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[parody/Elon Musk @HAZBIN13]

AlI DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power.

The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts.

But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology).

Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades.

@planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda).

Full story 👇

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Four-story elevator … wow

Real “man of the people” he is

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Walking the Optimus production line in Fremont

[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.

[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

[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?

[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!

[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

[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."

[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.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good analysis of rent control

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.

He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Two years later, it was over. 🧵

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Paraguay is entering a new era of connectivity 🇵🇾

Paraguay is working with Starlink through MITIC and COPACO to bring high-speed internet to more than 1,600 schools in isolated areas

This will connect 50,000+ students and teachers to online learning, digital libraries, collaboration tools, and new opportunities

A satellite in orbit can now change the future of a classroom full of students on the ground

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like "hate crime" or "terrorism", with extra-harsh punishments.

Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone, that you want to punish extra harshly.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Great interview

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

The worms did not grow inside USAID overnight. The worm colony spread across the agency over decades.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

How many more children before we admit the experiment failed?

This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions.

She was the friend of their younger sister who lived right next door.

Another horror story in a continent-wide pattern.

Across Europe, men from certain immigrant backgrounds, especially Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Africa, are wildly overrepresented in rape and child sexual abuse statistics.

In Germany, foreigners are 15% of the population but 38% of rape suspects.

In Sweden, immigrant men dominate rape convictions in long term studies, even after adjusting for age and socioeconomic factors.
Those arriving as teens or adults bring the highest risk.

In the UK, foreign citizens are 3.5x more likely to be arrested for sexual offences.
The Pakistani muslim grooming gang scandal is still unraveling.

Europe didn’t have an epidemic of 7 year olds being raped by their neighbors’ older brothers before the mass low-skilled migration experiment.

It imported the problem along with the people.

Cultures that treat non-muslim girls as fair game, or that normalize early sexualization and weak boundaries around children, don’t magically become Swedish, German, or British just because they cross a border.

This is what happens when you prioritize volume over compatibility and then gaslight the public about the results.

The trial continues. The pattern continues. The denial continues.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Kazakhstan Railways is bringing Starlink internet to 900 train carriages this summer.

• By July, around 900 train carriages will be equipped with Starlink internet.

• The service will cover nearly 50 passenger routes across the country.

• KTZ’s passenger fleet has about 2,211 units, with the goal of full network coverage by autumn.

• The rollout is being done in stages as part of Kazakhstan’s railway transport modernization program

• Starlink was first tested on the Burabay Express electric train in 2025.

• Satellite internet has also been introduced on other major routes, including Astana–Ust-Kamenogorsk and Astana–Almaty Talgo trains.

Starlink is proving again that high-speed satellite internet can transform travel, especially across large countries and remote routes.