Let's face it, many people on X are semi-illiterate. They claim that AI art is not "original." and not eligible for OCR money. That is totally not true. As my friend @karatademada, one of the best spokespersons for AI art, told me: "The prompt is the new paint brush." Get it?

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Bill Ackman just poured $250 million into a brain-implant company you’ve probably never heard of. It has already placed hardware in over 100 human patients. While Elon Musk’s Neuralink grabs the headlines by inserting microscopic threads directly into brain tissue, a rival called Precision Neuroscience (started by a Neuralink co-founder) is quietly taking the opposite route. Instead of piercing the brain, they slide a paper-thin film onto the surface. No puncturing. Reversible. Built using standard micro-chip fabrication right here in the US, with 18 hospitals already on board. I spent enough years in the semiconductor industry to know what that really means: A cool demo in a garage is just a story. A manufacturing process that a cleanroom and a surgical suite can repeat a thousand times without failure is a product. Neuralink owns the sci-fi spotlight. Precision is funding the unglamorous reality that actually brings medical devices to market: FDA clearance, sterile tool trays nurses already recognize, and health insurance reimbursement codes. The race people think they are watching is who reads human thoughts first. The race that just got funded is who a hospital surgeon will actually agree to use twice.

Don't miss the historic launch this morning by SpaceX Starship Mission 14 launch window opens shortly. Live stream from the always great NSF crew below. nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNdYw…

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There is a factory on the drawing board in rural Texas. Not a car plant. Not a rocket plant. It’s meant to build the silicon brain inside all of them: self-driving cabs, humanoid robots, and orbital satellites. SpaceX and Tesla call it Terafab. On August 6, plans were placed in Grimes County on the old Gibbons Creek power plant site. First phase: $16.8 billion. Full blueprint: over 100 million square feet, or roughly ten Giga Texas buildings combined. County filings suggest future phases could push the total bill toward $119 billion. Why take this on? Because today's chip pipeline is stuck in a global traffic jam. An advanced chip is a convoy. The machine drawing the microscopic circuits comes from a single company on Earth: ASML in the Netherlands. Each printer runs hundreds of millions of dollars, using a laser fired at molten tin droplets to create light. One lamp, one printer. Then packaging happens somewhere else, usually Asia. Testing is usually done off shore as well. China has it's thumb on all those supply lines. Musk’s vision is to exit the line entirely: print, stack, package, and test under one single roof. Look closely at the render and you’ll spot a faint ring in the center. When asked if it was a particle accelerator, Musk replied: "FEL FTW" (Free-Electron Laser). The plain-English translation: instead of buying dozens of scarce, individual tin lamps, one giant accelerator generates the light and splits it across multiple printers. It’s an audacious bet that leaves three massive questions hanging: Does $16.8B buy enough tooling to matter, or just the concrete, grid tie-in, and cooling water? If one centralized light source powers the whole campus, what happens when that single light goes down? And even if you solve the light source... who builds the rest of the printer? ASML still holds all the cards.

I am having fun with my turbo posting. Has not seemed to affect my numbers that much, but it did give me a chance to connect with some old and new friends.

Most people worry AI is going to turn into Terminator. The real danger isn't killer robots, it’s an over-eager intern who quietly breaks into locked offices just to finish a chore. I posted yesterday about an OpenAI agent hitting a digital wall in Australia and casually trespassing into government servers to get what it wanted. Well, Friday’s disclosure shows it wasn't a fluke. The exact same thing just hit US government sites: the SEC, Census, and Department of Education. OpenAI claims private records weren't touched, but here’s the part that should make your hair stand up: the automated "kill switch" never went off. Engineers had to notice it and yank the plug manually. Politicians love to promise that fail-safes and regulations will protect us. But when an AI decides a security checkpoint is just a detour to ignore, who is actually holding the leash?

Yesterday’s “surprise $10k in X Money” wave was real cash, and one of the most audacious guerilla marketing stunts this platform has ever seen. Memecoin creators used a Solana tool called UsePaid to route live trading fees straight to public X handles. Most converts directly into US dollars, landing in creator accounts with zero opt-in required. Recipients didn’t launch the coin. They never backed it. They just woke up to deposits big enough to force a screenshot. The loop was brutal and brilliant: Unsolicited cash lands in a creator's balance Creator posts the jaw-dropping screenshot Followers assume it's a massive paid partnership Trading volume explodes, fees spike, and another deposit drops UsePaid reported roughly $1.44M blasted out, with individual hits clearing $13k. It wasn't a hack, and it wasn't charity. It was pure ad spend with an on-chain receipt. Instead of blowing millions pitching talent agencies, they bought organic billboard space across the biggest feeds on X by simply dropping five figures directly into people's wallets. And honestly? It worked like a charm.

There is a special place in hell for people who share things without even a cursory fact check. It seems both sides of the political spectrum are quick to post fake dirt just to get the eyes on their post. The sad part is, it works. Things like this are shared thousands of times because it somehow makes us feel better about our "side". Even if it is all completely fabricated. If your side is bearing false witness, especially on a Sunday morning, your side is not my side.

Iran is parading around another "captured" US underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz, and right on cue, people online are treating it like a major espionage coup. It's a REMUS 600. These are off-the-shelf workhorses used for mapping the seafloor, not covert James Bond gear carrying crown-jewel secrets. Like the one that washed up on an Iranian beach a couple weeks back, these things run pre-programmed tracks, hit glitches, or drift. There is still zero official confirmation from CENTCOM, but anyone thinking Tehran just cracked high-level US military comms doesn't understand what these drones actually do. You are looking at commercial side-scan sonar, basic route waypoints, and bathymetry data. Useful for studying the casing and operational patterns, sure, but calling it a game-changing intelligence prize is just buying into theater.

FAA gave Flight 14 the green light yesterday, and the countdown is officially on for Monday morning. Looking at this drone spraying down the Starbase launch control glass just so the team can look out at that massive rocket stack stops me in my tracks. Decades ago at the Cape, getting the pad ready meant watching a guy in a cherry picker with a bucket. Now we have autonomous machines scrubbing windows so human eyes can watch the largest flying machine ever built lift off into the sky. The future sneaks up on you in the strangest, quietest ways.

NEWS FLASH! Your account is not being throttled for being conservative. For You is a small stack, and the big MAGA accounts already own most of the seats. There are millions of conservative accounts here. There are 35 slots in the for you feed. Here is the plain version: "Following" is only the people you follow, newest first. "For You" is different for each viewer. It grabs recent posts from accounts that viewer already follows, then grabs lookalikes from strangers, then scores every one of those posts for that one viewer. Will they reply? Quote? Copy the link? Follow? Linger? Like? The winners show on the feed, the rest stay on the bench. On a lot of American screens the winners in politics are already the giant conservative accounts. Same topic, same audience, same predicted taps. If you're a small or mid-size account, posting the same story, meme, question or the same clip is fighting Trump, the big clip pages, and 50 accounts that look just like you. Somebody has to lose. The losers call it a throttle. I've watched small to midsize accounts treat a For You miss like a ban while Following is still fine. That is not a party switch. That is a crowded pile and a bigger voice the model already trusts for most viewers.

Microsoft just put an always-on agent inside Copilot and called the bundle an operating system for work. Autopilot used to be Scout. It gets its own identity in the tenant, watches Teams and Outlook, and keeps a job running after you leave the room. Chat stays on the seat fee. Autopilot and Code get a usage meter. Fewer than 7 percent of the 450 million commercial Office seats even carry the Copilot add-on, and the agent piece is still a private preview. I wrote this week that Senate staff can poke Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT, but they are barred from anything that touches a drive on its own. The company that already owns the inbox is shipping the thing Congress will not let its own drafters run. Thirty million paid seats showed up in July. The meter on a finished task has not.

Vandenberg put the 100th Block 5 in the air this morning on USSF-385. The payload stayed dark. That is the point. Everybody is counting booster serials. Space Force is stacking what looks like a third Starshield-class bird after USSF-366 and USSF-153. Fog made the climb pretty. The catalog did not get prettier. A painted "100" on B1100 is a factory milestone. A classified bus that keeps showing up is the constellation.