We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. https://t.co/uI6L6Da8wX
The NAACP was simultaneously fighting:
- For Affirmative Action
- To eliminate racism
An institution too stupid and/or dishonest to understand the contradiction here doesn't deserve to exist.
All civil rights orgs should either condemn affirmative action or disband if they lack the sense to fight a clear case of institutional racism.
Elon's team just did something nobody's talking about.
They replaced Starlink's call center with an AI. 🤯
And the results are insane.
1 in 5 people who called Starlink bought Starlink on the call. 70% of support calls got resolved without a human ever touching them.
Every caller was talking to Grok.
It's called Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0.
And this is not a voice model. This is a call center in a box.
Plug it into a phone line. It picks up. It talks. It sells. It troubleshoots. It books. In 25 languages. With no lunch break.
A single Grok agent runs 28 tools across hundreds of workflows. Hardware troubleshooting. Replacement orders. Service credits.
All autonomous.
The global call center industry is worth $350 billion.
Elon just showed up with a demo that does the job better, cheaper, faster, and it never clocks out.
Everyone is busy teaching AI to write code.
Elon quietly taught it to take your money on the phone.
Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram & iMessage all have serious security problems:
> Signal makes it easy for hackers to steal your account by requiring your number. They had a hack last year.
> WhatsApp let anyone grab 3.5 billion phone numbers in a hack last year.
> Telegram doesn’t encrypt most chats by default — their servers can read them.
> iMessage lets Apple see your messages if they’re backed up to iCloud.
XChat is the only secure encrypted messaging app.
Ironically, the so-called “anti-hate” groups have an incredibly strong financial incentive to stoke hate, so they actually AMPLIFY hate!
The worst thing that could happen to them is actually ending hate, as they would cease to exist.
SpaceX is developing a next-generation gateway station to boost @Starlink speeds after securing approval to upgrade the satellite internet service with gigabit connectivity, according to a new FCC filing.
“This application takes the next step by seeking authority for one of SpaceX’s next-generation quad-band gateway earth stations that will connect these satellite systems to the terrestrial internet,” the company wrote, noting it's targeting "fiber-like speeds."
The gateway station will still use 40 antennas for quad-band access, but each will be a 1.99-meter parabolic dish, slightly larger than the 1.85-meter dishes used at the company's other gateway facilities.