Marc Jones

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[Marc Jones @jonesm]

Mr. Khanna, Republicans are right. @elonmusk just created thousands of millionaires and hundreds of centimillionaires. The resulting income taxes, capital gains taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and other tax revenues generated will likely dwarf what most politicians could ever hope to redistribute. You may want to rethink your post.

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@SenWarren 👉 https://t.co/eGrndSk8vs

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Ben McDonald @realbenmcdonald]

Good morning….there is a lot wrong with college sports right now….This is NOT one of them! So cool! Congrats to @WVUBaseball you guys are Super! #RoadToOmaha

[Eric Church @ericchurch]

Eric took the stage at UNC Chapel Hill to deliver a commencement speech to the next generation of Tar Heels, sharing a message for the graduates as they step into what comes next.

Watch the speech in its entirety here: https://t.co/DbqOdqiymt

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@Paul28730 @siimland These ranges seem pretty accurate for what age? Still no scientific literature citations…

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@SahilBloom Welcome to my town, I completely agree with you!

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

[james hawkins @james406]

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life:

"i never once used Microsoft Teams"

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@GavinNewsom Class act leadership right there. SMH

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@RepJeffries Classy show of leadership.

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@EmmanuelMacron Feeling so much better now. 🤣

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@KamalaHarris 🤣

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@shanaka86 All conjecture. Not saying you’re wrong, but this is still 100% speculation. Hard for me to believe that after spending nearly $1T per year on defense for a decade, we’d run out of munitions in a week. Please share your source.

[George Ilstrup @georgeilstrup]

Last night I captured a dream photo from a frozen sea cave on Lake Superior ✅

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@Ticketmaster waited 41 minutes in queue for @NoahKahan Boston tickets only to get kicked out right as we were next. Queue works until it doesn’t, apparently. Help?

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

Not as advertised @LegendaryFoods1

[Marc Jones @jonesm]

@MarshaBlackburn @realDonaldTrump Senator @MarshaBlackburn we must address illegal immigration in a serious and lawful way. At the same time what we’re seeing play out is inconsistent with American values of due process, dignity & restraint. We must secure the border but do it better. Pls b a force for that path