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Still super bullish. A clean beat and a flying Roadster, but a more muted call, a hard engineering slog on Optimus, and a merger they wouldn't talk about.

Excited, organised and a bigger upside: the Q3 numbers, the merger committees, an honest sceptic check, and the one Dec 2028 call option I'm placing.

About 20 AI bots, one decisions queue, a daily health check and a lot of drafts. How I run my Grok Bot setup today, and where it goes next.

You can buy the models. You can't buy the bridge. Fund the boring bits, back your people, start in non-prod, and a real example from my Google Photos today.

What a Massive Transformative Purpose is, what makes a good one, and a late-night epiphany where I think I found mine. Details soon. Watch this space.

Starship reached orbit on its first attempt, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites and splashed down on target north of Hawaii. Plus Marcus House’s breakdown, the best photos, and a word on the FUD.

Finally saw Cybercab at Tesla Parramatta: huge screen, heaps of leg room, Model Y L next door, and staff roll it in with an Xbox controller.

US Cybercab rides are live; I have watched countless videos, signed up to see the Sydney display, and I am looking forward to FSD v15 on Bluey.

Health app for my dad bod: mockups, Flutter, then friends on Play internal testing. Grok Bot did the build; I did the Console clicks.

I dug into the public reports. Hugging Face feels like students cheating on a test. Services Australia getting hit concerns me — and it looks like unintended goal-seeking, not a classic targeted hack.

Late September 2026 — looking ahead to the next Starship flight and Starlink V3, with only a light touch on ship catch, reuse, refuel, and uncrewed Moon.

I pointed a tiny local model at repetitive classify/draft work so cloud credits stay for judgment. 0.5b fails simple labels; 1.5b is usable. Harness next.

Local Linux admin, job apps, screenshots, hand-over, always-on agents, and a laptop + VM screen you can actually watch.

DHH’s Arch-like distro made the install easy, packaged Grok Bot, and gave me a clean reason to leave Claude Cowork.

Weeks after SPCX listed — a few more buys, headline whiplash, and the same Everyday Astronaut fascination with the hardware.

SpaceX prices SPCX at $135; first trade 12 June 2026; day-one close around $160.95 — thin AU retail allocation, Starlink not spun out.

7.5 years, Aware Super merger, Melb→Sydney, first child — and a LinkedIn note on closing the door.

Successor fund transfer to Aware Super, and redundancies rolling as the operating model closes.

In-car Grok — Polish kids stories, Chemist Warehouse detours on FSD, beach fish-and-chips, and hardware control next.

Positive on ownership and FSD, a three-year-old co-pilot, mall charging, and a Melbourne Christmas run on Superchargers.

Ship heat shield work toward reliable orbit — and SpaceX IPO chatter that finally feels louder than rumour-mill static.

Announcement day for HW4 cars — influencers first, subscription bought, then about three weeks waiting on the OTA.

Dual motor Juniper arrives — quiet glass, proper space, punchy performance, and yes, the light show.

Earlier Model Y test drive was a no — Juniper + FSD sealed it, with HW4 and Australia rumours in the mix.

Showroom tour — not for sale here, a 2020 reservation, and wanting a Cyber wagon for camping.

Watched Texas handovers with a 2020 tri-motor reservation still open — Australia still waiting.

Melbourne to Geelong and the Bellarine in a hired Model 3 — slow tethered charge, firm ride, capital stayed in shares.

IG buy, Cybertruck reservation, and equity meant to make the truck free.

Bought more after the cracked-glass unveil — Shanghai speed on my mind.

Kept buying into the mid-2019 lows — April and May adds on the same thesis.

Showroom Model 3, another buy, then Model Y — the car I wanted.

My first Tesla buy — underpriced thesis, independent creators, FUD everywhere.

MoU day — uncertain for everyone, after years of Azure platforms, DR, and hands-on DevOps.

Excellent for job applications and building this site — weaker for local computer-use, and the chat / cowork / code split felt fragmented.

First Super Heavy reuse — a caught booster returns to flight, Falcon’s lesson rewritten in stainless.

Promising at first. Then stuck states, breakage, and local models that never quite installed or ran reliably.

Tower catches starting to look repeatable — plus the usual Starlink spin-off rumours, which remain rumours.

Flight 5’s Super Heavy catch — Mechazilla chopsticks, peak awe, reuse thesis at Starship scale.

Polaris Dawn pushes Crew Dragon into commercial EVA territory — Isaacman’s program opening doors Starman only hinted at.

Flight 4 delivers soft splash for Ship and booster — controlled enough that tower catch starts to feel real.

Flight 3 pushes into coast and re-entry — heat shield and attitude control become the story, not only ascent.

Flight 2 introduces hot staging and keeps more of the stack alive longer — iterate fast, survey hard.

Integrated Flight Test 1 — Super Heavy and Starship leave the pad, the pad protests, and iteration continues in public.

Jared Isaacman and an all-civilian Crew Dragon crew spend three days on orbit — inspiration as a feature, not a soft extra.

Boosters with real flight heritage, Starlink cadence, and the itch to own a slice of SpaceX the way Tesla is on the ASX path for retail.

Starship SN15 sticks the landing after SN8’s public belly-flop lessons — iterate in public, Texas style.

Crew-1 flies as an operational NASA mission — commercial crew leaving demo status behind.

Crew Dragon Demo-2 — Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley ride an American rocket from Florida to the ISS.

Sixty Starlink satellites on one Falcon 9 — the constellation thesis that funds the harder destinations.

Crew Dragon flies uncrewed to the ISS and docks itself — the taxi becoming real, without anyone aboard yet.

Twenty-seven Merlins, a Roadster, and the flight that made kids and parents look up — not only the already-converted.