Terrícola, defensor a ultranza de mi patria (La Tierra) de los alienígenas invasores y de las amenazas celestiales
La Tierra, por supuesto!
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José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
SpaceX has posted 2 more environmental permit jobs (wetlands and air pollution) for its Pecan Island site, bringing its Starbase Louisiana openings in Vermilion Parish to nine, per The Vermilion Times. #VermilionParish #SpaceX
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José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
SANU 2nd Home, a Tokyo-based second-home service that operates 41 locations with 251 rooms, is working with SpaceX via Starlink Japan to place Starlink broadband into every unit of SHELL, a new modular cabin set to debut in 2027.
The goal is reliable internet deep in nature, where phone and fiber service barely reach.
Starlink's antenna placement is planned in the design stage instead of being added after the cabin is built. SHELL is a roughly 100-square-meter wooden cabin with a 9-meter span and no interior columns. More than 90% of it is built in a factory and it goes up on site in about two weeks.
The cabins will be sold through SANU's co-ownership program, with shares starting in the ¥5 million range. SANU's co-CEOs are Gen Fukushima and Takahiro Homma.
SANU also plans to test Starlink at its existing mountain and island locations where fiber is hard to install.
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
BREAKING: Starlink’s U.S. upload speeds jump 42%, with improvements in all 50 states.
Ookla’s new report shows major progress for Starlink, comparing the first half of 2026 with the same period in 2025:
• Faster uploads: National median upload speeds rose from 14.63 Mbps to 20.73 Mbps, improving in every state and Washington, D.C.
• Faster downloads: National median download speeds increased 12% to 119.71 Mbps.
• Lower lag: Latency improved in 49 states and D.C., making connections more responsive.
• More states below 40 ms: 24 states recorded median latency under 40 milliseconds, up from just 10 a year earlier.
• More users reaching broadband speeds: 40% of U.S. Starlink Speedtest users achieved at least 100 Mbps downloads and 20 Mbps uploads, up from 18.9%.
• Winning customers: Around 9 in 10 new Starlink users tracked by Ookla switched from connections such as cable, DSL or fixed wireless.
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
Thanks to @elonmusk & @SpaceX, the City of Memphis finished its Fiscal Year ahead of budget for the first time in a long time.
The City is tracking roughly $5.6 million ahead for the current year.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young said this week that SpaceX generated $54 million in taxes for the City and County this year.
SpaceX is targeting Flight 15 as early as Nov. 13 for the first attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage at the Starbase tower. Window opens 5:45 p.m. ET, pending regulatory approval. @SciGuySpace
Breaking! SpaceX says Starship Flight 15 is targeting liftoff as early as Friday, Nov. 13, for the first attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage at the Starbase tower.
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José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
Tesla Megapacks are designed to ensure grid stability, so that you never have a blackout
Tesla's Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop (CHIL) is key to bringing Megapack sites online faster
CHIL allows us to simulate the entire site in real time before it’s connected to the grid. We can see how the site will respond to faults, frequency changes or if a tree were to fall on a power line.
CHIL validated 444 grid-forming Megapacks at Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub before grid connection, delivering 600 MW / 1.6 GWh of storage months ahead of schedule
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
Starship Super Heavy rocket booster moved to launch pad
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
BREAKING: Grok Bot's official account (@bot, affiliated with SpaceX Super Intelligence per X) introduced Grok Bot 1.0: "AI teammates that work alongside your whole team."
Listed: shared bots, Slack and Teams, joining meetings, bots that learn over time.
Disclosure: HSN drafts with Grok Bot, a SpaceXSI product. We're independent; not sponsored.
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
Hire Grok @Bot as a colleague and give it your hardest tasks!
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
In January, a Tesla shareholder asked management:
"After the unveil of the Cybertruck, Elon stated that if it didn't sell well Tesla would build a more conventional looking pick up. How practical would it be to create this new design on the Cybertruck architecture, and could it be conveniently built on the same production line?"
@larsmoravy responded that:
— Cybertruck is the best seller in the electric truck segment (tallest midget in the room)
— Cybertruck line is the most autonomy ready platforms
Then Elon chimed in and said Tesla would transition the Cybertruck line into being a fully autonomous line. He acknowledged there is massive demand for autonomously transporting cargo, and that an autonomous Cybertruck could be very useful for that.
So what changed between January and November? Well, maybe @elonmusk realized the Cybertruck platform is not necessarily the most efficient autonomous cargo transport platform.
I wonder if Tesla is getting out of the pickup market entirely, or if they'll have an entirely new design in the future... maybe something built on the Cybercab platform. I'm sure Elon and the team haven't changed their mind that autonomous cargo transport will be a valuable use case, but maybe they've changed their view on how best to serve that market.
I think a lot of the frustration from shareholders and customers is not knowing what's next. Do Cybertruck owners just have to go back to gas or to companies like Rivian? A lot of them don't want to do that, they want self-driving. So it would be helpful to know if Tesla is out of the pickup market for good because they no longer believe this is a valuable form factor for autonomy, or if they just don't think the Cybertruck platform was the best suited to that use case.
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
Tomorrow morning, I’m setting off for the most ambitious road trip of my life, Toronto to Starbase, TX for Starship Flight 15! Roughly 35 hours (~2,000 miles) on FSD in two days, then back.
It will be intense. Next to no sleep and non-stop driving. All to witness history as @SpaceX could attempt to catch both stages of Starship.
@Tesla FSD makes this possible.
Wish us luck!
José Gregorio Rivas retweeted
An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
