Humans are disappearing
Singapore just went all in on birth rates Fertility fell to a record-low 0.87 in 2025. Birth rates have fallen seriously low That’s not just a dip. That’s a whole country nowhere near replacing itself. It's a massive problem for the country So Singapore is going directly after the biggest things making parenthood harder: money, time, childcare and housing Money: - Every Singaporean child will receive around S$70,000 in direct financial support from birth to age 17 - S$10,000 Baby Gift during the first year - S$2,000 every year from age 1 to 16. - Plus MediSave, CDA support, Edusave and another S$10,000 education top-up at 17 - And every child gets the same baseline support regardless of whether they’re the first or fourth child Time: Childcare leave is increasing to: • 8 days for one child • 10 days for two • 12 days for three or more And it now covers children all the way through age 12. The government will cover the cost of statutory child-related leave up to the reimbursement limit, taking that burden off employers Housing: - First-time families will get an extra BTO ballot chance for every child they have or are expecting. - More kids = more chances of securing a home. The BTO income ceiling is also rising from S$14,000 to S$16,000 Childcare: - Government-supported full-day childcare is being pushed toward S$150/month and infant care toward S$300/month by 2030 Cash alone was never going to fix collapsing birth rates. Singapore is attacking the actual friction around having children: the cost, the time, childcare and getting a home If you want people to have more children, make having children easier Singapore is actually trying that
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Elon Musk retweeted
I did not know that George Floyd had overdosed on fentanyl just 8 weeks before his death - that he had actually been in intensive care because of it. Years later we're still learning new facts proving Derek Chauvin and the other officers were railroaded.
George Floyd had 4 times the fatal dose of fentanyl in his system when he died. We were told that was immaterial because he had developed a "tolerance." @TJHarker explains why that's false on the latest episode of Counterweight.
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Very few people know that the reason we launched my old Tesla Roadster to orbit Earth and Mars is that the probability of failure was very high and we didn’t want to risk anything valuable
Elon Musk reveals why he launched his Tesla Roadster into space. "I fully expected this flight to fail." Musk was talking about Falcon Heavy's first flight. Since he thought the rocket might fail, he didn't want to put something boring on top of it. Instead, SpaceX launched his personal Tesla Roadster with Starman sitting in the driver's seat. The car is now traveling in an orbit that takes it between Earth and Mars. And according to Musk, it could remain up there for around 10 million years. Imagine taking your everyday car and accidentally turning it into a piece of space history.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Thank you @mrbobodenkirk. Preorder Roll the Calls audiobook: amazon.com/Roll-the-Calls-A-…
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Grok @Bot ported Doom to a new device in 10 mins
Grok @bot now passes the DOOM test. It ported the entire DOOM to ESP32-S running at a high frame rate without trouble.
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SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028
The first CPU built for agents is going to work at scale. @SpaceX is deploying NVIDIA Vera to accelerate the orchestration, code execution, and data processing that powers its next generation of agentic AI — keeping GPUs fed and agents acting fast. From gigawatt AI factories to orbit. One NVIDIA architecture, everywhere.
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Our design is significantly simpler, lower cost, denser and lighter than a traditional rack
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Elon Musk retweeted
Communist authorities engineered cannibalism on purpose. In May 1933 they dumped 6,000 ordinary people on a bare island in Siberia’s Ob River with no food, no tools, and almost no shelter. Local police had grabbed them off city streets to meet arrest quotas during Stalin’s collectivization drive, many still carrying valid papers, and shipped them east without trial. Guards left a single sack of flour on the shore and departed. Within days the starving started dying by the hundreds and the living began eating the dead. A Communist Party inspector documented the mass graves and the cannibalism in a secret report. 4,000 were dead by the time the survivors were pulled off the island 2 months later. That report stayed locked in a Soviet archive for 60 years until the regime that buried it finally collapsed.
The Bolsheviks declared war on the Russian Orthodox Church as soon as they seized power. They stripped it of legal status and property, then executed thousands of priests, monks, and believers in the Red Terror. Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev was dragged from the Monastery of the Caves, tortured, and shot in January 1918. Patriarch Tikhon publicly excommunicated the Bolshevik leadership and spent his remaining years under arrest until his death in 1925. In 1922, while the country starved, the Soviets seized church gold and jewels under the pretext of famine relief. When believers in Shuya tried to stop them, troops opened fire on the crowd. Lenin then issued a secret memo ordering the most merciless suppression of the clergy possible, arguing conditions would never again be so favorable for crushing the Church’s influence for decades. By year’s end thousands of clergy had been shot and a 1000 year old institution was driven underground by the regime that claimed to liberate the peasants who built it.
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Elon Musk retweeted
How it started → How it’s going Elon Musk and Jensen Huang were the first to begin the modern AI revolution...this is how it all started One was betting on building superintelligence The other was building the compute that would power it
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Elon Musk retweeted
This is a super cool website. You can scroll around and look at any country's population pyramid, fertility rate, and mortality rate by year. Check this out:
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Thomas Sowell on Paul Krugman’s favorite inequality talking point. Krugman claimed that between 1979 and 2005, median household income rose only 13 percent while the top 0.1 percent rose nearly 300 percent. America, he said, is no longer a middle-class society. Sowell’s response is immediate: “All I have to hear is the word household income, and I know we’re not serious.” Households are not the same size. The bottom 20 percent contain 39 million people. The top 20 percent contain 64 million. Households have been getting smaller over time. When a household drops from three working adults to two and still earns the same total money, that is not stagnation — it is a 50 percent rise in per capita income. Per capita income always means one person. Household income is a political metric, not an economic one.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Elon Musk and @xAI “Never been done before – xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish. That is superhuman – There's only one person in the world who could do that – Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering.”
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Elon Musk retweeted
🚨 European media are SHOCKED: They said the AfD party and RN party had reached their maximum support. Today, BOTH broke their national polling records. Marine Le Pen hit 38% (+2), with AfD hitting 29% (+1)… 🇫🇷🇩🇪
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ELON MUSK: “I have a lot of respect for makers who create something useful. Build something useful that people enjoy. I have huge respect for people who make things and provide useful services.”
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Elon Musk retweeted
the reason i'm so chronically online on X is that i owe my entire career to it. every job i've had has been through relationships i've made here, and as i hit 50k - a number i never thought i'd see on my profile - i can't help but feel a little emotional. you see, i started building up my profile when @wifelette and @tomdale took a chance on me many years ago - a nobody in melbourne who was still learning how to code in js - and invited me to speak at @EmberConf. i had never been to a conference at that point in my life, let alone speak at one. they found me through my tweets sharing my blogposts about learning the framework. i'm not exaggerating when i say that my life changed after doing that talk. public speaking was my greatest fear and i was visibly shaking for the first 5 minutes of my talk, but somehow i managed to remember everything i had practiced. that talk was how i got my first real job (and moved to the US) at @DockYard, thanks to @bcardarella also taking a chance on me. throughout this time i continued posting on twitter and building up my profile little by little. after you've done one talk, the next one is a little easier and so i kept doing more of it - seeing the world i had never been exposed to before. i got my job @netflix the same way, through doing a talk, and people taking a chance on me. some of you may be surprised to know that i never majored in CS and that i'm a self taught programmer. so going through a FAANG interview was inconceivable to me at that point in my life. i actually tried to back out of the interview, but they convinced me to do it anyway, and im glad that i did. i then got my job at facebook through Dan Abramov (i miss him here!!), who i met at a conference talk i did in London. we stayed in touch on twitter for a while before he reached out to me asking if i would be interested in working on the react team (uh, hell yes?! but wait, me??). massive imposter syndrome has followed me everywhere. now at @cursor_ai and @SpaceXAI, i feel so lucky that i get to work alongside such crazy talented, driven, and ambitious people who want to build beautiful products for everyone. and i'm also still in disbelief that this many people care about what i have to say here. thank you everyone for taking a chance on me, and thanks @X for being there for me this whole time 🤍
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Grok @Bot works 24/7
ex-Apple engineer gave Grok 4.6 two jobs inside Cursor, went to sleep, and opened the results live the next morning: no babysitting, no checking every generation, just a model left running on real work for hours. • 00:42 - reveal the website Grok redesigned overnight • 23:21 - go from a voice prompt to a full software stack • 45:43 - inspect the generated code + architecture • 01:21:26 - Grok 4.6 vs Opus 5 • 01:46:31 - live PR + Cloud Agent workflow Most coding demos test an AI for 5 minutes. This tests the thing that matters for agents: can the model keep working when you stop watching it? SpaceXAI built Grok 4.6 specifically around longer-running agent tasks, coding and more ambitious visual work. The endgame isn’t prompting faster. It’s giving an agent a job at night and reviewing finished work in the morning. Worth watching before you choose which model runs your overnight agent loops.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Elon Musk described the mechanism that lets millions of intelligent people arrive at the same conclusion without a single independent input between them. Musk: “If your entire exposure is to legacy mainstream media, so that all your information sources are that Trump is basically Hitler, and your friend group has that same information, you have no countervailing opinion.” One source, repeated back by a friend group drawing on that same source, is a single input arriving twelve times. Agreement gets counted as evidence. A belief that has never met resistance feels, from the inside, identical to one that survived it. That is why almost nobody catches it in themselves. Musk: “Then they actually just think Trump is Hitler, even though it’s a little strange he didn’t do Hitler things the last four years.” The comparison had four years of executive power to prove itself and produced nothing. The belief held anyway. Any description of a person that survives the total absence of supporting events was never built on events. Then the same apparatus turned on the man saying it. He spent a decade celebrated as the builder of the electric car company and the rocket company that put American astronauts back in orbit from American soil. The engineering never changed. His politics did, and the coverage inverted inside a single news cycle. Output was never the variable being measured. No conspiracy is required. Outrage outperforms accuracy on every number a newsroom is graded on. Thousands of people chasing one incentive produce coordination nobody had to organize. The arrangement collapsed when the layer between the source and the reader disappeared. The person who was in the room posts it, and the correction comes from someone else who was in the room. It is louder, uglier, and far more honest. Contradiction now arrives whether you invite it or not. Even the owner of the platform gets corrected on his own posts by his own product. For most of the last century a few dozen editors decided what an entire country believed had happened that day. People accepted it as the natural order because no alternative had ever existed to measure it against. Every civilization inherits its picture of reality from whoever controls the distance between an event and the people who hear about it. That distance is now close to zero for the first time in human history. The filter is gone and it cannot be rebuilt. What you believe is finally yours.
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Unless rectified quickly, most of the US, Europe, and Asia will go extinct This is a true existential risk
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Elon Musk retweeted
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars. These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California. For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me. This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it. By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Reminder: Grok Build has xhigh effort, and it’s insanely powerful If you want to brute-force your way through a difficult project, just type: /effort Then switch to Extra High Effort It gives Grok 4.6 its highest reasoning and implementation effort for the really hard stuff
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