We wouldn’t have the free speech we have online today without Elon Musk.
He bought Twitter, turned it into X, and now it’s the greatest platform on Earth.
Meanwhile Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram have been censoring conservatives since 2016, and nothing has really changed.
Elon went the other direction, and X has blown past them with stuff they probably never even imagined doing.
So spare me the hypocrisy.
Y’all can enjoy Facebook and whatever propaganda your masters feed you.
I’m sticking with X.
I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.
The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing.
The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path.
There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now.
AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo?
That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it.
But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter.
Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.
Our unboxed process for Cybercab assembles vehicle modules in parallel & frames the car in one step at the end.
This streamlines automation & reduces the line size by half, unlocking much greater production capacity.
The first real revolution in automotive manufacturing in over a century
🚨 ELON MUSK'S BOMBSHELL!
He just dropped the phrase that's going to change EVERYTHING:
Starlink will have a single account that covers your home antenna (with Wi-Fi included) AND your cell phone too.
“SpaceX is going to give you high-speed internet DIRECT from the satellite to your phone… no middlemen.”
When this blows up, you'll be able to watch high-definition videos standing in the middle of nowhere, in any corner of the planet.
This isn't “the future” anymore…
It's happening NOW!
Who's ready to say goodbye to dead zones?
Before @ElonMusk bought Twitter, you couldn't notice that foreigners committed most of the group rapes in Germany, despite being just 15% of the population. By lifting censorship, says @Pauline__Voss, Musk unleashed a “vibe shift” that led to @AfD's historic victory.