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[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

The day Elon Musk told X advertisers to "go fck yourselves" he was worth $220 billion

Today he's worth $1.1 trillion

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Inspiring!

[UFO mania @maniaUFO]

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire.😍

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2.

This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

China places its solar panels on water

So it can use valuable land for agriculture https://t.co/MSX7ZCm07l

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The trend keeps going

[Chioma ❁ @bzingers]

Michael Jackson’s skin transformation over the years 🥹🥰

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk was asked: “What’s one invention that’s made us worse, not better?”

His answer: short-form video.

He called it straight-up “brain rot.”

And he’s not wrong. A local news report highlighted how kids are getting flooded with dopamine hits every 15–30 seconds from YouTube Shorts and TikTok-style content. Brain scans show overactivation in the reward centers, which over time trains the brain to crave instant gratification, shortens attention spans, and contributes to attention problems, behavioral issues, and even emotional dysregulation.

Doctors are now seeing cases where it’s hard to tell the difference between true ADHD and what they’re calling “environmental ADHD” caused by excessive screen use.

78–84% of kids aged 2–12 are on YouTube, often for 2+ hours a day.

This one feels especially urgent for parents.

How much short-form video are your kids (or you) consuming daily — and have you noticed any real impact on attention span or mood?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Tesla is deploying $50 BILLION across 6 factories, a chip fab, robot production lines, AI supercomputers, lithium refineries, and solar manufacturing.

To put that in perspective:

Tesla made $477 million in profit last quarter.

And is investing at roughly 100x that rate.

Every other CEO on Earth would get fired for that ratio.

Elon's doing it on purpose.

Here's what he's assembling:

- Own chip factory (TERAFAB with Intel, $25 billion, targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute per year)
- Own energy grid (Megapacks powering entire cities)
- Own robot workforce (Optimus production starting this year, 1 million units per year at Fremont, 10 million per year planned at Giga Texas)
- Own transportation network (robotaxi live in Austin, Dallas, Houston with zero accidents, expanding to 9+ cities)
- Own AI training infrastructure (Cortex 2 supercomputer online, 280,000 GPUs by June)
- Own lithium refinery (Texas, ramping now)
- Own solar panels (new design with 3x the power zones of conventional panels)
- Own satellite compute (80% of TERAFAB output going to SpaceX orbital AI satellites)

This is just insane.

No company in history has attempted to own this many layers of its own supply chain simultaneously.

Amazon took 20 years to become profitable because Bezos reinvested every dollar into infrastructure. Wall Street called him insane the entire time.

Elon is running the same playbook but across MORE industries, at a FASTER pace, and with technology that didn't exist 5 years ago.

The TERAFAB alone is designed to produce 70% of the output of the world's largest semiconductor foundry. Under one roof. Logic chips, memory, and packaging all vertically integrated.

But why is he doing this?

Elon said existing suppliers including TSMC, Samsung, and Micron simply cannot supply Tesla at the levels it needs.

When you can't buy enough of what you need, you build the factory yourself.

That's the Henry Ford playbook from 1920.

Ford owned the rubber plantations, the iron mines, the glass factories, the railroads, and the forests that supplied his assembly lines.

Elon is doing the same thing. Except his version includes orbital data centers, humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles.

The AI5 chip is already taped out.

His team worked 6 months straight through holidays and weekends to finish early. He called it the best edge compute inference chip in existence. They're already designing AI6 AND Dojo 3.

Meanwhile Tesla's FSD has 1.3 million paid subscribers globally. Record new subscriptions last quarter. Regulatory approval just landed in the Netherlands. China approvals expected by Q3.

While every other automaker is trying to figure out how to compete with BYD on price, Elon is building the infrastructure layer that makes the car almost irrelevant.

Because if you own the chips, the energy, the robots, the AI, the transportation network, AND the manufacturing...

The car is just the interface.

The real product is the ecosystem.

Elon is spending $50 billion to build a parallel economy that doesn't depend on anyone else's supply chain, anyone else's chips, or anyone else's energy grid.

That's closer to being a country than just a company.

And whether you love him or hate him, nobody else alive is even attempting this.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

UK quietly regains position as the world’s 5th largest economy, per IMF.

1. 🇺🇸 United States ~ $32.38 trillion
2. 🇨🇳 China ~ $20.85 trillion
3. 🇩🇪 Germany ~ $5.45 trillion
4. 🇯🇵 Japan ~ $4.38 trillion
5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom ~ $4.26 trillion ⬆️
6. 🇮🇳 India ~ $4.15 trillion ⬇️
7. 🇫🇷 France ~ $3.6 trillion
8. 🇮🇹 Italy ~ $2.74 trillion
9. 🇷🇺 Russia ~ $2.66 trillion
10. 🇧🇷 Brazil ~ $2.64 trillion

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla Supercharger energy delivered is growing exponentially

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

DUBAI FLOODED… AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN RECORD RAIN HITS A DESERT CITY

Cars underwater. Roads completely gone. Entire underpasses turned into lakes

This wasn’t normal rain… this was historic, record-breaking storms hitting infrastructure that simply wasn’t built for it

Drain systems overwhelmed
Water nowhere to go
City flooded FAST

Some people are bringing up cloud seeding… but the reality is simple—
most places aren’t built to handle that level of rainfall, especially in a desert

Nature hit hard… and the system couldn’t keep up

Do you think they should invest in some infrastructure to handle this weather or continue to roll the dice? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

🚨⚡️A rare video of a meteorite hitting the Moon is going viral worldwide
Because the Moon has no atmosphere, meteorites don’t burn up on impact like they do on Earth

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This will be big

[Anfield Edition | æ @AnfieldEdition]

Mo Salah hasn't scored in the Premier League for Liverpool since 1 November (9 games).

Cody Gakpo only has 2 goals in the Premier League for Liverpool since 25 October (17 games).

Are our wingers the biggest problem right now?

[Anfield Sector @AnfieldSector]

Rio Ngumoha completed more dribbles, attempted more dribbles & created as many chances as BOTH Salah and Gakpo combined...

He only played 20 minutes & played on both wings.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I believe AI will first take office cubicle jobs....because most people in cubicles don't actually work. It's become adult daycare.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk warns: AI + robotics will hit us like a "supersonic tsunami."

Peter Diamandis: “We’re basically demonetizing everything. Labor becomes the cost of CapEx and electricity. Intelligence is available at almost zero price.”

Elon’s forecast:

Prices collapse hard.
Output of goods & services explodes faster than money supply → deflation.
Governments will frantically print faster — but won’t keep up.
Productivity could hit high double-digit growth every year.
GDP metrics are already meaningless and will look even more absurd.

Universal high income won’t come from taxes & redistribution.
It comes from radical abundance where stuff & services approach zero cost.

If prices for almost everything crash and intelligence becomes dirt cheap…
what’s the first thing you’d do — or build — in that world?