Starman Jones 🇺🇸

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

When you stare into the abyss, anything can happen.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@TradeBrigadeCo Cashiopeia.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@For_Film_Fans That closing image of the Tonight Show stage with the spotlight on the curtains....

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

Brilliant.

[Marce___Vann__ @MarceVann]

Sto guardando in loop per la quindicesima volta e ho ancora le lacrime 🙈

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@RobLogic ¡Olé!

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@elonmusk "Write what you want about me, just spell the name right." -P.T. Barnum, Babe Ruth, et al.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I see how some people can watch flashy robot demos on the timeline and think with a shiver that the robot apocalypse is around the corner, but reality check:

There is no robot in the world that can change the batteries in a jack-o-lantern.

If you have a robot friendly door handle it might be able to walk outside, pick it up, and carry it back inside. The robot could open the drawer with your batteries in it, but then things get tough.

Opening the package of AA batteries?
Extracting a precision screwdriver from its case?
Unscrewing four tiny screws that require a hard press and twist?
Popping batteries out of the case?

Yes, you could build and train a specialist robot to do that today, but there is a very long way to go to replace the full range of human capabilities. Near term doomer scenarios should stop at “secretly controlling humanity” instead of “wiping humanity out” 😀

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis basically predicted (and warned against) short-form global media

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@stats_feed @elonmusk @CyrusTheGreat He said every kid in America, not every American kid.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.

📽: NASA Johnson

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@swingingstonks @grok @paxtrader777 @SJosephBurns True. Jesse Livermore was a plunger. Said so himself. Grok's just spouting doctrine on this subject.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

Quotable quotes.

[HeiLender™ @Heilenderer]

"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche."
Michigan Savings Bank, 1903

"Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer."
Thomas Watson, 1943

"No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
Steve Ballmer, 2007

"Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät."
Paul Krugman, 1998

"Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich."
Lord Kelvin, 1895

"Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein"
Bill Gates, 2004

"Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren."
Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946

"Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte."
Ken Olson, 1977

"Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören."
Erasmus Wilson, 1878

"Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen."
William Preece, 1876

"Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen."
Lee De Forest, 1957

"Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden."
Dionysius Lardner, 1830

"Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen."
Thomas Edison, 1889

"Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen."
Marty Cooper, 1981

#TeslaRoadster
#Tesla

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@robert73624 @CarolynWRockey Saving that for eye exercise. Track the rope and stay ahead of the curve, if you can.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩

Top speed: about 25,000 mph

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@elonmusk @ArthurMacwaters Well, the robots will have a base and we'll have the robots. Not quite the same thing.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@FinalTelegraph Dividing everyone into two classes, the ruling and the ruled, makes you a divider, a pusher of Us vs. Them. You've tripped into the trap.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@mikepat711 I've been working with Grok Bot for a few weeks -- at nowhere near this level of know-how, of course, but wow, I never thought I'd live long enough to actually participate in The Future.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Google is now prompting users on its homepage to set up a selfie video to sign into their account. You record a short video of your face from different angles. Google says it's an optional backup sign-in method. The setup page says the video may also determine if you're "old enough to use certain Google services."
An optional toggle lets Google use your video to "improve facial recognition, age estimation, and other verification methods that use your physical features or movement, across Google services."

My Take
Passwords work. Two-factor authentication works. Google already knows your phone number, your location, your search history, and your email. Now they want a 3D map of your face. They've positioned it as a convenience feature so you can get back into your account if you're locked out. But the fine print says they can use it for age verification and, if you opt in, to train facial recognition across all of Google's services.

You can change a password. You can get a new phone number. You can't change your face. Once Google has a 3D video scan of it, that data exists forever in their systems. Google used CAPTCHAs to train image recognition for years before most people realized it. The selfie video is the same idea with much more personal data attached. I don't think it stays optional for long. Every one of these starts as optional until enough people set it up, and then it becomes required for "security purposes."
If you see this prompt, click "don't set up" and move on.

Hedgie🤗

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@ATPTour_ES @fergonzalezel Wow. This guy out-Federered Federer. Brilliant.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@Luke_twit @CharlesSchwab Fixed it by turning off PIA VPN.

[Starman Jones 🇺🇸 @JP_Dimick]

@Luke_twit @CharlesSchwab I'm getting that error right now, as the Fed hiked .25.