Robert Kidd

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NEW: California is launching a first-of-its-kind incentive program for first-time EV buyers.

Every state dollar will be matched by automakers — doubling the investment and delivering bigger point-of-sale savings for Californians.

As the federal government walks away from supporting American EV manufacturing, California is stepping up by backing good-paying jobs, strengthening U.S. manufacturing, and keeping America competitive.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@mnolangray Require a state map, similar to fire zones but for density, that identifies current and future urban environments and wilderness preserves and nature conservations and forces the conversation on the use of the land in between for the next 50 yrs at least

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

Global warming led climate change caused by humans

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

This is the kind of graph future documentaries pause on before saying, ‘By then, the warning signs were obvious.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@CohenSite Price elasticity provides a good perspective on many issues of modern life

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Everyone needs to see this!

Bill Maher to JD Vance: "Here's my deal breaker for your side. Okay. Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes in an election can be. Either we win, or they cheat it. That shit has to stop. "

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

$SPCX

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Elon Musk built one of the largest AI compute clusters on earth. Yann LeCun just explained why xAI now rents it out to rivals instead of winning with it. Musk has antagonized so much AI talent he structurally cannot hire the people he needs.

LeCun is not a critic on the sidelines. He won the Turing Award and ran AI at Meta for a decade. When he talks about who can and cannot build a frontier lab, he is describing his own world.

His verdict on xAI was blunt. He called it kind of a failure and did not soften it.

His reasoning had nothing to do with money. The founding team left or was fired. There is some uncertainty about which. Either way, the people who started the company are gone.

That is the part that matters. A frontier lab is its researchers. Lose them and the compute is just hardware.

By March, all eleven co-founders Musk recruited in 2023 had walked out. Researchers who came from DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI. Musk himself posted that xAI was not built right the first time and had to be rebuilt from the foundations up.

So Musk is left with one of the biggest clusters on earth and no way to win with it. He rents it out to other companies to recoup the cost.

The most expensive infrastructure in AI, built by someone who can no longer staff it.

Asked directly if xAI can compete at the frontier, LeCun gave a one word answer.

No.

What do you guys think about this?

Source: CNBC International Live

[Catholic HODL ✝️🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️ @PaxAeterna]

Look, we’re not Alabama or Georgia — those are the Frances, Argentinas, and Brazils. Blue-bloods with 5-star recruits since birth, multiple rings, and generational QBs (sorry, strikers) who make it look easy.

USMNT? We’re that spunky Group of 5 squad (Boise State with the blue turf vibes) that just went 2-0 in the group stage, clinched the “conference title,” and now gets a juicy home playoff path. We’re +3300 to win it all — basically “there’s a non-zero chance if the stars align, the blue bloods stub their toes, and our special teams (goalkeeping) don’t implode.”

We beat Paraguay like a directional school and shut out Australia like they were Vanderbilt on a bad day. Now we’re hosting at Levi’s Stadium with 70k screaming fans who actually know the fight song. The round of 32 looks like a gimme (Bosnia who?), but then Belgium shows up like a pissed-off Michigan in the quarterfinals.

Winning the whole thing? That’s Indiana Hoosiers national title territory — historic, glorious, and your group chat loses its mind. Most likely we make a fun run to the quarters or semis, everyone calls it a “moral victory,” and we still brag for the next 4 years.

But hey… stranger things have happened on the blue turf.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

The 'make affordable housing affordable again' movement is a winning bipartisan issue

[Alexis Rivas @alexisxrivas]

@sdamico Yes. Ironically, affordable housing requirements actually make housing less affordable.

[Brian Ross @brewmeone]

Australians watching their team go down 0-2 to Team USA…

[yogesh @yogeshtwet]

Zohran Mamdani has turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

“The real division in America isn't between cities and rural areas or suburbs... It's between people anywhere who find joy in community versus those who seem to only find it in fealty.” @JonStewart

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

No place trolls harder than Walnut Creek in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

This is happening to a lot of U.S. cities. The middle class is disappearing.

[The Women's Game @WomensGameMIB]

Two Brazil vs USWNT games? We are so ready 🍿

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@WomensGameMIB @sandiegowavefc @NWSL I'm a @sandiegowavefc fan but can the @nwsl move to a points per matches played ranking? The ongoing ~2 MPs discrepancy really clouds the true points standings before end of season MPs true up.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@streetbrawls97 In the US, he would be shot, killed in a second. Glad they let him live.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@crsanchezx Do the same thing for arbitrary number of dwelling units with latest international building code built in as only constraints.

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@Miss1onControl Fuck yeah!

[Robert Kidd @RobElNino]

@NWSL @elfcosmetics Yeah, @sandiegowavefc should have 2 more points