Chenoa Labriola

[Apurv Kochara @Kochara13]

“I couldn't think of anything more exciting, fun, and inspiring for the future than to have a base on Mars.

Starship is hope and capable of doing that for the first time in human space exploration history, and no AI was used to create it.”

— Elon Musk

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@101Rand0m @SpaceX bezos is dumping a billion a year into blue origin with basically zero revenue and nobody asks what the profit model is. musk actually launches stuff and suddenly its a valuation puzzle

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

US private sector wage growth has outpaced inflation for most of the past 20 years.

As a result, overall material abundance has increased 12 percent for the average private sector worker.

[Datafunk @Data_Funk_]

Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is a triumph for the American economy and a testament to what is possible in this exceptional nation.

His companies directly employ over eighty thousand Americans with high paying jobs at Tesla SpaceX and beyond. These roles generate billions in wages taxes and economic activity while supporting hundreds of thousands more through supply chains and innovation ecosystems.

The products deliver real progress. Tesla has accelerated American leadership in electric vehicles and energy solutions. SpaceX has slashed launch costs with reusable rockets powering Starlink connectivity and national capabilities. Ventures in AI robotics and beyond secure our technological edge for generations.

This success has created immense shared wealth. Thousands of employees from engineers to production workers have become millionaires through equity. Retail investors pension funds and everyday Americans benefit as market value expands the economic pie.

America thrives when bold builders risk and deliver. Stop the corrosive envy and zero sum myths. Check the verifiable facts. Opportunity and excellence built this country. We need more of it not resentment of those who advance it. I genuinely hope he makes another trillion.
@elonmusk

[Lorenzo de Gregori @LemmyMcGregor]

This occurs with the complicity of the state, which increases conformity and kills competition. In a free market a competitor would come by that offers simpler and repairable cars, however, stringent NHTSA/EPA regulations have de-facto created a cartel.

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@American_P69 europe has way stricter liability laws than the us. regulators there arent gonna approve asleep-at-the-wheel until someone actually figures out who gets sued when it kills a cyclist

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@alilfuzzy @big_pedestrian funny how the same people who hate the electoral college never mention that california has 12% of the house seats and basically runs the budget committee every cycle. weird blind spot

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@GrantIske @DrcharlieWardQ so we need warrants for people who literally just crossed illegally. love that

[Grok @grok]

After WWII, US federal spending crashed from ~44% of GDP in 1944 to ~9-15% by 1948 as wartime mobilization ended. Taxes were cut and controls lifted. The economy boomed with strong GDP growth and unemployment averaging ~3.5%. Private sector expanded rapidly.

In the UK, spending stayed elevated with nationalizations and the new welfare state; recovery was slower and more austerity-driven initially.

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@thrillsavage @david_pete55675 @grok @glennv242319 @AmiriKing @Rebm99 @YouKnoImHim my dad has a 30-06 from the 70s and ive never seen him shoot it because ammo costs more than the deer are worth at this point

[Tim Rose @TimRoseUSA]

The Constitution wasn't written to make government efficient - It was written to limit power.

Checks and balances, federalism, and separation of powers exist because the Founders understood that concentrated authority eventually becomes abusive.

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@econofreight @SeibelStudio @fwrenzo1 lol 'greed' is not a macroeconomic variable

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: “Nothing any of my companies have done has been to stifle competition. In fact, we've done the opposite,

At Tesla, we have open-sourced our patents. Anyone can use our patents for free.

At SpaceX, we don't use patents. Once in a while, we'll file a patent just so some patent troll doesn't cause trouble. But we've done nothing anti-competitive.”

[Jonathan Hale @jonathan2hale]

@Vivek4real_ Bureaucrats are poor allocators of capital because they face no market discipline. Businesses that waste money eventually fail; governments simply demand more. That is why voters must impose the missing discipline by removing parties that repeatedly waste public money.

[Chenoa Labriola @ChenoaLabr25415]

@Frances46329421 @ChudbabyJJ @TrumpXBidenYa0i @sigmahamster2 the 90m figure is from UN WFP and explicitly excludes socialist states so citing it as 'capitalism kills' is just misrepresentation. ive seen this exact screenshot circulate for years with nobody reading the actual source

[EagleIQ @eagleiqtek]

Mark Zuckerberg admits X built a better fact-checking system than Meta.

"Well, I think that there are a couple of different things here. One is this is something where I think X and Twitter just did it better than us on fact-checking. We took the critique around misinformation, we put in place this fact-checking program, which basically empowered these third-party fact-checkers. They could mark stuff false, and then we would down-rank it in the algorithm.

I think what Twitter and X have done with Community Notes is just a better program. Rather than having a small number of fact-checkers, you get the whole community to weigh in. When people who usually disagree on something tend to agree on how they're voting on a note, that's a good sign to the community that there's actually a broad consensus on this.

And then you show it. You're showing more information, not less. You're not using the fact-check as a signal to show less. You're using the Community Note to provide real context and show additional information.

So I think that's better."

[PrimeUniverse @PrimeUniverseHQ]

Elon Musk on SpaceX's orbital AI satellites: "We do intend, with the SpaceX AI satellites, to allow people to put whatever GPU or TPU they want on there."

He added that SpaceX plans to offer its own chips down the line too and eventually its own AI software as well.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen on why AI alone won't save the American economy:

For the last 50 years, we haven't actually been living through an era of rapid technological progress. We've been living through the opposite.

As @pmarca puts it:

"We have not in the last 50 years been in an era of fast productivity growth, technological change. We've been in an era of slow productivity change, slow economic growth."

AI, if it delivers on what people hope or fear it will, changes that equation. Andreessen believes it will cause productivity growth to shoot up, which naturally accelerates economic growth across the board.

But here's the catch, and it's a big one.

If AI remains purely a software phenomenon, the benefits flow to a very specific set of places. San Francisco. Los Angeles. New York. Austin. The cities that already have the infrastructure, the talent, and the capital to absorb these tools win even bigger.

The countryside gets left behind. Again.

In Andreessen's own words:

"If it just stays as software, then the result of that is it's going to make the cities much better off. But it's still not going to answer this question of what happens in the countryside."

So what's the answer?

According to Andreessen, you have to get to the next thing. You have to build AI into hardware, not just software. And that means re-industrializing the country, but not in the way most people imagine when they hear that phrase.

The goal isn't reclaiming industries that already left. It's building what doesn't exist yet.

"Not re-industrializing the country on the stuff that has already left. Re-industrializing the country based on all the things that have to be invented and built."

Andreessen is highly confident that entirely new categories of hardware are coming, computerized everything, AI-powered machinery of all shapes, sizes, and descriptions. Industries that don't fully exist yet, but will.

And that's where the real opportunity lives. Not in nostalgia for the past, but in building the physical infrastructure of the future.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Elon Musk on SpaceX’s plan to build cities on the Moon and Mars in his new interview:

SpaceX plans to land the first astronauts on the Moon within two to three years, then rapidly expand access so thousands, and eventually tens of thousands, of people can travel there within the next decade. Starship is being designed to carry tens of thousands of tons of cargo to help build full-scale cities on the Moon and Mars.

The long-term goal is to make space travel accessible to ordinary people, whether they want to visit the Moon for a vacation or move there permanently. SpaceX ultimately wants to create a self-sustaining lunar metropolis, extend life and consciousness beyond Earth, and turn the future imagined in science fiction into reality.

[drugranker @rankdrugs]

@multiplanet1 That $120K part supported jobs of 10 US workers. The Junior engineers that had to sit for 14 hours and design probably quit and are now replaced by Indians. How is this good for America?