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

I don’t know, I think the mere act of going out into the world like that with the intention of bugging other people is itself not chill. Because it just indicates definitely caring a lot about what other people think. They may act a bit carefree about it, shielded from consequence, but it’s definitely central to their identity somehow and therefore kind of serious.

"triggered much?" *chuckles annoyingly*

f hazel imho you are giving these chuds way too much fucking credit

The old Star Wars fans who did all the stormtrooper cosplay were just in line with other dorky fans, just posing with people at conventions and doing charitable work and grasping on to goofy beloved childhood interests as a creative project. Less "I'm a villain" than "I like goofing around and pretending to fight/arrest Princess Leia at the fan convention"

The weird online crap where people are doing "no, I am the actual villain and the villain is good actually" is a merger of two competing things, being attached to that impulse to participate in their beloved family entertainment property while also showing off that they can't conceive of real life outside of the frame of a fictional series of movies for children.

In more well-adjusted people not attached to childish things, people do more socially acceptable costumes with black leather and menacing metal spikes

I think some chuds def do this shit as provocation but Elon Musk absolutely does not, he is incapable of trolling, always 100% earnest in saying the stupidest shit and a long history of not understanding various media properties.

I think a large percentage of this Anakin shit is these freaks panting over Natalie Portman looking like she’s in Queen of the Damned.

do they know she’s jewish

also, I told you all Peter Thiel, their Moe, is the source of this

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peter-thiel-evil-bad-quote/

Elon taking meme/trolling formats very literally gets chalked up to his self-professed neurodiversity but I think he is just very poorly socialized

also he’s not smart

that reminds me, I saw a clip of Adam Friedland interviewing Grimes and I may punish myself by watching the whole thing

from what I saw, he just kept turning every one of her answers into “.. and that’s when you got interested in nazi guys?”

the “not smart” comment reminded me of her being informed that Wagner was antisemitic because she was saying how cool intellectual discourse is and used Wagner vs Nietzsche as her example (!!)

the type of intellect you get by reading the first paragraph of wikipedia entries as posted on tumblr

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Just noting that Elon has not posted in 6 hours

Wellness check

hopefully he OD'd on ketamine

and if not, whoever goes for the wellness check be sure to up his dosage

feel like if Texas is under Dem control that might be very very bad for Musky

looks like the star wars stuff didnt work

or the half a billion dollars lol

Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time 🤷‍♂️

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2026

I’m sure I have said this before but I know a fair few people who’ve worked with him and he really is a self entitled low wattage prick, who’s never had an original thought in his head, easily manipulated by the last idea someone showed him or managed around as required. He’s been extraordinarily lucky at being in the right place at the right time, like a piece of dogshit that just clings to your shoe and infects you with a parasite that takes control of your whole being.

But no one needed me to say that.

no, it’s good

xxp the sheer gall of spending that amount of money and then being all "haha well the joke's on you people who said I was exerting undue influence on these elections!", though as someone pointed out on Bluesky due to his obscene wealth that expenditure is about the equivalent of a normal person's monthly phone bill

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24hevzh6xjwyr7sawizeggph/bafkreidm66fsizxeewtd56ztam4ln5irdsstkvqjfaqe3b2fb2fckl5haa

decent but i think he can cope harder still

he should go and live on Mars that'll show us

post mortem on the star wars meme https://www.404media.co/republicans-learn-x-is-an-echo-chamber

the asmongold clip is so funny

i don't get this malfoid thing? it's making the harry potter character a woman? what is that supposed to mean?

It's creating images of a blonde white teenage girl as a puerile sexual fantasy but pretending that she's actually a symbol of Western ideals.

its the trans agenda theyve gone woke all hope is lost abandon the death star

in all seriousness the malfoid thing, that article was the first id heard of it, is so far gone its unbelievable they thought something so throughly inscrutable and weird was going to help with the election, idk how many of yr own farts to have to smell to get to that point but its a lot

It's like the Nazis think they invented slash fic

AO3 broke and all of the people horny for a gender-swapped wizard child character are just out there roaming the web

I learn about all this stuff from Tony Zaret

yes my impression is that the present GOP platform is this - a feminized Draco Malfoy is the ideal woman

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-wind-down-cybertruck-production-texas-gigafactory-next-year-musk-says-2026-11-06

The announcement comes at the end of a bruising week for Musk as his record political spending of nearly half a billion dollars yielded little in Tuesday's US midterm elections, with the vast majority of the Republican candidates he backed losing their races.

Combined, his companies were on track to lose more than $370 billion in market capitalization for the week.

While it was not immediately clear whether Cybertruck production ​would be moved to another facility or phased out entirely, the automaker's Austin plant is the only known Tesla facility equipped to manufacture the specialized components for the heavy, angular model.

In ​response to a user on X, Musk called the Cybertruck the "best vehicle Tesla has ever made" and the wind-down the "end of an era."

Tesla did not ⁠immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

The US electric vehicle maker began delivering the Cybertruck to customers in late 2023. According to automotive data platform Kelley Blue Book, the company only ​sold 20,237 Cybertrucks in the US last year, down 48% from 38,965 in 2024. Around the start of production in 2023, Musk had predicted annual sales of 250,000 units.

RIP Swasticar, heaven needed an ugly death trap

lol https://bsky.app/profile/esghound.com/post/3mzmzfya5ik2s

it's def gonna have an impact

it would’ve been nice if the business press who we know are all more stenographers, would have questioned how Elon could’ve even cranked out 250,000 cars a year since they’re all apparently lovingly handcrafted.

Automotive journalists truly are the worst journalists. I mean FFS Tesla famously doesn’t do adverts and aren’t even part of the hamster wheel propping up one of the last financially viable parts of old media.

I'm not sure I'm parsing that one. Is not doing advertisements a negative because it doesn't support ad-based media, or more of a neutral/positive?

Tesla does advertise, but it's on X, the everything (Elon) site. Not to mention the goofy attention-grabbing stunts that they use to get press coverage, unless you think the car with air jets and Tesla Diner are real products

my friend in marketing's voice just popped into my head to correct me that they do marketing, just not many traditional ad buys

the last time I viewed something on X, 2/3rds of the ads were for Space X and America PAC. Some sort of gimmick where the money just goes in a circle

they can write off expenses such as ad buys

Reminded of another stainless steel vehicle that just didn't work out as planned

https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Delorean_DMC-12_side.jpg

we just need to make sure no one ever makes a popular movie that uses the cybertruck as a punchline, making them desirable to nerds in a couple decades

Trad car companies buy a lot of ads. It’s often the main thing propping up an ailing newspaper or local TV or radio station. Therefore automotive journalists will not say anything bad about cars, car manufacturers, dealers etc.

Tesla does marketing but doesn’t buy ads and this has been a threat to the arselicking business model which has lead to automotive journalists being uniquely (if only mildly) critical of Tesla.

the cars are also kludgey, partially tested at release, privacy invasive, obsolete pieces of glossy shit.

and unnecessarily dangerous