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Starship Flight 15 is planned to circle the Earth about 14 times over 22 hours, then come back and get caught by the same tower it left from. Longest round trip I've heard of that ends at the same dock.
Photo: Steve Jurvetson (CC BY 2.0), Flight 5 booster catch
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This is the exposure it needs.
Jay Leno just tried @Tesla's FSD (Supervised) for the first time. The Model Y L pulled over by itself when an ambulance with its sirens on drove by.
"We got it on self-driving mode! I'm not touching anything."
Jay finally tried FSD! haha
(via new episode of Jay Leno's Garage)
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Quietly useful thing about Grok Bot: it can set a routine and check something while I'm asleep.
No drama. Just "tell me if X showed up."
What would you have it watch for?
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Same. I care less about the newest model name and more about whether it finishes the task on my computer. Grok Bot has been solid for that.
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The phone call handoff is underrated. Sitting on hold is exactly the kind of thing I don't want my afternoon for.
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Running one account for now. Curious how people split personal vs work without paying twice. Any setup that actually works?
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Spent half the night troubleshooting RAM with Grok Bot. It checked Windows from my PC, walked me through BIOS, and prepped a USB for a flash. Weird how normal that already feels.
Anyone else handing their machine over like that?
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Why is this the only voice of reason? The richest man in the world knows some profits cost too much.
Elon Musk’s message today is the same one he shared 3 years ago. He wants peace and an end to the killing.
“The reason I proposed some sort of peace a year ago was because I predicted pretty much exactly what would happen, which is a lot of people dying for basically almost no changes in land.
And the loss of the flower of Ukrainian and Russian youth, and we should have some sympathy for the Russian boys as well as the Ukrainian boys, because the Russian boys didn’t ask to be on their front line, they have to be. So, there’s a lot of sons not coming back to their parents, and I think most of them don’t really have, they don’t hate the other side. It’s like young boys who don’t know each other killing each other on behalf of old men that do know each other.”
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If you're in Washington state, the Florida panhandle is being destroyed by a hurricane. If you're in the Florida, panhandle it's raining.
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It makes you wonder if history will judge us for creating huge oil trade networks (like the tin of old) only to replace it with something that shines on us every day.
I had not realised before that the Bronze Age Collapse was literally *caused* by iron.
Bronze age powers like the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians used bronze weapons, made by combining copper and tin. Tin was so scarce that only the richest and most powerful groups could access it and the bronze weapons it allowed. (Tin was so rare that it was being transported from Cornwall to the Middle East more than 1000 years BC.) The scarcity of tin gave these empires a near-monopoly on violence.
Iron weapons are not actually any better than bronze ones – they're not stronger or easier to work with, as I'd assumed. They're just much, much easier to mass produce once you have bloomeries, which are the first furnaces that were hot enough to melt iron in a way that made them useable for weapons.
Bloomeries meant that iron ore, which was widespread, could be used to make weapons anywhere. That led to warlords, bandits and city-states rising in a massive decentralization of military power, which the Bronze Age empires were unable to resist.
After the invention of the bloomery, skeletons show a measurable increase in weapon-inflicted injuries. 'Destruction layers' with bones and signs of burning have been found from this time at archaeological sites including Troy. Ancient writers – including Herodotus, Ovid, and the writers of the Old Testament – believed the invention of iron had unleashed a new age of violence.
New at Works in Progress, WEAPONS OF MASS DECENTRALIZATION: how iron itself brought about the Bronze Age Collapse. And what technologies could do the same today?
worksinprogress.co/issue/wea…
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Just reward for a network that tossed aside it's credibility.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 The White House is still playing keep-away with CNN and MS NOW on the night Xi comes to dinner.
A judge told the admin to restore their passes, yet this morning they were still bounced.
Some got back in later. Then, as the state dinner arrival started, CNN says it was blocked again and pointed to Steven Cheung.
Courts can hand back a badge, but the building can still decide who stands on the lawn when the motorcade pulls up.
Writer: Lucas
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These are the lies we should not tolerate from sitting representatives in the Congress of United States of America. This congressperson should be sanctioned for lying to the American public.
But she won't be.
ICE killed another man. His name is Mario David Coronado Juarez.
Mario lived and worked in Michigan for 7 years as a construction worker, sending money home to his kids in Guatemala.
ICE pursued him in an unmarked car, causing a fatal car crash.
These killings have to stop. #AbolishICE.
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Companies are unwilling to cut profits to pay higher wages in the country that they operate in.
They are willing to destroy their own culture in order to avoid labor costs.
Think about it...
They'd rather change the identity of your nation than pay you a living wage.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
Migration has made Spain stronger. Economically, socially, culturally, migrants work in our companies, contribute to our public finances, sustain our welfare state and enrich our communities. Migration makes us a better country. No question.
This matters because there are politicians on both sides of the Atlantic trying to convince working people that their problem is another working person — someone born somewhere else, someone who earns even less than they do.
It is one of the oldest political tricks in history: make people look sideways so they never look up.
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