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Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Me: "May I please have the package insert for the flu vaccine?"
Rite-Aid Pharmacist: "Why?"
Me: "So I can read it."
P: "Which one?"
Me: "The one advertised with the little banners on every aisle."
P: "I will print you the information sheet."
Me: "No, that's not the same thing."
P: "What do you want to know? I can tell you."
Me: "I would just like to read the whole thing before I consider getting one...side effects, contraindications, effectiveness, ingredients like mercury."
P: "I don't think I have any. Let me check. (checks) Sorry, I can't give you one until the box is empty, because it has to stay in the box. And there isn't any thimerisol in the single dose flu shot any more. I can print you the information sheet."
Pharmacy co-worker with big smile at me: "Hi, I found one." (hands insert to me)
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Here are some things in the insert not on the store's sheet:
1. The single dose vial contains mercury at ≤1mcg (This is called a "trace amount" by the industry.) The multi-vial contains 25 mcg.
2. People with egg allergies are contraindicated.
3. "Safety and effectiveness have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under four. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. This vaccine should be used during pregnancy only if clearly needed. It is not known whether fluvarin is excreted in human milk."
4. "Fluvarin has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility."
5. "Antibody response is low in the geriatric population."
6. "Serious reactions, including anaphylactic shock, have been observed."
7. "There are no data to assess the concomitant administration of flu vaccine with other vaccines."
8. "The vaccine has been associated with an increased frequency of Guillain-Barre syndrome."
9. "In some studies, fluvarin protected up to 50% of subjects."
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Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
BOOM 🚖 Elon Musk just replied to MKBHD’s Cybercab post, and future owners are going to like what he had to say 🔥
Marques, the YouTuber who bet his hair that Tesla couldn’t deliver a Cybercab to a customer for $30,000 or less before 2027, laid out the fine print: deliveries limited to five Texas cities, rides restricted to Tesla’s existing Robotaxi zones, and a mandatory subscription of around $300 a month.
Elon’s reply went straight for two of the biggest catches on the order page: the map and the price.
🗺️ Elon says the Cybercab will roll out nationwide as Tesla gets regulatory approval.
Without a steering wheel or pedals, a Cybercab can only go where Tesla’s driverless service operates. Tesla’s Ashok Elluswamy has already confirmed that customer cars will run unsupervised in the exact same zones as the Robotaxi, so every new Robotaxi city should open up more roads for owners, too.
Going nationwide is the end goal, and every approval brings it a step closer.
💸 Elon also says the $299 monthly fee is too high.
He wants it to match what other Tesla owners pay for FSD and connectivity, which he puts at roughly $115.
That’s pretty close to current pricing. A standard FSD (Supervised) subscription runs $99 a month and Premium Connectivity is $9.99, bringing the total to about $109 before tax.
That difference adds up to real money. At $299, the subscription costs $3,588 a year. At $115, it drops to $1,380, putting $2,208 a year back in an owner’s pocket.
The $299 plan also includes tire and windshield replacements, plus roadside assistance. If those perks carry over to the $115 tier, that’s a seriously sweet deal.
Elon only said the fee “should” match, so $115 isn’t on the order page yet. Still, once a CEO publicly calls his own price too high, $299 is living on borrowed time.
If Tesla follows through, a Cybercab’s monthly bill will be right in line with what a Model Y owner pays for supervised FSD and connectivity, except nobody in the Cybercab has to watch the road.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
HELP ME UNDERSTAND:
Epstein Files: 78 hearings, 0 arrests
DOGE Findings: 33 hearings, 0 arrests
Cocaine in the White House: 12 hearings, 0 arrests
Biden Family Corruption: 39 hearings, 0 arrests
Hunter Laptop: 9 hearings, 0 arrests
2020 Election: 10 hearings, 0 arrests
Afghanistan: 37 hearings, 0 arrests
January 6 Committee: 106 hearings, 0 arrests
Fauci: 22 hearings, 0 arrests
COVID: 82 hearings, 0 arrests
Burisma: 19 hearings, 0 arrests
Russia Hoax: 27 hearings, 0 arrests
Hillary Emails: 29 hearings, 0 arrests
Benghazi: 10 hearings, 0 arrests
Fast & Furious: 18 hearings, 0 arrests
TOTAL: 531 hearings, ZERO ARRESTS.
Now do you FINALLY see where the problem lies?
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
During the early days of SpaceX, a veteran NASA propulsion engineer told Elon Musk that his orbital trajectory calculations for the Falcon 1 contained an error. The engineer, who had worked on NASA missions for over 20 years, was confident. Elon disagreed. The room went quiet. A self taught engineer was telling a 20 year NASA veteran that his correction was the one with the error.
Elon pulled out his calculations. He walked through the physics line by line. The orbital mechanics, the delta v budget, the gravity loss estimates, the atmospheric drag coefficients. He didn't defer. He didn't say "let me check with the team." He stood at a whiteboard and derived the trajectory from first principles while the room of aerospace professionals watched.
He was right. The veteran's correction contained an assumption about atmospheric density at altitude that was based on an outdated model. Elon's calculation used a more recent atmospheric dataset. The difference was small but compound: the error would have resulted in insufficient fuel margin for orbital insertion. If they had followed the veteran's correction, the rocket would have failed.
The incident became part of SpaceX folklore because it established something that no other tech CEO has demonstrated: the founder could do the engineering himself. Not manage it. Not review it. Do it. The trajectory calculations that determine whether a rocket reaches orbit or falls into the ocean were computed by the CEO at a whiteboard from memory.
Jim Cantrell, one of the earliest SpaceX members, has described Elon's engineering knowledge as "actually terrifying." He said Elon learned orbital mechanics by reading textbooks cover to cover and then applying the physics directly, without the institutional assumptions that NASA engineers absorb through decades of working within a specific methodology. The lack of institutional assumptions is why he caught the error. The veteran was calculating inside a framework. Elon was calculating from the physics. The physics was right. The framework was outdated.
The CEO who people assume is a "business guy with engineers" is a man who derives orbital trajectories on a whiteboard and catches errors that 20 year veterans miss. The distinction between a CEO who manages engineers and a CEO who IS an engineer is the distinction that explains why SpaceX moves differently from every other aerospace company. The engineer in the room who knows the most is sometimes the one with the title.
The self taught man with the textbook beat the institutional man with the experience because the textbook contained the current physics and the experience contained the previous assumption. The lesson is not that experience is wrong. It is that assumptions, once installed, stop updating. Elon never installed the assumptions. He installed the physics. And the physics doesn't expire.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
No one cares
We're not doing this fraud again
The currently spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is PJ.2.1, which has over 25 spike protein mutations. PJ.2.1 has demonstrated unusually strong binding to human cells compared to previous variants (e.g., JN.1). These changes may help this variant to spread further among people, although no one cares.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Hallelujah … FINALLY someone in Congress stepping forward and acting like the adult in the room!
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: “Today I referred any and every criminal found guilty of fraud regarding Minnesota fraud scheme to be denaturalized and sent for detainment in El Salvador’s high security prison CECOT.”
“U.S. citizenship is a privilege not a right, and according to legal statute any person found guilty of fraud within the first ten years of being naturalized can be legally denaturalized.”
“I take defrauding the American people VERY seriously. This is a ZERO tolerance policy."
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Did I just hear the WH press briefing question correctly? $2.7 TRILLION in improper Medicare/Medicaid payments to people overseas who weren’t entitled to the benefit?
This cannot be real.
The entire national debt is ~$36T, and you’re telling me that you sent checks for $2.7T to people overseas??
I am telling you right now, by the time we’re done with these audits, we will find at least $36T worth of waste, fraud and abuse.
The entire national debt is waste, fraud and abuse.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Pretty important and not getting the traction it deserves.
Neuralink has registered PRIME2!
A newly registered early feasibility study on ClinicalTrials.gov under NCT07929792 (N1-EFS-300) shows Neuralink will start its first trial to include patients with chronic ischemic stroke, paralysis from a blocked-blood-vessel stroke.
Its open enrollment is for 10 people and will use the N1 implant and the R1 surgical robot. The only site listed so far is the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, with Dr. Jonathan Jagid, professor of clinical neurological surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as principal investigator.
Primary results are expected around November 2027, while the full study runs through about November 2031.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Mandated Forced Vaccination: New U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed:
“Your right ends… where my face starts. Your right to choose not to get vaccinated ends where the breath that you're breathing… goes into my nostrils”
This should TERRIFY every citizen...
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
🚨 A JOURNALIST JUST FILMED INSIDE THE NEWARK ICE PROTEST CAMP. READ THAT AGAIN:
Nick Sortor went in with a hidden camera. What he found wasn't a spontaneous protest.
It was a fully operational logistics base.
– Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars in equipment already on site
– Riot gear. Not signs. Not banners. RIOT EQUIPMENT.
– Hot food delivered every single hour, on schedule
– Medical sections, expensive tents, organized supply chains
– This is outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, NJ
– Protests have been running for over a week — round the clock
– Andy Ngo documented week-long violence by Antifa at the same facility
– State police had to intervene just to restore basic order
– Nobody is asking who is paying for hourly catered deliveries to a protest camp
– Nobody is asking who sourced the riot equipment
– Nobody is asking who coordinates the resupply logistics for a week-long operation
This is not a group of angry citizens who showed up with signs.
This is a funded, staffed, continuously resupplied operation with riot capability.
Someone is writing checks for this. Someone is organizing the deliveries. Someone made sure the equipment arrived.
The protesters didn't just open a door that CANNOT be closed.
The funders did. And nobody is looking for them.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
Joe Gebbia and Elon Musk brought me into OPM to modernize a federal retirement system buried under 400 million pieces of paper and decades of bureaucracy.
I spent a year working alongside career civil servants, learning their processes and systems. I quickly discovered how agencies get locked into contracts for egregiously outdated software. In order for retirement processing to be better, we needed to rebuild it from the ground up, with a system the agency could own and operate itself.
OPM Director @skupor gave us room to challenge old assumptions, make decisions, and execute.
In just a few months, we rolled out the Online Retirement Application government-wide, eliminating recurring vendor fees and giving retiring federal employees a faster, easier way to start their retirement - digitally, for the first time ever.
I trained the in-house team to maintain and operate the system themselves, and we celebrated our wins together.
And then I left. That’s how modernization should work.
There are still so many outdated systems that desperately need modernization. Yet everywhere you look, agencies are stuck with aging vendor-built software where contractors charge millions and take weeks just to change a button.
Reimagining how government works takes more than Claude subscriptions. It takes the vision to rethink old processes, the experience to build something better, and the resolve to see things through.
That’s why I’m taking what I learned at OPM and setting out to do it again across the federal government with my new company, GovMaxxing.
I’m bringing together the best talent I’ve worked with in Silicon Valley: proven builders who’ve shipped products millions of Americans use every day and can’t wait to bring that same world-class execution to government.
We have no interest in becoming another contractor collecting checks indefinitely to maintain software that should belong to the American people.
We want to come in, solve the problem, train federal employees, and equip our institutions to own their solutions, leaving them more capable long after we’re gone, with something they’re proud to stand behind.
GovMaxxing maximizes what government is capable of. And then leaves.
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Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
I just signed.
Please consider, too
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Please sign if you agree: a preemptive pardon so Elon can keep building for America without endless legal distraction.
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Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
A congresswoman just told Elon Musk "See you soon."
So let's compare résumés. Because that's really what this is about.
Elon Musk moved to North America at 17. He built Zip2, then PayPal, then put almost everything he had into two companies every expert said would die: a rocket company and an electric car company. In 2008 both nearly did. He went all in anyway.
Today SpaceX lands orbital boosters and flies them again like airliners, something NASA, Russia, Europe and China considered impossible or uneconomical for 60 years. It launches most of the mass sent to orbit by all of humanity combined. It's the reason America stopped renting seats on Russian rockets to reach its own space station. Starlink brings internet to Ukrainian trenches, Amazon villages and disaster zones. Tesla forced every carmaker on Earth to go electric. Neuralink is letting paralyzed people control computers with their minds.
And to the "billionaires don't pay their fair share" crowd: in 2021 he paid over $11 billion in taxes. Widely reported as the largest individual tax bill in American history. One man. One year.
His stated goal is to make life multiplanetary so that consciousness doesn't die on a single rock. You can think that's crazy. He has delivered on enough "crazy" that betting against him has become a bad habit.
Now Yassamin Ansari.
Stanford, international relations. Intern for Nancy Pelosi. Climate advisor at the UN. Phoenix City Council. Won her congressional primary by 39 votes. A whole career spent inside institutions that run on other people's money. Never built a product. Never had a customer. Never faced a market.
The day after her party won Congress, what's her top priority for day one? Cheaper housing? Energy? Competing with China?
No. Pause advanced AI. Ban "superintelligence."
The bill she backs freezes any model trained above 10^25 operations until a brand-new cabinet-level Department of AI gets staffed and writes its rules. Violators face up to 20 years in prison.
Let that sink in. The industry that, by one Oxford Economics estimate, drives about a third of recent US growth, frozen by people who have never trained a model, while waiting for a federal agency that doesn't exist yet. Beijing couldn't have written it better.
And yes, Elon has warned about AI risk for a decade. That's exactly the point. His answer to risk was to build, compete and put better systems in the arena. Hers is a committee, a freeze and prison terms. One looks at a hard problem and builds. The other looks at a hard problem and asks for a permit to stop everyone else.
Then the cherry on top: her reply to the man who built the rockets is "See you soon." Coming from someone whose only real power is the ability to stop others from building.
This is the real fault line of our time. Not left vs right. Builders vs administrators of envy. A system that selects people who have never created anything and gives them authority over the people who create everything. A political class that turns resentment into legislation and calls it "safety."
I'm French. I've watched this movie. Europe wrote the world's most ambitious AI rulebook. Now count how many of the world's top AI models are European.
I genuinely hope humanity grows out of this model. A civilization where its most mediocre managers summon its most extraordinary builders with a "see you soon" is a civilization working against itself.
"Brave New World" is right. Except the dystopia isn't the machine. It's the committee.
Joseph 𝕏 Wolfgram retweeted
I'm Japanese. Watching your midterm results roll in on Tuesday night broke my heart.
Republicans lost ground. A wave of Muslim and radical leftists just won seats across your country.
Since Tuesday, my American friends keep asking me the same question.
How did Japan stay Japan?
In Tokyo, trains leave on the exact second.
Leave your phone on a cafe table, and it is still waiting an hour later. Every year, people in Tokyo turn in over 4 billion yen in lost cash to the police.
We didn't keep this by accident.
When warships forced Japan open in 1853, our ancestors made a vow. Japanese spirit, Western technique.
Take the steel, the railways, and the factories. Leave the self-hatred at the dock.
After 1945, leftists tried to make us hate our history. We refused.
We never let guilt become a state religion the way your universities did. Nobody taught our kids that our ancestors were evil, or that the family was a crime.
Foreigners are still just 3 percent of Japan. When globalists called us closed, we didn't care. We went back to work.
A border isn't just a wall. It is a people who refuse to apologize for who they are.
But you need to hear the second half of our story before it is too late.
Japan kept its culture. Yet we are dying anyway.
In 1949, 2.7 million Japanese babies were born. Last year, it dropped below 700,000.
The left didn't do this to us. Weak conservatives did.
For thirty years, our politicians protected zombie corporations and old voters while crushing young working men. You cannot raise a family on a part-time contract.
When young Japanese stopped having kids, our rural towns simply went quiet and empty.
In America, empty spaces do not stay empty.
Your system priced young Americans out of homes, marriage, and children. Your schools taught them to be ashamed of their own heritage.
At the exact same time, you opened the gates.
You brought in millions from the Islamic world who do not share your values. They have big families, and they have zero intention of assimilating.
They do not apologize for their religion or their culture. They are fiercely proud of it. And they vote as a tribe.
Once that happens, elections stop being about tax cuts.
Elections become a headcount.
A proud culture that has children will always outvote and replace an aging culture that hates itself.
Look at Tuesday night's map. That isn't just a bad midterm cycle. That is your country slipping away in real time.
Stop letting spineless politicians sell out your young people for cheap foreign labor and corporate donors.
You don't save a nation just by praising the past.
You save it by locking the gates, fighting for your own young families, and having children to hand your country to.