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either locally reversing entropy as best I can, or self-fulfilling the entropy process. not really sure, but who really cares. I’m just happy to be alive

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“The more [science] discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanism of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.”

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Friedberg is my hero

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

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Kinda crazy people don’t appreciate we’re living with one of the most influential human beings in our species history. Love him or hate him, doesn’t really matter, but elons products are shaping the future of our world beyond what people can even comprehend

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

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99% of Americans today don’t have what it takes to do what they did then

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people heading west buried their dead right in the trail, then drove the wagons over the graves to pack the dirt flat. It hid the body from scavengers and grave robbers. That video makes the trip west look like a dream. For a lot of them, it was the last thing they ever did.

The land really was almost free. A law from 1862 let you claim 160 acres, about the size of 90 soccer fields, as long as you lived on it for five years, built a house, and planted crops. Then you paid a small fee and it was yours. The catch was surviving those five years. Only about four in ten people who started ever got the deed. The rest gave up and walked off, worn down by drought, loneliness, poor soil, and grasshopper swarms that stripped whole fields bare.

Just reaching the land could kill you. About 350,000 people set out on the trails west, and somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 died on the way. Nearly one in ten. Cholera did most of the killing, and it was fast. You could feel fine in the morning and be gone by night: stomach cramps, then hours of vomiting until your body dried out and your skin turned blue. One man who crossed in 1852 said the road was almost a solid graveyard for four hundred miles. Out of the ten people in his own family who set out, five reached the end.

Say you survived all that and built the house. Life expectancy back then was about 40. That sounds like nobody got old, but it is misleading. The number was low for one reason: children kept dying, between 25 and 40 percent of them before they turned five. All those small graves pulled the average down. Make it past childhood, though, and many lived into their sixties.

Having those kids was dangerous on its own. Around 1900, about 1 in 120 births killed the mother, usually from an infection nobody knew how to stop. Women went through it seven or eight times each, so the danger came back with every pregnancy. The nearest doctor could be days away. That death rate has since dropped by about 99 percent.

The view in that video is the part they got right. The tall grass, the gold light on hills you could fence off and keep. People really did chase that, and a lot of them paid for it with their lives. The scenery was free. Staying alive on it was the expensive part.

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@PLeonardNYDN @YouTubeCreators @YouTube Mature

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Some of the most impressive leadership you can find in a young nfl player. Respect others and difference of opinion, while staying true to what you think is important. Good for this kid

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Jaxson Dart just nailed it. Watch this. Guy’s going to have the number one selling jersey in America by the end of the month. Fun fact: New York was closer to being a red state in 2024 than Florida or Texas were to being blue.

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@Rabadash2 You’re so dumb

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“You are the universe briefly becoming aware of its own fire”
So haunting but like #facts

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Consciousness is almost impossibly rare.

Matter spends nearly all of its existence unconscious. Burning. Collapsing. Scattering. Reforming. Orbiting. Decaying. Becoming rock, gas, dust, ocean, bone, blood, brain. Then, for one microscopic interval, it wakes up and says: “What am I?”

That is the miracle.

Not comfort. Not religion. Not sentimental awe.

A terrifying anomaly.

The universe can run without witnesses. Stars do not need to be admired. Galaxies do not need to be understood. Atoms do not care where they have been. The furnace burns either way.

Then consciousness appears, and suddenly the whole thing has a mirror.

That is what makes human life so charged. A person is not merely an animal trying to survive. A person is ancient stellar material entering a temporary state of self-awareness before dissolving back into the larger process. The atoms continue. The person does not.

That is the knife.

Your atoms may survive future stars, but “you” are this one configuration. This one pattern. This one window where matter can remember, choose, love, suffer, create, tell the truth, and look back at the fire that made it.

So wasting a life is obscene because the opportunity is so rare. Most matter never gets a voice. Most atoms never get a name. Most configurations never wake up.

This one did.

The only line that feels slightly too narrow is “consciousness was the accident.”

The colder and deeper read is that consciousness may be what matter becomes when complexity finally turns inward. No guarantee. No promise. No cosmic safety net. But also not a meaningless glitch.

More like a threshold event: matter crossing into witness.

The strongest final truth:

You are not separate from the universe.

You are the universe briefly becoming aware of its own fire.

Then the fire takes you back.

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@stats_feed Atlas shrugged. But with a little extra empathy, as Elon would say

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@r0ck3t23 @elonmusk This is the type of thought process that will break your brain if you take a couple minutes to actually think about what this all means. Grateful to experience consciousness is such an understatement when you start to grasp the complexity and randomness of our entire existence

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@GavinNewsom What an absolutely tone deaf comment. Read the fucking room pal

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@NickKristof Loser

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I wonder how long the transition takes from regular person to this level of robotic pawn

[Pat Adams @PatAdams96]

Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a “No Bad Idea Brainstorm” where they discuss:

- Abolishing the Electoral College
- Packing the Supreme Court
- Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states

“We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating!”

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Imagine pretending to balance the budget of an entire state without using a computer lol does he think this is cool? Totally oblivious to how incompetent this look?

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Balancing my final budget proposal for California.

Tune in tomorrow.

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@JoshLeibner “It is tough being an idiot” 😂😂😂 you just got dunked on by a billionaire lmao

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@SenWarren My god you are so delusional

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@SenWarren @JetBlue @SpiritAirlines @JusticeATR @USDOT You’re such a piece of shit

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@SahilBloom You get what you tolerate!

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@Jason @grok @joerogan This is the type of progressive thinking people used to expect from the Democratic Party

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@libsoftiktok Lmao loooooser

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@TaraBull Nick should be careful he’s done excellent work but pritzker is one of the all time biggest scumbags he may just try having him killed