Mars 🚀

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

please don’t hallucinate bro they got my family 😭

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Woah

[Mars 🚀 @EstMarty]

@shaoruu @cursor_ai To be able to carry a conversation from the composer to the chat.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you accept this truth:

[James May @MrJamesMay]

It’s out. We’re off. Thank you for watching. You helped keep me off the streets.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ingraham asks Trump about his comments telling Christian backers they won't have to vote again in 4 years. Trump responds by saying Jews should have their heads examined if they vote for Dems. Ingraham presses him & Trump doesn't exactly quell concerns he wants to end elections.

[Tyler Bruno @tylerbruno05]

Closed mouths don't get fed. Always just ask

[Firebase @Firebase]

You write the queries. We do the rest. 😎

We can't wait to see the incredible gen AI workflows you've built with your app's data using Firebase Data Connect!

Share your show-and-tell below ⤵️ and inspire others with your creativity.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A mentor told me this years ago and I’ll never forget it:

There’s someone out there living the life you want simply because they took action and you didn’t.

You don’t need more information. If information were the problem, everyone would be rich, fit, and madly in love.

Your entire life will change the moment you stop gathering more information and start acting on the information you already have.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

In Bragg's first 15 months on the job, the Manhattan DA's office filed 166 felony counts for falsifying business records against 34 defendants from all walks of life.

I haven't heard a single Republican politician explain why they think the law shouldn't apply to Donald Trump.

A grand jury of ordinary Americans decided there was enough "specified criminal conduct" to indict Donald Trump.

Another jury of ordinary Americans decided there was enough evidence to convict Donald Trump - a jury approved by Trump and his lawyers, who were given ample opportunity to present their case, call witnesses, and get their day in court.

Is it the position of Republican politicians that they can only be tried for breaking the law if the charges are brought by Republican DAs, the case is heard by a Republican judge, and the verdict is rendered by a Republican jury?

If so, just be honest and say that.

[Groq @GroqLLC]

We just got a little bit faster 😀

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. According to many billionaires, political pundits, and media figures, US universities are now vehicles for "woke" indoctrination

These institutions, they argue, are focused on teaching students about systemic racism, trans rights, and other "woke" topics

There is never any evidence to support these claims

It's all anecdotes and vibes.

So, let's look at the DATA

🧵

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Truth Social has a market value of $11 billion.

Reddit meanwhile only has a valuation of $6.4 billion, despite generating 160x more revenue last year.

Seems legit.

[Saïd Aitmbarek @SaidAitmbarek]

So happy guys: we crossed 30k visits on https://t.co/7uMrMk7NTD🤩

what a milestone, it took us ~2 months, mostly thanks to the Product Hunt launch I must admit🙏

time to make the most out of the post-launch momentum now😌

Next steps
- exploring new social channels
- multiplying partnerships with maker communities and other platforms, influencers
- improving the SEO

Not sure Ads would work, should I try them?

Growing can feel slow sometimes, but we have to believe in our vision until it happens💪

Let's make https://t.co/7uMrMk7NTD a unique place for product makers and people who love tech products👨‍🚀💫

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: US investigators say that footage of work on the Boeing 737 MAX 9 door plug, which was involved in the Alaska Airlines mid-air emergency, has been 'overwritten'.

[Bloomberg @business]

Electricity in Spain is almost free as the nation’s wind and solar parks are churning out more power than ever https://t.co/fPOIR0UfId

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

<long post, alert> Incredibly important conversation going on right here. I know so many admirers of @elonmusk - including me, I'll admit it - who are perplexed and dismayed by his recent relentless drift toward people whose opinions he himself would have regarded as extreme a year ago.
@chuckcook has been a tireless champion for Tesla and its FSD roll-out. When you start losing people like him, it surely... surely... should be some kind of reality check. Elon argues that Chuck is ignoring the existential risk to American civilization. But I think the biggest risk to that civilization comes from unbridgeable political division, and Elon's latest provocations here are actually making the problem worse. There was a time, early in the Twitter/X takeover when Elon was arguing convincingly that the loudest voices where at the extremes, and he, along with 80%+ of America and the world did not share those opinions.

But now, to many of us, it seems that he's being pulled closer and closer to extreme opinion. In today's world, dismay and disgust are more powerful motivators than love and support. So this move can only be negative-sum in terms of Elon's overall influence. He is gaining a few new rabidly enthusiastic supporters. But losing far, far more. It's pretty heartbreaking to see.

I really think this is a moment when those who care most about Elon - his friends, his family, board members, anyone he might listen to - need to step up and urge him to rediscover the possibility that people like Chuck have his best interests at heart.

Elon, I happen to believe you could be on the verge of achieving astonishing things with X. In many ways the platform has advanced under your ownership (Community Notes my favorite example). It continues to innovate at incredible speed, despite - or because - of having only a quarter of the workforce it had. This is a genuinely incredible achievement and flies in the face of much of the snarking among progressives.

But I really think you're in danger of handing your enemies victory after all, just by making it harder and harder for anyone remotely in the center to listen to you. You said something brilliant when you first took over this platform. You said you wanted to maximize unregretted user-minutes. This is exactly the right metric.

But the tragedy right now is that for literally millions of people, the minutes they regret most when they come to X are... your posts. It's not just what they say, nor their aggressive tone. It's the fact they come from you, the powerful owner of the platform. To be clear, I'm not talking about all of your posts... there are still plenty featuring imaginative humor and exciting tech revelations. But too many come over as ignoring basic human values of respect and kindness. You won the admiration of countless millions around the world by opening up new possibilities for a genuinely exciting future. Many of those millions, I'm pretty certain, feel heartbroken and betrayed by your latest moves.

There is a way to articulate the beliefs you have about the risks of unfettered immigration, and the over-reach of wokeness, without needlessly antagonizing so many.

You own the playground. You cannot become the playground bully.

Please don't write this off, Elon. There's a better way where you can champion vigorous debate on this platform from all sides without letting yourself constantly get dragged into the mire.

Meanwhile... I'm with Chuck.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Ding ding ding. Well said. And the activism applies to all angles.

I guess I believe in free markets more than most “influencers” on this platform.

If a business (not referring to colleges at all so stop getting all excited about Harvard lol ) does DEI well they will outperform others.

But I have to ask all the anti DEI acolytes. Is trying to create “equal outcomes” for employees even possible for an OPERATING, FOR PROFIT company ?

Seems to me it’s ridiculous to even try because it makes no sense for an operating business trying to maximize profits in a competitive industry

Pay everyone the same every year ? No incentives or rewards for individual performance? Does any FOR PROFIT OPERATING company actually do this ? I don’t think it’s possible. I don’t know of any that have tried it.

For all of you who think “woke ideology “ has pressured operating for profit companies to try, can you point them out to me with details. Not just some reference to equal outcomes that you don’t understand the context for. But actual operating references.

For example. A company that adheres to an equal outcomes theory would have to have to be like a government entity where everyone fits into a pre defined pay grade. Maybe there are some out there but I have yet to deal with one in any of the tens of thousands of businesses I have dealt with

And if they are out there they would most likely publish the details of how they achieve equal outcomes in their EEO reports or SEC filings or in reports to shareholders or customers/stakeholders. I would love to see examples.

TIA!