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Florida Man doing Florida Man things.
Straight Florida@StraightFlorida
Florida Man doesn’t ask for permission. He just straps on a jet-propelled hoverboard, hooks up his dog to a jet ski, and goes for a Sunday cruise like it’s completely normal. This is why the rest of the country will never understand us. Peak Florida. Never change.
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Gen-Z may be the first generation in history that doesn’t have to ask questions to get answers. And that’s not a technological achievement—it’s a cultural tradeoff.
For most of human history, knowledge required pursuit. You had to wonder, wrestle, and seek. Questions were the gateway to understanding.
Today, the gateway is gone. Open a phone, scroll for thirty seconds, and you’re flooded with answers—opinions, explanations, “truths”—often to questions you never even asked.
That shift carries consequences.
If you never practice asking questions, you lose the instinct to do it. Curiosity doesn’t disappear overnight—it erodes. Slowly, subtly. You begin to accept information instead of interrogating it. And once that happens, the ability to discern what’s true and what’s nonsense starts to weaken.
Because asking the right question is just as important as finding the right answer.
A generation that doesn’t know how to ask, “Is this true?” or “What’s missing here?” becomes a generation that can be told anything.
That’s where the current media environment thrives. Podcasts, influencers, viral clips—they can say almost anything with confidence, and it sticks. Not because it’s right, but because no one is trained to push back.
The danger isn’t that Gen-Z lacks intelligence. It’s that they’re being conditioned out of intellectual engagement.
And without that engagement, accountability disappears.
If no one is asking questions, no one is demanding proof. If no one is demanding proof, bad ideas spread unchecked. And if bad ideas spread unchecked, culture drifts—not toward truth, but toward whatever is loudest, simplest, and most repeatable.
The solution isn’t less technology. It’s better habits.
@JeremyDBoreing
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@thejefflutz @Tesla_AI bump! I'd include the manner and angles used to back into the spot so I don't lose the right mirror.
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@Tesla_AI : Just as we geotag “Home” and “Work”, can we add an option to ‘tag’ our parked position in our home garage and quantify those measurements with all of the external cameras of what being perfectly parked at home looks like then use that data as input for the autoparking feature at home? GPS data alone would obviously lack the precision required.
One of my highest qty interventions is just adjusting / completing the auto park at home. 1st world problems… 14.3.2 is amazing btw… thx
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@SenSchumer You probably should have just kept quiet on this one, Chucky.
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The Trump administration is waging a vindictive campaign against the organizations that safeguard our democracy.
Weaponizing the DOJ to indict long-standing watchdogs is a message: if you defend voting rights, fight white supremacy, or protect civil rights, you’re next.
This is an assault on the institutions that make freedom real for everyone. They will not succeed.
The New York Times@nytimes
Breaking News: The Justice Department charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, with financial crimes, accusing the organization of fraud. nyti.ms/4trxcSs
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Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the least philanthropic billionaires. forbes.com/sites/mattduro…
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@Not_the_Bee @UnvaxxedWolf @elonmusk Retirees - especially early retirees - tend to have plenty of free time... then often wind up dying earlier than if they'd just kept working. Wants and needs are often orthogonal.
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@UnvaxxedWolf @elonmusk Of course people want it. People want a lot of things that aren’t ultimately good for them. Even if it seems like you can’t have too much of a good thing, that’s rarely true.
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@AutismCapital I love how the AI refused to accept a jacketless Jensen
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Found the deleted scenes from the Jensen interview 💀
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@AutismCapital I get and agree with your sentiment but Ye has no more "free speech rights" in the UK than US-hating foreigners have in the US. They're both visitors whose visiting privileges can be denied or revoked.
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This post was a mistake on Keir Starmer’s part because he’s actually just strengthened and emboldened Kanye West’s position because he has now made this a free speech/authoritarian control issue which is bigger than Kanye. People dislike those issues (being controlled and told what they can and can’t do) more than they dislike Kanye so they will now side more with Kanye. A classic backfire. Government leaders continuously make this type of mistake. Kanye now has become a greater symbol of free speech by Starmer associating him with an issue people dislike more. This is a blunder.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless. This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism. We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
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Locked in. Snacks. Chilled apple juice. Love on the Spectrum Season 4. Doesn't get better than this.
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There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.
For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.
The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.
The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.
Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.
This is how ideological takeover works.
A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.
It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.
Then it moves inward.
It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.
At that point, the civilization turns on itself.
Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.
They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.
And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.
The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.
The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.
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@GovPressOffice Hey interns, pass a message along to your boss: resign.
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We got a call from Grindr after this and said your team was their biggest users. Congrats!
Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
I got a call from the White House after this hit on Jesse Waters’ Fox News show last night about the fraud in California. There is a reason Gavin Newsom looks so terrified right now. He should be. Buckle up. The fraud investigation is about to get insane. Starting this week…
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BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"
"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.
"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."
"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."
"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."
How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.
$250 billion to $1 trillion short.
If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.
There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.
It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.
So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."
Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
California will be bankrupt by 2030. If you’re expecting a state pension, it is at risk. If you don’t believe it, check Grok or Gemini and explore how California politicians changed the reporting rules on your pension so they could hide how underwater it is. The middle class citizens of California will soon be asked to pay a huge price to bail out the state. Why them? Because that is where most of the wealth of California resides. It’s easy to single out “billionaires” but there aren’t many of them and they can and will all leave before the bottom falls out. They are leaving in droves already. The mismanagement in California is biblical - and the scale is huge because it’s the world’s 4th largest economy. California politicians and their henchmen are now entering the coverup phase where they can no longer hide their financial incompetence so they are taking from average California residents to try and hide what they’ve done: You will soon see ballot initiatives with fancy tiles like “billionaire tax”. But those are lies. They are mechanisms to tax everything, every way: Excise taxes Wealth taxes Private property confiscation It’s all happening now. If you want to preserve California, you will need to stand up because California has become a kleptocracy.
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America was nearly lost to a cabal of NGOs, think tanks, foundations, specialty media organizations, compromised mainstream media organizations, quasi-governmental organizations and all other manner of other well-funded (often with taxpayer dollars) players dedicated to preserving extra-governmental controls over the average American, all outside the scope of what Americans vote for.
The men and women behind these organizations claim to want to benevolently advance public policy, when in reality their singular purpose is to maintain and grow the nefarious personal power they have achieved. Above all else they must defend their fiefdoms, the good of the nation be damned.
When reformers try to undo any part of this cabal, those reformers are inevitably smeared, libeled, slandered and threatened. The goal is to prevent them from engaging in that necessary reform by intimidating them into silence.
Food for thought.
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The Iranians are holding world oil prices hostage, and the Democrats are holding the American people hostage. It looks like terrorists work in the same ways
Elon Musk@elonmusk
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
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@markusdd5 ASIC designer since ~.35um. This has been my argument since he first mused the idea. That said... field "experts" have been saying similar things and look where that's gotten them. Rationally, I don't see a path. But betting against Elon leans heavily towards futility.
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Ok. So essentially Terafab is not a plan for a 'standard' semiconductor fab, but includes mask production, test house and packaging under one roof. This alone is a very alien concept. If they only achieve this alone, not even considering reaching the crazy output numbers, they're already in unicorn territory.
All the plans on top what they actually are willing to do with the silicon are essentially Dyson Sphere Program in real life. There is no other way to put this.
In this very case, as this directly affects an industry I happen to work in: I assign a major probability to this either failing or delaying much beyond the intended timeline. Sure you can buy equipment and hire experienced people, but semiconductor manufacturing in advanced nodes is essentially the farthest humanity has ventured down the tech tree. It is so incredibly difficult and complicated that it's essentially impossible to explain to the average joe how it even works without simplifying it into oblivion. 95% I talk to can't even grasp correctly what I do for a living, and digital design is very far up the stack.
I'm saying this not because I'm rooting against Elon or xAI, Tesla or SpaceX, but just to manage expectations.
Starlink has proven with their satellite cadence and PCB in-house pipeline that these companies do understand how to build stuff reliably at scale and down to a sustainable price point.
If there is one guy and his entourage that can actually succeed at this, it's this. Nobody else.
But expect bumps along the way. This might be the single thing in tech more complicated than the literal rocket science.
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@realDailyWire Chuck Norris didn't die - he's picking out his red horse
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