Elon Musk, thread 2
(First is https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110687620064016032)
Starlink doing much more poorly than Musk projected (which we might as well just call a lie because he doesn't project anything except his feelings)
Starlink Earns $1.4 Billion After Elon Musk Projected $12 Billion
Starlink is lagging behind Musk's vision, securing only one million active subscribers by 2022's end versus the billionaire's projected 20 million.
https://gizmodo.com/starlink-2022-earnings-elon-musk-projections-investors-1850835816
Summary of terrible year
https://gizmodo.com/sorry-elon-chinese-company-overtakes-tesla-as-most-pop-1851126305
More ridiculous emotionally stunted behavior:
"Musk ridiculed the Chinese company in a recently surfaced TV interview, but today it’s clear that BYD is a legitimate threat to his empire."
"and the CEO seemed to nearly break out in tears on a disastrous earnings call, during which he said: “we dug our own grave with the Cybertruck.”"
""I want to temper expectations for Cybertruck," Musk said, while making the absurd claim that "there have not been new car [brands] that have been successful for 100 years, apart from Tesla.""
https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-begin-november-elon-musk/
And he promised a future of abundance because of robots. Sure. We still don't have a self-driving car
"Musk's defense of the Optimus robots will come as no surprise as he has high hopes for them. When he unveiled them last year, he said the economy could become "quasi-infinite" if the Optimus robots were capable of manual labor.
"This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where you could have whatever you want in terms of products and services," Musk said then."
But was upset when media reported on his robot arms grabbing and crushing an employee because they used a picture of the humanoid ones and he loves his humanoid robots
"Musk slammed recent media reports of a robot "attack" in a Tesla factory in Austin.
"Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now," Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday."
Q3 call,
in which Musk talks down the Cybertruck [entire beginning]
- says Boston Dynamics robots are impressive but lack a brain, and warns of a future in which robots might take over, "Terminator Style" [18:40]
- says Tesla AI is baby AGI [20:50]
- says his Optimus robots "can do yoga" and "in a few years will be able to do ballet" [22:30]
- "We dug our own grave with Cybertruck" is at [27:47]
"Buy Twitter and fix the woke-ism" said one of his ex-wives (one of I don't recall how many).
https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2635432/elon-musk-talulah-riley-twitter-deal/
Chinese electric cars hitting the market at half the price of Teslas.
Let's see what Musk can do selling his $100,000 cybertruck in an era of high interest so that nobody can afford it.
https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1
Uh guys, that's not the problem with him that you need to be worried about
All the lies. In one place.
"Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
Haha
"Judge voids Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla compensation, shares slide"
This is how stupid he is
"Musk had “extensive ties with the persons tasked with negotiating on Tesla’s behalf,” including management members “who were beholden to Musk,: among them General Counsel Todd Maron, who was his “former divorce attorney.”"
AI bot swarms on Twitter
"Judge skeptical of lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X over hate speech research"
After you use your divorce attorney to help you steal $60 billion from Tesla, when a judge overturns the $60 billion on the grounds that the board wasn't impartial (you know because one of them was your divorce attorney), you should definitely get pissy and move your companies to Texas, then badmouth Delaware
https://www.techspot.com/news/101893-elon-musk-shifts-spacex-state-incorporation-delaware-texas.html
"A New York Times analysis found that, of the Musk Foundation’s giving in 2021 and 2022 — the latest years for which full data is available — about half of the donations had some link to Mr. Musk, one of his employees or one of his businesses"
"But Mr. Musk’s giving often seemed guided by Twitter, where he made splashy promises in response to challenges from internet celebrities: ..."
This isn't new. He put Tesla's money in bitcoin because someone on Twitter told him he could. The post is still up.
He's a total flake.
"According to Swisher, Musk didn’t like the questions Lemon asked him, including about his reported Ketamine use."
From https://www.dailydot.com/debug/don-lemon-show-musk-x/
Elon absolutely ROBOT WALKED right out of that interview, he was so mad.
(Also see https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24099677/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-canceled)
"Musk is amplifying users who will incorporate cherry-picked data and misleading graphs into their argument as to why people of European descent are biologically superior, ..."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/
In July 2020, a Twitter user confronted Elon Musk, head of leading electric vehicles manufacturer Tesla, claiming that the “US organized a coup in Bolivia” just so that Musk could have access to the country’s lithium. “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” replied the entrepreneur in a tweet that soon disappeared; the only remaining record of it are screenshots in newspaper reports.
"Musk is less X’s CEO than its troll in chief. They are not gods; they are entertainers."
I like "carnival barker", myself.
I remember a guy on /. whose .sig line was, "I used to be a libertarian but then I did shrooms and discovered empathy" or something like that.
Can you imagine what Enlightened Elon might do? That's definitely something these "leaders" would be worried about!
@tjradcliffe @jmcrookston No chance of that. His drug of choice is fekkin' ketamine. Horse tranquilizer. So he can feel *less*.
There's no danger of him discovering empathy. He's had a dozen kids and can't pick any of them out of a lineup.
Am I alone in demanding elonmusk.yesterday and elonmusk.tomorrow?
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow would be quite useful if those could line my cat box in any fashion other than virtual.
@jmcrookston how sure are we that those are not blind people?
AI screen reader swarms
@jmcrookston This salt is turned into brine which is processed to separate out the Lithium. Why couldn't some arid but sunny country convert sea water to steam and brine using solar energy and extract the Lithium.
Australia, are you listening.