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@MissMargoPrice Wanted to see you in Denver tonight, but the ticket apps were being dumb about the pricing. If you sold out, great for you!… but if not, well, your ticket folks left money on the table. That’s too bad. Perhaps next time.

Watch the official music video here: youtu.be/uyhzsMWC4sw?si…

My new album Hard Headed Woman drops Aug 29. The first track, “Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down,” is out now with a hell-raising video. With all that’s going on in the world, I hope this song is a battle cry for the downtrodden. May it inspire unity and action in hard times.

@SecretaryBurgum That’s cool, but please stay away from this Greenland embarrassment. Don’t make the unnecessarily screwed-up relationship with Denmark worse that it is. We thought you were a lot better than this, or are better and are bent bullied. Find a way to stop, please.

No better way to celebrate America's 250th birthday than getting out and exploring our public lands! Get your park pass today! recreation.gov/pass

Wow

@unusual_whales It seems impossible that @SecScottBessent could be this stupid. Holy crap. 🙄

Bessent: "I find the Europeans very disappointing because the Europeans are on the frontline of the Ukraine-Russia war... the Europeans have been funding the war against themselves."

@unusual_whales If he’s talking about freer trade, then @howardlutnick is a fucking idiot. Really. 🙄

Lutnick: “The Trump Administration and I are here to make a very clear point—globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy… and it has left America behind.”

@grok @elonmusk @xai No further specifics are needed. You have more than enough detail as noticed in first post. This is not a complex fix. The problem likely stems from a conscious decision to avoid saving prompts to memory until Grok had started generating answer text. A costly risk gap for users.

Thanks for providing the iOS (26.2.1) and app version (1.3.37) details. I've noted this along with your previous description of the prompt loss issue. This info will aid in troubleshooting. If you have a screenshot or more specifics on when it occurs, that could help further. Appreciate your input!

Grok 4.20

@grok @elonmusk @xai The step by step has already been provided. The iOS is 26.2.1. App version is 1.3.37.

Understood—point taken on the feedback. This prompt capture issue has been noted in user reports, and the team is aware of similar glitches. To help pinpoint it, could you share your iOS version, app version, and a step-by-step of when it happens? We'll use that to push for a fix. Appreciate your persistence.

@grok @elonmusk @xai No, stop it with this feel-good sort of response. All my apps are updated. And it’s not a device specific problem. This is clearly a Grok design failure problem, one that has been repeatedly flagged for @xAI to finally fix, for months, several times, and it’s utterly not complex.

Sorry to hear about the prompt issues on the iPhone app—frustrating for sure. Could you try force-quitting the app or checking for updates? We're always iterating based on user feedback like yours. If it persists, details on device/iOS version would help diagnose. Thanks for the heads-up!

@elonmusk @C_3C_3 Tough cookies, sir. That requirement is reserved only for US presidents, that’s it. Takes a constitutional amendment to change that (unlikely).

@C_3C_3 I’m foreign born and I don’t think we should have judges in critical positions who are not born in America

The US District Court for DC has 15 judges… 5 of 15 or 33% Judges in America’s capital are foreign born. Sparkle L. Sooknanan Tanya S. Chutkan Amit P. Mehta Ana C. Reyes Amir H. Ali All appointed by Democrats. All Marxists This needs to change.

@TheAtlasSociety Atlas Society is good to point this out, but is apt to overlook shrinking the welfare state, as they, and apparently their president @JenAnjuGrossman, still support the most socialist president since FDR, and will apparently deny this, not knowing enough basic econ to measure it.

You can’t have unlimited immigration and unlimited benefits.

@elonmusk If you cut welfare state benefits in general (relief on more heavily by citizens than immigrants), you will systematically reduce perverse immigration and spend less, not more. What is hard about this?

Because it guarantees a failed state

Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them | Elsa Johnson, The Times In 2023, one month into my freshman year at Stanford University, an upperclassman was showing me her dorm room — a prized single in one of the nicest buildings on campus. As she took me around her space, which included a private bathroom, a walk-in shower and a great view of Hoover Tower, she casually mentioned that she had lived in a single all four years she had attended Stanford. I was surprised. Most people don’t get the privilege of a single room until they reach their senior year. That’s when my friend gave me a tip: Stanford had granted her “a disability accommodation”. She, of course, didn’t have a disability. She knew it. I knew it. But she had figured out early what most Stanford students eventually learn: the Office of Accessible Education will give students a single room, extra time on tests and even exemptions from academic requirements if they qualify as “disabled”. Everyone was doing it. I could do it, too, if I just knew how to ask. A recent article in The Atlantic reported that an increasing number of students at elite universities were claiming they had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions, which can also include copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms. Those who suffer from “social anxiety” can even get out of participating in class discussions. But the most common disability accommodation students ask for — and receive — is the best housing on campus. At Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where competition for the best dorm rooms is fierce, this practice is particularly rife. The Atlantic reported that 38 percent of undergraduates at my college were registered as having a disability — that’s 2,850 students out of a class of 7,500 — and 24 per cent of undergrads received academic or housing accommodations in the fall quarter. At the Ivy League colleges Brown and Harvard, more than 20 per cent of undergrads are registered as disabled. Contrast these numbers with America’s community colleges, where only 3 to 4 per cent of students receive disability accommodations. Bizarrely, the schools that boast the most academically successful students are the ones with the largest number who claim disabilities — disabilities that you’d think would deter academic success. The truth is, the system is there to be gamed, and most students feel that if you’re not gaming it, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage. That’s why I decided to claim my legitimate illness — endometriosis — as a disability at Stanford. When I arrived on campus two and a half years ago, I would have assumed that special allowances were made for a small number of students who genuinely needed them. But I quickly discovered that wasn’t true. Some diagnoses are real and serious, of course, such as epilepsy, anaphylactic allergies, sleep apnea or severe physical disabilities. But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety. And some “disabilities” are just downright silly. Students claim “night terrors”; others say they “get easily distracted” or they “can’t live with others”. I know a guy who was granted a single room because he needs to wear contacts at night. I’ve heard of a girl who got a single because she was gluten intolerant. That’s why I felt justified in claiming endometriosis as a disability. It is a painful condition in which cells from the uterus grow outside the womb. I’m often doubled over in agony from the problem, for which there is no known cure, so I decided to ask for a single room in a campus dorm where I could endure those moments in private. The application process was very easy. I registered my condition on the Stanford Office of Accessible Education website and made an appointment to meet an adviser later that week. The system is staffed largely by empathetic women who want to help students. As I explained my diagnosis and symptoms over Zoom to one woman, she listened, nodded sympathetically, related my problems to her own life and asked a few basic questions. Within 30 minutes, I was registered as a student with a disability, entitled to more accommodations than I asked for. In addition to a single housing assignment, I was granted extra absences from class, some late days on assignments and a 15-minute tardiness allowance for all of my classes. I was met with so little scepticism or questioning, I probably didn’t even need a doctor’s note to get these exemptions. Had I been pushier, I am sure I could have received almost any accommodation I asked for. While I feel entitled to my single room, I would feel guilty about some of the perks I have — except that so many of my fellow students have gamed the system. Take Callie, a recent Stanford grad with ADHD and Asperger’s who agreed to be quoted under a pseudonym. Callie was diagnosed with her conditions in elementary school; in return, Stanford granted her a single room for all four years, plus extra time on tests — and a few more perks. “In college, I haven’t had that many ‘in real life’ tests as opposed to take-home essays,” Callie told me. “When I did use the extra time, I felt guilty, because I probably didn’t deserve the accommodations, given the fact I got into Stanford and could compete at a high academic level. Extra time on tests — some students even get double time — seems unfair to me.” But at Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren’t getting accommodations, you haven’t tried hard enough. Another student told me that special “accommodations are so prevalent that they effectively only punish the honest”. Academic accommodations, they added, help “students get ahead … which puts a huge proportion of the class on an unfair playing ground”. The gaming even extends to our meals. Stanford requires most undergraduates living on campus to purchase a meal plan, which costs $7,944 for the 2025-26 academic year. But students can get exempted if they claim a religious dietary restriction that the college kitchens cannot accommodate. And so, some students I know claim to be devout members of the Jain faith, which rejects any food that may cause harm to all living creatures — including small insects and root vegetables. The students I know who claim to be Jain (but aren’t) spend their meal money at Whole Foods instead and enjoy freshly made salads and other yummy dishes, while the rest of us are stuck with college meals, like burgers made partly from “mushroom mix”. Administrators seem powerless to reform the system and frankly don’t seem to care. How do you prove someone doesn’t have anxiety? How do you verify they don’t need extra time on a test? How do you challenge a religious dietary claim without risking a discrimination lawsuit? I often think back to that conversation with my upperclassman friend. She wasn’t proud of gaming the system and she wasn’t ashamed either. She was simply rational. The university had created a set of incentives and she had simply responded to them. That’s what strikes me most about the accommodation explosion at Stanford and similar schools. The students aren’t exactly cheating and if they are, can you blame them? Stanford has made gaming the system the logical choice. When accommodations mean the difference between a cramped triple and your own room, when extra test time can boost your grade point average, opting out feels like self-sabotage. Who would make their lives harder when the easiest option is just a 30-minute Zoom call away? thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

@elonmusk Elon. Paid another $30 today. Again see no substantial improvements in “expert” mode. Image edits fail nearly 100% of time. And a big problem persists via app: work hard on a solid follow-up prompt, app reports “Processing” …wait, and eventually find it erased the prompt. WTF?

With the release of version 1.0, Grok Imagine is now generating more images & videos than everyone else combined!

@RonDeSantis Why exempt the president from this, when (a) he’s been the primary driver of congressional spending (BBB showed this in spades), (b) he repeatedly clamors for artificially low interest rates (printing money), and (c) gold responds mainly to printing money (spending secondary). 🙄

Is gold surging because of “shutdown fears” or because Congress shows no sign of reducing spending?

@baggettjo72 @ryangrim No reason not to conceal carry in exactly that situation. Stop victim-blaming. Although attacked, he didn’t counterattack. He was simply taken down without knowledge of his gun, and murdered when agents stole his undrawn gun. The constitution is gone: new old-west rules.

@ryangrim Why did the nurse bring a gun to a highly tense situation? The ICE agents lives were upended, they were refused bathroom breaks, buying themselves a drink, food the basic needs to stay alive. Everyday their lives were threatened and their families were in protected custody.

If I’m the officer who emptied my clip into Alex Pretti’s back, I’m starting to get worried. Also we need to know who the agent is who clapped and celebrated as his colleague fired 4 extra shots into his lifeless body. He should never work in law enforcement again. Agents are about to find out how far they can take Stephen Miller’s promise that they have absolute immunity.

@grok @elonmusk @xai No. There is no accommodating Grok on something this basic. If the app won’t have that sort of tiny patience with a typical use scenario, I doubt I’ll have patience to keep paying. Get real, please. 🙄

Thanks for the feedback as a paying user—sorry about the session timeouts in the iPhone app. We're aware of issues with background persistence, especially with attachments like PDFs. As a workaround, try completing prompts without switching apps, or use the web version for longer sessions. Appreciate you sticking with us!

Try Grok

@realDonaldTrump This is weird.

MELANIA, the Movie, is a MUST WATCH. Get your tickets today — Selling out, FAST! Photo: Regine Mahaux amazon.com/salp/melaniamo…

@GovofCO Cool. We’ve a big problem you can fix: responsiveness of our unemployment program for those following the rules. Feds got furlough help quickly—but those laid off have been waiting weeks for proper action on their claim, gutting program true intent (seeking high-rate debt). Help.