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
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."
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
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
What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words We’re Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:
1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur…
2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer.
3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs.
4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back.
When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds.
The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product.
5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave.
6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object.
7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it.
The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…
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!
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
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?
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.
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
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.