Elon Musk

trying to think what Musk’s businesses’ actual recent successes are and if they’re at all notable

rocket stuff: pretty good? more showboating than innovation
cars: driving tech ahead of most competitors, pushing battery industry forward through demand. actual car production sucks, QA on car assembly is bad

solar company: not any better than any solar company doing the subsidy/home install game. might be a front to sell batteries

mass transport company: they’ve dug some holes in the ground and are selling gimmicks for publicity

branding game: relatively strong

the real coup de grace was the car company purchasing the struggling indebted solar company imo

its all pretty funny imo except the mass transpo company which seems just another obvious attempt to undercut public transpo with a car dependent future

not even sure he even believes he can build his tunnels and suction tubes might be purely an attempt to inject chaos into the public transpo planning process

stando evil industrialist scheming

pushing battery industry forward through demand

But not fulfilled with Tesla/Panasonic batteries. Elon makes all the noise but LG and Samsung make all the sales. Even the 120MW big battery in Australia is full of Samsung cells. It keeps my day interesting that he keeps sprinkling the tech but it’s it where the money is going.

they’re not doing much research overall, right? they’re an integrator/reseller

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/img/bills2.gif

heh heres the article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash

The thing that really annoys me most about Elon is his name. I really want him to be called Elton Musk. Like a seedy jazz saxophonist from the 70s.

spending a shitload of money and going massively into debt is a total alpha move

will his personal life implode before Tesla does?

looking at his twitter is the most annoying thing

he tweets some shitbag stupid ass shit like "I'm going to create an amphibious moped then shoot it into space" and there's a zillion responses from a bunch of dickriding wanna be Pied Piper ass motherfuckers like "OMG you're my hero"

Awesome sauce!

'everything is awesome', enjoyed without irony

a month ago i thought about buying a share for the first time, risking it on tesla even though i knew there was a high chance of them going bankrupt. now i'm glad i held off.

A week's worth of URL titles
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/elon-musk-hung-up-on-ntsb-chief-during-call-about-tesla-crash-probe/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-05/musk-is-super-super-serious-in-attacking-buffett-s-candy-moat
https://pagesix.com/2018/05/05/meet-elon-musks-new-love-interest
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-shareholders-will-vote-on-booting-elon-musk-as-ch-1825598148

Anyone with an over-under on a final public meltdown?

yeah he seems unstable

"I am super super serious," Musk said of his candy idea. He also tweeted a movie clip from the animated "Trolls," with characters dancing to Justin Timberlake’s song "Can’t Stop The Feeling!" Musk didn’t provide an explanation for the video.

Thank god he stopped short of saying "super cereal"

uh

https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musician-grimes/

lol

“Elon was researching the idea of joking about Rococo Basilisk, and when he saw Grimes had already joked about it, he reached out to her,” says the insider.

oldest trick in the book

they said roko's basilisk would retroactively punish humanity but they could never foresee how

lmaoooo

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"

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

― but with socks instead of football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:53 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jumping in before nickb gets credit for muskrat an all

lolz

your rights are my rights are our rights tom get out and march

this is how much i never want to hear grimes

https://voices.clickhole.com/i-never-want-to-understand-sand-1825124083

grimes is pretty good!

https://artofstyle.club/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/elon-musk-casual-style-art-of-style.jpg

learning of the existence of that clickhole blog jed posted is the best thing to come out of all this

my favorite headline of the day: Musk's Stock-Option Tweet May Invite U.S. Labor Board Complaint

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/musk-s-stock-option-tweet-may-invite-u-s-labor-board-complaint

Many Silicon Valley companies give employees shares that fully vest over a four-year period, which has made equity in fast-growing companies a critical part of employees’ compensation packages. The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union.

“This is an interesting example of an employer using social media for purposes of campaigning and sharing its views with employees before they vote to decide on representation,” Steven Swirsky, a former NLRB attorney who’s represented companies including Volkswagen AG, said in an interview. “I can foresee the union claiming that this is a threat that the company will discontinue this benefit if the workers chose to be represented.”

Musk would have been on safer legal ground, Liebman said, if he had just described collective bargaining as a give-and-take proposition and warned workers that they may lose benefits in the process.

a genius unlike any other

wow, there is no elon musk news

Well, he's having quite the day on Twitter there.

I was just coming over to say, it just keeps going.

PRAVDA

*kisses fingers*

[texting]

GRIMES: 🌞 ¡good morninggg! 👻 xDDDD

MUSK: hello my evropa, my sparkling summer solstice of sweet sherry. no-gods do i love alliteration

GRIMES: what R U doin todayyy 🧠👀

MUSK: methinks at precisely 22:35 on the dot i shall tonguepunch your delectable twatterino ;P

— erica ✌️😉💜 (@babyfacepop) May 22, 2018

Thing I’ll be thinking about all day today: people offering hugs to Elon and buying Tesla stock in response to people roasting Elon Musk about not liking unions pic.twitter.com/G3pRJXu9Jr

— alan (@ActionAlan) May 23, 2018

he’s really owning the Gavin Belsen resemblance

Was his calling it Pravda some weird irony, or is he just stupid?

if nothing else, musk deserves the guillotine for further encouraging peter daou

https://i.redditmedia.com/CKxDpPvOIhr-Cz5UZgtp9RIzCi_3DZS2uGtZDX0o_IY.jpg?w=1024&s=1cfc619f2506d689b1b300ffafdf9c92

I'm sure the people who are motivated to evaluate the 'truth' of an article will be untainted, dispassionate defenders of 'verity'.

that daou tweet made my day, just beautiful stuff

so he's just putting the struggle to combat lies and fake news with the pure authorized TruthTM "on hold" to work on a book?

this book will be nothing but lies.

I think he might even be lying about working on a book! Oh my gosh.

well well well

May 24 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers International Union (UAW) has filed a complaint accusing Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk of illegally threatening to take away benefits from workers who join the union.

The UAW, which is seeking to represent workers at Tesla’s facility in Fremont, California, filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board late Wednesday.

Musk in a tweet on Monday said there was nothing stopping Tesla workers from joining a union, but “why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”

https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-union/union-accuses-tesla-ceo-musk-of-threatening-workers-idUSL2N1SV1DT

That tweet katherine posted above is my least favorite thing I've seen on the internet this year.

if I had to see it so do you

(texting)