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I believe America will always be the home of the free and the brave.
Happy Veterans Day to all who served to show their love for this great country.
I’m honored to have served in the United States Army.
On Being a Sharpshooter in the United States Army
(Austin, Texas) Years ago, I had the awesome honor of being awarded the title of Military Sharpshooter by the United States Army.
This recognition wasn't handed to me on a silver platter; it was something I earned through dedication and a desire to win.
My training revolved around a goal: achieving precise shots.
Countless hours of practice at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in all kinds of weather, sharpened my skills, allowing me to hit targets with accuracy.
For me, it was never just a drill to get through quickly and move on; it was a serious quest to dominate and it demanded concentration, controlled breathing, focus, and the ability to adapt to even slight nuances in the air.
In these moments I discovered the true essence of a sharpshooter – the blending of discipline and mental strength.
Patience and the ability to remain calm under pressure became second nature to me.
Although I was never called into direct military operations during the relatively calm era of the 1980s, I now find myself drawing upon the same skills I acquired as a sharpshooter to conquer the challenges life throws my way. In fact, I think about my time in the US Army often.
My Tesla’s license plate reminds me and many other things I see and people I talk to bring back strong memories.
The mindset I cultivate extends beyond the military realm.
It embodies a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement in myself, my writing, and in my desire to
A) Inspire people to want to accelerate our world to sustainable energy and also to
B) Become a space-fairing civilization.
Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and reflection, and I hope my words serve as a source of inspiration for you and others.
We honor the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice. And may we, the living, hold on to their legacy by dedicating each day to exceeding our own expectations and to leaving a mark of goodness on the world.
I’m sharing with you a photo taken of me during that time, my US Army Honorable Discharge, and a photo of my Army Duffle Bag. Gail Nelson is my maiden name, of course! Thanks for reading and for your awesome support!
Robotaxi App will thoughtfully show you how long your ride takes to arrive in real time and the comparative pricing. In this case, the little cab will come quicker and cost less.
Sure wish we knew if Starship Flight 15 launch is a GO for Friday
Weather on Sat for a Ship catch looks a bit sketchy 🌧️
Welcome to Wednesday Headlines
X Street Daily, Nov 11
SpaceX has ordered 100 gigawatts a year of heterojunction solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany, an audacious bet on power for its satellites.
The contract is meant to speed production of SpaceX's Starmind satellites in Bastrop, Texas. Elon put the ambition in one luminous line: "This is for Starmind to create a sentient sun".
Starlink Mini 2 Packs Its Own Battery
The new portable Starlink runs up to 4.5 hours on its quick-swap battery and gets online in 60 seconds under a clear sky, with preorders open by invitation in the U.S. "Portable, lightning-fast Internet that works anywhere on Earth where Starlink is legal," Elon wrote.
FCC Accepts SpaceX Bid for 800 MHz
The FCC accepted SpaceX's application for 546 paired licenses covering about 100 percent of the U.S. population, on a low band that passes through walls. Elon called it the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle for complete phone coverage in America.
Boring Company Storms Into San Antonio
Just 29 days after finishing its Bastrop tunnel, The Boring Company began tunneling in San Antonio.
Elsewhere in the World
SpaceX is casting its own gas-turbine blades and vanes, a move Elon said could bring turbines online up to 18 months faster.
Elon agreed that far cheaper, frictionless Cybercab rides could grow total travel the way cheaper compute grew computing.
On the programmers' eternal quarrel, his verdict was crisp: "Rust is a good language, but C is what you use for optimal performance on bare metal."
And Starship Flight 15 will try, no earlier than November 13, to become the first ship caught by a tower on its return from orbit.
“I just love driving through the stop and go traffic to work. I’d never ever want autonomy…”
(said someone but literally the reality is nobody wants this)
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I had a wonderful time talking with people at CoRL tonight. Of course, I asked everyone if they’d tried Cybercab.
The most common answer was yes, yes, yes, yes. The event was spread across the city, and people told me they were taking Cybercab everywhere.
“For the purposes of a taxi service in metro areas, self driving seems like a solved problem”.
One thing that’s struck me about being back in ATX this week is the sheer amount of Cybercabs here. Every single street in downtown has the gold cars zipping around. It’s striking and in your face.
There are so so many Robotaxis - now more than Waymo in TX.
I don’t think people are able to properly grasp what’s coming. @Tesla’s incredible ability (and now renewed focus) to scale manufacturing means that the only practical bottleneck at this point is regulation. For the purposes of a taxi service in metro areas, self driving seems like a solved problem.
I now have a visceral understanding of the Tesla bull case. Not crazy to say that the Cybercab fleet will 100x in the next year.
There’s no shortage of incredible autonomous vehicles tonight near Rainey Street. @robotaxi
When asked what Maye Musk wished she had known earlier in life (around age 49), she gives wonderful advice:
“Mix with nice people. Sometimes we are kind to mean people, and we can’t change them”.
Today's Headlines - Tuesday!
X Street Daily, Nov 10, made by Gail Alfar and her bot!
Tesla has broken ground near Houston on a vast $10 billion solar factory that will make its own ingots and wafers and turn them into finished cells under one roof.
Elon named it in three words: "Project Crystal Sun". Construction should finish in 2028, with operations beginning early in 2029, and the plant is expected to add about $6.4 billion in state and local taxes and roughly $107 billion to the Texas economy.
Grok 4.8 Rewritten From Scratch in C
JAX and SGLang are gone, and the whole reinforcement learning and inference stack has been rebuilt in C and C++.
Pre-training is done, evals are starting to climb, and a soft rollout to Grok Bot users comes later this week. "This time, the foundations are built right," Elon wrote.
Grok Outshines Human Inspectors...
SpaceX's vice president of launch says human inspectors catch about 94 percent of foreign debris in aerospace parts. Grok, reviewing the same borescope video, catches 99.9 percent.
Data Centers Swell Memphis Tax Rolls...
Mayor Paul Young says SpaceX's data center generated $54 million in taxes this year, up from about $25 million last year.
Elsewhere in our World...
The Starlink software built to move vast amounts of data through space turns out, Elon wrote, to be very well suited to training super intelligence.
Starlink now reaches 154 villages and 42 public facilities across 🇻🇳 Vietnam.
Brussels Airlines 🇧🇪 flew its first Starlink flight and sent its press release from 12,000 meters.
Robotaxi opened a bigger Austin service area.
Near 🇦🇷 Bariloche, a Starlink dish brought rescuers to a family snowed in without power.
And Tesla's Lars Moravy told Jay Leno that Tesla is now the best-selling luxury vehicle in the world.
