Elon Musk

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

do tell

curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'

https://i.ibb.co/2n14LC8/GO1a6u-RXs-AALO-D.jpg
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another car came too close, the one thing no one could have predicted, not robot, not tycoon, no one!

another masterful gambit!

i would call bs on that one but its always real no one has to make anything up

There's eight cameras on a Tesla, lets see footage of the wreck

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

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

notice regarding 'cancellation of the dearMoon project: https://dearmoon.earth/pdf/dearMoon_EN_240601.pdf?0531

poor old steve aoki

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

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 low

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/

Elon's response: poop emoji

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

how long until he tries to swing a purchase of X/xAI by Tesla, SolarCity-style?

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

or at least one that doesn't deserve a $56 billion bonus

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.

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

I would not trust that thing to allow me back out of the trunk once I had crawled in.

they've lost the mommybloggers https://www.threads.net/@i_am_random_sarah/post/C8IsAQ2yeS7

You hate to see it

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/tesla-autopilot-crashes-police-patrol-car-fullerton/3436547/

Teslas are cool now

tesla autopilot is praxis

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 old

the "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

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

The headlines are just going to be Mad Libs from here on in...

He got his $56b tho

this shit is wild, nasa boss who approved this boondoggle works at spacex now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxG0WAwwrGk

lol

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/polopoly_fs/1.2078062.1716912319!/fileimage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.png

yikes

seems like word of mouth works both ways. now show us tesla's drop in sales just in China.

there it is

🚨 BREAKING WSJ:

SEC likely to seek enforcement action barring Elon Musk as public company officer / director, former SEC officials say

Musk 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

wow

does he still get his $50b

it goes to me now

Coincidentally mark I was wondering if I could get $35 million from you

i also could use $35m if its not too much trouble

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

I don't want a handout. I want a hand up.

speak for yourself, i would very much like a handout

upon reflection i actually need $50m thanks in advance

$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

https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-not-a-handout-vs-i-w-1819594266

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

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.

all these are malicious and evil but the horse story really puts a pin in how pathetic it all is

That is not what expected when I heard “the horse story”

I may have been intentionally vague there

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old enough to remember the major scandal when a tiny percentage of toyotas might have been defective

Old enough to remember when it was Audis before that.