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23rd of September, 2024

"You can change the software running in your head that was put there by others..." - Elon (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA $TSLA ($250.00, +4.93%):

- If you haven't see Beetlejuice 2 (@Beetlejuice) yet, do it. it is as good as the first. As you watch you will notice an unexpected character. Tesla has a Model Y prominently throughout the whole film. It's Winona Ryder's character, Lydia Deetz's car. As of last Sunday morning, the film was projected to close its third weekend in theaters with a total cumulative ticket sales of $329.7 million. Great product placement!

- According to Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt), Tesla will begin sending emails to the winners of the 10/10 Robotaxi event this week.

- According to Tesla's Business Resolutions Partner Sofus Blum, just two weeks after the official launch in the Akropolis mall, the Tesla Vilnius, Lithuania, team have given over 300 Demo Drives. "The local market’s excitement speaks volumes, and it’s been made possible thanks to an incredible collaboration between our teams from Denmark and Sweden, who’ve worked to ensure a smooth and successful launch. Their hard work has really paid off."

- Tesla announced Norway has more than 60,000 Model Ys on the road.

- Tesla's Dean Ciccarello participated in the grand opening of Tesla Australia’s 100th Supercharger site, located at the picturesque beach suburb of Glenelg, South Australia.

- Tesla China VP Grace Tao Lin posted on Weibo that after driving 320k kilometers (198.8k miles), the average battery capacity of Model S and X remains at 88%. The average for the Model 3 and Y remains at 85%. "Going around the earth's equator eight times is not a marathon but a battery endurance race for Tesla."

- Pic by Tesla Product Specialist Merve Gülebe.

- FSD v12.5.4 now supports sunglasses, and Actually Smart Summon on update 2024.27.25 has an increased distance than in prior revisions.

- Per Elon, "You can summon a driverless Tesla from anywhere in the parking lot. Rapidly approaching the ability to summon from anywhere at all." Anywhere!

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 23rd of September, '24.

Giga Berlin: Robert & Andreas (@wolfpackberlin), 22nd of September, '24.
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 21st of September, '24.

Giga Texas: Airwave Dynamics (@AirwaveDynamics), 21st of September, '24.

Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 21st of September, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- On Saturday SpaceX full stacked Starship 30 and Super Heavy Booster 12. Today they started full stack testing with a partial propellent load. The FAA has yet to give a license for IFT-5.

- Axios wanted a gotcha moment from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson today. They asked him if Elon is a distraction to NASA’s mission. Nelson stated, "It distracts you. It doesn’t distract NASA."

- "Like the ruins of a futuristic, long-dead civilization..." On Sunday we got confirmation that SpaceX via the HOS Ridgewind of Hornbeck Offshore was in the Gulf at the splashdown site for Booster 11. And then in Elon fashion, we got the insane pic above. Now we just need to know why they are pulling it fro it watery grave.

- Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders (@KathyLueders) posted about the Boca Chica Beach clean up on the 28th of September. Many SpaceX employees participate in this event every year. Food, drinks, and a band will be provided by SpaceX.

- Cards Against Humanity (CAH) has filed a $15 million suit in Texas claiming SpaceX has been trespassing and damaging their property in Cameron County. They say it has been ongoing for a month and that vegetation has been cleared, soil compacted, and generators have been installed. They claim these actions and upgrading Starbase has altered the dynamics of the area and damaged its relationship with its current and future customers.

Per CAH's website, "Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump all his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value. We said, ‘Go f**k yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court."

- Dragon Freedom arrived at pad 40 in Florida ahead of this week's Crew-9 launch to the ISS.

- In a session of Congress, California (R) Rep Kevin Kiley praised the Polaris Dawn mission and congratulated SpaceX and Elon. He quickly moved against the FAA and criticized them for fining SpaceX and delaying Starship launch approvals.

Countdown to 144 (91 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

Launch 95! Tuesday, 24th of September, at 8:59 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-8 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
Launch 96! Thursday, 26th of September, at 2:05 p.m. Falcon 9 Crew-9 Block 5 will launch Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. On board will be Commander Nick Hague and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov. The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- New South Hall Station update by Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere). This Sunday morning, Michel spoke with a Boring employee who said "this will be the second tunnel to Encore. It will be a station for South Hall. From here it will extend south to Virgin and then down to the Airport." The concrete floor has been poured.

- At the Central Hall location, Michel saw the above ground equipment has been cleared. "Apparently they are finishing it below ground. This tunnel connects Central to South and then to Encore."

- Lastly in Vegas, we reported a couple of weeks ago that Boring was interested in buying the monorail once it is out of commission. Michel heard the same this weekend. "Boring is negotiating for the Monorail. The plan is to build special Tesla cars that run on the existing tracks! Apparently there are no more spare parts for the existing trains."

- At Giga Texas new road surface sections have arrived for the Cyber-Tunnel with what looks like a "passing" grade. Great pics and info from Joe!

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Small Farm Cities Africa (SFC) recently showcased their hyper-affordable housing model and mortgage financing system at the National Housing Symposium in Malawi. It was attended by Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of Malawi, and hosted by the Ministry of Lands and Department of Housing, Malawi Housing Corporation, Malawi Red Cross Society, Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity Malawi, and Gift of the Givers Foundation. At the Conference Center at Umodzi Park, the SFC team built a complete showcase home with SpaceX Starlink internet, VITALITE Group Malawi solar lighting, and an exhibit income-producing garden plot. All this in about 48 hours.

- David Theriault, President of 4K Solutions, and Network Innovations were with the Kentucky National Guard and Air National Guard showcasing their 5G Mobile Broadband Kit (MBK) with their rapidly deployable Starshield Starlink High Performance kit.

- SpaceX's Ben Longmier (@longmier) confirmed there are now more than 200 Starlink Direct to Cell satellites in low Earth orbit. Elon replied, "Not long before the Starlink direct to cell communication constellation is active!"

- AirBridge Networks of Australia is utilizing Starlink to assist the National Rugby League photographers as they capture every minute of the games and upload image files in real time to the cloud. The pics above were at the Cronulla Sharks and North Queensland Toyota Cowboys game at Allianz Stadium Friday night.

- According to T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, "We think we’re on track for a beta program of the direct-satellite-to-cellular program that we announced a while back—it could start late this year or early into next year." They originally expected beta this fall.

“We think we’re on track for a beta program of the direct-satellite-to-cellular program that we announced a while back—it could start late this year or early into next year,” he said.

- Japanese telecommunications operator, KDDI, posted that they are providing free Wi-Fi via 55 Starlinks at evacuation centers, public facilities, and schools in Ishikawa Prefecture. Record rainfall has caused floods and landslides. The cities of Wajima and Suzu, still recovering from the deadly earthquake, are among the hardest hit. KDDI and Okinawa Cellular will implement these support measures for customers in areas covered by the Disaster Relief Act.

- OnMed Healthcare held ribbon cuttings in Wilcox County and Greene County of Alabama. The OnMed CareStation in the town of Boligee is Starlink enabled due to the local town not having broadband. Auburn University’s Rural Health Initiative, the The University of West Alabama & the Alabama Extension are supporting OnMed's mission across rural Alabama and providing Starlink where needed.

■ X:

- Texas Governor Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) has confirmed that Elon has indeed chosen Bastrop, Texas, as the new X headquarters.

- According to Forbes, X has complied with Brazilian court orders to remove certain accounts and pay fines. X supposedly hired new lawyers as representatives in Brazil as per the country law. X may soon be active in the country again.

- The block button will soon be removed. If an account is public, posts will be visible to the blocked users as well. Per Elon, "High time this happened. The block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post."

- On the web you search all X Communities by a Top Post filter.

■ xAI:

- Per Elon, "Grok 3 is training with 10X, soon 20X the compute of Grok 2." He also confirmed that Grok will be launching a standalone app soon.

- Love this. Per xAI's Hieu Pham (@hyhieu226), "Only xAI... Saturday morning, you send your son to a music class so you can go get coffee with a candidate. On your drive home, you see your teammate, a fellow dad, walking along the street. He just met another candidate, and suggested to connect you with them..."

■ ELON NEWS:

- Tonight, Elon will be handing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a global citizenship award during a gala dinner of the United Nations general assembly in New York City. She is being honored for her role as Italy’s first female prime minister, support of the European Union and the transatlantic alliance, and her 2024 chairmanship of the G7.

Elon also met with Argentina President Javier Milei (@JMilei) today while in New York.

- Elon met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (@NayibBukele) last Friday at Giga Texas. Per Elon, "We talked a lot about the nature of reality, future of humanity and how technology like AI and robotics will affect the world. El Salvador has an amazing leader."

Per Nayib, "It was a pleasure to spend several hours talking with one of the great minds of our time."

- The SEC is attempting to impose sanctions on Elon for not appearing at a scheduled testimony regarding the investigation into his acquisition of Twitter. Elon has stated that he needed to be at the Polaris Dawn launch and had to make the "Go" or "No Go" decision for that day. The SEC says he did this without formally requesting a change in the testimony date from the court. The SEC says he made the choice not to attend just three hours before the scheduled testimony. They further argue that this action contravenes a previous court order. The SEC is now seeking not only to enforce Musk's testimony but also to recover their expenses related to the missed session. Of note, the Polaris Dawn mission had been pushed back daily due to weather.

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