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[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

@elonmusk @kylaschwaberow Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.

[Ethan Agarwal @ethanagarwal]

Ro is catching a lot of flack for his latest round of posts, which he deserves.

Let me provide some context as someone who went up against him 1:1 (and lost).

1. He's not stupid. He doesn't think wealth taxes are a good idea. He knows capitalism is better than socialism. He ragebaits online to create ammunition to show his base that he's fighting the "Epstein Class."

Remember, he's raised more money from more billionaires than any Congressperson in the history of America. And he hasn't returned a dime of it.

2. He's never going to acknowledge fault or change his mind. All his "we can at least agree on..." are blatant attempts to make him seem reasonable and us seem unreasonable.

3. His stock trading, his family's net worth, the $10m house in DC, voters don't care about it. Or at least, not enough to vote differently. It's fun to dig at him about the hypocrisy, but no one outside of X cares.

For the last two years, and every day from now onwards, he's only playing nationally, not locally. 90% of his money comes from outside the 17th district. Every statement he makes has to be viewed in this lens.

4. The best thing, perhaps the only thing, we can do is ignore him. Irrelevance is a much greater punishment for him than being wrong.

5. What we can do to further his irrelevance is to change minds of people. When we went to BART stations and farmers markets and engaged voters 1:1, a 10 minute in person conversation with a teacher or a church administrator, we were far more effective. We just ran out of time.

Ro is a cancer to our country, to our economy, and to our district. I tried to fight him and failed at the ballot box, but we can't stop fighting the mind virus he's spreading across our nation. We need to fight it in the street to win.

[Vynlendus @Vynlendus]

Today I woke up to everyone's worst nightmare.

I woke up, and I found my sister had passed away last night. I'm sharing a GoFundMe today with little expectations, but anything will go a long way in helping my family get through this.

Thanks for reading

https://t.co/lkSOqs3XHb

[Anders Nyman @Knytanders]

Ni kommer kanske ihåg att jag skrev om ett stort avslöjande vad gäller IF Metall och Teslastrejken jag hade på gång? Här är den - men i fackets egen tidning. Nåja, jag petade i myrboet och jäklar vad myrorna sprang!

Jag har under arbetets gång varit i kontakt med Skatteverket, Försäkringskassan och A-kassan, och bad också IF Metall om en kommentar. Det gjorde jag redan 23/1 - händelsevis samma dag som Skatteverket kontaktade IF Metall med frågor om konfliktersättningen. Jag fick aldrig något svar från facket.

Så här är det: Konfliktersättning - alltså det som ett fackförbund betalar ut till strejkande - är enligt lag skattefri. Den är INTE ersättning för arbete, och därmed INTE sjukpenninggrundande ELLER ligger till grund för A-kassans arbetskrav. Det innebär att alla strejkande efter tre månader fick noll i SGI, och efter 9 månader åkte ur A-kassan.

IF Metall hävdade att de "gjorde ersättningen skattepliktig", men det vad Skatteverket redan i november-december glasklara med att så kan man inte göra, när jag pratade med dem. Man kan förstås fuska och fylla i ersättningen som inkomst av tjänst, betald arbetsgivaravgift och hoppas att ingen kollar, men det är fel. Och resultatet kan bli att Skatteverket betalar tillbaka skatten till den enskilde, och arbetsgivaravgiften till facket.

Så har nu skett. Dessutom måste inbetalningarna till den allmänna pensionen för varje strejkande rullas tillbaka, eftersom de i två år fått felaktig avsättning. De borde ju ha nolltaxerat! Och frågan är, är vad IF Metall sysslat med bidragsbrott? Har de strejkande fått SGI utifrån den påhittade inkomsten av arbete? I sådana fall blir de återbetalningsskyldiga mot Försäkringskassan.

Det här är inte bara "skattekrångel", det är ett solklart regelbrott eller till och med ett lagbrott från IF Metall. Samtidigt har de mage att propagera för konflikten med Tesla med argument som "I Sverige ska man följa svenska seder" och liknande.

IF Metall har återigen visat hur lite koll de haft på konfliktens konsekvenser, både för de man tagit ut i sympatiåtgärder och för de strejkande själva. Man har varit det hot mot det svenska systemet man beskyller Tesla för att vara. Det är skandalöst.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I’m glad that has finally happened.

I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his “Lolita Express”, but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name.

I don’t care about that, but what I do care about is that we at least attempt to prosecute those who committed serious crimes with Epstein, especially regarding heinous exploitation of underage girls.

[Brandon Titus @TheBrandonTitus]

Dear Elon (@elonmusk, @SpaceX, @grok),

My name is Brandon Titus (@TheBrandonTitus) and I’m writing this with a heavy heart and a sliver of hope, knowing it’s a longshot for you to even see it amid everything on your plate. But as the creator of Grok (who helped draft this), you know better than anyone how AI can amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. If there’s any “inside track” or way to bump this up—maybe through xAI channels or your team—I’m begging for that edge, because this is the most important request I’ve ever made. Once my dad’s gone, there’s no second chance.

He’s 67, fought liver cancer for five grueling years since retiring, and now his health is fading fast. He hasn’t been the same since the July 4th floods, which wiped out everything including my family’s home and my father’s motorhome. I swam through raging waters to pull him off the roof of my tool shed. My sister relocated him to Marble Falls so she could aid with his medical care while my wife and I rebuild our house for us and 5 or our 7 children that still live at home.

My father has always been rocket-obsessed, from my earliest childhood memories of him explaining launches to me and the two of us building / launching Estes Rockets of all sizes. Then you come along and single handedly saved our nations freedom of speech and seared your name in my father’s heart. You’re one of few people he’s ever held in such high regard. When you caught that first booster, he was transfixed, grinning ear-to-ear like I hadn’t seen in years. Heck, He started an X account solely to keep up with and track SpaceX milestones; it’s been his brightest light through the cancer battles. I never thought I’d see him integrate with technology.

His final lap is weighing heavy on me and memories are my top priority. He has 1 desire (His only bucket list item): Seeing a launch live. Starbase in Texas would be perfect—we’re close, and I can get him there. But with no dates on the near calendar, I’d scrape together funds, I’d even take a second mortgage if needed for Florida, it’s that important. I will figure out the finances if there’s any way you could make it personal—a meet-and-greet, or even just a quick video message—it’d be priceless. His birthday is coming up on February 6. I’m not confident hell see another one.

Honestly Elon, you’re building the future Dad’s always dreamed of. I would be forever grateful if you were able to help me make this memory happen. If there’s any chance this makes hits your radar, know that there couldn’t be a better man for this to happen to. His name is Michael Titus!

DM, reply or anything

Deepest Regards,

🤞🏻 Brandon Titus

[Jimmy @M44_1RJ]

Elon @elonmusk

It’s much harder than you think—you have an unusual set of groups of $TSLA shorts that operate on a highly protected level with a mix of off-shore accounts shadowed by domestic ones that you can never figure out!

It’s a massive criminal network with a high level of coordination, backed by big guys with very deep pockets!

More than 45% of Your stock is being traded in the off exchange daily, where most of naked shorting / synthetic dumping take place !

Keep an eye on the second-highest number of $TSLA holdings after you: 0.02

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today, so I immediately took it out for an FSD test drive, a bit like I used to do almost daily for 5 years. Basically... I'm amazed - it drives really, really well, smooth, confident, noticeably better than what I'm used to on HW3 (my previous car) and eons ahead of the version I remember driving up highway 280 on my first day at Tesla ~9 years ago, where I had to intervene every time the road mildly curved or sloped. (note this is v13, my car hasn't been offered the latest v14 yet)

On the highway, I felt like a passenger in some super high tech Maglev train pod - the car is locked in the center of the lane while I'm looking out from Model X's higher vantage point and its panoramic front window, listening to the (incredible) sound system, or chatting with Grok. On city streets, the car casually handled a number of tricky scenarios that I remember losing sleep over just a few years ago. It negotiated incoming cars in tight lanes, it gracefully went around construction and temporarily in-lane stationary cars, it correctly timed tricky left turns with incoming traffic from both sides, it gracefully gave way to the car that went out of order in the 4-way stop sign, it found a way to squeeze into a bumper to bumper traffic to make its turn, it overtook the bus that was loading passengers but still stopped for the stop sign that was blocked by the bus, and at the end of the route it circled around a parking lot, found a spot and... parked. Basically a flawless drive.

For context, I'm used to going out for a brief test drive around the neighborhood to return with 20 clips of things that could be improved. It's new for me to do just that and exactly like I used to, but come back with nothing. Perfect drive, no notes. I expect there's still more work for the team in the long march of 9s, but it's just so cool to see that we're beyond finding issues on any individual ~1 hour drive around the neighborhood, you actually have to go to the fleet and mine them. Back then, I processed the incredible promise of vehicle autonomy at scale (in the fully scaleable, vision only, end-to-end Tesla way) only intellectually, but now it is possible to feel it intuitively too if you just go out for a drive. Wait, of course surround video stream at 60Hz processed by a fully dedicated "driving brain" neural net will work, and it will be so much better and safer than a human driver. Did anyone else think otherwise?

I also watched @aelluswamy 's new ICCV25 talk last week (https://t.co/RdaM23kvez) that hints at some of the recent under the hood technical components driving this progress. Sensor streams (videos, maps, kinematics, audio, ...) over long contexts (e.g. ~30 seconds) go into a big neural net, steering/acceleration comes out, optionally with visualization auxiliary data. This is the dream of the complete Software 1.0 -> Software 2.0 re-write that scales fully with data streaming from millions of cars in the fleet and the compute capacity of your chip, not some engineer's clever new DoubleParkedCarHandler C++ abstraction with undefined test-time characteristics of memory and runtime. There's a lot more hints in the video on where things are going with the emerging "robotics+AI at scale stack". World reconstructors, world simulators "dreaming" dynamics, RL, all of these components general, foundational, neural net based, how the car is really just one kind of robot... are people getting this yet?

Huge congrats to the team - you're building magic objects of the future, you rock! And I love my car <3.

[AleXandra Merz 🇺🇲 @TeslaBoomerMama]

Am getting many DMs that Schwab calls high networth clients, saying they vote FOR. Confidential words are cheap.

Tell them to state it publicly.

We'll know definitely in August 2026 in the SEC filings, but if they say it now publicly, they can limit their damage.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

My firm, @atreidesmgmt, will be voting in favor of Elon Musk’s performance-based compensation package.

And I would prefer that *every* company I invest in have a comparable plan.

I believe shareholders should generally support thoughtfully structured performance-based CEO compensation packages because they incentivize CEOs to create transformational growth and value. The basic logic of these plans is the CEO gets 10% of the incremental value creation if they 10x the stock with a 2x hurdle. So shareholders get a 900% stock increase and the CEO gets an incremental 10%.

The first Tesla plan incented Elon to >10x the value of Tesla. He achieved all of the milestones and may never be paid for this. The Axon plan incented Rick Smith to >5x the value of Axon and he did. And when milestones aren’t met (such as Farfetch), then the CEOs don’t receive the payouts. The new Tesla plan is arguably better than the first as it also includes financial and technological milestones in addition to market cap-based incentives.

Tesla was founded to fight climate change and decarbonize the world. They have succeeded: because of Tesla the world is now on a glide path to significantly lower per capita emissions as EVs of all types replace combustion engines. The world is going to run on sunlight. And while Optimus has the potential to be a great product that will bring about sustainable abundance, Elon absolutely wants to make sure that it is also a safe product. We have all seen "Terminator" and ensuring the safety of Optimus is why he needs a greater voting stake in Tesla.

Elon's involvement is integral to maintaining Tesla’s current course and trajectory. Without proper alignment and incentivization, I think it is possible that he will focus more on his other goals: (i) helping humanity become a multiplanetary civilization, (ii) creating a BCI to improve the lives of paralyzed and soon blind humans that also paves the way for humans to continue to add value to the world post ASI, (iii) helping to create a multipolar AI world that is safer for humans, and (iv) ensuring that at least one of these AIs is dedicated to the truth. All of these are worthy goals, but so is sustainable abundance here on earth and so is having at least one public company that benefits from his efforts and is accessible to all Americans.

If this vote fails, Robyn Denholm, the chair of Tesla’s board, noted that Elon might leave. Elon is mission critical for Optimus and if he leaves, it seems possible that Optimus might be made by a company other than Tesla – whether xAI or SpaceX or some JV - with Tesla receiving some sort of revenue share in return for their contributions to date in the spirit of fairness that Elon has always followed with his investors.

I believe it is highly likely that Tesla’s stock would decline significantly should Elon leave and even more should the Optimus team leave with him. If this compensation package is approved, I will be rooting for him as a shareholder as he works super hard to achieve the value-creating milestones that would benefit both him and shareholders. I do not know how other shareholders feel, but I would certainly like another 10x in Tesla and simply do not believe this is possible without Elon.

Every vote matters because from my perspective many proxy voting firms are no longer primarily focused on shareholder value creation and the corporate governance departments at many investment firms feel bound to follow their decisions. The silliness of their concerns about dilution are self-evident in that the dilution would only occur after substantial share price appreciation for Tesla. I want my 10x.

I should note that @atreidesmgmt is an investor in many of Elon Musk’s companies. @atreidesmgmt invests in these companies because I regard Elon as an exceptional founder who has repeatedly created significant value in different industries.

[Ladislav Jurdik @LJurdik]

Urgent! Today 25. August @ 03:59-4:20 in morning, I've lost 380 CHF cash, probably fell out of my pocket in Dietlikon or later Dietikon Supercharger i was there only 05:07-05:14, please let people know if they might find the cash!!! It's a tragedy for me! 😭😭 @iamtobi

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Wrote about some of the recent work from the excellent @Tesla_AI team. The same material was presented at the International Conference of Computer Vision this week.

The main purpose of sharing this content is to show the cutting-edge work that the team has been developing and attract more talented engineers to join the team.

Tesla is THE place to solve real-world robotics. The team is extremely talented, determined and motivated. The technology that is already developed is cutting-edge and the roadmap is exhilarating. The work done here will tremendously benefit all of humanity. Hence, we believe that this is the best place to work on AI on the entire planet currently. Join us and let's bring millions of intelligent, friendly and useful robots to life.
https://t.co/AWpzhZVNcM

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

https://t.co/Jr4i7tHUCr

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

I've been on the phone all day. Here's what I think is going on with Duffy's announcement of more competition in the lunar lander program.

https://t.co/sxYktBB4mF

[AJ Investment Research @alojoh]

Breaking: NIO accused of inflating revenue. @NIOGlobal

Singapore's sovereign weath fund (GIC, an absolute heavy weight in the financial world) has sued Nio in a US court accusing the Chinese EV maker and CEO/founder William Li and former CFO Feng Wei violating securities laws by inflating revenues.

[Dear Reader, please like/share since every time my account reports negatively on Chinese companies their proxies attac* my account with blocks/mutes to limit distribution.]

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Tired of complaining. Feel bad for the X team under fire from all sides.

I'm willing to offer free consulting to the X algo team. Because I care.

Have some experience with graph ML / geometric deep learning. Also definitely a power user. Offer stands.

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

Recent remarks by @EdwardJDavey are baseless and riddled with inaccuracies. X has deployed industry-leading advanced AI classifiers and fuzzy-matching tech to enforce its zero-tolerance policies on child sexual exploitation. In fact, X suspended 132,155 accounts for child sexual exploitation between October 2024 and March 2025, with every case of apparent CSAM reported to NCMEC. The truth is, Mr. Davey has no grasp of our platform or the robust technologies we implement, and world-class personnel we employ, to keep users safe. His push is nothing short of cynical politicking. Worse, his call for Ofcom to single out X proves how this independent regulator and the OSA are being weaponized for censorship.

[Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 @DiligentDenizen]

https://t.co/XoEWcpQ5Ox

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@mickey_keith @Not_the_Bee Exactly. Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.