remember when elon hosted an event to showcase an unbreakable car window and it immediately cracked. now imagine it was a human brain https://t.co/OeLEXAHcU6— Law Boy (@The_Law_Boy) May 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 26 May 2023 09:24 (one year ago) link
the people who are utterly terrified of the vaccine are gonna be first in line for this
― frogbs, Friday, 26 May 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
the chip teaches you to be a very good Musk fanboy
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 26 May 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
For some reason that Bill Hicks about the world feeling lighter already for having lost another idiot springs to mind.
― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
I think reverse Midas touch Musk is the problem, not the tech or concept. This was just a few days ago and is super-cool/nuts:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/24/paralysed-man-walks-using-device-that-reconnects-brain-with-muscles
A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads his brain waves and sends instructions to his spine to move the right muscles.Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic accident in China, but has climbed stairs and walked for more than 100 metres at a time since having the operation.“A few months ago, I was able, for the first time after 10 years, to stand up and have a beer with my friends,” said Oskam, who is from the Netherlands. “That was pretty cool. I want to use it in my daily life.”
Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic accident in China, but has climbed stairs and walked for more than 100 metres at a time since having the operation.
“A few months ago, I was able, for the first time after 10 years, to stand up and have a beer with my friends,” said Oskam, who is from the Netherlands. “That was pretty cool. I want to use it in my daily life.”
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
(lol, the quote reads like he wants to use beer in his daily life, which I appreciate.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
That's not Musk's project though, like Tesla isn't the only electric car.
― serving aunt (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
No, I know, that's what I meant. It's not the brain implanting that is the problem, it's Musk being behind his own version of it that raises (AI-augmented) eyebrows.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Maybe his direct competitors have conspired to keep him in the game? Like if he fails epically and publicly at everything he does, other folks doing the same things only need to have like a 60% success rate to look amazing in comparison. Create a self-driving car that only runs over every tenth toddler rather than every third, for instance.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 May 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
Can't believe nobody has noticed that the announcement is from MUsk's company. This is the guy who said he had "verbal approval" from the government to build a hyperloop up the East Coast.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 May 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
right and it doesn't really specify what exactly they've gotten clearance to test, in all likelihood it's just some non-invasive EEG prototype thing
― frogbs, Friday, 26 May 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
Am I imagining it or has he subtly changed his affect lately to sound more thoughtful and circumspect?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 27 May 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
Maybe he's got a factory making quaaludes again.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 27 May 2023 02:30 (one year ago) link
He didn’t just read the wiki summary of the Protocols, he studied them closely.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
Concerning
― mh, Saturday, 27 May 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
It's not the brain implanting that is the problem
no i agree, but it's not Musk's version that is the success! But it's Musk's version the chuds will tolerate over the one that actually works
― serving aunt (stevie), Sunday, 28 May 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link
Well, if they get it and it drives them all to self-harm and suicide the way it did the apes, something good will have come from all this.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
A familiar story when libertarians' bluffs are called:
BASTROP COUNTY, Tex. — Chap Ambrose has always been a fan of Elon Musk. He spent $100 to join the waiting list for Tesla’s first pickup in 2019 and bought internet service from Musk’s satellite provider.But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.“I just have no faith that the leadership there values the environment and these shared resources,” said Ambrose, who leads a group of local residents pushing Musk’s companies to slow down and address concerns about the environmental risks of the development. “I would say, I’m still a fan (of Elon), but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
But then the billionaire’s companies moved in next door to the computer programmer, who works from his rural, hilltop home.
Two years later, massive construction sites and large white warehouses have taken over the green pastures where cattle used to graze. Semis barrel up and down the narrow country roads. And the companies — rocket manufacturer SpaceX and tunneling company Boring — are seeking state permission to dump treated wastewater into the nearby Colorado River.“I just have no faith that the leadership there values the environment and these shared resources,” said Ambrose, who leads a group of local residents pushing Musk’s companies to slow down and address concerns about the environmental risks of the development. “I would say, I’m still a fan (of Elon), but I want him to do better here and be a good neighbor.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/28/elon-musk-texas-spacex-boring-bastrop/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
Judah Ross, a Bastrop real estate agent, said afterward that he went into the meeting feeling neutral about the issue but left opposed because he found the Boring consultant’s answers “evasive.”Musk, he said, is building products that are “changing the world.”“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”
Musk, he said, is building products that are “changing the world.”
“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 May 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
Again, it blows my mind that capitalist billionaires have “fans”.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 28 May 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
I want to preface by saying that I love Elon and think he's a total sweetheart. I guess I just wish he'd stop systematically torturing and murdering my family members and subjecting me to an endless series of punishing medical experiments. Great guy otherwise, though, A+.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
gotta say the man has a talent for making me hate him just a little bit more each day
🔥— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2023
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
even by his standards this is insane pic.twitter.com/6H2GZ4kJix— effortful grunter (@lib_crusher) June 7, 2023
"hate the js"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
twitter is going to buy the daily wire, isn't it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Daily Wire already moved their podcasts to Twitter. Whatever that means.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Elon either doesn't know that twitter is accessible on the web, and/or is about to demand his engineers revoke the API keys of the World Wide Web pic.twitter.com/rVPy2cbafi— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) June 14, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:51 (eleven months ago) link
please let Elon get into a fight with ChatGPT
― mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:12 (eleven months ago) link
How is “cis” or “cisgender” a slur? In which direction? https://t.co/9VQby0tqhm— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 21, 2023
fite!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:10 (eleven months ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E03/985333.jpg
― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
so not gonna happen
If this is for real, I will do it 🔥🔥— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 22, 2023
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:36 (eleven months ago) link
we can bully him into doing it, zuck is on board hes been special forces larping
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:53 (eleven months ago) link
I 100% believe Zuck is willing to do this, Elon is obviously gonna back out and blame it on trans people somehow
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:52 (eleven months ago) link
which is why we must bully him, hes vulnerable to it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:53 (eleven months ago) link
gotta give credit where its due here, flawless execution
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzMShjAaAAARZGJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:55 (eleven months ago) link
I've been laughing at this for over a week now. Absolutely perfect. pic.twitter.com/oAmgJ1EbKh— Ben Jenkins (@bencjenkins) July 18, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 20:39 (ten months ago) link
The richest man in the world stole a meme from a 16-year-old kid and cropped him off pic.twitter.com/wtDLEeO8FP— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 July 2023 20:59 (ten months ago) link
he's a founder/investor tho, he knew what he signed up for
― toenail fungus (Hunt3r), Sunday, 23 July 2023 23:07 (ten months ago) link
lmao pic.twitter.com/FMWLjZGz2y— huffy (@sulkingtime) July 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:48 (ten months ago) link
lol, "chicken wings and cigarettes"
― nickn, Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:51 (ten months ago) link
I love the punchline.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 27 July 2023 23:12 (ten months ago) link
Equal parts eye opening and terrifying
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html
― groovypanda, Saturday, 29 July 2023 20:17 (ten months ago) link
Tesla cfo stepping down effective immediately, replaced by someone from solarcity 🤔
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
lol
Am lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight. Don’t have time to work out, so I just bring them to work.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
NEW: Elon Musk says he will receive an MRI of his neck and upper back and may require surgery https://t.co/vbWv0r8hlb— Bloomberg (@business) August 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:12 (ten months ago) link
needs a a spine implant amirite
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:15 (ten months ago) link
Everybody’s so down on themselves!
― Chevy Chase drumming mystery (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 August 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
https://www.threads.net/@bestofdyingtwitter/post/CvnGNyfR0ch/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:32 (ten months ago) link
Musk: I am training to fightMusk (a minute later): I am getting my spine replaced.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:39 (ten months ago) link
Be hilarious if Musk tried to back out of fighting Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg took him to court and forced him to fight.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 August 2023 15:49 (ten months ago) link