Richard Fields @rfieldsster

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Goldman Sachs @GoldmanSachs

2 days ago

SpaceX is redefining industries on Earth and aiming to create new ones beyond it. On June 11, it successfully priced its $75B IPO. Goldman Sachs is honored to have served as lead left bookrunner.

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Within ~5 years, probably ~5 times as many satellites as rest of world

Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle

a day ago

They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.

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There you go. The United States is built on a limitless ethos of entrepreneurship, innovation, and excellence. Canada is built on feminized and "empathetic" parasitic taxation fuelled by envy and resentment toward those who produce.

Adams @Adams_Tech_AI

a day ago

JUST IN🚨: SpaceX is now worth more than Canada.

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Taxing unrealized gains doesn’t work. If I were taxed on what my company is worth instead of my actual income, I’d have to sell my company to afford the taxes.

State legislators have turned ballot access into a protection racket for the two-party system. The rules aren’t there to help voters, they’re there to shield incumbents from competition.

Amity @amitylee13

a day ago

The most effective form of election rigging is making it nearly impossible for alternative candidates to gain ballot access.

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You need government permission to braid hair in 29 US states. To arrange flowers in Louisiana. To shampoo hair in Tennessee. This cannot be filed under "safety issues". They're cartels using state power to eliminate competition and jack up prices. Occupational licensing covered 5% of workers in 1950. Today? 30%. The Institute for Justice estimates these barriers destroy 2.85 million jobs and cost consumers $203 billion annually. Every licensed profession magically discovers why unlicensed competition threatens public safety (translation: threatens their margins). Want to cut someone's hair without 1,500 hours of government-approved training? Criminal. Want to teach kids without an education degree from the same universities that produced our literacy crisis? Also criminal. The state doesn't protect you from bad haircuts; it protects established businesses from you.

“Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.” — Friedrich Hayek

The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry. To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines. The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more. The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction. This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery. This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10. Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production. The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible. Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater. Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements. This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck. Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep.

@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.

"This is not just about wealth. It is about power." Yes, we know that is what it is about. We know you and your friends want the power. We are horrified by that. We saw what Democrat politicians have done for the past 10-20 years as their power increased. We will support anyone who can counter that influence. If that requires a trillion dollars, or if it requires a quadrillion dollars -- no amount of money is too much for someone to have if that means it can help stop Democrats from having power. Democrats complain about the "oligarchy", but why do they think men like Elon Musk are so popular? It is because of Democrats' irresponsible actions and the extraordinarily destructive moral hysterias that they have fomented -- that have run through our societies' institutions and decimated them. And because someone like Elon has been one of the only people powerful and courageous enough to put a dent in the behemoth. We know that if you take on and defeat the billionaires (and the trillionaire), we will be defenseless. And you know that too. You must not succeed.

Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders

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Socialists really believe this. They have no conception of people exchanging without first being told to do so by the State. That's how distant from reality (and humanity) they are.

“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.” — Thomas Sowell

Climate models predict a warmer world should produce more evaporation, more humidity and a stronger hydrological cycle. But observations say otherwise. A 2025 study by Ma et al shows global ocean evaporation rose until the late 2000s then declined. Over the past decade, two-thirds of the oceans show weakening evaporation, partly due to slower winds. Another study, Simpson et al, examined humidity over arid regions. Models predict strong increases, but observed data show almost no change in 40 years. In many cases, models overestimate humidity trends by an order of magnitude. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere. If models cannot correctly simulate evaporation and humidity, their climate projections become next to useless. Real-world observations continue to contradict mainstream assumptions.

Elon Musk: At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla. “I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them. There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot. At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla. We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires. And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.” New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023

I wonder how long they had these banners in storage 🤣 Placards and banners paid for by a billionaire to complain about the first trillionaire. If Elon Musk was a far left degenerate like Soros, there'd by none of this.

Looking forward to taking our exciting partnership with Nvidia to the next-level

NVIDIA @nvidia

a day ago

Huge congratulations to the @SpaceX team on a historic IPO debut. Fueling the next frontier of space and AI. 🌌 NVIDIA's partnership with SpaceX spans nearly a decade, from hand-delivering the world's first #NVIDIADGX-1 supercomputer in 2016 to the custom DGX Spark handoff at

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The outrage today is essentially: "An African immigrant came to America, built multiple companies, became one the richest person in history, and achieved more success than we find acceptable." For people who claim to celebrate opportunity, diversity, immigration, and the American Dream, it's a remarkably strange thing to be angry about. The objection isn't that he failed. It's that he succeeded.

Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people. AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs. One creates. The other destroys. They are not the same.

Javier Milei: “If you earn your money honestly, who the hell am I to tell you what you can spend it on?” “What gives me the right to be so arrogant and presumptuous as to tell you that you can spend it on this but not on that?”