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[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: “We constantly update the software to improve how airbags deploy in Tesla vehicles. Your car creates a custom airbag deployment plan in real time, based on your weight and posture.”

[The Patriot Oasis™ @ThePatriotOasis]

🔥🚨 BOOM! — President Trump just dropped a TRUTH NUKE on the sitiution unfloding in France:

Q: "Mr. President, France has free healthcare, free childcare, a 35-hour work week, and 5 weeks paid vacation."

"Despite all that, people are looting and burning down parts of their cities. Do you think spending a little more on education is going to stop this?"

TRUMP: "NO! It's NOT about education. It's about immigration. It's about illegal people coming in who basically hate France. They hate the people. They hate everything."

"They hate the architecture!"

Rioters have largely destroyed Limoges’ 143-year-old town hall, with the spire burned, and set fire to Lyon’s tourist office housed in a historic 19th-century building.

They are erasing the landmarks and history that define France.

This is what happens when a nation imports the third world and refuses to enforce order — France is no longer France.

[Chansoo Byeon @Chansoo]

Top Gear got the blindfold reveal of the new Tesla Roadster. "Oh my word." 🚀

• Tesla says a 200 L COPV at ~10,000 psi feeds the thrusters, for "roughly the same thrust as a fighter jet"
• Thrust launch: 0-60 in under a second, and it's one shot per fill
• Tom: "beautifully pointless." Lars: Elon has always called it "the cherry on top"
• 1 MW standard car, and a 330 mph version is in the works ("it's just gearing")
• Rocket edition: one seat, a 400 L tank where the passenger would sit, six extra thrusters. Can it hover? "You'll see tomorrow."
• Tom's verdict: a Bugatti Veyron moment. "Hold my beer."

🎥 @BBC_TopGear @Tesla @woodhaus2 @larsmoravy @elonmusk @wholemars @SawyerMerritt

0:00 Blindfold reveal
0:33 200 L at 10,000 psi
0:43 "Thrust of a fighter jet"
0:56 Beautifully pointless
1:24 Rocket: one seat, 400 L, 6 thrusters
1:40 "You'll see tomorrow"
2:21 "Hold my beer"

[The Cybertruck Guy @cybrtrkguy]

Haggerty has released an insider’s look to the Roadster.

It’s a work of art.

https://t.co/Ai6F8OtxwM

[Tesla @Tesla]

Roadster https://t.co/G0jU4mWfid

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

One guy just cloned $100 billion worth of Adobe software in about a week. Then he put all of it on GitHub for free.

The project is called ArtCraft. Brandon Thomas, a software engineer with 15 years in the industry, pushed his first commit on September 30. Within days there were working open source versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat, all written in Rust, with Claude Opus doing most of the typing. He built them clean-room too, the project actually bans decompiled code.

Here's where it gets interesting for anyone who thinks Adobe is finished.

A free Photoshop has existed since 1996. It's called GIMP. Adobe grew from $4.8 billion to $23.8 billion in revenue with it sitting one download away the entire time. The money comes from the .psd files every client sends you, the plugin ecosystem, the enterprise contracts, and 30 years of muscle memory baked into millions of hands. None of that showed up in a GitHub repo last week.

Thomas says so himself. His own status notes put PhotoCraft at maybe a third of professional workflows, with around 20 tools missing and zero plugin support.

Wall Street already did this math two years ago. Adobe peaked near $300 billion in 2021 and trades around $100 billion today, even while revenue grew 13% last quarter and recurring revenue hit $27.5 billion. The stock got crushed on the expectation of AI clones long before one existed.

So what actually changed last week? The price of the first 70%. Getting a mature app to "mostly works" used to take a funded team years. Now one guy with a coding agent does it in days. The last 30%, the color management, codec licensing, and print workflows that studios bet their businesses on, took Adobe three decades. That's still where the money is.

And if your startup pitch is "we have proprietary technology," that sentence stopped being fundable this week. Somebody can rebuild your product between two Mondays. Distribution and owning the workflow are the moats that survive, and the companies holding those just watched their hand get stronger.

[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

[Minor @MinorOptions]

@TexasTSLA Car play sucks

[Pete Petrovsky 🔋⚡️🚘🇦🇺 Tesla Ahead of the Curve @ahead_of_curve]

The most dangerous thing most people will do today, this week, this month, or this year is sit in a car. @OppenheimJason co-owner of the Oppenheim Group — $5 billion in real estate sales — just got rid of his Bentley. Here’s what he had to say in the “most important video he’s ever posted”. 👇

[timeless performances @performtimeless]

When Radiohead unexpectedly played 'Creep' after avoiding it for almost 7 years

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "You may not get a chance very often, but any calls you get on Sunday you're probably going to make money on. Things are really screwed up if you're getting calls on Sunday. All you have to do is make sure you're the callee and not the caller."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Nike signed Messi when he was 14. They lost him over a few hundred dollars worth of tracksuits, a mistake now estimated at $10 billion in brand value.

In 2005, Messi's father Jorge asked Nike for some extra tracksuits for his son, a routine request from the family of an 18-year-old who had just broken into Barcelona's first team. Nike's Iberian and South American offices both ignored it. He never got a reply.

Adidas was paying attention. They offered around $1 million a year, and Nike refused to match because they didn't want a bidding war over a teenager. They were busy building their 2006 World Cup campaign around established stars.

Once the Adidas deal leaked, Nike panicked and sued in Spanish court, claiming a binding contract. The judges found all Nike had was a "commitment letter" with no legal weight. Messi signed with Adidas in February 2006, and in 2017 they gave him a lifetime deal.

So when he walks out at El Monumental on October 6 for his final Argentina match, in front of 84,000 people, the gold-lettered farewell jersey he revealed today will carry three stripes.

Twenty years, 125 international goals, a World Cup, and every shirt sold along the way. All of it went to Adidas because someone at Nike didn't answer an email about tracksuits.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The movie Sam Altman tried to stop you from seeing is coming

He pressured Amazon Studios into dropping 'Artificial' when they were investing in OpenAI, but it's hitting cinemas on Christmas Day

Time for some popcorn

Writer: Ian

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Monster waves captured by photographer Ben Hartley at Nazaré, Portugal.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Nike was able to ride Jordan’s coolness for 30 years. His legendary “Failure” — probably best Nike ad ever — as came out in 1997.

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

In honor of Rick Santelli retiring from CNBC, enjoy one of his best live on air rants ever:

[Robotaxi Radar @RobotaxiRadar]

Full Cybercab tutorial video showing the entire customer experience 👀

[Dirty Flannel @DirtyFlannel90]

Yesterday I posted about how MTV Unplugged was a real challenge.

Get up on that small stage without the amps, without the wall of distortion, and see if you can still hold an audience.

Alice in Chains picked up the gauntlet.

They passed with flying colors.

April 1996, Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Layne Staley was already deep in the struggle, but that voice still cut through everything. Jerry Cantrell’s guitar work stayed sharp and heavy even when it was stripped down.

The whole band sounded locked.

“Rooster” was the one that hit hardest.

No theatrics.

No hiding.

Just the song, the weight of it, and a room that went completely still.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

This is the first time Guns N' Roses ever played "Patience" live, a cramped room at CBGB, October 1987, about 100 people watching.

Appetite was stalled at #65. Axl's reading the lyrics off a sheet because they'd just written it. Weeks later, everything changed.

[best of better call saul @bestofsaulgood]

Nacho dies free because he chooses the terms of his death
He'd gotten out. He beat the Twins, he was clear. Then he stops and calls his father. And his father tells him what he's told him a hundred times. Go to the police. What else is there to say? And hangs up

Nacho stands there crying. Then he calls Mike and arranges his own execution, on one condition. His father stays safe

He walks back into the fire on purpose

In the desert he gives them the script. Peruvians. Money. Everything Gus needs him to say. Then he goes off it. He calls Gus the Chicken Man to his face, too weak to do this himself. He tells the Cousins he'd have done all of it for free, because he hated them. He looks at Hector and tells him whose hand swapped the pills. Think of me while you're sucking down Jello in the nursing home, you twisted fuck

Then he cuts his ties with a shard of glass he'd palmed days earlier, takes Bolsa's gun, and holds it on him just long enough to see every face in that circle

He turns it on himself instead

Mando saw it clearly. Every man standing in that desert is already dead. They just don't know it yet. Dead men watching the first man die

They all came to decide how Nacho went. Not one of them got to