eric gundersen

no passengers on the battleship. founding CEO @Mapbox.

[Alex Roy @AlexRoy144]

We just set the 1st Fully Autonomous, ZERO-Intervention Cannonball Run Record from LA-NY.

In the middle of WINTER, through extreme cold, snow, ice, slush & rain, FSD drove 100% of the 3081 miles of our journey.

58 hrs, 22 min non-stop, except for charging.

FSD 14.2.2.3 is an absolute game changer for personal autonomy.

Incredibly, my Model S could have gotten to NYC faster WITHOUT us on board.

@ElonMusk was right. Once an autonomous vehicle is mature, most human input is an error.

A comedy of human errors added hours and hundreds of miles, but FSD stunned us with its consistent and comfortable behavior.

MUCH more (hilarious) detail to follow.

Thank you to my co-passengers @dackboor & Paul Pham, Tesla experts/enthusiasts who agreed to do this in the worst weather possible.

Congrats to @aelluswamy and team for this incredible step forward.

Data, pix and video coming soon.

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https://t.co/d2gaScrwdT @elonmusk @Scobleizer @wholemars @itskyleconner @SawyerMerritt @alex_avoigt @DavidMoss

[eric gundersen @ericg]

To put the recent increase in debt costs for USA in perspective, see graph relative to other countries. Source: @UBS , IMF, as of 17 May 2025

[eric gundersen @ericg]

Gross general government debt to GDP vs. Net cost of debt to revenues. Source: @UBS , IMF, as of 17 May 2025

[Brett Krieger @BrettKrieger12]

$PLTR CEO Alex Karp’s response to a Palestinian protestor at The Hill & Valley Forum

[Charley Ma @CharleyMa]

Does anyone else miss conference calls prior to zoom / remote?

Kids these days will never appreciate the art of hitting the mute button on one of these bad boys and going “this guy is an idiot right??” during a negotiation and jumping back in without missing a beat

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Jeffrey Sachs with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape.

(20:17) Why did America push for Ukraine to Join NATO?
(58:34) What is a Neocon?
(1:25:28) Regime Change Never Works
(1:36:27) Who Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
(2:01:45) COVID Origins

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you want a detailed explanation of why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting podcast!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To the stars

[Matt Griswold @griswold]

The OpenAI story.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When I talk to more established startups, one of the first things I want to know, after asking about the growth rate and whether they're profitable, is whether the founders still have board control. I'm more optimistic about the company when the answer is yes.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship launch live broadcast

https://t.co/hRmOPXJ296

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Let’s cut to the chase - long and essential to read

We’re besieged by those who would seek to destroy our way of life

Some of them are even amongst us in the far left and far right…who foolishly view foreign autocrats as compatriots

But there’s also a real growing threat from foreign autocracies who want to change the global status quo

They want to end the current world order built on respect for national sovereignty and human rights

And they want to replace it with authoritarian spheres of influence where oppressive regimes subjugate their neighbors

That’s what all of this is about

Coming out of WW2, our greatest generation understood, in their bones, why this needed to be opposed

Half a million dead Americans were too large of a price to pay

And so they gifted us a framework for a new security architecture

Territorial wars would no longer be tolerated. War could only be conducted on very specific grounds

That’s how we’ve had no large scale wars in 80 years

Our greatest generation is now gone and their sacrifices mostly forgotten

We now look to social media messiahs that warp common sense with their serpentine logic…driven by algorithms or ignorance, they try to redefine history…create new paradigms that are sexy but ultimately false

Except it’s not all that complicated

Good men need to oppose evil in all it’s forms

Those who would start wars are those that should be destined to lose wars

Borders should remain as they are, regardless of ethnicity, lest we are doomed to repeat the 10,000 years of folly by our ancestors

If we don’t stand up to evil then that evil will eventually come for us all

I’m frequently called a neocon…I want war

But I’ve never advocated for that…

All I’ve said is that if we abandon objective morality as a principle for how the world should work, we’ll just keep repeating the same mistakes

It might not even matter…maybe this is hardwired into our DNA and conflict is our ultimate destiny

But we should at least try to maintain the world order gifted to us by our greatest generatiom

We should not tolerate Russian aggressian against Ukraine

We should not tolerate Chinese aggression against Taiwan

And we should not tolerate war waged against Israel by Hamas

We should never tolerate that aggresor if we want peace

Normalizing this type of aggression will only lead to the same historical outcome: big (sometimes world) wars

You can’t hide from it…eventually evil is as evil does

Either we all agree to respect each other’s national sovereignty or we’re destined to have world wars

Territorial aspirations never stop and they always end in war

Either we save the existing system…something that is only possible through strength

Or we are doomed to repeat a greater war

The isolationists are fools…they preach populist slogans that have no historical precedent…yet populism is popular…who doesn’t like being told what they want to hear?

But alas,

It’s not too late for us to fight for a system that has kept the peace for 80 years

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[eric gundersen @ericg]

🌈 AI::: “their prediction model updates the whole planet every ten minutes and soon it will be just a few minutes. Traditional meteorological models update every few hours, a time in which weather can change significantly.”
https://t.co/YQ39zliozi @ymelnichek @RainbowAI_app

[eric gundersen @ericg]

#NewProfilePic 📸

[eric gundersen @ericg]

“While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict [China’s] unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) chairman of the House select committee on China, told Fox News, referring to China’s Communist Party. @chairmang
via https://t.co/a9KYFeLdKo

[eric gundersen @ericg]

“The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement.”

"Government officials in Vietnam didn’t see it that way." via @WSJ

"They saw the dotted line as a demarcation known as “the nine-dash line,” referring to a claimed maritime border that China insists gives it claim to a vast swath of the South China Sea. Other countries and a United Nations tribunal have rejected China’s claim, including Vietnam." How a Squiggly Line on a Map Got ‘Barbie’ Banned in Vietnam https://t.co/a9KYFeLdKo by @erichschwartzel

[Starlink @Starlink]

Developed in-house, the dielectric mirrors on the surface of the satellites and extremely dark black paint for angled surfaces or those not conducive to mirror adhesion help absorb and redirect light away from the ground

[eric gundersen @ericg]

regulatory capture 101 by @bgurley

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

2,851 Miles by @bgurley from the @allinsummit

now available in full on @x

(0:00) 2,851 Miles
(24:44) In conversation with @bgurley