Elon Musk is a Nazi - Is this shitty future real wtf

apparently he's been talking to putin regularly for the last 2 years. 

  On 10/26/2024 at 5:24 AM, ignatius said:

apparently he's been talking to putin regularly for the last 2 years. 

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it’s almost as if the richest and most powerful want to exercise undue, ungiven powers and control over the masses? 

i wonder what historic lessons we could apply to these times we are in now? hm??

  On 10/26/2024 at 5:57 AM, auxien said:

it’s almost as if the richest and most powerful want to exercise undue, ungiven powers and control over the masses? 

i wonder what historic lessons we could apply to these times we are in now? hm??

  On 10/26/2024 at 5:57 AM, auxien said:

it’s almost as if the richest and most powerful want to exercise undue, ungiven powers and control over the masses? 

i wonder what historic lessons we could apply to these times we are in now? hm??

That's almost a good quote. Apply it to Fox, CNN, NBC, MSNBC,  all these corporate outlets.  Free of mind huh?  Did you buy your views or subscription?

  On 10/28/2024 at 9:54 PM, arti said:

That's almost a good quote. Apply it to Fox, CNN, NBC, MSNBC,  all these corporate outlets.  Free of mind huh?  Did you buy your views or subscription?

sick burn bro. absolutely devastating. i hope @auxien can recover some day. did you buy your whit or subscribe?

So you just repeat me, and that makes you a good person, awesome.

  On 10/28/2024 at 10:48 PM, ignatius said:

sick burn bro. absolutely devastating. i hope @auxien can recover some day. did you buy your whit or subscribe?

i’m at the hospital now, doctors don’t know if i’ll make it. they keep rereading the highly informed and intelligent commentary from arti & just shaking their heads, looking at me sadly…if this is my last post, maybe my ignorance will serve as a warning for others.

  On 10/26/2024 at 6:32 AM, ignatius said:

 

 

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Have Georg and Slavoj ever done a video together?

  On 11/18/2024 at 12:51 PM, Rubin Farr said:

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TeslaXBalenciaga  

The Economist has an interesting list on books to read to understand musk. I kind of know all of them but it’s interesting to reread them in this perspective 

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You would have thought Elon Musk was busy enough building brain implants, electric cars, grid-scale batteries, robots, rockets, satellites and tunnelling machines. Apparently not. Mr Musk has also become a close adviser to Donald Trump. On November 12th he took on a new role as the co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a new body hoping to slash trillions from the federal budget. With that outsize role in mind, here are six books to help understand the history, personality, hopes and opinions of the tech titan.

Elon Musk. By Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster; 688 pages; $35 and £28

Walter Isaacson spent two years shadowing his subject; thisauthorised biography covers Mr Musk’s unhappy early years in South Africa, move to America and early success in the dotcom bubble, right up to his impulsive $44bn buy-out of Twitter (as it then was) in 2022. Mr Musk is described as brilliant and as a taker of huge, calculated risks—as well as an aggressive, impossibly demanding figure.

Foundation. By Isaac Asimov. Bantam Spectra; 296 pages; $8.99. HarperCollins; £9.99

To get a sense of why Mr Musk is fond of pronouncements about “turning-points” and the “fate of civilisation”, try one of his science-fiction favourites. Inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire, “Foundation” revolves around the invention of a statistical theory of history that predicts the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which will usher in a 30,000-year dark age. A visionary historian and mathematician conceives a plan to ensure the dark age will last a mere 1,000 years instead.

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX. By Eric Berger. HarperCollins; 288 pages; $27.99. William Collins; £20. Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age. By Eric Berger. BenBella Books; 400 pages; $31.95 and £26.99

This pair of books chronicles SpaceX’s transformation from a cash-strapped insurgent scrabbling to launch small rockets to the world’s dominant space power, without losing its pell-mell startup culture. Both contain entertaining vignettes and insights into Mr Musk’s restless, chafing management style, the role played by vital lieutenants such as Gwynne Shotwell and Mark Juncosa, and Mr Musk’s desire to have humans settle on Mars.

Surface Detail. By Iain Banks. Orbit; 656 pages; $19.99 and £10.99

Mr Musk once described himself as a “utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks”. Of Banks’s “Culture” novels—which describe a society whose citizens enjoy hyper-abundant luxury thanks to the godlike ais, called Minds, that run things—“Surface Detail” is one of his favourites. (SpaceX’s drone ships are named after Minds.) “Surface Detail” concerns a conflict with another civilisation that has built a virtual-reality hell into which sinners can be thrown. The villain is a rich industrialist.

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century. By Tim Higgins. Doubleday; 400 pages; $30. Ebury; £20

Unlike SpaceX, Tesla was not Mr Musk’s idea. But he put in most of the early money and came to control the firm, the first mass-market carmaker to be founded in America since 1925. Tesla’s vital insight was that technology had advanced to the point where electric cars could be fun and desirable, yet turning that idea into a working company proved almost impossibly hard. Once again Mr Musk comes across as focused, demanding, relentless—and frequently self-sabotaging.

Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups or How to Build the Future. By Peter Thiel with Blake Masters. Crown Business; 210 pages; $27. Virgin Books; £16.99

Mr Musk cites this book as one of his favourites. Like Mr Musk, Peter Thiel is part of the “Paypal Mafia”, an influential group of Silicon Valley veterans involved in the payments startup in the 1990s. Mr Thiel’s book offers blunt advice for budding entrepreneurs. The best way to build a successful company, he writes, is not to compete in existing markets but to establish entirely new ones—in re-usable rockets, say, or luxury electric cars. 

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https://archive.ph/dkhtQ

  On 11/22/2024 at 2:17 AM, o00o said:

The Economist has an interesting list on books to read to understand musk. I kind of know all of them but it’s interesting to reread them in this perspective 

 

https://archive.ph/dkhtQ

is he interesting enough to read all that to learn more about him so can better argue w/his fanboys? 

i've listened to a few podcasts and some youtube stuff shitting on his dumb ideas but just seeing him and hearing him blather on about stuff is already kinda triggering because he's become so annoying.

i do think his general thing is to make a monopoly. hype shit up.. make stock market numbers dance so he can capitalize on things.. beyond that he's another tech bro futurist w/bad ideas isn't he?  

  On 11/22/2024 at 2:37 AM, ignatius said:

is he interesting enough to read all that to learn more about him so can better argue w/his fanboys? 

i've listened to a few podcasts and some youtube stuff shitting on his dumb ideas but just seeing him and hearing him blather on about stuff is already kinda triggering because he's become so annoying.

i do think his general thing is to make a monopoly. hype shit up.. make stock market numbers dance so he can capitalize on things.. beyond that he's another tech bro futurist w/bad ideas isn't he?  

Yeah that’s really true 

elon trying to dump on bluesky

  On 11/22/2024 at 2:17 AM, o00o said:

The Economist has an interesting list on books to read to understand musk. I kind of know all of them but it’s interesting to reread them in this perspective 

 

https://archive.ph/dkhtQ

Dear god I miss Banks, I sorely wish he was still with us for so many reasons, not least to see how he'd respond to Musk. Half of his books, sci-fi or otherwise, feature some ludicrously rich/powerful (and usually incestuous) moron, but his choice of Surface Detail really is the most bonkers of the lot.

Production line workers at the Tesla Cybertruck factory in Austin were told to take the next three days, according to a report in Business Insider. The report, which was published Monday, cited an internal memo that reportedly told workers, “On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week (Dec. 3-5), you do not need to report to work.”

EV news website Electrek called the timing of the work stoppage at the Cybertruck factory “suspect,” going on to say that “demand seems much lower than the sky-high expectations for the vehicle.”

https://www.kron4.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-workers-told-to-stay-home-from-work-for-next-3-days-report/

  On 12/4/2024 at 2:43 AM, ignatius said:

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TIL journalists are very, very slow.

How does this fuckhead have wealth equivalent to more than a third of the US defense budget...sick of seeing his face every single day

I hope the CEO killer kills him too.

  On 12/8/2024 at 8:32 PM, geosmina said:

I hope the CEO killer kills him too.

tesla spends almost $3 million a year on security for him so someone would have to hack his car and drive into a canal or something..  he's a number 1 asshole and i do hope trump and elon's personalities clash and that leads to his exit from the main stage of the trump admin. elon's profile is seemingly bigger than trump's currently. a few good memes and twitter trends calling him "president Musk" or something and maybe trump's renowned pettiness and ego bloat will kick in and he'll help elon find the door.