Elon Musk

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'

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. I also think the "open source" thing is pretty silly since it's not like code where an individual can make some kind of improvement and test it out to see if it works. I guess an open source design is an interesting idea after the fact if he actually gets it working and other people want to build his design, but it still seems basically irrelevant.

Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?
I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"

It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project

^^^

A key part of his criticism of the other rail plan is that it's "more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized)." I'd like to see some more detailed numbers on that though. Why would we count the cost of unsubsidized rail against air travel which is heavily subsidized? All that really matters is cost to the traveller, and unlike airlines, I'm assuming the high speed rail system is not going to be run as a for-profit business. He also makes no comparison of the environmental costs of air flight vs. the planned high speed rail system.

Thought I was listening to some kind of remix at this part:

and we're no, and and and we're no, wees wees, we're, wees wees don't have any more extra money, like like, we both, you just gave the hundred dollars back to me and we both eat-a ate-a pile of shit

*Not making fun of people with stutters here! Just making fun of this ding-dong who is trying to be funny but cannot even get in the same ZIP code as funny.

that's not even at "Eugene Levy at the old folk's home in Waiting for Gufman" threshold

he might actually be the least charismatic person on the planet

Tell that to Grimes.

Not so funny when he’s giving the Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood speech to an anti-immigrant rally in Trafalgar Square

we have to uh...we must...it's uh....you know, the future, we have to secure the future for uh...because you know if you don't secure the future, what do you have, I mean for uh, our people and uh, you know uhh

this dude is so fucking gross and a scourge on society:

Elon Musk’s AI company compelled its employees to submit their own biometric data to train its “Ani” female chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Ani, an anime avatar with blond pigtails and an NSFW setting, was released over the summer for users who subscribe to X’s $30-a-month SuperGrok service. After testing it, The Verge’s Victoria Song described it as “a modern take on a phone sex line.”

And like a phone sex line, there appears to be real people behind the avatar. At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.

the joke telling is absolutely incredible. cringe comedy strives for this level of discomfort

Grimes had sex with that man.

― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:57 (eight hours ago)

no idea if that's true but she definitely had an IVF baby with him.

Grimes has moved on to sexier options like Curtls Yarv1n

I thought Elon only does IVF? Dude acts like he’s never touched a booby consensually.

Grimes has moved on to sexier options like Curtls Yarv1n

🤮

incredible stuff

Ryan Mac 🙃‬ rmac.bsky.social‬

Musk gets his $1 trillion compensation package approved by Tesla shareholders.

Shareholders in the room chant "Elon, Elon, Elon!"

I believe the announcer said the measure passed with more than 70% of the vote. Musk is now on stage next to dancing robots.

https://bsky.app/profile/rmac.bsky.social/post/3m4ykk2hkes25

Hot take possibly but trillionaires should not exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orlbo9WkZ2E

Are these “dancing robots” the same ones that someone is obviously controlling from five feet away?

one would assume

Without Musk’s cult of personality Tesla is basically worthless so I guess they didn’t have an option.

well they couldve just paid him less

He said he’d take his ketamine and go home, making all their Tesla stock worthless.

did the board of directors change or is still musk lackeys?

such an obvious bluff if tesla stock is worthless or even just a normal price then elons entire empire collapses xp

due to everything being financed with tesla stock

when something absolutely horrible happens to this man the parties are going to be off the chain

this is so insane absolute cult shit but for stock market

e.w. niedermeyer niedermeyer.online‬

Optimus will overturn the fundamentals of economics to an extent that we may not even need money in the future, Musk says, and yet he still recommends people "hold onto your Tesla stock," which seems like a kind of mixed message.

https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3m4yl5x2dmc2v

He’s PT Barnum if Barnum really believed the Feejee Mermaid was real.

Are they even selling that many teslas? What is this stock valuation based on?

the idea that tesla will become the biggest company in the world due to elons genius

It’s all wishes and hopes and massive fraud

I think it's great they gave him this payout, drive the company right into the ground.

fwiw getting the trillion dollars is contingent on tesla basically becoming the biggest company in the world which is why they were happy to give him the contract, if he actually meet the contingencies its kinda worth it but hes not going to, of course thats what they thought about his last contract too, but this is an impossible task stacked on top of another impossible task so its not going to happen, not to mention that tesla isnt exactly moving in the world domination direction right now

i dont think lying about robots is going to get the job done this time, i fuckin hope not lol

Elon should wear a t-shirt with this guy's picture on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5PrFf5XMAAe2oZ?format=jpg&name=large

Truly a Superior Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEmJeojY0I

i love my greasy ai girlfriend

the fact that this man is unfathomably rich and can literally do whatever he wants free of any consequences whatsoever and chooses to do *this* makes him the biggest loser in human history in my opinion

otm

who are some of historys other great losers

Ron DeSantis

Jeb Bush - your dumber alcoholic brother wins/steals two elections and remakes the world, you get ridiculed by Donald Trump on your way to getting 50 votes in South Carolina.

Nixon?

Alexander Hamilton lost a duel

still better than being linked to Lin-Manuel Miranda for eternity