Jason Zheng

Economist

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

Insane

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.

This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.

The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.

Welcome to Califraudia.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 Europe go get some airconditioning oh my God!

Writer: Oliver

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders thinks it’s hilarious that a 5% wealth tax would still leave @ElonMusk with “just” $737 billion to “survive” on.

Spoken like a man who’s spent his entire adult life in government, never built a company, never created a single scalable job, and never turned an idea into trillions in real economic value for society.

Elon’s net worth isn’t a vault of gold coins he’s sitting on. It’s mostly stock in companies that are actually moving the needle on energy, transportation, and space.

Things governments have been promising and failing at for decades.

The sarcasm reveals the entire game: punish the people who create the wealth, pretend the government will magically spend it better, and act shocked when the engine of progress stalls.

Keep coping, Bernie. The future is being built by the people you resent, not the ones who’ve spent 40 years complaining about them.

Writer: Oliver

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon’s companies create far more value for society than if he simply donated his wealth (which is mostly tied up in Tesla & SpaceX stock) to charities:

• Neuralink: Brain-implant technology aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities, enabling users to control computers and robotic arms using their thoughts. Soon, they'll release their new Blindsight chip, while will enable blind people to see.
• Tesla: Accelerating the world toward a sustainable future and saving lives with self-driving cars
• Starlink: Bringing internet connectivity to remote areas worldwide
• The Boring Company: Reducing traffic & travel time
• And more

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

I feel fortunate to be alive and to witness Starship—space truly feels limitless

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Elon: Neuralink is "sort of what you might call Jesus-level technologies."

Neuralink will perform its first Blindsight implant later this year, giving vision to people who were born blind or have never been able to see.

Initially limited vision, but he expects it to improve over time to potentially superhuman levels.

The same technology is also being developed to help paralyzed patients walk again by bridging signals from the brain past the point of spinal damage.

Source: Reuters, @elonmusk

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

True

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy is pretty philanthropic.

Giving low income/rural or disaster/storm hit areas access to high-speed internet via Starlink is pretty philanthropic.

Giving disabled people the ability to control computers & robotic arms with their thoughts is pretty philanthropic.

@elonmusk's companies are doing more to improve quality of human life than any "charitable" giving from any other billionaire on that list.

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

Incredible—another step further into deep space

[NASA @NASA]

It's not just a phase 🌕

Artemis II astronauts captured these views of the Moon as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026.

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

If humans can move beyond their own squabbles on the earth surface

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

The world stopped to watch Artemis II.

Moments like this remind us what is possible and inspire the next generation to dream bigger and take us even further.

We are just getting started on this grand adventure. It is time to start believing again.

[Luis Batalha @luismbat]

In 2029, Apophis, a ~370m asteroid, will pass just ~31,000 km from Earth.

That’s ~1/10 the distance to the Moon.
Inside the orbit of geostationary satellites.
Visible to the naked eye.

Impact risk this time is low, but the flyby could shift its future trajectory.

A direct hit would mean a ~1 km crater and regional devastation.

That’s why becoming multiplanetary matters.

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

Are there alien bases on the far side of the moon?!!

[NASA @NASA]

It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕

Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home.

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

@farzyness I could not agree more

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

When blockchain meets AI, boring story :)

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

Tesla FSD is nothing short of magic. Just rented a Cybertruck, picked it up at the airport and it drove us directly to the Airbnb. None of the stress of a new city, new roads, new car. Had it for 5 days and never drove myself. It drove perfectly. So easy and liberating

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

Which version of tomorrow wins?!

[TheAfricanNerd @TheAfricanNerd]

A Tsunami may be coming for Uber, Waymo, Lyft and others.

If we assume price, availability and other key factors are roughly equal, the question becomes simple: which vehicle would you rather ride in? I think we all know the answer based on the image below and it's just not the amazing looks of Teslas. Rides in an autonomous Tesla feel 10 times more smoother than a Waymo. It feels like the same edge the iPhone iOS had on Android for darn near a decade. While I have a lot of respect for the likes of @BillAckman, @Jason and other Uber evangelists, the Uber network effect and distribution they always mention can be obliterated expeditiously once you realize that close to a quarter of a billion people follow @elonmusk and he has what feels like a rapidly growing mega army of fiercely passionate fan accounts that reach millions. This will soon create a UGC tsunami of testimonial videos that feed a powerful virality loop. This is one of the most potent forms of marketing and has the potential to lead to market domination, wiping out a few players.

$Uber is more susceptible than we think because since its early days, I’ve never met anyone who says they love Uber. While @travisk and @gc's marvelous technology get you from point A to B, it has been marred with consistent complaints about the ride experience. With no brand loyalty, mass exodus is a serious concern. This may help explain why Waymo has reportedly already captured ~25% market share in San Francisco.

I’ve ridden Waymo 15 times here in Miami. It felt like a phenomenal tech product — until I tested FSD in a Cybertruck and instantly fell in love. That gave me the same 2007 feeling of “the iPhone is coming.”

The work @dmitri_dolgov and @TechTekedra are doing is incredible, and the partnerships @dkhos is executing are impressive. But they all may never match Tesla because Tesla controls the entire stack — software, hardware, and design — the same way Apple did with the iPhone. And like Apple had Jony Ive, Tesla has @woodhaus2. That kind of tight integration is the perfect recipe for products people don’t just use — they love and desire.

You see, autonomous ride-hailing analysts are not factoring love and desire and that again reminds me of iPhone against BlackBerry and my beloved Palm phones and ironically I tried to warn Palm execs back then. 

And remember unlike Uber, BlackBerry had serious brand loyalty to the point that users called it CrackBerry. Even with this they got wiped out. All because Apple created a product people insanely loved and desired, proceeding to scale it, helping Apple become a $3.7 Trillion juggernaut. 

Feels like Tesla is doing this with the added perception of safer and smarter due to the power of these ever increasing testimonial videos of Teslas performing autonomous wizardry.

There may only be one real path forward for Uber, Waymo, and Lyft and I believe I know what it is based on tests I have run. I would love to discuss this with their execs, evangelists, and even Elon — if he wants total domination 😅.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Opinion in USA Today:

"If fighting climate change is your thing, Elon Musk is your friend ‒ no matter what you think of his politics or personal life; The whole “frak the 1%” tempest is a distraction used to manipulate the masses by politicians who want their votes and activists who want their money.

What really matters is what the rich contribute to society through their work, just like the rest of us. And Musk has given us electric vehicles that are among the world’s best, space exploration that is pushing the boundaries of where we can go and how we’ll get there, satellite internet that defies dictators and empowers the impoverished, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence that may deliver wonders that transform how we live and work. Not bad for a troll.

I can’t help but admire the companies he’s launched and the innovations he’s driven. If you have never had the privilege of watching a SpaceX rocket take off and land at Cape Canaveral, then get yourself to Florida. It’s an amazing sight.

Another of Musk’s wonders, Starlink, delivers high-speed internet access around the globe, including in places where rampant poverty or government oppression used to make online connections difficult.

And Tesla, despite liberals’ dirty looks, is still the most successful electric carmaker in the nation with the world’s largest economy. The progressive boycott of Tesla always seemed shortsighted to me for that reason."

[Jason Zheng @JasonZZheng2]

@CuriosityonX If life on Earth came from outer space, life could exist widely across the universe.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

BREAKING🚨: ALL FIVE types of nucleic acid bases, the building blocks of LIFE 'DNA and RNA', have been found in samples collected from asteroid Ryugu