samuel

The Martian Republic within this century.

All things SpaceX maximalist.

[jacobruh 🚀 @jrxcket]

What the hell? When did the Florida Gigabay become practically finished?! 😭😭

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@ApoStructura But the regulation tho?

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@AndrewHard96304 Had to sit down and hear some rando telling me electric cars don't work, and hybrids are the way, and that even Tesla doesn't make electric cars anymore. What do you even say to this shit?

[samuel @marsrepublica]

I guess Billions wasn't just a show.

[Kenjatina @Kenjatina_og]

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, enjoying some downtime in Monaco after Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund — along with hundreds of thousands of leveraged South Korean investors got liquidated.

Enjoy the good life, Ken!

[samuel @marsrepublica]

I have made a lot of predictions this year about SpaceX, especially focused on SpaceXAI's long-term winning strategy, compute scaling and the leasing business, and the cursor merger and, of course, Starship. Looking forward to it.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Ahead of our first earnings webcast, investors can submit questions using a new tool built with @grok → https://t.co/Ey5cQCAuTH

[samuel @marsrepublica]

Might solely start learning editing to add better music to this great video.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hot staging

[samuel @marsrepublica]

You're talking about 100 ships and 40 boosters being unfeasible, while SpaceX is scaling Starfactory and Gigabay to 1000/year, with construction finishing this year, and capacity scaling over the next 4 years.

[Delta9250 @deltaIV9250]

Surprisingly, SpaceX’s goal of 10 launches a day is reasonable….

…Kind of

12 week ship, 4 week booster refurb
40 and 100 flights each

HOWEVER! Pad turnaround insane. 12 hours each with 5 pads

Beyond this, 100 ships and 37 new boosters needed per year. Unsure if feasible

[samuel @marsrepublica]

I guess this is a new benchmark.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.

Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.

We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
https://t.co/dKFCdpKd9v

[samuel @marsrepublica]

This is bullshit. Tesla China isn't some minor "side piece" that can just "separate", it's a strategically vital part of the company, second only to Tesla US. In 2025 alone, it accounted for over half of Tesla's global vehicle deliveries.

[Bloomberg @business]

Tesla is weighing a potential separation of its China business to pave the way for a potential merger with SpaceX, the Wall Street Journal reported https://t.co/VQVOQ7tk1U

[samuel @marsrepublica]

Nothing has ever been better said. The founders were right about a constitutional republic vs populist voting.

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

— Franz Kafka

[Words & Wisdom @WordsnWisdom26]

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

— Franz Kafka

[samuel @marsrepublica]

Peak Irony.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Dr. Fauci pleads the Fifth after being asked to explain the Fifth Amendment.

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@Mookafish Probably it's only peak from here on out.

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@ApoStructura Fair enough, a major price difference can break a slight quality difference; tell me when you try robotaxi.

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@ApoStructura Yeah, I see it happening if they stay consistent.

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@peterrhague Me sitting down to read the entire thread, just to discover it's for subscription only, fair enough.

[samuel @marsrepublica]

You couldn't comprehend how much I love Mars; you couldn't tell me otherwise, even though that one mission ends things, and I still do it in a heartbeat. Mars is everything.

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

Curiosity has delivered a new 360-degree panorama from Mars. “We’ve seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity’s eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away,” said the mission’s project scientist. 1/2

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@ApoStructura Nice, what's your quality ranking?

[samuel @marsrepublica]

@ApoStructura Bro, my bad, I thought I was replying to this.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

London becomes the first city in the world with both American and Chinese robotaxis in testing

https://t.co/hZHvpw1XNh