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Yun-Ta Tsai
@yunta_tsai · Aug 23, 2026
Curious about the journey from photons to the image or video on your phone? I made a video with Grok @bot, @imagine, and Voice explaining the physics and theory behind it—100% on my phone just chatting.
Part I: photons to digital signal
Part II: digital signal to pretty picture
Pro tip for Grok @bot: Ask it to QA every single frame before handing it back. It saves QA time so you can focus on high-level direction.
All technical visualization, including relinearization of the video footage from Grok @imagine to be physically accurate, is done by Grok @bot.
Update: added more technical details with higher quality encoding for completion.
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Brett Pike
@ClassicLearner · Aug 23, 2026
The Bolsheviks killed more ppl & committed more acts of systematic mass murder & pure horror than any other group in the 20th century. Yet it is nothing more than a footnote in our schools. We are taught that “we won the cold war,” but the truth is we were defeated from within.
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Mirren
@0gMirren · Aug 23, 2026
A French writer explained the error in 1850. A Nobel economist repeated it in a Pennsylvania lecture hall in 1978. Governments still make it every year. Almost nobody watches the clip.
This is Milton Friedman on the parable of the broken window, the oldest mistake in economics.
The trick is that the destruction is visible and the cost is not. You see the glazier get paid. You never see what the shopkeeper would have bought instead.
Watch how he sets it up before he names the fallacy. He lets the audience agree with the wrong answer first.
176 years of warnings. Still the most persuasive bad idea in politics.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
This is why I switched Starship to stainless steel.
We have since created our own new alloys and no longer use 301.
ZaxtR@AmX_ZaxTr· Aug 22, 2026Why did SpaceX choose 301 stainless steel for Starship
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Paul Graham
@paulg · Aug 23, 2026
LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".
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Shivon Zilis
@shivon · Aug 23, 2026
He who looks to the stars ✨♥️
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
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Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort · Aug 23, 2026
You cannot both believe in evolution and believe that eugenics wouldn’t work. You can object to it on moral grounds, but not factual grounds. Dawkins was right about this.
Dr. Ian Garner@irgarner· Aug 22, 2026Settled questions that academics don't need to research in 2026:
- Earth is round
- Evolution is real
- Eugenics is bullshit
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
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Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt · Aug 23, 2026
Starlink Stories: From the eye of a 190-mph tornado to the middle of the Indian Ocean, these innovators are using @Starlink to make the impossible a reality.
"Starlink is probably our most crucial piece of equipment. It's really been a game-changer."
"I am a lot braver when it comes to entering foreign lands thanks to Starlink."
"Previously, wirelessly downloading a single AutoPath mapping file took 20 to 30 minutes of agonizing wait time, during which the tractor engine had to remain running. "Every minute we're sitting there just idling the tractor is costing us money, whether in fuel or wasted, useless hours we put on the machine. With Starlink, files download almost instantly."
"We can save lives with a functional real-time earthquake monitoring network like the one we operate."
It's worth reading these stories in the article:
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 23, 2026
A world with zero discrimination would still produce wildly unequal group outcomes.
Thomas Sowell demonstrated how firstborn sons score higher on IQ tests and land more prestigious careers than their younger brothers, but nobody blames discrimination for that gap.
Canadian junior hockey shows that players born January through March dominate the leagues because the January 1 cutoff makes them the oldest and strongest kids in every age group.
Overseas Chinese communities run retail across Southeast Asia, Lebanese merchants dominate trade in West Africa, and German immigrants once owned the American brewing industry.
Same specialization repeats under completely different majorities and legal systems.
Treating every disparity as automatic proof of discrimination starts with the wrong diagnosis, and the wrong diagnosis never delivers the right cure.
But the fantasy that some planner can just rearrange people like chess pieces and force equal results remains one of the most stubborn fallacies in economics.
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Yun-Ta Tsai
@yunta_tsai · Aug 23, 2026
Three months later, Grok’s progress is amazing, and @bot makes it even more powerful and easier to use.
This is the fidelity using the same prompt: “Explain Navier-Stokes equation and how it relates to airfoil design with actual fluid dynamics simulation.”
Yun-Ta Tsai@yunta_tsai· May 18, 2026Attempt to use Grok Build to visualize some physics concepts for education.
Prompt: "I want you to explain Navier-Stokes equations and how it relates to airfoil design. visualize this with math-manim tool"
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 23, 2026
Starlink has around 11,040 working satellites in orbit. The next nine largest LEO constellations combined have only about 2,100.
Starlink alone is more than 5x bigger than all nine combined.
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Wilfred Reilly
@wil_da_beast630 · Aug 23, 2026
AIDS is...not what we were told in high school in the 1990s.
Smirkley@Smirkley· Aug 22, 2026If you had condomless sex with 100 random white women, the odds of getting HIV would be 1 in 105,000.
That’s before adjusting for college and lack of injection drug use, and other factors.
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Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber · Aug 23, 2026
My challenge that if you can conceive of a nightmare, I can conceive of a way of it got USAID funding, remains utterly undefeated
Mike Benz@MikeBenzCyber· Aug 23, 2026As soon as I saw Ghent University's tell-tale blend of being (1) run by someone in high-level statecraft, (2) awash in woke academia & (3) overrun by transgender madness, I immediately knew USAID must have been funding it. Turns out it was USAID-partnered for 25 yrs
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
Yup
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Xenocosmography
@xenocosmography · Aug 23, 2026
Don't give up on this videogame prematurely. x.com/RadioGenoa/sta…
RadioGenoa@RadioGenoa· Aug 22, 2026Clashes between trans people and Muslims in Britain.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
Theater of the truly absurd
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Xenocosmography
@xenocosmography · Aug 23, 2026
Finally. x.com/CaseyKrol/stat…
Casey Krol@CaseyKrol· Aug 21, 2026Greek Minister of Immigration called for shooting migrants, sinking boats with refugees, and urged denying them food and water.
His name, Thanos Plevris 🇬🇷
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
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Arthur MacWaters
@ArthurMacwaters · Aug 23, 2026
we’re having debates about datacenters and China is publicly developing superhuman robot armies
what the actual hell are we doing here guys
el.cine@EHuanglu· Aug 22, 2026china’s AI robot just hit 14.5 m/s
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
Yeah, that was dumb
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Aug 22, 2026No amount of penance will suffice to stop the suicide of the West.
In 2006, Pascal Bruckner diagnosed the illness as “Western masochism”, a civilization so convinced its own sins explain every problem on earth that it turns self-hatred into a strange form of narcissism.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 23, 2026
Exactly 1000%
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630· Aug 23, 2026Just stop doing this dumb shit.
If some made-up rule says you have to, just break or change it.
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Alice Smith
@TheAliceSmith · Aug 23, 2026
🤔… 😔
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · Aug 23, 2026
NICK SHIRLEY: "The most powerful people in the world use 𝕏. I'm able to reach the audience of people that are trying to make change in the world. The producers are on 𝕏. The people that are making changes in the world are on 𝕏.”
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