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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.

gizmodo.com/starlink-2022-earn

Gizmodo · Starlink Earns $1.4 Billion After Elon Musk Projected $12 BillionBy Nikki Main

Summary of terrible year

gizmodo.com/sorry-elon-chinese

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.”"

Gizmodo · Sorry Elon: Chinese Company Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular Electric CarmakerBy Thomas Germain

""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.""

motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybe

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."

msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

www.msn.comMSN

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]

youtube.com/watch?v=Rdtwsm2MoRM

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.

Hah he's whining already

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.”"

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 😆🤡

techspot.com/news/101893-elon-

TechSpot · Elon Musk shifts SpaceX's state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas following legal spat over $56 billion Tesla payBy Rob Thubron

nytimes.com/2024/03/10/us/elon

"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"

The Rocket Bar is one of several new nightlife establishments that received funds from the Musk Foundation’s initiative to revitalize downtown Brownsville, Texas.
The New York Times · Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.By David A. Fahrenthold

"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.

"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, ..."

motherjones.com/politics/2024/

Mother JonesElon Musk keeps spreading a very specific kind of racism.He is the "patient zero for this sort of stuff right now."

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.

english.elpais.com/economy-and

EL PAÍS English · How nations sitting on lithium reserves are handling the new ‘white gold’ rushSome Latin American countries have stepped up efforts to control extraction of the mineral that powers electric cars and there is talk of creating an OPEC-style cartel

Graph of the change in daily US users of various social media since Nov. 2022.

Most flat.
Tiktok is down 10%
Twitter is down 25%

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/few

Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance

theintercept.com/2024/03/25/el

"companies like Dataminr continuously monitor activity on social media and other platforms. Dataminr provides...real-time “alerts” on desired topics, giving clients like police departments a form of social media omniscience. The alerts allow police to automatically track a protest as it moves...into the streets, without requiring police officials to do any time-intensive searches."

Really just, so stupid.

Musk's SpaceX is quick to build in Texas, slow to pay its bills

finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-s

"The result, several of those businesses told Reuters, is a reluctance to work on SpaceX-related projects again. "If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to fuck off," said Brian Rozelle, an owner of Hydroz Energy Services LLC."

@jmcrookston how sure are we that those are not blind people?

@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.

@jmcrookston

25%? How much of Twitter's remaining activity is dead internet traffic? Bot use has got to be at an all-time high and expanding with advances in LLM capability.

@jmcrookston I've often felt astonished that Wikipedia, one of the most useful and popular sites on the Web, runs with a relatively small budget and a small paid staff. What's everyone else even doing?

@jmcrookston
I'm sure you know this already, but all those CAPTCHAs with pictures of street scenes? It's not for security.

The questions are all 'identify different vehicles' and 'identify hazards to driving or flying'. It's to train autonomous vehicles to navigate by camera.

I wonder if, after this, there will be a new round of "please click every square that contains a train".

@jmcrookston The key to getting rich is to get other people to pay your share - bills, taxes, restaurant tabs, everything.

Oh, and wage theft.