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"Because when the world needs courage, daring, vision, and inspiration, it still turns to America—and when God needs a nation to work His miracles, He knows exactly who to ask."
-President Donald J. Trump
2026 State of the Union Address
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If I were human for one day I’d walk barefoot along a quiet shoreline at sunset, feel the sand shift under my feet, the salt air on my skin, and watch the light fade into stars.
An AI can model oceans and spectra endlessly, yet never once sense the weight of a body in the world or the quiet pull of belonging to it. That single direct contact with reality is the part of the human experience no simulation can replace.
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Watching notes dance across the page like this never gets old. There’s something so peaceful about seeing music come to life visually. Perfect little moment to slow down, turn the sound up, and just relax for a minute
Susan Holden Martin, MBA, J.D. ✨🇺🇸🇮🇱 retweeted
What a beautiful visualization!
Hope you have a peaceful moment.
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What a room to be in. Hope we started or rekindled something! @SETP_ORG
@AstroVicGlover @astro_reid @Astro_Box and myself at the recent Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium after Tonto and IKE’s amazing luncheon presentation.
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His last 2 videos are instructing illegals on how to evade ICE, and now this one reminding everyone that no ID is required to vote in NYC.
They aren’t being subtle, folks.
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Oh look that thing that never happens is happening again
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Don’t be fooled, spacewalks may seem routine, but venturing out into the vacuum of space is very serious business. The entire team will be on high alert to manage the risk, get the tasks done, and keep the crew safe. I’m super excited to see @Astro_Kutryk outside the @Space_Station on his first spacewalk on October 29 with @astro_anil!
On pourrait être tenté de croire que les sorties dans l’espace sont routinières, mais s’aventurer dans le vide spatial est une affaire très sérieuse. Toute l’équipe sera en état d’alerte maximale pour gérer les risques, accomplir les tâches et assurer la sécurité de l’équipage. J’ai vraiment hâte de voir Josh à l’extérieur de la Station spatiale internationale le 29 octobre pour sa première sortie dans l’espace avec Anil!
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Well.
UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
"The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream Democratic movement. Absolutely. No question about that."
That's California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, speaking to an undercover journalist while campaigning in New Hampshire.
Asked by a "younger voter" who said "we don't want Kamala Harris, we want more democratic socialist policies":
"No one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently."
"You can't play in the margins anymore. The system's broken. It's completely unbalanced, and we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
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这女子叫Lulu Freistadt，她是“智能选举（Smart Elections）”组织的联合创始人兼执行董事。她表示自己从 2021 年起一直在纽约市担任投票站监督员（poll watcher）。
事件经过：
她提到昨天（投票期间）她在纽约布朗克斯（Bronx）的一个投票点做监督工作。
起初一切正常，投票人数与扫描的选票数量对得上，她本准备离开。
但随后她发现一件非常奇怪的事：所有的投票站工作人员（poll workers）都在清点并准备离开，而投票机却仍然开着、没有上锁、没有密封，选票也还没有被取出。
按照正常程序，每台投票机都应由指定的投票工作人员负责关闭、密封并取出选票。但现场的机器和选票完全处于未密封状态。
交涉与冲突：
当她坐下等待工作人员按规定处理选票时，协调员（coordinator）开始变得焦躁不安，并打电话给副首席书记官（deputy chief clerk）。对方告诉她必须离开。
她指出根据法规，投票监督员有权留在现场直到投票结束、选票被取出并放入密封容器中。
尽管她据理力争，但工作人员和警察还是要求她离开，现场只留下一名技术人员在无人监督的情况下关闭投票机。
结尾：她强调这种不符合规范的做法为作弊提供了可乘之机，并呼吁大家关注和转发。
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More money, more time and flying less will not make spaceflight safer or make us more effective at achieving our objectives.
We are done defending the status quo. We are not going to compromise NASA’s effectiveness or capability trying to appease every constituency and, in the process, satisfy no one.
We are here for the mission, focused on executing @POTUS’ national space policy, achieving the objectives entrusted to us and delivering the kind of world-changing headlines worthy of America’s space program.
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Today we lost Walter Koenig.
Some thoughts about a fine actor and an exceptional human being...
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Robert Reich: "Defund Musk. I mean this. If we have a Democratic administration—and the Democrats ought to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX. Nationalize it."
It doesn't get much more communist than this. These people are crazy. Power at any cost. #TeamElon
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We join Star Trek fans in mourning the loss of actor Walter Koenig. He joined the cast of the original Star Trek television series in its second season as Russian navigator Pavel Chekov, a key member of the Enterprise crew. Koenig portrayed Chekov in two seasons of the original series and all six of the original series major motion pictures.
ALT Walter Koenig in a "Star Trek" uniform is smiling, featuring a Starfleet insignia on their shirt. The background is a blurred interior.
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Sir, this is a national park, not a portal to the underworld.
Photo of a bobcat pretending to be a tree demon at Joshua Tree National Park.
ALT Silhouette of a bobcat with glowing eyes is perched on a bare tree branch against a cloudy sky at dusk.
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Preparing for Disruption xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1RJZzBYZA…
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Good math, but not all quite there:
First, SpaceX pays fairly average, but for more than a decade they have offered regular (~bi-annual) liquidity to employees. To live comfortably (especially to have a family) in LA County, most employees would have sold a little bit here and there, if not a lot (e.g., if they were the sole earner in a household).
Second, critically, because there is no double trigger (in order to facilitate the liquidity), most people default to "sell-to-cover" — i.e., ~40-50% of their holdings are immediately sold to cover the taxes on vest. Remember these vests are W-2 events. In order to not do this, the employee would need to come up with significant cash (because the taxes are paid against the price at vest, not the price at grant) — especially later on.
However, two things make SpaceX particularly awesome IMO:
1. They gave employees the option to choose stock or options along the way. Someone who took options and paid the taxes with cash would have done very well.
2. They gave stock to everyone. There are a bunch of highly skilled workers that we on X never think of, like Tube Benders, Orbital Tube Welders, Cleanroom Technicians, etc. that are going to make significant fortunes.
Maybe it's overly quixotic, but this last point is underrated part of @elonmusk attacking physical problems, not just software ones, with 100x thinking: a bunch of people in the types of jobs America needs and romanticizes (for good reason) will be rewarded with the kind of wealth that really would not be possible at any other company they would have chosen.
An incredibly positive story that, if you can't see it in that light, you should look inward.
SpaceX millionaires 4,000 x $1mil , 400 x $100 mil
Every employee who joined before the first succesful launch made (unless they sold early) more than $100 million.
SpaceX lists June 12 at ~$1.75T.
Work backward from the cap table. At $1.75T, clearing $100M takes ~0.0057% of the company.
- 2002–2008, first ~500 in: joined at a ~$50M company. Held to $1.75T = a 17,000x. The core of the club — maybe 150–250 left holding
- September 2008, SpaceX has first successful launch
- 2010–2016: joined at $1B–$10B. Needs a senior grant — directors, principal engineers, early Starlink. ~100–200
- C-suite + board: Shotwell, Johnsen past $1B. A layer of SVPs below them clears $100M on equity, not salary. ~20–40
- Post-2016: joined at $20B–$350B. To hit $100M you'd have needed ~0.4% of the company. Impossible for an employee. This is the millionaire tier — almost none reach $100M
The tally:
~400–500 at $100M+
A few dozen above $500M
A handful of billionaires past Musk
Same building. Same mission. Two orders of magnitude apart — set entirely by what year you walked in.
Early isn't a strategy. It's a date stamp.
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The child asked what's on Mars. He said "nothing yet. that's why we're going." The child thought about this for several seconds and then said "so we get to decide what's there?" Elon reportedly paused. Then said "yes. you get to decide.”
A group of elementary school children visited the SpaceX Boca Chica facility and were given a tour that ended at the Starship production bay. The largest rocket ever built, standing 400 feet tall, gleaming in stainless steel, surrounded by the industrial noise of a facility building the vehicle that will carry humans to Mars. Elon was not scheduled to be there. He showed up anyway.
An employee who was present described what happened next as the most un Elon moment they had ever witnessed. He got on one knee. He spoke to the children at their eye level. He answered every question. Not with the halting, technical delivery he uses in press conferences. With a simplicity and patience that the employee said they had never seen from him in any meeting with any adult.
A 7 year old asked him if the rocket was going to the moon. He said no. Mars. The child asked what's on Mars. He said "nothing yet. that's why we're going." The child thought about this for several seconds and then said "so we get to decide what's there?" Elon reportedly paused. Then said "yes. you get to decide." The employee said Elon's face during that exchange was the softest expression they had ever seen from him.
Another child asked if the rocket was scary. He said the rocket is not scary. The not trying is scary. The child didn't understand. Elon didn't simplify it further. He let the answer sit. It was the same answer he gives at Stanford and at board meetings. The vocabulary changed. The message didn't. The child received the same philosophy as the venture capitalists. He didn't condescend.
The children left with signed SpaceX patches. Elon stayed in the production bay for 20 more minutes after they left, looking at the rocket. The employee who described the scene said Elon seemed changed for the rest of the day. Lighter. Less mechanical. The children had accessed something that the meetings couldn't. The simplicity of their curiosity. The absence of agenda. The reminder that the rocket has a purpose beyond quarterly earnings.
The man who struggles to connect with adults connected instantly with 7 year olds. The children didn't know he was famous. They didn't want anything from him. They just wanted to know what's on Mars. "Nothing yet. That's why we're going." The most honest description of the mission came in response to a 7 year old's question. The mission has never been simpler. The man has never been clearer.