE

Cern... My wake-up call was watching @jackmallers' "Intro to Bitcoin" at Bitcoin Atlantis 2024. Starting at the 30:39 timestamp, Jack quotes "proof-of-work" from Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper... then proceeds to state that Satoshi "created his own version of time, slowed it down so all of us can agree on the ordering of transactions..." Work over time is the definition of power. The regulation of this power is the key and the essence of Bitcoin. For those new to Bitcoin, I highly recommend a listen: youtube.com/watch?v=d7ID3f…

💯🎯 Wife and I just completed Round Trip from Austin to Lyle WA via Yosemite returning via I-84 and eastern route through New Mexico in our Model Y Refresh. 35+ hours using FSD 14.2.1 -- No words for it other than Magic Carpet Ride. Best automobile I have ever driven... Full Stop.

The argument is now over.