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[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

Congrats to @elonmusk and @SpaceX on the largest IPO in history. Tens of thousands worked to tackle some of the hardest engineering problems imaginable, revolutionizing an industry in service of their nation and humanity, are now fully realizing the American Dream🇺🇸

May this moment spark many more companies like it across the domains of the future, unlocking new capabilities and prosperity for those who dare to dream.

[roon @tszzl]

people in washington trying to figure out wth “pliny the liberator” is

[HealthCareDenied @CareDenied]

@mcuban @elonmusk One of the reasons the PBM lobby is running a new PR ad campaign to improve its image is that @mcuban has exposed the opaque business of the health care conglomerates.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The woke protesters in New York are holding signs saying, “STOP ELON • NO TRILLIONAIRES” and “ELON IS STEALING YOUR PENSION.”

These slogans are pure nonsense.

Elon Musk is the largest taxpayer on Earth. He is not stealing anyone’s pension. Elon has already helped save hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars by cutting wasteful government spending and inefficiency through DOGE. His companies are moving humanity forward and pushing the boundaries of technology.

We all know who funds these attacks on Elon.

This is the woke mind virus in its purest form.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

Cave Catgirl simple Nyanderthal. Need smart tribe explain this thing.

Elon sell electric cars. Elon sell satellite internet. Elon launch rockets. Elon make things people want buy. (Including governments!) Somehow this make Cave Catgirl poorer? Please explain slowly. Use small words.

If Elon become rich by taking Cave Catgirl mammoth, Cave Catgirl understand.
If Elon become rich by stealing Cave Catgirl hut, Cave Catgirl understand.
If Elon become rich by government pointing spear and taking Cave Catgirl shiny rocks, Cave Catgirl understand.

But that not argument being made.

Argument seem be:
"Man build companies. People buy products. Investors think companies valuable. Therefore Cave Catgirl poorer."

In fact, GOVERNMENTS do these things.
Government take mammoth, because they say it endangered.
Government take hut if no pay property tax.
Government take spear, say stick dangerous. Say only special government police should have stick.

Please explain why Nyanderthal should be angry at Elon, and not Government? Cave Catgirl no follow.

Did Tesla make Cave Catgirl poorer?
No.
Did Starlink make Cave Catgirl poorer?
No.
Did SpaceX make Cave Catgirl poorer?
No.

In fact, SpaceX doing things NASA should have figured out years earlier while tribe paying Russians to take astronauts to space. That seem opposite of poorer.

Starlink do more to give remote people internet than all of Government. This also seem like good thing.

Cave Catgirl notice weird thing. When local bakery become successful, tribe clap.
When plumber become successful, tribe clap.
When businessman become successful, tribe suddenly act like success itself crime.

Very strange.

Now if you want argue government favoritism, subsidies, regulatory capture, or cronyism? Good discussion. Cave Catgirl listen. Simply pointing at giant number and shouting: "LOOK! HE HAVE MORE SHINY ROCKS THAN ME!" This not actually argument. It envy. Wise holy man on cross say this is sin.

Before demanding wealth tax, first explain how man selling products people willingly buy somehow making Cave Catgirl poorer. Because Cave Catgirl just humble Nyanderthal. Cave Catgirl not seeing connection.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Proud to unveil the Luce Migliore

A Ferrari electric vehicle designed by me and ChatGPT in 8 seconds at a cost of $0.10

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I believe a 60 year old who masters AI tools will outperform a 25 year old who refuses to touch it. Age is not the variable. Willingness is.

[Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel]

Data centers revitalize American manufacturing by driving massive demand and upgrading the power infrastructure in former industrial hubs.

Building American technological infrastructure is good for America.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Eric Schmidt should’ve stopped mid-speech and said:

“Fine. Boo AI.

But make your next Preply class Chinese, because the civilization cheering this stuff is not waiting for you to finish your campus struggle session.”

China’s grandmas are lining up to install AI tools. Chinese developers are shipping open-source models like their hair is on fire. Their public is overwhelmingly positive about AI (83% feel positive about the future while in the west we are circling the drain around 30%). Their companies are moving fast, copying fast, improving fast, innovating fast, deploying fast.

And in America?

Our most educated children boo the mere mention of the most important technology since electricity.

Why?

Because our AI leadership class has spent three years doing the dumbest possible PR campaign in the history of technology.

One half of them tells everyone AI will kill them.

The other half tells everyone AI will take every white-collar job in 18 months.

Then the closed-model cartel runs to DC whispering that ordinary people cannot be trusted with powerful open-source AI, that the future must be locked behind a handful of corporate APIs, safety boards, export controls, permission slips, and East India Company monopolies.

And everyone acts shocked when the kids hate it.

You told them AI means unemployment.

You told them AI means extinction.

You told them AI means no future.

Then you walk onto a graduation stage and say “AI” and wonder why they boo.

This is what strategic suicide looks like.

The country that taught the world to love computers, the internet, open source, startups, hackers, builders, weirdos, tinkerers, and permissionless innovation is now teaching its children to fear the next platform shift.

Meanwhile China looked at AI and said: deploy it, open it, copy it, improve it, integrate it, normalize it.

We looked at AI and said: regulate it, monopolize it, catastrophize it, litigate it, protest the datacenters, ban the open models, blame every layoff on it, then act mystified when the public thinks it’s a demon machine.

NIMYBs are moving from blocking housing to blocking datacenters. The same folks that stopped nuclear, the cleanest energy we have, are now joining hands with the NIMYBs. The hard right nationalists in Bannon and the hard left socialists in Bernie are joining hands in a new American party with mad Max Tegmark spending billions to terrify children about AI. Wonder what they'll call themselves? Maybe the National Socialists?

The West does not have an AI capability problem.

It has an AI civilizational-confidence problem.

And if we keep telling our kids that the future is something to boo, don’t be surprised when the future answers back in Mandarin.

[metacryptecha @metacryptecha]

@el_xafi @CarpeNoctom Came here to post that. 🤣

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I absolutely hate the script companies are using to lay people off in 2026

It’s bullshit and hurts America

I’m not picking on Cloudflare here. Every company that has announced layoffs the last 6 months has used this script:

“Business is great! We’ve never been more rich! We have so much money we have no idea what to do with it! But AI man, that shit is crazy! Sorry 14% of the company has to go!”

They take 0 accountability for poor decisions made. They take 0 accountability for not being prepared for competitors or market conditions.

They just blame it all on AI

80% of Americans hate AI and this is the reason.

They see CEOs of AI companies saying the world is ending. They see CEOs of regular companies laying everyone off and purely blaming AI

If you weren’t as familiar with AI, you’d think it was the worst invention ever

This is why every state has people standing outside of data centers protesting, and they don’t even know what a data center is!

We have a MAJOR marketing problem in America when it comes to AI, and if this script all of these companies are using continues we’ll have no shot of beating China

[metacryptecha @metacryptecha]

@DeanTTraining Gotta build some cheap stands for setting the dumbbells down now. Definitely adding this to the routine.

[metacryptecha @metacryptecha]

@aaronburnett @chamath @wholemars If only it wasn't so ugly. 😢

[Hagerty @Hagerty]

On the latest episode of Revelations, @jasoncammisa looks back on the life of the Tesla Model S, one of, if not the most influential car of all time.

Tesla's first sedan wasn't perfect. But it was an industry game-changer not (just) because it was electric. Not (just) because it was from a startup. Not (just) because it set the stage for the company to create the world's bestselling passenger car. But because it was created using Silicon Valley-style continual iteration.

Tesla never stopped improving the Model S — rolling in hundreds, or even thousands, of running changes during its production: both hardware and software. In the end, it shares merely 3% of its parts with the original 2012 Model S, roughly equivalent to 60 years of progress at a traditional automaker.

Watch Now: https://t.co/YlRK22jHbg

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

[signüll @signulll]

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market.

like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined what it meant to be a pocket computer.

the current paradigm for computers was built around a human staring at a screen, moving a cursor, opening apps, managing windows, naming files, remembering where things live, & manually translating intent into interface actions.

that made sense when the human was the runtime. but in an ai native world, it starts to look kinda ridiculous.

you can see this ridiculousness when you use computer use agents… they are useful sure, but they’re also obviously transitional. they’re teaching ai to operate machines designed for humans, which is clever, but also kind of absurd. it’s like making a robot hand so it can use a doorknob instead of asking why the door needs a knob at all. yes i know humans also need to use a door knob, but maybe in the future humans don’t need to use a computer, or at least what we think of a computer today at all.

this all leads to some interesting questions:

- what is a file when the system understands context?
- what is an app when intent can route itself?
- what is a desktop when work can be decomposed, executed, monitored, & summarized by agents?
- what is a browser when the agent can retrieve, compare, transact, & remember?
- what is an operating system when the primary user is no longer just a person, but a person plus a swarm of delegated intelligences? or no person at all.

the old computer assumed navigation.
the new computer has to assume a new kind of intention. the old computer organized information. the new computer has to try to organize agency.

we’re still in the hacky middle stage at the moment with sidebars, copilots, agents clicking through legacy ui, & automation layers sitting on top of 40 year old metaphors.

the new computer is likely one where memory, context, identity, permissions, tools, agents, & interfaces are native primitives. this means desktop, mobile, browser, apps, files, folders deserves another first principles look.

[NASA @NASA]

It's our home.

This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

[nader dabit @dabit3]

Nice little reference: 56 laws of software engineering.

Especially great for juniors (worth bookmarking), and I also learned a few things.
https://t.co/Drr0DJXqXm

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

THE AI APP STORE SLOP: IT’S OVER.

I know some insiders that work at the Apple App Store and some that work at the Android App Store and there is an issue:

An explosion of vibe coded apps, 100s of 1000s that have framed our executives.

As you know app downloads have dropped to nearly zero.

Well now the quality of these “I’ll flood every category with vibe codes apps” business models has made this impossible for the stores.

Some folks are training as a get-rich quick business to make as many apps as you can and flood the stores. It will only take 100 sending an app every few days to dilute the value of any discovery system at any App Store.

I had one person say that the company feels they can not recover from this and will get worse.

Good apps are not surfacing as the filtering systems get clogged. Veteran app developers are quitting the business and all the money, long ago dried up.

This is the end of the App and the end of an era.

Slopped out of existence.