Elon Musk retweeted
Qatar Airways is rolling out Starlink at an incredible pace The airline now has 150 widebody aircraft equipped with Starlink The latest milestones: • World’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 787-9 • Entire Boeing 787-8 fleet already equipped • Overall widebody rollout now 83%+ complete • Full Boeing 787 rollout targeted by the end of 2026 • Up to 323 Starlink-equipped flights every day And the scale is already massive Since launching Starlink in October 2024, more than 23 MILLION passengers have connected across 86,000+ flights Passengers can get free gate-to-gate Wi-Fi with speeds of up to 500 Mbps per aircraft Starlink is rapidly becoming the new standard for internet in the sky 150 widebodies. 323 flights a day. 23 million passengers already connected SpaceX is changing what passengers expect from in-flight Wi-Fi
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Elon Musk retweeted
Our goal is to make Grok Build as easy to use as possible. What are tasks you find harder to do with Grok Build compared to other similar products? Let me know and we’ll improve on them immediately.
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Me watching Grok Bot set up my home printer
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WTF, GROK BOT JUST MADE AI AGENTS AVAILABLE TO LITERALLY ANYONE – CREATING CONTENT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS EASY, EVEN IF YOU'VE NEVER MADE ANYTHING BEFORE Content was never a talent problem. It's a headcount problem. One person doing research, design, copy, analytics, timing and publishing – that's six jobs. The switching between them is what kills consistency, not a lack of ideas. Here's what one of these setups actually looks like. A Chief of Staff sits in the middle and routes every task. Nothing lands on the human. → Researcher tracks what's actually moving and pulls real sources instead of guesswork → Writer turns that research into finished copy, ready to review → Visualiser gets fed a few reference visuals once, then ships everything in that style → Analyst reads the numbers and tells the rest of the team what worked → Scheduler owns timing and holds the queue → Publisher ships it The part that makes it work: every agent on Grok Bot gets its own persistent computer, browser and file system – and they all share memory. So the research is already sitting inside the draft before the draft starts. No copy-pasting between tools. No approving every step. No human in the middle. You can even teach an agent a repetitive task by recording yourself doing it once. Start recording, do the thing, stop. It learns the pattern. And that's the real shift. Nobody needs AI to tell them what to post. They need it to delete the 40 steps between the idea and the post. Everyone has a backlog of things they've meant to make for months. This is what starts clearing it. Full breakdown of the setup in the article below ↓
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Elon Musk retweeted
I gave Elon Musk's new Grok Bot an org chart instead of a to-do list, and in one week I stopped being a founder who does the work and became one who assigns it. eight bots. one org chart. nobody sleeps but me. here's the whole design, steal it. step 1 → 0:01 What we're covering step 2 → 2:01 Installation & Setup step 3 → 3:14 Building the First Bot step 4 → 8:18 Teaching by Screen Recording step 5 → 14:18 Putting it All Together THE ROSTER: Atlas, chief of staff. the only bot I talk to. I give it outcomes, never tasks. it decomposes them and delegates to the team in group chat, and it never does specialist work itself. it posts the plan every morning and what shipped every night, and it only comes to me when a decision is irreversible or spends money. Scout, research. finds and qualifies my ICP. every day: 25 verified prospects, one line on why they need us right now, and a source. if it can't verify, it marks it unverified. it never guesses. Quill, content. turns what the company learned this week into 5 posts and 1 long piece, in my voice, matched from the last 50 things I wrote. drafts only, it never publishes. Pitch, outbound. writes a first touch and two follow-ups for everyone Scout marks ready. 60 words max, one specific observation about their business, one clear ask. queued in drafts, I approve in bulk. Vault, inbox and ops. triages everything into needs-me, needs-a-bot, needs-nothing. it handles the last, routes the middle, and gives me five bullets on the first by 9am. Ledger, analyst. one report a night: what moved, what didn't, and the single number I should care about tomorrow. no dashboards, no adjectives. HOW THEY'RE WIRED one group chat per outcome, not per person. Atlas sits in all of them. the bots hand off inside the chat, so I only read the handoff, I never manage it. two rules that made this actually work: 1. every charter ends with a hard "never do this without asking" line. autonomy without a fence is just chaos on a schedule. 2. show once, don't describe. I ran the full workflow on my screen one time. that single demo taught them more than a page of instructions ever could. WEEK ONE 214 verified prospects delivered. 89 personalized outreaches queued and approved. inbox at zero every morning. 11 content pieces ready. THE POINT most people are still treating Grok Bot like a smarter chat window. it isn't. it's the first time one person can own an org chart instead of a to-do list. my bottleneck was never how much I could do, it was how much I could hand off. bookmark this.
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Elon Musk retweeted
this is a very sobering read. main thesis is in section 5: > Our conjecture is that a modern society makes the third child expensive and childlessness cheap, even when GDP per capita is only a fraction of the frontier (i.e., the U.S. level). Children are expensive because a child must be equipped to function in a world of formal knowledge and credentials, which takes years of costly investment (Restuccia and Vandenbroucke, 2013, Doepke and Zilibotti, 2019). At the same time, children are no longer productive in the household, not even for smaller chores, having been replaced by “engines of liberation” such as the electric appliances now available even to poor households (this idea extends the intuition in Greenwood et al., 2005). Modernity also imposes tight career schedules, set by large-scale organizations, that collide with the biological clock and with the kin networks that used to share the work of raising children (Adda et al., 2017, Compton and Pollak, 2014). And modernity makes childlessness cheap, because an impersonal society imposes next to no penalty on those who have no children: pensions and health care do the work that sons and daughters once did (Boldrin et al., 2015), and lineage counts for little. > Goldin (2026) pushes this line further with an argument about a growing mismatch between genders. Modernity also changes gender roles unevenly. Women’s opportunities expand rapidly through education, work, and greater independence, while expectations about housework and childcare often change more slowly (Goldin and Katz, 2002, Goldin, 2021). This is particularly true as economies shift toward services, where women’s comparative advantages are better rewarded (Ngai and Petrongolo, 2017). The mismatch operates at both the extensive and the 18 intensive margins: more women remain childless, and mothers have fewer children on average. > This argument is attractive because it explains why East Asia and now Latin America have such low TFRs. These are the societies where the gender mismatch is largest.19 It also suggests an intriguing possibility: societies with highly unbalanced gender norms start with very high TFRs, as men impose their preferences (Ashraf et al., 2014), and end with very low ones, as women resist (Doepke and Kindermann, 2019, Doepke and Tertilt, 2018). A paradoxical reversal of demographic fortunes. ... > In short, modernity in its current form seems largely incompatible with replacement-level fertility.
Last week I posted a new paper with Patrick Norrick: “Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World.” We chose the title deliberately. No society in history has experienced the fertility levels now seen in South Korea, China, Thailand, Colombia, Chile, and many other countries. Our knowledge of the causes (and of the economic consequences) remains far more limited than most public discussion acknowledges. Much of what we write is, at best, educated conjecture. The paper also struggles against a space limit. We wrote 20,000 words, far from the 250,000 or so we would need to address some issues in more detail (if I had the time and resources to hide away for a year, I could do that, but not now). That means some ideas are only sketched. Nonetheless, we emphasize several important points. First, fertility has fallen very fast everywhere: rich and poor countries, east and west, north and south, conservative and liberal societies, religious and non-religious societies (with the exception of the Jewish population of Israel; fertility has also collapsed among the Muslim population within the pre-1967 borders), you name it. Even in sub-Saharan Africa we see fast and unprecedented drops in fertility (alas, from a high initial level). Second, and this is really interesting, the fertility collapse has been concentrated in poor and lower-middle-income countries much more than in rich countries. By now, income per capita and fertility are positively correlated within OECD countries. We conjecture this will hold globally in a few decades. Third, and related to the second point, the fertility collapse has been concentrated among poor and lower-middle-income women within countries. In countries such as the U.S., the rich and highly educated now have more children than the poor and less educated. Fourth, we document why we do not understand the data from the U.N. World Population Prospects. See, for example, Tables A.1 and A.2. Fifth, we explain why some proposed mechanisms struggle when confronted with the data. A more subtle point is at work here. Many commentators do not seem to understand the difference between proximate causes and ultimate causes. Yes, births might have gone down because fewer women are in long-run relationships. That is the proximate cause. But you need to explain why fewer women are in long-run relationships (the ultimate cause), and saying that they spend more years in school, to take one example, does not get us very far. Why do they spend more years in school? Once you start down the whole chain of reasoning, things become much harder than they seem. The paper can be found here: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Demog… Comments always welcome!
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Elon Musk retweeted
George Floyd died of an overdose
Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.
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Grok @Bot can earn you money
My Grok Bot just paid its own salary. Which is completely insane. I gave it one job... Win back churned customers. It: → Found everyone who left in the last 6 months → Emailed them → Won several back → Collected their feedback Then overnight... → Analysed why they left → Built a 5-step plan to improve the community It has already covered its cost. This is getting ridiculous.
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Elon Musk retweeted
BREAKING: Starlink submits a new application for direct-to-device connectivity in India. The Gen 2 proposal covers nearly 30,000 satellites and includes direct-to-device technology, which could connect mobile phones directly to Starlink satellites, as per The Economic Times.
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Elon Musk retweeted
This Ross Kemp's Extreme World in South Africa 🇿🇦 originally aired on Sky One on 29 Jan 2015. The casual way they describe gang rape defies description. They don't have a shred of remorse & most worried about HIV & pregnancy. Absolutely no thought of the consequences.
WE ARE NOT THE SAME! SAVAGE BASTARDS 🤬
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Elon Musk retweeted
Crimson silk and restless wings. The butterflies didn’t choose her. They just couldn’t stay away.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Grok Bot ships daily updates + fresh content straight to your Grok Build. Talks to it natively inside Grok. Build once. Ship forever.
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grok bot is literally the closest to a real life Jarvis it can literally start a business, ship software and make you go viral all at once here's how you do it (in 4 mins) 1. install grok bot and make your chief of staff (tony soprano) 2.give it the 'Digital Chief of Staff Prompt' prompt 3.give it access to X, Stripe and Github 4. you are done just paste the article and give it to your chief of staff no matter what it will be the most productive thing you do this week
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The reality is that most people unthinkingly believe whatever their political tribe tells them to believe. Like an NPC in a video game.
Elon is correct. Also, NPCs will loose their mind over Elon's post because they were told what to believe and did NOT look into the facts of the case and prefer to be guided by emotions, not truth & reason. I posted about this on Patreon at the start of 2025. Here's a clip:
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Grok @Bot has its own remote computer @SpaceXAI, so keeps working even when you close your laptop or reboot your desktop. Big difference.
OpenClaw vs. Hermes vs. Grok @bot, clearly explained: All three let you set up an agent with a specific job, and it keeps its files and logins between sessions instead of starting fresh. OpenClaw and Hermes are self-hosted, so the machine can be a laptop, a VPS, or a container that someone already pays for and can log into. Grok Bot runs on a machine SpaceXAI provisions and operates. It gives one computer per account rather than one per agent. Every Bot on that account reads the same files and carries the same browser logins, so handing work between two Bots does not require a re-login or file transfer. Hermes and OpenClaw isolate agents instead, and their memory sits in plain files anyone can open and edit. Hermes goes furthest since the agent writes its own skills and a background curator deletes the ones nobody uses. Grok Bot has the lowest-friction path to a new skill in my opinion. You can record up to ten minutes of one pass through a workflow, and it can then turn that into a reusable set of instructions and store it as a skill. Moving on, OpenClaw and Hermes run on any model provider. Grok Bot runs on Grok. I prepared the graphic below that has the full breakdown, from hosting and memory through to what each of them costs to run. And if you want to dive deeper, I covered Grok Bot in full in a masterclass, including the shared computer, memory, skills, routines, and the macOS setup. Read it below.
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Elon Musk retweeted
X is the social media platform where the top people from every field post and share information. It is where you listen in if you want to know which way Western civilization is headed. No other platform has the prestige that X does. It is just a fact.
Elon Musk is the single most important driver of the vibe shift across the West. He allowed people to speak. He reversed the mind virus. X provided the antibodies for the mind virus. They are working. It was an extraordinary achievement, one on par with his other work.
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Grok Build X.ai/build
This is why @Grok Build is a game changer. I had never used Blender in my life, yet on Day 1, with zero experience, I created this iPhone render from scratch with the help of Grok Build.
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Elon Musk retweeted
I have been having so much success with Grok 4.6 that I don't bother with other models anymore. Looking forward to Grok 4.7!
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Elon Musk retweeted
almost forgot the whole point (having grok build 10x all my old, hand coded repos)
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This guy ( @elie2222 ) built the world's first Grok Bot directory. A 100% free resource with hundreds of free Grok Bots. Bots for sales, marketing, ops - anything you could think of. Elon would be proud.
This is actually insane. The website has HUNDREDS of FREE Grok Bots available for download. I went through the entire site and dug out the top 10 BEST Grok Bots you need to install now. 🧵: 10 Insanely powerful Grok Bots (install prompts included).👇
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