Richard Starson 🇺🇸🚀🇺🇸

Building the future // @caltech Ph.D. // AI, fusion, physics, space, e/acc 🇺🇸 🚀🇺🇸

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2026 will be an insane year for space exploration! 🇺🇸🚀✨

Here are my top 10 predictions:

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@bscholl Boy! This looks painfully expensive!

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@shaunmmaguire 🚀

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@elonmusk @thewriterme ❤️🇺🇸

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

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@RacePopeIII 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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@shaunmmaguire @danprimack The $1.75T will look like a huge bargain a few short years from now. 🇺🇸🚀

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@___Dario_____ @redbullfuturist 🇺🇸🦾

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@FutureJurvetson @teslaownersSV @Tesla So epic!!!! Congrats, Steve!

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@beffjezos 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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@shaunmmaguire Woke liberals drove half of the population crazy. Especially in concentrated cities.

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CA waking up! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Jerry Avenaim @avenaim]

I’m praying Los Angeles shows up. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat, time for change.

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@damianplayer When is the delivery?!

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Honestly the coolest thing about @FactoryAI for me is the support from @IvankaTrump!

Absolutely legendary 🇺🇸🦾❤️

[Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump]

👏👏👏 @matanSF

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@shaunmmaguire @NateSilver538 I suspect fixing this will require federal interference.

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It's time to save LA! Go @spencerpratt!

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

I just voted in the Los Angeles primary election for @spencerpratt

It's not a right vs left thing for me, this is local politics. And what I heard from the incumbents is that everything is going fine, while Pratt said "no everything is not fine. Things could be much better". IMO, everything is not fine and things could be much better.

I'll never forget the LA wild fires, when mayor @KarenBassLA was on some trip in Africa. As soon as there is word of a possible disaster risk in Los Angeles (and we were all warned days in advance), our mayor should be cancelling trips or on the first flight back home. She wasn't.

That might be excusable if things were handled well, but they weren't. It was a disaster. When I heard @KarenBassLA say during the debates the reason the response was delayed was that firefighters were accidentally sent home, my jaw was on the floor. Isn't that your job as Mayor, to make sure that in a moment of crisis everything is handled smoothly? Instead we saw empty reservoirs, a confused response, and entire neighborhoods destroyed.

It is only fitting that our mayor should be forced to run against one of the people who lost their home under her watch. If Los Angeles had been better prepared under her administration, Pratt might be chilling at home in the Palisades with his family instead of running against her.

Sure, he's unproven. He might be a terrible mayor for all I know. But I like the idea of letting someone new take the reins. Someone who has good reason to be frustrated with the status quo.

Today is only the primary election, not the general election. So today's vote will only decide who moves forward. I want Karen Bass to face off against Pratt, not Raman or anyone else, for entertainments sake if nothing else. As we learn more about the candidates I'll make a final decision about who I want to vote for. But right now, having listened to all the candidates, Pratt seems like the only one making sense.

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Major step by the wizards at @FactoryAI

Droids are already outperforming individual LLMs by a lot, but it was coming at a much steeper cost. Now it changes - better performance, lower cost!

Go @matanSF and team!

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Introducing model routing to Factory.

Factory Router picks the right model for every task, automatically.

Maintain frontier performance while cutting costs by 25%.

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Let’s go 🇺🇸🚀

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Our renovated lobby is now open to the public. Stop by to immerse yourself in the Golden Age of exploration.

YOU are the Artemis generation.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

TAXPAYER FUNDED TEETH FOR METH HEADS!!!

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The American Dynamism 🇺🇸🚀