Ce

Husband, Father, and startup founder. living on the west coast of Canada. 🇨🇦

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

We are past warnings. Cities are burning. More will follow. This will come to the United States IMO. This is an attack on western societies and values. Yes, there are many root causes. Uncontrolled migration without assimilation. International funding of protest for violent purposes. Issues of affordability. Education. Housing shortages. Employment opportunities, etc.

They started with issues but then are quickly hijacked by ultra-left radicals, islamist, the red-green alliance, opportunists, and those brainwashed by victimhood.

Why? Lack of values, purpose, and identity. With eroded traditional sources of identity and purpose (family, nation, vocation, faith), huge groups fill the void by claiming victim status or becoming advocates for other designated supposed victims. Responsibility is externalized: the system - capitalism, democracy, natives, “the West,” or some oppressor always explains their personal or collective shortfalls. This produces victimhood culture, beliefs of shared grievance, and alliances with radicals who offer belonging through struggle rather than responsibility, competence, or reform.

The leftists/Marxist, the Islamists, and those thirsting for purpose don’t want reforms. They want to destroy society. They want identity through victimhood and destruction. They take no responsibility for their own status, there is always an oppressor to blame, always someone else’s fight. So they burn what they won’t fix.

Step one is law and order. Reinforce the police. Enforce the law. Arrest, track, and if applicable deport every single person who commits violence or crimes.

These won’t be the last protests or cities to burn if "let's address their grievances," suicidal empathy, victimhood culture, political cowardliness continues.

[Ce @cechentang]

@squawksquare Reed Hastings going to the While House is a better option.

[Alexis Rivas @alexisxrivas]

When innovation and capitalism thrive, costs fall.

When regulation stifles or subsidizes, costs rise.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan and healthspan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
https://t.co/gtkefjgWyi

[Brian Hie @BrianHie]

Today, we report Germinal, a method for efficient de novo antibody design, with @santimillef and @SynBioGaoLab.

Germinal achieves success rates of 4-22% across diverse epitopes.

We make the work fully open, without doing lame things like posting a preprint without methods. 🧵

[CRISPR News 🧬 @CRISPR_News]

Scientists used CRISPR activation to reverse a genetic heart disease in mice — restoring heart strength and stopping dangerous rhythms. This breakthrough opens the door to potential new treatments for humans. 🫀
https://t.co/vDLDKB17SO

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

My father’s in perfect health at 86. What’s his lifestyle?

1. Eats a Mediterranean diet, only 1-2 times a day
2. Walks 8000 steps/d
3. Works out 3x/week
4. NMN + resveratrol + metformin (1g/d) for 15+ years
5. Surrounded by friends
6. Calm disposition

Happy Birthday, Dad 🎁👏

[Josh @CyberSolarX]

@elonmusk Elon, you either believe your own words about what Optimus + robotaxi means to society, or you don't. If you believe in your words about the scale of the economy with Optimus, then growth will make up for any deficit. Focus on what you truly control.

[Ce @cechentang]

@squawksquare It’s the only way the USA customers pay more.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

cartoon of the day

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Ce @cechentang]

@ray4tesla Karma, it's their turn to run away this time.

[Prof Steve Horvath @prof_horvath]

Rejuvenation of memory and DNA methylation in the hippocampus of 2 year old rats via Yamanaka factor adenovirus gene therapy. 🧬🧠 #GeneTherapy #Neuroscience #Aging
Rudy Goya (2024) Cognitive rejuvenation in old rats by hippocampal OSKM gene therapy. GeroScience.
https://t.co/RBfvThY1Vv

[Ce @cechentang]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla It’s only negative for EV subsidies. May be good for EVs. Now EVs are cheap enough for most people. The only thing is to let the majority of people know it.

[Freethink @freethinkmedia]

CLINICAL TRIAL: Toregem Biopharma will begin trials for a drug that grows new teeth in Summer 2024

[Edge Case @edgecase411]

FSD TRACKER SURVEY UPDATE: I made a new visual update to the survey based on more suggestions and grouped the long list into various categories which I thought were appropriate. This way you can see a condensed view of the progress.

The 6 categories are:

Comfort
Common safety critical features
Less frequent safety critical features
Follow-the-law
Robotaxi specific
Miscellaneous

Looking at the category scores it I think it’s fairly obvious that Tesla has been putting priority on maximizing comfort and common safety critical features first. And from the sounds of it they are starting to roll out more robotaxi specific features near term so we should be seeing those numbers rise soon. Stay tuned!

I also shared the spreadsheet publicly in case anyone would like to use it and make comments on it. Feedback is welcome but keep in mind that these scores are based on personal experience and yours might be different.

https://t.co/9Ew7ZKHdCF

There is a more streamlined survey for the public put together by @eliasmartinez and me last year at https://t.co/GYeDzfyQrC please share your experiences with v12.3 so that we can aggregate the results from all over the US.

Again, really appreciate all the support and comments! ❤️

@elonmusk @teslasi @tezmeeinc

[Ce @cechentang]

@TroyTeslike Tesla does not mini-van yet. Just adding share platform with Y mini-van can fix it.

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

Robotaxi Implications: Second and Third order effects

Here's how I see it...

1) Initially the Robotaxi undercuts Uber/Lift. This is easy pickings.

2) Then the Robotaxi undercuts vehicle ownership - increasingly leading people to ditch their vehicles. If the vast majority of the population can save, say $5,000 or more, per year on their transportation costs - they will do it.

3) Cheap doesn't mean you can afford it: While the cost to make a robotaxi vehicle might only be 20K-25K, the value of a robotaxi is much more than that. This should lead Tesla to stop selling vehicles to people. Tesla should make vehicles for $20K, put them in their own fleet and make the annual $30K, $40K, $50K or more per year. Anything that can make you $30K to $50K per year should NOT be sold for $25K-$30K.

4) Cost of status goes up: The people that want status are going to have to pay a lot more for that - as fewer and fewer people purchase vehicles the economics of automakers get turned upside down very quickly. Whatever remaining vehicles are produced for purchase will become very expensive.

5) Insurance rates go through the roof: Insurance works because the costs are spread over millions of people. As more and more people opt for robotaxi, they won't be buying personal auto insurance - shrinking the pool of people to spread the losses over. In time, the only vehicles causing collisions will be the human driven ones. Insurance companies will increase the rates on human drivers.

6) Uninsured: The rising cost of personal auto insurance might also mean that many people decide to drive without insurance (this trend has already impacted the insurance industry and your auto insurance rates!). This might be the final straw that forces regulators to ban humans from driving on public roads.

7) In the end, cost is the key factor. Sure, there will always be people where cost is no object, but that subset of people is relatively small. If the cost of buying a vehicle is high and if the cost of insurance is high, the number of people willing/able to purchase a vehicle rapidly shrinks.

8) This change isn't incremental: Over time, we are going to witness a wholesale change in the way vehicle transportation works. Traveling by vehicle will become very cheap and we will see a lot more of it. It will disrupt public transportation (including school buses), airlines, many hotels, parking, and much more. We will also enjoy a much smoother flow of traffic - and a great saving of human life - which is Elon's/Tesla's gift to humanity.

$tsla

[Ce @cechentang]

@AIDRIVR It’s the opposite. End-to-end AI only needs a top few talents. AI Day just shows off for own AI talent. Most changes to losing them.

[Ce @cechentang]

@TSLAFanMtl Nothing can stop this because Elon wants the low price for a new package.