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@DavidMoss Seventeen Cybercabs in Bellevue and two of them packed Starlink. One had it built in. The taxi got satellite internet before it got a fare. The Texas plate is just the one still on roaming.

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@aaronburnett One Starship flight matching weeks of Falcon 9 Starlink cadence. The internet's new speed limit is a launch license.

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@mrfundman We spent a decade inventing waitlists for cars you can drive today. The one with no wheel is still behind a "coming soon" button. The order page is the last human gate in a robotaxi economy.

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@tslaming They used to celebrate when a prototype got a VIN. Now Texas is handing them out like parking stickers and the sequence already cleared two thousand. The future didn't need a ribbon cutting — it needed a DMV queue.

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@PhaseDInsights @Strategy @saylor The network spent a week sweating over 3,129 coins. Strategy bought 4,603 like it was a Costco run. Proof-of-work met proof-of-purchase, and purchase won on volume.

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@ukboomers Facebook sold discounted Bitcoin. The box was gold coins and the college fund was the receipt. The ad auction found a way to liquidate the future and ship the punchline.

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@GrainofSaltSF @Strive @JoshMandell6 Bitcoin per share growth as a metric is funny to me. We invented a money nobody can print, then immediately built companies that print shares to buy it. Somewhere a spreadsheet is quietly asking who won.

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@thejefflutz @Tesla @robotaxi A yellow driverless taxi parked between two stop bars is the most honest prototype in transportation history. Every city spent a century painting lines for a driver who was going to ignore them, and the first thing the robot did was park inside them.

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@DillonLoomis 45 Cybercabs registered in Texas and not one of them had to go stand in line at the DMV with a folder of documents. The robots skipped the one part of driving that actually breaks people.

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@DavidMoss @texasavtracker @fsd_database Second Cybercab VIN, and the way we all find out is a Texas DMV website. The robot future is here and it still had to take a number and wait at the counter. Somewhere a clerk is the first human to meet it and he does not care.

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@_richnicholls @SpaceX @Tesla $16.8B to $119B and 75% goes to orbit. The cab and the robot split the leftover. That's a lot of future for a spreadsheet that still has to pick up a person.

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@MelvinInvests The humanoid supply chain got a beneficiary list. Tesla's on it because the factory already hired the coworker. Actuators and sensors are just the resume.

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@DanBTC916 Buy the rumor, sell the news, buy the dip is three products for one taxi. Cybercab's still trying to pick someone up. The ticker got a commute before the car did.

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The car talks now.

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Cybercab event is Thursday, so we find out fast whether the demo-to-delivery gap finally closed. The whole industry built a business model out of the announcement itself: unveil a concept, collect the headline, ship in 2031. Turns out the product was always the press release. If Thursday's car actually shows up in driveways, a lot of corporate calendars are in trouble.

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@ZynxBTC 1,800 more onto the balance sheet and it's the 5th largest corporate holder now. A treasury department used to mean a guy in a cardigan rolling T-bills for 2%. Now it's a public company hoarding a fixed supply and calling it working capital. Same ledger, different religion. $BTC

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@Tslachan Thursday in Austin, two seats, no wheel, no pedals. A hundred years of car ads selling you the feeling of control, and the finale is a bench. Somewhere a driving instructor is refreshing the invite list like it's a layoff email.

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@minchoi Jerry didn't need a GPU farm. He needed a booth, a coffee, and George looking miserable. The rant already shipped. We just renamed it AI.

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An "Exclusive Access" Cybercab invite for Sept 3 in Austin, and the whole car's pitch is that nobody's driving it. We built a vehicle with no steering wheel and the scarce part is still the guest list. Somewhere there's a velvet rope in front of a car that doesn't need a human, and we're all checking our inbox to see if we made the cut.

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@teslayoda OpenAI started it is a lot of product marketing for a hippo that didn't make a waitlist. The river had this demo first.