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  • Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

    America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/ Musk’s mistreatment of workers is not a bug, it’s a feature. One can see it play…

  • Elon Musk is a Fucking Idiot

    Elon Musk is a 97 IQ man who masquerades as 137 IQ man and all of his followers are 85 IQ so they all believe that he’s as smart

  • Musk is going to Twitter the US economy

    Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth about 71.5 percent less than when Musk bought the company in October 2022. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-firm-reportedly-lost-72-of-its-value/ I have joked that if you wanted to know what it was like to live on a Musk Mars colony… look at Twitter. Turns out…

  • This week in Musk hypocrisy: immigration

    Elon Musk has fervently railed against immigration for years. But it turns out that when he first got his start as an entrepreneur in the United States, the South African-born billionaire was staying and working there illegally, The Washington Post reports, with his associates even fearing that he could be kicked out of the country. While his brother Kimbal…

  • Roundup: Elon Musk’s Russian connection

    The United States hitched its cart to Elon Musk. Now it’s dealing with the consequences. https://disconnect.blog/roundup-elon-musks-russian-connection/

  • Elon Musk Admits That Teslas With “Self-Driving” Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

    Well *fuck me* what a surprise: “There is some chance that HW3 does not achieve the safety level that allows for unsupervised FSD,” he added. Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out…

  • This week in ‘Elon Musk is a hypocrite’

    Elon: The Federal Govt wastes tax payers money Also Elon: $3B of tax payers money and *still* hasn’t delivered on his human space flight contact

  • There is no question, this is an amazing feat of engineering…

    Almost seven minutes following liftoff, the Super Heavy booster returned to its launchpad, where the launch tower caught it using arms that SpaceX has nicknamed the “chopsticks.” https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269029/spacex-starship-launch-super-heavy-chopstick-launch-tower-return-fifth-flight-test

  • Meat(al) Puppets

    During the event, Musk presented the Optimus robot as little more than your personal slave. “Whatever you can think of, it will do,” he told his adoring followers as they shouted how much they loved the fascist billionaire. Rows of Tesla employees flanked a line of Optimus robots ready to engage with the gullible cult members,…

  • Elon Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla self-driving claims with embarrassing defense

    A legally adjudicated bullshitter… Let’s be clear on what Musk is celebrating here: he is celebrating a judge siding with his lawyers, who argued that his misleading statements regarding Tesla’s self-driving effort were simple “corporate puffery” and not “actionable material misrepresentations.” https://electrek.co/2024/10/02/elon-musk-celebrates-winning-lawsuit-tesla-self-driving-claims-embarrassing-defense/