Rob Gibson

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

Who has historically lobbied for longer or permanent Daylight Saving Time?

• ⛳ National Golf Course Owners Association – More evening golf = more revenue.

• 🏪 National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) – More evening shopping and fuel sales.

• 🥾 Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (now SFIA) – More outdoor recreation and equipment sales.

• 🏖️ Tourism & hospitality industry – More evening leisure spending.

• 🛍️ Retail businesses & shopping centers – Longer evening shopping hours.

• 🍔 Restaurant & fast-food interests – Increased evening customer traffic.

• 🔥 Barbecue industry (Kingsford/Clorox, Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association) – Historically supported extending DST for increased grilling season.

• 🍬 Candy industry – Famously lobbied to keep DST through Halloween to boost trick-or-treating and candy sales.

• 🏛️ Florida Chamber of Commerce – Major advocate for permanent DST because of tourism and commerce.

The science organizations have largely taken the opposite position:

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• American Medical Association
• National Sleep Foundation
• European Biological Rhythms Society
Their recommendation is permanent Standard Time, citing better alignment with human circadian biology, sleep, cardiovascular health, and safety.
The debate isn't simply more evening light vs. more morning light. It's increasingly becoming commercial interests vs. circadian science.

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

@JonBruner link to check if a vehicle has an air bag recall in the USA

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[George Noble @gnoble79]

This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street.

SpaceX just disclosed Musk's new compensation package:

He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION people on Mars, and deploys roughly 100 terawatts of space-based computing power.

Let me put the 100 terawatts in perspective:

The entire electricity generation capacity of the United States is around 1.2 terawatts. The comp plan asks Musk to build more than 80x America's entire power grid... in orbit.

This is a science fiction screenplay that somehow landed in front of the SEC.

But here's why it actually matters for your portfolio...

The S-1 reportedly claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with over 90 percent attributed to AI. CapeFearAdvisors flagged this one cleanly: when Palantir went public, it disclosed a $119 billion TAM and the SEC reviewed and accepted it.

SpaceX is claiming a market roughly 240x BIGGER.

Now let's talk about what is actually being sold here:

Reported 2025 revenue is approximately $15.5 billion. Starlink delivers around $11 billion of that with healthy margins, and the launch business is genuinely dominant. The problem is xAI - the AI piece doing all the heavy lifting in the trillion-dollar valuation pitch.

xAI generated just $210 million of revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025 while burning through $9.5 billion in cash.

Ben Brey and Rupert Mitchell - a former Fidelity portfolio manager and a former head of equity capital markets at Goldman and Citi between them - ran a serious discounted cash flow on the actual operating businesses and arrived at roughly $400 billion. Lawrence Fossi covered their work recently and the math holds up.

The IPO is being marketed at $1.75 TRILLION.

The gap between what these businesses support and what Musk is asking the public to pay is roughly $1.35 trillion of pure narrative.

Then layer on what we just learned last week...

The New York Times investigation revealed Musk personally borrowed $500 million from SpaceX between 2018 and 2020 at rates as low as 1%, while bank prime rates sat around 5%. The same SpaceX has been used to bail out SolarCity, prop up Tesla during cash crunches, and absorb xAI when the AI losses became unmanageable.

This is the same playbook he's run for two decades.

Use a privately controlled entity as a personal piggy bank, and when the bills come due, find new investors to absorb the losses.

The IPO is structured to keep that game going FOREVER.

The Texas reincorporation strips away Delaware's fiduciary protections. Controlled-company status on the Nasdaq eliminates independent board requirements. And retail is being offered up to 30% of the offering (3x the normal allocation) because the institutions who actually do the math are quietly stepping away.

Here is the part that finishes the case for me:

Roughly $40 billion of the IPO proceeds are already spoken for before a single dollar reaches operations. About $23 billion retires SpaceX debt. Another $17 billion retires the high-interest debt sitting on xAI and X.

This raise is not funding the future. It's just plugging existing holes that retail investors will now own.

In my 45 years I've never seen a deal where the comp hurdle is colonizing another planet.

I've never seen a disclosed TAM that exceeds verified comparables by two orders of magnitude.

I've never seen a company asking the public to fund the retirement of debt incurred by separate private entities controlled by the same individual.

Every red flag I've watched precede a major bust over four decades is sitting in this prospectus, in plain sight.

The Tesla mispricing is being repeated on a far larger scale.

And this time the bag is being handed directly to retail.

Don't be the one holding it.

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

Before you can patch: disable the algif_aead module.

sudo echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf

sudo rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

@blind_via any ideas about what was used to sever the left end of the patch wire?

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

Fresh lava
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with sound
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[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump says he has the power to seize ballots — and now his spy chief is joining FBI raids of election offices.

But guess what?

I co-wrote the order he’s talking about. He’s lying. And a crime might be in progress.

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[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

The new winter storm model run is out and YOU, specifically, are getting 36"+ of snow. It doesn't matter where you are or what you do, you can't escape from it. Its coming and it will find you. Don't bother stocking up, it won't be enough. Make peace with your God if you have one

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

# list PCI device IDs of Thunderbolt controllers
curl https://t.co/ifYl0qbmfN | sed '/^8086/,/^8088/!d;/./!d' | grep -i 'thunderbolt' | cut -f 2 > tbtraw.txt && perl -lpe '$_=hex' tbtraw.txt | paste -d" " - tbtraw.txt | sort -n | cut -d" " -f 2-> tbt_ids.txt

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

https://t.co/riWMO2yRhs

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

@glen_mcgregor I think Sec. Lutnick is wrong about every year. Read for yourself.
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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

This link describes current smoke plumes originating in North America.

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

A collector's item spotted in the wild.

[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

May 3
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[Rob Gibson @RobsChatter]

beam me up

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