Matt Patterson

work in progress

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@FOXImpactoNFL at Baja Grill in La Ventana

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Karpathy reviews Tesla self-driving

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@CernBasher Why not simply use centimeters (or millimeters etc) not meters if more precision is necessary??

[Tesla @Tesla]

Humans won’t get any better at driving, but FSD keeps improving

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@Erdayastronaut Given #flight10 was successful, how soon could we see #starshipflight11 ??

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https://t.co/1OM6AF3LDu via @pinkbike

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@KanekoaTheGreat @grok is this fact?

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@farzyness What do you mean when you say “Pro”? 😂

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@SawyerMerritt @garyblack00 Good idea 💡how else do you expect to gain new subscribers Gary?

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@cremieuxrecueil Will trump energy tariffs apply to electricity imports?

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@AndreaSJames warms my heart, thank you

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

People in major blue cities who are not on X are shocked by Trump winning the popular vote. Those of us on X are not surprised at all. You really cannot get an accurate sense of things from reading the mainstream news anymore. It is more obvious than ever.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

My dad's a genius.

•Read a book a week for 30 years.
•Socially strong & networks well.
•Can fix anything.
•Great leader.

He NEVER moved up in his company.

I asked him WHY & his answer brought me to tears.

Here’s THE BEST LESSON my dad taught me that you need to hear.

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@TeslaBoomerMama @LimitingThe Surprised to see how many firms were previously Against, that switched to For. Positive change.

[GB1 @GB1Racing_]

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[americascup @americascup]

The moment lightning struck during Race 17 of the Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin in Barcelona.

#AC37 #LVCup #Day5

[Matt Patterson @MattPatt]

@EmiratesTeamNZ Every time these two face each other there’s sparks flying ⚡️ but today Mother Nature came to the party ⛈️

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

It's crazy some people want self-driving cars and robotaxis to fail or never become a reality. In 2023 alone, 41,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the US — that's an average of 112 deaths per day. Most of these deaths are preventable. Why wouldn't we pursue a solution that could save millions of lives? That's exactly why @Tesla (and others) are working on self-driving cars.

It's one of the hardest problems humans have ever worked on, but it's a problem worth solving. Tesla's FSD is getting better and safer. Sure, progress hasn't been as quick as some have hoped, but it's a very hard problem to solve.

Look forward to Tesla turning on its Cortex supercluster in Giga Texas. Over time, that should help bring some big improvements to FSD.