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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Full stack engineering

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Starlink just hit all-time high speeds in the US according to Ookla

We are talking real broadband performance now - actually faster or matching cable for millions of Americans who used to have no good options

→ Blazing Speeds: Median download speeds of 100+ Mbps in 49 U.S. states
→ FCC Standards: Upload speeds now hitting the 20 Mbps threshold in 22 states
→ Dropping Latency: Multi-server latency under 40ms in 10 states
→ Massive Scale: A constellation of ~10,300 satellites powering over 12 million active global subscribers across 160+ countries, territories and markets

SpaceX added a million users in just 53 days. Next-gen satellites are coming with 100x the data capacity and gigabit speeds on the horizon

Now are targeting 25 million users by the end of this year

SpaceX is leading the broadband race, reaching places no one else can

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

There is all the difference in the world between takers and makers.

Production never even crosses their minds. Like parasites, socialists exist solely to take and consume, never to create or contribute.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

"This is the foundation of my philosophy: I am
curious about the nature of the universe... and obviously I will die... But I would like to know that we are on a path to understanding the nature of the universe and the meaning of life and what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe"

–– Elon Musk

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Woke mind virus destroys beauty, art, and everything you truly love and that is worth loving - all in the name of fake empathy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Perhaps a restoration of dignity is in order

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️

Appreciation to mothers everywhere who brought us all into the world and nurtured their beloved children 🥰

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Happy Mother’s Day, Love E

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.

Almost nothing they know is the full story.

Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled.

The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end.

Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian.

They marched anyway.

And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument.

The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering.

For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass.

Then the Greeks were betrayed.

A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded.

He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came.

So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name.

The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it.

They lost.

Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home.

Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame.

That's the world they lived in.

The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws.

A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it.

We remember 300 of them.

There were always more.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Maye Musk on Elon’s early days:

"I knew he was a genius and a good person, so I knew he would want to do something good. I invested in Zip2 to keep them going

On my 50th birthday, they gave me a little toy house and a little toy car and said, 'We're going to give you one day!' We were all struggling… but after they sold Zip2, I got a real home and a real car" ❤️

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Jensen Huang: "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Grok just previewed “Skills” and it's so next level it's not even funny

You tell it: “Create a skill that grabs latest AI news from @testingcatalog”

@Grok builds the WHOLE thing, behavior, instructions, files. Then just trigger it for clean daily updates

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Why is it always "seize the means of production" and never "create the means of production"?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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