Kaspar Fenner

software engineering, motorsports, AI, space exploration, investing, entrepreneurship

🚀 let's go multiplanetary 🚀

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”

[Anna Schneider @a_nnaschneider]

Das ZDF hat reagiert, in der Beschreibung der Sendung steht nun, die Formulierung zu Beginn (Musk habe zur Jagd auf Migranten aufgerufen) sei "unpräzise und deshalb missverständlich". Immer diese Missverständnisse, kennt man ja noch von Charlie Kirk

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Australia ban on social media for u16s:

- exempts Bluesky

UK ban on social media for u16s:

- exempts Bluesky

The establishment wants to control the rapid shift to the right while promoting a far-left platform as its replacement (fortunately, no one is interested).

[Gene @genejchan]

$TSLA is a cocked gun full of catalysts ready to unload:

- Cybercab launch
- Robotaxi ramp in multiple states
- FSD approval in more EU countries
- Roadster reveal
- Optimus 3 reveal
- Model YL in US
- Consumer unsupervised FSD

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Btw even China and Iran don’t do this.

Only North Korea does this.

[jimmah @jamesdouma]

This is the best general article that I’ve read on the topic of SpaceX.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/puLXpatHvd

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.

[Australischer Austauschstudent @VceOfReason]

Was die meisten schon wieder vergessen haben:

2021 hat Elon Musk den Vereinten Nationen angeboten, für die Beendigung des Welthungers mit dem Verkauf eines Teils seiner Tesla-Aktien zu zahlen.

Die einzige Bedingung: Die Vereinten Nationen legen transparent offen, wie genau dieser Betrag den Welthunger beenden würde und wie die Mittel eingesetzt werden.

Natürlich haben die Vereinten Nationen das Angebot nicht angenommen. Sie hätten nämlich erklären müssen, wie es sein kann, dass seit den 1950er Jahren 2 BILLIONEN DOLLAR an „Entwicklungshilfen“ nach Afrika geflossen sind, sich aber in all den Jahren nichts zum Besseren entwickelt hat.

Das Problem ist nicht Elon Musk.
Das Problem sind korrupte Politiker, die dir sagen, dass Elon Musk das Problem wäre.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX today officially announced that they have raised a total of $85.7 billion in their IPO, the largest amount of money ever raised in an IPO.

"SpaceX today announced the closing of its initial public offering of an aggregate 638,888,888 shares of its Class A common stock, including the full exercise by the underwriters of their overallotment option to purchase an additional 83,333,333 shares of Class A common stock from SpaceX. The issuance of all shares closed on June 15, 2026, bringing the gross proceeds from the initial public offering to SpaceX to approximately $85.7 billion."

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[Clementine Harrovian @FreeMarketsEco]

@BillAckman @BernieSanders @elonmusk @SpaceX

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

1/7
I'm a cardiologist. I'm also an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime that promised equality for the people.
I stand with @elonmusk.
And @BernieSanders, @AOC, and politicians like NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani are wrong. Not just politically wrong. Historically, economically, and provably wrong.
Here's why — with the receipts.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

Somebody pinch me.

It’s just wild to see the MSM finally admitting that the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine were real this whole time.

I’ve dedicated the last 4+ years of my life to exposing this story, and it’s finally coming to fruition.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Congratulations @ElonMusk.

Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire.

He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth.

He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world.

Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time.

The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules.

So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

[Damsgaard @damsgaard_thor]

Day 2 of FSD driving in Denmark.

Well it’s strange… Already I’m getting use to relaxing in the car, and just enjoying it taking me around the city’s to visit my costumers. 😊

The new experience today is just like you read a lot of places, it’s really polite.
I mean it’s a good thing!
Drives better then 11/12 people on the road.
Even the devil cyclists in København are waving “thanks” when it stops for them.
That has to be the gold standard for any autonomous city driving 😂

Thank you @elonmusk for starting the wonderful company @Tesla that has given the world, safety and relaxing all in one everyday driving electric vehicle 🙏