Courtney W. Paul

Well-traveled Texan • Ret. Colonel, US Army • Constitutional Libertarian • 1A,2A, All the As! •⚠️INTJ • Into: ⚛️🗺️📐🔫🏕️🐾•

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@thequeenofrust I followed you. Least favorite term "Fly over country". I am working on a book about how full of history some of those so-called empty places are.
Best of luck in your own endeavors.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

🚨 Un message à tous les Français 🚨

Dans les mois qui viennent, tu vas voir de plus en plus de propagande sur Elon Musk.

Envoie ça à tes proches. Pas demain. Maintenant.

Elon Musk est en train de détruire, à l’échelle mondiale, le plus vieux mensonge politique du siècle : l’idée que seuls l’État, les intermédiaires et les médias titulaires ont le droit de dire ce qui est vrai, ce qui est possible, et ce qui est moral.

Ce mensonge a un nom familier. On l’appelle socialisme quand il parle de justice. On l’appelle « consensus » quand il parle de science. On l’appelle « protection » quand il parle de parole. Dans tous les cas, le mécanisme est le même : une caste se place entre les gens et la réalité, puis vend cette place comme un service public.

Musk casse ça.

Il a prouvé qu’on pouvait envoyer des fusées sans Gosplan. Construire des voitures sans la bénédiction de Detroit. Relier un village, un front ou un hôpital depuis l’orbite, sans demander l’autorisation d’un ministère. Il a racheté la place publique et arraché le monopole de ceux qui décidaient qui avait le droit de parler.

Voilà pourquoi les médias mainstream, comme une bête à l’agonie, vont tout tenter.

Pas parce qu’ils ont découvert un secret. Parce que l’homme échappe à tous leurs leviers. On ne l’achète pas avec des recettes publicitaires. On ne le recadre pas avec un cycle de une. On ne le débranche pas discrètement. À ce niveau de puissance, c’est probablement l’homme le plus clean du monde : il a mis sa propre fortune en jeu, il n’a pas besoin de leur permission, et il n’a pas construit sa position en capturant l’État.

Ils diront nazi. Ils diront fou. Ils diront dangereux pour la démocratie. Ils ressortiront le même extrait, le même historien du bon camp, la même indécence morale.

Ce n’est pas de l’information. C’est un réflexe de survie.

Il faut que les Français le sachent avant que la vague n’arrive.

Elon Musk ne se bat pas pour un parti. Il se bat pour que le peuple puisse regarder la machine en face, construire sans demander pardon, et cesser de déléguer sa tête à ceux qui vivent de la peur et du récit.

La vérité est simple.

Un bâtisseur qui ouvre le jeu fait plus pour les gens qu’une rédaction qui recycle la calomnie.

Transmets ça. Les mois qui viennent vont être bruyants. Le signal, lui, ne changera pas.

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@HorsesSphere_15 75
Rule: First number multiplied by the second number plus the second number.

[Wes @wmorrill3]

Both are self-driving with end to end nueral nets - photons in, actions out

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@farman4x 96.
Rule: first number squared multiplied by the second number.

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@scott_feldt @gunfanatics1 And which rifle (or musket) from that century are you picking?😄

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@WydRomanX UPC on the wine bottle.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercabs have no steering wheels or pedals. They are designed and built for maximally efficient autonomous operation.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

I am not exaggerating, there are Unsupervised Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals all over Austin, TX right now at almost every corner.

It is SO BEAUTIFUL on the road. The glossy gold (first time seeing it) is stunning in the sun. I also LOVE how massive the wheels look.

This is literally the future. I’m in @Robotaxi heaven right now.

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@herbertong @cyberbulls @TeslaBoomerMama @CernBasher @thejefflutz @RimaSukhadia 🎶Name that band!🎶 😆

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

It's just Actually Smart Summon, but the fiance's reaction is hilarious.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Cybertruck owner showcases Smart Summon with Fiancé in the truck. 🤣

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

The @Tesla Cybercab changes everything. This is the iPhone moment, but for the automotive world.

• First true mass-produced, ground-up Robotaxi with no federal production limit
• First vehicle produced with the Revolutionary Unboxed Manufacturing Process.
• First high-volume vehicle targeting a ~10-second cycle time (long-term goal ~5 seconds vs 34 seconds for Model Y).
• First vehicle with Starlink Integration.
• First production EV with a record-breaking 165 Wh/mi efficiency.
• First autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals that you will be able to buy at a cost of ~$30,000.
• First Tesla built without a paint shop.
• First robotaxi with planned widespread wireless charging capability.
• First production Tesla that is front-wheel drive.

I am sure I am missing things, but man, what a historic moment!

[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

Recently, I dug through the abstracts on a section in the Texas Panhandle. There was a very clear pattern. A single man would buy the land, get married, and then immediately sell it. Sometimes at a significant loss, as with the first man who filed the homestead claim, he got married 2 years later and wouldn't even stay long enough to complete the 3 year requirement, filed a quit claim and transfered the land to the next claimant for $1000. Two years later, that second claimant would earn the deed, but have to buy out his wife for $3000 (or a $6k total valuation) who divorced him and went back to Philadephia. Not deterred, he remarried in 2 years but then immediately sold the property again.

I could go on and on, but suffice to say many families couldn't stand the isolation.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked how he handles employees who disagree with him publicly.

His answer contradicts every leadership book written in the last 30 years.

"I'd rather have someone who argues with me and is right than someone who agrees with me and is wrong."

The room expected the diplomatic answer. That he values diverse perspectives. That healthy debate makes the team stronger. The standard CEO answer about psychological safety.

He went further. He said the most dangerous person in any company is the one who agrees with you to protect their job. Because that person will let you drive the company off a cliff rather than risk being fired for telling you the cliff is there. The yes-man isn't loyal. He's selfish. He's trading the company's survival for his own comfort.

He said SpaceX has a rule. If an engineer sees a problem and doesn't speak up, and the problem later causes a failure, the silence is treated as more serious than the mistake itself. The person who made the error was trying. The person who watched the error and said nothing was protecting themselves at the cost of the mission.

Think about what that inverts. In most companies, the person who stays quiet and avoids conflict is rewarded with job security. At SpaceX, silence is the fireable offense and disagreement is the job requirement.

Most leaders say they want honesty. Then they punish the first person who delivers it. He built a system where dishonesty through silence is the thing that gets punished. The culture didn't happen by accident. It was engineered to make agreement more dangerous than disagreement.

[sasseite⛪️🌐🐘 @RespectableCon]

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[Courtney W. Paul @cwpaul]

@PeteHelmus @CynicalPublius I don't think he needed to...half the comments are doing it for him.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I used to have a boss in the Army who drove me pretty hard. I kind of hated and admired him all at once. But he taught me so much that later in my career I found myself acting and thinking just like him.

One of his aphorisms was about the Army's policy of always changing out battalion/squadron and brigade/regimental commanders after two years in command:

"After two years, you start to institutionalize your personal weaknesses in the unit."

I always found a lot of wisdom in that statement, and for all forms of leadership, not just military leadership.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m not sure who made this.

But it rocks.

[john jackson @pvtjokerus]

As a retired law enforcement professional, I would normally be all in favor of these Flock cameras.

These last few years have radicalized me, however.

I know they will rarely be used against the true inner city career criminals and illegals. They are the protected classes.

They’ll be used against the law-abiding middle class. For chickensht political retribution and spying.

Until confidence is restored in the system, do not allow them in your neighborhood.

[Andy Slye @slye]

After using Tesla FSD for 5 years, here is my view of progress:

2021: Cool but mostly scary.

2022: It can drive in city traffic but still iffy.

2023: It’s like a teen learning to drive.

2024: New cameras help.

2025: AI is making it much better.

2026: I don’t drive anymore.