Jason Cozen Bedborough

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[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

AI isn’t replacing infrastructure.

AI is creating the biggest infrastructure boom since the Industrial Revolution.

Agree or disagree?

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

@elonmusk The moment AI becomes Stockfish-level at coding, software development stops being about writing code and starts being about asking the right questions
@elonmusk

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

A sentient Sun is the kind of idea that sounds insane until you remember GPS, satellites, and reusable rockets were ‘insane’ too.

Here’s what people are missing in the comments:

This isn’t really about the Sun. It’s about information infrastructure at a scale we don’t have language for yet.

Right now, humanity’s intelligence is locked inside biological brains and silicon chips. Musk is asking: what if consciousness wasn’t limited to bodies at all? What if the same star that powers every living thing on Earth could also process and understand the universe it’s part of?

Wild? Yes.
Impossible? We said that about Falcon 9 landing itself.

The pattern with Musk’s ‘crazy’ ideas is consistent: first mockery, then memes, then it’s just normal.

The real lesson here isn’t about the Sun.

It’s that the biggest infrastructure plays always sound insane right before they become inevitable.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

“Why Governments Are Quietly Terrified Of Starlink”

In 2022, Ukraine’s military ran on Starlink when their entire communication grid went down.

One private company kept a nation’s defence alive.

Let that sink in.

Starlink now serves:

•Remote villages with no broadband
•Ships in the middle of oceans
•Planes at 40,000 feet
•Military operations in active war zones

Traditional telecom companies spent decades and billions building ground infrastructure.

Starlink bypassed ALL of it — from space.

Every government that can’t control Starlink’s signal is nervous.

Because whoever controls connectivity controls everything.

This is not sci-fi. This is happening RIGHT NOW.
@elonmusk

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

What SpaceX Actually Owns (And Why It Changes Everything)

People keep saying “SpaceX is just rockets.”

No. Here’s what Elon is actually building:

🚀 Falcon 9 = the world’s most reliable delivery system
📡 Starlink = a global internet utility serving 100+ countries
🌍 Starship = the vehicle that makes Mars and moon logistics possible
🏛️ NASA + DOD contracts = government-backed, taxpayer-funded revenue

This isn’t a tech company.

This is the new public infrastructure — except it’s privately owned.

The question isn’t whether SpaceX will succeed.

The question is whether YOU will be positioned when it does.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

I grew up in a neighbourhood where people left their front doors open during the day. Not because nothing could go wrong, but because everyone felt responsible for each other.

Nobody taught us ‘Omoiyari.’ But we lived it.

You didn’t litter in front of someone’s house because that house belonged to the community. You greeted elders because their dignity was your responsibility too.

Then slowly politicians drew lines. Resources got scarce. Trust became a luxury.

The Japanese clean that seat not because a rule says so but because their identity is tied to how they leave things for the next person.

That’s not culture. That’s civilisation at its highest form.

@RichardAxley you’re right, the people managing our decline have zero interest in rebuilding that. Because a community that trusts itself doesn’t need to be managed.

We don’t have a policy problem. We have an identity crisis

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

Everyone’s watching the rocket. Nobody’s asking who owns the sky it flies through.

Falcon 9 just put 24 more Starlink satellites into orbit. That’s not a space story that’s an infrastructure story.

While governments are still debating broadband rollout, one private entity is quietly building a global internet backbone in space. 57,000 people liked this post. How many of them know that Starlink already serves over 100 countries?

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@WorldCupMedia_ This is why Japan will always have my respect. Win or lose, they leave the place better than they found it. That’s not football culture, that’s CHARACTER 🇯🇵👏🏾

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@Keir_Starmer So the plan is to ban the thing instead of teaching kids how to use it responsibly? That’s like banning roads instead of teaching people to drive. Make it make sense Keir 👀

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@JaxHodgkinson @FIFAcom The fans ARE the ones cleaning it themselves that’s literally the point. They’re not waiting for staff, they brought their own bags. Read the room

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You’re raising two different things cultural values and government policy. A people can carry genuine philosophy about shared space and still have a government that makes decisions many disagree with, including its own citizens. One doesn’t cancel the other. Complexity is uncomfortable, but it’s more honest than collapsing an entire civilization into a single policy decision.

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People talk about Elon like he’s a myth. But myths don’t build factories, obsessed humans do. The most dangerous thing about being in this man’s orbit is you start believing impossible things are just problems that haven’t been solved yet.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

WHY ELON WON’T LIST IT

Elon has said this publicly multiple times. His reasoning is brutal and brilliant at the same time.

Public companies answer to shareholders every 90 days. Wall Street wants profit NOW. But SpaceX is building rockets to Mars that’s a 20 to 30 year timeline. The moment it goes public, analysts start asking “why are you spending $3 billion on a Mars mission when you could return that to shareholders?”

Elon watched what happened to Tesla the short sellers, the quarterly pressure, the stock manipulation. He refuses to let that happen to his most important company.

So he keeps it private. On purpose. By design.
@elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JonErlichman I think SpaceX might be able to reach approximately $1T revenue in 2030

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

Lisa you didn’t miss it because you’re too small. SpaceX is deliberately private Elon has refused to take it public because the moment it lists on the stock market, short sellers and quarterly earnings pressure would slow down a 20-year mission. The only people who can invest are institutional funds and accredited investors ($1M+ net worth). You didn’t do anything wrong.
The door was never built for regular people. BUT you can get indirect exposure through $TSLA, or wait for Starlink which may IPO separately. You’re not late. You’re just playing a different game than you thought.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

@elonmusk Jerry Murdock backed Twitter when nobody cared. He backed Snapchat before the adults understood it. When a man with that track record says ‘build for agents not humans’ that’s not a prediction. That’s a receipt from the future.

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@FieldsPina91366 This ticket is proof that greatness doesn’t announce itself, it opens for someone else first. Taylor Swift was R. Milsap’s and George Strait’s opener. Now she’s the benchmark everyone else gets compared to

@FieldsPina91366

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

WHY OIL PRICES DROPPED IMMEDIATELY

Brent crude fell 4% to around $83.78 per barrel its lowest since March. WTI (the US benchmark) dropped nearly 5% to $80.84. 

Why so fast? Markets don’t wait for the ink to dry. The moment peace is confirmed, traders price in the future — more oil supply coming = lower prices. Simple supply and demand at the speed of information.

📈 WHY STOCKS SURGED AT THE SAME TIME

P 500 futures were up ~1%. Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 the riskier bets were up even more. 

Here’s the logic chain:

• War → high oil → high transport costs → high inflation → Fed keeps rates high → borrowing expensive → businesses suffer → stocks fall

Reverse that whole chain with a peace deal and you get the opposite reaction overnight.
@realDonaldTrump

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https://t.co/Lwm8IEJcRf

THE US-IRAN PEACE DEAL — WHAT IT MEANS IN PLAIN ENGLISH

First, what actually happened?

Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday saying

“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete.”  A war that started in February nearly 4 months of active US-Iran conflict just got a ceasefire deal brokered by Pakistan. A signing ceremony is set for Friday in Switzerland.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ — This is the real story

Most people hear “Middle East conflict” and zone out. But this one hit differently because of one chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz.

Think of it like this: imagine someone put a padlock on the world’s main oil pipeline. That’s what happened here.

The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed since the conflict began in February.  That’s the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman 20% of the world’s oil flows through it. When it shut down, the entire global energy supply got squeezed.

Trump said he’ll authorize reopening it once the deal is signed Friday.

[Jason Cozen Bedborough @CozenJason1]

Let’s be honest about what just happened here.

Starlink didn’t build a school. They didn’t send teachers. They didn’t fix Haiti’s government or its roads.

They just removed ONE barrier internet access and suddenly hundreds of kids on a forgotten island are connected to the same knowledge as a student in New York or Tokyo.

That’s the lesson most people miss.

Poverty is not the absence of intelligence. It’s the absence of ACCESS.

These kids were always smart. They were always capable. The world just never bothered to plug them in.

One satellite dish changed that.

Now imagine if we stopped debating who deserves opportunity and just focused on removing barriers. Schools without libraries got the internet. Doctors without hospitals are doing surgeries via video call. Engineers in Nairobi are building for Silicon Valley from their bedrooms.

The future doesn’t care where you were born.

It only asks are you connected?

The real question isn’t what Starlink did for Haiti.

The real question is: what are we still withholding from people and calling it their fault that they’re behind