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Peter H. Diamandis, MD
@PeterDiamandis · Aug 21, 2026
While pessimism sounds smart, optimism makes money by turning life-changing technologies into reality.
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Vlad Saigau
@VladSaigau · Aug 21, 2026
Falcon 9 has been priced at ~$70M for many years now, leading many to believe market prices have stayed flat.
Heres what it looks like adjusted for inflation.
F9 customer launch margin has increased from ~breakeven in 2013...
... to todays prices exceeding internal cost by, what we estimate to be 3.3x. Thats ~70% margin.
(green line is the internal cost of Starlink, which is lower because they get far closer to filling the payload capacity!)
Will be interesting to map these dynamics onto market prices with Starship around the corner....
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Colin Wright
@SwipeWright · Aug 21, 2026
I'm not lying when I tell everyone I don't cherry pick the crazy papers and PhD theses I post on X constantly.
The modal paper published in many fields is activist word salad designed to destroy the West. That's not hyperbole. That's a plain fact.
It's a total crisis.
Omar Sultan Haque@OmarSHaqueMDPhD· Aug 20, 2026"Out of curiosity: I randomly picked 5 universities, and looked up their sociology department faculty. I randomly picked papers written by the faculty. Wow, my mind was blown. At least 60% was similar gibberish. Constant politically charged assertions— no underlying data.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
It really doesn’t
Resist the Mainstream@ResisttheMS· Aug 21, 2026Elon Musk: "Asylum was supposed to mean that if you go back to your country, you'll get k*lled."
"Asylum seekers [now] go on vacation to the country that they're seeking asylum from… That doesn't make any sense."
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Interesting
Morgan@morganlinton· Aug 21, 2026I am going to start to share the leaderboard at VulcanBench more regularly.
VulcanBench is the only benchmark I know that benchmarks across effort levels, on an eval suite of 100% real engineering tasks.
Getting ready to sunset eval suite 3 and eval suite 4 is almost ready to
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Teslaconomics
@Teslaconomics · Aug 21, 2026
Fuck you if you hate on Elon Musk.
I’ve got nothing but two middle fingers for all of you who spend your whole day rooting for him to fail.
Bc when real life hits, a lot of the same people laughing today will end up hoping the technology he built actually works.
When someone
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
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Tymofiy Mylovanov
@Mylovanov · Aug 21, 2026
Elon grew up reading his father’s encyclopedias and found a book in Errol’s office about futuristic inventions, including an ion-thruster rocket.
As a boy, Elon launched his own rockets using swimming-pool chlorine as fuel. His early interest in computers, rockets and
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
I loved that book
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · Aug 21, 2026
Starship is the most beautiful rocket ever built. 🔥
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
I think so
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ALX 🇺🇸
@alx · Aug 21, 2026
Mark Cuban is supporting the destruction of Texas and America
Reggie B.@reggiebblue· Aug 21, 2026Mark Cuban: "James Talarico. Let's go. I'm a big fan. He's honest, trustworthy, he cares. He'll do the right thing as opposed to the politically expedient thing.
To Texans, do what's best for Texas. You've been voting for Republicans all these years, what have they done for
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Cuban seriously looks like a butch lesbian
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wudijo
@wudijo · Aug 21, 2026
Diablo 4
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
I can’t find any great games to play right now
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ALX 🇺🇸
@alx · Aug 21, 2026
Always difficult to tell who is who when these two are on together
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
They are the same picture
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Adam Lowisz X Meetup 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦
@AdamLowisz · Aug 21, 2026
Elon, have you ever seen Rachel Maddow and Mark Cuban in the same room together 😂
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
😂
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Heidi
@HeidiBriones · Aug 21, 2026
Butch? That's generous. I'd say androgynous.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Fair point 😂
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SpaceXAI Memphis
@SpaceXAIMemphis · Aug 21, 2026
Our Memphis and Southaven sites will be powered by the world’s largest grid-connected battery pack, reducing the cost of electricity to local communities and increasing the reliability of their local power systems
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SpaceXAI
@SpaceXAI · Aug 21, 2026
Grok 4.6 is now available on Google Vertex AI
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KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat · Aug 21, 2026
🚨David Friedberg predicts the path to “Comrade AOC,” national asset seizures, and data centers becoming the next target.
“They enact policy starting in 2028 with Comrade AOC in charge… costs balloon, the bond market sells off… and now the 30-year yield spikes 7%, 8%, maybe more.”
Higher rates make housing even less affordable. Then the government needs more money.
“So now we need to pass a national asset seizure tax.”
But there isn’t enough wealth at the top.
“The total net worth of all people that are worth over $50 million is only $23 trillion.”
@DavidSacks points to a Cato estimate putting nine DSA-style proposals at $71 TRILLION to $212 TRILLION over 10 years.
The entire Forbes 400 is worth just $6.6 trillion.
Eventually, Friedberg argues, you run out of billionaires to tax and move toward confiscation and scapegoating.
@chamath: “The billionaires will be scapegoated, and the trillionaires will be, I mean, even worse.”
Then tech becomes the target:
“The data center is the temple where the billionaires and trillionaires pray.”
@friedberg’s warning: massive DSA-style government spending makes the affordability crisis worse, fuels resentment, and eventually creates the political justification for national asset seizures.
Full episode: @theallinpod
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SpaceX
@SpaceX · Aug 21, 2026
The Starship preparing for our fourteenth flight test completed a full-duration, 60-second static fire with all six Raptor engines
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Cool
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg· Aug 21, 2026Grok Bot might be the first tool that lets one non-technical person run an entire business with a team of AI agents.
My friend Billy runs his whole newsletter business on Grok Bot agents, and I think we're about to see 100,000+ businesses like his.
BEST PRACTICES:
1. The
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Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort · Aug 21, 2026
“The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing”
The US State Department is defending Cofnas. Elections really do have consequences. Very heartening.
U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White@USAmbToBelgium· Aug 21, 2026The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud.
The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Use your AI to manage 𝕏 ads!
X Freeze@XFreeze· Aug 21, 2026𝕏 Ads just became agent-native... and this is a very powerful upgrade
With the new 𝕏 Ads MCP, you can now connect Grok, Grok Build, Claude Code or other AI agents directly to your 𝕏 Ads account and manage campaigns through normal conversation
You can literally ask:
“How are
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