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[Chris Camillo @ChrisCamillo]

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

There was something special about being a kid when adults didn't feel the need to entertain you every minute of the day.

Your parents could take you somewhere incredibly boring, and you were just expected to deal with it.

The bank. The hardware store. Your mother's friend's house, where you sat on a couch covered in plastic and weren't allowed to touch anything.

Nobody handed you a screen. Nobody worried about whether you were having fun.

You studied the wallpaper. You read the same magazine three times. You stared at the clock and wondered if the second hand had stopped moving.

And if you made the mistake of asking, "Can we go now?" your mother gave you that look.

You know the look.

The one that could end your entire afternoon without a single word being spoken.

I swear, we developed half our imagination simply because our parents refused to entertain us.

Looking back, I think being bored was one of the best things that ever happened to us.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

It’s actually crazy how you grow up thinking home-cooked meals every day are just normal, then get older and realise how much time and effort it took your Mom to make that happen and how lucky you were to have that.

[Emre Onur Kahya @EmreOnurKahya]

@leventhannibal Artık sadece teknik beceriye sahip olan değil, daha kavramsal düzeyde düşünüp YZ'nin teknik becerilerini kullanabilen Oppenheimer tarzı insanlara ihtiyaç olacak... Teori alanında en azından

[Pach @lgpachecos]

Las mamadas que uno le dice a los hijos para que lo quieran.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

If your first question is "What's the point?" then you will never understand the answer.

Because this IS the point.

Some engineers felt like making a car with jump jets. So they did.

Non-player characters do stuff so they can eat.

Player characters eat so they can do stuff.

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

“How did you keep the development of this secret for so long?”

“I didnt. I simply told everyone and nobody believes us”

Lmao

[Ze Clint @ZeClint]

Je ne veux plus fréquenter les gens qui disent « À quoi ça sert ? ».

J’ai 50 piges sur mon passeport, 12 ans dans ma tête (et 18 ans dans mon slip, dirait ma femme).

Et je compte bien que ça dure.

Je ne supporte plus les pisse-vinaigre professionnels du scepticisme.

À quoi ça servait de vouloir voler ? De traverser les océans ? De marcher sur la Lune ?

À rien. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un l’a fait.

J’ai toujours eu une tendresse infinie pour les originaux. Les inadaptés. Les rebelles. Les emmerdeurs. Ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans les cases.
Ceux qui ont des idées absurdes, des ambitions démesurées, des projets improbables.

Parce que ce sont eux qui font avancer le monde.

Pas les gestionnaires du déclin.

Les gens suffisamment fous pour croire qu’ils peuvent changer le monde sont précisément ceux qui finissent par le changer.

Et ce qui me terrifie aujourd’hui c’est l’état d’esprit que nous transmettons à nos enfants.

On les élève dans une atmosphère de fin du monde permanente. Entre malthusianisme, injonctions à la décroissance, culpabilité écologique et anxiété organisée.

Quelle terrible inversion des valeurs !

L’écologie devrait être un formidable défi lancé à l’intelligence humaine, pas une pédagogie de la résignation.

Je ne veux pas d’une génération qui s’excuse d’exister au point de ne plus faire d’enfants

Je veux une génération qui brûle d’envie de découvrir, de créer, de baiser, de comprendre !

l’optimisme n’est pas de la naïveté mais le courage de croire en notre capacité à tout affronter.

Le progrès n’est pas une fatalité mais une conquête.

C’est mon ode aux rêveurs, aux inventeurs, aux enthousiastes, aux insoumis, aux doux dingues et aux emmerdeurs magnifiques.

À tous ceux qui disent « t’es cap ? » plutôt que « À quoi ça sert ? ».

J’ai 50 ans, et je refuse de devenir vieux dans ma tête.

Aux fous qui veulent changer le monde !

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

politics has rotted your brain when you can't even admit a car jumping over another car is pretty fucking cool

[Gammichan @gammichan]

You can tell a person's entire life philosophy by whether their reaction to the Tesla roadster was criticizing it or yelling HELL YEAH

[Tesla @Tesla]

In 2008, Roadster had one job: prove that an electric car could be fast, sexy & worth wanting

Today, Roadster presents a new moment in history – the best of the last human-driven cars

[Princi @Prvnsi]

Mientras la ultrahiperderecha hace coche voladores, la izquierda está buscándole propiedades ancestrales al cacao.

[Google Antigravity @antigravity]

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[Google @Google]

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[bearxv @monkbear_]

the world works in.... beautiful ways..

[circus maximus @kickinekra]

te entiendo nata con la factura

[Burak @xburak]

You think the whole world is building apps because you spend too much time on X.

Step outside and you'll realize most people don't even know wtf Claude Code / Codex is.

[Pablo Grueso @PabloGrueso]

No he trabajado más en mi vida que desde que uso la IA.

[Yassine Bouanane @ybouane]

I MADE IT!

I beat Adobe and shipped a better relight feature than them. (theirs is not even released yet).

A multibillion-dollar company with thousands of engineers just got beat by one person.

Crazy thing is that https://t.co/s8rpanKqsP runs in your browser locally for Free 🤯

Let's kill Adobe one feature at a time.

Stay tuned, I'm working on a desktop version of ImageFlow and a new LightRoom alternative that i'm so excited about!