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Elon Musk has a track record of calling hard problems early.
In a February 2026 interview, he warned: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
By late August, SpaceX confirmed it was bringing the casting of gas-turbine blades and vanes in-house — the single biggest bottleneck for new natural-gas power plants needed to feed AI data centers. Musk said the move could bring turbines online up to 18 months faster.
Today he put it even more bluntly: SpaceX has “a super cracked team that is outperforming the rest of the world by an order of magnitude in mass to orbit — and even we find it very difficult.”
Hardware doesn’t care about demos, funding rounds, or slide decks. The teams that actually build the hard stuff keep winning.
What a legend.
It’s not that supercomputer data centers are not in high demand, as they definitely are. However, getting money to build complex hardware systems with massive power, cooling & networking is not the same as doing it.
SpaceX has a super cracked team that is outperforming the rest of the world by an order of magnitude in mass to orbit and even we find it very difficult!
If you riot, you will be ARRESTED.
Last night, our New Jersey law enforcement partners took action to arrest rioters.
Lawlessness will NOT be tolerated.
Yes
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dutch intelligence estimates over 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed in the Ukraine war.
Kyiv is estimated to have lost over 500,000.
Too many young men have died already; this war needs to stop.
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The ~1.2M Russian figure refers to total casualties (killed, wounded, missing)—not deaths. CSIS estimates 250,000–325,000 Russians killed and 100,000–140,000 Ukrainians killed. No Dutch intelligence source confirms these "killed" numbers. csis.org/analysis/russi…
Today, President Donald J. Trump took historic action to remove barriers on psychedelic treatments for serious mental illness — delivering new hope to millions of Americans, especially our veterans. 🇺🇸
There is no military objective that justifies the wholesale destruction of a society's infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations.
Warning that the military escalation in the Middle East is pushing the region to the breaking point, @antonioguterres calls for end to the hostilities & immediate return to the negotiating table.
“The region and the world desperately need an off-ramp.”
un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…
Middle East: @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk calls for immediate steps to de-escalate and a renewed commitment to international law to prevent further devastation for civilians.
“We cannot afford more powder kegs to ignite.”
ohchr.org/en/statements/2026…
“Let’s act responsibly & together to pull the region & our world back from the brink.”
In the Security Council, @antonioguterres calls for immediate cessation of hostilities & de-escalation in the Middle East.
un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…
“The use of force by the United States & Israel against Iran, and the subsequent retaliation by Iran across the region, undermine international peace & security.”
@antonioguterres condemns military escalation in the Middle East.
un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…
NASA will increase the cadence of the Artemis missions to successfully return humans to the Moon and sustain a lunar presence.
Artemis III will test systems in low Earth orbit to prepare for an Artemis IV Moon landing in 2028. go.nasa.gov/4aGEGua
ALT This image of the Moon and Earth was captured by a camera on one of the Orion spacecraft\u2019s solar arrays during the Artemis I mission on Dec. 5, 2022. The white Orion spacecraft can be glimpsed on the left side of the image. The gray cratered surface of the Moon takes up the lower half of the image. The Earth resembles a crescent moon in the vast distance against the blackness of space. Lens glare appears on the image. Credit: NASA
We honor the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945.
Those men bravely fought through one of the toughest battles in the Pacific.
Their courage drives our commitment to defend this nation with the same grit, sacrifice and unbreakable resolve they showed on that mountain.
ALT Picture from the flag raising at Iwo Jima.
Starlink is aggressively cutting prices and giving free hardware to distribution partners, The Information reports.
The moves are timed ahead of SpaceX's planned IPO and the debut of Amazon Kuiper, locking in customers before competition intensifies.
theinformation.com/articles/……
An honest review of @Starlink Internet.
I have been a customer of Starlink Internet for the last two years.
I must say that I am very impressed with the Internet provider. This was the first time that I have used satellite over traditional broadband internet.
Setup was extremely easy and customer service is highly reachable.
I live in an area now where traditional internet isn’t offered. At first, I used an internet provider that uses cell phone towers to provide signal. You might have guessed that when the cell phone signals become over-utilized, Internet access is near impossible.
Now, I am able to livestream here, run spaces while numerous other devices are streaming.
I highly recommend this product run by @elonmusk and company.
5 stars.
After overnight data showed an interruption in helium flow in the SLS interim cryogenic propulsion stage, teams are troubleshooting and preparing for a likely rollback of Artemis II to the VAB at @NASAKennedy. This will almost assuredly impact the March launch window. @NASA will continue to provide updates as they become available.
This is another reminder that capital punishment made Britain great
Over the 11th-18th centuries, the death penalty became used to punish most violent and property crimes, leading to ~1-2% of each generation being executed
This was particularly true in England, where over the 1500-1750 period, it saw strictly-enforced capital punishment and the murder rate drop from ~40 per 100k to .5-2 per 100k
Capital punishment plucked the crime genes from the gene pool, particularly regarding serious crimes like homicide, robbery, r*pe, etc.
Hangings worked, crime mostly disappeared, and it was wonderful, as they could focus on high culture rather than insanity. Such is what allowed them to build those fabulous country homes, have the London Season, have a pleasant country society...the brigands and so on who would have been terrors had been hanged for enough generations that they disappeared
Then, of course, the country was flooded with pitbull-like foreigners and all that good work was undone.
Return to tradition. Return to the gallows and gibbet
Pay the same, get more!
I think this is good for customer loyalty.
You get what you give.
WTF, Starlink?
In the past, I've said Starlink Mini (the mobile plan) is the ultimate backup internet, because you can take it with you when you travel.
I've been using the 50GB-for-$50 plan, but Starlink just changed the terms on me:
They doubled my data to 100GB for no extra money. Now it's the 100GB-for-$50 plan.
I don't know what to think. I've never seen anything like this.
Anyone have 'Solar Death Ray' on their apocalypse bingo card?
"Giant sunspot doubled in size in 24 hours, and it's pointing right at Earth" livescience.com/doubling-sun…
