Rico Vrolijk

The sun rises for free. So use it!

In a sustainable energy society, where everyone has unlimited access to power, no one will have power over another.
$TESLA

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

South America is moving away from socialism, after having tried it.

North America is moving toward socialism, having never tried it.

We shouldn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to tie 10 different types of knots

[🪢 eleanorduncan34]

[Tesla Manufacturing @gigafactories]

10 million vehicles produced globally.
Congrats to all Tesla teams!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Stayin’ Alive

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Peter Thiel a raconté un moment assez fou.

En 2024, Elon a compris quelque chose de simple et brutal :
même s’il réussissait à mettre des humains sur Mars,
le socialisme et le woke mind virus le suivraient jusque-là.

Mars n’est plus seulement un projet technique.
C’est devenu un projet politique.
Et tant que le logiciel de civilisation est cassé sur Terre, la main quest reste locked.

Du coup il a basculé.
Il traite maintenant le problème à la racine.

Voici à peu près l’arbre de quêtes actuel.

Main quest : Humanity on Mars (locked)
Side quests actives :
- Expose the woke mind virus
- Break legacy media
- Restore free speech
- Defeat censorship
- End globalist narratives
- Protect children from indoctrination
- Rebuild healthy relationships
- Restore truth
- Dismantle bureaucracy
- Free Europe from centralized control
- Reward builders and innovators
- Rebuild institutional confidence
- etc.

C’est long.
C’est sale.
Mais c’est le seul chemin.

Parce que les mauvaises idées ne restent jamais sur Terre.
Elles te suivent partout.

Elon a décidé de les affronter ici.
Et il ne lâchera pas.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Peter is not correct about me in this case.

I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.

A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!

Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.

This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.

Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.

That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!

Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla has released a new video of FSD avoiding accidents/savings lives.

[Tesla Latinoamérica @Tesla_LatAm]

¡Hola, Uruguay – estamos aca! 🇺🇾

https://t.co/QG7m7iv0oY

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Right-wing wave in Europe.

France 🇫🇷: Marine Le Pen now leading polls to be next President.

Austria 🇦🇹: the Freedom Party is leading the polls massively at almost 40%

Germany 🇩🇪: The AfD party now consistently number ONE in polls.

Norway 🇳🇴: The Libertarian FrP party leading the polls by a wide margin.

Something is changing in Europe.

[Philippe Martin @PhyByte]

🚀 China just made history and did it in a way no one else has.
Today, the new Long March-10B rocket completed its maiden flight from Hainan, successfully delivering a satellite to orbit. But the real milestone?
For the first time ever during an orbital launch, China recovered the massive first-stage booster at sea. Not by landing it on legs like SpaceX, but by catching it mid-air with a giant tensioned net/cable system on a recovery ship. A perfect net catch on the very first attempt.
This breakthrough brings China into the exclusive club of nations capable of reusing orbital-class rockets. It will dramatically lower launch costs and increase flight cadence for the Long March 10 family, which is designed to support China's crewed lunar program.
What to expect from the Chinese space program:

Rapid iteration on reusable tech (they plan to re-fly this booster by the end of 2026)
Accelerated lunar ambitions (crewed landings in the 2030s)
Heavy competition for SpaceX in both cost and launch rate
Growing commercial and national space capabilities across LEO, lunar, and beyond

The space race is heating up. China is no longer just catching up. They're innovating alternative paths.

#ChinaSpace #LongMarch10B #ReusableRocket #SpaceX #Space

[Gary Mark⚡️Blue Sky Kites  𝕏 🈴 @blueskykites]

The Chinese rocket booster was caught using a constricting cable net system.

[Tim Draper @TimDraper]

My partner Steve Jurvetson spent his nights and weekends launching rockets. Totally obsessed.

So I told him, "Find us the best rocket company."

Three weeks later he came back.

"The best rocket company is Elon's."

My first reaction: "Isn't he supposed to be running Tesla?" We already had a big investment in Tesla, but we heard him out.

In that meeting, you could feel it. His mission in life was to make humanity multi-planetary. Tesla was a means to an end.

So we became the first money in after Elon's own $100 million and an investment from Founders Fund.

Just before we invested, the first few rockets had exploded on the launch pad.. but then a Falcon 1 lifted off and worked. It launched one small satellite for Malaysia, and then it was retired.

Falcon 9 was the true workhorse, which good customers came for later over time.

Eventually there were contracts everywhere, and Elon Musk began his journey to make us multiplanetary.

A mission like "we're going to Mars" attracts the best engineers in the world. People take a new job to solve a problem they'll tell their grandkids about.

When Kennedy said we choose to go to the moon, the technologies that came out of that effort changed everything on Earth.

Same thing is happening now. Starlink exists because Elon Musk is building to get us to Mars.

If the mission is grand enough, innovations that happen along the way will enhance and may even redefine the business.

Thanks to Bonnie Blockchain for having me on!

[Tesla @Tesla]

23 years ago, we set out to prove that electric cars could be great – not just great electric cars, but the best cars overall.

We’ve gone from one electric sports car to 
– Over 9 million vehicles on the road

– Model Y becoming the world’s best-selling car of any kind only 3 years after first deliveries  

– 5 Gigafactories & other manufacturing sites across 3 continents

– The largest & most reliable fast charging network w/ over 80,000 Superchargers globally 

– Energy generation & storage systems helping power homes & grids (over 1 million Powerwalls installed, 70+ GWh of industrial energy storage operating globally across 2,200+ projects)

Today, we’re bringing AI into the real world with autonomy @Tesla_AI and robotics @Tesla_Optimus. 

Tesla is only getting started – a world of amazing abundance awaits

[Tesla @Tesla]

Engineering tests of the first production Cybercab have begun in Austin

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals driving around Austin

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

“The fraud is not real”

Today: 455 fraudsters charged, $6.5 billion exposed

*silent*

Society will never improve until people and the media can look at issues with a logical perspective of: Is this right or wrong to be happening?

EXPOSE IT ALL

[C Bergquam🇺🇸 @Tweets_by_Clay]

@DOGE @alx

[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.