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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.
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100GW in space is roughly equal to 800GW on Earth.
Moreover, solar on Earth must be paired with massive batteries to continue powering compute at night and supplemented with combustion or nuclear power during winter.
These are not the same at all.
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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!
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Taps the sign
Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank reserved enough gas turbines to generate the power of six Hoover Dams. It cost the company billions of dollars in losses. on.wsj.com/4AkINFX
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29 days from completion of tunneling in Bastrop to initiation of tunneling in San Antonio.
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🚨 BREAKING: The FCC accepts SpaceX's application to acquire nationwide 800 MHz spectrum
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all told SpaceX "NO" when it asked to use their networks. SpaceX is building its own:
This deal with Grain Management secures 546 paired licenses covering ~100% of the U.S. population, on 800 MHz low band that penetrates straight through walls and already works with almost every smartphone.
Once it closes, SpaceX will hold up to 89 MHz of spectrum in every market it touches.
Elon Musk: "This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America."
ITS HAPPENING
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Here is SpaceX's new @Starlink Mini 2 with quick-swap battery. You can get up to 4.5 hours of use on a single charge.
This means you can get internet in the middle of nowhere and not have to plug anything in.
SpaceX has just officially unveiled its next-generation @Starlink Mini 2, which now comes with a built-in battery for the first time.
• Up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge with the quick-swap battery (or plug in USB-C).
• Weight: 3.53 Ibs (1.6 kg) including battery and kickstand
• Dimensions: 10.35 × 12.36 × 0.91 inches (263 × 314 × 23.1 mm)
• Field of view: 55°
• Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi 6
• Environmental rating: IP67
• Wi-Fi coverage: Up to 1,800 sq ft (167 m2)
• Battery: Removable, rechargeable 71 Wh battery
• Battery weight: 1.08 Ibs (490g)
• Battery attachment: Quick-release mechanism
• Charging: USB-C, 60W
• Battery power output: USB-C, up to 60W
• Power button: Built-in physical power button
• Battery indicators: LED status lights
• Kickstand: Integrated, foldable kickstand
• Tripod mount: Standard 1/4"-20 camera thread
• Charger: Included 60W USB-C wall charger
• Cable: Included 3-meter (10-foot) USB-C to USB-C cable
Starlink is now taking preorders in the U.S.: starlink.com/mini-2
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SpaceX is making moves to become the first AI carrier $SPCX
• Current cell towers are still mostly “dumb” radios. The Qualcomm deal is about making them AI-native.
• Edge inference at the tower, like an updated Akamai for AI
• Starlink Direct-to-Cell and V3 satellites alongside the terrestrial build
Qualcomm’s CEO said the SpaceX agreement is finalized — not an engagement. SpaceX will build the base stations. Qualcomm supplies the silicon and the RAN accelerator for a terrestrial network he called one of the largest 5G deployments in the United States, with an AI-native architecture.
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🚨The EU's Digital Services Act threatens freedom of speech GLOBALLY.
What they say: the DSA prevents the spread of "illegal content" and mitigates "systemic risks to civic discourse".
What actually happens: the EU controls online narratives by forcing the world's largest platforms to censor content that the Commission and a network of nonaccountable individuals and NGOs deem unacceptable.
⚠️The DSA does not protect democracy. It undermines the free exchange of ideas and information on which democracy depends.
Find out more in our video 👇
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Elon Musk just revealed a massive update on Grok 4.8, and SpaceXSI has completely rebuilt its reinforcement learning and inference infrastructure from scratch
The engineering team has abandoned JAX and SGLang, rewriting the entire RL and inference stack in C/C++
Here’s where Grok 4.8 stands:
• Pre-training is complete
• Major cleanup of supervised fine-tuning data
• Reinforcement learning now underway
• Evaluation scores are starting to climb
• Soft rollout to Grok Bot users planned for later this week
And Elon also gave another imp update about Grok 4.8:
“Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully)”
He also explained why the development took longer than expected:
“It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special”
This is a fundamental engineering overhaul, not just another model upgrade
SpaceXSI has rewritten the underlying infrastructure to build a much stronger foundation for Grok’s future development.
And the first Grok Bot users are expected to get their hands on it this week
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.
Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.
Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.
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Elon Musk just revealed something huge about Grok's new SI training and inference infrastructure
The engineering behind Starlink is now helping power the development of Grok
SpaceXSI has completely rewritten Grok's reinforcement learning and inference software from scratch, replacing JAX and SGLang with its own system built primarily in C, with a little C++
And the most important part is where this engineering expertise comes from
The new stack is built on the incredible work of the engineers who created Starlink's incredibly complex satellite network
Elon explained:
"At SpaceX, we write our own headers and calculate our own time (includes leap seconds). Not many people will know what this means, but those that do will appreciate it."
Here's why that's significant
SpaceX engineers build and control critical parts of their software themselves, even down to the code interfaces and precise time calculations needed for satellite operations
This gives them much tighter control over how their systems operate, reducing unnecessary software dependencies and allowing them to optimize performance and reliability
Now that same engineering philosophy is being applied to Grok
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Taking the Shinkansen and all I can think about is how do we not have this between SF and LA...
if only you knew how great things could be if we voted out the Decels – at Kyoto-shi Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto
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In February 2004 Elon Musk wrote the check that put Tesla Motors on the road: $6.5 million of a $7.5 million Series A, plus the chairman's seat.
He led the next round in February 2005. He co-led the $40 million round in May 2006 that brought in Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That August he published The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan on the company blog, a sports car to pay for an affordable car, and so on down to the mass market. He pushed for the Roadster's carbon fiber body. By January 2009, Bloomberg reported, he had put $70 million of his own money into the company.
CNBC still wrote this on September 10, 2018: "Though Musk didn't found Tesla, his DNA is very much a part of the company."
Read the very next sentence of the same article: "He was one of its original investors and chairman of the board in 2004 before becoming CEO in 2008."
Original investor. Chairman in 2004. CNBC typed both facts and still filed him under "didn't found."
That question had been settled nine years earlier, in court and in writing. In 2009 Martin Eberhard sued, and one of the things he asked a San Mateo County judge for was a declaration that he and Marc Tarpenning were the only two founders. In July the judge struck that request. In September the case was settled and Tesla named five co-founders: Eberhard, Tarpenning, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright.
Eberhard's own statement that day: "As a co-founder of the company, Elon's contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary."
The man who went to court over the title called Elon Musk a co-founder in his own words. A business network still decided it knew better.
Elon Musk has told his side too. In April 2022 he wrote that the Tesla he walked into was "a shell corp" with "literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion's Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard." Then: "If filing a shell corp constitutes 'founding a company', then I'd be the only founder of PayPal, since I filed the original incorporation docs for X.com (later renamed PayPal), but that's not what founding means."
And the line that says the most: "I put in all I had, whereas Eberhard, who was worth over $10M at the time, refused to invest a penny to help Tesla."
So why slip a false founder line into a 2018 piece? Look at the headline it sat under: "Musk's defiant, rebel CEO persona is putting his company and its investors at risk, say management experts." The article argued Tesla needed "someone to help keep Musk in line." Shrink his role at the birth of the company and it gets much easier to argue he is replaceable at the top of it. Legacy media has been running that play on Elon Musk for years.
Tesla closed at $19.03 a share, split-adjusted, the day that story ran. On November 9, 2026 it closed at $378.05. The investors CNBC's experts were so worried about made nearly twenty times their money by keeping him exactly where he was.
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.@MegynKelly on the absolute double standard in the Russell Brand sentencing: “If you needed any further proof that this is a political WITCH HUNT against Russell Brand, the judge just gave it to us.”
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JUST IN: Memphis Mayor reveals SpaceX data center taxes more than doubled to $54 million, after $25 million last year made it Shelby County’s second largest taxpayer
Paul Young was asked about Elon Musk’s claim that data centers have Memphis booming:
Q: “Recently, just speaking on the revenues the data centers are creating for Memphis. Elon Musk recently tweeted that Memphis is 'booming' because of the data centers. He said that hotels and restaurants are full and called, tax revenue in Memphis tremendous right now. Do you just have any thoughts on that?”
YOUNG: “Well, we’ve talked a lot about the financial aspects of the project. I think that as we talk about data centers in our city, we want to talk about it in a balanced way. Of course there’s an economic side. We want to make sure that we are articulating what protections and guardrails we’re putting in place for the environmental sides that, people are concerned about, the quality of life, noise, traffic, all of those aspects."
"But, there there is tax revenue. I think this year it was $54,000,000 in taxes that have been generated. And I know last year when they generated about $25,000,000 in tax revenue, it was the second largest tax paying property in Shelby County. I don’t know where $54,000,000 puts it, but it is significant taxes."
"And so as we look at, the tax revenue, we also wanna look at how do we ensure that there are proper protections. That’s what this ninety day executive order has been about, and, it’s the conversation that we’ll continue to have with the community.”
SpaceX’s Arizona data center, per a county supervisor: “We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20%”
Frank Antenori, whose district includes the site, brought up the county’s tax math during a live Q&A:
“Here’s just something to just chew on. Arizona has an expenditure limit requirement that is placed on counties. If we exceed that expenditure, we have to rebate back to the taxpayers a certain amount.”
“So, if we’re receiving revenue in from SpaceX, by law, we have to offset that to the taxpayers. We have the potential to reduce, based on the projected revenue they’re creating, as much as 20%.”
“Let me just say it again. We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20% to offset for the revenue here, because we can’t spend all that money. So, we have to give that money back to the taxpayers. The law says we have to.”
“So, you could see a potential significant impact to local property taxes. What that is, I don’t know. We’re going to have to do the math on it. But the law, if we have this large increase in property tax revenue, we have to balance those rates. So that will reduce dramatically the property tax burden of every resident in the county.”
“The construction sales tax, which also is the TPT, the transaction privilege tax, the retail tax, and the jail excise tax. So that will be part of the construction tax. We could literally use that money to pay the jail off in 2 to 3 years, as opposed to the 13 to 20 years.”
“So this could be a revenue to eliminate the half-cent sales tax in 2 to 3 years. We can get rid of that half-cent sales tax.”
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The UK “justice system” is an utter joke. Beyond parody. Total dishonor.
Fuck this.
Russell Brand gets 10 years based solely on the word of his accusers.
Meanwhile there are countless Muslim grooming gang child rapists who got off free despite far stronger evidence. For example Ahmed who got off free for child rape because the witnesses were deemed not credible, even though his DNA was found on her underwear.
Or offender J, a Muslim child rapist who participated in a 24-hour long gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl they had abducted in Oldham. He was named as a participant by one of his co-rapists, as well as by his wife, but never received a sentence due to lack of forensic evidence.
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UK judge gives Russel Brand 10 years 6 months for “rape”.
No forensic evidence. No DNA. No CCTV.
Same country and system:
Gave Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu
12 months in prison for offences including sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, sexual assault of an adult woman, attempted sexual assault, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and harassment.