In October 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, Stalin's secret police was shooting roughly 1,500 Soviet citizens every day. That same month, the founders of the London School of Economics published the second edition of their two-volume defense of Stalin's regime, Soviet Communism: A New Civilization. The one thing they changed from the first edition was dropping the question mark. 🧵

Elon Musk: “A friend is someone that supports you in difficult times… Fair-weather friends are useless. Everyone likes you when the chips are up, but who likes you when the chips are down?”

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🇯🇵 There are over 9 million vacant homes in Japan. Japan gives them away for free in some rural areas just to prevent neighbourhood collapse. They are called "akiya."

“A friend is someone that supports you in difficult times.” “If someone’s still supporting you when the chips are down—that’s a friend.” “Fairweather friends are useless.” “Everyone likes you when the chips are up, but who likes you when the chips are down?” @elonmusk with @nikhilkamathcio

Grok now in Microsoft Foundry

It's hard to believe Starhopper's 150 meter hop was seven years ago today. I shot it from the roof of a house in Boca Chica Village that no longer exists. These images clearly illustrate how far the Starship program has come, and how ragtag the beginning was.

The truth shall set you free

A small number of repeat offenders are responsible for the vast majority of violent crime

Californians could soon see some relief from their sky-high electric bills. The reason? Data centers. Thanks to data centers, PG&E has been able to offer rate cuts for the fourth time in two years. Let's keep building!

BREAKING: Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI is now available in Microsoft Foundry Models. 🤖⚡ Organizations can now build with Grok 4.6 on Foundry, compare frontier AI models, run workload-specific tests, deploy managed endpoints, and use enterprise security and governance controls. Grok 4.6 is expanding further into the enterprise AI ecosystem.

Amazing update! Thanks to this incredible audience, @SpaceX has just fulfilled another one of Liv Perrotto's final wishes. I spoke with her mother @rebeccaperrotto earlier this year, and she shared the list of questions that Liv planned to ask @elonmusk just days before she passed away from cancer. After this audience made that post go viral, @elonmusk answered every one of them, including whether he would make Asteroid, the space-loving Shiba Inu she designed, the mascot for SpaceX. Well now, SpaceX has just added an official plush of Asteroid to their website! YOU played a huge role in bringing Liv's story to light and making this happen. Thank you!

Neuralink 🧠 How it started v/s. How it's going

Neuralink is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs of our time. A woman paralyzed from the neck down is creating paintings just by thinking. Patients are controlling wheelchairs and moving a robotic arm just by thinking.

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BREAKING: SpaceXAI has released a new and improved update for Grok Build. v1.0.12 — 2026-08-27 Performance: • Worktree creation is faster by skipping stale reflog copies. Bug Fixes: • Copying wrapped table cells no longer inserts unwanted spaces at line breaks. • MCP server connections that fail transiently now retry instead of staying unavailable. • Waiting on subagents after an interjection no longer blocks on unrelated background work. • Prompt blocks now show friendly hook descriptions instead of internal IDs. • Truncation error message no longer suggests asking for a shorter answer. • Context estimates for conversations with reasoning are now more accurate. • Token usage after rewinding or switching modes now matches the actual server-reported count instead of overestimating. • Context bar now updates immediately when auto-compaction begins instead of waiting until it finishes. • File system monitoring for .NET projects no longer creates excessive watchers on Linux. • Auto recap no longer appears while a background task or monitor wake turn is streaming. Download Grok Build: x.ai/build Update to the latest Alpha release: grok update --alpha Update to the latest Stable release: grok update

Here's a little more of my incredible story! Thank you @neuralink for sharing! I can't believe this is real life and just think I'm just now 1 year into the journey of a being Neuralnaut. Check out my website neuraartstudio.com!

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It: Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on. This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time. Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed. The Words We’re Missing The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match: Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible. Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face. These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound. And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing. The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same. That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed. This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge. The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed. Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with. The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think. 1/2

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