John Haestad

Retired CEO/Software Engineer

[Alexis Roos @alexisroos]

Desinfornation on X?
What do you think Meta did on Covid vaccines while you were there and you that you supported publicly numerous times?
I worked for X at the time (pre Elon) and saw first hand how social media was manipulated and did my best to push out.
You should get off your high moral horse and be more critical. Look at how well democracy is going in France right now because people are not willing to analyze problems objectively anymore ..

[James Rhodes 🇺🇸 @Jim__Rhodes]

"racist ideas"

Like what? That white people are inherently evil and responsible for all the evil in the world?

Oh wait, that’s a tenet of the ideology held by the left.

You have the audacity to speak of human decency. You people are literally the worst of the worst.

[John Haestad @JHaestad]

Yann, your condescending dismissal of Elon Musk is astonishing.

SpaceX transformed access to space. Starlink connects millions, including people in war zones and disaster areas. Tesla accelerated the EV revolution and grid-scale energy storage. Neuralink is giving people with paralysis new independence.

And FSD has now accumulated over 15 BILLION real-world miles. Tesla reports dramatically fewer collisions with FSD engaged. Consider the lives potentially saved, the severe injuries avoided, the families spared suffering, and the billions in medical costs, lost productivity, and property damage that safer driving eliminates.

The humanitarian implications are extraordinary.

As for the Roadster, must everything be commercially practical? It represents imagination, engineering ambition, humor, and optimism. Sending a Roadster into solar orbit was a wonderful piece of ART!!!

And I find your criticism of X particularly ironic given your senior position at Meta during years of controversial content moderation. Aka CENSORSHIP. Free expression includes speech you dislike.

Your academic contributions are substantial, Yann. But before talking down to Elon, consider a few questions:

How many lives have your innovations saved? How much suffering have they prevented? How many trillions of dollars of economic value have they created?

Elon has repeatedly turned improbable ideas into functioning technologies that benefit humanity.

You don’t have to admire the man, Yann. But if you had a little common sense, you would. The contempt is unbecoming of a scientist of your stature.

[John Haestad @JHaestad]

Dave — I’m very bullish on LLY and have a lot of admiration for how you’ve led the company. I don’t think this one needed to be said, though. The take is pretty self-evident, and the post ends up feeling like more of a dig at the people watching the company closely than anything else.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: While France burns, Polish Member of European Parliament Dominik Tarczynski is WALKING THROUGH Krakow LATE at night, showing all of Europe it's PERFECTLY CALM

"Look how safe we are. Churches are safe. Because we did not let them in. Zero means zero. 'Be like Poland' means be brave." 🇵🇱🇺🇸

"We know what jihadists are capable of. We do not know what second or third generation of so-called refugees will do. Well, actually we do know... we can see what is happening in France."

There are no riots, no burning buildings and no police lines

Poland refused the EU's migrant relocation quotas, and the EU's top court ruled against it. Poland didn't budge!

In the same 24 hours, France's major streets and businesses are burning and being ransacked by leftists, Islamists and invaders

EVERY NATION CAN BE LIKE THIS. It's a matter of CHOICE

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Hedge fund with an indoctrination camp on the side.

[John Haestad @JHaestad]

@AnthropicAI What you consider the public good? No thanks.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.

This will be the first of many.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Man Frustrated By Gas Prices Votes To Start Castrating Kids Again https://t.co/0ZirmXHPXF

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

ok they leaned a little too hard into asian lesbian

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.

Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.

Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.

La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

How do I stay optimistic while reading 100+ stories a week (Including the negative ones)? For me, optimism is a conclusion that I can keep re-deriving from evidence. Perhaps once the data proves me wrong, I'll change; however, forty years in, I've never been this excited about the future.

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

I love this app 🤣🤣🤣

[Chris Camillo @ChrisCamillo]

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.

[John Haestad @JHaestad]

@ChrisCamillo Well said Chris. It's also art. We are so lucky to have Elon.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Premise:

Incentives drive all human behavior.

The corollary:

How to destroy a country:

A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.

An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.

An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.

Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.

The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.

Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.

The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.

The state responding to protests by increasing social support.

The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.

Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.

Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.

Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.

Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.

Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.

The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.

A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.

The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.

The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.

A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.

The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.

Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.

Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.

The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.

Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.

And so on…

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

This version of America was destroyed by the radical left

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@tbpn @WalterIsaacson Nobody’s perfect

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incentives drive outcomes

[Dave A Ricks @DaveARicks]

Two souls are dead because they self administered something purporting to be the most powerful metabolic agent ever developed - without medical supervision, before the inventor has asked for approval and sourced from a Chinese “lab” seeking to make a quick buck.

Peptide World - “Lilly made this up”.