Elon Musk just confirmed that its the beginning of Universal High income. Enjoy your last months before the abundance begins and we enter the golden era.

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.

Elon Musk’s companies did all of this in the last 6 weeks.

I grew up with: * 14.4k modem * Doom was new * Win3.1 was sexy Today * I talk to computer and code comes back * "Hey check my 19 emails and tell me if there is anything I need to respond to and what are my events today?" * Full self driving cars * Actual flying cars WTF

comme d'habitude les réactions les plus négatives viennent TOUJOURS des français incapables de voir plus loin que le bout de leur nez pour info, l'intégration de propulseurs à gaz comprimé venus de chez SpaceX c'est la première vraie brique fondamentale pour maîtriser le contrôle d'assiette et la poussée vectorielle ultra-rapide sur un engin terrestre je ferais un thread plus développé lorsque j’aurais plus d’éléments mais sachez que en miniaturisant par ex des micro-tuyères à air sous haute pression pilotées par des calculateurs de vol, on pose concrètement les bases physiques et les algos de stabilisation pour les futurs eVTOLs et véhicules volants de demain mais bon sur le twitter FR c’est toujours la même chose et cnest pour ça que ce pays pue la défaite, bref pendant que les sceptiques habituels préfèrent ricaner sur d'autres testent les limites de la physique et construisent le futur brique par brique

Ein guter Tag für Autofahrerinnen und Autofahrer und für Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland, Frankreich und Europa. @EmmanuelMacron und ich haben ein Paket zu Wahlfreiheit, Technologieoffenheit und Wahrung der Klimaziele vereinbart. Das ist ein Investitions-Signal an die Industrie.

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Roadster event livestream xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…

More shots of the Alfa Romeo CuoreRosso.

if AI made this movie, why do i need to pay to see it? i can just get a really good AI and make it myself. I can make a version of it I like better myself. why pay to see a movie i might hate, when the same tech used to make it could make me one tailored for me. what's the point?

Don't watch this. Don't support it. Don't hate watch it. Let it be forgotten, it's an insult to cinema itself and to anyone who has worked hard to make a film that anyone who makes movies from AI will never comprehend Go and watch Forgotten Island and/or Wildwood instead

Mark my words, there is an XAI <> Anthropic acquisition coming in the future

JUST IN: Association for Human Mathematics urges all mathematicians to boycott OpenAI following its release of 700+ mathematical research files.

Every app, game, or open-source project is becoming the equivalent of a post, reel or piece of content online. You scroll through GitHub repos the way you scroll through a feed. You try a game for five minutes. Open an app once or twice. Glance at a new tool, understand the idea and then move on. Software itself has entered the content economy. Everything is now a piece of content. And most of it will get exactly what most content gets: A few seconds of attention before the next thing arrives.

If we see a major Russian city go into lockdown in the next 36 hours it's the end of life as we know it. Let's just hope and pray this is the "nothingburger" so many are claiming it to be. Which is precisely why I'm very concerned.