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Race 🕊️
@multiplanet1 · Oct 31, 2026
In 2018, Elon Musk tweeted that he would fund the replacement of lead contaminated water pipes in Flint, Michigan for any home that still had unsafe water. He said to just tell him which houses needed help and he would fix them. The response from Flint's officials was near silence.
The offer was genuine. Elon followed up. He donated $480,000 to install UV filtration systems in Flint schools. He offered to continue funding until every household had clean water. Local officials thanked him publicly and then largely stopped responding. The project stalled not because of money but because of bureaucracy, local politics, and the same institutional inertia that had allowed the crisis to happen in the first place.
The detail that makes this story devastating is not the donation. It is the disconnect between the speed at which Elon operates and the speed at which a municipal government can accept help. He offered. He funded. He followed up. The system he was trying to help could not process the help at the speed it was offered. The man who can build a factory in 6 months could not get a city to accept pipe replacements because the approval process, the contractor bids, the environmental reviews, and the political negotiations moved at a pace that made SpaceX look like light speed by comparison.
He has described the Flint experience as one of the most frustrating of his career. Not because the problem was hard. Because the problem was easy and the system designed to solve easy problems was broken. The water needed clean pipes. The pipes needed money. The money was offered. And the space between offered and installed was filled with a bureaucracy that moved at the speed of government while children drank contaminated water.
The man who solves engineering problems for a living encountered a problem that was not engineering. It was institutional. The pipes were simple. The politics were not. The money was present. The will was present. The system that was supposed to connect money and will to pipes could not function at the speed the crisis demanded.
He fixed the schools. The broader offer faded. The city eventually replaced most of its pipes through federal and state funding years later. The man who offered to fix it in months watched it take years. The frustration of the man who moves fast encountering a world that doesn't is the frustration that defines his relationship with every institution he touches. The rockets are faster because they don't require a city council vote.
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Fireside Alpha
@firesidealpha · Oct 31, 2026
Bill Ackman says Neuralink and other brain-computer interfaces will let the blind see again within "not too many years"
“And you know, my daughter, who lost pretty much basic function, ability to walk, ability to speak, ability to see, is regaining function. She’s cognitively, as far as I can tell, fine. She’s relearning how to speak, and she’s learning again how to walk. And I’m confident we’re going to get her back."
"Biggest challenge right now is that the optic nerve damage from the pressure on the brain has caused her to lose probably 98% of her vision."
"But even there I’m optimistic. Spent a lot of time in the last few months meeting with all these brain computer interface companies, obviously Neuralink being the most famous, but there’s some other very promising lower intervention technologies."
"And this will be a period, you know, AI is going to enable us. We’re going to be able to get more signal from the brain, and we’re going to be able to interpret that signal much more effectively than we had before. And the blind will see again, and people who have not been able to walk, so to speak, paraplegics, I believe will walk again. It’s a matter of not months but years, but not too many years.”
Fireside Alpha@firesidealpha· Oct 31, 2026Bill Ackman says Elon Musk might have to borrow a trillion dollars to open gigawatts of data centers, keeping rates persistently high, and that neoclouds are like levered real estate developers sensitive to the cost of capital
“So, I think it is sustainable because, you know,
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Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge · Oct 31, 2026
Men are twice as likely to ace SAT math, yet women are twice as likely to get in to MIT.
Put differently, 1 in 3 men who worked their ass off to get into MIT lost their seat because they were born the wrong gender.
Anish Koka, MD@anish_koka· Oct 30, 202617,000 men apply to MIT
8900 women apply to MIT
600 men were accepted
612 women were accepted
If we assume male and female applicants to MIT are roughly the same, the probability this happens by chance, let alone every year for a while
The probability of a sex blind
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
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Lumen@lumenxbt· Oct 30, 2026Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing
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@dirtman · Oct 31, 2026
This is the future the Jedi stole from you
Grant♟️@granawkins· Oct 31, 2026George Lucas would’ve loved these
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Wow 😂
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Fugitive Caesar
@ThomBrady5 · Oct 30, 2026
Count Dooku is one of the weirdest parts of the Star Wars movies. Everything he says is factual and is later proven correct. Wat means? George Lucas and the Boomers are saying you are not allowed to criticize their Jedi religion of Boomer Hippie International Liberalism. Anakin, your job as a Sensitive Young Man is to be a janitor and play cleanup on Aisle 9 because Mace Windu and Yoda were goofing off and accidentally spent decades funneling money to a separatist insurgency of foreign barbarians. That's what it means to be a Jedi, young Anakin, as long as you remain "balanced in the Force" you are allowed to crash this whole Republic off a cliff at high speed.
Templarpilled@Templarpilled· Oct 30, 2026Don't forget the time Dooku cooked Yoda and the entire Jedi Order
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Arthur MacWaters
@ArthurMacwaters · Oct 31, 2026
send this to your girl and say “us”
Angus M@dirtman· Oct 31, 2026This is the future the Jedi stole from you
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Layered 😂
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Attorney General Ken Paxton
@KenPaxtonTX · Oct 31, 2026
BREAKING: Today, my office arrested convicted felons for voting illegally in Texas.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Good
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Attorney General Ken Paxton
@KenPaxtonTX · Oct 31, 2026
BREAKING: Today, my office arrested convicted felons for voting illegally in Texas.
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Fugitive Caesar
@ThomBrady5 · Oct 31, 2026
"Anakin, I know they raped and murdered your mother, but it's not their fault. The problem is socioeconomic factors. Over time, they will integrate and become just like us. Diversity is our strength."
Jay Que@Mr_JQ1352· Oct 31, 2026@ThomBrady5 Anakin, I know they raped and murdered you mother, but it's not their fault. The problem is socioeconomic factors. Over time, they will integrate and become just like us. Diversity is our strength.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
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Austin Justice
@AustinJustice · Oct 31, 2026
AUSTIN MAN slams into a stopped minivan at 103 mph on Mother's Day, right in front of a cop, and kills a fire captain hours after his fifth son was born. DA Jose Garza's office asked him to pay a small fine.
Marvin Taylor was on his way to pick up his four other boys so they could meet their new baby brother. He was sitting at a red light on Koenig Lane when a Dodge Durango doing 103 in a 45 zone slammed into him and threw his van 150 feet. He died pinned inside.
The officer found the driver, Rodney Bremby, with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and stench of alcohol.
He was charged with intoxication manslaughter, which carries up to 20 years in prison. A judge revoked his bond twice while the case was pending, and both times he was back out within two weeks.
On Monday he got 10 years of probation, community service, and $535 in fees.
Five boys have lost their father, and the man who killed him just had to pay a small fine and promise not do it again before going back home.
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Austin Justice
@AustinJustice · Oct 31, 2026
AUSTIN MAN slams into a stopped minivan at 103 mph on Mother's Day, right in front of a cop, and kills a fire captain hours after his fifth son was born. DA Jose Garza's office asked him to pay a small fine.
Marvin Taylor was on his way to pick up his four other boys so they
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Terrible
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
This will happen again
Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh· Oct 31, 2026The dinosaurs probably died much faster -- and much more horribly -- than we thought.
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Oct 31, 2026
Grok Bot is the most useful app on my phone right now.
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ALX 🎃🇺🇸
@alx · Oct 31, 2026
Text your friends in Texas and make sure they vote on Election Day
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024· Oct 31, 2026#TexasSenate
NYT: James Talarico’s internals are within the margin of error.
Some recent public surveys show Talarico either tied with Paxton or within the margin of error with a 2-point lead.
The candidate’s internal polls match those tighter surveys, people close to
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Neuralink deep dive
Cleo Abram@cleoabram· Oct 31, 2026Full HUGE* If True episode on Neuralink and the future of brain computer interfaces
I toured @neuralink and got a close up view of their new R1 surgical robot, to see the future they and @elonmusk are building and how it is already changing lives...
00:00 What if you put a
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Brandon Gill
@realBrandonGill · Oct 31, 2026
Ken Paxton has been the most effective record of any Attorney General in America.
James Talarico, meanwhile, has spent millions of dollars trying convince people that he's normal.
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Fox News
@FoxNews · Oct 31, 2026
"He's a con man. He's a deceiver."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton takes aim at Democratic challenger James Talarico during an interview with @kayleighmcenany on @SatAmericaFNC.
Paxton accuses Talarico of misleading Texas voters about his political beliefs, claiming he knows his actual positions would hurt his chances of winning.
"He’s lying to Texans about his real views," Paxton says.
Stay up to date with the latest headlines and breaking news — download the FOX News app:
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Alex
@AlexToughTakes · Oct 31, 2026
As a gay man, I'll say what a lot of us are thinking.
We fought to be left alone. To marry the man we love, keep our jobs, and live a quiet life.
We won.
Then woke activists took our letters, stapled on a dozen causes we never signed up for, and started calling us bigots for
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Bravo
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Oct 31, 2026
Of course.
Gay men have far too much taste for such a laboriously ugly pride flag! Fashion crime beyond belief.
Alex@AlexToughTakes· Oct 31, 2026As a gay man, I'll say what a lot of us are thinking.
We fought to be left alone. To marry the man we love, keep our jobs, and live a quiet life.
We won.
Then woke activists took our letters, stapled on a dozen causes we never signed up for, and started calling us bigots for
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