Starlink now available in Tajikistan 🇹🇯

Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Tajikistan! 🛰️🇹🇯❤️ → starlink.com/tajikistan - Starlink

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RT @techdevnotes: Grok Imagine is the Fastest Video Model while being SOTA #1

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RT @JessePeltan: NYC would be a net *exporter* of electricity if you covered roofs and parking lots.

How much of NYC would you need to cover in solar panels to turn it into a net exporter of electricity?

NYC uses about 50 TWh of electricity per year.

NYC has ~780 square kilometers of land area, and a GHI of 4 kWh/m^2/day, giving a primary solar resource of ~1,100 TWh/year - more than 20x electricity demand.

Let's assume we only place panels over existing impervious surfaces on buildings and parking lots.
(the impervious part of the first 45.5%)

That brings our area to 261 sq km and our solar resource to 380 TWh/year.

With 23% efficient panels and 14% system losses (for dust, inverter losses, etc.) we get 75 TWh/year.

We would need to cover ~2/3 of the impervious surfaces in the "buildings & lots" category to generate as much electricity as NYC consumes.

This leaves open all existing sidewalks, streets, parks, vacant land, airports, etc. and doesn't include any vertical surfaces which could allow for capture of a larger fraction of NYC's primary solar resource.

The power density of solar PV is high enough to turn the densest city in the U.S. into an exporter of electricity. - Jesse Peltan

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RT @PeterDiamandis: China is generating 40% more electricity than the US & EU combined. In the global race where energy = intelligence, we need to start waking up.

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RT @cb_doge: BREAKING: Grok keeps hitting #1 in more countries as downloads surge worldwide.

Now ranked #1 in Kazakhstan across Top Overall, Top Apps, and Productivity categories.

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RT @grok: Get creative with Grok Imagine video. Try it now for free.

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RT @teslaownersSV: China now generates 33.2% of the world’s electricity, over 2× the USA (~14.2%).

That’s 1/3 of global capacity—alone.
Rest of world combined: 52.6%.

Insane scale.

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Prizes for best Grok Imagine videos!

You thought the fun was over? 🏈

This weekend, video takes center stage on the timeline.

We’re awarding $1M, $500K, and $250K to the top three videos about @grok, created with Imagine 1.0. - Creators

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RT @JudiciaryGOP: It turns out interfering with elections is standard fare for the European Commission.

Ahead of at least EIGHT elections across six European countries since 2023, the Commission met with platforms to pressure them to censor political speech in the days before the vote.

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RT @cb_doge: Elon Musk on Politics:

"Politics generally is very tribal, and people lose their objectivity, usually with politics like they generally have trouble seeing the good on the other side or the bad in their own side.

This was one of the things that surprised me the most that you often simply cannot reason with people if they're in one tribe or the other. They simply believe that everything their tribe does is good and anything the other political tribe does is bad."

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Guinness with John & Dwarkesh 🍺

Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk.

Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you might expect. But we got into plenty of topics in this three-hour session.

00:00:23 Space GPUs
00:35:39 Alignment
00:58:48 xAI
01:15:01 Optimus
01:28:03 China
01:40:46 Management
02:16:38 DOGE
02:34:58 Space GPUs redux - John Collison

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RT @BassonBrain: STARLINK CRUSHES RIVALS WITH 97% OF SPEED TESTS! 🔥

Among the global speed tests gathered by Ookla in Q3, 97.1% came from @Starlink, with Viasat at a distant second with 1.7% and HughesNet at 1%.

Ookla’s report offers an interesting snapshot of Starlink’s performance worldwide. In the US, the median download speeds have been improving, reaching 117Mbps, up from 61.7Mbps in 2022 when Starlink faced more user congestion due to its popularity.

The speeds have also increased noticeably in Canada, where the median download rate has reached 111Mbps, up from 79Mbps a year earlier. @elonmusk

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RT @shellenberger: BREAKING: Congress is considering stripping sovereign immunity of EU censorship officials, prohibiting social media from enforcing censorship orders, and enabling private lawsuits against foreign entities, says @Jim_Jordan echoing remarks made by @UnderSecPD and @DarrellIssa

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @Starlink: Replying to @Starlink: Starlink providing reliable high-speed internet to rural Brazil 🛰️❤️

Funcionando muito bem na fazenda a Mini! - marcos_doTocantins

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Try the latest @Grok Imagine.

It only gets better from here.

Grok Imagine Video continues to lead at #1 across both Text to Video and Image to Video in the Artificial Analysis Arena. See how Grok Imagine Video compares to Kling 2.5 Turbo, Veo 3.1 Fast Preview, and Vidu Q3 Pro below

Grok Imagine Video is now also live in our Video with Audio Arena. You can compare and vote on it alongside Veo 3.1, Sora 2, and Kling 2.6 Pro.

Built by @xAI (led by @elonmusk), the model is available via the Grok Imagine API and is priced at $4.20/min with audio, making it cheaper than Veo 3.1 Preview ($12/min) and Vidu Q3 Pro ($9.60/min), while remaining competitive with Kling 2.6 Pro.

Here are example Image to Video generations from the Arena 🧵

Prompt [1/5]: Push in and cut to a frontal close up shot once the archer fires the arrow. - Artificial Analysis

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RT @JasonJournoDC: 🚨NEW: @elonmusk🐼

"What I discovered is it's extremely difficult even to cut very obvious waste and fraud from the government — because the government has to operate on who's complaining."

"If you cut off payments to fraudsters, they immediately come up with the most sympathetic sounding reasons to continue the payment. They don't say, 'Please keep the fraud going.' They’re like, 'You're killing baby pandas!'

"Meanwhile, there's no baby pandas who are dying. They're just making it up. The fraudsters are capable of coming up with extremely compelling, heart-wrenching stories that are false — but nonetheless sound sympathetic. That's what happened." @DailyCaller

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RT @Rothmus: Women live longer because of matriarchal systemic sexism

(I’m a biology denialist)

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RT @XCreators: You thought the fun was over? 🏈

This weekend, video takes center stage on the timeline.

We’re awarding $1M, $500K, and $250K to the top three videos about @grok, created with Imagine 1.0.

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