Elon Musk

seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk

Who he?

It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."

Suk Lemon

ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space

it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered

seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?

His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.

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"

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

dude owes his company's survival to gov programs but
says it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promise
to obliterate them all.

lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.

so hyperloop huh

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?

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

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

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.

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick

cool monorail bro

lol

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

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

even i can afford that

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?

the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real

Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

I meant 94% sorry.

To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.

i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it

maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk

LOL "elon musk"

This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

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.

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

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.

I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.

Bad connotations...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

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

I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch

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.

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

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

he might do this

is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

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)

he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

Elon Musk is demanding full custody of his one-year-old son, Romulus,

this baby shouldn't have to have either of these people as parents. I guess we should be somewhat glad that Ashley St. Claire (which is the porniest sounding name I've ever seen, this cannot be the woman's real name) is now 'dark woke'.

Romulus? Really? The one who murdered his brother?

we dont call it reme

"Ashley St. Claire (which is the porniest sounding name I've ever seen, this cannot be the woman's real name)"

I am not familiar with conventions in porn but ok

Melora Walters' character in Boogie Nights was Jessie St. Vincent, which was based off of a real actress with a similar name.

Ah!

Not sure where that puts former Beefheart guitarist Alex St. Clair.

Melora Walters' character in Boogie Nights was Jessie St. Vincent, which was based off of a real actress with a similar name.

Lol, Walters in "Boogie Nights" was my exact first thought. And then I learned she was born (to Americans) in Saudi Arabia and spent much of her childhood there and in the Netherlands and I thought, huh, that's pretty interesting, I wonder how that came about?

the Americans probably had sex with each other

unlike Musk and St. Clair

I didn't know PTA gave his characters so much backstory.

https://i.postimg.cc/B6mngsw-H/bafkreicvjbxzpumn4fhx26yqgh3vbjfgyrvlhzhrhwhjvr7uc4wdh27uli.jpg

Elon Musk’s Alternate Grok Reality

you couldn't have written a villain this unsubtle and weird even in the 80's. nobody would get what this guy was trying to be and all the Nazi shit would come off as desperate writing. oh he's the richest guy in the world and he can singlehandedly buy himself a political office in the most powerful country but he plays video games for 6 hours a day and wants to fuck anime girls, also he does podcasts and says "I'm Rick bitch" on stage with Dave Chappelle

https://i.postimg.cc/B6mngsw-H/bafkreicvjbxzpumn4fhx26yqgh3vbjfgyrvlhzhrhwhjvr7uc4wdh27uli.jpg

Elon Musk’s Alternate Grok Reality

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 14, 2026 3:14 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

The ad served under that post image link asked me the question “want find out how this 28 year old millionaire made her millions” when what I really wanted to find out was how she lost her left arm and gained at least one extra right arm.

Seems very appropriate to the context.

Tesla Sales now compared to last year.

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AI slop graph, nice

i like it’s a fake tesla graph on x. poor qc elmo

the numbers having absolutely no relationship to the y axis is amazing

i like the two zeroes

ahem, that’s a Zero and a negative zero, sir

the two best kinds of zero

please clap

https://bsky.app/profile/vantazach.bsky.social/post/3mczkai3a3223

oh my gosh what

Zac Estrada zacestrada.com‬

Wow. Tesla expects to end Model S and Model X production in Q2, giving them an "honorable discharge"

Converting space at Fremont to Optimus production space

yeah sure the robots

is this the soonest hes ever promised to do some fake thing, its too soon you cant just say youre going to stop making half your cars in a few months gotta think this stuff through man

Sales on the S and X have dropped 50% over the last year

‪e.w. niedermeyer‬ niedermeyer.online‬

Musk posits a hypothetical scenario where Optimus robots could build a rare earth refinery, but they would need an "orchestra conductor" to guide that work, which is where Grok would come in.

What could go wrong

What could go right is if the robots and grok become sentient and decide to make beautiful music instead.

rare earth? no, heavy metal

Musk posits a hypothetical scenario

yeaahhhhh I feel like he does this alot

For some reason I got a free copy of Washingtonian magazine this month with a pretty amusing snarky article about the Hyperloop and how unimpressed local govt was with Musk and Co. They humored him for a while, then it became clear there was zero plan.

Rare earth? Get ready!

Sales on the S and X have dropped 50% over the last year

Never fear! The cybertruck's soaring global popularity will send tesla's automotive profits to the moon!!!!

how is this company worth anything

fathomless credulity on the part of some, encouraging speculative greed on the part of others

Rare earth? Get ready!

I Know I'm Losing You Tesla

The rare earth minerals feat the forever chemicals

niedermeyer‬ niedermeyer.online‬

Musk posits a hypothetical scenario where Optimus robots could build a rare earth refinery, but they would need an "orchestra conductor" to guide that work, which is where Grok would come in.

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 28, 2026 6:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

What could go wrong

― tobo73, Wednesday, January 28, 2026 6:52 PM bookmarkflaglink

What could go right is if the robots and grok become sentient and decide to make beautiful music instead.

― Heez, Wednesday, January 28, 2026 7:01 PM bookmarkflaglink

rare earth? no, heavy metal

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 28, 2026 7:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

god damn, where's an excelsior thread when you need one

hahahaha, I already put that exchange in the current excelsior thread!

just checked on elons twitter and every reply is calling him a pedo

how is this company worth anything

The power of pot commitment.

cant he just block them

hes trying to play it cool

imagine being such a loser that you’re asking to go to pedophile island at 6am on Christmas morning https://t.co/aU0p7Uwn02

— wyatt dunkin (@WyattDuncan) January 31, 2026

Even sadder is getting pushed off to Ghislaine to deal with and then getting brushed off by her. Even they didn’t want Elon at the island.

the email with the Ghislaine brush-off reply is fake

Oh is it? My bad. I've just seen it screenshotted a lot.

lol

Chris Nolan has lost his integrity

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 31, 2026