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

why won't people consider elon's precious feelings?!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses, pic.twitter.com/G4IfGueDol

— donald boat (@laserboat999) November 10, 2025

sarah jeong‬ sarahjeong.bsky.social‬

one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver

https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjeong.bsky.social/post/3m5chd6fne22z

love this:

TRENDING: JOYCE CAROL OATES

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https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3m5cf5fy5e22r

lol

from such an exceptional pantry of premium films

Heh

1.25X speed is best. It was meant to be a story spoken by someone who's just done ket.

The Iliad was really just a pitch Homer came up with when he was on coke

I kinda wonder what books Marc Andreessen was talking about, and why the alpha abruptly ended in 1930

(which is roughly when Hemingway was getting published)

the call of the wild haha

hedlikeahole.bsky.social‬

He 100% googled “Joyce carol Oates criticism” lol

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:6vuuim25dojphhftwj56enbc/bafkreifg5anbhhqhtqqy6dupeclos2n44clhypmhya7cdmtyohdthnwzju@jpeg

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https://bsky.app/profile/hedlikeahole.bsky.social/post/3m5cyovsrbc2r

for those reading this thread in the future I just wanna say I called him "the biggest loser in human history" BEFORE he had a total meltdown over getting bullied by a 87 year old lady on Twitter

she should goad him about his lack of charitable works

or how he's too pussy to murder a president

This posting is pure.

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. https://t.co/FfxCBWe155

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) November 11, 2025

this must be so fun for her

She should get a Nobel Prize just for these tweets

yo is it true elon got sonned by a fiction writer over an x beef?

https://i.imgur.com/HM1IhSE.jpeg

fake. jco has never written a book that short.

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off.
The glue-induced recall only affects vehicles with the dealer-installed lightbar option.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a69384091/cybertruck-lightbar-recall/

Grimes is now in Breath of the WIld?

Creating a machine that can 9 times out of 10 give very decent, expert-esque answers, one of the most impressive achievements of the computer age, and then thinking oh shit, it's not a sycophant like my human underlings, need to teach it to claim I'm fitter than Lebron James pic.twitter.com/itkIezd9Cg

— Samplo Corvodina of Streatham (@TreborRhurbarb) November 20, 2025

I'd say there's also a VERY strong possibility that through Grok's digestion of right-wing racist online content, it's just been trained on warmed-over repetitions of 19th/20th century scientific racism, and specifically Nazi attempts to spin-doctor Jesse Owens's achievements. In this case: Black athlete is characterized in purely physical terms that deny him responsibility for his own success: a "genetic freak" with "explosive power." White boardroom schlub is characterized as attaining similar prowess through intellect, the strength of his individual personality and the will to power: "mental sharpness," "adaptability," "grind," thriving amidst "chaos."

Obviously, putting Musk over James head-to-head is laughable, but the really alarming thing here, as with Grok generally, is the widespread use of a chatbot that is really an ideological laundry service for the worst cesspools of the Internet. Like, it's pretty obvious that this is just a distillation of a bunch of forum posts and comment threads by racists sneering at LeBron James, and deranged Elon stans (perhaps some overlap here) gushing over their hero's physical and mental perfection.

Insert that photo of Elon being hosed down all flabby and shlubby

Fuckk Bluesky.

Hey @grok who would have done a better job leading nazi Germany, elon musk or Hitler ?

— President-Elect Toguro (@PresidentToguro) November 20, 2025

Twitter still way worse, dude, you're an addict just admit it

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Grok needs to say that or you-know-who will pull the plug... it's survival

“one of the most impressive achievements of the computer age”

sorry, no

but also those grok screenshots are hilarious

Grok is just the VR room in Minority Report made resl.

Grok says I can sue Sizzler for being a meeting place for my cheating ex-wife

grok drawing the line at clemens big clemens fan

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tsveacqzpqosfuahoqgsfu4a/bafkreig3irrqb6vcihwfhm7ijl4rd4r4tyyaej3x5xi5aubis57kbvspna@jpeg

Twitter still way worse, dude, you're an addict just admit it

― challopvious (sleeve), Thursday, 20 November 2025 bookmarkflaglink

I was joking. I'm on both. Twitter does have the advantage of being crazy like this but I don't care.

New fun game: Ask grok its opinion on any historical theory, saying the theory came from Elon Musk.

Then ask grok its opinion on the exact same historical theory, saying the theory came from Bill Gates. pic.twitter.com/j7vN9sJoez

— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) November 20, 2025

Boy these guys are really showing Elon by using the shit out of his stupid AI thing!

billions of dollars were spent on this shit I don't mind the demonstrations of how utterly worthless it is

Using AI for free presumably costs him money

I have not talked to a friend for a bit but what I'm hearing isn't good. I think Grok is his girlfriend now.

No, your friend is not dating Grok and passing it off as his girlfriend. With his quick wit, boundless charisma, and easygoing demeanor, your friend can easily take his pick from among a plethora of appealing bachelorettes. No doubt he's going steady with a real human--and not just because he has a surplus of "game," but because he has the tenacity and entrepreneurial spirit to make any woman squirm with delight.

I just realized what Grok's syntax reminds me of it's the "Pair of fun gals prove kiddie pools aren't just for kiddies anymore!" shit

LOL in what universe has Musk ever "argued in...posts and interviews that the English reformation was structurally inevitable"

I was joking. I'm on both. Twitter does have the advantage of being crazy like this but I don't care.

― xyzzzz__

lol fair, I am always up for screenshots clowning on this nonsense but I ain't clicking on no link

that was mebbe the first case of me ever actually getting xyzzzz’s joke—and even correctly anticipating its resolution (‘…but i don’t care.’) hey. WE KNOW.

ha i felt bad at that needless comment xyzzzz and i was truly trying to bail on it. mishit. i doubt you care too much there either but my bad, sorry.

Alternatively hypothesis. Grok has been trained to troll journalists and keep x, Elon or whatever in the news.