TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖

Interested in Energy/Space/Robotics/Compute/Spatial Computing
Ex. Magic Leap, Meta.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

Just revisited the @ashleevance @elonmusk biography again for the first time since its 2015 release.

"Musk is now quite rich on paper. He was worth about $10 billion at the time of this writing."

In the epilogue:
"...If all of this were taking place, Musk, then in his mid-fifties, likely would be the richest man in the world and among its most powerful. He would be the majority shareholder in three public companies, and history would be preparing to smile broadly on what he had accomplished.""

11 years later, at 54 - worth over $700B

Amazing prescience, given all the other tech distractions and Tesla/SpaceX uncertainty in 2015. Might be time to start treating @corememory as a prediction market.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@shagbark_hick Get an Anker solar generator and electric cooler.
https://t.co/iN0INfLqSp

Also, check Google for the amount of sun that will hit your house, on average, for solar: https://t.co/8LyhjrdjHC

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

50 years ago I was a kid, sitting on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial for the Bicentennial, listening to the Marine corps band, watching the fireworks. Coverage of the UFC tonight, combined with the World Cup fever, caused a rush of deja vu, remembering what it felt like to be young in an America where anything felt possible, before the last two decades of cynicism and malaise had poisoned the national discourse.

We need to keep reminding ourselves how good things can be and not get caught with the cynics drowning in unwarranted negativity.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gavin Newsom tweete sa rage. Le FT le compare à un méchant de James Bond. Le Globe and Mail publie un guide pour le détester. Tout ça le même jour.

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi la fourmilière s'agite à ce point ? Suivez-moi, c'est fascinant.

Ce matin, Elon Musk est devenu le premier trillionnaire de l'histoire. Pas en héritant. Pas en taxant. Pas en régulant. En construisant des fusées réutilisables, des voitures électriques et un réseau de satellites qui connecte la planète.

Et regardez bien qui panique : ce ne sont jamais les ingénieurs, les artisans, les entrepreneurs, les soignants, les agriculteurs. Ce sont les politiciens, les éditorialistes, les bureaucrates, les activistes professionnels.

Bref, tous ceux dont le métier consiste à commenter, taxer ou redistribuer la valeur créée par les autres.

Leur terreur n'est pas morale. Elle est existentielle. Consciemment ou inconsciemment, ils savent une chose qu'ils ne peuvent avouer à personne, pas même à eux-mêmes : leur action publique ne crée strictement aucune valeur nette.

Tout leur statut repose sur un mensonge confortable, celui du socialiste bureaucrate : "la richesse existe par magie, le problème c'est juste de la répartir, et il faut des gens comme nous pour le faire."

Ce mensonge tenait tant que la création de richesse restait abstraite. Mais Elon est un contre-exemple vivant à l'échelle planétaire. Mille milliards de dollars créés à partir de rien, sous les yeux de tout le monde, en temps réel.

Chaque lancement de Starship est une réfutation publique de leur vision du monde. C'est insupportable. D'où la rage.

"Le système est truqué", dit Newsom. Non Gavin. Le système truqué, c'est celui où l'on devient puissant en distribuant l'argent des autres. Le système d'Elon, c'est celui où l'on devient riche en rendant le lancement spatial 100 fois moins cher.

Et voilà ce qui les terrifie vraiment : dans le monde qu'Elon est en train de construire, le statut ne s'obtient plus par la posture, le diplôme ou la tribune. Il s'obtient en créant quelque chose. Ils vont devoir apprendre un métier. Développer des compétences. Produire.

L'agitation que vous observez, ce n'est pas de l'indignation. C'est le bruit d'une classe sociale entière qui réalise que sa rente touche à sa fin.

Mais je vais finir sur un truc rassurant, parce qu'au fond je les aime bien.

Ne vous inquiétez pas. Dans le monde d'Elon, le gâteau grossit. C'est toute la différence avec votre monde à somme nulle : il y aura de la place pour tout le monde, y compris pour vous.

Vous êtes l'enfant qui pleure parce qu'il a peur de ne pas avoir de Kinder Bueno.

Respirez. Il y aura des Kinder Bueno pour tout le monde.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@mhp_guy https://t.co/SQzNRYZSyz

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@shagbark_hick The groomed XC/fatbike trails in Winona State Forest are the best in the North Country.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@DougDeMuro maybe resale won't be so bad after all?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

UPDATE: It appears all the used Cybertrucks have been sold from Tesla’s inventory since last night.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

The stare budget that Hochul just signed included a law requiring NY State monitored spyware on all CNC machines, 3D printers, lathes, ostensibly to block the printing of ghost guns, but it also requires all the machines to ping a government database for permission to basically print anything - on your own equipment.

And it also makes it a felony to possess a CAD file on your computer for a printed gun - even if you don't own a printer, so if someone emails you a file you can technically go to jail for having received it.

On top of all that brilliant legislation, custom firmware on these machines is common and part of the vibrant open source ecosystem for makers, and New York just made that illegal too.

Expect a mass NY exodus and certainly a greatly reduced inflow of businesses interested in working on our future manufacturing economy.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@beffjezos It certainly is not the way to attract modern manufacturing jobs to the state.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@elonmusk @JohnLeFevre Robovan interior...

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions.

I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law enforcement and raised concerns directly with contacts at the White House. This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented. There’s a coordinated PR war happening around energy infrastructure and data centers, and we’re not going to ignore it.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

How are you switching between day and night use modes? Is it PTV to a display or waveguides? Unsure how you would overcome VAC on a 2d display for multi-hour use? Are you merging PTO with PTV when necessary for extra sensor input for all modes, using waveguides as the display with a mission shield to block refractive waveguide emissions at night? Reflective waveguides? Something else?

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@shagbark_hick Your tax dollar is hard at work: https://t.co/sEYjypzsX4

[Naval @naval]

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@shagbark_hick Riverside Tavern in Keeseville. Closed a few years ago. Shuffleboard/pool table/darts/cheap beer. As North Country as it gets. The photos on the real estate listing when it sold are way (way)nicer than it was in the '80s and '90s. https://t.co/SAcxAlc62l

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@elonmusk @benshapiro @SwipeWright

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

Switching back to non-Android version for now. Even with a system level battery restrictions in place it's still drain my phone battery in the background when I'm not using the app. Background running for almost 2 hours this morning since it came off the charger even with restrictions in place.
#NewXAndroidFeedback

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@bprintco What's the advantage of remote controlled versus sitting in the cab?

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@shagbark_hick We may beat you there. The overbearing and stifling business, financial, and regulatory climate here in NYS is at a breaking point.

[TvTodd 🇺🇸 ⚡️☢️ ₿🤖 @ToddTownsend]

@SawyerMerritt If the reviewer does not start a Tesla review with an explanation (for newbies) and look at the current capabilities of FSD, they are not informed. Top of the interview is FSD, second topic - electric car review.