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@elonmusk How do I find your past streams?

How to stream games or anything you’d like on X! I will be streaming myself playing video games from time to time. Kids, friends & video games are how I spend my non-work waking hours. Sometimes, you can combine all three 😀

@alexandr_wang Startups sound exciting. Small companies not so much. Not for me so far at least.

the 2 years of life where the greatest human potential is lost are the first 2 years entering the workforce everyone has a sharp realization that nobody actually cares about their work—the workplace is a theater to avoid responsibility & pass blame startups are different though

@TheDogeBird @nw_rye @ID_AA_Carmack Why would you assume it was visual? No, the point is to touch them and feel how two materials at the same temperature can feel wildly different.

I have a bar of titanium and a bar of silver in the refrigerator to give Trista a visceral demonstration of how thermal conductivity changes the perception of temperature.

@elonmusk @GadSaad It's silly though because they didn't take the thinking far enough. People aren't calling JK Rowling transphobic because she's saying male vs female is real They're saying it because she's trying to imply that trans women are not real women

@GadSaad 💯

Give this teacher a raise.

@MrBeast Duuuuude. Ugh I didn't see this.

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

@MrBeast @CrypticCapri @mcemilkemaloglu @lifestylspicer @xelaquimson1 @SaraC336 @princess_asante @DALIADANCELOVE @omnistuff @lalley_brian @Tsundeme_ Gosh damnit there was a $250,000 giveaway? Bro my family's house burned down I could have used the money lol.

Here are the winners of the $250,000 giveaway! They each will receive $25,000 :D @CrypticCapri @mcemilkemaloglu @lifestylspicer @xelaquimson1 @SaraC336 @princess_asante @DALIADANCELOVE @omnistuff @lalley_brian @Tsundeme_

@giftgab538 @elonmusk @elonmusk Why do I have to see garbage like this when looking at your feed? Why is Twitter's reply relevance algorithm so bad?

Saw the Barbie movie recently

@giftgab538 @elonmusk Yo do you want to tell me how this is even remotely related to what you're responding to?

@samanthak33 @elonmusk @DrKnowItAll16 @_Leverington Most of the stuff I've learned is from Youtube and I'm CTO of my company lol.

@elonmusk @DrKnowItAll16 @_Leverington When I apply for jobs I’ll make sure to change my education to .. YouTube student and see if it will further advance my career 😀👀👀

With some trepidation I’m going to tread into the DEI waters and suggest a different way of thinking about it: from an economic rather than racial angle. If we dial things back to the late 19th Century, post US Civil War, the Democratic Party saw a significant problem with retaining political power because economically challenged (i.e., poor) southerners of all races and backgrounds were banding together to vote Republican due to their common interests. So the Democratic Party started a long and very successful campaign to create a racial divide between specifically white and black southerners, with obviously tragic effects for us all, right up until today. The issue with DEI is that it falls into this racial trap, rather than seeing the truth which is that your family’s economic background and current situation is more fundamental to your challenges than your family’s racial background. Not that race is not a huge issue (it very much is), but my take is that the fundamental problem with racism has been economic: to economically disenfranchise people of color. In my opinion, racism and racial discrimination are emergent from economics, not the other way around. If you consider life in the US, your family’s economic situation is likely to be a major factor in your personal struggles to make yourself as successful as you wish to be. If you come from an economically advantaged background, you have likely had an easier path to success in your life than if you come from an economically disadvantaged background—and this is no matter what the color of your skin, your orientation, or your gender. So, I humbly submit that equity should first and foremost consider a person or family’s economic background as a determining factor in how to level the playing field (the opportunities provided to a given person). I believe this would have a much more positive effect on society, yet still maintain the very important meritocratic element of success.

@neilcic Why have so many 90's / early 2000's era internet celebrities faded into obscurity?

@swombat @Scobleizer I have never once in my life considered Youtube a social network by any means. It's primarily a content network with social aspects.

@Scobleizer Depends what you’re learning but I’d say YouTube wins this one.

Which social network is better for learning? (You already know the answer).

@Scobleizer What are "decks"?

@trilbyspectre @_claypot That happened to me with Don Hertzfeldt's films. I saw they were critically acclaimed because he did all animations by hand! Then without vetting it first watched it with family and they left after like 5 minutes because it was so messed up.

childhood trauma i cant find again: as a kid i searched "pokemon in real life" on youtube and found a WMM compilation of images like this but at the end it said something like "except the world would look like this.. and humans would look like this!" before cutting to a screamer

@jadel4w @trilbyspectre I know creatives have it tough in general so part of me feels bad for asking BUT on the other hand knowing what's actually a value-add, and a path for progression, is really important for survival of artists.

@jadel4w @trilbyspectre Yo Jade Spooky here in the replies is someone who's been making art / comics for us in the community a LONG time. If anyone is hiring or if some specific advice could be given on their next steps forward I'm sure they'd appreciate it. Spookydoom / Nellie is AWESOME :)

I’m not doing any portfolio reviews this year and ending my mentorships. Apologies to those I didn’t get to but here’s things I found myself going over multiple times: > Most of you were graduates. Your universities failed to prepare you for the industry. Most of you didn’t know basic industry workflows and the most common thing was to point you to YouTube/discords to help you learn things that should have been foundational. Your degree means nothing when applying for a job and if you don’t have a job within 6 months of graduating consider binning everything you have and starting over fresh. > 32/38 portfolios I reviewed were from artists that had no idea what they wanted to ‘be’. Nobody actually had a conversation with them as students about what sort of job they really wanted. This should be the first thing to consider when building your portfolio. You NEED to be passionate about the work you do as it shows in your art. > The reality is that there is soooo few entry level jobs right now and I had to tell most people they simply weren’t good enough yet. It’s competitive but not impossible. Nobody had been honest with them before. Being an artist does require some thick skin, you need to be realistic about your skill level and if it’s at all useful to a quality team. Don’t let it put you off. Keep improving, keep doing art. The only way you won’t succeed is if you give up. > 3/4 great pieces is better than 20 mediocre pieces in your portfolio. > generalists are useful in most teams but don’t see it as ‘master of none’ but being adept at a broad range. Being kinda mediocre at everything doesn’t mean you’d be a good generalist. > few studios will give a junior a visa. If they do it’s usually for specialists. > blender is fine. > if you post work on a public discord and don’t take feedback well, chances are the professionals in those servers will notice and write you off if they see you apply to their studio. > fanart is fine but stop slapping big franchise logos on your art to make it look official in the thumbnail. > Don’t model from AI generated concept art. If you use human made art you can contact the artist about their intent if somethings confusing. Most concept artists love supporting 3D artists. I’ll add to the thread if I think of others

@trilbyspectre @jadel4w As someone who always wanted to go to college and then dropped out I was hugely disappointed when it finally hit me how important finding the PARTICULAR college / program / internships etc. you want really are. But yes just like you I was told very generically "college".

@steviebet @OurNevadaJudges Can someone do a study why people like you say stupid shit like this impulsively and think it's OK?

District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus was violently attacked by a criminal defendant who leaped over the bench.

@elonmusk @profstonge I think UBI will become obvious when we get there. The fact that it's even such a large argument shows we are no where near the level of automation and efficiency needed to support it.

@profstonge !!

Universal Basic Income coming to Canada. Canada hits the loot-the-treasury stage, set to hand everybody $2,000 per month whether they work or not. This will drive inflation, it will destroy the treasury, and it will convert millions of Canadian workers into permanent parasites on the remaining few who work.

@elonmusk Playing on a PC is better but I never found it as immersive as melting into the couch with a controller.

Completed Tier 25 AoZ with a lot of help :)

@Heaney555 @ID_AA_Carmack Hard to say without knowing the specs / configuration options.

@ID_AA_Carmack Do you think the rumored Quest 3 Lite (fresnel lenses + XR2 Gen 2) is the right set of tradeoffs to replace Quest 2?

It was reported, based on scraped Amazon data, that Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3 by more than 2:1 this holiday season. That seems a healthy spread between an entry level and mid-range product. I am very glad they were able to keep Q2 in production — it is no longer an optimal design point today, but it is still plenty good, and it would have been disastrous for the VR market to move the entry point all the way up to the Q3 price point.