Jared Cuteri

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Not_the_Bee The level of detail rendered is proportionate to the precision of the observation. Anything more than that is wasted compute.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ThomasAlxDmy You don’t seem to understand that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals

[Barrett Linburg @DallasAptGP]

There is a rumor going around Dallas real estate and construction circles about a T-Rex.

I have heard it from separate sources. Stay with me, because the setup matters.

At the corner of Knox and the Katy Trail, a $1B project is rising that will overlook Highland Park. Condos, apartments, an Auberge hotel, retail, and restaurants in one development. Michael Dell's MSD Partners and Trammell Crow are behind it.

Dallas has watched the cranes for over a year. It opens this year.

The condos sold out before the building topped out. Word is buyers paid around $2,000 per square foot. Several bought two units pre-construction so the architect could combine floorplans and balconies into something bigger.

$2,000 per foot raises no eyebrows in New York or Hong Kong.

In Dallas? That is 2.5x what Museum Tower fetched, and Museum Tower set the old record.

A great sign for our city. Still not the story.

Bloomberg reported who bought the top two floors: Todd Graves, founder of Raising Cane's. A single floor had been marketed at $25 million. He took both.

Here is the part the reporters missed. The part the construction guys whisper about.

Graves needed both floors locked in before the concrete was poured. He worked with the architect and the engineers on one request: cut a hole in the floor plate between his two levels.

Why a hole between floors?

Natural light? A grand staircase? Some massive chandelier?

No.

A T-Rex skeleton. Thirty feet of it, standing in his living room, with two stories of glass behind it.

Before you dismiss the rumor, know this. Graves already owns a 66-million-year-old triceratops skull. It sits on loan at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum. The man collects fossils the way other billionaires collect Picassos.

The closest living relatives of the T-Rex. Chickens, actually.

Todd Graves built a $22 billion empire selling chicken fingers. Now he wants the biggest chicken of them all in his penthouse.

The more I learn about this guy, the more I like him.

[Jared Cuteri @jaredcuteri]

let’s start with a clown tax

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.

The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.

We need a wealth tax.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record.

You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary.

Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

[Dan Romero @dwr]

the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism

[nico @nicochristie]

Pretty crazy that Elon is only worth $1 Trillion

Thats like 200 miles of California high speed rail

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Never. Give. Up.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

In awe of SpaceX and its story - past, present and the future. You can think about it in 10+ different ways and continue re-blowing your mind in circles. Huge congrats to the team! 🚀

[Matt MacInnis @stanine]

I found the SpaceX IPO surprisingly emotional today. It reminded me of why I came to the US as an 18-year-old. Even then, I knew that I wanted to build stuff, and that the place to do it was America. There was no second option in the world.

The concept of American exceptionalism is nothing new, but I have come to appreciate the culture that justifies it. SpaceX is yet another case in point. America’s risk-taking culture celebrates wild successes while embracing the legitimacy of hard-earned failure. American culture doesn’t celebrate inherited wealth, nor does it frown upon inherited poverty. It doesn’t seek to create equal outcomes, but rather equal opportunity.

It is not immediately obvious that this is unique in the world. Truly unique. I’m Canadian, and I love many aspects of Canadian culture, but Canadian culture does not offer people the same environment in which to take risks.

I write this because I was dismayed to see US politicians complaining of the extreme wealth created by the SpaceX IPO. Say what you will about wealth inequality, or a single man’s politics, but don’t tell me that immense wealth creation in America is bad. Do not tell me you’d rather SpaceX not exist, exactly as it does. That you’d rather this company exist in some other country or culture.

Thankfully, despite today’s politics, SpaceX could not have been a Chinese company, or a Canadian one, or a French one. It could only ever have been an American one.

If nationalism is pride in your birthplace, then it’s merely tribalism, which serves to divide us. But if it’s pride in your culture, a culture that lets people achieve incredible things like this, then under those terms I am a nationalist. I want to protect and enhance our culture of risk-taking, of celebrating wins, and of celebrating failures along the way.

I think it is amazing that America created a trillionaire out of a risk-taking immigrant. It is absolutely fucking absurd, of course, but isn’t that the point? SpaceX is not a reason to be pissed off; it’s a reason for every person in the world who wants to build stuff to see themselves as American, no matter where in the world they live.

p.s. — this is entirely from my brain, with AI used only for fixing typos and grammar. :^)

[Blobifi @Blobifie]

New glenn has yet to explode

[Jared Cuteri @jaredcuteri]

amazon customer service just told me they really appreciate my systematic approach to root causing the issue and i’m glowing

[Jared Cuteri @jaredcuteri]

looking forward to many more flights of this

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Delta: we skipped over @Starlink because Amazon has really good free shipping

They should explain this in a way their passengers will understand.

[litquidity @litcapital]

JUST IN: Sydney Sweeney is in advanced discussions to join Anthropic as a strategic advisor, per WSJ.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Not exactly. SpaceX requires that there be no annoying “portal” to use Starlink.

Starlink WiFi must just work effortlessly every time, as though you were at home.

Delta wanted to make it painful, difficult and expensive for their customers. Hard to see how that is a winning strategy.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon a, comme d'habitude, 20 ans d'avance.

Il y a un truc qui me fascine dans l'histoire: la période aristocratique européenne, et plus précisément le libertinage comme signature de classe.

Versailles, la Régence, Venise, la cour des Stuart. Pendant 300 ans, sur des générations entières, une classe entière a vécu dans un régime de mœurs qu'on qualifierait aujourd'hui de scandaleux. Maîtresses officielles avec statut quasi-institutionnel (Pompadour, Montespan, Nell Gwynn). Libertinage codifié, raffiné, mis en scène (Laclos, Casanova, Sade). Liens multiples assumés, correspondances amoureuses, bals masqués, soupers fins. Ce n'était pas la dépravation d'une élite, c'était la norme d'une classe entière.

Pourquoi eux et pas les autres? Parce qu'ils étaient la seule classe sortie de la rareté. La monogamie stricte n'est pas un absolu moral, c'est une institution née de la pénurie: sécuriser la paternité, transmettre le patrimoine, gérer la rareté des partenaires. Plomberie sociale, pas métaphysique. L'aristocratie avait échappé aux trois contraintes, donc à la morale qui en dérivait. Sa liberté sexuelle était un sous-produit direct de son abondance.

Et quand je regarde ce qu'on construit, IA plus robotique plus énergie abondante plus longévité plus contraception parfaite plus gestation externe, j'en arrive à une conclusion assez claire: on va faire à l'espèce entière ce que le rang faisait à quelques milliers de privilégiés.

Le futur ressemblera beaucoup plus à Versailles qu'à un pavillon de banlieue. Liens fluides, sexe trivialisé, jeux de statut migrés vers la créativité, la longévité, les projets civilisationnels.

L'aristocratie n'était pas décadente. Elle était l'avant-garde sociologique de l'humanité.

Bitches / Money / No Taxes / Party, c'est juste l'horizon post-rareté décrit en quatre mots.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Michael Nicolls @michaelnicollsx]

Stunning first-sat views from @Starlink launch G10-38 on May 1, deployed from @SpaceX's Falcon rocket. Watch as the Starlink sats cruise over an entire orbit, through sunrise and sunset, and slowly separate from each as they complete their post-launch deployment sequence before beginning orbit raise.  The satellites are stacked like a deck of cards in the rocket, which slowly spins when dispensing to impart a small velocity difference, ensuring deconfliction.   May the @Starlink be with you.

[Penguins Jesus @PenguinsJesus]

The most electric 13 minutes in Penguins/Flyers history.

The hatred in the rivalry was at its absolute peak.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.