Connor Masterson

A work in progress.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

A wealth tax is the end of America. No matter how you dress it up, it would be the final nail in the coffin. By any measures necessary it must be fought.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

If I was worth $1 Trillion. I’d actually do good and help the world by doing things like

Accelerating EVs

Reducing Space Launch Costs

Expanding Global Connectivity

Advancing Clean Energy

Helping restore motor functions, vision, and communication for folks

Saving Free Speech

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@JasonKander Totally agree. I would take that money and give it to organizations that help with:

Accelerating EVs

Reducing Space Launch Costs

Expanding Global Connectivity

Advancing Clean Energy

Helping restore motor functions, vision, and communication for folks with neuro conditions!

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

I agree! If I was worth $1 trillion I’d want to solve big problems! Like make life multi planetary, accelerating EV adoption, advancing clean energy, help restore motor and vision function, and increasing global internet activity. If only someone was doing that…

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.

Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness.

I just don’t get it.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@Bringing70sBack @BellaBaddie__

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

It blows my mind how poorly html to ppt conversion still is even with leading AI models. Also, AI stinks at managing spacing for HTML styled PPT slides even with skills, memories, etc.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

No wonder so many people I know moved away form @typeform They are overly expensive. In additon, they have predatory billing practices. After attempting to cancel, they indicated they had no record and refused to refund. Avoid them at all cost.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@MeganNyvold As someone who has dealt with squatters and runs a company to get people elected, I fully endorse you to run for president.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@EWErickson How much to fly private?

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@WestHarlm @friedberg

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

If you were to tell me I could own @LiveRamp and @BidSwitch for a combine total of less than $3.5B I would say that is a steal.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@spoiltkate_ One answer

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

Bring back movies that have Vampire Weekend songs in them.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

@Jason @RepThomasMassie Do you have any idea the money made in electioneering? While I take your point, look at the numbers.

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

“Put him on the Jedi Council. But do not grant him the rank of Jedi Master.”

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

One step closer to Westworld.

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

MIT just solved one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics (Save this).

For decades, the fundamental problem with soft robots and wearable exoskeletons has not been compute or AI, it has been actuation.

The moment you try to give a soft robot meaningful strength, you run into the same wall every engineer has hit since the field began, fluid-driven systems require external pumps, hydraulic reservoirs, and heavy infrastructure that makes the entire thing impractical to wear or embed into fabric.

MIT's new Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles solve that problem by eliminating external infrastructure entirely.

The key insight is electrohydrodynamic pumping using electric fields to generate pressure directly from electricity, with no moving parts, no motors, and no external fluid reservoir.

The fibers are less than 2 millimeters thick, can be woven into fabric like ordinary textile, and operate in complete silence because nothing physically moves inside them, it is just ions propelling fluid through a closed circuit.

The performance numbers published in Science Robotics are not conceptual, they are empirical results from actual hardware.

These fibers achieve a power density of 50 watts per kilogram, matching skeletal muscle, with a contraction strain of 20% and a response time of 0.3 seconds.

A single bundled configuration lifted 4 kilograms, 200 times its own weight while a separate configuration drove a robotic arm through a 40-degree bend compliant enough to safely complete a human handshake.

Another configuration launched objects in under 100 milliseconds, which is faster than a human flinch reflex.

The design mirrors biological muscle architecture in a way that prior artificial muscle approaches never achieved.

The fibers are organized into antagonistic pairs, one contracts while the other extends, exactly like biceps and triceps and because the system runs in a closed loop, the relaxing fiber serves as the fluid reservoir for the contracting one, which is what allows the whole system to operate untethered with no external tank.

The applications are not hypothetical but rather are the exact use cases the industry has been waiting years for the hardware to catch up to.

Exoskeletons for physical labor, prosthetic limbs that move with the natural compliance of biological tissue, assistive garments for patients with motor disorders, and soft robots capable of safe physical contact with humans are all immediately unlocked by a muscle technology that is silent, lightweight, and weavable into clothing.

The deeper significance is what this technology does when it meets the AI robotics wave that is already underway.

Every major humanoid robot program, Figure, 1X, Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus is currently bottlenecked by the same hardware limitations these fibers address, actuators that are too rigid, too loud, too heavy, or too dependent on infrastructure to operate naturally alongside humans.

Electrofluidic fiber muscles do not just solve a materials science problem but rather they remove one of the last physical barriers between robots that live in labs and robots that live in the world.

[Connor Masterson @MiamiMasterson]

Taxes have turned into a money sucking black hole that has put Americans in a worse position than before.

You don’t need a tax to optimize this market, that’s the beauty of capitalism!

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.

Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.

It will accomplish 4 things (at least )

1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization

Which will

2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption

Which will

3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x

Which will

4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like

At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally.

Thoughts ?