I don't think we are ready for what awaits.

Wouldn’t a classical liberal be in favor of the right of a business owner being able to fire someone because they didn’t agree with their views? Does free speech trump free association? I read much of your recent comments as that people should not suffer any consequences for their beliefs or private speech. And certainly that should be true as far as the law goes. But beliefs do have consequences, and others should be free to decide they don’t like someone’s opinion or speech and choose not to associate with them. Is it always right? Does it go over the top? Should people chill out and be more tolerant? Yes, that too. But you can’t say that no vicious view of fellow human beings, no matter how vile, should be immune to community opprobrium.

Wow, it’s way more of an actual true cult than I thought. @perrymetzger

Do they even have any experience in real engineering jobs where they’d be required to build something over 1-2 years? Their resumes seem to make them hacker/interns, what I’d call script kiddies. It seems their jobs are to shut down and lock things, grab data, and grep it for cherry picking. Do any of them know anything about the data they’re viewing? Do they know anything about the programs? Do they know about the law? About PII restrictions? About UNAX? None of this looks carefully planned or done in a well thought out fashion. It’s chaotic, slash dash, and pretty reckless given the important of the systems they’re hacking on.

I think this is a false equivalency, because it ignores the way processes have been bypassed and the kids have been given control of the asylum. Obama never handed 19 year old shit posting black hat cybercrime ddos hackers the reigns. There’s a huge difference between the software engineers in your average valley software company, and some guys who didn’t even finish college and sit around inTelegram groups trading hacks. I bet many of these guys couldn’t even pass a standard job interview.

@cremieuxrecueil What about the fact that it does they didn’t do a proper background check that would have caught that one of the guys they hired was part of a cybercrime gang and previously fired for leaking secrets from his company.

Unfortunately, it's replacement (Starship HLS) is likely just as costly for the mission (carry astronauts to lunar surface). 2-3 Falcon Heavy flights could assemble a cheap, reliable lander+Orion-style craft much cheaper, and the hardware already exists. Instead we're insisting on a system which costs $150M per test flight, needs 15+ refueling flights per HLS, a separate tanker aircraft, still hasn't demonstrated rapid turnaround reusability, long duration cold-restart, needs its launch site repaired after every launch, and on and on. But given Musk's influence, how likely is it that his Baby will be put aside for a much more realistic, economicaly, Falcon Heavy based approach? That is, if they're not going to cancel Artemis itself. My prediction is, they won't, SLS funds will simply be given to SpaceX, but Starship will not make their deadlines or launch windows, and when the true amortized cost per Artemis HLS launch is calculated it's gonna end up looking a lot like the SLS costs. So in the end, this ends up looking a lot of Musk directing money away from Boeing, Blue Origin, or other competitors into his own pockets. Even *if* that were the economically and technically right thing to do, it has very bad optics and sets a disturbing precedent.

Born without a cochlea, or even auditory nerves. But did you know that much of the research that enabled it is from decades from NSF & NIH grants? Or that Musk's Neuralink is essentially a commercialization or decades of BCI research funded by NSF & NIH then DARPA in 2013? Basic research leads to amazing things, the demonization of it going on right now is damaging to future US national competitiveness.

@mcuban @elonmusk How about UNAX and PII training first? Most people get clearance to work on databases that include taxpayer data have to go through those first. Also, the existence of "dirt" or debt in your background that can be used as leverage often puts you at risk of foreign influence.

I've been there, oh lordy, I've been there so many times, that, and my iPhone auto-unloading X if I switch to copy-paste something for a Tweet. Can I just say, thank you Sean for a thoughtful response. So much discussion on X revolves around people being unreasonable and just tribally defensive to a fault, and it is a breath of fresh air to have someone take the time to respond in a well thought out, considerate way.

Apple doesn't need to manufacture anything, they just need to someone else to manufacture it. The iPhone is manufactured in China, and Tesla has no industrial manufacturing advantage vs household robot factories in China, if anything they're already at a detriment, and will need tariff and export bans to save them. Already, if Chinese EVs could be sold in the US, Tesla would be a niche brand.

Societal norms exist. If a guy walks around telling everyone to fuck themselves and ends up getting shunned by those around him, is this the “whims of the community”? And if people instead take a dim view of someone seig heiling or saying “normalize Indian hate” and don’t want to work with him, is this a lack of free speech? At one point does the aggregate rights of free association not impinge on the individual rights of speech free from any consequences?

Given robotaxis, this looks insane which leads to suspicions there’s some kind of pro-Uber back door executive action from the Trump admin coming down the line. Maybe they’ll try to privatize postal delivery and hand it to Uber or something. This just seems too contrary to be believable given the trends.

@Scobleizer @elonmusk @Tesla @Jason Technically didn’t he join like half a year later after the founders Eberhard and Tarpenning started it? Weren’t those the guys who had to face the slammed doors and “you’re an idiot” takes when it started? I feel like they’re always left out of the story.

@perrymetzger @_Mark_Atwood

Guy haphazardly rolls up in govt, doesn't follow the law or procedure, immediately tells 2 million govt workers to take an early buyout offer regardless of their importance (hello, ATC workers?), has websites scrubbed of any documents that merely have the word "equality" or "accessibility" in them, chaos erupts, things go wrong, and you want to blame it all on the subordinates. What happened to "the buck stops here?" You don't think a CEO taking a hacksaw to an org chart is going to produce more stupid mistakes? You know how most companies do RIFs? They hire outside consulting agencies, who evaluate needs, evaluate employee performance, produce proposals which are reviewed by the board, and offer buyouts to those they either don't need, or who are poor performers. They don't simply email all@company.com and tell them all they should consider quitting. They're a fast way to destroy the moral of an entire organization and destroy it's effectiveness, which is exactly what Voight said he wanted in Project 2025, to "traumatize" federal workers. Do you want additional trauma for our ATCs? So when more and more mistakes and accidents keep cropping up, especially when you juggle the org chart, swap out tons of people, you don't get to say Trump and Musk are blameless. If you do a re-org, if you can claim credits for beneficial results, you must take blame for bad results. The receipts show both Trump and Musk are often clueless at management. Musk has narrowly avoided disaster multiple times in his career by underlings going through herculean efforts to undo damage. He gets graded on a curve. It's pretty clear neither of them are aware of the law, the constitution, or existing processes and procedures, and like a bull in a china shop, risk damage.

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Super surprising, what a coincidence. The probability of someone like this in Musk's orbit, whodathunkit?

@paulg I'm having hard time concentrating on those woke mob excesses, when the MAGA mob is threatening to turn Gaza into Gaza-a-Lago, is creating an Article I constitutional crisis, trigger tariff wars with everyone, threatening to invade Greenland, Mexico, and Panama, ...