Stosh Clayton

Caltech graduate; earth scientist; aerospace engineer; software developer; filmmaker; investment analyst; pilot; skydiver.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is essentially true.

However, it is possible to filter for exceptional people from any country. The problem for the left is that exceptional people mostly won’t vote for them.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

Maintenance for my Cybertruck: Windshield washer fluid. Wheel alignment. Tire rotation. Wiper blades. Periodically clean the inside of the windshield in the small area in front of the camera (this is best done by a Tesla technician because it involves removing the plastic cover at the top of the windshield). Ditto for cabin air filter. Because the brakes are rarely used, they can last much longer than normal brakes.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument we learned that the backstory behind the battle was far more interesting and complicated than I had thought. For example, the Crow were allied with the Army because they wanted to evict the Sioux and Cheyenne bands that were camped on Crow lands. Ironically, the national monument is located inside the Crow Reservation and many of the Park Service employees there are Crow.

[Rachelle Morris @rachelle_morris]

AMERICA 250 + UTAH PIONEER DAY 🇺🇸: Brigham Young

On this Pioneer Day, I’m highlighting THE leader of early Utah: Brigham Young (1801–1877). A carpenter, painter and glazier by trade, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer, statesman, and the driving force in settling Utah.

Born in Whitingham, VT, Brigham had just 11 days of formal schooling and worked with his hands before joining the LDS Church in 1832. After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in 1844, he led the Saints west, arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. Gazing over the barren valley from his wagon, he declared, “This is the right place. Drive on.”

Within days he directed the diversion of City Creek to irrigate the ground, launching the West’s first large-scale irrigation society. He laid out Salt Lake City on a wide, square grid still in use today, and broke ground on the Salt Lake Temple in 1853.

Brigham dispatched settlers, including my ancestors, who founded ~350 cities and towns across Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, and Wyoming, making the Mormon pioneers the single most important force colonizing the interior West. He became Utah’s 1st territorial governor in 1851, founded the University of Deseret in 1850 (now Univ. of Utah) and Brigham Young Academy in 1875 (now BYU), opened the Salt Lake Theatre, established ZCMI, and pushed the transcontinental railroad forward.

Utah women gained the right to vote in 1870, and Brigham’s grandniece Seraph Young became the first woman to vote under equal suffrage in the U.S.

Brigham prized education fiercely, sending sons east to elite schools, sons and daughters to Utah classrooms, and called LDS women east to train as physicians and return to serve the territory.

Brigham died of a ruptured appendix on Aug 29, 1877, in his Lion House home, at 76. His funeral filled the Tabernacle he’d built, w/an estimated 25,000 mourners who paid their respects. Per his instructions, no wheeled vehicle was used but rather pallbearers carried his casket up South Temple, through Eagle Gate, to the private cemetery he’d set aside at 1st Avenue, in the heart of the city he built.

Thank you, Brigham, for making Utah “The Place.”

[Rachelle Morris @rachelle_morris]

I believe it’s primarily the responsibility of Utahns with Mormon pioneer ancestry to educate, invite, and make room for any/all Utahns to be participate in Pioneer Day celebrations.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

@Joshua_the_car @Nate_Higgers_12 Thirty years ago most Republicans were horrified when then-First-Lady Hillary Clinton stated that one of the functions of the federal government was to give people meaning to their lives.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

Fun fact: In the 1880s when federal marshals were arresting Church leaders for plural marriage under the Edmunds-Tucker Act, Wilford Woodruff sometimes hid out at his cabin in Little Cottonwood Canyon next to the creek where he enjoyed fishing from the back porch. That cabin is still in use!

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

The richest people in this country have access to huge amounts of intelligence: custom medical advisors, custom tutors, custom assistants.

Data centers are making this accessible to the average American.

My full appearance on @FoxBusiness on the moral case for data centers:

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

The average American needs to know:

1) Data centers are the best thing that's happened to you since fossil fuels.
2) All of the alleged problems with data centers are either fake or solvable.

CC @dagenmcdowell @brianbrenberg

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Why haven't the All In guys big timed Ro Khanna? Say they'll match him 250MM for the Trump Accounts. That will leave Ro with a "mere" 250MM. His kids won't miss any meals. Those guys could put an end to the wealth tax talk easily.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

The United States has roughly two dozen people who know how to run rare earth solvent extraction at commercial scale. The Chinese Society of Rare Earths has over 100,000 members. In 2023, American mining engineering programs graduated 162 students. China graduated about 3,000 from 45 programs. Twelve US universities have shut down their mining engineering departments, including UC Berkeley and Ohio State. The Bureau of Mines, the federal agency responsible for mining research and training, was dissolved in 1996. Chinese pricing drove Western rare earth operations out of business through the 1990s and 2000s. The people who knew how to run those plants retired, changed industries, or died. Rare earth separation requires understanding how 17 chemically similar elements behave across hundreds of interconnected mixer-settler stages over months of continuous operation. That knowledge is accumulated through years of hands-on work in facilities the West stopped running. The average US mine worker is 46. 221,000 are expected to retire by 2029. Building an entirely new critical minerals supply chain means rebuilding the workforce that was eliminated a generation ago. The operational knowledge only comes back by running real plants.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

My great-great-grandfather was William Clayton, who was with the vanguard group that entered the valley in July 1847. He kept a detailed journal of the trip, co-invented an odometer to measure distances along the way, and wrote "The Emigrant's Guide" that was used by subsequent parties.

[Photorin @weltbuch]

When I was a kid I had a book called "How to beat your Dad at chess", which basically taught common end game patterns which the reader was told to memorize. There was an interesting chess cognition argument to go along with it:

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Every year that Elon Musk refuses to seize the continent of Africa by force and rule it as king he kills another 10 million people

[Dr. Insensitive Jerk @DrInsensitive]

Hard reality: If pesticide and vax makers are not protected from liability, they will all -100%- eventually be brought before a jury of low-IQ nons and bankrupted.

I am a real data scientist. The money to be stolen from manufacturers is more than ample to generate a flood of damning scientific papers that are total BS, but will give a jury of resentful nons the excuse they need.

A society that wants heroic men must give up the joy of destroying them.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

@rachelle_morris I can vouch for Kenny J’s! Try the brisket and funeral potatoes!

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

@goud4utah If you DM me I'd like to chat with you on the phone sometime about my strange conversation with John Curtis about immigration.

[Stosh Clayton @stoshmon]

@rachelle_morris I take my hat off to Karianne and you and Corinne and the many volunteers for an amazing campaign!