eric gundersen

We just set the 1st Fully Autonomous, ZERO-Intervention Cannonball Run Record from LA-NY. In the middle of WINTER, through extreme cold, snow, ice, slush & rain, FSD drove 100% of the 3081 miles of our journey. 58 hrs, 22 min non-stop, except for charging. FSD 14.2.2.3 is an absolute game changer for personal autonomy. Incredibly, my Model S could have gotten to NYC faster WITHOUT us on board. @ElonMusk was right. Once an autonomous vehicle is mature, most human input is an error. A comedy of human errors added hours and hundreds of miles, but FSD stunned us with its consistent and comfortable behavior. MUCH more (hilarious) detail to follow. Thank you to my co-passengers @dackboor & Paul Pham, Tesla experts/enthusiasts who agreed to do this in the worst weather possible. Congrats to @aelluswamy and team for this incredible step forward. Data, pix and video coming soon. 1/x thedrive.com/news/a-tesla-a… @elonmusk @Scobleizer @wholemars @itskyleconner @SawyerMerritt @alex_avoigt @DavidMoss

To put the recent increase in debt costs for USA in perspective, see graph relative to other countries. Source: @UBS , IMF, as of 17 May 2025

Gross general government debt to GDP vs. Net cost of debt to revenues. Source: @UBS , IMF, as of 17 May 2025

$PLTR CEO Alex Karp’s response to a Palestinian protestor at The Hill & Valley Forum

Does anyone else miss conference calls prior to zoom / remote? Kids these days will never appreciate the art of hitting the mute button on one of these bad boys and going “this guy is an idiot right??” during a negotiation and jumping back in without missing a beat

Jeffrey Sachs with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape. (20:17) Why did America push for Ukraine to Join NATO? (58:34) What is a Neocon? (1:25:28) Regime Change Never Works (1:36:27) Who Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline? (2:01:45) COVID Origins

If you want a detailed explanation of why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel

Interesting podcast!

To the stars

The OpenAI story.

When I talk to more established startups, one of the first things I want to know, after asking about the growth rate and whether they're profitable, is whether the founders still have board control. I'm more optimistic about the company when the answer is yes.

Starship launch live broadcast twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Let’s cut to the chase - long and essential to read We’re besieged by those who would seek to destroy our way of life Some of them are even amongst us in the far left and far right…who foolishly view foreign autocrats as compatriots But there’s also a real growing threat from foreign autocracies who want to change the global status quo They want to end the current world order built on respect for national sovereignty and human rights And they want to replace it with authoritarian spheres of influence where oppressive regimes subjugate their neighbors That’s what all of this is about Coming out of WW2, our greatest generation understood, in their bones, why this needed to be opposed Half a million dead Americans were too large of a price to pay And so they gifted us a framework for a new security architecture Territorial wars would no longer be tolerated. War could only be conducted on very specific grounds That’s how we’ve had no large scale wars in 80 years Our greatest generation is now gone and their sacrifices mostly forgotten We now look to social media messiahs that warp common sense with their serpentine logic…driven by algorithms or ignorance, they try to redefine history…create new paradigms that are sexy but ultimately false Except it’s not all that complicated Good men need to oppose evil in all it’s forms Those who would start wars are those that should be destined to lose wars Borders should remain as they are, regardless of ethnicity, lest we are doomed to repeat the 10,000 years of folly by our ancestors If we don’t stand up to evil then that evil will eventually come for us all I’m frequently called a neocon…I want war But I’ve never advocated for that… All I’ve said is that if we abandon objective morality as a principle for how the world should work, we’ll just keep repeating the same mistakes It might not even matter…maybe this is hardwired into our DNA and conflict is our ultimate destiny But we should at least try to maintain the world order gifted to us by our greatest generatiom We should not tolerate Russian aggressian against Ukraine We should not tolerate Chinese aggression against Taiwan And we should not tolerate war waged against Israel by Hamas We should never tolerate that aggresor if we want peace Normalizing this type of aggression will only lead to the same historical outcome: big (sometimes world) wars You can’t hide from it…eventually evil is as evil does Either we all agree to respect each other’s national sovereignty or we’re destined to have world wars Territorial aspirations never stop and they always end in war Either we save the existing system…something that is only possible through strength Or we are doomed to repeat a greater war The isolationists are fools…they preach populist slogans that have no historical precedent…yet populism is popular…who doesn’t like being told what they want to hear? But alas, It’s not too late for us to fight for a system that has kept the peace for 80 years Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

🌈 AI::: “their prediction model updates the whole planet every ten minutes and soon it will be just a few minutes. Traditional meteorological models update every few hours, a time in which weather can change significantly.” dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti… @ymelnichek @RainbowAI_app

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“While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict [China’s] unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) chairman of the House select committee on China, told Fox News, referring to China’s Communist Party. @chairmang via wsj.com/business/media…

“The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.” "Government officials in Vietnam didn’t see it that way." via @WSJ "They saw the dotted line as a demarcation known as “the nine-dash line,” referring to a claimed maritime border that China insists gives it claim to a vast swath of the South China Sea. Other countries and a United Nations tribunal have rejected China’s claim, including Vietnam." How a Squiggly Line on a Map Got ‘Barbie’ Banned in Vietnam wsj.com/business/media… by @erichschwartzel

Developed in-house, the dielectric mirrors on the surface of the satellites and extremely dark black paint for angled surfaces or those not conducive to mirror adhesion help absorb and redirect light away from the ground

regulatory capture 101 by @bgurley