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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink has solved through-dura electrode implantation!

This is a very big deal, as it greatly improves the safety and ease of interfacing with the brain.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Japan is testing Starlink-powered fire hydrant signs as emergency communication hubs.

• Japan has approximately 120,000 fire hydrant signs installed nationwide.

• The technical demonstration was conducted by Shokasen Hyoshiki Co., Ltd., a company that manages fire hydrant signs across Japan.

• The test explored mounting Starlink equipment on a fire hydrant sign to provide satellite internet connectivity.

• The goal is to transform existing fire hydrant signs into temporary Wi-Fi and emergency communication hubs during disasters.

• Residents could use them to access emergency information and stay connected if cellular and terrestrial internet networks go down.

• The project is currently an early-stage technical verification and has not yet been deployed commercially or nationwide.

This demonstration shows how @elonmusk's Starlink could help keep communities connected when traditional networks are unavailable.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Teams recently completed build and acceptance testing of our 1,000th Merlin 1D engine for Falcon’s first stage! With Falcon’s reusability, recovering these engines has enabled continued reliability enhancements, making Merlin one of the most reliable rocket engines ever manufactured

[Scott Kupor @skupor]

Last year, @elonmusk brought national attention to the paper-based federal retirement process hidden deep underground in Boyers, Pennsylvania.

The Last Day of Paper is more than a milestone, it is proof that government modernization can deliver real results for the American people.

Thank you @POTUS and @elonmusk for the initial discussions that led to this important accomplishment: https://t.co/JwdiLEt0Ko

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Free money, housing, etc acts as a massive financial forcing function to draw illegals to America and Europe

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Peter: "I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?"

Elon: "Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic."

Peter: "I'll put a word in with you for you with with with Ben [Lamm]."

Elon: "That'd be adorable. Little things just running around trumpeting away and it's like look at the be a great little pet."

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Tesla’s Supercharger network just delivered a monster Q2

In Q2 2026, Tesla Superchargers delivered 2 terawatt-hours of electricity globally

That is enough electricity to power roughly 180,000+ U.S. homes for an entire year

The scale is getting insane:
• 2 TWh delivered
• 60 million charging sessions in 3 months
• 266 kWh sold per plug per day
• Wait-time percentage dropped below 0.5%
• 5,000 site maps now live
• +17% YoY growth

Tesla's EV charging network is becoming global energy infrastructure

Tesla’s charging infrastructure is getting bigger, faster, more efficient, and less congested at the same time

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The truth about Ellis Islanders.

- Around 2% were denied entry due to poor health or for holding anti-Christian ideology.

- 33% voluntarily returned home, because there wasn't welfare in the U.S. back then.

https://t.co/p0vno0AofR

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Orwell was a genius

[Governor Tate Reeves @tatereeves]

One of the reasons we brought @xAIMemphis to Mississippi wasn’t just its record-breaking $20 billion investment.

It was also because the company is a great corporate partner that’s committed to giving back to Mississippi communities.

This is a great example of that.

Thank you, @elonmusk and @xai!

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk explains one of the most optimistic futures imaginable: Neuralink and Optimus restoring lost human abilities through real-world cyborg technology

And the first people this could help are the ones who need it most:
People who are paralyzed. People who are locked in. People who lost the ability to move, speak, or interact with the world normally like Stephen Hawking

Neuralink is already helping patients control computers and robots with their thoughts

"They can now communicate almost as quickly as we are communicating right now"

��That’s going to continue to accelerate”

But Elon’s next vision is even bigger:
Use Neuralink to read motor-cortex signals from the brain, combine that with sensory feedback from the somatosensory cortex, and connect it to Optimus-style robotic limbs

In simple terms:
A person who lost their legs could one day control robotic legs with their mind - just pure thought. No buttons or joysticks

Elon called it a real-life “Six Million Dollar Man” concept… but instead of being science fiction or insanely expensive, it could cost around $60,000

Neuralink gives the brain a digital output. Optimus gives the body robotic capability

Together, they could create a path for people to walk again, move again, communicate again, and regain independence they thought was gone forever

This is the future worth building

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Walking the Optimus production line in Fremont

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book:

1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the second-handers.

2. Howard Roark is an architect who will only build what he actually believes in. He starves rather than compromise the design. The world resists him constantly.

3. Peter Keating is the opposite – talented enough, but builds his entire career on flattering clients, copying styles, and climbing socially. He succeeds, but remains hollow.

4. The villain, Ellsworth Toohey, is the system made conscious: he deliberately promotes mediocrity, knowing that a world of second-handers needs a critic to tell them what to think – and that gives him total power.

5. Roark’s crime, in the eyes of that world, isn’t failure – it’s that he doesn’t need their approval. That independence is experienced as an affront.

6. The novel’s argument: civilization’s actual source is the rare individual who originates rather than imitates. Everyone else — including people who despise him — lives downstream of what he creates.

7. The Fountainhead is Roark himself. Not a fountain – a fountainhead: the original source, where the water actually comes from. Before the river, before the tributaries, before anyone else draws from it. The title says: find that person, and you’ve found where everything real begins.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Creating AI voice agents has become ridiculously easy

xAI’s Grok Voice Agent Builder lets you deploy a human-like voice agent in under 2 minutes - no coding required

It is currently in beta, but the stack is already powerful:
• Natural real-time conversations
• Sub-second latency
• 25+ languages
• Free phone number or bring your own
• Build and deploy directly from your browser

Combined with Grok’s industry-leading voice models, we are getting closer to AI voice agents that actually sound and respond like real humans

Try it here: https://t.co/mwJm6GCTFz⁠

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Grok Build just got another workflow-focused update, bringing smarter controls, improved reliability, and better performance.

Release Notes: v0.2.80 — 2026-07-01

Features:
• Command timeouts can now be configured per session with a foreground-only ceiling.
• Background tasks and TODO lists now survive compaction and remain visible to the model.
• Contextual hints can now be toggled individually for undo, plan mode, and image input.

Bug Fixes:
• Subagent dialogs now reliably show full transcripts on open and reopen.
• Recap blocks now copy only the summary body, not the header label.
• Vim navigation keys now type into dashboard prompts, and modals properly handle Esc/Left.

Performance:
• Network connections are now more resilient to proxy/load balancer drops.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is how USAID spent your tax dollars

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“Sometimes I wonder, maybe everything is conscious, or nothing is conscious. I prefer the former; it just seems more fun.”

– Elon Musk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Four-story elevator … wow

Real “man of the people” he is