Elon Musk identified which jobs go first, and it destroys every assumption about who’s safe.
Musk: “AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning. Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something.”
Not factory workers. Office workers. The people who spent decades assuming education and desk jobs meant security are actually first.
Musk: “Anything that’s physically moving atoms… those jobs will exist for a much longer time.”
Output is a file? Vulnerable. Output is physical? Protected. That’s the entire framework.
Musk: “AI is really still digital.”
AI doesn’t need a body. Doesn’t need an office. Just needs access to the same software you use. Executes faster. Never tires. Costs nothing to scale.
But it can’t weld. Can’t wire a building. Can’t fix pipes or work soil.
Musk: “Literally welding, electrical work, plumbing. Those jobs will exist for a much longer time.”
Trades aren’t the vulnerable jobs. They’re the durable ones. Physical presence, real-world adaptation, manual dexterity provide protection no digital credential offers.
Analyst, accountant, paralegal, programmer, anyone producing files and documents, automates first because digital work is exactly what AI does natively.
Person moving atoms has natural defense. Physics, unpredictable environments, material resistance create friction AI can’t scale past.
Person moving bits has nothing. No friction. No physical barrier. Just software AI already operates better than most humans.
The assumption that desk work and degrees represent safety just inverted completely. College graduate producing documents faces faster displacement than the electrician producing installations.
Society spent generations telling people trades were beneath them. Pushed everyone toward offices and screens. Turns out the people who didn’t listen built the most automation-resistant careers.
Most ironic outcome of the AI revolution. The work society treated as inferior turned out to be the work society couldn’t replace. And the work society valued most turned out to be the easiest to eliminate.
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THE 1948 MANTELL INCIDENT: The Day a Pilot Shot Down a UFO and Live Aliens Were Captured 🛸
On January 7, 1948, one of the most dramatic and controversial events in UFO history unfolded in the skies over Kentucky. What began as a routine investigation of an unidentified object by Captain Thomas F. Mantell ended in tragedy, a crashed alien spacecraft, and the brief capture of three living extraterrestrial beings.
Interrogation and the Venusian Connection:
For three days, the beings were interrogated by Air Force intelligence officers. According to the account, they claimed to originate from Venus, which they described as the capital planet of a solar system-wide civilization. They stated that other craft in the area were crewed by beings from Mars, Saturn, and Pluto. Their mission was peaceful observation of Earth’s nuclear activities and technological progress.
They explained that their craft had an automated defense system that responded when fired upon. They expressed genuine regret for Captain Mantell’s death, stating they had not intended to kill him.
While the aliens were held in the guardhouse, additional UFOs were tracked hovering high above the base. Fearing reprisals, authorities were uncertain how to proceed.
The Mysterious Escape:
On the second night of detention, the aliens vanished from their locked cell without any signs of forced entry or escape. A 100-foot craft reportedly descended over the guardhouse and projected a beam of white light with a greenish tinge. Witnesses claimed the three beings were lifted through the ceiling of the cell and taken aboard the ship.
Later, a message was received via telex and radio transmission from a companion craft. It reiterated their peaceful intentions, apologized for the loss of Mantell, and warned pilots not to fire on their vessels. The message also promised that one day they would reveal how the rescue was accomplished.
The captured UFO was reportedly transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for study, generating over 2,000 pieces of official correspondence between various military agencies.
Legacy:
The Mantell Incident remains one of the most extraordinary accounts in UFO lore — not only because a decorated pilot lost his life, but because it allegedly resulted in the first confirmed capture and interrogation of live extraterrestrial visitors on American soil.
While the official U.S. Air Force explanation attributes the event to Mantell chasing a Skyhook weather balloon and suffering from hypoxia at high altitude, many researchers believe the full story involves a far more significant encounter between humanity and beings from other worlds.
This case continues to fascinate those exploring the possibility that we are not alone — and that contact may have already occurred more than seven decades ago.
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“I hope we can make you proud.”
American soccer player Christian Pulisic speaks on playing a World Cup on home soil, and why you should watch the games.
Elon Musk built a second internet above the first one.
Nobody asked him to.
Thousands of satellites orbit at 550 kilometers. Moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Talking to each other through lasers in the vacuum of space.
Musk: “Thousands of satellites providing low latency, high-speed internet throughout the world.”
Before Starlink, satellite internet lived at 36,000 kilometers. Geostationary orbit. Signals traveling a tenth of the way to the moon before bouncing back. The lag made it barely functional.
Musk dropped the altitude by 98%.
One decision rewrote the physics of an entire industry.
But the altitude wasn’t the real play.
Musk: “There are laser links between the satellites. It forms a laser mesh. The satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity even if the cables are cut.”
Every internet connection you’ve ever used runs through cables. Fiber optic lines buried in soil. Dragged across ocean floors. Threaded through chokepoints that every military maps before anything else.
A single anchor drop can black out a country. An earthquake can sever a continent.
The entire digital world hangs from threads in the mud.
Musk built a network that doesn’t touch the ground.
No cables. No trenches. No ocean floor. No single point of failure.
A constellation of machines whispering to each other through light at the edge of the atmosphere.
The men who tried before him weren’t fools. Gates backed Teledesic at the height of Microsoft’s power. Motorola built Iridium with the best engineers alive.
Both paid someone else to reach orbit.
Both went to zero.
Musk owned the rocket.
SpaceX made launch reusable. Built the satellites in-house. Flew them on its own rockets. Owned every inch of the chain from factory floor to orbit.
That isn’t a cost advantage.
It’s a moat no one can cross without first building a rocket company from scratch.
Starlink passed 10 million subscribers as a side project. Every telecom executive on Earth watched it happen. Not one of them can explain the architecture underneath.
They think he built a better satellite company.
He built the only network that survives when the ground gives out.
And the ground always gives out.
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BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares.
That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months.
Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero.
Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite.
The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project.
Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders.
BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did.
The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished.
A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money.
That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.
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‘Why does Thomas Crooks’ online profile end virtually as soon as he starts corresponding with this Willy Tepes? Maybe they moved the communications to a different forum that’s not traceable… like Telegram.’
—
@megynkelly &
@emilyjashinsky
‘One other question that Tucker Carlson’s reporting raised that I really do think needs to be answered is who this Willy Tepes guy is. Because as soon the would-be assassin switched over to hating Donald Trump, you have this Willy Tepes guy in the comments urging him to use political violence.’
—
@AnaKasparian on
@PiersUncensored
We recovered thousands of Willy Tepes’ messages from the extremist Telegram channels he operated in. He encouraged political violence and discussed assassinations of politicians on US soil.
Key findings from the full investigation ⬇️
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Captain Cook did not discover Australia.
Willem Janszoon landed there in 1606... 164 years before Cook arrived.
The Dutch mapped the entire western and northern coastlines and named the continent New Holland.
Then they looked at the dry scrubland, concluded there was nothing worth having, and sailed home.
The fertile east coast: the harbours, the soil, the continent that would become one of the richest nations on earth, was three thousand kilometres away in a direction they never looked.
Cook found it in 1770, and the British stayed.
Australia speaks English because the Dutch arrived at the wrong side.
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🧵AMA Recap|Moonlight × UXLINK CEO Rolland
Our AMA title was “Why UXLINK May Be One of the Most Mispriced Mass-Adoption Infrastructures in Web3?”
In every Web3 cycle, “Mass Adoption” becomes the loudest catchphrase.
But after hosting countless AMAs and speaking with teams across ecosystems, I’ve learned one thing: very few projects are actually solving the hardest part of adoption, bringing real Web2 users into Web3 and keeping them there through real relationships, real usage, and real value.
That’s exactly why I invited Rolland, CEO of UXLINK, to this AMA.
Our goal was simple: cut through the hype and examine who is quietly building the long-term growth infrastructure of Web3.
What followed was a conversation that reframed how I, and likely many listeners, should think about mass adoption.
Mass adoption is already happening, but not in the way most people think.
Rolland began by acknowledging that mass adoption is no longer theoretical.
We’ve already seen projects like Catizen, CYBER, and PARTI drive explosive user growth in their respective domains, gaming, decentralized identity, and AI content.
Each of them is executing extremely well on a clearly defined track and has successfully pulled waves of new users toward Web3.
But Rolland challenged us to look beneath the surface. While these projects shine within specific verticals, very few are building a persistent network of real people and real relationships.
UXLINK operates precisely in this overlooked layer, not as a spotlight application, but as the foundation beneath the ecosystem.
From my perspective as the host, this was the first key insight: UXLINK is not competing for attention; it is competing to become indispensable.
To explain this difference, Rolland introduced an analogy that stayed with me throughout the AMA.
He described most successful applications as “track leaders”, highly optimized products designed to win within a single scenario. UXLINK, by contrast, is building the “soil.”
If other projects are digging wells on their own land, UXLINK is laying the underground water network. Instead of optimizing for one product form, UXLINK focuses on connecting real users, verifying social relationships, and creating a reusable growth layer that any project can build upon.
Tracks may change over time, but soil compounds.
One of the most important moments of the AMA came when Rolland reframed UXLINK’s core mission.
Most Web3 projects ask, “How do we grow faster?” UXLINK asks a very different question: “How do we make the entire industry grow more easily?”
That distinction explains why UXLINK doesn’t always look flashy during short-term market cycles. Infrastructure rarely does.
But once established, it becomes extremely difficult to replace.
From a host’s perspective, this also clarifies why UXLINK may be systematically undervalued, its value shows up in what others are able to launch, scale, and sustain because of it.
Rolland then broke down UXLINK’s long-term value into four deep moats, and hearing them explained together made it clear why the project sits in a category of its own.
First is the real social graph. In an industry filled with bots, scripts, and artificial activity, UXLINK insists on doing the hardest thing: connecting real people through acquaintance-based social networks.
This approach has enabled the genuine migration of tens of millions of Web2 users into Web3. Real relationships are an asset that cannot be fabricated or gamed.
Second is OAOG, UXLINK’s cold-start engine. OAOG is not a marketing slogan but a precision-operated growth system.
By combining social trust, verifiable relationships, and fission mechanisms, it allows projects to bootstrap real communities across chains, regions, and markets, breaking the traditional cold-start curse in Web3.
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