Eric DeWallace

Founder & CEO Boston Aircontrols, Inc.- Retired, Tesla Partisan (MYP, FSD Beta) Boston Sports Fan, Momentum Investor, MAGA American 🇺🇸 of Scottish descent.

[Eric DeWallace @EricDeWallace]

@Aestheticsn1 7690164

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

In 2019, Elon Musk sat across from Jack Ma on a stage in Shanghai.

Two of the most powerful men alive.

One conversation that exposed everything.

Ma had a thesis. He believed it the way men believe the things that flatter them.

Ma: “Humans can never create another animal that is smarter than humans.”

It sounded like science.

It was a prayer.

Musk: “I very much disagree with that.”

No heat. No counterargument. The flat voice of a man who has already run the numbers and found nothing on the other side.

Ma pressed. He wanted the comfort said back to him.

Ma: “Computers may be clever, but human beings are much smarter.”

Musk didn’t answer. He reached for his water. Took a slow sip. Set it down.

Musk: “Yeah, definitely not.”

Not the words.

The water.

The gesture of a man who realized the conversation had ended minutes ago and only one of them noticed.

Ma was voicing the deepest assumption humanity carries.

That biological intelligence is the ceiling of intelligence itself.

It sounds true. It feels true.

It has never once been true about anything else we have ever built.

We never outran predators. We built weapons.

Never outswam oceans. We built ships.

Never outflew birds. We built planes.

Every breakthrough in human history is a tool that exceeded the body that made it.

Ten thousand years of the same pattern.

And now we are building the tool that does to the mind what every other tool did to muscle and bone.

Ma’s objection was never technical.

It was existential.

If something can outthink you, what exactly are you?

Most people refuse to let that question fully form.

Musk lets it form. Sits inside it. Builds into it.

Because he understands something Ma doesn’t.

Building beyond yourself was never a flaw in human intelligence.

It was the entire function of it.

Every parent raises a child they hope surpasses them. Every teacher works toward the day they’re no longer needed.

Creating something greater than yourself is not a threat to what you are.

It is the most human thing there is.

Ma looked at AI and saw something that needed to stay beneath him.

Musk looked at it and saw the most human project ever attempted.

That is what separated the two men on that stage.

The audience laughed that day in Shanghai.

They thought Ma was charming and Musk was awkward.

They didn’t realize they were watching two entirely different futures sit three feet apart.

Certainty is the anesthetic. It feels like clarity. It is the precise sensation of a door closing in a room you would swear is still open.

Ma used the most sophisticated product of blind evolution to argue that intentional design could never exceed it.

The thesis refuted itself before he finished the sentence.

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Most prominent terrorist attacks since 1970 and their religion:

1. Munich Olympics massacre (1972) - Islam
2. Beirut barracks bombing (1983) - Islam
3. TWA Flight 847 (1985) - Islam
4. Rome & Vienna airport attacks (1985) - Islam
5. Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) - Islam
6. World Trade Center bombing (1993) - Islam
7. Paris Metro bombings (1998) - Islam
8. US Embassy bombings Kenya & Tanzania (1998) - Islam
9. USS Cole bombing (2000) - Islam
10. 9/11 attacks (2001) - Islam
11. Bali bombings (2002) - Islam
12. Istanbul bombings (2003) - Islam
13. Madrid train bombings (2004) - Islam
14. London 7/7 bombings (2005) - Islam
15. Fort Hood shooting (2009) - Islam
16. Toulouse/Montauban shootings (2012) - Islam
17. Boston Marathon bombing (2013) - Islam
18. Brussels Jewish Museum shooting (2014) - Islam
19. Ottawa Parliament attack (2014) - Islam
20. Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher attacks (2015) - Islam
21. Paris November attacks (2015) - Islam
22. San Bernardino shooting (2015) - Islam
23. Brussels airport/metro bombings (2016) - Islam
24. Nice truck attack (2016) - Islam
25. Berlin Christmas Market attack (2016) - Islam
26. Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (2016) - Islam
27. Westminster Bridge attack (2017) - Islam
28. Manchester Arena bombing (2017) - Islam
29. London Bridge/Borough Market attack (2017) - Islam
30. Barcelona/Cambrils attacks (2017) - Islam
31. Strasbourg Christmas market attack (2018) - Islam
32. London Bridge stabbing (2019) - Islam
33. Samuel apart beheading (2020) - Islam
34. Vienna shooting (2020) - Islam
35. October 7 Hamas-led attacks (2023) - Islam
36. Arras school stabbing (2023) - Islam
37. Solingen knife attack (2024) - Islam
38. New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (2025) - Islam
39. Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack (2025) - Islam
40. Winterthur train-station stabbing (2026) - Islam

I couldn’t list them all, obviously, but let’s put it into perspective.

Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979:

1979–April 2024: 66,872 attacks

By period:

1979–2000: 2,194 attacks
2001–2012: 8,265 attacks
2013–April 2024: 56,413 attacks

Total Deaths: at least 249,941

Now, who is the biggest threat to the world, again?

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In December 2008, Elon Musk gave Tesla the last money he had. The wire went through at six in the evening on Christmas Eve.

A few hours later and the payroll checks would have bounced.

He'd sold PayPal in 2002 and walked away with about 180 million dollars. He did almost none of the things a person does with 180 million dollars. He put it into a rocket company and a car company, two industries with almost no history of outsiders winning, and then 2008 arrived and started draining what was left.

By the end of the year he was down to a few hundred thousand dollars and borrowing money from friends to make rent. His marriage had fallen apart that year too.

Two companies. Both nearly out of cash. The same month.

The rockets had failed first.

SpaceX had one product, a small rocket called the Falcon 1, and only enough money to fly it three times. That was the whole budget.

The first one caught fire and fell back to the pad. The second reached space and lost control before orbit. The third separated cleanly, and then the spent first stage drifted back up and tapped the second one... a timing error on a new engine, and the rocket was gone.

Three launches, three failures, no money left.

He built a fourth out of the scraps and put the last of the cash on it.

It launched on September 28, 2008, from a small island in the Pacific, and reached orbit. The first privately built liquid fueled rocket that ever had. He said afterward it was the last money they had, and a fourth failure would have ended the company that night.

It didn't save Tesla.

Tesla had been about to close a hundred million dollar round that summer when the banks collapsed and credit froze. A tiny car startup raising money while General Motors itself slid toward bankruptcy had almost no chance. It was burning cash, had no car in real production, and was days from missing payroll.

So he took over as CEO. He put in his last dollars. He talked the existing investors into restructuring the round as debt to get past the one who was blocking it.

That deal closed at six on Christmas Eve. He gave Tesla the last of his cash and, in his words, "didn't even own a house or anything sellable."

The day before, NASA had called SpaceX with a 1.6 billion dollar contract to carry cargo to the space station. He said he could barely hold the phone.

Two companies pulled back from the edge in 48 hours, at the bottom of the worst year of his life.

People look at Musk now and argue about genius. The genius was already there through all three failures, and it didn't save him.

What saved him was a choice he'd made months earlier, when the money was running out. He could have put everything left into one company and let the other one die. That was the sane move. He split his last dollars between both instead, knowing it could mean losing both.

He said later it nearly gave him a breakdown, and that it could have killed both companies at once.

Most people fold at zero for three.

He paid for the fourth and... it worked.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Tedandfran @TedGianoutsos]

@elonmusk

Elon,

My husband Ted and I share this X account, and we’ve posted together many times. But today I wanted to write to you personally, from my own heart.

I want to thank you for creating tools that help me learn something new every single day, that make my life better, and that actually make me excited to live longer — because your inventions keep getting more amazing.

I was born in 1942 in Normandy, France, under German occupation. In 1946, my family moved to the coast along the English Channel. So many towns and villages had been damaged or destroyed. As children, we played among the old bunkers and in cemeteries. Later in life, I married an American airman, moved to the United States with him, earned a doctorate in education, and spent my career teaching languages.

Now I’m 84 years old, retired, and living in Alaska with my husband of 64 years. Not long ago I discovered you and your work. We recently bought a Cyberbeast, and I love everything about it — the comfort, the incredible technology, and especially FSD, which we use every day. We even installed a Starlink dish on our roof so we have reliable internet everywhere in Alaska.

I use Grok every single day. Thanks to you, I’m now learning about AI itself — at 84! I also use X daily because it lets me see what’s really happening in the world, without media filters or propaganda, and connect with people from every corner of the globe.

Instead of living in the past and reminiscing about the “good old days,” I wake up every morning excited to see what new invention or breakthrough you’re working on and what the future will bring.

Thank you, Elon, from the bottom of my old heart.
You’ve made this 84-year-old woman feel young and hopeful again. ❤️

Françoise

Here we are with our new Cyberbeast !

[Sequencer @RealSeq16]

This Iranian - American woman, having lived under Islamic rule, says what we’re seeing in the UK, Canada, and U.S. from radical islamists is something that will not stop!

She knows, she was raised under that regime and knows what their ideology and tactics are. The end result is to completely make this entire world rule under Islam. No government, just religious law. The religious law under Sharia Law? You completely convert to Islam. They have a right to unalive you or keep you as a slàve.

Time to wake up!

[RedNeckPapa @RedNeckPapa6291]

@kylenabecker America is the Greatest Country of all time, all history! We are so fortunate to be living here and we are one people, WE THE PEOPLE and we won't let them take that away from us! I pledge allegiance to America!

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@kylenabecker We cannot be tolerant like we used to

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Western Civilization didn't flourish because "white males" stopped other groups from succeeding.

The West thrived because of rational thought, individual rights, and free enterprise.

"White males" that invented the steam engine, electric generation, the combustion engine, flight, and space exploration did not do so because they "stole" the ideas of minorities.

These inventions helped lift mankind out of ignorance and hardship, improving the quality of life for all of humanity.

"White males" didn't oppress the entire world, they helped make it a better place.

"White males" didn't oppress everyone's rights, they invented the idea of rights and paid in blood to liberate tens of millions of people.

"White males" didn't invent slavery, they ended it.

"White males" didn't invent tyranny, they devised a form of government to end it.

Destroying Western Civilization isn't about empowering groups that were "oppressed." It is about tearing down civilization itself so that globalist parasites can rule over all of us.

[Eric DeWallace @EricDeWallace]

Those that don’t appreciate Elon Musk are the lowest form of humanity. Envious losers that choose to denigrate his accomplishments because it makes them feel better when they look in the mirror and see empty vessels that take a more comfortable path to pitiful a existence. He should be celebrated by all as if we were blessed to be alive when Leonardo Da Vinci roamed the earth.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Captain Eli @TheCaptainEli]

There’s a recurring phenomenon that’s become almost predictable. Every time Elon and his companies lay out what they’re planning to build, a wave of people — including plenty of experts — rush to declare that it won’t actually happen.

We’ve watched this exact cycle play out again and again. Reusable orbital rockets. Electric vehicles moving from niche to mainstream. Global satellite internet. Each time it was called unrealistic, overhyped, or impossible. And each time, what started as a bold vision turned into working reality through relentless iteration.

Now the same voices are saying it about humanoid robots and true autonomy. “It won’t happen,” they insist.

Haha, the experts have spoken again. At this point, after seeing the pattern repeat so many times, the real question is simple: Who has actually shown more expertise in making these kinds of ambitious goals come true — Elon and his team, or the people predicting failure from the sidelines?

[Eric DeWallace @EricDeWallace]

Good luck Randy! I watch your videos everyday to catch up on TSLA and the daily market news. Your lineup of guest interviews was the best. Sorry to hear about the hack! It is maddening when us boomers can’t pick up the phone and talk to a live person to resolve issues, and kind of ironic because the company we follow is also like that! I look forward to following you on X. But why so long before you start? Enjoy the rest of your Hawaii vacation!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just reduced American crime politics to a single question on Joe Rogan.

And answered it like it was arithmetic.

Musk: “While obviously not everyone who’s a Democrat is a criminal, almost everyone who is a criminal is a Democrat.”

That’s not a partisan attack.

That’s an observation about how incentives work.

If you’re a criminal, you don’t vote for the party promising longer sentences and more cops.

You vote for the one gutting bail laws and calling enforcement racist.

This isn’t opinion. This is game theory.

Musk: “Because the Democrats are the soft-on-crime party. So if you’re a criminal, who are you gonna vote for?”

Nobody wants to follow that logic to its conclusion.

But the math doesn’t care.

The softness isn’t accidental. It’s architectural.

No-cash bail. Decriminalized theft. Sanctuary cities. Defund the police.

These aren’t compassion. They’re infrastructure.

Every policy that removes consequences builds a constituency that needs them to stay gone.

That’s not ideology. That’s customer acquisition.

You don’t protect criminals because you care about them.

You protect them because they show up in November.

The people paying the price are never the ones writing the policy.

It’s the working-class neighborhoods getting hollowed out.

The immigrant families who played by the rules watching the system reward the ones who broke them.

The small business owners boarding up windows because the DA won’t prosecute.

They’ll spend the next week calling Musk reckless for this.

But he didn’t build the incentive structure.

He just described it.

And that’s what they’ll never forgive.

[The Israeli @TheIsraeliT]

https://t.co/dNYiP7ptkW
🚨 IRAN IS COLLAPSING — and even CHINA is panicking!
Watters: “If Xi calls the gay Ayatollah and tells him to beg for mercy… he’ll beg for mercy!”
Trump’s blockade is working. $400 million a day down the drain. Iran can’t survive without its Chinese sugar daddy, and Beijing knows the game is over.
The Islamic regime is crumbling under real American pressure.
No more money for Hamas, Hezbollah or nuclear dreams.
Trump is winning. The ayatollahs are finished.
Share this — the collapse is happening in real time.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

The two biggest things people ask me about my Tesla are:

1) Do you have problems charging it?
2) What do you do when you have to take long trips?

I need you to understand this. I travel a lot by car. Long distances north/south/east/west through rural parts of every state, 500+ mile trips often.

Teslas are WAY BETTER than any other car for road trips. Way better than any gas car, way better than any other EV. It is far EASIER, not harder, to road trip in a Tesla.

You don’t have to look for charging. This is all done by software. You don’t have to plan stops. This is all done by software. You don’t have to drive or navigate. This is all done by software. You get into a Tesla, type or speak any destination anywhere, press “start self driving” on the screen, and that’s it. You’re done. The rest is all handled by software. You just have to sit there and enjoy the view.

Zero stress, zero deciding which rest stop to stop at when you think your tanks gonna be low, zero worry about wrong turns, zero attention required to nav. Just kick back and take it in. It makes a 8 hour road trip feel like 2 hours, and you feel completely refreshed upon arrival, like you were sitting on your couch relaxing. No neck tension, no brain fatigue from keeping a car from crashing for 8 hours. It’s way better than any other vehicle for travel, not the opposite.

I’m on a 600 mile work trip right now, and if someone told me I had to give up my Tesla and start traveling by ICE car again, I’d prob look for a new job. Seriously. It is way way better for travel.

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

41 years ago today. The greatest round in boxing history. Hagler vs Hearns

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just put a number on the flaw at the center of Nvidia’s empire.

Wall Street has not done the math yet.

Nvidia’s Blackwell is the most sought-after silicon on Earth.

Every AI lab wants it. Every sovereign nation is bidding for it.

Blackwell runs every model, for every company, in every data center on the planet.

That universality built the empire.

It is also the fracture point.

Musk: “We believe the AI5 chip will be about a third of the power of an Nvidia Blackwell for roughly comparable performance. And much less than 10% of the cost.”

One-third the power.

Comparable performance.

Less than ten percent of the cost.

Musk: “This is a chip that is very much optimized for the Tesla AI software stack. It’s not meant to be a general purpose chip.”

Nvidia builds silicon that serves a million different customers.

Every transistor spent on universal compatibility is a transistor not dedicated to one task.

Tesla is building silicon for exactly one customer.

Itself.

When you strip away every function you will never call, you do not get a lesser chip.

You get a weapon.

Here is what the market refuses to see.

Data centers drink unlimited power from the grid.

Robots run on batteries.

Musk: “In order to have a functional robot, you have to have a great AI chip. And it needs to be an inexpensive chip and it needs to be very power efficient.”

You cannot put a Blackwell inside a walking machine.

It would drain the battery before it crossed the room.

The entire AI revolution lives inside air-conditioned buildings bolted to the electrical grid.

Musk is not competing for that market.

He is engineering the silicon that survives outside of it.

One-third the power is not a spec sheet footnote.

It is the physics threshold that severs intelligence from the wall socket.

Without that number, every robot on Earth stays tethered.

With it, the algorithm walks.

Less than ten percent of the cost is not a pricing strategy.

It is the line where a machine brain stops being a capital expenditure and becomes a commodity component.

When the chip inside a humanoid costs less than the motors in its legs, you do not manufacture hundreds of robots.

You manufacture millions.

Wall Street is valuing the AI revolution by who dominates the data center.

Musk is building the only silicon designed to leave one.

Nvidia built the brain of the cloud.

Musk is building the brain of the physical world.

No one has priced that in yet.

[JB Slear @JB_Slear]

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at RobinsonHigh School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'
At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'
By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded the Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.
Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans?... I did.
Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won for us.

[Decado @ItsDecado]

To those speaking of iran's infrastructure being destroyed as a consequence of this war:

Let’s talk about your staggering hypocrisy.

When they set the Rasht market ablaze with our people trapped inside, your heart didn't bleed. You felt absolutely nothing for the innocent lives burning to ash. But now that a bridge in Karaj gets blown to pieces, suddenly you want to weep over "Iranian infrastructure"?

Let me tell you exactly what kind of bridge this was.

It was never meant for us. Not a single civilian has ever set foot on it. It wasn't even open to the public. It was a phantom structure, built for one reason and one reason only: to connect two IRGC military bases and serve as a direct, covert artery to an underground missile city. It was carved right behind the Azimiyeh mountains, stretching west toward Radar Mountain. God only knows what dark, malignant operations these terrorists are hiding in the tunnels beneath that rock.

In short: it was a pure military asset for an occupying terror syndicate.

So yes, when I saw the sky light up with that explosion, I cheered. I watched their concrete shatter, and I smiled. Because it meant only one thing: another massive, crippling blow to the terror machine of the Islamic Republic that holds my country hostage.

You can mourn the rubble of their military bases all you want. When this occupation is finally eradicated, we will build our own bridges.