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[Overton @overton_news]

John Fetterman just broke from his party’s usual rhetoric and praised Elon Musk as a modern-day Thomas Edison.

Fetterman ripped into the critics like Graham Platner, who attack Musk’s wealth, asking why anyone would hate a visionary who builds companies and creates jobs.

FETTERMAN: “I’m in awe of what he’s accomplished. We’re the same age, he’s so far more successful and smarter than I could ever be.”

“Then you have people, you know, that guy from Maine said that he’s our first trillionaire, let’s make sure he’s the last one.”

“And I’m like, why do you hate a guy, he builds rockets, he builds cars…how many jobs have you created?”

“That would be like hating on Thomas Edison and these other kind of entrepreneurs.”

[Christopher Pietsch @Invictus1577019]

10 intelligente deutsche Beleidigungen:

1.) „Ich habe weder die Zeit, noch die Buntstifte, um dir das zu erklären.“

2.) „Ich finde es total gut, dass du gedanklich schön schlicht hältst.“

3.) „Ich kann es nicht noch einfacher erklären, nur lauter.“

4.) „Es war mir eine Lehre, dich kennengelernt zu haben.“

5.) „Du schaust bei Glastüren auch immer durch das Schlüsselloch, oder?“

6.) „Hochverachtungsvoll…“

7.) „Es ist erfrischend zu sehen, dass deine Herangehensweise nicht durch Vorkenntnisse getrübt ist.“

8.) „Ich habe es gar nicht so böse gesagt, wie ich es gemeint habe.“

9.) „Du bist die personifizierte Manifestation kognitiver Dissonanz und ästhetischer Enttäuschung.“

10.) „Hatten deine Eltern schon vor der Hochzeit den selben Namen?“

Bitte, gern geschehen.
Ich helfe doch gern.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Now that we're actively building a turbine and a turbine factory, we've moved to video updates for our investors.

Here is our Q2 investor update, with just one juicy tidbit redacted for now.

Hint: there is an Easter egg at the end🥚

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

Before the combination therapy, only 19% of immune cells infiltrating his tumor site were T cells. After treatment: 89%. His immune system, long suppressed by the cancer, had come roaring back.
The tumor shrank enough for surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering in April 2025. Surgeons removed what remained.
By June 2025: no evidence of disease. As of early 2026: still no evidence of disease.
He is now receiving a personalized mRNA neoantigen vaccine — custom-built from his tumor's unique mutations — to sustain the immune response. As backup, his team is developing personalized cell-based therapies equipped with genetic logic gates that trigger killing only when multiple cancer-specific signals are detected simultaneously.
His motto: "Stay paranoid."
And then he did the thing that transforms this from an extraordinary individual story into something that could change medicine.
He published everything.
The entire 25-terabyte dataset — genomic data, imaging, treatment protocols, outcomes — is publicly available at https://t.co/MLk5mS7KeT. Free. Open access. So that any patient, any researcher, any physician facing a similar situation can build on what he learned.
True to the radical transparency that built GitLab. Applied to cancer.
He founded Even One Ventures to help scale personalized cancer treatment for patients who don't have a billion-dollar net worth. Because the uncomfortable truth in this story is also the most important: Sijbrandij is a billionaire. He could afford the experts, the flights to Germany, the experimental therapies, the FDA applications, the manufacturing.
He puts it bluntly: "It costs $1 billion to get a drug approved. It costs $1 million to dose one person with a personalized therapy."
The question isn't whether this works. It clearly can. The question is whether it becomes accessible — or remains the privilege of founders who can fund their own R&D.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

Is the government giving land to SpaceX? Yes, and that’s a good thing.

[Saft @taavisaft]

@Austen Even my 90 yo grandma knows what data centers are for. Dunking on dumb people is fine, it generates fun content we can store on our data centers

[Let's Go!! @geepokey]

@phibetakitten @mybirdbuddy Wow - nice shot. I think that will be my desktop wallpaper this week :)

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I’m reading an old collection of interconnected science fiction stories by Jerry Pournelle, written in the early 70s. His best books were later co-authored with Larry Niven, but it is still solid work in my favored “competence porn” genre, with entrepreneurs as protagonists.

It stands out to me that he was despairing for America when he wrote the stories. Things looked bad at the time, and his fiction projected it into the future. Social unrest, Vietnam, Watergate, economic recession, energy crisis, and for a patriotic space guy, abandoning Apollo.

The backdrop for the stories was that America was unfixable, which is, of course, a motivation to go to space in fiction, but I do think he was genuinely worried by what he saw around him.

But over the next decade, things got better, and Jerry had a front row seat for the rise of the technology sector, writing the Chaos Manor column in Byte magazine for many years. He also got to see the founding of SpaceX, a company straight out of a hard SF novel, and they re-flew a landed rocket shortly before he died.

Trends aren’t fate.

Bad situations can be fixed, and good ones still need to be defended.

RIP Jerry, I’m glad you got to see things turn around.

https://t.co/jdQVyVLevI

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

KAYLEIGH MCENANY: “I want to emphasize Elon Musk and what he has done for the world.

“I stood alongside President Trump as SpaceX achieved America’s first crewed rocket launch in nearly a decade. It was SpaceX.

“When Butch Wilmore and his crew were stranded, who saved them? It wasn’t the public sector — it was the private sector. It was @SpaceX.

“@elonmusk’s companies — SpaceX, X, and Neuralink — are pushing humanity forward.

“@neuralink is already helping restore communication and mobility for people with paralysis. That is Elon Musk. That is innovation.

“And with innovation comes profit, and with profit comes the creation of millionaires and opportunity inside companies. That’s how capitalism works. It is not the great evil Bernie Sanders wants you to believe it is.”

[Kyle Conner @itskyleconner]

My thoughts after driving Model Y for the last 10,000 miles

The car I’ve had the least complaints about… ever ⚡️

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

This reminds me of the time Terraform was penalized under the OR-GREET carbon intensity calculation because our process intentionally does not recycle low grade waste heat, in order to improve capital efficiency of our captive solar power plant.

Participation in this bizarre process was a mandatory $100k payment to a vanishingly tiny set of certified GREET consultants, for one basic spreadsheet calculation in order to be allowed to sell synthetic natural gas.

The lesson here is that regulators can spend infinite time and effort trying to generate non-monetary estimates of value for low carbon high cost substitutes, but a) this will fail to magically generate demand for far-out-of-the-market commodities and b) it will almost certainly fail to estimate the shape of businesses that actually can deliver value.

Anyway, rockets burn fuel and I wish we had 1000x more of them.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Kristin Hendricks @KHdimples]

Tesla FSD is 🪄. Need to be able to converse w/ Grok like we can with an Uber driver: “Hey Grok, turn right here.” “Drop us off right here, we'll walk due to traffic.” “Drop at entrance first, then park far away.” @Tesla_AI

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@KHdimples @wholemars @Tesla_AI This functionality will be there in about 3 months or so

[Kurtis Hastings @Kurtis_Hastings]

@GamzeeAlour8992 Once someone hits $1 trillion, they should be exempt from taxes. At that point, they've clearly proven they're a better allocator of capital than the government — which, to be fair, is a pretty low bar.

[Christine Eriksen @AnEriksenWife]

Because if I didn't, nobody would ever have had the opportunity to know it exists, and I genuinely believe Theft of Fire the best scifi written this decade 💕

When Devon was nearly done writing it, he had a rough day. "I know it's good... I just don't know if being good is enough..."

You have to understand where we stood at the time. Recent cross-country transplants with no local social network. Devon had, idk, maybe 100 Twitter followers, if he even had a Twitter yet. He knew he was going to publish independently, because the traditional publishing industry is profoundly broken.

It was all on us. This story, this story I loved, which he had written as a love letter to all the classics that inspired him, that was written by dumping a bucket in the dark recesses of his soul and constructing a narrative designed to delight readers, there was a very, very real chance that NOBODY would read it.

You must understand. The odds of publishing are not great. Independent publishing, often even worse. People's time is precious, so they have enormous sales resistance to books, even if all signs point to the fact it's a book they'd love.

He knew Theft of Fire was good. He just didn't know if being good was enough was enough.

So I made a promise. I promised that I would MAKE SURE people knew of his book. That I'd try my damndest to help people who'd love his book discover it.

And after all, why not? Good books can be so hard to find. People love books, love stories, but the disappointment of one that doesn't satisfy hits hard. And I could help with that. Help them discover Devon's book.

And you know what? It's fucking worked. He's not yet Andy Weir, but thousands of people have enjoyed his book. Bus drivers and welders, top software engineers and Jordan Peterson's brother-in-law. People who'd fallen out of the habit of reading demolished Theft of Fire in a couple days, then dove into reading more. Devon has gotten at least half a dozen messages saying his work has inspired them to write their own books.

So why? Why do I constantly cheer for my husband's novel? Because I don't care about annoying you. I don't care that you say "you'll never pick it up" because I've turned you off of it. If I was a meek little church mouse, you'd never pick it up the same way you'll never pick up the other three thousand books publishing today.

I keep on, I hold fast, for other people. I do this for the readers. I do this because I delight in every Amazon review, every "I loved your book!" tweet, every bit of fan art, everything that comes from Devon's story resonating in the souls of his audience.

Stories matter. Stories are civilizationally load bearing. And we are awash in too many anti-humanity, anti-progress, anti-everything-I-care-about narratives.

And so I'll honk until my vocal cords are hoarse. Because the world deserves to know about, and read, and enjoy, Devon Eriksen's Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1

[DennisCW | wen cybercab @DennisCW_]

My friend bought a Cybertruck for $29k..

Sounds unbelievable, but heres what happened afterwords..

When it arrived, the truck was completely dead.

- No power
- No steering
- had to be jump started with a Fisker 🙃

he went to work:
- A couple pyrofuses
- A new battery
- Some Tesla Toolbox wizardry

Then he added some replacement doors on ebay, self installed and wrapped

The final cost?

$35k all-in for a fully functional AWD Cybertruck

Would you drive a "cheap" Cybertruck for $35k?

[Gali @Gfilche]

Wait til the haters see how fast Elon makes his second Trillion

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I'd like to interview @MrBeast.

I'm an autistic, obsessive creator with ulcerative colitis.

I want to know how MrBeast is driven, how he approaches the problems, how he solves them, how he knows when good enough is good enough without making perfection the enemy.

How do you delegate when it's contrary to every fiber of your being, but when you know you must to survive?

How do you compromise on not being TOO intense without diluting that which made you successful in the first place?

How do you build a company with people who are enough like you to be highly driven but different enough to be complementary to your own skillset?

It's not that I want to find out how videos are made. I want to understand the ASD mindset that drives people like @elonmusk and @mrbeast to work at a level that would not be possible if it were not their special interest.

If you're interested, do whatever it is that people do. I have no idea how to actually reach him. I'd take a hard no, but would like the shot!