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Brett Roberts

@brettroberts.bsky.social
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Contents include opinion, optimism and dad jokes / Overly interested in the intersection of tech, business and humanity / AI bullshit detectorist / Advisor & speaker

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 07/01/2025
what if I DID want you kids playing in my driveway?
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TIL that these two cartoon characters were first published on the same day in 1951 by two different creators, one in the US and the other in the UK, and neither knew about the other (ht u/gebor200lala)
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A well-deserved slow handclap to whoever it was at NZ Police who drafted the press release that prompted this NZ Herald story 😉🤣
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1
SpaceX prospectus dilution table with all those figures
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The one god I believe in...
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👻 Boo Alcindor 🎃 @jaydubveedub.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Inside you are two wolves …
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
That was my understanding too.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
He’s borrowing the Merkel Rhombus… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel-...
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Merkel-Raute - Wikipedia
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/04/2026
This from the Minister of Foreign Affairs is galling. Even if you accept that she's somehow at fault, is the NZ Government okay that someone be imprisoned for 6+ weeks rather than simply refused entry and turned back? But also, DECLARE WHERE? Green Card holders don't complete arrival paperwork!
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We’ve got three small-ish dogs of different breeds and a large LG OLED TV (120Hz refresh rate). Why is it one dog recognises pretty much every animal in all forms - film, still, cartoon etc (and barks at it) and the others just sit there and clearly don’t see what he does ?
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If you don’t get any answers here Reddit might be a good place to head to next.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I had the 45 of this when I was a little kid. Time to dig through a few boxes in the basement 🙂
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Yeah, I’m not 100.00% sure it will succeed either but there’s only one way to find out 🙂
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Word.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
That’s definitely a use case that’s being investigated.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Rain fade is a thing but it's power and frequency dependent. Wireless power transfer isn't aiming to replace current transmission methods, it's looking to open up new use cases as electricity generation costs plummet via PV solar and improved battery technologies.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If that was the case weather radar and microwave radio links wouldn't work in the rain. Plot twist: they do :)
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Here’s the impact the PC, productivity software and hitting 100,000 UFB connections had on NZ’s GDP per capita…
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Ursa Ag is building tractors without the parts that are cheap to manufacture yet mysteriously expensive to replace or repair (ie electronics)… www.thedrive.com/news/new-tra...
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New Tractor With 12-Valve Cummins and Zero Electronics Goes Back to the Basics
Ursa Ag, out of Canada, is building farm equipment that's both affordable and serviceable by independent shops.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
They’re planning antenna arrays larger than that.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My understanding is that the lasers are used to detect incursion into the microwave beam rather than actually transmitting energy.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It’s not inductive, it uses an array of microwave transmitters.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Funny story… I am a very minor investor in Emrod (which started in NZ btw). My background is in tech, I have an amateur radio licence, understand the inverse square law and was 100% sceptical of their claims until their CEO gave me a demo in a Faraday cage a few years ago.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🙂
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This guy hoverboards…
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A good friend of mine works at NASA, and has spent the last TEN years of his life working on the Orion CPAS (Capsule Parachute Assembly System), testing it in the deserts of Arizona. Ten years of design & testing. For this moment. Science is so good, y'all.
The Orion spacecraft Capsule Parachute Assembly System team pose for a photo before the mockup spacecraft is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III, Dec. 11, 2017 in Yuma, Arizona. (U.S. Air Force photo by Christopher A. Okula)
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A linguist’s very interesting analysis of Melania Trump’s statement delivery… www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/...
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From the Epstein community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Epstein community
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
You’re supposed to hang it on the wall with that really big hook.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ask to pay the bill off over the same period as it was accrued.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🤣
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
While I was at Microsoft I had an email conversation with a product manager in Redmond about why using seasons in announcements (‘fall release’) was a bad idea. Turned out more than a few people had no idea that they varied between the two hemispheres 🙄
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The cost of PV solar has dropped by something like 90% over the last 15 years or so and battery storage has been on a similar trajectory. Seeing just a tiny little bit into the future doesn’t seem to be a superpower among our policy makers.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Also pointy white hats 🙂
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hell yes to all of the above and imagine the jobs it would create after the past few years of the Nat’s destroying them left, right and centre.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Interesting article. From where I sit Labour seem to be meandering their way to losing the election rather than National winning it. My previous offers to do an equally average job of Labour’s comms for half the price still stands 🙂
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Good analogy and let’s not forget that many of the benefits or the scale thereof didn’t become fully apparent until long after the project kicked off and adoption started to climb. The same would undoubtedly be true for a large scale electrification initiative.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
National has been running a well-oiled social media campaign since late last year if my Facebook feed is anything to go by. Labour need to lift their comms game big time if they want to avoid losing in November. Their messaging is unclear and their reach insufficient imho.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Occam’s Razor…
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I don’t have a roof rack. Is it ok to remove somebody else’s ?
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 07/04/2026
Can you imagine the cataclysmic impact that formed the Orientale Crater on the lunar far side? look how big it is. It punched a hole in the lunar surface, lava welled upwards (dark patch) and it made concentric rings of mountains. Ooooft. Source: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... #ArtemisII
The far side lunar surface with a distinct dar patch in its centre surrounded by rings. This is the impact crater.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This. Dem’s won’t win the next election, the GOP will lose it.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Labour’s comms are the pits and Hipkins is a nice guy but he lacks something I can’t quite put my finger on when it comes to connecting. Give McAnulty the top job and I think things might change.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/04/2026
oh fuck I can't believe today is 17776 Day!!!!!! if you've never.....read? experienced? this I would recommend 1) setting at least one full hour aside 2) clicking on this on a laptop, and just........seeing what happens I would genuinely call the first time I read this "transcendental"
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous full gallery here: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...
 The Artemis II crew captures a portion of the Moon coming into view along the terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface. This grazing light accentuates the Moon’s rugged topography, revealing craters, ridges, and basin structures in striking detail.A closeup of the moon fills the bottom diagonal 2/3rds of the photo, and it shows hundreds of large and tiny craters, lit brightly by sun. The distance a small blue planet earth, dusted with white clouds, is rising over the moon's horizon. The rest of the sky is pitch blackOn the left, poking into the frame, is the round edge of the Artemis 2 capsule, with a solar panel jutting off diagonally at 2 o'clock. In the middle left of the screen is the moon eclipsing the sun - so the moon is mostly dark and ringed by a bright grey-white corona
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.
medusaglare › Artemis I| 7h
@ Threads
i thought i stopped caring about space. turns out
I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I had to stop watching after 30 seconds or so due to cringe overload.
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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“UK broadsheet the Financial Times recently analysed OECD data and found that without London, the UK’s GDP is equivalent to that of the United States’ poorest state, Mississippi.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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The first world country in the grip of a poverty crisis
London. It's the epicentre of Britain but without it the UK's GDP is equivalent to the poorest state in the US. And one fifth of the total population is living in poverty.
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