Bryan

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[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@elonmusk Thanks for the selfie today!!! Wishing you a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2020s gonna be SO exciting for @Tesla and @SpaceX. Thanks for giving us a world where we can be truly inspired and hopeful!!! Your loving cult members 🤣😍🚘🚀🛰

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

If you want to understand what Elon Musk is really fighting, and who is really fighting him, this is the clearest map I can give you :

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@wholemars WITH someone as happy and cheerful as Gwynne. Don't overlook that part!

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@MannToya4023 💯 Elon and Trumo fueding was beyond my comfort level. I held through TONS during 2015-20. Sold some then to retire and then trimmed at the fued. I still have plenty and got SPCX at $37. All good and one man risk is a real risk

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@nic_carter Idiocy

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@zeppledd4urlife @ConstitustionX 💯 (just wanted to clarify). I LOATHE this program

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@TechOperator @RoschetzkyP Thanks for the details. Will research

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@TechOperator @RoschetzkyP As a newbie I think "what would I do with THAT", then I think, imagine how well that would work for my needs. What is it?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I used the Dark Triad to look at Macron. The most common reply was: "Do Elon next. Richest man on earth, runs half a dozen companies, fights with everyone online. He must be the ultimate Dark Triad case."

I think he's close to the opposite. And the contrast teaches something important.

Quick reminder of the three traits. Narcissism: grandiosity, need for admiration, a fragile relationship to being wrong. Machiavellianism: strategic manipulation of people, long-term calculation, concealment. Psychopathy: low empathy, emotional coldness, indifference to the harm you cause. Not diagnoses, dimensions. What matters is how far you go, and in what combination.

Let's start with the one people will throw at me first: narcissism.

Elon obviously scores high on grandiosity. Nobody decides to make humanity multiplanetary with a modest ego. But grandiosity isn't the core of narcissism. The core is how you handle being wrong.

For Macron, being wrong is an injury. So the error gets defended, explained away, blamed on others.

Elon blows up rockets in public. On livestream. And his teams celebrate, because every explosion is data. He posts memes about himself, laughs at his own failures, says absurd things and gets mocked by millions, and keeps going. He doesn't take himself seriously. He takes the mission seriously.

That's the difference. A narcissist protects his image at the expense of reality. Elon sacrifices his image constantly in service of a goal outside himself. His ego is attached to the mission, not to the mirror.

Machiavellianism is where he's lowest of all.

A true Machiavellian calculates. He plays the long game with people, hides his intentions, builds alliances he plans to betray. Elon does the opposite. He thinks out loud, in public, in real time. He reacts. He says what he thinks even when it costs him advertisers, governments, or half his audience. A manipulator never shows his hand. Elon shows his hand dozens of times a day.

His strategic intelligence is real, but it’s pointed at physics, not at people. He reasons from first principles about rockets, batteries, and manufacturing. With humans, he doesn’t play chess. He defaults to trust.

The proof: he helped found and fund OpenAI as a nonprofit meant to keep AI open and safe. He trusted the people he built it with. Then he watched it turn into one of the most valuable for-profit companies on the planet. A good Machiavellian doesn't get played like that. He'd have locked it down from day one. Elon trusted, because that's not how he thinks.

Now psychopathy, and this is the most misunderstood part.

When Elon took over Twitter and cut most of the staff, people called it cold, even cruel. But there's a difference between callousness and rationality.

Being unable to fire someone who isn't doing the job isn't kindness. It's emotion in the wrong place. And someone always pays for it: the colleagues who carry the extra weight, the company that slowly dies, the people who lose their jobs later when everything collapses. It's the same pattern I described about progressives who can't punish: misplaced compassion is paid for by the innocent.

Elon puts emotion in the right place. Cold on individual decisions, burning hot on the big picture. And the big picture is the most pro-human mission you can imagine: make life multiplanetary, preserve consciousness, worry out loud about birth rates and the long-term survival of the species.

A psychopath doesn't lose sleep over what happens to humanity in five hundred years. Elon talks about little else.

So put the two side by side.

Both are very intelligent. But Macron's intelligence is verbal: building coherent systems and arguing for them. Elon's is physical: testing ideas against reality until they break.

Macron lives in a world without feedback. Nobody ever sends the State the bill.

Elon lives inside the harshest feedback loop there is. A rocket reaches orbit or it doesn't. A car works or it doesn't. Physics doesn't care about your narrative.

And here's my theory on all this.

When you don't max out these traits, the universe pays you back.

The Dark Triad is essentially a toolkit for power games. Manipulating, protecting your image, calculating alliances, crushing rivals. All of that is a game between humans, and almost always zero-sum. It's pure social construction. Every hour spent there is an hour stolen from reality.

People who don't play that game are free. Their energy goes into the problem itself. They can be wrong in public without collapsing. They can trust, get burned, and move on. They stay decorrelated from status games, and that's exactly where creativity comes from. Power games redistribute what exists. Building creates what didn't.

The Dark Triad can get you to the top of a system. It will never make a rocket land.

So be Elon Musks. Not Emmanuel Macrons.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

99% of women and girls in Somalia have been mutilated in the following way: the clitoris is cut off, along with the inner labia. Then the inner flesh of the outer labia is removed before both sides are sewn tightly together, leaving a hole no bigger than a matchstick for urine and menses to trickle through.

All of this is done in childhood, and without any form of anesthesia whatsoever. Sometimes the little girl is given a scrap of leather or a stick to bite down on. The cutters use old razor blades, or sometimes a piece of broken glass.

This is only the beginning of a girl’s pain.

Most wedding nights in Somalia are aided by “the little knife” — that is, the new husband slices his bride open so that he can penetrate her now cut and bleeding scar tissue. Some men, however, simply batter their way through, tearing that tiny hole open by sheer force. When a woman goes into labor, she’s cut open more widely, then sewn back up afterwards so that when sex resumes she will have to be cut open yet again.

This practice leads to countless deaths from infection and a drastic increase in maternal mortality, but Somali men still refuse to marry uncut women, forcing mothers to have their daughters cut or face social stigma. Uncut girls are seen as dirty; the term for clitoris is a playground taunt in Somalia, and girls who are not cut are usually ostracized by their peers.

The Somali government recently debated the legality of this appalling custom, and the parliament largely split along gender lines. Female MPs roundly condemned FGM, while male MPs insisted that having a clitoris made a woman more difficult to penetrate, and quoted the hadith in which Muhammad condoned the practice. These are educated men who nevertheless claim that cutting a girl is necessary in order to control her sexuality, and that an uncut woman will be promiscuous and untrustworthy.

In spite of the Somali government’s continued support for FGM, foreign aid continues to flow into Somalia unobstructed. The West should refuse to give the Somali government so much as a single dollar until they outlaw FGM and take positive steps to combat the problem.

One tactic that has been highly successful involves showing Somali men a video of a girl being mutilated. Because FGM is seen as women’s business, most men have no idea what it entails. Men who watch this video are horrified, and the most common reaction has been “Not my daughter!” This proves that FGM is not hopelessly entrenched in Somali culture. Western pressure and resources could make an enormous difference in the lives of Somali women and girls, and put a stop to this barbaric practice.

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@RoschetzkyP @TechOperator I'm thinking if there was ever a mass disruption and I wanted to protect those who were sheltering with me

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@TechOperator @RoschetzkyP That's quite the gun

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@RoschetzkyP @TechOperator If you had to pick one to defend your family at your home, which would you choose?

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@ShamashAran Feel free also to go back to your homeland. See how that works out! You have every opportunity here that you would not have there

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@everyonecalmdwn @jaronmays Ratioed!

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Add. When is Optimus reveal?

[Thaïs d’Escufon @ThaisEscufon]

I’m furious and heartbroken to see my country like this.

I could be prosecuted for this, but so be it. It needs to be said.

Our empathy is killing us. I stand with MY people, and they’re not my people.

Share this. We’ve had enough, and time is running out for France.

[Bryan @bryanMackSC]

@elonmusk EPIC!!

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.

Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.

Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.

La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.