Elon Musk

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

do tell

curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. I also think the "open source" thing is pretty silly since it's not like code where an individual can make some kind of improvement and test it out to see if it works. I guess an open source design is an interesting idea after the fact if he actually gets it working and other people want to build his design, but it still seems basically irrelevant.

Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?
I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"

It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project

^^^

that seems less like bad business acumen and more like someone on a bizarre drugsblasted business holiday

I don’t see why there has to be an exclusive binary there

DJP 1 Hunt3r 0

does he actually have a plan here or is he just winging it day to day?

some Roman Roy shit

of course he has a plan he wants a sassy robot

why care about charging business fundamentals when you're fun and mental

tha based business boi

this uh seems very illegal

I’ve been stating this for years 🙃autopilot disables 1 second before impact by design.

Anyone on the internal autopilot team would have known this as far back as 2020. https://t.co/SpMQC7uQx1

— Aiaddict (@Aiaddict1) May 7, 2024

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

this bullshit again huh

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:hvxnbkpkw33nulvd4aqej2nw/bafkreif56hbib4au4ijuttzxpyhzfilh4xzzlnsls4zpyqspnj4mp3awni@jpeg

https://bsky.app/profile/grgd.bsky.social/post/3kt3ntxv2gs2t

mold maybe

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hvxnbkpkw33nulvd4aqej2nw/bafkreihluvvgvplmxzoyxg2b2sxhju3qeqvdnm6xdf35jas42nwpk6p73m@jpeg

that watermelon pic

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwhats-the-matter-with-you-homer-we-dont-have-any-fruits-or-v0-hecmwydpo2mb1.jpeg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pVq85MDTB5o/hqdefault.jpg

kind of amazed there doesn't seem to be any real oversight going on with Tesla, like if Toyota has a faulty brake or wheel or whatever it's national news, while Teslas just routinely ship out with 5 things pre-broken which may or may not be covered by warranty

medias spent so many years riding elons dick they dont know how to do anything else

Yeah we had to literally hand over our fucking car 5 years back because "some" models of it had faulty airbags. Nothing wrong with our actual car but we had no say in the matter, no chance to just fix the airbags - nope. Recall, heres your current-value buyout, off you fuck. Was such an old car we only got like $4k back and, we couldnt remove the after market stereo we'd installed so lost that too :( To see these cars just driving around like nothing... blaaaaa.

lmao, incredible

https://x.com/ass_beaters/status/1794036155014361392

this is so painful to watch pic.twitter.com/Pe2LG19Qsz

— 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 (@ass_beaters) May 24, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-brownsville-texas.html

tht stry mde me sd. :(

[deep breath] ahhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha pic.twitter.com/JH0fDTCk8E

— adrian (@crawf34) May 30, 2024

thats bad lol

the truck
the truck
the truck is on fire
we won't give you water
we'll let the motherfucker burn

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOttPsxW4AAMhf3?format=jpg&name=medium

very impressive, smart

These things are so useless. 😝 pic.twitter.com/Mq4QXaxfaJ

— StrictlyChristo  🇺🇦🌻 (@StrictlyChristo) May 28, 2024

it's like driving a vehicle from Starfox

enhance

https://i.imgur.com/YVyI4YA.png

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

i searched twitter for cybertruck looking for that last post and the results are just all cyber fails lol, on elons own site, rude

#notalltrucks

🖼

he claims this is "satire" in the comments there

(the tech optimist right's (mis)use of the word "satire" to mean "a lie or trolling" is a bizarre thing that could be a thread on its own)

engagement farming is just basically the social media version of old school internet trolling but the sheer volume of people doing it is exhausting, and half of them aren't even monetizing it in any direct or tangential way.

like you got 300 people really angry with a tweet and made no money off of it, congratulations!

its so satire that he went back to pick up something heavier

Cybertruck with a full pallet of ceramic tile, right around 2000 pounds handles it nicely! For all the folks that didn’t like my massive load of mulch, I picked up! @cybertruck @Tesla @elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog @thecybersurg @squawksquare @DirtyTesLa @Teslaconomics… pic.twitter.com/EMOPEkcoK0

— Merle Somero (@MerleSomero) May 30, 2024

Now make it do more truck things

lmao

https://x.com/TeslaBoomerMama/status/1796191742867255465

he's working hard to get a douchebag bingo

I use my real truck on the weekends pic.twitter.com/H0XT6NkK6W

— Merle Somero (@MerleSomero) May 30, 2024

https://i.ibb.co/2n14LC8/GO1a6u-RXs-AALO-D.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/cxzyxGG/GO1a6u-HW0-AAKXq8.jpg

another car came too close, the one thing no one could have predicted, not robot, not tycoon, no one!

another masterful gambit!

i would call bs on that one but its always real no one has to make anything up

There's eight cameras on a Tesla, lets see footage of the wreck

surprised tesla hasnt already paid him to take this one down

Another car came to close, autopilot swerved so missed the other car and flipped over a few times, slid across the motor way on the roof and flipped back onto the tires. All a bit of a blur for me but I'm told it was a sight to be seen from the outside 👌🏻

— Simon Pollock (née Tesla Light Shows) (@Teslalightshows) May 30, 2024

All that tweet makes me think of is this classic

18. One day, driving us to our great-aunt's house, Chris took a wrong turn onto a one-way street. He averted there oncoming cars and narrowly avoided a collision with a parked one before finally making it down the block and turning the correct way. There was about a minute of silence, while my mother and I could finally breathe again (my brother, who was less than a year old, was also in the car).
Suddenly, Chris beamed. "Man!" he said. "I must be the best fucking driver in the world! Anyone else would have gotten into in accident, but I avoided all those cars [that were headed straight at me because I was stupid enough to make a wrong turn on a fucking one-way residential street], and none of us got hurt." He concluded cockily: "I'm a great fucking driver."

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 4:06 PM bookmarkflaglink