Ben Tusa

SysAdmin by trade, lover of performance cars and track days, occasional gamer and family man.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

We've been exploring how clinical trial participants can control a powered wheelchair — with their minds.

Here's how we’re doing it 🧵

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

ELON MUSK: “My political views are very centrist. They’re not far right. Frankly, calling them far right is an insult to history and an insult to many people. It is an outrageous falsehood. It’s completely absurd. I have literally stated my position, and I’ve been very clear about this: there need to be secure borders.

If there’s an influx of immigrants, then they need to be people who agree with Western ideals and Western values. If there is long-term growth of people who do not, or in some cases are adamantly opposed to Western values, you are setting yourself up for civil war. This is obvious. A child can see this, but this is not a right wing view. I'm simply stating reality.”

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

According to the media, “far right” means:

- you don’t want to get beheaded by a migrant
- you’re against chopping off kids’ body parts
- keep criminals in prison
- dead people shouldn’t receive welfare

Guess I’m “far-right” 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t care what they call me. They hold no power anymore. These are all sensible positions. The Democratic party has just been conquered by the radical left.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data.

Miles per major collision:
• Teslas Driven With FSD (Supervised): 5,690,675
• Teslas Driven Manually (Active Safety Features): 2,076,014
• Teslas Driven Manually (No Active Safety Features): 859,465
• U.S. Average: 698,781

Total major collisions:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 1,255
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 17,380
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 239
• U.S. average: 4,646,404

Total miles logged:
• Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 7,141,797,525
• Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 36,081,121,994
• Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 205,412,073
• U.S. drivers overall: 3,246,817,000,000

Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experienced ~7x fewer major collisions than those driving without it on.

This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The data reflects a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions.

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

David @friedberg explains the rise of socialism and the hypocrisy of @RoKhanna:

"It's a lot easier to claim an enemy and get elected, than it is to fix a difficult policy problem."

"Ro Khanna is the perfect example of this."

"This is some dude who has a $300M net worth. His children have memberships at 3 country clubs."

"The dude lives in a $10M house in Washington, DC."

"And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, 'Give me your money. I'm a moderate. We're going to make the Democratic Party work for you.'"

"Then he saw the tides change, and he's like, 'Oh, this is yum, yum. I'm going to run for president in 2028.'"

"Just to be clear on this, he is so unlikable, I think he'll likely end up being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development if AOC is elected president."

"I do not disagree with him or Gavin or anyone else that tax policy in America is fucked up."

"When billionaires borrow against their unrealized capital gains, they should pay capital gains tax. Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15% or 18% or 20%. In fact, labor should pay less. Income tax should be much lower. Capital gains should be much higher. That would be a fair tax policy."

"I don't know a lot of people who are wealthy who will look me in the eye and truly disagree with that."

"It's a lot of bullshit when we all say, 'It incentivizes investment.' Great, it incentivizes investment. What are you going to do with your excess capital if the tax rate is 40% versus 20%? You're not gonna invest it now? Of course you're going to fucking invest it."

"But instead of those practical solutions like I just laid out, they're all like, 'Let's go fire up the fucking socialist train because it's worked so well in fucking Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union and all these other places.'"

"What both parties are missing is a policy agenda that says: Here's the shit we have to do to keep America from going down the socialist death spiral. And they all should be fucking doing it, both sides."

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

$220 billion a year 🤯 no wonder they’re opposed to autonomy

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Wow 🦬 😂

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Trial lawyers’ biggest lobby (AAJ) is trying to block self-driving cars.

Why?

Because robotaxis slash crashes by 90%, and their billion-dollar lawsuit gravy train dries up.

They’d rather you die in traffic than lose their cut.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 BILL MAHER: I’M OUT — DEMOCRATS GONE FULL RADICAL

Even Bill Maher is tapping out.

“Democrats are cowardly… Their party is being TAKEN OVER by radicals. When we’re cheering for the Intifada, I’M OUT.”

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Meanwhile, in a "blue" state...

[JoshTweeted @JoshTweeted]

And they run around not scoring for 90 minutes?

Thats correct, Dave.

They have to be pretty tough, though, right?

They actually flop around faking injuries pretty frequently.

So nobody watches it?

Biggest sport in the world, Dave.

[Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood]

Water use is just not a credible argument against the growth of AI data centers. It is misinformation.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

U.S. data centers require:

30x less water than U.S. golf courses.
100x less than California almonds.
200x less than U.S. home lawns.
2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation.

Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody.

China does not feel threatened by your lawn.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Do legacy media outlets typically use headlines involving the make of a car in a crash or is that only for Tesla?

It would be one thing if the self-driving malfunctioned but the crash was purely human-induced.

Seems like these outlets want to associate Tesla with crashes as part of a narrative and overall political agenda.

[Fmr. Rep. Jason Isaac @ISAACforEnergy]

If you're opposed to data centers, make a pledge to stop using everything they power.

Go ahead... we'll wait.

A no-data-center pledge = guaranteed misery.

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

Climate doomer fact check!!!

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Vodka > Beer 😂😂😂

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

We must ban golf courses immediately…

Golf courses vs Data centers: