UPCOMING SPACEX LAUNCHES (Sept 6-15): 3 x Falcon 9 & Starship flight 14 🚀🔥 ▪︎ Sunday, Sept 6 | 27 Starlink (Group 15-24) satellites | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 7.26 a.m. PDT ▪︎ Thursday, Sept 10 | USSF-153 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | 8.37 a.m. PDT ▪︎ Sunday, Sept 13 | O3b mPower 11-13 | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL | 2.50 p.m. EDT ▪︎ Tuesday, Sept 15 | Starship Flight 14 | Starbase, TX | TBD Source: SpaceX, NSF

Cybercab is going straight from the streets of Austin to Japan 🇯🇵 Tesla has officially launched the Cybercab Japan Tour from September 4–30, marking Cybercab’s first-ever public showing in the country Cybercab has just started carrying passengers autonomously in Austin And now Tesla is already taking the purpose-built Robotaxi around the world for people to see

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century. Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions. Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935. 1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first. 2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another. 3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own. 4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections. 5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked. 6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to. 7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march. Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

Extending consciousness to the Moon and Mars takes a lot of mass

Elon really put into perspective just how insanely massive the Sun is compared to Earth The Sun contains ~99.86% of all the mass in the entire Solar System Earth is basically a rounding error We live on this tiny rock next to an object so massive that almost everything else in the Solar System barely registers And that giant ball of nuclear fusion is dumping an unimaginable amount of energy into space every second

if you only knew how bad it really is

From piss-yellow to Golden Age. A pretty awesome transition, in my opinion.

I've now done a total of 3 hours riding around in @Tesla’s Cybercab and spent a total of $92.51. That travel time would have cost me $200 with Ubers. My longest ride has been ~40 minutes. I legitimately can't come up with any major complaints for FSD V15. None. I’ve spoken to a handful of other people here who say the same. I didn't need to call rider support once. No weird maneuvers, jitteriness, or hesitation. I do think pickup and drop-off locations could use some tweaking (same for Model Y) as you need to walk a bit sometimes, but I think that will get better as V15 progresses. Two things you surprisingly get used to very quickly are having no rearview mirror and no side mirrors. For anyone else trying Cybercab for the first time, I encourage you to recline your seat all the way back and just close your eyes for a minute. Realizing that you can nap in the spot where a driver traditionally sat while the car drives you around with no steering wheel or pedals is a pretty surreal feeling.

Avec l’abondance via la robotique qui arrive, le système des permis de construire capturé par l’État va devoir être démantelé, il est obsolète.

The Map Founding document of the Council of Western Civilization. First draft, for correction. What this is A diagnosis – not a manifesto, not a program, not a complaint. Before anything can be defended, someone has to write down plainly what exists, what is being lost, and what can still be saved. That document does not currently exist. This is an attempt at it. It is expected to be wrong in places. Everything here is open to correction by evidence. Preamble A civilization that cannot say what it is will not defend itself. Europe has institutions for everything except the civilization that produced them. Before anything can be defended, we have to write down plainly what exists, what is being lost, and what can still be saved. That document does not exist. This is an attempt at it. What we inherited Western civilization is not an idea. It is a set of working arrangements, each of which took centuries to build and any of which can be lost in a generation: 1. Law that binds the ruler as well as the ruled. 2. Trial by evidence, not by authority. 3. Property the state cannot take at will. 4. Free exchange, and the prices that make it intelligible. 5. Science: the claim that reality is real, knowable, and open to correction by anyone with better evidence. 6. The individual conscience, which no institution owns. 7. The family: the only structure that transmits all of the above and invests in people who do not yet exist. 8. These are not Western by geography. They were built here, at great cost, and adopted elsewhere because they work. What is being dismantled 9. Truth. Institutions built to establish facts now exist to protect narratives. Where evidence and narrative conflict, the evidence is managed. A society that cannot correct itself cannot steer. 10. Merit. "Who is best for this" is replaced by "who belongs in the room." Position is allocated by credential, network, and demonstrated loyalty. This is not equality; it is the protection of incumbents in the language of equality. 11. The right to build. In Europe, activity requires permission by default, and silence from the state means no. The visible harm is prevented. The invisible harm – the factory never built, the young person who leaves – is never counted. 12. Transmission. Birth rates across the West are far below replacement. The family has been reclassified as a lifestyle option and inheritance as an injustice. A civilization that stops handing things forward has already decided. 13. Free Speech. Not by law, mostly – by cost: employment, reputation, access. The result is a population that says one thing in public and another in private, and a growing number who have left public life entirely. 14. The nation. The frame inside which all of the above is actually enforced. Rights that no state will defend are only promises. Why it happens 15. Accumulation. Every society builds layers of protected position. People who reach the top arrange the ladder behind them. Without periodic clearing, the layers thicken until the society is run by people it cannot remove. 16. Selection. An institution told to avoid scandal will select for people who avoid scandal, and those people prevent things rather than build them. No malice is required. Give an institution the wrong mission and it will perform it faithfully. 17. Therefore replacing individuals changes nothing. The same incentives produce the same people. What can still be defended 18. The law still mostly works. The scientific method is intact even where scientific institutions are not. Property holds. Several nations still know what they are and say so. 19. And the monopoly on distribution is broken. For the first time in a century, an argument can reach a continent without anyone’s permission. What must be rebuilt 20. The rotation of elites, so that position must be re-earned. 21. The presumption of freedom to act: punishment after harm, not permission before existence. 22. Institutions that transmit – schools, apprenticeships, prizes, families – rather than merely certify. 23. An authority that says publicly what is legitimate and what is corrupt, measured against a stated hierarchy of values. Nothing else on this list gets repaired while no one’s job is to name the problem out loud. What the Council does 24. Keeps this map current, and publishes every revision. 25. Issues verdicts: short, signed, public judgments on specific laws, acts, and institutions, with the reasoning attached. Not lobbying. Not consultation. 26. Distributes the vocabulary, so people can name what they are living through. You cannot resist what you cannot describe. What the Council does not do 27. Hold power. Seek office. Take money that comes with conditions. Issue anonymous statements. 28. Every member is named, every position public, every decision on the record. The case for this civilization can be made in the open. The case against it usually cannot. The standard 29. We will be judged by whether what we say turns out to be true. That is the whole authority available to us, and it is enough. Tell the truth. Have courage. And build.

The Cybercab motor uses no rare earth metals, but maintains the same range! This was extremely hard to achieve.

Epic. So, after all, it wasn’t a coincidence when that serie was named ”Stargate”?😏