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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 (ten years ago) link

Who he?

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

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

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

Suk Lemon

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

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 (ten years ago) link

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

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

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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

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

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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

nine months pass...

so hyperloop huh

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

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

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

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

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

cool monorail bro

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

lol

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

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 (nine years ago) link

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

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

even i can afford that

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

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

I meant 94% sorry.

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

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

LOL "elon musk"

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

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

Bad connotations...

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

Yeah I think a lot of content-generation jobs (copy writing, design) are going to turn into basically AI management, or AI specialists. Twitter will be all bots except for Elon and catturd.

some (most?) clickbait media is already heavily guided by "AI" (meaning: analytics + A/B optimization + specialized CMS), but who needs human posters when you can get people to lurk/look at ads while bots post

rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:26 (two weeks ago) link

My own life would be a lot better if an AI could cover government meetings for me, but I feel like that's a long way off.

That's an AI application that you could see being genuinely helpful, but yeah a little more dicey than reporting junior league hockey games

rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:31 (two weeks ago) link

I will never log off pic.twitter.com/a6VVruzFtJ

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 10, 2023

lag∞n, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:53 (two weeks ago) link

Can't believe that feature is still live tbh

nashwan, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:23 (two weeks ago) link

[money bursts into flames] pic.twitter.com/EPlbJ4B5Rw

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 11, 2023

mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:38 (two weeks ago) link

he's down for any stunning losses out there, just PM him

Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:43 (two weeks ago) link

There's no way the Feds would sell SVB to a company that has zero banking experience and would have to start learning their new business by watching some Powerpoints. Elon may not know this, but he knows how to encourage his flatterers.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 March 2023 03:51 (two weeks ago) link

running a bank is easy, you just tell everyone to work extremely hard and extremely smart, or else

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:30 (two weeks ago) link

.@ElonMusk jokes about his plan to steal @HardDriveMag memes and post them as his own. pic.twitter.com/6XhIKXVfQe

— The Recount (@therecount) June 14, 2022

i woke up in the middle of the night and had the epiphany that the guy to the right of elon in the backwards baseball hat has big loftus energy. it is... so not gonna happen, bro

, Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:52 (two weeks ago) link

Halli, thank you for staying on twitter dot com

Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.

You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.

— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 10, 2023

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:20 (two weeks ago) link

Add anti-transgender to the list:

Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults.

Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.

Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2023

عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:34 (one week ago) link

responding to an account dedicated to making sure that as many people as possible die from covid and puts "slow the spread" in mocking quotation marks

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:36 (one week ago) link

wow, he's pissed he has a trans daughter

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 March 2023 19:42 (one week ago) link

also, he started this whole purchasing Twitter fiasco shortly after Grimes dumped him for Chelsea Manning.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:45 (one week ago) link

i hope he fucking explodes

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:48 (one week ago) link

seriously, who - beyond a swathe of twitter accounts that get off on the taste of boot leather - will miss this shithead when he dies?

dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Saturday, 18 March 2023 11:42 (one week ago) link

I hope he goes to Mars (soon) and livestreams his journey as he steadily fades away, like the death of HAL.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 March 2023 13:21 (one week ago) link

every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.

citation needed

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:23 (one week ago) link

I think he’s referring to watching The Breakfast Club

There’s no way, if he does go to Mars, that he won’t be forced out the airlock before they even arrive.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 18 March 2023 22:20 (one week ago) link

pr✧✧✧@twit✧✧✧.c✧✧ now auto responds with 💩

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023

is he trying to burn his empire down

lag∞n, Sunday, 19 March 2023 23:50 (one week ago) link

well, he’s not lying, it did that

I emailed asking whether they’d comment on the fact users’ blocks aren’t maintained if the blocked user is elon musk

I had a notification this morning he’d tweeted some inane garbage. Promptly re-blocked him, we’ll see if it sticks

mh, Sunday, 19 March 2023 23:59 (one week ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fr6-bxWWIA4YsN4?format=jpg&name=medium

lag∞n, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:07 (four days ago) link

oh sir, i love you so

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:09 (four days ago) link

the joke doesn't even work like that, what the fuck is he doing

frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:12 (four days ago) link

i'm guessing, but i think he's going for the "this is so obviously not the context for that joke but i said it anyway!" angle, which i remember being very in vogue when i was 10 years old and is deeply unfunny

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:29 (four days ago) link

That's what she said?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:30 (four days ago) link

but its not funny with "that's what she said", the whole point of that is you can say it a lot of innocuous things

its funny when like people recount their dreams and then say "when I woke up, my pillow was gone"

frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:34 (four days ago) link

But it's funny because Hakeem Jeffries says things that girls say.

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:36 (four days ago) link

Assuming blue tick Jeff there is a Twitter Blue subscriber with about 20 followers

groovypanda, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:38 (four days ago) link

jeff curry is VP and head of marketing for a rival EV firm afaict

so he may possibly be being sarcastic?

mark s, Thursday, 23 March 2023 18:53 (four days ago) link

Twitter needs a sarcasm font

Elon Musk: looking into this

frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:07 (four days ago) link

you're talking about knoopdogg373? This guy just retweets crypto shit and replies to Elon

It really is it?! 🤷‍♂️

— Jeff Curry (@knoopdogg373) March 21, 2023

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:11 (four days ago) link

lol it looks like he already lost his blue checkmark? payment decline? insufficient asslicking of King Elon?

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:13 (four days ago) link

He appears to be a desperately thirsty crypto dweeb.

https://twitter.com/knoopdogg373?s=21&t=z1egexpHAtHcPPxgbp4Hrw

The energy of a guy wearing no shoes buying one more lottery scratcher at 4 in the morning.

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (four days ago) link

If you knew anything about Twitter, you would know when you change profile pic. They review account. Blue check will be back in 2 or 3 days 👍

— Jeff Curry (@knoopdogg373) March 23, 2023

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:14 (four days ago) link

no my guy, i am neither famous enough to have legitimately earned a blue check in the olden days, nor a mark enough to pay for one now to have known that changing your profile pic throws it off (which seems really dumb to me and i don't remember seeing that under the old system)

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:16 (four days ago) link

(ftr my snarky response was to his tweet and not your post Mr. President)

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2023 19:25 (four days ago) link

Tesla Sells Out of Steering Wheels as Owners Rush to Replace the Yoke https://t.co/MfHGblkllP pic.twitter.com/iotelheUkh

— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) March 24, 2023

lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2023 23:53 (three days ago) link

oh god knoopdogg373 is from Montevideo

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 March 2023 00:41 (two days ago) link

lol

Elon Musk concedes Twitter is now worth less than half what he paid in email about stock grants, report says https://t.co/QC9sjo0WFX

— Insider Business (@BusinessInsider) March 26, 2023

Musk also told staff he saw a "clear but difficult path" to a $250 billion valuation, Schiffer tweeted.

lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:22 (yesterday) link

"clear but difficult path"

visionary

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 March 2023 15:45 (yesterday) link

the thing we all know about

Musk says Twitter is on the path of an inverse startup. 5/5

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 25, 2023

lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:45 (yesterday) link

Musk innovating in the enddown space.

This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Sunday, 26 March 2023 16:48 (yesterday) link

oops lol

Twitter says its source code was posted online and worked to get it taken down from GitHub on Friday. Now it's trying to unmask the anonymous user behind the leak. Our sources say that the person is a former Twitter employee who left last year. https://t.co/mML5OXkUit

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) March 26, 2023

lag∞n, Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:27 (yesterday) link

who "left"

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 26 March 2023 22:50 (yesterday) link

Weird what happens when you fire a few thousand people

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:35 (yesterday) link


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