Rocket Man x

[Ben Habib @benhabib6]

I hear so often: “the right must unite”.

The rally on 16 May is not just an opportunity for politicians to unite but also for us to meet our boss - the British people.

If we, servants of the people, wish to save our country, we must be with our people.

Unified peaceful resolute British strength. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😑

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They stole a nonprofit. It’s not right.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 OpenAI just REMOVED the AGI clause that was a structural protection of OpenAI's charitable mission, while jury selection was happening today

The 2019 capped-profit structure had three protections for the charitable mission:

1. 100x profit cap: REMOVED in PBC conversion
2. AGI clause: REMOVED today
3. Microsoft exclusivity: REMOVED today

All three are gone.

This is exactly what Musk's lawsuit alleges: the people running OpenAI systematically dismantled the mission-protection mechanisms. Today they did it again.

The defense theory just got harder.

OpenAI's defense includes: "Microsoft's $13 billion-plus investment was necessary for our mission. Without that capital, OpenAI couldn't have shipped GPT-4 or scaled ChatGPT."

But today, on the morning of trial, OpenAI announced they are decoupling from Microsoft:

• AGI clause REMOVED. The nuclear option that let the non-profit board terminate Microsoft's commercial rights once AGI was achieved. Gone.
• Microsoft IP license now NON-EXCLUSIVE through 2032. OpenAI can license to anyone.
• Cloud exclusivity ENDED. OpenAI can sell across AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle.
• Revenue share capped. Microsoft no longer pays revenue share to OpenAI; OpenAI still pays Microsoft through 2030.

If Microsoft was so necessary, why restructure on the day the case reaches a jury?

Musk's lawyers will use this in court tomorrow.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Long list

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Mocking armchair critics who have probably never touched a gun, let alone faced a crazed demon, asking “Why not tase him / shoot him in the leg / talk to him?” or some similar nonsense.

FACT: He was tased and shot multiple times.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Elon’s influence was monumental to OpenAI.

The reality is there simply wouldn’t have been the AI world we have today.

It is not perfect. But would have been orders of magnitude worse.

This is the way of it.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 set the bar. #1 spot. A strong start.

67.3% on the board… others are way behind.

Not demos. Real calls getting handled.

Sales, support, actual outcomes.

Used by @Starlink. That says something.

@xAI @Grok

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

The Tesla "T" logo comes from Nikola Tesla's original electric motor patent btw

Pretty cool.

[Handre @Handre]

The Japanese railway privatization of 1987 stands as one of the most devastating defeats ever dealt to statist transportation mythology. The government split the bloated Japan National Railways into seven regional companies, sold them off, and watched private ownership transform a bankruptcy-bound disaster into the world's most efficient rail system.

JNR hemorrhaged money for decades before privatization. By 1987, the state railway carried debt equivalent to $200 billion in today's money while delivering mediocre service plagued by strikes and inefficiency. Politicians treated it as a jobs program rather than a transportation service. The predictable result: chronic losses, deteriorating infrastructure, and customer service that reflected government monopoly arrogance.

Private ownership changed everything overnight. The new JR companies slashed operating costs by 40% within five years while dramatically improving service quality. JR East alone now generates annual profits exceeding $3 billion. These companies invest billions in cutting-edge technology, maintain punctuality rates above 99%, and operate the world's most advanced high-speed rail networks. They achieved this without a single yen of operational subsidies.

The transformation reveals a core dynamic of transportation infrastructure: private companies must satisfy customers to survive, while government monopolies need only satisfy politicians. JR companies diversified into real estate, retail, and hospitality around their stations, creating integrated profit centers that cross-subsidize rail operations. Government railways never innovate this way because bureaucrats face no market pressure to generate returns.

Meanwhile, Amtrak burns through $2 billion in annual subsidies while delivering third-world service across most routes, and European state railways require massive taxpayer bailouts every few years to stay solvent.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is the most powerful moving object ever made

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

SPLC Says Funding KKK Only 3% Of What They Do https://t.co/KlBsu7YhgM

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. https://t.co/uI6L6Da8wX

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reality is that stoking hate was incredibly lucrative for the SPLC.

That’s why they did it. Incentives explain outcomes.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯😂

[ΛI DRIVR @AIDRIVR]

I just ran Summon from my passenger seat for over an hour in a busy Costco parking lot

not a single person noticed.

that’s how good it is

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

The NAACP was simultaneously fighting:
- For Affirmative Action
- To eliminate racism

An institution too stupid and/or dishonest to understand the contradiction here doesn't deserve to exist.

All civil rights orgs should either condemn affirmative action or disband if they lack the sense to fight a clear case of institutional racism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Telepathic control of robot arms

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Elon's team just did something nobody's talking about.

They replaced Starlink's call center with an AI. 🤯

And the results are insane.

1 in 5 people who called Starlink bought Starlink on the call. 70% of support calls got resolved without a human ever touching them.

Every caller was talking to Grok.

It's called Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0.

And this is not a voice model. This is a call center in a box.

Plug it into a phone line. It picks up. It talks. It sells. It troubleshoots. It books. In 25 languages. With no lunch break.

A single Grok agent runs 28 tools across hundreds of workflows. Hardware troubleshooting. Replacement orders. Service credits.

All autonomous.

The global call center industry is worth $350 billion.

Elon just showed up with a demo that does the job better, cheaper, faster, and it never clocks out.

Everyone is busy teaching AI to write code.

Elon quietly taught it to take your money on the phone.