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Phil Metzger
@DrPhiltill · Nov 2, 2026
Vacuum is definitely not the best possible insulator. We fill vacuum dewers with granular material like perlite to stop the radiative heat transfer between inner and outer jackets. And that’s at ultra-low temperature. At high temperature (like GPU temps) the heat transfer via
Jan Broersen@broudsov· Nov 2, 2026My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Yup, T^4 scales super fast
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Natalie F Danelishen
@Chesschick01 · Nov 2, 2026
People keep saying “how much taxpayer money did Elon get”
Not enough people are asking “how much value has Elon given the taxpayer”
I would rather my tax money go to Elon helping the blind see, the paralyzed move, humanity flying to space, rescuing astronauts on the ISS,
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
I have paid far more in taxes than the Tesla loan, which was repaid
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Yeah, much easier to cool in space.
~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero!
Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to have ~5 times the area of the radiator. Most of the mass of the satellite is solar panels.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Grok @Bot
Dylan@dkmitc· Nov 2, 2026I had my Grok Bot shop around new Auto Insurance. It couldn’t find info about Progressives Glass coverage and as all Tesla owners know Windshield replacements can be pricey. I had Grok Bot call Progressive and get additional information for me all while I picked my kids up from
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Dylan
@dkmitc · Nov 2, 2026
I had my Grok Bot shop around new Auto Insurance. It couldn’t find info about Progressives Glass coverage and as all Tesla owners know Windshield replacements can be pricey. I had Grok Bot call Progressive and get additional information for me all while I picked my kids up from school without me ever having to talk to a person.
Here is the transcript and actual recording from the call. Personal info was bleeped and some parts cut for time. While there’s some improvements that can be made it got the job done.
My mind is thoroughly blown!
Dylan@dkmitc· Nov 2, 2026Using Grok Bot to make calls to Progressive for additional info before I buy new insurance.
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Shaun Maguire
@shaunmmaguire · Nov 2, 2026
difficulty of cooling in space is vastly harder than on the ground
But 99.9999% of that challenge is Starship
Once you have the ability to get huge amounts of mass into space cheaply, it is genuinely easier to cool things in space
Your cooling system is passive
Just a giant p
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Yeah, much easier to cool in space.
~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero!
Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to
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Tom Mueller
@lrocket · Nov 2, 2026
"Professor of Philosophy"🙄
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
🤡😂
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Jan Broersen
@broudsov · Nov 2, 2026
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
You are fully retarded
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Wow
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Nov 2, 202631% of the EU budget is farm subsidies.
Defense gets 1.2%.
Borders get 2%.
Farm handouts get 25x what defense gets and 15x what borders get.
Europe faces a land war on its eastern flank and years of uncontrolled migration. The response is a giant welfare machine, while
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Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Nov 2, 2026
Talarico has outspent Paxton nearly 9-to-1 since July.
$89.4 million vs $10 million.
He’s also spent $11.6M MORE THAN HE RAISED.
Leftists love to lecture everyone about “money in politics” and “buying elections” until it’s their guy burning through cash like it’s Monopoly money.
Where’s it coming from? Out of state donors? Special interests? Or just the usual Democrat money machine trying to purchase Texas?
Paxton is getting outspent almost 9-to-1 and they’re still worried. They will fail.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Nov 1, 2026California is trying to buy a Texas Senate seat.
Talarico is getting 53% of his itemized money from outside the state.
California alone dropped $7.8 million on him, more than Paxton raised from every other state combined.
New York added $3 million.
Massachusetts another
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump · Nov 2, 2026
TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF TEXAS, GET OUT AND VOTE for these Great Patriots! They have my Complete and Total Endorsement and will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Karoline Leavitt
@karolineleavitt · Nov 2, 2026
There is nothing moderate about James Talarico.
Talarico is a left-wing extremist.
Just listen to him in his own words.
Texas, defeat this radical and elect @KenPaxtonTX!
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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox · Nov 2, 2026
Steven Bartlett asks James Talarico how Texas chases “equality” without chasing off figures like @ElonMusk.
Talarico’s answer: Musk’s net worth is a “spiritual sickness,” and the rich should pay something closer to the 1950s rate of 90%.
BARTLETT: “What would you have done to stop [Elon from becoming a trillionaire]?”
TALARICO: “We at one point in this country, we had, I think it was in the 1950s, had a top marginal tax rate of 90%. I don’t think it needs to be that high, but we used to have a political system and an economic system that more fairly distributed the fruits of our labor.”
“And I think the thing that really upsets people, particularly about the Elon example, is that Tesla was successful because of taxpayer dollars, right? Tesla got investment from the federal government, which is why it has been so successful.”
CONTEXT: The taxpayer dollars Tesla received were a LOAN from the Department of Energy in 2010. Ford got $5,900,000,000, and Nissan got $1,400,000,000 from the same program.
But Tesla did something those automakers hadn’t. It repaid the full $465,000,000 it had borrowed, with interest, 9 years ahead of schedule, becoming the first automaker in the program to pay its loan back in full.
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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼
@DrewPavlou · Nov 3, 2026
FAR-LEFT VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA.
One Nation volunteer hospitalised in Australia with bleeding of the brain and multiple facial fractures after being bashed with a baseball bat in a targeted political attack by left wing extremists.
The two men who attacked him were migrants on visas - they assaulted him after he confronted them for ripping down One Nation signs on his property.
The victim’s family have started a fundraiser to support him while he recovers in hospital and cannot work.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
Grok @Bot improvements
matt palmer@mattyp· Nov 2, 2026What's New in Grok Bot
00:14 Shopping cards
00:27 Product pages
00:39 Order tracking
00:53 Payments
01:33 Custom modes
01:52 Team Bot logins and setup
02:09 Share and find Team Bots
02:51 Connector asks in Slack
03:12 Contacts in Vault
03:31 Rapid fire
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Peter Hague
@peterrhague · Nov 2, 2026
If anyone did this to George Soros they would be called Nazis and not given a puff piece in WIRED. It is overt stochastic terrorism.
WIRED Science@WIREDScience· Nov 2, 2026The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 3, 2026
True
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Jun Song
@jun_song · Nov 2, 2026
More context :
A single Waymo car uses 4 H100 GPUs just to drive itself. That is about $200k worth of compute inside one car.
Right now, the Nvidia Orin self-driving modules used in Mercedes pack, and Tesla FSD use 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM.
Most people think better tech means we
Jun Song@jun_song· Nov 1, 2026Hate to break it to you, but the global hardware shortage has not even started yet.
Right now, only 1% of humanity is burning any real amount of AI tokens. The rest are just using free accounts once in a while to ask dumb questions like "Who would win in a fight between a baby
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 2, 2026
Wow
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 2, 2026
This is the way
Jason Ginsberg@JasonBud· Nov 2, 2026Treat Grok Bot like a teammate and give @bot an ambitious task you’d normally give to a new hire.
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Shaun Maguire
@shaunmmaguire · Nov 2, 2026
I will post a systems level analysis of orbital compute over the next week or two
Almost all SI compute will be in space
Too few understand this
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Nov 2, 2026@shaunmmaguire @uncovered_alpha Future super intelligence compute will obviously be overwhelmingly in space.
By “overwhelmingly”, I mean that it will round up to 100%!
You have to be an utter moron not to realize this.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 2, 2026
Absolutely
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vittorio
@IterIntellectus · Nov 2, 2026
supermarkets in sweden, belgium, luxembourg, estonia, ireland, the netherlands and finland hit by cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems
some freezer controls set to 50°C. stores forced to throw away food
this is only the beginning
very few things are going to matter more
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3· Nov 2, 2026BREAKING: Europe is under a massive widespread cyber attack right now Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Ireland the Netherlands and just now Finland are all experiencing disruptions to supermarket refrigeration systems causing food to go off.
The attack is spreading...
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Nov 2, 2026
Literally an episode of Silicon Valley
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