Smallball 스몰볼

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked in an interview what he thinks happens when you die. The interviewer expected either a scientific answer (nothing, consciousness ceases) or a spiritual one (something continues). Elon gave neither. He paused for an uncomfortable duration and then said something that revealed a man who has thought about death more carefully than most people think about lunch.

He said he thinks the most likely outcome is that consciousness simply ends. Lights off. No continuation. No afterlife. No transfer. The electrical activity in the brain ceases and the subjective experience that constituted "you" is permanently deleted. He described this possibility with the clinical detachment of a man reading a system shutdown log.

Then he said the thing that nobody expected: he said he doesn't find this comforting. He finds it terrifying. The word "terrifying" from a man who regularly does terrifying things (launching rockets, betting his fortune, working 100 hour weeks in crisis mode) carries a different weight. The rockets are calculated terror. The death contemplation is unresolved terror. One has a spreadsheet. The other doesn't.

He connected the terror to the Mars mission. He said one of the driving forces behind making humanity multiplanetary is the extension of the light of consciousness. If consciousness is rare (and it may be the rarest phenomenon in the universe), then allowing it to be extinguished by a single asteroid, a single pandemic, or a single nuclear war on a single planet is the greatest possible waste. The Mars colony is not about escape. It is about redundancy. A backup drive for the most important data in the universe: the fact that anything is conscious at all.

The connection between personal mortality and the Mars mission is the connection that most people miss. Elon knows he will die. He has accepted that nothing follows. The acceptance drives him not toward nihilism but toward urgency. If this is all there is, if consciousness is a brief candle in an infinite dark, then the time available to extend that candle to another planet is limited by his own lifespan. He is racing his own death. The Mars timeline is not a business plan. It is a countdown against a deadline that he cannot negotiate.

The man who is afraid of death is building the thing that ensures consciousness survives after his doesn't. The terror is the fuel. The Mars colony is the response. And the man who finds death terrifying has converted the terror into the most ambitious construction project in human history because the alternative, sitting with the terror and building nothing, is the only thing more terrifying than death itself.

[Xi Yin @XiYin137]

Today is my last day at OpenAI. It’s been an awesome ride, but I’m getting off a little early to pursue a new direction. I feel fortunate to have worked alongside some of the most incredible people I know. I’m especially grateful to @ALupsasca and Boris Alexeev for helping me navigate my first corporate job, and to @danintheory for his constant support. I’ll be rooting for you all!

[pitano: @min_anko38]

우리가 ‘기회’라 부르는 것들은 그 경계에 위치한 경우가 많다. 대부분의 사람들이 기회를 놓치는 이유는 바로 그 경계를 인식하지 못하기 때문이다.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."

Elon said that on Rogan. Everyone lost their minds. Almost nobody listened to what came next. He was talking about suicidal empathy: the kind that makes you tolerate the very thing that wants you gone.

If being tolerant means Western civilization disappears, we need the courage to question what tolerance means.

What Elon describes in America, Europe has been living since the 80s.

Same mechanism. A left that lost the working class went looking for a new electorate. In 2011, the French think tank Terra Nova put it in writing: give up on the workers and build a new coalition with minorities at its core. An electoral alliance between the left and immigration, out in the open and fully theorized.

We can see the result. Entire neighborhoods where the Republic no longer sets foot. Integration failed, not because people couldn't integrate, but because we stopped asking them to. We sold them welfare checks instead of a country.

But let me be clear: Europe can still be saved.

I think we're about to enter a historic period where Western countries will face a fairly simple choice.

Either fade away. Give up on who we are and make room for another operating system, Islamism. It's a collectivist project to the bone, where the individual counts for nothing against the group. And like every collectivism, it will eventually collapse too. It has never produced abundance anywhere. All it knows how to do is capture other people's. We wouldn't just lose the West. We'd lose everything.

Or take the lead again. Own the fact that we are a civilization. This is the civilization that invented modern science, the rule of law and individual liberty, and it's now inventing AI and robots. Set clear rules, enforce them, and invite everyone who lives here, whatever their origin, to be part of it for real.

That's what the left never understood. A kid from the banlieue has nothing to gain from a West that apologizes for existing. He has everything to gain from a West that wins. A civilization that believes in itself integrates people. A civilization that hates itself is one nobody wants to join.

Tolerance isn't an absolute value. It's a luxury only a strong civilization can afford.

Europe doesn't need less humanity. It needs to start believing in itself again.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I actually feel bad for Elon, even though I deeply disagree with him on some things.

Imagine trying to build a car company in California in the mid-2000s, when American manufacturing is being completely offshored and almost all of Wall Street thinks you’re a joke and is rooting for your failure, while the entire oil and gas industry is using all their power and leverage to make you fail.

But against all odds, you actually pull it off. You build cars that make electric vehicles desirable to millions of people, create an enormous number of quality American jobs, and force the global car industry to play catch up and move away from oil and gas.

You would think California would be proud of you and the team. Instead you find yourself having to fight a completely corrupt and incompetent left government impeding all your efforts while you sleep at the factory night after night to avoid collapse. At some point, you would go to the right too.

And because of your politics, it becomes a justification for people to celebrate your companies failing in their personal ideological fight with you. Even threats against you become something people explain away and use mental gymnastics to justify.

Meanwhile, people like Scott Galloway and Bernie Sanders who have made absolutely nobody better off other than themselves get to lecture you about your value to society and even call for your murder without grounds from their vacation home while you're on 20 hour benders in your factories trying to get things built for all of society. If this were me I would lose my mind.

Criticize his opinions. I do sometimes, especially on Ukraine. But the pleasure people take in wanting to destroy everything he’s built is hideous and frankly suicidal for the masses, especially coming from people who insist they care about workers, the climate, and civilization as a whole.

As you try to make good things for society you are confronted with a world that worships people who care only about the perception of being good people, while they actually fight against your tangible efforts of making improvements for humanity.

I don't think almost anyone would have made it out of that and if they did, they would probably not come away feeling so warm towards the left either. So I am rooting for Elon to succeed, and for humanity.

[Gallery X @realgalleryx]

이번 주 텍사스 상원 선거에서 이긴 제임스 탈라리코가 조 로건 방송에 나왔을 때 나눈 대화입니다.

로건: 왜 민주당원이에요?

탈라리코: 말씀드렸듯이 저는 싱글맘 밑에서 태어났습니다. 어머니는 국경 도시 라레도 출신 목사의 딸이었어요. 열아홉에 집을 나와 오스틴으로 왔고, 거기서 제 생부를 만났습니다. 고등학교 중퇴에 술 문제가 있는 사람이었어요. 술 때문에 어머니에게 손찌검을 할 때도 있었습니다.

어느 날 밤 어머니와 저, 생부가 같이 있었는데, 그날도 술을 많이 마시고 또 폭력을 썼습니다. 그게 마지막 결정타였어요. 어머니는 그 자리에서 떠나기로 했습니다.

짐을 다 싸서 저를 작은 포드 에스코트에 태우고, 일하던 시내 호텔로 갔습니다. 매니저가 방 하나를 몇 주 내줬고, 그동안 동오스틴에 작은 아파트를 구했어요. 어머니는 호텔에서 두 사람 몫을 일했습니다. 자기 몸이 위험할 때도 매번 저를 위해 싸웠어요.

90년대 초였는데, 어머니는 텍사스 주의사당을 바라보면서 앤 리처즈, 밥 불록 같은 텍사스 민주당 사람들을 봤습니다. 서민, 일하는 사람, 잊히고 뒤처진 사람 편에서 싸운 사람들이었죠. 그게 원래 민주당이었습니다.

유치원 때쯤 학교에서 누가 정당 얘기를 하길래 어머니한테 우리는 뭐냐고 물었더니, 민주당은 사람들 편에서 싸우니까 우리는 민주당이라고 하더군요.

어머니는 지금도 민주당원입니다. 그런데 지금 우리 당이 아직 그 모습인지는 잘 모르겠어요. 다만 서민 편에서 싸우는 당, 그게 우리 역사라는 건 압니다. 그렇게 할 때 가장 좋았고, 거기서 벗어날 때 가장 나빴습니다.

로건: 그건 동의합니다.

탈라리코: 그래서 저는 아직 민주당이 그 뿌리로 돌아갈 수 있다고 믿습니다. 작년이 특히 중앙당한테 경종이 됐으면 해요. 우리가 아끼는 문제를 풀 큰 연합을 만들려면 무엇을 바꾸고 어떻게 달라져야 하는지에 대해서요. 그래서 저는 민주당원이고, 당이 그 뿌리로 돌아가길 바랍니다.

[펭귄 @babybluecream]

X 전 제품 책임자가 말한 X에서 돈 버는 법ㅣ 261105

1. 방법은 간단함. 한 분야를 정해서 5문장 미만으로 6개월 동안 매일 올리면 됨.

SNS를 하다 보면 이 주제는 이 사람이지 싶은 계정이 하나쯤 떠오름. 그런 계정이 되라는 말임.

2. 이 말을 한 사람은 니키타 비어(@nikitabier)고, 글은 2025년 9월 4일에 올라왔음.
당시 그는 X 제품 책임자였음.

3. 비어는 먼저 X에서 부자가 되는 길이 크리에이터 수익이나 밈코인은 아니라고 적었음.

4. 첫 단계는 분야 정하기임. 세상에서 누구보다 잘 아는 주제를 하나 고르라고 했음.
예시로 배관, 남성복, 인도 음식, 가구, 소셜 앱을 들었음.

5. 올릴 내용은 그 분야 경험에서 건진 의외의 통찰 하나임.
길이는 5문장 미만으로 맞추라고 했음.

6. 이걸 매일, 6개월 동안 하라고 했음.
하루 한 개씩이면 글이 약 180개가 됨.

7. 꾸준히 하면 X가 그 계정을 다른 사람들에게 추천해 주겠다고 적었음.
6개월 뒤에는 그 분야 최고 전문가로 인정받아서 광고와 시간의 대가를 원하는 만큼 받을 수 있다고 덧붙였음.

8. 그런데 트윗이 나온 뒤 X의 수익 프로그램이 바뀌었음. 기존 크리에이터 수익 공유는 2026년 9월 7일에 끝났고, 신규 등록은 8월 7일에 닫혔음.
9월 8일부터는 기존 참가자부터 신청을 받는 '오리지널 콘텐츠 보상'이 그 자리를 이어받았음.

9. 새 프로그램은 오리지널 콘텐츠에 돈을 줌. X 안내에 따르면 글, 영상, 이미지 등 형식은 상관없고 자기 목소리와 전문성, 창의성이 담겨 있으면 됨.
조건이 계속 맞으면 2주마다 지급함.

10. 지급 기준은 프리미엄 사용자가 홈 타임라인에서 본 오리지널 글의 노출임.
신청하려면 프리미엄 구독과 인증 팔로워 500명 같은 조건을 갖춰야 함.

11. 약속을 한 비어는 2026년 8월 5일에 제품 책임자에서 물러나 자문역으로 남았음.
올해 X의 크리에이터 수익 개편을 앞장서 이끈 사람이기도 함.

12. 비어는 물러나면서 본래 모습인 '포스터', 곧 글 올리는 사람으로 돌아간다고 적었음.

[Robin | Robotics Data @Zhibin992]

如今的亚洲首富张一鸣在30岁前的微博：

1. 年轻人花钱买时间要激进：省时间，用好时间。
2. 读传记，最能塑造品格、理想和动机。
3. 能快速抓住重点、说到重点，是两个很重要的素质。
4. 把时间换成小时来算，更能感知时间。
5. 延迟满足：沟通时情绪要沉住，人要稳住，思维才不失控。
6. 注意力也要开源节流：少欲望少杂念是节流，锻炼身体、训练注意力是开源。
7. 常问自己马上能做什么，做行动派。

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I often say we live in a deeply left-wing society. A society where the exceptional individual cannot exist, and where everything is organized to make sure he never does.

It starts at school. Minds are formatted to believe everyone is the same. That standing out is suspicious. That succeeding more than others is necessarily unfair.

We ended up confusing two things that have nothing in common: equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The first is an ideal. The second is leveling everyone down.

The result: anything that sticks out gets shaved off.

And then there was an anomaly in the system.

Elon Musk.

He is in a completely different league from every other tech entrepreneur. And not on just one dimension.

His ability to go all in. In 2008, he put his last millions into SpaceX and Tesla while both were on the edge of bankruptcy. No plan B.

His skin in the game. He doesn't bet other people's money. He bets his own, his reputation, and today his personal safety.

His connection to reality. He doesn't run his companies from a comfortable ivory tower, between two committees and three reporting cycles. Marc Andreessen said it: he isn't aware of any other current CEO who operates the way Musk does. To find an equivalent, you have to go back to the great industrialists of the late 19th century. Every week, Musk identifies the biggest problem at each company, goes straight to the engineer on the front line, and fixes it. 52 weeks a year.

History has always treated this kind of anomaly the same way. Those who broke the established model were almost always rejected, mocked, persecuted.

Socrates, sentenced to drink hemlock for teaching young people to question.

Giordano Bruno, burned alive in Rome in 1600 for imagining an infinite universe.

Galileo, tried by the Inquisition, forced to recant, kept under house arrest until his death.

Gutenberg, who changed the world with the printing press, stripped of his workshop by his creditor.
Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, guillotined in 1794.

Semmelweis, who understood that simply washing hands could stop women dying in childbirth. Ridiculed by his peers, died in an asylum.

Boltzmann, who defended the existence of atoms against the entire scientific establishment. Died in 1906, just before Jean Perrin proved him right.

Wegener, whose continental drift was mocked for decades. Died in Greenland in 1930, vindicated thirty years later.

Nikola Tesla, who electrified the world, died broke in a New York hotel room.

Alan Turing, who broke Enigma and laid the foundations of computing, convicted in 1952 and chemically castrated. Dead at 41.

Barry Marshall, who had to swallow a culture of bacteria himself to prove ulcers came from an infection. Nobel Prize 2005.

Dan Shechtman, discoverer of quasicrystals, asked to leave his research group. Linus Pauling mocked him, saying there were no quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists. Nobel Prize 2011.

Katalin Karikó, who worked on messenger RNA, demoted by her university and denied funding for years.

Her work made the Covid vaccines possible. Nobel Prize 2023.

The pattern never changes. First they ignore them. Then they mock them. Then they fight them. And they celebrate them once they're dead.

I don't know what form it will take, but I'm almost certain we're heading toward one of two scenarios.

First scenario: the Democrats manage to destroy Musk. We slide into a 1984 where innovating becomes extremely hard. And ironically, it could end very badly, including for the people supporting that project today. A system that crushes its anomalies always ends up collapsing on itself.

Second scenario: he manages to impose his vision of abundance. And for the first time in human history, the person who brought a new paradigm will be alive to see it. And to build it.

Galileo never saw the scientific revolution. Semmelweis never saw antisepsis save millions of lives. Tesla never saw the world run on the alternating current he had imagined.

Musk could see his.

Personally, I think humanity is ready. Neuralink, Optimus, SpaceX. Augmented human intelligence, automated physical labor, space finally opened up. The combination of these three building blocks can do it.

The only question is whether, this time, we let the anomaly see it through.

Are we really going to be dumb enough to hold back the one guy who can take us to abundance, just so we can stay comfortable in our mediocrity?

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

In Ian Banks' Culture books, the Culture is a civilization of compute abundance. Each General System Vehicle is a loose sandbox environment practicing different ideologies, and citizens freely move between ships to experience different lifestyles.

Want communal life? There's a ship. Ultra-orthodox religion? Another. Beach chilling? One famous for its beaches.

With enormous compute, you don't need to trade off who decides the trajectories. Just launch another docker station for another rollout. In that world, your autonomy is backed by the compute.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

[Rocketmen 로켓맨 @iamrocketmen]

경규옹... 진짜 맞는 말씀!
나도 한번 내 자신을 돌아보게되네.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@JDVance 1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

These are all the same thing. The cost of living is high because Israel convinced Trump to start a war with Iran, instead of putting America first.

[북크북크 @akzkfltm2]

유재석이 말한 명언

살아보니 인생에서 정말 중요한 건
나를 좋아하지 않는 사람들로부터
멀어질 줄 아는 용기였다

[레이어드 @LayeredInvest]

FSD를 막는 게 국익입니까? 국토부가 말하는 국가는 대체 누구입니까?

https://t.co/Aytn0xRKnv

[갓스텔 @nostalsokei]

나랑 맞팔하고 서로 소통하면 좋은점 하나
해외로 뜬 조회수 뽕맛 댓글이나 인용으로 같이
야물딱지게 느낄수있음;;
이제 한국보다 미국 비율이 높아져버림 ㅋㅋㅋ

한번 느껴본 길박사님 세상거꾸로님 등등 여러엑친분들
인정하면 개추..

세상거꾸로님은 인용에서만 750만 조회수나옴 ㄷㄷ

[FAT NINJA @fatninjalife]

월 1천 2천벌때 빨리 패시브인컴 파이프라인 깔아놓고 (부동산 월세/배당주식/인덱스) 월 600으로 떨어지게되도 걱정없어지는 시나리오로 가야함.

돈 평생 잘버는거 아님.

근데 ai 치고 올라오는데 데스크잡 월급쟁이도 평생 하겠어? 같은 시나리오임. 잘 벌때 잘 투자 해놔야함. 둘다 해보고 하는 소리임

노른자땅위 부동산+미래먹거리 빅텍(애들이 나중에 웬만한 채권 + 배당 노릇할듯)+인덱스 꾸준히 적금. 자주 이야기 하는중.

[청춘 @cheongchun123]

유튜브 부업은 진짜 개꿀통이 맞다고 봄

10번째 수익창출 도전 채널도 1차 신청 넣었음
직접 해볼수록 느끼는데
처음 수창 노리는 사람한테는 롱폼부터 권하고 싶음

지난 28일 조회수 40만
시청시간 약 8,200시간
구독자는 드디어 500명 찍었음

시청시간보다 구독자 모으는 게 더 오래 걸렸을 정도임

쇼츠는 짧으니까 쉬워 보이는데
수익화에 필요한 조회수까지 모으는 건 다른 문제임

롱폼은 한 사람이 몇 분씩 봐주면
그 시간이 쌓인다는 게 큼

물론 길게 만든다고 되는 건 아니고
끝까지 볼 만한 내용이 있어야 함

현재 1차 심사 진행 중
광고 수익화까지 다음 목표는 구독자 1천명임

부업 고민만 하고 있다면
나는 유튜브 영상 한 편이라도 만들어보는 걸 추천함

다만 시작부터 쇼츠만 붙잡고 있을 필요는 없음

왜 롱폼부터 권하는지
아티클에도 풀었는데

시청시간 계산이랑 첫 영상 잡는 방법은
이따가 밤에 구독자 글에 짧게 풀어보겠음

[북극성 @PolarisLog]

[단독] 韓이 백기사로…美국채 대량 매입한다

한국이 미국 장기 국채를 대규모로 매입하는 방안을 추진한다. 재정적자와 인플레이션 우려로 가격이 하락(금리 상승)한 미 국채를 대거 사들여 미국 정부의 ‘백기사’로 나서는 동시에 외환보유액을 확충하겠다는 구상이다. 미국과의 경제 동맹을 한층 강화해 통상 압력을 완화하는 고도의 패키지 딜이라는 평가가 나온다.

[pixy7 @Pixy7Crypto]

오늘 애빈토스 인터뷰에
'산사'를 만드신 분 이야기가 올라왔네요!

이분도 30개 넘게 만든 프로덕트 중에
산사하나가 성공한 케이스라고 하더라구요

가장 좋았던 인사이트는 중요한 건 유용과 무용 사이라는 말이었어요. 앱을 만들때 실용적인 것과 감성적인 것, 그 사이 어딘가에 답이 있다는 거죠

애빈토스나 바이브코딩에 관심 있으신 분들은 한 번쯤 꼭 읽어보시길 추천드립니다. 링크는 댓글에!

@Realname7 @toss__official