AIDS is...not what we were told in high school in the 1990s.

Starlink has around 11,040 working satellites in orbit. The next nine largest LEO constellations combined have only about 2,100. Starlink alone is more than 5x bigger than all nine combined.

A world with zero discrimination would still produce wildly unequal group outcomes. Thomas Sowell demonstrated how firstborn sons score higher on IQ tests and land more prestigious careers than their younger brothers, but nobody blames discrimination for that gap. Canadian junior hockey shows that players born January through March dominate the leagues because the January 1 cutoff makes them the oldest and strongest kids in every age group. Overseas Chinese communities run retail across Southeast Asia, Lebanese merchants dominate trade in West Africa, and German immigrants once owned the American brewing industry. Same specialization repeats under completely different majorities and legal systems. Treating every disparity as automatic proof of discrimination starts with the wrong diagnosis, and the wrong diagnosis never delivers the right cure. But the fantasy that some planner can just rearrange people like chess pieces and force equal results remains one of the most stubborn fallacies in economics.

Starlink Stories: From the eye of a 190-mph tornado to the middle of the Indian Ocean, these innovators are using @Starlink to make the impossible a reality. "Starlink is probably our most crucial piece of equipment. It's really been a game-changer." "I am a lot braver when it comes to entering foreign lands thanks to Starlink." "Previously, wirelessly downloading a single AutoPath mapping file took 20 to 30 minutes of agonizing wait time, during which the tractor engine had to remain running. "Every minute we're sitting there just idling the tractor is costing us money, whether in fuel or wasted, useless hours we put on the machine. With Starlink, files download almost instantly." "We can save lives with a functional real-time earthquake monitoring network like the one we operate." It's worth reading these stories in the article: pcmag.com/articles/starlink-…

Precisely articulated

Don’t pass on generational trauma

Truth is better than fiction

NICK SHIRLEY: "The most powerful people in the world use 𝕏. I'm able to reach the audience of people that are trying to make change in the world. The producers are on 𝕏. The people that are making changes in the world are on 𝕏.”

🤔… 😔

Exactly 1000%

Yeah, that was dumb

we’re having debates about datacenters and China is publicly developing superhuman robot armies what the actual hell are we doing here guys

S41 on its victorious return to the factory following a successful static fire campaign. B21 is on deck this week. I’m very excited about flight 14 and moving Starship into some exciting operational missions.

Starship is the first machine ever built with one clear purpose: break humanity out of its cradle and make life multi-planetary Every successful flight moves us closer to becoming a true spacefaring civilization Moon bases, cities on Mars, orbital industry, and entirely new economies beyond Earth It is the transportation system being built to open the next frontier of human civilization

Landing boosters and recovering fairings let us fly more often and fly more reliably. 100 so far this year. Incredible work @SpaceX team.

🚨Joe Rogan says Twitter was a “censorship dystopian hellhole” before Elon Musk bought it. “Twitter being purchased was giant.” “Before that, you could get silenced, so you self-censored.” “A sports broadcaster got fired for saying ‘All Lives Matter.’” “There was active U.S. government involvement in Twitter. They were actively censoring and removing posts and banning accounts.” “When Elon bought it, that was all exposed.” “They were pulling down factual stories.” “They were banning accounts of scientists and researchers who were accurate. It was dark.” “Before Elon purchased it, it was a censorship dystopian hellhole, where if you said ‘a man is never a woman,’ like Megan Murphy did, you’re banned for life.”

Britain’s human rights laws and asylum rules built Londonistan. Abu Hamza preached open jihad from Finsbury Park Mosque for years while collecting benefits. Abu Qatada, bin Laden’s right hand man in Europe, spent two decades blocking deportation under human rights protections. Omar Bakri openly ran al-Muhajiroun, recruiting young British Muslims until he fled and got banned. Article 3 of the European Convention, along with asylum rules, made it nearly impossible to remove anyone who claimed “possible mistreatment” back home, no matter what they were doing in the UK. Radicalization happened in public and got labeled “tolerance”. The July 7 bombs were the bill coming due. 52 people died as the direct cost.

Joe Rogan: "California doesn't allow ID to vote... Who knows how many people are voting that aren’t citizens? No one knows. Can’t know. Can’t find out... they voted to raise taxes" nitter.click/KanekoaTheGreat/status… California enacted a statewide ban, a law that prohibits local governments from requiring identification to cast a ballot. Yes, it's that insane. Democrats defend this saying voter fraud is extremely rare

Chinese humanoid robot by smartphone maker Honor (“Lightning”) ran 100m in 9.32 seconds (Usain Bolt’s record is 9.58 seconds). Perhaps more impressively: it crashed into a safety wall without having its waist implode with sparks flying off.

Mona, a member of the Federation of the Blind, gave amazing testimony yesterday about @Tesla’s Cybercab after sitting in it this week: "To have something like the Cybercab would be very beneficial to us as the blind community; It’s got Braille in there. Nobody else has Braille. This would be so beneficial. The app is wonderful. There’s space to put the wheelchair. They can just push themselves right in. A lot of times, the Uber and Lyft if they see you with a dog or cane, they drive right past you. With Cybercab, it doesn't know that you're blind. It doesn't know that you're in a wheelchair. It just knows that you need a ride, so I completely love the car. Just sitting in it, how comfortable it is, just knowing something is accessible - it’s the most amazing thing out there." (via the Nevada Transportation Authority's general session meeting yesterday)