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@tatumturnup The only way it could have been better is if the robot spasmed and kicked the person as he came to help.

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

@mart49799 @PattyMurray Well, for one thing, that one was already arrested, tried and convicted, and owed victim’s restitution which they will now never get

@PattyMurray How about you concentrate on the thousands of scammers stealing billions from us instead of that one.

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged. Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer. So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

@sergeynazarovx Has anyone trained a model entirely and exclusively on StackOverflow content? I think we’d see much less sycophantic responses

We used to go to a special website, ask strangers for help with programming, and get humiliated in return

@CalltoActivism Listen to the morons cheer for it

🚨SHAMEFUL: Trump is acting ridiculous today, now he is attacking French President Macron. He has destroyed our relationships with the entire world. It’s disgusting.

@SarahLongwell25 Which was bad enough. Billionaires, corporate entities and foreign nationals contributing huge sums of cash to some politician’s pet project is one working definition of bribery.

I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.

AM I TO UNDERSTAND....THAT *FEDERAL* AGENTS ....HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING AN *INSTAGRAM* *PICTURE* OF *SEASHELLS* FOR *NINE* TO *ELEVEN* GODDAMNED MONTHS?!?

@CyberSolarX @gnoble79 Read the piece. That’s not what he’s upset about. He’s upset about the fantasy story that is being told to get money from retail investors to retire existing debt that Musk has already run up.

@gnoble79 You're upset that Musk is essentially volunteering to work for free unless he hits 3 different metrics that look to be impossible within our lifetimes?

This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street. SpaceX just disclosed Musk's new compensation package: He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION people on Mars, and deploys roughly 100 terawatts of space-based computing power. Let me put the 100 terawatts in perspective: The entire electricity generation capacity of the United States is around 1.2 terawatts. The comp plan asks Musk to build more than 80x America's entire power grid... in orbit. This is a science fiction screenplay that somehow landed in front of the SEC. But here's why it actually matters for your portfolio... The S-1 reportedly claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with over 90 percent attributed to AI. CapeFearAdvisors flagged this one cleanly: when Palantir went public, it disclosed a $119 billion TAM and the SEC reviewed and accepted it. SpaceX is claiming a market roughly 240x BIGGER. Now let's talk about what is actually being sold here: Reported 2025 revenue is approximately $15.5 billion. Starlink delivers around $11 billion of that with healthy margins, and the launch business is genuinely dominant. The problem is xAI - the AI piece doing all the heavy lifting in the trillion-dollar valuation pitch. xAI generated just $210 million of revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025 while burning through $9.5 billion in cash. Ben Brey and Rupert Mitchell - a former Fidelity portfolio manager and a former head of equity capital markets at Goldman and Citi between them - ran a serious discounted cash flow on the actual operating businesses and arrived at roughly $400 billion. Lawrence Fossi covered their work recently and the math holds up. The IPO is being marketed at $1.75 TRILLION. The gap between what these businesses support and what Musk is asking the public to pay is roughly $1.35 trillion of pure narrative. Then layer on what we just learned last week... The New York Times investigation revealed Musk personally borrowed $500 million from SpaceX between 2018 and 2020 at rates as low as 1%, while bank prime rates sat around 5%. The same SpaceX has been used to bail out SolarCity, prop up Tesla during cash crunches, and absorb xAI when the AI losses became unmanageable. This is the same playbook he's run for two decades. Use a privately controlled entity as a personal piggy bank, and when the bills come due, find new investors to absorb the losses. The IPO is structured to keep that game going FOREVER. The Texas reincorporation strips away Delaware's fiduciary protections. Controlled-company status on the Nasdaq eliminates independent board requirements. And retail is being offered up to 30% of the offering (3x the normal allocation) because the institutions who actually do the math are quietly stepping away. Here is the part that finishes the case for me: Roughly $40 billion of the IPO proceeds are already spoken for before a single dollar reaches operations. About $23 billion retires SpaceX debt. Another $17 billion retires the high-interest debt sitting on xAI and X. This raise is not funding the future. It's just plugging existing holes that retail investors will now own. In my 45 years I've never seen a deal where the comp hurdle is colonizing another planet. I've never seen a disclosed TAM that exceeds verified comparables by two orders of magnitude. I've never seen a company asking the public to fund the retirement of debt incurred by separate private entities controlled by the same individual. Every red flag I've watched precede a major bust over four decades is sitting in this prospectus, in plain sight. The Tesla mispricing is being repeated on a far larger scale. And this time the bag is being handed directly to retail. Don't be the one holding it.

@brij Because of token limits? Or useless along some other dimension?

Claude code is basically useless, most of the time. And I am on max plan! “API Error: Stream idle timeout - partial response received”

@elonmusk If I review your post history I assume I will find your condemnation of Trump and Texas for kicking off the redirecting war?

Terrible

@elonmusk You have enough money to start now

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

This is incredible. The comparison with the Interstate highway system seems the most eye-opening to me

@StephenSBrown28 @scottlincicome No, he didn’t. That’s the problem.

@scottlincicome The man lived his life in fear of unknown unknowns

Your annual Donald Rumsfeld IRS Tax Day Letter appreciation post.

@BrianFaughnan @scottlincicome The only thing worse than having to calculate your own taxes without any confidence would be being an arrogant asshole who plunged the US into a war that killed thousands with a false confidence that you knew what you were doing.

@scottlincicome The only thing worse than having to calculate your own taxes without any confidence you're accurate would be trusting the IRS to send you an accurate invoice.

@ItsJakePerry @__nmca__ I suggest you read “The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven immediately. From 1967! scribd.com/document/50312…

@__nmca__ Lots of people won't be getting organ transplants anymore either. Have to keep suddenly killing young healthy people to get those donor hearts.

A full-scale US Waymo rollout would cost ~700 full-time jobs in the funeral care industry (by saving around 35 thousand young American lives per year). Will no one think of (some of) the morticians!

@Milajoy So you’re ok with this?

I'm MAGA until then end of time, which means I’M WITH TRUMP. Ride or die. I'm good with whatever he decided on anything. And I really don't care if you don't agree.

@Retro_Temporal @AmoneyResists My No Kings Day sign

@AmoneyResists I genuinely can't believe I'm going to live to possibly see the potential start of ww3 All because Trump didn't want to be outed as a child rapist

REMOVE. HIM. FROM. OFFICE. ALREADY. HOLY. SHIT.

@LarryJones How, exactly, is he fighting for *our* country? Joe is he helping *our* people?

Many are turning on President Trump while he fights for our country. I stand with President Trump! 🇺🇸 Can you say the same?

@ScottJenningsKY Do you not see the wide-open opportunities for influence-buying through “private” funding of a leader’s pet project? You might as well argue that straight-up bribery doesn’t matter because it doesn’t involve public funds

I simply cannot understand why people are so angry about a ballroom that future Presidents will enjoy and is 100% privately funded. President Trump could save a kitten from a tree and it would still be a scandal.

@PLeg66 @judytgolf Do you not see the wide-open opportunities for influence-buying through “private” funding of a leader’s pet project? You might as well argue that straight-up bribery doesn’t matter because it doesn’t involve public funds

@judytgolf If it is private money why would some liberal attorney file a lawsuit. Fucking snowflakes.

How can a judge suspend President Trump’s ballroom when it’s funded by his donors?! Rogue judge should be disbarred!

@TheAlexJacob @LeadingReport Do you not see the wide-open opportunities for influence-buying through “private” funding of a leader’s pet project? You might as well argue that straight-up bribery doesn’t matter because it doesn’t involve public funds

@LeadingReport So the President can’t construct a ballroom at the Presidents residence? Until Congress, whom resides in the capital building, authorizes what exactly? There’s no taxpayer money involved with the project…. This is just another “Orange man bad” Judge and that’s that

BREAKING: Judge blocks President Trump from constructing his White House ballroom until Congress authorizes it.