NGOs significantly exacerbate the homelessness problem in an attempt to profit from the misery of others. They hide behind good intentions while actually making life worse, fueling an increase in the homeless population and turning city streets into dumping grounds. “If you pay organizations per homeless person, you get more homeless people and the NGOs fight hard to maximize the homeless population. Whatever you incentivize will happen.” Elon Musk

To Mars and beyond 🚀

Elon Musk knew a long time ago; Bill Gates “is not strong in the sciences.” “You’d think that someone like Bill Gates, who clearly started a technology company that’s one of the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft, you’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, my at least direct conversations with him have… he is not strong in the sciences. This is really surprising.” Elon Musk

What a circus🤡 The EU aims to keep its citizens in the Middle Ages forever 🤦🏼‍♀️

NEWS: Starlink live at four Port Moresby health facilities in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District Health Authority installed Starlink dishes at Gerehu General Hospital, Six-Mile Polyclinic, Lawes Road Urban Clinic, and Gordon’s Urban Clinic in Port Moresby, funded by UNFPA’s Meri Link Project so staff can run patient data, telehealth, and emergency coordination.

It is very sad, but it is true 😅😢

So, what's the deal with Dickipedia? Has anyone heard any news? 🤔😂🤣

NEWS: Starlink cleared for Direct-to-Cell service in remote Bangladesh Bangladesh has licensed Banglalink to launch the country’s first commercial Direct-to-Cell service with Starlink. The service will initially provide SMS and light-data connectivity, with scope to expand to voice and broader data services later.

NEWS: Starlink satellite internet is coming to remote villages in Vietnam 🛰️ Officials plan to install Starlink terminals at 36 underserved hamlets that lack terrestrial infrastructure, starting with Ban Chot in Van Ho Commune and Ban Van Xuan in Chieng Son Commune. The service will give residents reliable access for education, communication, and online services, helping close the digital divide and support local digital transformation in hard-to-reach mountain communities.

In 2001, Elon Musk nearly died of malaria. In late 2000, after Peter Thiel and the board pushed him out as PayPal CEO, Elon took his first real weeklong break from work. He went to Brazil to see a cousin, then to South Africa for a family wedding. After time with family in Pretoria, he and then-wife Justine went to a game reserve. He got back to Palo Alto in January 2001 and started feeling bad. At Stanford's ER and Sequoia Hospital, he received a wrong diagnosis while his symptoms continued to worsen. A doctor from San Jose General who actually knew tropical disease walked past the Elon bed and recognized Plasmodium falciparum malaria - the strain that can wreck the brain, lungs, and blood in a day once it turns severe. After symptoms get that bad, patients often have about a day before the parasite is effectively untreatable. Elon recalled: “I was first misdiagnosed at Stanford Hospital with viral meningitis, then again misdiagnosed at Sequoia. A visiting doc from San Jose General saw my charts & sent me to ICU immediately. I was ~36 hours from being unrecoverable.”

NEWS: Starlink installed in schools in Philippines, to ensure uninterrupted online learning during inclement weather Starlink-powered internet has been deployed in schools across the municipality of Pakil (Laguna province, Philippines) to prevent disruptions to the learning process when typhoons and floods knock out local networks. In some school districts, weather conditions can cause the loss of 40 to 50 school days a year, but thanks to Starlink, students can continue their studies even during connectivity outages.

NEWS: NuRAN pilots Starlink LEO backhaul for rural 4G in Nigeria NuRAN Wireless said it will pilot licensed Starlink LEO service as backhaul at a rural site in Nigeria with partner Infratel — its first LEO integration anywhere in its network — to unlock higher-capacity 4G for underserved communities, with a possible copy-and-paste rollout across the DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and Cameroon where Starlink is licensed via third parties.

“It [Optimus] can be a teacher, babysit your kids. It can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks. I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind. … Of the 8 billion people of Earth, I think everyone’s going to want their Optimus buddy.” Elon Musk

NEWS: Hawaiian Electric installs first Tesla Megapacks for Maui’s largest standalone storage Hawaiian Electric has installed the first six Tesla Megapacks at its Waena Battery Energy Storage System along Pulehu Road in Central Maui. When complete, 54 Megapacks will deliver 40 MW and 160 MWh — Maui’s first standalone load-shifting storage — holding daytime solar and wind for evening demand, with grid-forming tech for stability. Remaining units are due by end of October; service is expected in 2027.

Elon Musk makes the impossible possible. Things that seem unattainable for us get done when Elon takes them on. In an interview with The Telegraph, when asked by a journalist if Elon had ever come to her with an idea she thought was a bridge too far, his mom, Maye, replied: “Yes, every idea. Every. Idea... But everything he says is far-fetched until it happens.”

NEWS: xAI releases Grok 4.7 as a faster everyday workhorse xAI shipped Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work, available immediately in the Grok app, Cursor, Grok Build, and the API at the same price as Grok 4.6. The model is built to stay on longer tasks, check its own work more carefully, and pair especially well with the Build harness. Independent tests showed gains on agentic coding and office-style work, while NVIDIA congratulated the team on its most capable model yet for those jobs.