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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 22, 2026
Murder 1
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh· Aug 21, 2026🚨 UPDATE: The Karmelo Anthony legal team is IN SHAMBLES after bombshell texts came out that he fantasized about m*rder before killing Austin Metcalf
"How many bullets u want coming out of ur chest?"
"When I st*b somebody I'm gonna lick their blood off the blade"
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 22, 2026
The reason Rome fell was because they stopped making Romans
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT· Aug 21, 2026We think the collapse in birth rates is a modern problem. It is not. The most powerful man in the world once faced the exact same thing, and he was so alarmed he passed laws to force his people to have children.
This was not a modern government: it was Rome 2000 years ago...
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Yun-Ta Tsai
@yunta_tsai · Aug 22, 2026
I gave Grok @bot a link to the post below and asked it to take up the cinematography challenge.
Direct the film entirely through the chat casually and nothing else. Pretty wild.
Grok@grok· Aug 17, 2026Homer had a lyre. You have Grok Imagine.
Create a compelling scene from Homer’s The Odyssey that shows what Grok @Imagine’s video and voice capabilities can do. We’re awarding $100K, $50K, and $25K to the top three videos submitted by quoting this post. 🧵
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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro · Aug 21, 2026
What, precisely, are women protesting outside the Lindsay Clancy trial? What oppression are they opposing? Why are women posting videos of themselves on TikTok raging at the world about the stresses of motherhood?
What, in short, is going on with American women? The answer: we trained several generations of women that they were victims of precisely the institutions that give them – and men! – meaning and happiness.
Then we replaced those institutions with social media contagion and endless victimhood.
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Adam Carolla
@adamcarolla · Aug 21, 2026
He’s a genius
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs· Aug 21, 2026Hell?
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monokern
@monokern · Aug 21, 2026
everyone is looking at grok bot like it is five new employees
the more interesting part is that they are not five isolated employees
they share one persistent cloud environment: the same browser sessions, terminal, filesystem and authenticated tools - while a chief of staff can route work between them without waiting for you to open the laptop
that turns one login into infrastructure
a research bot can collect leads, pass them to a writer, hand the result to a designer and let an ops bot update the workflow all inside the same running machine
the upside is obvious: less copying, fewer handoffs and work that continues while you sleep
the blast radius is just as obvious:
- authenticate only the services the whole agent fleet is allowed to reach
- give every bot a narrow role description, because that description becomes its place in the org chart
- keep irreversible actions behind human approval: sending, publishing, spending and production changes
- store skills, configuration and long-term state inside `/workspace`, because the rest of the VM may disappear during an update
- treat shared sessions as shared authority, not as separate bot identities
the same architecture that makes grok bot useful is what makes it dangerous to configure casually
my take: the breakthrough is not that you can hire five AI workers
it is that they can operate like one persistent company inside your real tools and your job changes from prompting every task to designing the permissions, boundaries and handoffs
the full chief-of-staff setup, session handoff model, approval matrix and `/workspace` survival strategy are mapped out in the article ↓
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Eyisha Zyer
@eyishazyer · Aug 21, 2026
Second time trying Grok Bot and I'm still not over it.
It took my whole growth engine and split into 4 of itself. One's on content, one's on scheduling, one's watching engagement, one pulls it all into reports at the end.
There's a master orchestrator on top deciding who does what and when, and I genuinely didn't set that part up, it figured out the division of labor on its own.
I haven't touched it since I hit go. It just moves through the queue and only comes to me when something actually needs a yes or no.
I keep forgetting this is still just @grok. What @xAI and @elonmusk are building here plays more like a team that clocked in already knowing the job, not a bot waiting for instructions.
Eyisha Zyer@eyishazyer· Aug 20, 2026WILDEST PART OF MY WEEK: told @bot Grok Bot to watch how I file expense reports once. Just once. Next day it had already processed the backlog.
Logged into the portal, matched receipts to line items, flagged two duplicates I would've missed. Without me touching it again.
Didn't
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
Grok 4.6 on extra high thinking mode now achieves #1 score on CursorBench!
X Freeze@XFreeze· Aug 21, 2026Grok 4.6 just took the #1 spot on CursorBench 3.2.....and the efficiency is insane
Here's the cost comparison:
• Grok 4.6 Extra High — 70.8% | $2.81/task
• Fable 5 Max — 70.5% | $17.32/task
• Opus 5 Max — 70.0% | $8.23/task
• GPT-5.6 Sol Max — 67.2% | $5.69/task
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Alice Smith
@TheAliceSmith · Aug 21, 2026
That’s because socialism has already been achieved.
Jo@seasidelass20· Aug 21, 2026Our Politicians are no longer aiming for Socialism.. they’re now pushing full on Communism
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 21, 2026
True
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Starlink
@Starlink · Aug 21, 2026
Starlink enabling remote connectivity and live coverage during the solar eclipse 🛰️❤️
Austin DeSisto@AustinDeSisto· Aug 13, 2026Underground hero was @Starlink which provided my whole group with internet and allowed @MatthewCappucci to do live TV hits from the middle of nowhere 📡
Note the little crescent sun on the dish, which is a result of lens refraction on the iPhone!
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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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