Justin Kugler retweeted
Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day!
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
This is the last one we’ll experience in our lifetime.
Justin Kugler retweeted
I'm an American, a U.S. Army veteran, and I live in Europe.
And I'll tell you something that might upset a few people back home.
I want my fellow Americans to enjoy the same rights, freedoms, and quality of life that millions of Europeans already enjoy.
I want Americans to have access to affordable healthcare without worrying about going bankrupt because they got sick.
I want American students to pursue higher education without burying themselves in decades of debt.
I want Americans to enjoy stronger digital privacy laws, meaningful consumer protections, paid parental leave, and guaranteed paid vacation.
I want police officers held to rigorous standards of accountability, where de-escalation is emphasized and deadly force is genuinely a last resort.
I want Americans to understand that freedom isn't just about what the government cannot do to you. It's also about having the security and opportunity to actually enjoy your life.
And before someone starts screaming about socialism, understand something.
European countries are capitalist democracies. They have private businesses, entrepreneurs, private property, competitive markets, and individual liberties. They've simply made different decisions about what protections their citizens should enjoy.
Europe isn't perfect. No place is. But pretending America has nothing to learn from other democracies is ridiculous.
I served my country. I love my country. And I don't believe patriotism requires pretending that America is the best at everything.
In fact, I believe the exact opposite.
Real patriotism means wanting your country to improve, even when that means admitting another country does something better.
I don't want Americans to have fewer freedoms.
I want them to have MORE.
More protections. More opportunities. More security. More accountability. More freedom to live their lives without being financially destroyed by illness, education, or circumstances beyond their control.
And having lived on both sides of the Atlantic, I know that much of this is possible.
We should stop asking why Americans can't have these things and start asking why they're expected to settle for less.
Justin Kugler retweeted
Intuitive Machines welcomes Dr. Christopher Scolese to our Board. His NASA and NRO leadership will help guide our space infrastructure growth.
We also thank Michael Blitzer for his leadership and contributions as he concludes his Board service.
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Based on what I'm reading on here, the United States should have surrendered in the fall of 1776. There was no victory in sight, the British Army seemed unstoppable. Young men were needlessly dying in a war the US could never win.
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Ukraine gave up a nuclear arsenal valued at over $1 trillion dollars, including 4,500 nuclear warheads. Guess who asked Ukraine to do this? We did.
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Starlink has absolutely no role in the one military campaign Trump claims he wants Ukraine to end: hitting Russian oil refineries. It only works in Ukraine and it helps with air defense — homegrown air defense, to be specific, which was born of necessity because we aren’t providing enough missile interceptors. A Russian Shahed today killed a one-year baby in a park. The U.S. is actively making it easier for Russia to commit these atrocities by throttling satellite internet. All while Trump makes excuses for Putin.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
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Here’s what @elonmusk and others keep missing: Russia can end this war by stopping its invasion. Ukraine can’t end it by surrendering without losing its freedom.
Telling Ukrainians to stop defending themselves because fighting costs lives rewards the country killing them.
If your “solution” demands courage from the invaded and nothing from the invader, that’s peak weakness. And you need to stop pretending to be some alpha
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It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
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Solo voy a decir un par (o tres) de cosas sobre el Tesla Roadster que vimos ayer.
Primero: aquello ha sido un stunt publicitario. Y uno absolutamente magistral.
Así que, cuando volváis a leer que Tesla no gasta en publicidad, acordaos de anoche. Como ejercicio de imagen de marca, demostración de capacidades técnicas y generación de atención mediática, probablemente sea más potente que tener un equipo oficial de carreras en prácticamente cualquier campeonato del mundo.
Y eso tiene un mérito indudable.
Segundo: si en 2017 pagaste una reserva por un deportivo eléctrico 2+2 descapotable, prometido inicialmente para 2020, nueve años después te anuncian que tienes que esperar otros dos (¡ONCE AÑOS!) y la gran estrella de la presentación es un monoplaza que salta, gira en el aire y aterriza mediante propulsores.
Que no es precisamente lo que habías reservado.
Es como ir a un restaurante, pedir muslo de pollo, esperar tres días y que el cocinero aparezca con una nueva carta para anunciarte que va a servirte sardinas... Las quieras... O no.
Eso sí, unas sardinas que vuelan.
Y mientras los teslabros aplauden la audacia de su mesías, hay un par de cuestiones técnicas que conviene recordar.
Una cosa es hacer saltar un coche en una exhibición y otra muy distinta comercializar un vehículo capaz de realizar vuelos controlados. En ese segundo escenario entramos en el complejo territorio de la certificación aeronáutica: FAA en Estados Unidos, EASA en Europa, requisitos de aeronavegabilidad, autorizaciones operativas y licencias o habilitaciones de vuelo según corresponda, que ya están afrontando las decenas de start UPS que andan intentando vender "drones personales de vuelo".
Un follón monumental que no se resuelve simplemente homologando el coche para circular por carretera.
Y luego tenemos los ventiladores que succionan aire bajo el vehículo para generar carga aerodinámica incluso estando parado.
Una tecnología fascinante que ya hemos visto en otros deportivos experimentales (McMurtry), pero cuya aplicación a carreteras abiertas plantea problemas bastante evidentes: polvo, gravilla, piedras y todo tipo de porquería que puede terminar siendo expulsada hacia otros usuarios, hacia tu propio parabrisas... Resolverlo no es trivial.
Dicho todo esto, como ingeniero, lo que vimos ayer me parece una genialidad. El despliegue tecnológico, la capacidad para resolver desafíos de física aplicada y el factor molonidad son indudables.
Y, como herramienta publicitaria para demostrar de lo que son capaces sus ingenieros, me parece sencillamente extraordinario. Seguramente más eficaz que gastarse una fortuna compitiendo en carreras.
Pero como analista de esta industria, y conociendo el historial del personaje, me parece un mal chiste para quienes llevan casi una década esperando el coche por el que pagaron una reserva.
Musk sigue prometiendo y prometiendo, entregando una fracción de lo anunciado, y ahora nos presenta como gran revolución un producto cuyo valor diferencial comercial, más allá del factor WOW y del ejercicio de demostración tecnológica, es cuanto menos discutible.
Porque una cosa es ser capaz de hacer algo técnicamente extraordinario y otra muy distinta que tenga sentido convertirlo en un producto comercial.
Y no conviene confundir ambas cosas.
Hablaremos de todo ello, con bastante más profundidad técnica, en el videocast de PowerArt y en próximos shorts (y si queréis, hasta un largo). Porque hay mucha ingeniería interesante que desgranar detrás de lo que vimos ayer.
Justin Kugler retweeted
Meloni: What happens in Ukraine does not stay in Ukraine.
Russian hybrid warfare now includes drones over European airports and bases, damaged Baltic cables, cyberattacks, railway sabotage, disinformation, election interference and migrants used as pressure. 3X
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Meloni: I do not miss the Russian tanks in Prague and Budapest. I do not miss the Berlin Wall.
If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, Russia would occupy a European nation and Soviet-style imperialism would return.
Surrender is not peace. It is conquest. 1/
Justin Kugler retweeted
Forstag on the transgender debate: “[My mom] taught me that government has no business sticking its nose into our personal lives, whether that's a gun safe, whether that's a doctor's office. I don't want a politician anywhere near it. So, let's leave sports to the leagues that actually run them. Let's let people live their lives with dignity and make their own private personal decisions and let's keep politics the heck out of it. Because what I see with that kind of anger and rhetoric…they're singing and dancing while they pick our pockets.”
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We're excited to support NASA's next era of nuclear-powered space exploration as an industry partner with our Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for the SR-1 Freedom mission.
Built on the IM-1300 platform, our PPE is being repurposed to serve as the nuclear electric propulsion element for NASA's planned 2028 mission to Mars, supporting the first demonstration of nuclear electric propulsion in interplanetary space.
Together, we're advancing the technologies and building the space infrastructure needed to explore farther, operate longer, and enable sustained operations in space.
#IntuitiveMachines #SpaceInfrastructure #NASA #NuclearPropulsion #SR1Freedom
We’re getting America underway on nuclear power in space and ushering in the era of a Nuclear NASA.
With the signing of an MOU with @ENERGY, we’re taking the next giant leap toward exploring the outer solar system and sending American astronauts to Mars. Fission power will help us travel farther, operate longer, and power more capable scientific instruments.
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No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically. After Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, a viral chart showed Russian "bot traffic" collapsing. But those bots are mostly Yandex's own search crawlers, not the info-ops social media accounts. Troll farms hide behind proxies, hijacked devices and Western clouds. They're still operating. Hired influencers are also still around. The "bots went silent" story is misinformation. Believing it is plainly dangerous. It tells people the threat is gone while influence operations keep going. Ahead of elections that complacency is what they may count on.
It seems to have already started. It was cheaper and faster for me to book myself a one-way ticket home last night on another airline than try to find a hotel on my own after delays in travel and luggage at customs caused me to miss my original connection.
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Congrats to the “conservatives” who have ushered in an era of:
-A pro-Putin administration;
-Superpower suicide;
-Crony socialism;
-live-streamed executions;
-losing a war to Iran;
-unprecedented corruption;
-vindictive prosecutions;
-A disastrous economy for the working class.
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Peace never comes through weakness. Today, representatives of the U.S. Congress were in Kyiv – a bipartisan delegation – and I am grateful to them for visiting Ukraine at such a difficult time. They asked: what is needed to end the war? The answer must be strong. There must be sanctions under the Lindsey Graham bill, there must be support for Ukraine in protecting lives, and there must be pressure on Russia for its war. And today, there was a conversation between the leaders of America and Russia. A conversation that leads to something different.
Recently, there was a European decision to lift sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Since then, Russian strikes and the torment of people have only increased. This past week alone, there was a brutal Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pryluky, aerial bombs were dropped on Kramatorsk – on ordinary city buses – and there have been constant attacks on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure and on the life-sustaining infrastructure in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odesa, and our other cities. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded.
The Russians are compensating for their inability to achieve their objectives on the battlefield with this kind of terror. This year, Russia is weaker on the battlefield than at any other point in the war. That is why Putin is relying on terror. That is why he is relying on attempts to strike backroom deals to secure some form of pressure relief for Russia, in order to buy more time and more opportunities for war.
Any easing of sanctions against Russia without a clear and lasting de-escalation agreement with Russia is an obvious weakness. It plays into Russia’s hands – allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer, have even less respect for America, and inflict even greater losses and damage on the world.
Ukraine is ready to take symmetrical de-escalatory steps, and the American team knows our position. Our strikes on Russian oil refineries and other oil facilities are a response to Russia’s years-long campaign of terror against Ukraine’s energy sector. Ukraine will not set Russian oil refineries on fire if Russia does not destroy our energy infrastructure. This is the kind of agreement we are proposing to America, and we believe the United States has enough power to achieve such a compromise.
Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world. Russia will “repay” the diesel with further terror and perfidy. Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged. What is needed is real de-escalation with Russia on a reciprocal basis.
We count on America’s fair support for our defense of life, for our defense of people in Ukraine – and on the United States having a correspondingly strong conversation with Russia. A strong one, not a weak one.


























