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Michael Tastad

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This achievement brought tears to my eyes. This is the teaser trailer for the beautiful future awaiting us… This is what the full movie will look like: Going to the moon will be akin to a transatlantic vacation! SpaceX is paving this path. Congrats to people like

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2 months

@AlexFinnX A company with billions of dollars in funding with a ton of smart people are no match for a guy with a camera… What a time to be alive. It also helps that the product actually sucks. Don’t forget that part

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@elbegdorj And this is why people should learn history. This tweet is fire

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@ModdedQuad @X @elonmusk The first telepathic tweet. What a time to be alive. The future is gonna be great everyone, so let’s get there sooner!

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@nickfloats This just shows that most foundational models are going to converge to a similar output. This should give some AI hype pause

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@Teslaconomics They must counter-sue or appeal in this situation. This is both morally and objectively wrong. How on earth were shareholders negatively effected? We all voted on it, and the shares beat the S&P 500. I don't need a dumb judge to tell me this is a bad deal. It was not a bad deal.

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@ChivalryGuild Damn. Henry is the GOAT. This is making me realize that I should go to the gym right now.

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@astro_jaz That space ship is also “man-made” should we get rid of that too?

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@MsMelChen They found it “a lot of work” and a “burden”, seriously? All they have to do is message: hi

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3 months

@growing_daniel we live in total inversion world now rights are given to people who aren't citizens and those who do not own property next expect dividends to be sent to "stakeholders" instead of shareholders. mark my words...

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@drydenwtbrown He will rule. It is inevitable. It is written.

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@samsheffer @sama At this rate if GPT-5 doesn’t cure cancer it’s a failure

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@unusual_whales At this point the SEC is just a shill for the financial elite. It is so obvious. The sad thing is the SEC was always like this.

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@Noahpinion his tenure will be studied in MBA classes for a very long time

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@balajis Every time I read an awesome @balajis X essay, I am reminded that I don’t own enough Bitcoin.

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Michael Tastad

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@jk_rowling In the history books we will look at these people the same way we look at the predator priests harming children but being protected by the church. Remember people tried to silence that topic too. Now it’s teachers and activists being protected by state governments and media

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@mprkhrst Boys this is the definition of based

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@KobeissiLetter Every day I am reminded I do not own enough Bitcoin

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@CultureCrave @Variety Dune 3 is gonna break the normies (basically anyone who hasn't read Dune Messiah)

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@growing_daniel These Wendy’s surge pricing memes have been pure gold

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Michael Tastad

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2 years

@heydave7 @elonmusk @Liz_Wheeler Good god guys! I’m a big Elon Fan as all of you but we simply can’t keep putting the burden of building everything important on Elons plate! We need more technologists to step up and build important things in good ways for the benefit of humanity!

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@AutismCapital This actually isn’t the worst idea. Grok can have three modes: regular, fun, and unhinged

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@AlecStapp @Noahpinion Degrowth ideology is the real cancer of civilization. It must always be defeated.

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@BasedBeffJezos Communism spreads because it takes advantage of the “resentful” spirit inside mankind. The techno-capitalist tradition spreads because it takes advantage of the Faustian spirit inside mankind. History and humanity is an epic battle between agency and resentment.

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@krishnanrohit To have better software we need better hardware. Did we all really think the GPU was the best we were gonna get for these LLMs? The AIs need their specialized chips and this is just the beginning.

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@8teAPi I loved his write up but I’d take the contrarian take on this. LLMs will lower the bar of entry but will increase the ceiling of a SWE. People will still have to write code but the software companies themselves will get destroyed in economic value.

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@pronounced_kyle I love how people will quickly say: We have too many humans on the planet. But they won't say: we have too many dogs on the planet. The Population Bomb theory really did a number on some people.

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@ScottAdamsSays We are entering into a new era

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@AutismCapital UFC fighters are our gladiators America is Rome Trump is Caesar Barron is Augustus

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@KobeissiLetter Trumps idea of the 100 year bond was, at this point, a trillion dollar plus missed opportunity. That alone would have put him over the edge and make him one of the best presidents of all time.

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@corbtt So the energy costs are gonna be the first big limiting factor. Not the data then

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@jordanbpeterson @CPOntario @JustinTrudeau Thank you for what you’re doing. This is why having an audience and going direct to the people can be powerful. These groups stifling speech only have power because we let them have power. Let’s all work to make Canada better.

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@unusual_whales Why are they all wearing masks? To hide their identity from their employer?

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@EricRWeinstein The difference is Musk is NOT a physicist, he is an engineer. You are a physicist. That is good. We need both types of people. I don’t think Einstein could have physically built a rocket like Musk. I don’t think Musk can solve the speed of light constraint like you can.

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@emollick What was old will become new

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@unusual_whales it really is funny how memes are breaking the legal minds of boomers

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@matthewesp A lot of drunk people are gonna loose a lot of money this way

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@RyanSAdams Statists hate liberty. There is nothing more to say.

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@heydave7 I'd wager this is a form of discrimination. Replace the word richest with any other adjective and it becomes problematic. This is an unprincipled and bad legal decision. "Was the (blackest, whitest, asianist, poorest, smartest) person in the world overpaid?" that doesn't really

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@TheChiefNerd Easy - one grew up in the McGregor era - the other conquered an era

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@bariweiss @DouglasKMurray I feel like @DouglasKMurray has taken the torch Christopher Hitchens was carrying. He's doing a great job too.

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@PierrePoilievre I would love a world where politicians don’t acknowledge anything. No holidays, or special days or special groups. That goes for Christmas and Mother’s Day. No announcement. If anyone asks the auto reply is: we are too busy working for you! That’s what I want.

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@johngatti2 Harper really was the PM we needed but not the one we deserved.

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@AlexFinnX That’s another fair point. MKBHD basically caused a speed run of people to experience the product, all before they actually bought it. What other bad 90s products continued to exist for way too long because there were no content creators to warn us on mass?

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@KennethDredd The housing market is heavily regulated by the government. It’s not the free market that’s the problem. It’s zoning that is the problem.

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@AuronMacintyre The Western Baby Boom generation never ceases to amaze me. Speaking of course broadly and generically, they’re one of the worst generation periods ever period.

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@unusual_whales Now GME has enough cash to create a new profitable biz. This is great news. Management can still screw up in this task, but this was a great smart move on their part. This is proof we live in one of the best timelines. Memes creating a new reality.

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@knowclarified They have. The manhattan projects never stopped they just became privatized.

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@AiBreakfast Satya simply must be in the top list of CEO's of all time. Simply must. Masterclass. His methods will be studied in biz schools for decades.

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@CanadianPolling This is a sign that I need to leave this country

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@yacineMTB Open source AGI for everyone! What a time to be alive

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@Noahpinion I’d suspect that’s because American had a housing correction and Canada has not. Most money is getting put into housing, it’s a crisis & it pulls money from more productive means. There is not much positive growth in the future for Canada. All Canadians should plan to leave.

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@nabeelqu McKinsey: the true winners of PC culture

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@tim_cook This is literally the worst apple ad ever People have had enough of the screens. The return to analog is already upon us and it will come with glorious fury.

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@webdevMason We have to stop thinking about the "religious" in only the context of an organized old religion. Aella is still religious. Religious people tend to always remain so, even if their doctrines change. Throwing no shade, she can do what she wants, live and let live. But let's call

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@IterIntellectus Lock up on as much debt as I can to buy nvidia. Don’t get vaxxed. Start calling Twitter X just for giggles.

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@sahir2k There is a darker alternative here. Perhaps the gift card company he works for is merely a UBI front. To prevent total social collapse the government has connected UBI to a plethora of make work companies like the card company in the movie. In the world of AGI super abundance

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@ScottAdamsSays Vivek as VP sets up the next Maga president. That is something that Trump and team should be thinking about. Trump may be the first modern Maga candidate but he won’t be the last.

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Michael Tastad

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4 months

@erikphoel I remember an elder telling me once: dance my troubles away. I thought it was silly and not practical. Turns out there was some wisdom there.

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@JeremyTate41 @Culture_Crit 33 appears to be a high number. I hope there is a robust investigation into these “hate crimes”

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@chamath He is doing a great job, but it also helps that the MSM has been doing a crappy job for the past 10 years. His competition, at this point, is basically the great podcasters.

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@Andercot @Noahpinion Nuclear isn’t expensive. Politicians have made it expensive. This can be changed.

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@Teslaconomics There are three things that can make Tesla a ten trillion dollar company. 1. Robotaxi 2. Energy storage 3. Optimus Only one of these needs to hit. Heaven forbid if all of them hit.

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@VDAREJamesK Real art lasts and stands the test of time. Game of Thrones will not, and that is because it doesn't have a spiritual worldview worth broadcasting like others. It was post-modernism all the way down, a flash in the pan. Aspiring artists should not look to this story as

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@KobeissiLetter I can’t wait for @TheRoaringKitty to take these winnings and start his own hedge fund

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@MarioNawfal I love how Miami made a commercial to let people from outside the state know that they enforce laws here.

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@erikphoel This sounds like the first source in the Benne Gesserit’s “Creating the Kwisatz Haderach through a selective breeding program” paper

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@Jebisabigfatmes It’s almost as if, a medieval style systems designed to create limited supply to maintain wages in fact don’t maintain wages.

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@radshaan This simply shows that more software people should do deep tech This is the way

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@micsolana one major benefit from this war - is showcasing how completely out to lunch most msm is. I have seen how this conflict has been a wake up call for many on how the left has completely lost it. That is one small but meaningful silver lining to this.

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@unusual_whales So what you’re telling me is Grok is about to get a lot better?

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@micsolana This is why we need a Mars landing - those would be great numbers

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@KobeissiLetter The halting will continue until institutional returns improve

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It is not iPhone sales growth falling off, Apple's lack of presence in AI, or Tim Cook's massive stock buyback that was the signal. This ad signals that we have passed peak Apple. The backlash to this is confirmation. We are tired of screens & analog will come back with

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Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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@MrGoldBro I love this prediction. 💯 Texas will be the growth engine of the USA for the next hundred years, that is certain, almost guaranteed at this point. But succeeding is a whole different story

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@SolBrah The dude toasts the bread but doesn't cook the meat. Yikes

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@AdrianDittmann Wow what an efficient AGI!

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@balajis Every time Balaji tweets I’m reminded that I do not own enough Bitcoin

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@tsarnick Why he met with Jim Cramer is beyond me, like my god as a business owner never talk to that man

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@david_perell The midwit meme is undefeated. Best meme of all time hands down.

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@CathieDWood @elonmusk They mean fairness in the “political” lens not the objective lens. This is political law-fare and we should be brave and call it as such.

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@WholeMarsBlog Tesla is now post-Elon. I appreciate Elon and as a shareholder I still want him at Tesla. But if Elon were to leave Tesla, Tesla will still achieve its green energy goal. That is basically baked in. But Optimus Robot, that stuff still needs Elon.

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@CultureCrave @GQMagazine Pretty hard for him to do the role justice without eyes and teeth

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@Noahpinion This map looks like the result of a Ticket to Ride Game, that’s how I know it’s not real.

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@CultureCrave @THR Dune Messiah is really going to screw up the normies. So much of the public is not ready for the third part of the story.

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@AlecStapp Why did you show me this super sad chart

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@WatcherGuru They didn’t set up two factor authentication but yet they are suppose to be able to regulate cryptocurrency? Ya right.

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@coffeebreak_YT Being a financial YouTuber must be emotionally and spiritually exhausting

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@stevenmarkryan With Tesla the investing strategy is pretty simple. Buy as much as you can and hold as long as you can.

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@TheWorthyHouse @elonmusk Some great analysis here! So the room for error is much larger than it seems. But after looking at historical execution by @elonmusk I have a sneaky feeling there will not be much “error” - experimentation yes, but wide spread company error prob not

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@peterrhague Need to save this tweet and use it as a source for all community notes moving forward.

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@cafreiman You either pay with your wallet or you pay with your time

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@newstart_2024 If this passes I would love to see Justin be retroactively prosecuted for his racist black face pictures

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@KobeissiLetter This is a point that everyone misses about inflation. The monetary system is set up in such a way that everyday people get poorer every day.

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@Snowden @WSJ The dismal state of the MSM really does make conspiracy theories look good don’t they? A good conspiracy theory is like 2-3 years ahead of consensus.

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@bindureddy This is a slow death. First the LLMs will start eating search. Then the Open Source Ai and more advanced models will start eating operating systems.

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@stan_okl I like your funny point but that is not the problem the problem is that the land is not taxed. Google Henry George and a Land Value Tax. Unaffordable housing is not a technical problem it is a political problem and requires a political solution.

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@WholeMarsBlog I hope these sources are wrong. If these price cuts can be maintained it will enable total EV market domination.

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@MarioNawfal If he does return to Twitter the main question I have is if he begins to join Spaces. That would be crazy to see! He may like Spaces better than traditional media.

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@david_perell I think people will be shocked at how focusing on long term value will increase the value of the network. People often site that short term stuff is more valuable. But I think that is not the case.

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@bindureddy Very bad and wrong take. There will be no over population whatsoever. With current demographic trends we will have less humans at the end of the 21st century than the beginning of it. We need to increase birth rates, make AGI, and radically extend human health span into the

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