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

doesn’t elon have a fucked up dick from a failed penis enlargement surgery

I am more than willing to believe this to the day I die without my needing any credible evidence or effort to persuade me. I'm all in on this being true from the moment I read it. I can't not be true.

It can't...

there's a place in Mars
where his pecker has a scar

xp Agreed Aimless, it is *spiritually* true

Microsoft motherfuckas let bygones be bygones, but since I’m Macintosh ima double click your icon.

current rumors on twitter are that elon has a botched penis implant, pass it on

― 龜, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 bookmarkflaglink

Getting confirmation from reliable sources.

Grimes told me this too https://t.co/I6RG1qWeQK

— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) February 16, 2025

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, February 19, 2025 8:59 AM (one year ago)

100% willing to believe these rumors from a year ago lol

groims oim afraid theyve mashed me weiner ets heaps disfigured

sorry I can only do invitro because my uh uh uh uh uh uh my uh uh uh uh my uh my uh penis is all fucked up

guys i am crying laughing in bed, my husband is worried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOZ79gb7b4

he may be the cringiest person in the history of human civilization

https://bsky.app/profile/kthorjensen.bsky.social/post/3mhllysspec2i

heres the plot twist, Saxon is 20

so proud of my weird son for drinking a nice glass of milk

Saxon Musk

the unmistakable odor of an oasis concert

^BOOM

ha forgot about elon suing companies because they wouldnt advertise on twitter

BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed X's advertising antirust lawsuit with prejudice.

After finding the court lacked jurisdiction over some of the named defendants, as to those remaining, Judge Jane Boyle stated: "X has not stated an antitrust injury."

https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mhxwpyqf3s2d

Just have to buy the courts i guess

he's in Oakland right now!

Wonder if he'll make it out to the bars, maybe I'll see him

I guess it’s possible he’d go to the corniest place imaginable. What’s the most epic bacon location? I’d check there

I'm sure he's already ensconced in some silicon valley walled estate, sipping cognac and reminiscing about the good old days of apartheid and blockchain

winning

At one point, Savitt asked Musk: “OpenAI was formed as a nonprofit in 2015. True or false?” After prevaricating, Musk said: “In this case, yes.” But then he went on: “The reason you can’t simply answer a yes or no question, for example if you ask, ‘Have you stopped beating your wife … ’”Judge Gonzalez Rogers stopped him from finishing, as several people audibly gasped.

commented about it elsewhere but he absolutely botches every turn of phrase he quotes because he doesn't actually get the underlying meaning of any of them, only the situation where they're deployed

also his entire case rides on the fact it was a public benefit corporation and he was supposedly to be involved in direction but didn't have any actual position! he spent zero minutes listening to his own lawyer

yeah there may also be some issues with statute of limitations, all this shit happened a long time ago

it seems that his mother’s X account made a post that seemed to be from the perspective of his father, meaning Elon has likely been posting as both of them and screwed up which one he he was logged into

it was his mother’s account that called off the idea of a UFC-style fight with him and Zuckerberg. hrrrm.

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this shit is pretty funny get off the drugs elon

Pretty amazing that Elon became a real boy when his parents were Sock Puppets.

ok so not only does he post hundreds of times a day (and his own kid) he’s also posting as his own parents? get a hobby, loser

The only thing that matters to him is getting us to Mars

a furrier u say

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gmvStx7AhH4/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLCsQK42FI2QbyOa55iGhlSIPgZNSg

it must be excruciatingly boring to be a billionaire with no inner life, no curiosity, no interest in art or books, no interest in even travel your every waking moment is dedicated to accumulating more wealth

And making yourself feel superior to other ppl. Lame.

That's pretty much all billionaires though, kinda need those traits to be one

i'm dying at this, Elon is the most pathetic of our already completely pathetic group of try-hard billionaires who should probably be 187ed.

I think in the long term the Ellison family has still been worse but he's a lot of terrible concentrated in one all-too-visible presence

elons killing of hundreds of thousands of children via doge usaid cuts def puts him at the top of the list

there's plenty of blame to go around on that one but yeah, I'll bump him up in the rankings

This article is pretty interesting both because it paints a truly dismal picture of the giant bath Musk took on buying and destroying Twitter, and also because it tries as hard as it can to suggest that maybe Twitter's still worth a lot because it feeds Grok/xAI so much data — and still comes up sounding pretty feeble.

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/how-x-actually-makes-money-and-why-a-44-billion-bet-still-hasnt-paid-off/

X in 2026 is not a social media company trying to fix its ad business. It is a data infrastructure asset embedded inside the world’s most ambitious AI development programme, owned by the same person who controls the world’s leading private space company. Whether that convergence of AI, data and platform economics justifies the valuation is the only question that matters now. The jury remains out.

Narrator: The jury does not remain out.

I mean, if I owned an LLM, the last thing in the world I would feed it is a diet of raw X posts.

yea feel like you'd much rather train it on Reddit and other message boards where people actually try to answer questions rather than the shitpost capital of the world

twitter is free and x rivals are absolutely scraping it

i have a relative who is a self employed tech consultant hired by xAI to do something. He says it was the most dysfunctional company he had ever worked with. No one he worked with had a clue what they were doing or trying to accomplish. Employees were just rotated from Musk’s other companies. that last point really drives at home that humans are just interchangeable parts to our tech lord like Musk.

everyone’s day was spent trying to look busy

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Decapitated at the ankles

The unmitigated zoology of it!

being barrel chested used to be a good thing back in the “guys who catch cannonballs in their gut” days. Now “pigeon-chested”, on the other hand, was not good.

did we get this heartwarming story?

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut.

https://www.wired.com/story/he-blew-the-whistle-on-doge-then-his-brakes-were-cut/

it makes me so sad to think that the amazing whistleblowers and others who put themselves on the line to fight back against this utter trash are being swept away and forgotten in a non-stop deluge of shit-coated "news" that never ends, never stops raining on us, covering us with shit until we are exhausted and helpless to remember

I still need the occasional reminder that there are still decent people