Starship Flight 15 is scheduled for as soon as Friday. The catch is just step 1. Here's what's at stake if the same hardware flies again.
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This is huge
We have signed a major supply contract with SINGULUS to create a durable option for advanced solar cell manufacturing to support more than 100 GW of equipment as we accelerate the production of our Starmind satellites in Bastrop, Texas → singulus.com/2026/11/10/spac…
Grok Bot has gotten so bad these past couple days…mistakes, forgets processes, sloppy work. It’s weird because this wasn’t an issue at all last week. What changed?
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Thrustonomics retweeted
Replying to @DirtyTesLa
Mom: Cybertrucks are the worst
Me: Why do you say that?
Mom: They’re so ugly. Your father agrees.
Me: Have either of you been in one?
Mom: No, we would never
Me: Ohh well I’ve had one as a loaner, twice. It’s the best truck I’ve ever driven. Well actually it drove itself with FSD. Everyone I’ve met who’s driven one said the same thing.
Mom: Ohh
SpaceX's Q3 2026 separates connectivity revenue into $3.121 billion consumer and $2.127 billion enterprise/government. Question is which will grow faster?
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SpaceX's Flight 15 timeline puts the planned booster catch at 6 minutes 35 seconds and the ship catch more than 22 hours after liftoff. Get your popcorn ready 🍿
Thrustonomics retweeted
The big problem in American politics is that voters expect the government to solve their problems. Our country was founded on the principle that the people should be left alone to solve their own problems. When government is empowered to solve problems, it creates them instead.
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People are confusing political theater and emotion with how the real world works.
The demand for super intelligence is only increasing and we don’t yet have at scale humanoid bots, self driving cars globally, AI in mfg, massive disease discovery , and even close to full AI penetration in business or personal agents scaled which will increase demand maybe millions of times where we are today.
Supply will eventually meet that demand whether it is built in the US, other foreign countries, and in space. The US controls their own destiny. We can choose to be AI sovereign, on the cutting edge, create the most amount of jobs/wealth, and be as secure as possible - making deals that greatly net benefit local communities too. We still have the opportunity to have our cake and eat it too… Or we can fall into a mob driven psyop used as a political wedge to help get one party elected. My gut tells me deals will get made.
But to be clear, the AI hyperscalers / cloud companies do not need US soil to build AI infrastructure. I think they prefer to have it in the US but these are highly resourced global companies who will go where is needed to fulfill demand. My other guess is the exec branch will start allocating significant amounts of federal land if local communities make themselves a bottleneck.
If you take one thing away from this post, just know AI infrastructure will get built to meet demand wherever in the world or universe is required. Taking the results of a midterm election in one country (that was mostly expected to be split gov outcome) and applying it to the demand/supply for super intelligence is literally absurd.
There is no fact-based argument for a reduction of data center build out due to an already expected split government midterm result or the state voting initiatives.
1. If a local/state gov doesn’t want to make a deal, the cloud/hyperscaler will move to one who will . This isn’t binary, most locals are making deals. The builds over the next 1-1.5yrs are already permitted.
2. If the US as a whole rejects enough land mass where the demand for AI factories cannot be fulfilled in the US, those AI factories will move offshore repeating the prior 3 decades of globalization and hollowing out of our middle class. It was dumb back then and even dumber now given the geopolitical national security implications of AI sovereignty…
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After using Grok and Grok Bot for the past few months, I am getting increasingly frustrated with how inept Alexa devices are
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Blanket bans are a blunt tool. Case-by-case on noise, water, power and neighbors is slower, but it usually ages better than a map-wide no.
Public lands make up 28% of the total land area of the United States. I don’t think we should have a data center ban that affects 28% of the US land area.
Evaluate on a case by case basis and do what makes sense.
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There should be an option on here to just block seeing posts from all accounts from specific regions.
You know what I’m talking about Africa and South Asia…
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The average effective federal income tax rate after credits and deductions for those making $75K a year in the US is 8.4%, or $6,300. (Excludes FICA) How exactly is that savings going to create wealth and value?
Want to create wealth and value? Cut all nonessential government spending and replace all income taxes with a consumption tax. That way everyone is paying their “fair share” into the mess that is the federal government. Obviously this is a pipe dream at this point because of the financial mess our politicians (on both sides) have gotten us in over the past 50 years.
If we said no tax on individuals who make less than $75,000/yr on active income in the United States, we would see more wealth and value created than taxing a couple hundred billionaires.
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