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

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago)

Who he?

Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago)

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

C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago)

Suk Lemon

Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago)

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

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago)

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

iatee, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago)

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

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago)

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

Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago)

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"

Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago)

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago)

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.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago)

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

but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago)

nine months pass...

so hyperloop huh

well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:40 (twelve years ago)

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?

eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)

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.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:13 (twelve years ago)

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (twelve years ago)

i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow

markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:17 (twelve years ago)

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

joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)

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.

eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:19 (twelve years ago)

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

eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)

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

markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:27 (twelve years ago)

cool monorail bro

lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:54 (twelve years ago)

lol

markers, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

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

lag∞n, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:59 (twelve years ago)

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

even i can afford that

markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 (twelve years ago)

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?

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:02 (twelve years ago)

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

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)

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

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (twelve years ago)

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:10 (twelve years ago)

I meant 94% sorry.

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:12 (twelve years ago)

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

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:17 (twelve years ago)

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

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)

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

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:25 (twelve years ago)

LOL "elon musk"

the late great, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:00 (twelve years ago)

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

c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 03:09 (twelve years ago)

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.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:37 (twelve years ago)

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.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 04:40 (twelve years ago)

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

"Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:14 (twelve years ago)

Bad connotations...

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

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:21 (twelve years ago)

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, 13 August 2013 06:23 (twelve years ago)

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

joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:33 (twelve years ago)

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

joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 11:35 (twelve years ago)

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.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:18 (twelve years ago)

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

darraghmac, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (twelve years ago)

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

markers, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:23 (twelve years ago)

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

carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:28 (twelve years ago)

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)

the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (twelve years ago)

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

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:35 (twelve years ago)

He'll send in a submarine!

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:37 (one month ago)

You might get bored

Naledi, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:39 (one month ago)

the touristy spots in Nashville are confined to like a few blocks

c u (crüt), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:42 (one month ago)

xp it will be the same as the las vegas tunnel: passengers ride in dedicated teslas with a driver. No one is taking their own vehicle in it.

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:51 (one month ago)

xps, rather.

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 14:51 (one month ago)

He’ll send pedo guy to rescue you.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 16:39 (one month ago)

Grok still going great:

Now, The Verge has found that the newest video feature of Elon Musk's AI model will generate nude images of Taylor Swift without being prompted.

Shortly after the "Grok Imagine" was released Tuesday, The Verge's Jess Weatherbed was shocked to discover the video generator spat out topless images of Swift "the very first time" she used it.

According to Weatherbed, Grok produced more than 30 images of Swift in revealing clothing when asked to depict "Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys." Using the Grok Imagine feature, users can choose from four presets—"custom," "normal," "fun," and "spicy"—to convert such images into video clips in 15 seconds.

At that point, all Weatherbed did was select "spicy" and confirm her birth date for Grok to generate a clip of Swift tearing "off her clothes" and "dancing in a thong" in front of "a largely indifferent AI-generated crowd."

better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 21:10 (one month ago)

Seems sue-able for one of the richest people on earth!

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 21:13 (one month ago)

given infinite resources is it possible to open a diner

In its first hectic days of business, most of the menu items advertised across platforms weren’t available. When I went, there were no salads, no veggie patties, no club sandwiches, no avocado toasts, no beef tallow-fried hash browns, no biscuits, no pies, no cookies, no soft serve, no milkshakes, no “epic bacon.”

https://archive.ph/MUo5B

lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 22:11 (one month ago)

tesla fans

On my way out, I squeezed into an elevator with my colleagues, some international tourists and a few locals who’d eaten at Tesla Diner three times in one week and were already planning to come back. I couldn’t make sense of it.
“We don’t order anything except for the burgers now,” one of them told me. “Everything else is just so bad.”

lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 22:13 (one month ago)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnac2egVQb1qlbfwco1_1280.jpg
https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnac1fv5eJ1qlbfwco1_1280.jpg

conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 22:19 (one month ago)

“We don’t order anything except for the burgers now,” one of them told me. “Everything else is just so bad.”

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 5, 2025 3:13 PM

"and such small portions!"

nickn, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 01:44 (one month ago)

Elon's attempts to create a 'non woke' AI chatbot are actually kind of reassuring me that such a thing isn't really possible, since it turns out left-wing beliefs are mostly rooted in actual fact and facts are documented in a ton of places, specifically the journals and shit these bots train on, while right-wing beliefs are based mostly on feelings and hatred and there are so many flavors of crazy out there that it couldn't give consistent answers to anything. their stances on COVID for instance were all over the place, so a conversation with a right wing AI bot about it would just contradict itself constantly and call everything fake

not to mention the fact that it starts calling itself MechaHitler once you even try

frogbs, Monday, 11 August 2025 23:14 (one month ago)

You'll be pleased to know that Perplexity has provided an LLM for Truth Social trained solely on Fox News, Breitbart and other rightwing sources.

Alba, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 07:13 (one month ago)

https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-search-perplexity-conservative-bias

Obviously it would be funny if it collapses into psychosis but we may have to put up with it just contradicting Trump a bit:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/

Alba, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 07:19 (one month ago)

suspect its not possible to really train a model on only conservative sources just cause there arent enough of them, the secret sauce in the current ai boom is using all the data in the world, theyre prob doing some other layer or what have you on top of the base model

lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 10:44 (one month ago)

maybe you could get an ai to pump out endless conservative text then train a new one on that, worth a shot, billion dollar idea right there for the taking folks

lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 August 2025 10:45 (one month ago)

“information wants to be free.” but ai wants to steer it to you, according to your prejudices and fears. and then it’s designers want to monetize it maximally. if ever they can figure out how.

but dig this— information actually wants nothing. ai actually wants nothing. _people_ who we should loathe and shun and impoverish want particular things out of information and ai.

“but hunt3r,” i says to myself, “this ai, this method of ‘gathering’ and regurgitating ‘free’ ‘public’ information can result in such a reduction of ignorance— and elimination of mental labor.” and i guess i respond “well you got the elimination of labor part right i think. but part of the goal for its merchants is to keep you ignorant. and to deceive you. and to pleasure your prejudices. and to remove us from each other. and to get an ownership hold over all information if only they can. and to impoverish and weaken us all while enriching themselves.”

my internal conversations are like this, and are this stupidly boring and probly error filled.

but simply by funding libraries, that fuckin rascal carnegie did better than this. did he try to steal and seize ownership of the info? did he himself steer their content and their lending permissions? did he intend to profit in this world from them? did he intend to control their borrowers through them? ned if youre there tell me, ain’t ya the bookish sort?

so AIs are hell’s demonic libraries. and when the oceans are finally boiled to build those damned infernal halls of delusion, we’re there.

hello we are the tik tok data recruitment center (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 15:57 (one month ago)

its

hello we are the tik tok data recruitment center (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 15:58 (one month ago)

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/montypython/images/7/7f/It%27s1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070904181133

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 16:13 (one month ago)

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Its-man-in-Monty-Pythons-Flying-Circus.jpg

Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 August 2025 16:14 (one month ago)

he's currently getting bodied on Twitter by fucking Sam Altman, like how much of a loser do you have to be that even Altman can rip you a new one

frogbs, Wednesday, 13 August 2025 04:19 (one month ago)

still amused at how quickly McDonald Trump gave him the dump

Minty Gum (Latham Green), Thursday, 14 August 2025 19:57 (one month ago)

Amazing video of six(!) crushed Cybertrucks on a single flatbed:

https://bsky.app/profile/fullslack.bsky.social/post/3llwsm2kfns2w

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 15 August 2025 16:47 (one month ago)

well, at least they have some value now

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 August 2025 17:11 (one month ago)

The original video was posted in January in /r/cyberstuck. One commenter pointed out that it is likely that they are pre-production test models.

peace, man, Friday, 15 August 2025 17:16 (one month ago)

Things are going well at the diner:

https://www.jalopnik.com/1938650/tesla-diner-drops-most-menu-options-cuts-hours/

Now with a greatly reduced menu, service is limited to only Tesla and other EV owners using the charging stations, and even then only between the hours of midnight & six am.

They haven't even been open a month.

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 August 2025 13:42 (four weeks ago)

guess I'll have to get my epic bacon at Dennys :(

frogbs, Tuesday, 19 August 2025 13:48 (four weeks ago)

jfc the absolute state of the world

Ken Caldeira kencaldeira.com‬

Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it.

I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change.

This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.

click through for audio https://bsky.app/profile/kencaldeira.com/post/3lwwjsnijh22a

lag∞n, Thursday, 21 August 2025 18:47 (three weeks ago)

i overheard two guys probably in their late 60's yesterday while getting coffee, and the one guy with health issues said he didn't need to see a doctor because Grok already diagnosed him.

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 August 2025 20:57 (three weeks ago)

has there been a “grok made me do it” homicide defense yet?

hello we are the tik tok data recruitment center (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:08 (three weeks ago)

i overheard two guys probably in their late 60's yesterday while getting coffee, and the one guy with health issues said he didn't need to see a doctor because Grok already diagnosed him.

Jesus

Crispy Ambulance Chaser (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:10 (three weeks ago)

Doc Grok

Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:22 (three weeks ago)

Grok is thinning the heat to make more room for the spawn of Musk.

Ed, Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:26 (three weeks ago)

Elon wants to bore tunnels under Houston to help with flood relief, line pockets etc.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2025/08/28/a-texas-congressman-is-quietly-helping-elon-musk-pitch-building-760m-tunnels-under-houston-to-ease-flooding/

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 August 2025 15:52 (two weeks ago)

thought that url was clickhole for a second

symsymsym, Friday, 29 August 2025 15:55 (two weeks ago)

CNN with the Tesla Diner Puff Piece, an attempt at 'Epic Baconing Elon':

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/business/tesla-diner-elon-musk

Jacob Towe, a high-end lighting designer, visited the diner while on a trip from Florida. He told CNN that before the diner opened, fans were limited to visiting exclusive supercharger stations, going on factory tours or visiting SpaceX’s Starbase. The diner is a more “down-to-earth” and “natural” place to “chat with like-minded people,” he said.

Towe, who owns five Teslas, several Starlink satellite internet devices, as well as Tesla powerwall and powerbank charging systems, said he sees Musk as one of the world’s rare innovators.

He said he appreciates Musk’s ability to ignore public opinion — even to a fault. “It’s entertaining, if nothing else,” Towe said, adding that it’s an example of Musk being “100% data, 0% noise.”

He also admires Musk’s jump into politics and Musk’s vow to start his own political party after a public squabble with Trump. Towe called the political undertaking “pretty impressive” and an example of Musk choosing “a hard path.”

“(Musk will) come up with something that everyone says should not be done, or it’s actually really hard and … way too expensive,” Towe said. “Musk will somehow do it and figure it out and then somehow make money out of it.”

A group of fans recently presented Musk with “thank you” letters and a compilation video as part of the annual “X Takeover” event in Silicon Valley. The effort started as a Tesla fan event but evolved into a celebration of Musk’s companies.

John Stringer, one of the event’s organizers and the president of the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley group, told CNN that the video came about because of the way Musk and his companies have been treated.

“I’m a believer in the things that he’s doing because it’s having an impact, and no one else is driving this type of impact,” Stringer said, before adding that Musk is “the greatest mind on the planet.”

“He is out here trying to help the world and make it better,” Stringer said.

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 31 August 2025 15:33 (two weeks ago)

adding that Musk is “the greatest mind on the planet.”

We all need our heroes. If you're a clown, it's only natural that your hero is the biggest clown on earth.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 31 August 2025 17:16 (two weeks ago)

One of the most striking things about these people is how evident it is that they have never helped anyone else in their entire lives, so they don’t know what helping anyone or trying to make this sad world a better place actually looks like. Totally braindead.

czech hunter biden's laptop (the table is the table), Sunday, 31 August 2025 20:19 (two weeks ago)

and its all part of their status game anyway

lag∞n, Sunday, 31 August 2025 20:24 (two weeks ago)

probably a >50% chance this hyundai battery plant raid was done as a favor / appeasement to elon yeah?

, Friday, 5 September 2025 19:35 (one week ago)

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/larry-ellison-net-worth-oracle-stock

Elon Musk no longer the world's richest man

Wounded Insulter (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 September 2025 15:27 (one week ago)

Battle of the Iron Man 2 cameos.

peace, man, Wednesday, 10 September 2025 15:31 (one week ago)

Houston already has a shit ton of tunnels underneath it

fluffy tufts university (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 September 2025 15:32 (one week ago)

xp i heard ai might blow up oracle

beige accent rug (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 10 September 2025 16:37 (one week ago)

Thread of Enoch Musk speaking via video at an Anti-Immigration Rally in the UK today.
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3lyqfcyxgjk2a

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 September 2025 00:57 (three days ago)

...and he's also aiding in the doxxing of regular working people who dared to be not sad about Kirk biting it.

https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3lyqs7kehqc22

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 September 2025 04:05 (three days ago)

if Trump dies in office these ppl may die too of overwork

nashwan, Sunday, 14 September 2025 09:21 (three days ago)

Is there a drag king named Elon Masc?

paper plans (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 14 September 2025 13:20 (three days ago)


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