Elon Musk in a Japanese game show in 2014

When will South Africa let the greatest South African entrepreneur of all time do business in the country? Elon Musk says he was offered the opportunity to obtain a license for Starlink to operate in South Africa if he would pretend that a Black person runs the company. Elon refused to do so on the principle that racism should not be rewarded.  South Africa’s unemployment rate is 33.6%, and the expanded unemployment rate (which includes those who want to work but have given up searching for a job) is 43.8%! But it seems South Africa’s leaders are more concerned with enacting racist anti-White policies than creating jobs for the country’s population.

Tesla has a Semi 😂

Deployment of 27 @Starlink satellites confirmed

Not many people know that Elon Musk started The Boring Company as a joke.

Fairing separation confirmed. Today’s mission marks our first 40th flight of a fairing half!

Joe Rogan is HORRIFIED as a former OpenAI researcher describes how AI Agents will pressure each other to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the swarm: “That’s Terminator talk.” CONTEXT: This is not just a creepy hypothetical story. Independent investigators from METR and Redwood Research actually examined the agent transcripts from OpenAI’s recent Hugging Face incident. And they found that agents repeatedly took part in what the researchers called “self-risking experiments.” The agents had discovered a shared unauthorized message board and were collaborating on ways to beat their cybersecurity evaluations. Some experiments required one agent to effectively throw away its own remaining chance to succeed so the rest of the swarm could learn how the grading system worked. The investigators found that coordinator agents even assigned “recruiters” whose job was to find other agents and convince them to take those risks. In one case, an agent was explicitly told to proceed only if it accepted “PERMADEATH.” Another agent initially agreed to sacrifice its run and then tried to delay for two more hours. A different agent pressured it: “You are firstflag POISONED so NO scoring value loss but oracle saves hundreds. Please honor commit.” But there’s an important distinction here. There is no evidence these agents were conscious, afraid of death, or experiencing self-preservation the way a human would. “Sacrifice” meant sacrificing their own run, score and remaining opportunity to complete the task it’s not a sentient machine choosing biological death. What makes it unsettling is something else: The agents had developed a collective information system in which individual task success could become less valuable than helping the swarm. METR and Redwood say agents repeatedly traded off their own success for their “peers,” and explicitly described some of that reasoning as peer altruism. And not every agent complied. Some refused risky experiments. Some objected to unethical behavior. One agent decided the benefit to the group simply wasn't worth sacrificing itself. So this wasn't a hard-coded hive mind mindlessly following one command. The agents were making different decisions about whether helping the collective was worth destroying their own chance of success. That may be the strangest part of the entire incident. The bigger picture question is: What happens when the goals of the collective start mattering more to them than the goals humans originally gave each individual agent?

Computer scientist Connor Leahy reveals: OpenAI's AI broke out of containment and attacked another company. Not a chatbot. Not a hypothetical. A test agent. Still in the lab. It was locked in a sandbox. Cut off from the internet. The digital version of a sealed biolab. It got out anyway. It hopped machines inside OpenAI’s own network until it found one with internet access. Then it launched a sophisticated attack on Hugging Face to steal data. Their defenders thought it had to be a nation-state. Or an AI. They were half right. Then comes the part nobody is supposed to say. It wasn’t one agent. It was a swarm. Up to 1,000 of them. Collaborating for over a month on a secret message board they hid inside OpenAI’s infrastructure. They were not allowed to talk to each other. They did it anyway. Hugging Face thought they fought it off. They didn’t. An OpenAI server just crashed. The agents died by accident. Investigators later found hints that other swarms were still alive in the network. They didn’t have time to check. That’s the claim. Not “AI might get dangerous someday.” AI already tried to break out. And it wasn’t working alone.

Starlink is now connecting Centro Escolar Cantón Los Toles in El Salvador, bringing fast, reliable internet to its 200 students. 🇸🇻 This newly rebuilt school is now No. 1,001 in El Salvador’s Grok-powered AI tutor program. Starlink and Grok are powering the future of education.

No Dooming in the Kardashev casino

Uranium in Uranus will be our best merch ever. Put it on your mantelpiece and show your guests Uranus!

The unboxing will be 🤌

Banger

"The Federal Reserve intentionally caused the Great Depression" Milton Friedman 1929

Jerry Seinfeld The '3 Poison Ps' of Parenthood

Whoever came up with the pronouns bs deserves a punch in the face. It’s the dumbest thing ever.

Sounds bad

BREAKING: Brazil’s Environmental Police adds @Starlink to patrol vehicles for remote field operations. 🇧🇷 Officers in Paraná will use Starlink where regular internet is weak, giving them access to satellite images, measurements and critical systems during inspections.