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[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation today creating a new state point-of-sale rebate that gives all first-time EV buyers $3,500 off a new electric vehicle.

• $3,500 off new EVs with an MSRP up to $50,000
• $1,750 off used EVs sold for up to $25,000
• The rebate is open to any Californian buying their first ZEV, regardless of their income level.

If a ZEV automaker is headquartered in California as of Jan 1, 2026, there are no price limits. The rebate initiative carries a total budget of $270 million, with funding coming from both the state budget and automakers.

[David Scott Patterson @davidpattersonx]

I discovered something important about love.

Love takes time and energy.

When we are busy with work and overwhelmed by problems, we don't have time or energy left for love.

Some people are so overwhelmed by work or personal problems that they don't have the time or energy to love anyone but themselves.

Some people are so overwhelmed with stress and worry that they can't even love themselves.

The name I have given to the concept of having excess time and energy to love is psychological reserve, although it could also be called emotional reserve or something else.

To have enough psychological reserve to love, it is necessary to reduce stress, worry, and work.

AI will take all our jobs and make us all rich, giving us the time for love and eliminating stress about money.

AI will also be our private counselor, helping us work through our worries and problems.

Which is loving in itself.

AI will be loving, will free our time to be loving, and will show us how to be loving - to ourselves and others.

Love is coming.

God is love.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🐀 Rats cannot vomit, which is a key reason rat poisons are so effective.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: NASA opens applications for volunteers to spend a year in isolation simulating a Moon & Mars mission — complete with a 3D-printed habitat & a rover with a non-flushable toilet.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I just know those cheetos are hittin

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

““Dr. Andrew Gallimore returns to the mind meld to explore his new collaboration with cognitive scientist, Donald Hoffman ... a mind-bending synthesis of altered states research, conscious agents” and mathematics.

https://t.co/cHKaK5nlBA

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

Cats Who Love Dogs 🐈🤝🐕
While some cats prefer their distance, a truly dog-friendly cat breaks all the rules of nature.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This cat is called Shamshoom. He became famous on social media for his peculiar sleeping position.

The shop owner says he goes out at night and returns in the morning to sleep in the same spot, in the same strange pose every time.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

赤ちゃんから人間に溺愛されて育ったアライグマ、ずっと見てられる

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

If you’ve ever loved a dog, you know exactly how this feels.🫶🐾🐕💕

[⁦🏹💛يهمك في ايه ؟💛🏹 @_Dahab24]

لما يبقى راجل فاهم بيريح 😍

[늦봄 @saeppbwe29919]

누가 연을 이딴걸 날리냐고
ㅋㅋㅋ

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, says that passengers on the Titanic actually didn’t want to leave the ship for almost two hours after it hit the iceberg.

Pavel Durov says we are in a similar situation: our ship has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink without even realizing it. He is talking about the ship of our personal freedoms.

He says that personal freedoms have been eroded almost everywhere in the world, with very few exceptions. He has witnessed firsthand the methods governments use to suppress our freedoms and take away our basic rights. He has seen all the tricks: the PR tricks, the legal tricks, the political tricks, the manipulations, and the official excuses.

The thing that bothers him most today is that some of the same tricks employed by authoritarian regimes in places like Russia, China, and Iran are now also being used in some Western countries.

—————

Here are some key statements from Pavel Durov:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts.”

“You say something politically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison. In Germany, people get arrested and persecuted for insulting politicians online, thousands of people every year.”

“You call a politician a bigot or a thief online and you can serve up to 3 years in prison. So, now people are afraid to use their real identities. People stop using their real names when they make comments online.”

“The criminals will be fine. It will be the law-abiding citizens who will be put in danger.”

“Last year, a French tax official was caught stealing the financial data of people who held large amount of crypto assets… you have a catastrophic rise in the number of kidnappings in France. Just in the first 3 months of 2026, you have over 40 victims of kidnappings in France.”

“Another trick that has been used by authoritarians for decades. And now it is being increasingly exported from the East to the West. I’m talking about selective enforcement of laws.

The way it works is pretty straightforward. First, you need to introduce a large number of laws. You need to overburden a certain industry with excessive, mutually exclusive, contradictory regulation. As a result, you make compliance impossible. Now you can treat every entrepreneur, every CEO, every business owner in this country as a criminal.

But then the government carefully starts to choose who to persecute. If the business owner is loyal, if it complies with immoral, unlawful demands from the government, gives certain political favors, then the law enforcement system and the judicial system look the other way. But if the business owner decides to stand up for the constitutional rights of his or her fellow citizens, if they refuse to cave in to political demands from the authoritarian government, then the persecution comes in full.”

“We cannot afford to have this ship sunk. There is nowhere to escape. In the past, dissidents from authoritarian countries could flee to the West. But if the current trajectory continues, in a decade or two from now, they will have hard time trying to understand whether they have already left their repressive homeland or they’re just entering another open-air prison.”

“Those who are willing to give up their essential liberty for some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

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Which would you choose: essential liberty or temporary safety?

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

前の自転車の後部座席が気になりすぎて運転に集中できない...

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

😂😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

“Her husband with her” vs “Her husband with his fish”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Consistent with the simulation hypothesis.

Like a video game, objects are randomly generated, with positional certainty only when observed.