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the future is exciting 🌎

[robert.eth @easilyamazed]

Positive people are often discarded,
as though the medicine they wield
is not the gift of life-force itself.

As though they haven’t mined for it
on the coalface of rock bottom,
scraping and digging
for each glittering nugget of light.
Dragging it diligently up to the surface
with all the strength and might
of a thousand men,

only to go back down again
for more.

Positive people are not ignorant
to the darkness of this life.

They have dragged themselves
painfully
into the light.

And are choosing to share it
with you.

-Donna Ashworth

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In making 𝕏 open source, we are actively seeking criticism to improve fairness and quality of algorithmic recommendations

[Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌 @kcoleman]

“Am I shadowbanned?”
“Is X fair?”
“Why am I seeing this post?”

We want the public to be able to answer these themselves. Today we’re giving an unprecedented level of transparency into the X algorithm so people can audit, critique and even help improve it. Enjoy & send feedback.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We are making 𝕏 open source.

Transparency build trust.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

It’s really interesting that there’s basically a bipartisan consensus based on complete and trivially debunkable falsities, namely that

- datacenters consume meaningful amounts of water (they don’t)
- datacenters are responsible for power prices increases over the last decade (they aren’t - inflation and decarbonisation in blue states is)
- datacenters impose costs on local communities (they generally enrich them and make life better)
- datacenters are being built “for flock mass surveillance” (flock accounts for, generously, 0.01% of the DC buildout)
- datacenters create noise and other pollution (they don’t)
- datacenters are being built in residential areas (they aren’t)
- datacenters get tax abatements that entirely eliminate their tax burden (never the case- abatements typically only cover a small fraction of taxes, and DC pay a half dozen different type of taxes that go to the state and city, they are always net and meaningful taxpayers)

Virtually everything your conspiracy minded friend believes about datacenters is false. It’s also completely trivial to debunk using a simple google search or AI query but these people just blindly trust a random tiktoker sitting in their car instead.

Are there real objections? Sure. But the opponents of datacenters aren’t making them. They rely on outright falsehoods like DCs are poisoning the water, or creating droughts, or tripling power prices locally, or paying zero taxes.

Rare to see a popular consensus on both sides of the aisle that is basically a complete inversion the actual fact pattern.

[SpaceWeatherNews @SunWeatherMan]

Awesome shot from Spain.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

X is what the AI-human symbiosis might look like. Other places are either driven by bots or have humans censored to talk like bots.

This is one of the few places where AI and human discussion still thrives, even though entropy has tried to take over a couple of times.

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

i need this

[robert.eth @easilyamazed]

we can aim bigger.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

One problem with normalizing a victimhood mindset is that it incentivizes society to spend energy enforcing a local minimum as the standard instead of leapfrogging to its greater potential.

It reminds me of when I was teaching chess: some people would complain about losses due to an “unfair advantage” instead of learning from their opponents. As a result, I had to keep lowering my standards until there was nothing to teach.

You can only lift people up who are willing to stand.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The median age of an intramural NIH scientist is 71 years old. The average age of a Nobel laureate's prize-winning work is in their mid-twenties. We have designed a system that rewards longevity over brilliance.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: realizing you really can just wake up one day and say "that's enough of that" and change direction completely.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

“She literally had no training on this” 😭😭😭

QVC has been chaotic as hell lately 😂😂😂

[frye @___frye]

talking to a group of offline people about AI recently

it’s cliche and perhaps gauche to say “nobody knows what’s coming”. but that’s an understatement. nobody knows what’s already here

the avg person sees AI the same as it was 3 years ago - a moderately helpful chatbot. if you use gpt for recipes and search, your experience has not meaningfully changed since 2023

today the frontier is autonomous coding and agentic task completion. aka, the computer using the computer. this is impossible to explain to most people because they have no idea what code is or how computers work

[robert.eth @easilyamazed]

I don’t think people get it yet.

our future is going to be awesome.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far.

And it will be stunningly beautiful.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Terafab will be built in Grimes County, Texas

In April, we broke ground on our research fab on the North Campus of Giga Texas – the precursor to Terafab.

Both Tesla & SpaceX will need far more chips than current & future global production can supply.

This is why we're building the largest chip manufacturing facility ever, with the goal of producing over 1 terawatt of compute per year

The future is built in Texas

https://t.co/RQPNlAasdP

[robert.eth @easilyamazed]

the future that looks like the future

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Next up: Terafab → https://t.co/jGg52Zhn5I

[robert.eth @easilyamazed]

yup.

[aether @bluewdrift]

The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring. Because peace became valuable.

[aether @bluewdrift]

The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring. Because peace became valuable.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

We spent our entire lives, and human history, under the assumption intelligence was a scarce resource. Now, everyone can summon an inexhaustible IQ machine like it's tap water. And incidentally, the change is so profound our own brains can barely comprehend it.