Dave Fobare

Asked Joe Mazzulla about his usage of artificial intelligence as a coach: “It’s more just helping organize, helping become more efficient, helping understand. There's a lot of really use it for just conversation and riffs on like — okay, here's what I'm wrestling with. What does this look like from a psychological perspective? What is the research and the data? You quickly get just so much research and data on things.”

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life. At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday." He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy. Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system. He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting. He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way." The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

GOP candidate for Senate Justin Murphy's response to a question about Iran. Booker almost wet his pants.

#RIP Mike Ditka A fan called Mike Ditka a baby on a call in radio show. Iron Mike responds by giving the guy his office address and telling him “You tell me what time and when and I’ll whip your ass” 😘 #DaBears

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Colossus just published a 10,000-word profile of Mark Zuckerberg (months with him, his parents, his MMA coaches, and his rivals). The thesis: he's a Roman emperor running the largest empire in history from inside a prison, and he will never, ever stop. 🦷 His dad, "the painless Dr. Z," says "He didn't stand out as the bright one in the family." Middle daughter Donna was the nerd. At 12 he wrote ZuckNet in Atari BASIC in two days so the dental office wouldn't have to drill wires through walls. A year before AOL Instant Messenger existed 🏛️ The Rome thing is not a bit. He still recites Virgil's "I have given empire without end." Early crisis meetings vs Google ended with him shouting "Carthage must be destroyed." Friday all-hands ended with "Domination!" Honeymoon in Rome, Priscilla says Augustus was the third wheel. Kids: Maxima, August, Aurelia. Conference shirt: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL 👁️ His longtime lieutenants call his silences "the Eye of Sauron." His mom, on 20 years of coverage: "It's been really brutal. This is my child." 🥊 He trains 3 mornings a week with UFC champ Merab Dvalishvili and an NCAA wrestling champ. Merab demoed a kick and knocked his wind out. Zuck sat down rocking back and forth: "Wow. Oh, man." His coach's theory: it's the only place he can be "just one of the guys" and get told he's wrong 👑 The "dictator's dilemma": a project subordinates hated was internally nicknamed M.M.H. (Make Mark Happy). There are stories of deputies letting him win at board games. In 2006 nearly the entire management team quit when the 22-year-old refused Yahoo's $1B, cementing the rule: in the face of opposition, Zuckerberg is right 🏰 Scale: 3.6B users, 1 in 2.3 humans alive. Each of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp has more MAU than Christianity has adherents. Meta's capex this year exceeds the military budget of every country except the US, China, and Russia. Voting control means he could still be running it in 50 years 🔒 The whole strategy is a jailbreak from Apple. Apple's ATT cost him ~$10B in year one. The phone, Libra, Oculus, $90B on the Metaverse, now AI glasses: every one was a tunnel out of the App Store prison. To Jensen Huang, on being told "you can't build that" by platforms: "Nah. Fuck that." 🕶️ The glasses told him unprompted he was botching a recipe while baking with his daughter. The nose mic is clear enough to "take business calls on a jet ski." Author's prediction: they'll be known as "pervert glasses" within a year 🐄 Asked why he doesn't just stop, he digressed into cattle genetics: he's roasting macadamia nuts and brewing beer for his Hawaii cows to fatten them. "I'm never going to stop. I can get obsessive." 💀 Every few years he's pronounced dead (2012 mobile, 2016 Snapchat, 2018 Cambridge Analytica, 2022 TikTok) and every time he comes back bigger. This summer: Wired ran "Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit," an employee called the AI unit "literally the gulag," a $17.1B teen-harm settlement, an AI support bot handing hackers Instagram accounts, and a leaked prediction-markets app 🤖 After Llama 4 flopped, he executed regime change in 11 weeks: $14.3B for Scale AI, hundreds of millions per researcher, LeCun out, $145B spend this year. Muse Spark now beats Gemini. The steelman from his rivals: if AI commoditizes, Anthropic and OpenAI go to zero and value flows to distribution he already owns. If it doesn't, he only needs to stay within 6 months of the frontier. Heads he wins, tails he wins 🔥 A researcher at a competing lab who used to work at Meta: "Mark is the fucking Terminator. He's actually not an asshole, which is interesting. But his source of advantage is he's never happy. He just doesn't fucking stop." And: "Mark's still the alpha of that" 🎬 The Social Network was fiction: no Erica Albright (he was already dating Priscilla), never rejected by WASP clubs (he was a beer-guzzling AEPi bro). Stern's read: the class resentment in the movie was Sorkin's, who saw social media coming for his industry. The new sequel's climax: a progressive woman radicalized by Facebook tramples a Black cop on Jan 6 🇨🇳 His most demeaning era: staging Xi's book on his desk, jogging through Tiananmen, and reportedly asking Xi to name his unborn child 🏛️ On the government: "the White House tells you they want stuff censored, and then you push back, and that's your right... then all of a sudden you get all these investigations from all these different parts of the government" 🧬 Around year 18 Priscilla asked him to quit: "Aren't we tired? Can we be done? Let's call it." He said no: "I just love building things." For years she didn't get it. Then their daughter, with no prompting from Mark, started vibecoding a messaging app, a podcast called "Is Romance Appropriate?", and a dating site (Mom said no). That's when it clicked: "It's Mark. After 23 years, I get it now. You can't take this away from him. He wouldn't be him if he stopped." She stopped asking An emperor for life who cries at crashed Risk games, gets kicked in the chest for fun, and has never once been convinced he was wrong. That's the whole profile. Full piece by @colossusjeremy at @colossusmag

Abdul El-Sayed on football: "Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture."

BREAKING: Kaohly Her, the Democrat Mayor of St. Paul, MN, is under criminal investigation after she allegedly sent sexually inappropriate messages to St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry and other city officials.

BREAKING: Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega declares the country will no longer hold elections, eliminating any future electoral challenge to his rule.

Nonprofits have hollowed out our state capacity and corrupted the progressive project

EXCLUSIVE: In 2025, Starbucks sent a letter to Gov Bob Ferguson warning him that passing higher taxes would have "unintended long-term economic consequences that will disproportionately impact Washington-based businesses." The coffee giant urged him to veto the bills because "imposing new taxes on certain elements of our staffing, IT, security, and advertising functions that are based out of our local headquarters would dramatically increase costs, putting us at a competitive disadvantage to companies based in other states." The company warned that imposing a new B&O surcharge "will also make it more difficult for us to make vital investments in Washington." Ferguson ignored the warning. Starbucks announced it was expanding to Nashville earlier this year, laying off employees in Washington and hiring 2,000 people in Tennessee

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🚨Q: You were saying a month ago about the Iranians that they are rational people, and today you called them scum What changed? Trump: "I got to know them." Watch Rubio's smile...