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Vegas Loop transported 127,566 passengers between 14 stations during SEMA Show 2026
What an amazing @SEMAShow 2026!
Vegas Loop was honored to be a part of it, transporting 127,566 passengers between 14 stations.
@LVCVA @ResortsWorldLV @WynnLasVegas @WestgateVegas @fblasvegas @SAHARALasVegas @LASairport
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He plays games. I make art. ππ©·
ART IS THE ANSWER.
Zero patience for bullshit.
***Put On Your Headphones***
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Getting 5 spam calls a day from India asking if I want a new Rogers deal is making me lose my absolute mind.
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π€― Real people, real Grok Bot wins:
1. @talesofarmegil: cold call scripts for the family business, then a practice partner for his sons
2. @StephDebour: booked a winter tire appointment
3. @DoctorWappie: a parody idea turned into a video in under a day
Which would you copy? π
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The strongest souls often come in the smallest, bravest packages. Sending her and her family all the love.β€οΈ
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Someone quoted "16 months" from my Starlink math. The honest number is about 24, and AT&T Fiber's is about 143. Here's why, plus what US$70 really buys on each.
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US$100M a year would pay for about 3,500 Cybercabs, and that's what Tesla's Texas Robotaxi zones could already bring in. My napkin math puts the fleet at roughly US$33M a year in fares today, because it's short on cars, not riders.
About 1 in 10 Texans now lives inside a driverless Tesla zone, roughly 2.85M people across Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, which opens this morning.
How I got there:
What people spend. Americans spend about US$140 a year each on Uber rides, averaged over everyone. Waymo pulls about US$54 per person living in its zones (about 475K paid rides a week at around US$20, across 9.5M residents).
Tesla at Waymo's level. 2.85M Texans x US$54, cut by a third because Tesla's median ride is US$8.95, about two thirds of Waymo's. That's about US$100M a year.
The ceiling is higher. Waymo gets about 40% of what people spend per head on Uber. If robotaxis replace most ride hailing, the same 2.85M people spend about US$400M a year, out of roughly US$4.5B Texans spend on Uber rides overall. In Austin, Waymo only runs inside the Uber app, so there Tesla is taking on Uber directly.
The real limit today. 1,244 cars registered in Texas, at 5 to 8 rides a day, caps Texas at about US$19M to US$33M.
Is it profitable? Today each car brings in about US$26K a year. Running one costs about US$19K (charging, cleaning, insurance, tires, parking) plus US$5K to US$6K to write off a US$25K to US$30K Cybercab over five years. Roughly break even. At Waymo's pace of about 20 rides a day, a car brings in about US$65K and keeps around US$40K, paying for itself in under a year. Serving the full US$100M takes only about 1,500 cars at that pace.
So every car Tesla adds is revenue waiting to happen. The Texas fleet more than doubled in October, and 573 of those are Cybercabs.
Rough estimates on public data. Operating costs are an outside estimate, not Tesla's. Remote operators, depots and empty miles aren't counted, and neither are free first rides.
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π¨π¦ Wealthsimple: $13.8B valuation
π¨π¦ Koho: $1B+ valuation
π¨π¦ Chexy: 23,183% four-year revenue growth
Canada is building world-class fintech companies.
We need to make it easier for them to compete with the big banks. Improving core services, not just niche ones.
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Canada's federal government keeps choosing Starlink, and its contract has grown more than tenfold
A Shared Services Canada contract with SpaceX started at about $2.3 million in November 2023 and now stands at $28.9 million after six amendments
β’ $8.8 million increase in January 2025
β’ $17.2 million increase in January 2026
β’ $15.7 million paid to SpaceX as of Sept 30, 2026
β’ Service extended to February 2027
β’ Up to three one-year extensions to keep it running until 2029
Starlink provides fixed, mobile, maritime and aeronautical connectivity to federal organizations, especially in remote locations where domestic alternatives are not yet available
From Arctic outposts to ships at sea, Starlink keeps Canada's public servants connected
Wherever the work takes them, the signal follows
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How the π algorithm (actually) works.
Send this prompt to Grok @bot to understand what the algorithm rewards, best practices, and how to increase your reach.
The closest thing to an π personal brand cheat code that exists:
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The N1 had 30 engines on its first stage, second only to Starship. All four launches failed, and one explosion was among the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
If the Soviets hadnβt been forced to rush by the political pressure of the Moon race, and had instead tested and iterated like Starship, the N1 would probably have succeeded.
The difference isnβt technology, itβs the willingness to accept failure.
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Please take a minute this Sunday to listen to Audi Chef trashing Tesla, back in 2015 π©πͺπΊπΈ
imagine when he realizes @teslaeurope now builds 7000 BEVs a week nearby Berlin - selling two for the price of one Audi and with margins to spare..
enjoy the weekend!
#alwaysbecharging
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A bright blue flash lit up Tyler's bedroom wall. There was no storm.
Tyler turned his head in the dark and saw arcs of light in the corner of his vision. No pain. He checked the chart app on his phone the next morning and could still read the small print. He almost went back to sleep.
The flashes were not in the room. The gel inside the eye was pulling on the retina. It had already torn. Same-day laser closed the tear before fluid could lift the retina off.
New flashes in the dark, especially with new floaters, are not something to sleep on. Vision can still be sharp. Get seen the same day.
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Ford's EV side lost another $1.1 billion last quarter. They only sold $1.2 billion worth.
That's around $20 billion gone since 2021, plus a $19.5 billion write down last year.
They still say it'll be profitable by 2029. A 120 year old carmaker, six years into EVs, still losing money on every one it sells.
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Iβve experienced both worlds when it comes to internet. I didnβt have AT&T Fiber. I had AT&T Wi-Fi, but thatβs something different. My wired service was Windstream, and it was horrible because of degrading lines.
Lightning strikes would fry a section of line. Animals would burrow in and chew through the steel-jacketed cables. Then you had trees falling, wind damage, and car wrecks. One incident could knock out service for a couple hundred customers.
With Starlink, a couple satellites can fail and you can still have service through the others. Add a Starlink Mini, and accessibility gets even better because you can take it with you. So the way I look at it, youβre trading some speed for redundancy and flexibility.
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Tesla is hiring in Vietnam.
It's been in Singapore for years, a market 10x smaller. It got into Thailand, about the same size as Vietnam, back in 2022.
So why only now?
VinFast sold more cars in Vietnam this year than Toyota, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Ford and Kia combined. It has 150,000 chargers that only work for VinFasts.
Even BYD, the world's biggest EV maker, sold only 3,178 cars there last year.
That's what owning 92% of an EV market looks like.
