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darrennn
@genzzztrade · Aug 26, 2026
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says donating to charity is net negative
"The common view is that philanthropy is this noble cause, and Bill Gates is like 'I'm going to go rehabilitate my image and do philanthropy.'"
"A lot of charities and philanthropies are actually net
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
He’s right
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Ligma Deez
@BankOfDevo · Aug 27, 2026
just throw all the variables into ai and let it output a patch that allows every character to be powerful but yet balanced, it can't be that hard
allow the ai to give 1 or 2 characters a slight edge, but overall every character should pack a punch
we just want to SLAY monsters
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 27, 2026
The original Antifa helped Hitler take power.
Moscow ordered communist parties to treat social democrats as the main enemy under the “social fascism” line, so Antifaschistische Aktion spent its energy fighting the SPD instead of the Nazis.
Their street fighters clashed with socialists more than with the SA, and in 1932 they even coordinated pickets with Nazis against an SPD-run transit company in Berlin.
The two biggest parties that could have blocked Hitler were at war with each other, the left stayed fractured, and by January 1933 there was no united front left to build.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Aug 26, 2026Communists and Nazis are two sides of the same totalitarian coin.
After Stalin’s commies had spent years promoting themselves as true “anti-fascists”
>they signed a non-aggression pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop) with the Nazis
>a secret protocol to carve up Eastern Europe
>they
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SpaceX
@SpaceX · Aug 27, 2026
SpaceX engineers spent several days inspecting Ship 40 in the waters off Christmas Island. They collected heatshield samples and gained vital insight into how the vehicle handled reentry with improvements now planned on future vehicles
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Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis · Aug 26, 2026
That this could reach nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars is mind blowing…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
It’s just a big scam
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Matt Griswold
@griswold · Aug 26, 2026
Magellan's ship was only 77 feet.
In 100 years, our great-grandkids will marvel at how anyone ever thought to sail to Mars in such a small rocket.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Casey Handmer
@CJHandmer · Aug 26, 2026
They don't want you to know this, but you can enrich Uranium in your garage.
Eric Olszewski 🇺🇸@EricOlsz· Aug 26, 2026This week, @ActinideInc became the first startup in history to enrich uranium, producing HALEU, the fuel for next-gen and small modular reactors.
We did it using Endurance, a particle accelerator that we designed and built in Texas.
Endurance usually produces enriched Yb-176, a
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Yishan
@yishan · Aug 27, 2026
Wow, TIL that the reason the chess queen is powerful was because when chess reached Spain in the 15th century, Queen Isabella I changed the rules on how the queen moved (previously it was highly restricted) and the new version was called "Mad Queen Chess" - which proved to be so
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic· Aug 26, 2026The quality of conversations on X is much higher than it is on Instagram.
Far more people here who actually THINK.
Text based > Image based. Attracts more thinkers.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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Naval@naval· Aug 27, 2026You’re here because an unbroken chain of your ancestors, from tadpoles to monkeys to now, replicated.
Don’t be the first one to miss the branch.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
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jack@jack· Nov 23, 2025cybertruck is the best robot out there
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Aaron Burnett
@aaronburnett · Aug 26, 2026
the math behind propellant constraints for 1,000 or 10,000 Starship launches a year creates a lot of clarity around SpaceX's recent Starbase, Louisiana purchase.
Today's analysis was all about that:
Here is what i found most interesting...
The story
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 27, 2026
Mostly correct
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 26, 2026
“Eat liver pie instead”,
replied the commie Marie Antoinette director of the Novocherkassk locomotive plant when the workers asked him how they will afford meat.
The Soviet government had just hiked meat and dairy prices while simultaneously slashing factory wages in 1962.
The wage dispute escalated into an uprising. Marches headed toward the Communist Party HQ, protesters singing revolutionary songs, and holding portraits of Lenin in defense of “real” communism against the Soviet authorities.
So they shot them.
7 organizers were executed, 26 dead were thrown in unmarked graves so there wouldn’t be any public memorials, and people living under the commie regime never found out any of this happened until the Soviet Union fell nearly 30 years later.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Aug 24, 2026“But the Nazis weren’t socialists because they crushed labor unions!”
It wasn’t until 1980 that the first independent union was legalized in the Soviet bloc. “Solidarity” in Poland reached 10 million members in a year which was absolutely terrible for the commies.
So in 1981,
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Phil Metzger
@DrPhiltill · Aug 26, 2026
189.2 deg, just west of due south, to reach sun synchronous orbit for datacenters in space (the soon-to-be cash cow that will drive everything else). It’s pretty much an ideal launch site.
Kyle Cothern@risknc· Aug 26, 2026So I have a question...
What inclinations are they gonna fly out of Louisiana?
it looks like they're planning on overflying inhabited areas.
Which, if so, hell yes. Monte Carlo those NIMBYs into yesteryear.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 26, 2026
It’s a great location for a wide range of azimuths
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Teslaconomics
@Teslaconomics · Aug 26, 2026
Just wondering… has anyone actually connected Grok Bot to their bank account yet?
I’m seriously thinking about doing it.
My thinking is… if Grok Bot can see everything coming in and going out, track spending, move money, pay bills, watch for weird charges, and help me make
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 26, 2026
Try it out. If Grok Bot messes up, we will make you whole.
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 25, 2026
SpaceX is turning Star Trek into reality.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 26, 2026
Free usage limit reset for Grok @Bot users
Grok Bot@bot· Aug 26, 2026All SuperGrok and Cursor Pro subscribers now have access to Grok Bot.
We're also resetting weekly usage limits for all users.
Enjoy!
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 26, 2026
Grok Build made this fun lil Mars simulator game for my nephew.
I gave it simple prompts. It did the rest: wrote systems, built and tested it, studied gameplay, found and fixed bugs, then kept iterating.
Grok Build is very powerful. It feels like having a game studio on demand.
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Jack Kuhr
@JackKuhr · Aug 25, 2026
Crucially, Pecan Island is ~30 miles away from the nearest town and 50 miles from a major city.
Starship is insanely loud:
- At 5 miles out, my wife had to cover her ears
- At 12 miles, it sounds like a table saw (good BYU study on this)
- At 20 miles, it sounds like a vacuum
SpaceX@SpaceX· Aug 25, 2026Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity.
Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project →
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 26, 2026
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Luke
@luke_leisher_ · Aug 26, 2026
Some back of the napkin math tells me that SpaceX would roughly need to increase global Oxygen production by around 50% a year to meet the launch demands for this site
Starship V3 has a 3.6:1 O/F ratio. Therefore LOX is 3.6/3.6+1 = ~78% of the fuel in weight of both booster and
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Aug 25, 2026Starbase Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth!
SpaceX makes sci-fi real.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 26, 2026
Not impossible
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