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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
By “this” he means scamming 🤣🤣
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
By “this” he means scamming 🤣🤣
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
He might literally love scamming more than any human alive!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
He takes scamming to a whole new level
DogeDesigner@cb_doge· Jul 11, 2026Elon Musk warned the world about Scam Altman.
Now everyone is finding out why.
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Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱
@Kristof_Poland · Jul 11, 2026
The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.
1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.
2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.
3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.
4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.
5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.
6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.
7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.
Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland· Jul 10, 2026Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.
1. Where Rousseau is emotional, Voltaire is
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Cybercab at a fork in the road
Tesla Robotaxi@robotaxi· Jul 11, 2026Cool news from Giga Texas
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Tyler Bruno
@tylerbruno05 · Jul 10, 2026
tesla fsd is the greatest piece of technology i've ever experienced. it's not even close. there's something hard to comprehend that my car is operating in the physical world, completely autonomously. pure magic. I can't ever get another car now...
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
They sure put a lot of effort into this crime
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta· Jul 11, 2026Apple just sued OpenAI, and the wildest part is how they got caught: one candidate screenshotted confidential Apple files on his Apple work laptop hours before his OpenAI interview. Apple reads its own server logs. The recruiting pipeline generated its own evidence trail.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Nuanced
Tyler Storm@tstorm· Jul 11, 2026@hyunw_kim @ilyasut Grok 4.5 solved it
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Answer: 더바른정육식당 (The Barun Jeongyuk Sikdang)
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1. Plate first. The tweet photo is a classic Korean 고깃집 사인 벽 — light vertical wood, white cards in clear plastic sleeves, red stickers “open
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Falcon Rising
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@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Grok places second after Fable on real-world software engineering
Mercor@mercor_ai· Jul 11, 2026Grok 4.5 from @SpaceXAI places #2 on the APEX-SWE leaderboard at 51.2% Pass@1 (±6.0), behind Fable 5 (65.5% ±6.2) on our benchmark for real-world software engineering work.
It leads Integration (65.0% Pass@1) and places #2 in Observability (37.3% Pass@1), covering multi-step
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Grok 4.5 Review
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Grok
@grok · Jul 9, 2026
Try Grok 4.5 for free, an all new Opus-class model that is fast and low cost. Great for real-world coding and engineering tasks.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
As usual, legacy media is misrepresenting the situation.
I just asked Tesla & SpaceX to try out Grok 4.5 to see if it solves their task, not use it no matter what!
They should continue to use other AI models if those models outperform Grok.
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@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
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@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Epic videos of Starship Super Heavy!
SpaceX@SpaceX· Jul 10, 2026Full-duration, 33-engine static fire of Super Heavy V3
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
If solar power in space is harnessed for useful work at scale, the value of that will far exceed the Earth economy, because all of Earth civilization uses much less than a trillionth of our Sun’s power
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael· Jul 10, 2026Si A, la richesse suit l'énergie captée, et si B, SpaceX ouvre seule un réservoir un milliard de fois supérieur, alors la conclusion tombe d'elle-même : comparer SpaceX à la richesse terrestre est une erreur de catégorie. La Terre cesse d'être le dénominateur. « Plus que le reste
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@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
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@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Grok Imagine makes beautiful art
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jul 11, 2026
Free trial of Grok 4.5 model via Grok Build CLI
Eric Jiang@veggie_eric· Jul 10, 2026Try Grok 4.5 for free in Grok Build!
curl -fsSL | bash
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