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“No,” Musk said. “No. NO.” There was a long pause. “No mirrors, no pedals, no steering wheel. This is me taking responsibility for this decision.”... “Let me be clear," he said slowly. “This vehicle must be designed as a clean Robotaxi. We’re going to take that risk. It’s my fault if it fucks up. ...” @elonmusk , 2022 — from @WalterIsaacson biography. Four years later, that bet looks like it paid off.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Common sense is now considered “Far Right”
What the Legacy Media calls the “Right” and “Far Right”. The vast majority of normal people...
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Elon Musk retweeted
Elon Musk is right to call this out. He said calling people Nazis for centrist views insults those who suffered and died under the real Nazis. Those abusing it should be condemned. Calling people Nazis just because they hold views you oppose disrespects history and its victims.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Starlink is now delivering fast, reliable connectivity onboard Austrian Airlines so passengers can stream, scroll, and surf effortlessly from 30,000 feet 🛰️✈️
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Elon Musk retweeted
When Elon Musk visited Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in 2021 🇮🇹
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FSD Supervised approved in Slovenia 🇸🇮
FSD Supervised now approved in Slovenia 🇸🇮 Rollout will begin soon
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The truth shall set you free
Before @ElonMusk bought Twitter, you couldn't notice that foreigners committed most of the group rapes in Germany, despite being just 15% of the population. By lifting censorship, says @Pauline__Voss, Musk unleashed a “vibe shift” that led to @AfD's historic victory.
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That is correct
The "far right" party is headed by a lesbian feminist with a wife from Sri Lanka?
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Elon Musk retweeted
“The obsession with truth is why I studied physics, because physics attempts to understand the truth of the universe.” — Elon Musk
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Cool 🇦🇹
BREAKING: Starlink is now officially live on Austrian Airlines. 🇦🇹 CEO Annette Mann boarded the aircraft to mark Austrian Airlines’ first Starlink-enabled flight from Vienna to Porto today.
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Now the Third Man – Rudi Dutschke – The Man Who Gave the Long March Its Name. Gramsci invented the strategy. Dutschke named it – and then went out and implemented it, in the streets of West Berlin, in 1968, with a generation of students who had read Gramsci and were ready to march. 1. Born in East Germany in 1940, he fled to West Berlin in 1961 – two days before the Wall went up. He had seen actually existing socialism from the inside – and concluded not that the project was wrong, but that the method was. He didn’t want that version. He wanted a better one – built from the inside of the Western institutions rather than imposed from above by a party apparatus. 2. He read Gramsci. He read Mao. And he synthesized them into the phrase that named the entire project: der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen – the long march through the institutions. Not Gramsci’s phrase. Dutschke’s. Gramsci had described the mechanism. Dutschke gave it the slogan that made it actionable, transmissible, and operational for an entire generation. The phrase spread across Europe in 1968 like a match dropped in dry grass. Every student who heard it understood immediately what it meant and what it required. 3. The target was precisely identified: not the state, not the economy, but the institutions that reproduced the cultural hegemony – the universities, the media, the schools, the churches, the legal system. Infiltrate them. Occupy them from within. Replace the people who ran them with people who shared the counter-hegemonic project. Don’t storm the Reichstag. Get a job in the editorial office. Get a position in the faculty. Get appointed to the curriculum committee. The revolution would happen through tenure, not through barricades. 4. On April 11, 1968, Josef Bachmann shot Dutschke in the head on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin. Three bullets. Dutschke survived – but never fully recovered. He spent the rest of his life in partial recovery, moving between Germany, Denmark, and Britain, still writing, still thinking, still speaking at conferences with the damaged brain of a man who had been shot for his ideas. He died in 1979, drowning in his bathtub during an epileptic seizure caused by the brain damage from the shooting. He was thirty-nine. 5. The shooting produced something Bachmann had not intended: it made Dutschke a martyr and the movement a cause. The protests that followed — directed primarily at the Axel Springer media company, whose tabloid Bild the students blamed for inciting violence — were the largest street demonstrations in West Germany since the war. The attempt to silence the long march accelerated it. The generation radicalized by the shooting went on to become exactly what Dutschke had described: the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges. The bullet proved his point. 6. Gramsci designed the theory in a prison in Italy. Dutschke gave it its name and its generation in Berlin. The 1968 student movement he led was the transmission mechanism – the moment the Prison Notebooks left the academy and became a political program with a slogan, a street presence, and a generational identity. Without Dutschke, Gramsci remains a text. With Dutschke, he becomes a movement. The long march through the institutions began, as a practical matter, in West Berlin in 1968, among students who knew precisely where they were going and had a name for the route. 7. The institutions they marched through are now theirs. The universities, the media, the civil service, the judiciary – all transformed, over fifty years, exactly as Dutschke described. He was shot for saying it could be done. It was done. The man who named the march did not live to see its completion. He died at thirty-nine in a bathtub, from the damage done by a bullet fired by someone who thought killing him would stop the march. It did not stop the march. It never does. Ideas shot in the head have a way of surviving their authors. Even the bad ones.
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Elon Musk retweeted
the Grok @Bot desktop app just got a whole lot faster! there's still more to improve, but we shipped many perf improvements over the past week: • cold start to usable shell: -247ms (18% faster). • cold start LCP: -425ms (23% faster). • cold start FCP: -234ms (16% faster). • total blocking time to the shell: -101 ms (34% faster). • warm restart to shell: -194 ms (18% faster). • marketplace bots tab first open: -18ms (41% faster). other stats that are unchanged: • INP p98: 48 ms to 56 ms. • composer keystroke to next frame: 8.4 to 8.5 ms. • chat switching: 64 to 77 ms short chat first visit, 66 to 68 ms long chat, revisits equal. • long chat scroll: zero long tasks. enjoy the long weekend building with Grok @Bot!
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Elon Musk retweeted
Sachsen-Anhalt hat gesprochen: Die AfD ist mit 44,2% mehr als doppelt so stark wie die CDU und hat einen Regierungsauftrag erhalten. Gratulation an Ulrich Siegmund und die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt!
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Elon Musk retweeted
This is the first time in Earth’s history that the path is visible: cure cancer, slash traffic deaths, give anyone high agency no matter their body — and reach the stars — by scaling compute and energy. Don’t squander it.
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They never do, because the legacy media IS far left! That is why they view normalcy as the far right.
Does the legacy media *ever* use the term “far left”?
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The frequently-stated rebuttal is that these are isolated incidents, but even a cursory review of actual statistics proves that these are in fact common!
All it takes to be called "far-right" by BBC is to oppose this
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This is a testable hypothesis
“people wouldn’t commit crimes if they could just afford food” they would, actually. Finland studied this by giving people UBI, and it had precisely zero impact on crime
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No country did more to make the case for free speech over the last 300 years than Britain. And yet it has made over 62,000 arrests over the last five years for "communications offences," which have included doing nothing more than watching a TikTok video. It's terrifying just how totalitarian the UK has become.
🚨 NEWS: Our groundbreaking new investigation into the scale of Britain’s free speech crisis is front page of the Mail on Sunday today. Time for @andyburnham to listen - we want a free speech reset. I’ve written to him today calling for an urgent review into our laws on speech
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