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In 2029, Apophis, a ~370m asteroid, will pass just ~31,000 km from Earth. That’s ~1/10 the distance to the Moon. Inside the orbit of geostationary satellites. Visible to the naked eye. Impact risk this time is low, but the flyby could shift its future trajectory. A direct hit would mean a ~1 km crater and regional devastation. That’s why becoming multiplanetary matters.

Sequoia's @shaunmmaguire on Why Elon's TERAFAB is Underrated: "I’m gonna sh*t on a lot of other investors for a second." “I’m watching people come in with what I’d call 8th grade level education on the industry, trying to make definitive statements.” "I’ve been obsessed with semiconductors since I was a little kid. I literally bought Nvidia shares in the IPO in 1999. I was obsessed with semiconductor fab as a kid, got really deep into the chemical processes that go into making wafers." "People are assigning way too low a probability that it will work.” Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum) / @elonmusk . . . “I think it’s underrated because I think people don’t think it’s gonna work. Like I think a lot of people view it—and again, this is a systems-level problem—and I’m gonna just go get sh*t on a lot of other investors for a second. It’s been pretty wild for me as chips became all the rage again. To brag for a second, I’ve been obsessed with semiconductors since I was a little kid. I literally bought Nvidia shares in the IPO in 1999. I was obsessed with semiconductor fab as a kid, got really deep into the chemical processes that go into making wafers. If you think about the silicon industry, from the mid-50s to the mid-90s, the bottleneck was actually chemical steps. It was not lithography—it was making ultrapure wafers, which require 20+ chemical steps. Then it flipped to lithography, and EUV became probably the hardest single step in semiconductor manufacturing. But there’s all these investors that, three years ago, had never done anything in hardware, had never thought about semiconductors, that are brand new and think that they’re experts. I’m not trying to say I’m an expert—there’s a lot I need to learn—but I’ve at least been paying attention to this field for a very long time. And I’m watching these people come in with what I’d call eighth-grade-level education on the industry, trying to make definitive statements around what the bottlenecks are, what’s gonna be hard. They’re basically just parroting each other. It reminds me a lot of when people were trying to assess the likelihood of reusable rockets working in 2014, or Starlink working in 2019–2020, where everyone would tell me to my face: it will not work. Or when people were saying self-driving will never work. Especially with camera-only—where Elon was a contrarian doing camera-only rather than vision plus lidar. All these things fit the same pattern of people thinking superficially when they’re brand new to a field, then having strong opinions on how things are gonna work. And I think that on TERAFAB, people are assigning way too low a probability that it will work. I personally feel confident that it will. Timeframe—there are questions—but I’ve thought through all the different steps. Almost everyone, when you talk about TERAFAB, they’re like, ‘but what about EUV?’ And EUV is something they first learned about in the last 18 months. It’s comical to me."

@jon @elonmusk This is why I pay $300/month for Grok Heavy. Dozens of maximally truth-seeking agents are all doing my bidding simultaneously. Speed only matters if you are headed in the right direction, and truth is the optimal heading.

This is why

@BrandonStraka Good on @billmaher - proud of him for playing it down the middle. We need this approach to heal as country.

Bill Maher: “But I honestly feel like your position is not someone who wants to actually make the country better. Its someone who just wants to wallow in Trump hate.” Harris: "No, no, no. You know I want to make the country better..." Maher: “How?...”

@deelo190 @farzyness @DavidCarbutt_ agreed. he earned a new follower.

@farzyness @DavidCarbutt_ Didn’t think I was going to sit through the whole clip. I was wrong - Fascinating; and extremely articulate. Really well done.

Elon's Multi-Trillion Dollar Plan No One's Paying Attention To *** thanks to @DavidCarbutt_ and team for the edit.

@dansemperepico Yes. The Plaid X is the business.

Sad Tesla is ending production on the Tesla Model X and Model S. I remember the first time I saw both of those cars. I specially love the Model X. Should I get one?

@elonmusk This is a very real problem. Smart people should build things (and that includes humans).

Indeed, Idiocracy is happening much faster than expected

@thatsKAIZEN @thatsKAIZEN I loved your apology; it was so atypical and endearing. It made me trust you even more. Many would’ve repackaged your apology as a breaking news clarification, but you owned it absolutely. You are a national treasure. Keep Building!

And this is why politicians lie.

@elonmusk @grok you have no equal when it comes time to real-time news and sports reporting.

Grok is real-time

@niccruzpatane Take my $10k deposit already

Many say the Roadster would be their dream Tesla, but THIS would be mine. Tesla Semi RV with FSD, Starlink, and solar. One can dream.

@BillAckman @gofundme Tip of the cap Bill. Balanced and honorable approach.

I have been widely reviled (and worse) by many on social and mainstream media for giving $10,000 to a @gofundme for Jonathan Ross, the officer who tragically killed Renee Good. [I had also attempted to support the gofundme for Renee Good’s family, but it was already closed as it had achieved its $1.5 million fundraising objective.] My donation to Ross has been characterized in social media by the press as my “giving a reward to the murderer of Renee Good” likely in an effort to generate clicks and boost virality, and by some to advance their political objectives. My purpose in supporting Ross and attempting to support Good was not to make a political statement. I was simply continuing my longstanding commitment to assisting those accused of crimes of providing for their defense. I strongly believe that only a detailed forensic investigation by experts and a deep understanding of the law that applies will enable us to determine whether Ross is guilty of murder. In light of the strongly negative reaction by perhaps half the country (in contrast to cheers of support from the other half of the country), I thought it might be helpful to provide context on my decision to support Ross (and Good). I could of course have avoided the controversy by giving anonymously, but I thought my public support would help Ross more easily raise the funds needed for his defense. 23 years ago almost to the day, I was accused of a crime that I did not commit. I was confident that I had done nothing wrong, but I was convicted in the headlines. I was under investigation for nearly a year before it ended without any finding of wrongdoing, but it would be years later before I was exonerated in the public eye. Fortunately, I had the financial resources to pay for my defense and support my family during the investigation, a period during which I was unemployed. in 2010, I met Barry Scheck and the Pershing Square Foundation became one of the largest funders of the Innocence Project (@innocence), an organization which seeks to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and to help reform elements of the criminal justice system to decrease the likelihood an innocent person is convicted of a crime they did not commit. When Barry approached me about the Innocence Project, I was an easy mark for supporting its work in light of my personal history of being falsely accused. I was particularly receptive to his pitch because the Innocence Project focuses its work on people it believes have been wrongfully convicted, are in prison for life, and are unable to pay for their defense. Years earlier, I had the opportunity to serve as a juror in a date rape case where the jury concluded that the accused, who was represented by a public defender, was innocent after a careful examination of the evidence. I have tremendous respect for how our jury system works and its critical importance. I also have real-life perspective on what life is like for the accused, particularly someone who believes and/or knows that they are innocent. In a typical case, the entire world believes you are guilty. You quickly become unemployed and unemployable. You and your family suffer from extreme public scorn in addition to severe financial pressure. And in the social media era, it is much, much worse. You are immediately doxed. You receive hundreds of death threats. Your and your family’s safety is seriously threatened, some of your friends and family abandon you, and your public life basically ends while you wait years to have an opportunity to defend yourself in court. As a result of all of the above, I am a fierce advocate for the American legal principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty by a judge or by a jury of one’s peers. Over the years, I have invested substantial funds providing for the legal defense of individuals that I believe are innocent. As we speak, I am spending millions funding the legal costs for two people accused of wrongdoing. My instinctual reaction to the media convicting someone before an investigation has begun – let alone a trial and a determination by a court and/or jury – is to be very open to the possibility that the accused is innocent. When the tragic Ross/Good case blew up on X, I did not do any due diligence on the case other than quickly reviewing the handful of videos that were circulating online. A few minutes later, I contributed $10,000 to the first gofundme I found which supported Ross. My modest financial support reflected my limited due diligence on the case. I then attempted to do the same for Good’s family, but I was unable to do so as it had already achieved its $1.5 million goal. I supported Ross because I knew he would need significant funds to cover his defense costs. I supported the gofundme for Good’s family as I thought that it was the right thing to do. When making the donation, I considered whether to check the box on the gofundme to allow for an anonymous donation – as I thought my support could be viewed by some as controversial – but I chose not to do so as I believed doing so would help Ross raise more funds for his defense. It is very unfortunate that we have reached a stage in society where we are prepared to toss aside longstanding American principles depending on who is accused and on what side of the aisle one sits. Our country and its citizens would be vastly better served by our not rushing to judgment and letting our justice system do its job. One day you may find yourself accused of a crime you did not commit without the financial resources needed to defend yourself. From that moment on, you will strongly regret the times you have rushed to judgment on the basis of a headline and the then-limited available evidence about a case, and you and your family will pray that someone will be open to believing you are innocent and will be willing to help you pay for your defense. The fact that people will invest their personal funds to help an accused person provide for his or her legal defense is one of the great aspects of our country. A world in which the accused cannot afford to pay for their defense is not a world any of us should want to live in.

Welcome home, Crew-11. Congrats @SpaceX @NASA on another nominal deorbit and splashdown in beautiful San Diego. Did anyone else see the curious dolphins circling Dragon upon splashdown?

@elonmusk Inspiring words.

Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died. Rest in peace, good and great man, rest in peace.

Powerful words

@elonmusk Wonderful buying experience all 3 times.

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75Hard Day: 3 #75hard @OmniLaCosta

@0xAbhiP I went to High School with Ryan Graves. One of the smartest dudes in our graduating class. Cheers to Ryan!

The man who made $1 Billion from one tweet. This is Ryan Graves. • Replied to Travis Kalanick's tweet in 2010. • Became Uber’s first employee. • Got 5% equity—now worth $1.4 billion. Here’s how a single tweet turned him into a billionaire:

@elonmusk I would like to pay to boost my post to as I target the audience to select group of property insurance professionals. I serve a nitche market that controls $100bn/yr in claim proceeds and this targeted approach has delivered results on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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@WallStreetMav @elonmusk @grok please confirm if this post is truthful and correct?