Andy Bruce

Husband; dad; entrepreneur; marketing technologist; hockey fan; backyard rink builder.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe.

We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

You don’t have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us.

A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated.

Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we’re not quite ready for that.

[greg @greg16676935420]

I bet the other 24 letters are pissed

[Rear Admiral @RearAdBsBlog]

This video is so friggin’ good.

Her pal saying “Get outside, Jose” right before he makes his move is perfect.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Andy Bruce @AndyBruce]

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He drives a school bus in Dallas, Texas. But the kids on his route call him something else — Dad.

Every morning before the sun is fully up, Curtis Jenkins pulls his yellow school bus to the curb and waits. Not just to pick up kids. To see them.

For seven years, Curtis noticed things other people missed. The little girl who folded her paper lunch bag perfectly every day but left it on the bus — because there was nothing inside. The boy whose shoes were too small. The kids who got on quiet, eyes down, carrying weight no child should have to carry alone.

So Curtis did something simple. He made his bus a community.

He gave every child a job — a greeter, an assistant, a "police officer" keeping order in the aisles. Every morning he'd call out, "We're going to care about each other and love everybody, right?" And 50 small voices would answer back.

But it didn't stop there.

Over the years, Curtis spent thousands of dollars of his own money — money he saved by skipping his own Christmas gifts with his wife — on birthday cards, bikes, backpacks, turkeys at Thanksgiving, and 70 hand-wrapped Christmas presents. He didn't buy random gifts. He asked each child what they wanted. Then he went and got exactly that.

No donation page. No announcement. No cameras.

When the story finally got out and people questioned how a bus driver could afford it, Curtis just smiled.

"It doesn't take money. It takes discipline."

But here's the part that will stay with you.

When a reporter asked the kids what they loved most about Curtis — not one of them mentioned the gifts.

A fifth grader named Ethan, whose parents had divorced when he was four, looked up and said quietly:

"He's the father that I always wanted. In some ways, I wish my dad could have been like that."

Curtis heard it. Didn't flinch. Just nodded.

"That's the paycheck right there," he said later. "If I can get that, you can keep the money."

He wasn't looking for a medal. He wasn't going viral on purpose. He was just a man who decided, every single morning, that his bus would be the safest place those kids walked into all day.

Sometimes the person who changes a child's life forever isn't a teacher or a coach or a counselor.

Sometimes it's the person behind the wheel of a yellow bus at 7 a.m. — who chose to show up, and chose to care, when nobody was asking him to.

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Anvisha @anvisha]

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[Andy Bruce @AndyBruce]

Nobody saw this at the time, but with this twist it feels so much more relevant today, anyway.

[Hamel Husain @HamelHusain]

They pulled off the impossible: made a real human video look 100% AI generated 🤣

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The fraud in California, New York and Illinois is far greater than in Minnesota.

My guess for how much fraud is happening nationwide is roughly 10% of the Federal budget, so about $700 billion per year.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1800s: The Great Plains of North America support the largest herbivore migration in world history. 60 million bison. From Canada to Mexico. Moving in herds that took days to pass a single point.

Beneath their hooves: 3-7 feet of topsoil. The deepest, richest soil on Earth. Built over thousands of years by the exact process the bison represented.

Graze intensely. Move on. Trample plant matter into soil. Fertilize with dung. Let grass recover. Return next year. Repeat for millennia.

The grassland evolved with them. The soil was their creation.

1860s-1880s: The US government has a Native American problem. Plains tribes are mobile, militarily effective, and completely dependent on bison for food, clothing, tools, shelter.

Kill the bison, you kill the tribes' independence.

General Sherman states this explicitly: "Kill every buffalo you can. Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone."

Railroad companies offer bounties. "Buffalo hunters" kill thousands per day. The carcasses are left to rot. Sometimes just the tongue is taken. The rest wasted.

60 million bison in 1800. Less than 1,000 by 1889.

Native Americans forced onto reservations. The stated goal achieved.

But the land notices.

Without bison hooves breaking soil crust, rain runs off instead of penetrating. Without bison dung, soil microbes starve. Without intense grazing followed by rest, grasses can't regenerate properly.

The topsoil that took 10,000 years to build begins disappearing.

1930s: The Dust Bowl. Topsoil literally blows away. Farms destroyed. Millions displaced. Massive economic collapse. Ecological catastrophe.

"Experts" blame farmers for plowing marginal land. They ignore the obvious: The soil was fine for 10,000 years with 60 million bison. It lasted 40 years without them.

The bison weren't destroying the land by grazing. They were building the soil through the very process we eliminated.

Today: The Great Plains has 48 million cattle. That's 25% fewer large ruminants than existed naturally as bison.

Yet cattle are blamed for environmental destruction on land that was literally built by large ruminants doing exactly what cattle do now.

The American Serengeti had 60 million grazers and the deepest topsoil on Earth. We killed them, destroyed the soil within decades, and now blame their replacements for the damage.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Elon is showing you the future.

Again.

And it’s not just SpaceX pursuing it.

Google announced Project Suncatcher six weeks ago. Starcloud trained the first AI model in space last week using an H100. Aetherflux announced Galactic Brain orbital data centers four days ago. All of them cite the same constraint: terrestrial power availability.

The math supports the urgency. US data centers consumed 183 TWh in 2024, about 4% of total electricity. That figure is projected to hit 426 TWh by 2030. PJM Interconnection alone will charge consumers $16.6 billion from 2025-2027 just to secure power capacity for data centers that don’t exist yet.

Virginia already uses 26% of its state electricity on data centers. Wholesale power costs near data center hubs are up 267% since 2020.

His timeline claim of “lowest cost in <3 years” hinges on one variable: launch costs reaching $200/kg or lower. Google’s own Suncatcher analysis pegs this as the viability threshold. SpaceX’s current Starship trajectory suggests $100-200/kg is plausible with reusability at 20+ flights.

Elon’s companies aren’t building orbital data centers. Google, Starcloud, and Aetherflux are. But SpaceX controls launch costs. Starlink controls the orbital communication backbone. The more viable space-based AI compute becomes, the more SpaceX infrastructure becomes essential.

The moon factory claim is the tell. Lunar mass drivers have been theoretically viable since Gerard O’Neill’s 1974 prototypes. A 160-meter track can achieve lunar escape velocity. The Navy has demonstrated Mach 6 railgun projectiles. The physics works. The economics require exactly what he builds: cheap, reusable heavy lift to the lunar surface.

100 TW/year is a specific number. Humanity currently consumes about 19 TW total. Type II Kardashev requires harnessing the Sun’s entire output. 100 TW doesn’t get you there. But it’s 5x current human energy consumption, the largest infrastructure buildout in history.

Every orbital data center needs a ride up and a way to talk down. Elon owns both.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.

It's never meat to be this way, but the situation that very often arises is: It's strictly worse inside of Canada to be a Canadian company compared to a company headquartered everywhere else.

This is a bad situation, because the fruits of the subsidized labor will accrue to the wealth of other countries and not Canada. It's tax payer money invested into locking up scarce high tech talent in jobs where they no longer contribute to the Canadian economy directly. Why

[Toronto Police Association @TPAca]

We are disappointed by the vote in the House of Commons regarding Bill C-242 ‘Jail Not Bail’ but we are hopeful the federal Liberals under PM Carney will do the right thing and step up with their own legislation. It doesn’t matter how this gets done, it just needs to be done now. We have made recommendations, in person and in writing, we have presented at Standing Committees and we have made public pleas for change that will keep our members and communities safe. This is not time for politics. It’s time to get it done. Our members and the public deserve better.

@MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre @SeanFraserMP @gary_srp @ArpanKhanna

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Photo of a single atom.

This is a strontium atom, which has 38 protons; the diameter of a strontium atom is a few millionths of a millimeter.

Taken by David Nadlinger and titled “Single Atom In An Ion Trap,” the photo is the winner of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s 2018 science photography competition. The photo depicts a single strontium atom, embedded inside a strong electric field, blasted by lasers which cause it to emit light.

[Pickering Panthers Hockey Club @PanthersOJHL]

The Panthers are proud to welcome 2009-born F Tyler Bruce to the lineup!

The Whitby native joins us from the Toronto Jr. Canadiens U16 AAA and was selected by the Soo Greyhounds in the 2025 OHL Draft.

#PantherPride #NewPanther #OJHL #TylerBruce