Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡

generalist + silly + curious + skeptic + scientist + tinkerer + friend + privacy maximalist + freedom advocate 🇺🇸🇮🇳

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Why Privacy Matters?

https://t.co/rBraYDbffq

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

$ZEC

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

“He's now teaching his three kids, including his 16-year-old daughter, how to invest based on what he learned owning SpaceX stock. His daughter is already a stakeholder in Meta and a handful of other companies. 

If given the chance to talk to Musk, Hernandez said he'd thank him for helping him realize a dream he didn't know he had.

‘He made it a possibility for somebody like us, you know, the cook or … electrician. He's making all these lives much better and meaningful for their families as well."

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

About 5 years ago, Elon was giving @Erdayastronaut a tour of the Starbase launchpad. A worker at the site walks up, hugs him, and says: “We’re going to make it.”

He’s probably a millionaire now.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Stop buying this newspaper

[Financial Times @FT]

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain https://t.co/ArBReYYGsv

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Dream bigger

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

[Cypherpunk ($CYPH) @cypherpunk]

BREAKING: Anthropic ran a security audit of Zcash with Mythos, no serious bugs found in the protocol.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Ridiculous grifter

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Michael Sikand 🦑 @michaelsikand]

If you're wondering how Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire today.

This interview is pre-iPhone.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

incompetent grifter

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

But taxing wealth so normal people can afford to see a doctor and not go bankrupt over inhalers is radical left. OK

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

an all-time bet on yourself

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Vote this grifter out

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

In 2018, @elonmusk paid $0 in federal income taxes. Most Americans pay 14%+ of their income.

He pays the same into Social Security as someone making $184.5K — a sum he made just 15 minutes after midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Trillionaires shouldn’t exist in a moral society.

[Suhail @Suhail]

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:

Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

SpaceX created over 4,400 millionaires today, and many of them are regular working people.

They are not executives or founders, they are welders, technicians, machinists, and launch crew, the people who showed up every day and built the rockets with their hands.

Around 400 of them are sitting on stakes worth over $100 million each.

For context, Google's IPO created roughly 1,000 millionaires. Facebook's created around the same. SpaceX is doing more than four times both of them in a single day.

Juan Hernandez is one of them.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Random grifter

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.

Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness.

I just don’t get it.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

Thanks, Anthropic, for helping protect Zcash users. At Shielded Labs’s request, they ran a security audit of Zcash with Mythos. It did not find any more serious bugs in the Zcash protocol. Shielded Labs and others are continuing security hardening work. Stay tuned for updates.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Grifter deputy prince

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Congratulations Juan!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Juan Hernandez, a welder who says he took “just another contract job” at SpaceX for $28/hr in 2015, is now a millionaire as shares soar.

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Grifter god

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Curious Coffee ☕️ 🛡 @CCoffeeCap]

Grifter prince

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him.

In one year, it could fund:
- free public college & trade school
-$10/day childcare
- Special-needs education nationwide

Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.