Facts by #JoeHansenFacts# In Pretoria, South Africa, during the apartheid era, the Musk family(@mayemusk) raised visionaries amid challenges. Elon Musk, born June 28, 1971, his brother Kimbal, born 1972, and his sister Tosca, born 1974, shared a childhood fueled by curiosity and limited technology. Their engineer father Errol provided access to early computers. At age 10, Elon received the Commodore VIC-20, one of the first affordable home computers. Lacking teachers or resources, the brothers taught themselves coding using the BASIC programming manual. Elon mastered it in three days instead of six months, igniting a passion that led to his first video game, Blastar, coded at 12 and sold for $500. This self-taught ingenuity on outdated machines in their South African home laid the foundation for their later success, including co-founding Zip2. The Musk brothers' early experiments with old computers exemplified determination, turning isolation and scarcity into skills that would revolutionize technology worldwide.

I see this as a broken cable, not a miracle. The brain still sends the order. The wire in the neck does not. Neuralink is the bypass. Physics already said yes. The hard part is the implant that stays in and keeps working. "It's a communications bridge. You bridge the motor cortex past the point in the neck or spine where the nerve is damaged. From a physics standpoint it is possible to restore full body function." -- Elon Musk

"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon." -- Elon Musk Hard to miss that he said this and then built Grok anyway. The useful line is the one before the joke. Some oversight so nobody does something foolish. Building the model is how you stay in the room with it. Walking away is not control.

"We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don't have to do anything. It just works." -- Elon Musk The part that stuck is the red pixel. The land for US solar is a small blue square. The batteries to run that grid at night are one pixel inside it. Tesla is not arguing about rooftops. It is building the pixel.