lee

water in water, air in air, light in light

[Matilda Spicer @MatildaSpicer]

July 9, 1911 — John Archibald Wheeler was born.
A visionary physicist, he coined terms like "black hole" and "wormhole," and helped shape quantum theory and relativity. Mentor to Feynman, he bridged science and philosophy. 🌀🌌
#OnThisDay #Physics #Wheeler

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Amazing abundance for all!

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon said something that stuck with me.

He said the hardest part of being him isn't building the rockets, it's caring about everyone he can't save.

That single line changes how you see him.

Most people think the secret to Musk is intelligence. Or work ethic. Or risk tolerance. They miss the real thing.

His edge is that he has a heart.

In a world optimized for cold optimization, where every CEO is trained to maximize shareholder value and minimize emotional exposure, Musk does the opposite. He builds what moves him. He fights for what matters to him.

A 15 year old girl named Liv Perrotto designed a Shiba Inu plush in 30 minutes. She had cancer. Stage 4. The plush was her contribution to Polaris Dawn, the SpaceX mission that flew higher than any private spaceflight in history. She named it Asteroid.

The plush flew. It became the mission's zero g indicator. The first thing that floated when they hit space.

Liv died in January.

Before she died she wrote eight wishes for Elon. The eighth one was simple. Make Asteroid the official mascot of SpaceX.

She knew she wouldn't see it happen. She wrote it anyway.

When the request reached Elon, he didn't have to respond. He's the richest man alive. He gets thousands of dying wishes. Most go unanswered, that's just math.

He answered this one. He said yes.

Asteroid is now the SpaceX mascot. Because a 15 year old girl drew a dog and asked the most powerful man in the world to remember her.

This is the part nobody understands about Musk. He could have ignored it. The optimal capital allocation move was to ignore it. The brand calculation said ignore it. The lawyers said ignore it.

He didn't ignore it.

People debate whether he's a genius or a clown, a hero or a villain, a savior or a scammer. They miss the point entirely. The reason he keeps winning isn't his intelligence. It's that he hasn't optimized away his humanity.

The other tech founders are smarter at certain things. They have better processes. Better PR teams. Better political instincts. None of them would have made Asteroid the mascot of SpaceX. Most of them couldn't tell you the name of a child who died of cancer last year.

That's the gap. That's the moat. That's why he beats them all.

In a world that rewards detachment, Musk's superpower is that he still feels things. The Tesla mission was personal. The SpaceX mission is personal. Neuralink is personal because his son was non-verbal until eight. Even the Twitter purchase was personal, his obsession with free speech tied to his own censoring.

Every project is downstream of something he actually cares about.

That's why he can work 100 hours a week for 20 years without burning out the way normal people do. Burnout comes from doing things that don't match your values. He's never had to do that.

Liv didn't get to see her plush become the SpaceX mascot. But she wrote it down before she died, and the most powerful man alive said yes, because somewhere underneath the rockets and the satellites and the AI companies and the trillion-dollar valuations, he's still the kid who cried watching cartoons.

Most people lose this by 30. They call it growing up. It's actually atrophy.

@elonmusk kept it.

That's the whole secret.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is the most powerful moving object ever made

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it.

Credit: Margie Lee

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk: You can tell which side is the good side and which side is the bad side by which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech

The side that is restricting freedom of speech you know, that would have been the Hitlers, Stalins, and Mussolinis of the world

They had very strong censorship, very strong restrictions on speech. That’s one of the signs that they’re the bad guys

In fact, a restriction on speech and large government is fundamentally fascist, obviously. So ironically, in pushing for censorship, it makes it very clear that the left is the side that is against freedom

Freedom of speech is simply one of many freedoms that we should have as a civil society because ideas should win on the strength of their arguments. They should not win because they are suppressed

[lee @JoypodLee]

@Stellarixorine @konstructivizm @grok In Mars' thin atmosphere, is there no Mie scattering similar to what produces the warm tones in Earth's atmosphere?

[lee @JoypodLee]

The vast majority of these 1 million AI satellites will be placed in sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbits at altitudes of 50–1000 km.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

One million SpaceX AI satellites orbiting Earth…

At this point, it’s getting harder and harder to not see this becoming the largest company in the world on IPO day.

The future is going to be so freakin exciting!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX is now providing precise positional awareness of objects in Earth orbit to all satellite operators for free.

This will greatly reduce the probability of collisions that create orbital debris (space junk) hazards.

[Han Qin (姓秦，名汉，字大知) @hqinjarsy]

为什么大家都说这个证据不利于OpenAI？

最近大家都在读Musk对Sam的诉讼材料，这个有一个被讨论和转载最多的，也是对OpenAI最不利的证据。

它很有可能证明 OpenAI 在对外作出相反承诺的同时，内部已经清楚知道那是假的。

在美国民事诉讼里，有没有这个定性可以说差别是天壤之别。

我们看这句“This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon”，它说明什么OpenAI当时的目标不是结构最优，而是未来摆脱大捐赠者马斯克。

再看这句 “what will take me to $1B?”，这句话在法庭里极其危险，因为案件背景是非营利不逐利，但内部讨论已经是个人经济回报，且有明确金额目标。这直接支持 Elon 的叙事，OpenAI的动机不是自己宣传的使命，而是经济收益。

这句更可怕的是这句 “cannot say that we are committed to the non-profit… if three months later we’re doing b-corp then it was a lie” 。注意这是当事人自己用的 lie 这个词。法庭都不需要再通过推理，不需要去��动机了，因为被告自己承认知道那是撒谎。

虽然这是Brockman说的，但是对Sam和其他共同治理者都很糟糕。说明内部高层已经在讨论 B-corp，摆脱马斯克，甚至如何避免Elon后来指控OpenAI不诚实。

这在法律上构成 Concurrent contradictory intent，而这正是fraud最常见的证据形态。

这个证据可以说是同时符合了三大证据黄金标准contemporaneous，self-inculpatory，和corroborated by conduct。

因为OpenAI后来真的走向了商业化，赶走了Elon，且改变了非盈利结构。

所以Elon胜诉的概率在大幅提升。

[Simon Kalouche @simonkalouche]

This is the most dexterous task I’ve seen a humanoid do so far.

Fully autonomous powered by Sharpa’s CraftNet (VTLA) — using tactile feedback to continuously fine-tune the last-millimeter interaction.

[lee @JoypodLee]

In today's world, Trump's busy cleaning up the backyard in Central and South America, demanding Greenland as a frontline base, ditching those shady international clubs, revamping the military-industrial complex, and slowly drawing a big red line between us and decadent Europe.
It reminds me of Tolkien's Middle-earth, where:
Trump is Aragorn, relighting the beacons, rallying the scattered troops, rebuilding the war machine, and gearing up for the final showdown.
Europe is like the continent fully infected by Sauron: once-glorious civilizations (elves, ancient kingdoms) now reduced to ruins and puppet armies, with nothing but internal chaos and backstabbing. Brussels, EU HQ, is basically Minas Morgul (formerly the shining Minas Ithil) — what was once a beacon of light is now 100% corrupted.
America is Gondor, the last real stronghold in Middle-earth, hanging out alone on the western edge of Mordor, facing the full onslaught of the dark armies. We've given up on far-off, hopeless allies and are now focused on defending the homeland and the nearby continents.
And Musk? He's Gandalf. Constantly warning about the AI singularity and the madness of the woke left, just like Gandalf kept shouting about the Ring and Sauron: it's a power beyond mortal comprehension that could explode early and flip the entire war. If the "dark forces" get the singularity first, we're toast. But if Gondor grabs it... hello, new golden age.

[lee @JoypodLee]

YES!!!!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: Elon Musk’s 2018 CEO pay package from Tesla, worth some $56 billion when it vested, must be restored, the Delaware Supreme Court has just ruled.

TESLA AND ELON MUSK WON! 🥳

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Here is Peter Thiel’s email to Zuck and Andreessen in Jan-2020 predicting socialism.

Tl;dr too much student debt and lack of affordable housing keeps young people with negative capital for too long. And without a stake in the capitalist system, they will turn against it.

[a16z @a16z]

David Sacks says the biggest risk of AI was described not by James Cameron in The Terminator but by George Orwell in 1984.

“I almost feel like the term ‘woke AI’ is insufficient to explain what’s going on because it somehow trivializes it.”

“What we’re really talking about is 'Orwellian AI.' We’re talking about AI that lies to you, that distorts an answer, that rewrites history in real time to serve a current political agenda of the people who are in power.”

“To me, this is the biggest risk of AI... It’s not The Terminator, it’s 1984.”

@DavidSacks

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[lee @JoypodLee]

We are ALL Charlie Kirk.

[STM @Saltytattoomom]

We are ALL Charlie Kirk. ✝️🔥
“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.”

#IAmCharlieKirk

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

I am in tears. Vice President JD Vance is carrying Charlie Kirk bringing him home on Air Force Two

Charlie Kirk is a true hero to America

I will never forget this 🙏