Down to Earth Citizen

*No crypto!* *No links* Happily married 40+ years. Off-grid homestead was the dream, but it's too late for me! Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can!

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceX is building the Gigasat Factory in Bastrop to manufacture AI satellites at massive scale.

This facility is planned to enable rapid production and deployment of thousands of AI satellites starting as soon as late 2027.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Looking forward to Falcon Heavy launching @NASA's next flagship telescope

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink can now provide reliable 10Gpbs symmetric send/receive connectivity anywhere in the world

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: SpaceX breaks its own Falcon 9 reuse record with 36th Booster Flight.

• Falcon 9 booster completed its record-breaking 36th launch and landing

• This is the most flights ever by a single SpaceX orbital booster.

• Mission deployed 29 Starlink satellites into orbit.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Deployment of 29 @Starlink satellites confirmed

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Our internal assessment is that Grok 4.5 is roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster. The combination of capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive.

We are closing the loop on real-world usefulness, not benchmarks. Hardcore engineers at Tesla & SpaceX find Grok 4.5 genuinely useful, which is what actually matters.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.

https://t.co/i8HpU7w64k

[The Boring Company @boringcompany]

TBC is hiring for the Global Operations Control Center in Bastrop, Texas.

Here, the team operates and monitors boring machines in Bastrop, Las Vegas, Nashville, and soon Dubai. 24/7!

Apply here!
https://t.co/ZHKeRCg4Bb

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions.

• ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload capacity on Starship.

• First mission is targeted to launch as early as 2030 through ispace’s new Lunar Access Integration service.

• The service is designed to make it easier for companies, governments, and research organizations to send payloads to the Moon.

• Customers can fly payloads ranging from a few kilograms up to 500 kg on shared Starship missions.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer the new Lunar Access Integration service utilizing Starship’s payload space… High-capacity, relatively low-cost lunar transport… is essential to realizing the sustainable lunar economy that ispace aims to create.”

— ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A homeless veteran loved his dog so much he gave him up after he couldn't feed him... giving him to a fire station with a note that read, "please help my baby."

The firefighters adopted the dog.

Then they found the vet living in a tent... and GAVE HIM A HOME TOO!!!

Early one morning, firefighters in Fort Worth walked outside their station and found a pitbull named Jake chained to the flagpole and beside him, was a handwritten note.

It was from a 65-year-old disabled veteran named Tom.

He'd been living in a homeless camp for 20 months, ever since his landlord wouldn't renew his lease.

He was trying to claw his way to a better life, but he couldn't do it and care for his dog at the same time.

So he made the hardest decision of his life and in that note, he begged:
"I have nothing but my baby Jake. If you have a soul and really care about helping babies, please help my baby."

He gave up the only thing he had left in this world... because he loved that dog too much to watch him suffer.

The firefighters didn't just take Jake in.

They ADOPTED him. He's the station dog now, showered with love, "a boost in morale," they said.

But they didn't stop there.

The department's homeless outreach team went looking for Tom and they FOUND HIM in his camp.

They got him medical care, and then a veterans nonprofit, Operation Texas Strong, stepped up and gave this old soldier an RV and a place to live.

A man who had NOTHING gave up his last companion to save him...

...and a community turned around and saved them BOTH.

As the man who housed him said: "No veteran should ever be homeless anywhere in the United States."

This is the country I know, the one that doesn't leave a solider or his dog behind!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow.

It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Our 17th Transporter rideshare mission is targeted to launch tomorrow from California and will deliver 81 payloads to orbit → https://t.co/ypN5Y5SUSp

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has officially requested FCC approval to launch and operate a third-generation satellite constellation of 100,000 satellites, designed to power human connectivity and AI-fueled progress.

"The artificial intelligence revolution promises a supersonic tsunami of progress with the capability to deliver transformative prosperity to billions and carry the light of human consciousness far into the future. The Gen3 system will include 100,000 satellites operating in very-low-Earth-orbit to deliver extremely low-latency and multi-gigabit symmetrical throughput for consumers, enterprises, and government users and billions of Al-powered devices around the world. To achieve this ambitious goal, the Gen3 system will put new spectrum and sharing frameworks to work for American consumers. Al requires massive uplink capacity to support high-definition."

The Gen3 system will consist of 100,000 satellites, configured in two bands of thin, closely stacked operational shells with nominal altitudes between 323 and 327.5 kilometers and 473 and 477.5 kilometers. SpaceX seeks flexibility to operate its Gen3 system with inclinations ranging from 26 degrees to 96.9 degrees (sun-synchronous orbit) to optimize coverage consistent with evolving demand.

This new filing is separate from SpaceX's previous application to operate a constellation of up to 1 million AI satellites. They are two distinct constellations.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 landing confirmed

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Tesla created ~135,000 jobs globally across sustainability, AI and more.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Starship Flight 13 is now listed for July 14 as the primary date in an official FAA advisory. 🚀

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

We are now @SpaceXAI.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell and her husband have announced that they are donating ~$325 million of SpaceX stock to Trump Accounts for more than two million children across the U.S.

Every one of those kids will now have a direct stake in a company whose mission is the most ambitious in human history: to make life multi-plantary 🚀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI+Optimus will enable universal excellent healthcare that is better than anyone receives today

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches the 17th Transporter rideshare mission and delivers 81 payloads to orbit