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

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

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

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

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 10, 2023

Can't believe that feature is still live tbh

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

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 11, 2023

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

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.

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

.@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

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

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

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

wow, he's pissed he has a trans daughter

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

i hope he fucking explodes

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

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

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

citation needed

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.

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

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023

is he trying to burn his empire down

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

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

oh sir, i love you so

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

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

That's what she said?

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"

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

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

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

so he may possibly be being sarcastic?

Twitter needs a sarcasm font

Elon Musk: looking into this

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

oh god knoopdogg373 is from Montevideo

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.

"clear but difficult path"

visionary

https://i.imgur.com/L8jgaWn.png

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

Musk innovating in the enddown space.

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

who "left"

Weird what happens when you fire a few thousand people