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SpaceX has ordered 100 GW/year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany.
This is for Starmind to create a sentient sun.
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…
Gwynne is great
"That's the man (@elonmusk I've worked for for 24 years. I love him."
Gwynne Shotwell
The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in about 8 months, but will have to return deposits for a lot of people.
This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media, but rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.
I want to be José
Ron Baron is 83. In front of thousands of investors in New York, he looked at Elon Musk and asked the one question an 83-year-old asks.
"How do you want people to think about you?"
For the full hour before, it had been trillion-dollar chip fabs. Starship. Starlink. The business of the richest man alive.
Then Baron added, quieter: "Nobody would work the way you work just to accumulate money."
Elon paused.
"I'd like the reality to be that I made a significant contribution in the furtherance of civilization."
One sentence. Civilization.
And then, in the same room, he told them about Jose.
Jose is the guy in the meme. One man digging a hole in the road. Eight men standing around watching him dig.
"Unless you increase the number of Joses in the country, the amount of work done does not increase."
"I aspire to be Jose."
"We do actual work."
This from a man who lives in an Airstream parked next to his power plant in Memphis. Who pulls power cables "the size of an anaconda" with his own hands.
Asked how he wants history to remember him, he said civilization.
Asked who he wants to be, he said the guy with the shovel.
The richest man in the world wants to dig. 🇺🇸🚀
Yes
Elon Musk predicts space will become the lowest-cost place to run superintelligence within just 2–3 years
“I think the case is a no-brainer for building solar-powered AI data centers in space”
Solar panels facing the Sun and radiators pointed away from it can provide an incredibly efficient power and cooling system
“The net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years, maybe three at the latest”
True
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
Quest to understand the Universe
When Chris Anderson asked Elon Musk what drives him every single day to do everything he does, Elon gave an incredibly deep and powerful answer
“I really want to make sure that there is a good future for humanity, and that we're on a path to understanding the nature of the universe, the meaning of life. Why are we here? How do we get here?”
And then he explained what motivates him more than anything:
“I'm motivated by curiosity more than anything, and just a desire to think about the future and not be sad”
Starlink saves lives
Starlink helped save FIVE lives in the Atlantic. ♥️
Their boat, Karolina Viking, was filling with water. Its power systems were failing. Rescuers couldn’t reach them by radio or satellite phone.
The sailors shared their location with rescuers through Starlink, helping another yacht find them.
All five were rescued from their liferaft and brought safely aboard.
Starlink helped turn a desperate situation into five lives saved. This is what a lifeline from space looks like.
Grok @Bot
I had my Grok Bot shop around new Auto Insurance. It couldn’t find info about Progressives Glass coverage and as all Tesla owners know Windshield replacements can be pricey. I had Grok Bot call Progressive and get additional information for me all while I picked my kids up from school without me ever having to talk to a person.
Here is the transcript and actual recording from the call. Personal info was bleeped and some parts cut for time. While there’s some improvements that can be made it got the job done.
My mind is thoroughly blown!
Try Grok @Bot! You will love it.
We land a few dozen fixes, features and sometimes powers to Bot 7 days a week and we look at your feedback to make Bot as perfect as possible.
