seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Who he?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Suk Lemon
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered
― iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude owes his company's survival to gov programs butsays it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promiseto obliterate them all.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.
― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
so hyperloop huh
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:
1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people
2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there
3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude
still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.
There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.
Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
people on twitter so mad.
who do you follow?
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow
unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
cool monorail bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (ten years ago) link
im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
even i can afford that
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
I meant 94% sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link
To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
LOL "elon musk"
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?
I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Bad connotations...
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.
― wk, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.
Lol
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.
Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.
*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM
he might do this
― markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it
(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.
nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
i would call bs on that one but its always real no one has to make anything up
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 June 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link
There's eight cameras on a Tesla, lets see footage of the wreck
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
surprised tesla hasnt already paid him to take this one down
Another car came to close, autopilot swerved so missed the other car and flipped over a few times, slid across the motor way on the roof and flipped back onto the tires. All a bit of a blur for me but I'm told it was a sight to be seen from the outside 👌🏻— Simon Pollock (née Tesla Light Shows) (@Teslalightshows) May 30, 2024
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:36 (one month ago) link
All that tweet makes me think of is this classic
18. One day, driving us to our great-aunt's house, Chris took a wrong turn onto a one-way street. He averted there oncoming cars and narrowly avoided a collision with a parked one before finally making it down the block and turning the correct way. There was about a minute of silence, while my mother and I could finally breathe again (my brother, who was less than a year old, was also in the car).Suddenly, Chris beamed. "Man!" he said. "I must be the best fucking driver in the world! Anyone else would have gotten into in accident, but I avoided all those cars [that were headed straight at me because I was stupid enough to make a wrong turn on a fucking one-way residential street], and none of us got hurt." He concluded cockily: "I'm a great fucking driver."― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 4:06 PM bookmarkflaglink
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 4:06 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 June 2024 20:04 (one month ago) link
notice regarding 'cancellation of the dearMoon project: https://dearmoon.earth/pdf/dearMoon_EN_240601.pdf?0531
poor old steve aoki
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2024 20:38 (four weeks ago) link
I have been left with a life-changing experience, that much is true. But not the one I hoped for. Now, the change I have experienced is that I don’t trust as freely and easily, and I certainly don’t believe that moon trips happen to people like me. Not today anyway.— Rhiannon Adam (@blackbirdsfly) June 1, 2024
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 3 June 2024 21:16 (four weeks ago) link
Ruh roh...
Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year lowElon Musk faces allegations that he illegally sold $7.5 billion worth of equity in Tesla in the fourth quarter of 2022, knowing that the business would disappoint after promising investors an “epic end of year.”In a lawsuit filed with a Delaware court late last week, shareholder Michael Perry accused both the CEO of deliberately unloading nearly 45 million shares in advance of poor vehicle sales data to prevent an estimated 55% hit in value, and almost the entire board of collectively violating their responsibility of directors toward shareholders.“By disposing of $7,530,113,926 worth of Tesla stock in November and December 2022 while he was in possession of adverse, material non-public information, E. Musk exploited his position at Tesla, and he breached his fiduciary duties to Tesla,” the lawsuit claims, adding other directors were both “knowing and culpable” as well.
Elon Musk faces allegations that he illegally sold $7.5 billion worth of equity in Tesla in the fourth quarter of 2022, knowing that the business would disappoint after promising investors an “epic end of year.”
In a lawsuit filed with a Delaware court late last week, shareholder Michael Perry accused both the CEO of deliberately unloading nearly 45 million shares in advance of poor vehicle sales data to prevent an estimated 55% hit in value, and almost the entire board of collectively violating their responsibility of directors toward shareholders.
“By disposing of $7,530,113,926 worth of Tesla stock in November and December 2022 while he was in possession of adverse, material non-public information, E. Musk exploited his position at Tesla, and he breached his fiduciary duties to Tesla,” the lawsuit claims, adding other directors were both “knowing and culpable” as well.
https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/elon-musk-tesla-insider-trading-lawsuit-board-directors/
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 03:08 (three weeks ago) link
Elon's response: poop emoji
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 03:15 (three weeks ago) link
also decided to unilaterally call nvidia and tell them to prioritize his xAI/X order over Tesla’s order, when the former is a privately-held flight of fancy and the former could, in theory, in some way help the publicly-held business
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:10 (three weeks ago) link
how long until he tries to swing a purchase of X/xAI by Tesla, SolarCity-style?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:11 (three weeks ago) link
decided to unilaterally call nvidia and tell them to prioritize his xAI/X order over Tesla’s order
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 4:10 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
seems like fireable, litigatable offense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:14 (three weeks ago) link
or at least one that doesn't deserve a $56 billion bonus
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 22:43 (three weeks ago) link
That teslamommy Twitter account seems to have been organising Tesla stock owners to vote for the package, trying to reverse the usual trend that retail investors never vote.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 09:06 (three weeks ago) link
luv 2 relax in my stainless steel claustrophobia generator
If you ever get kicked out of the house by your significant other for buying the Cybertruck, you know where you can still sleep in style pic.twitter.com/bAPBa2rpsT— Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) February 2, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:13 (three weeks ago) link
I would not trust that thing to allow me back out of the trunk once I had crawled in.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link
they've lost the mommybloggers https://www.threads.net/@i_am_random_sarah/post/C8IsAQ2yeS7
― 龜, Thursday, 13 June 2024 13:37 (two weeks ago) link
You hate to see it
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/tesla-autopilot-crashes-police-patrol-car-fullerton/3436547/
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2024 14:33 (two weeks ago) link
Teslas are cool now
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Saturday, 15 June 2024 02:03 (two weeks ago) link
tesla autopilot is praxis
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 June 2024 02:58 (two weeks ago) link
tend not to look at tesla truck content cos frankly the whole thing is completely embarrassing but it is objectively hilarious looking at this guy having to make it go by *pulling a piece of string*.
lmao this fuckin piece of shit costs $100k and is less than 6 months oldthe "fix" for when it breaks is to peel back a plastic panel and pull a string to break it in a different way pic.twitter.com/eULv6SHIQM— 𝕏eͤ✞ꌚe͎n̆̈♨𝕏⊍תּḋᥑy҉҉ (@JetsenSunday) June 14, 2024
― Fizzles, Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:23 (two weeks ago) link
NEW:Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been sued by a staffer who says she got scratched on the face by a herpes-carrying monkey-- then was fired a day after she said she was pregnant. https://t.co/cIRPv2q2Nh— Gabe Hoffman (@GabeHoff) June 15, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:51 (two weeks ago) link
The headlines are just going to be Mad Libs from here on in...
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:54 (two weeks ago) link
He got his $56b tho
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Saturday, 15 June 2024 09:54 (two weeks ago) link
this shit is wild, nasa boss who approved this boondoggle works at spacex now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxG0WAwwrGk
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 June 2024 12:46 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/polopoly_fs/1.2078062.1716912319!/fileimage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.png
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 15 June 2024 22:57 (two weeks ago) link
yikes
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 June 2024 22:59 (two weeks ago) link
seems like word of mouth works both ways. now show us tesla's drop in sales just in China.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 16 June 2024 00:15 (two weeks ago) link
there it is
🚨 BREAKING WSJ:SEC likely to seek enforcement action barring Elon Musk as public company officer / director, former SEC officials sayMusk deliberately violated securities laws requiring 13-D filing when he crossed 5% ownership of Twitter stock, disclosed 11 days late at 9% pic.twitter.com/GrYqLanHO1— Gabe Hoffman (@GabeHoff) June 17, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 17 June 2024 17:46 (two weeks ago) link
wow
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2024 18:07 (two weeks ago) link
does he still get his $50b
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2024 18:08 (two weeks ago) link
it goes to me now
― mark s, Monday, 17 June 2024 18:15 (two weeks ago) link
Coincidentally mark I was wondering if I could get $35 million from you
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:45 (two weeks ago) link
i also could use $35m if its not too much trouble
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2024 19:02 (two weeks ago) link
wow shows you who your fake friends are when they come clamoring for your paper when you make it, i (a real friend) on the other hand will settle for $100,000
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:14 (two weeks ago) link
I don't want a handout. I want a hand up.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:15 (two weeks ago) link
speak for yourself, i would very much like a handout
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:18 (two weeks ago) link
upon reflection i actually need $50m thanks in advance
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2024 19:24 (two weeks ago) link
$35 mil works for me thanks ahead of time, will also take the $34.9 bise is leaving on the table if that makes things a little easier on everyone ta ta
― Clay, Monday, 17 June 2024 19:25 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-not-a-handout-vs-i-w-1819594266
― Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:44 (two weeks ago) link
Elon Musk had a sexual relationship with a former SpaceX intern, who he later hired onto his executive team, according to The Wall Street Journal. He also had a sexual relationship with a second employee. And a third woman alleged that Musk asked her several times to have his children; she refused. He then denied her a raise and complained about her performance.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/24176705/spacex-elon-musk-gwynne-shotwell-sexual-relationships
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 June 2024 19:53 (two weeks ago) link
Just an absolute shitstain, on every level. Second only to Trump in the list of people I hope to never ever have to think about again.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:55 (two weeks ago) link
all these are malicious and evil but the horse story really puts a pin in how pathetic it all is
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:36 (two weeks ago) link
That is not what expected when I heard “the horse story”
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 02:05 (one week ago) link
I may have been intentionally vague there
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:06 (one week ago) link
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old enough to remember the major scandal when a tiny percentage of toyotas might have been defective
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 01:14 (six days ago) link
Old enough to remember when it was Audis before that.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 07:18 (six days ago) link
??? pic.twitter.com/MjAay9kgFz— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 26, 2024
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2024 15:53 (four days ago) link
Personally intervening to give an update on restoring the account of someone who was banned for posting a picture of a child being horribly abused is definitely a choice
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 27 June 2024 16:27 (four days ago) link
and its not even the first time
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 June 2024 16:28 (four days ago) link
You know Elon has terabytes of CSA on a hard drive labeled “epic wow”.
― Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 27 June 2024 16:36 (four days ago) link