#News from 02023 about #Elmu turning off #Starlink at some earlier time to thwart an attack by #Ukraine: “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” Musk wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.” Reporter Brad Dress writes: “Musk was concerned about Russia responding to the naval attack with a nuclear weapon, Isaacson wrote in the book, according to CNN. Ukrainian officials begged him to turn the service back on, but he declined to do it for the Crimea incident.”
on 02026-08-10John Quiggin is pretty down on #Elmu and by extension on the #USA.
on 02026-06-17#Elmu’s #xAI company is getting sued for burning too much methane in Memphis, supposedly polluting the neighborhood
on 02026-06-15#Terafab site is currently just a website version of #Elmu’s talk
on 02026-04-11#Tesla’s announcement earlier this week of the "Terafab", its own chip fab (?!) in Austin, touted as “the largest ever”. Claims #SpaceX now launches 90% of global mass to orbit and has now landed rockets 500 times. #Elmu calls his orbital data centers "AIsat" and says that each is 100kW (“minisat”), with 1MW hoped for, and that’s what the Terafab is for: producing a terawatt of compute per year, 50x current global production. They want to River-Rouge it, with mask making, chip fabrication, packaging, and test under one roof, for logic or memory (but maybe not Flash?). He points out that on-orbit insolation is 5x what it is on the ground (if you’re in a sun-synchronous orbit I guess) and you don’t need glass or framing to protect the cells. A render of a mass-driver launch of something from the moon draws cheers.
on 02026-04-11#news from last February about #USAID and how #Elmu was shutting it down with #DOGE
on 02026-01-06#news from June about how #Elmu had, and #pmarca has, a lot of influence on #USA #politics via #Trump, following #cryptocurrency clashes with #Biden
on 02026-01-06#Elmu opposes #Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which hasn’t passed the #USA Senate yet. #politics
on 02025-06-05#video #humor #music #politics of a rap satire song with #Elmu, #Trump, Sam Altman, etc.
on 02025-05-01#video #news on #Elmu criticizing #Trump #tariffs and also personally attacking Peter Navarro: “He ain’t built shit.”
on 02025-04-07#USA #politics #humor #news #video mentioning #Elmu leaving #Trump’s administration
on 02025-04-02#news #video saying #Elmu resigned from #DOGE (pure talking-head filler) #politics #USA
on 02025-03-31#video by #Asmongold on #Elmu and his radical shift to hard right-wing #politics and the Tesla boycotts. #USA
on 02025-03-06#Elmu’s “presidency” is “just getting started” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06“BRILLIANT” #HIV vaccine clinical trial in #South-Africa is among the programs halted by #Elmu’s shutdown of #USAID #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06#politics #news: federal judge bars #Elmu from access to #USA Treasury disbursements data
on 02025-02-06#Elmu’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman wasn’t a Nazi but was a racist, anti-Semitic supporter of apartheid. #history #politics
on 02025-02-03#Elmu is actually a neo-Nazi now, endorsing #AfD in #Germany #politics. “Musk (...) was met with roars of applause from the more than 4,000 attendees gathered in the German city of Halle as he appeared on screen at a rally for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
“I think you really are the best hope for Germany,” Musk told them.
Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chair and candidate for chancellor of Germany’s AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob Kaiser House in Berlin, on Thursday.
Musk was introduced by party co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whom he endorsed and praised effusively during a more than hour-long conversation live-streamed earlier this month on X, the social media platform he owns.”
on 02025-02-03#video of #pmarca saying it’s “morning again” in #USA #politics due to #Trump, 74 minutes. I didn’t realize Al Gore sponsored the legislation that created NSFNET; I thought his advocacy started with the com-priv era.
He mentions the end of Chevron deference, which he argues means that executive agencies should abandon their quasi-legislative functions. He also questions the idea of “independent agencies” in the executive branch, like the FTC and NRC. The interviewer, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, argues that the CFPB's director not being fireable by the president is “unconstitutional on the face of it”, prefiguring the Slaughter verdict (I’m writing these notes in 02026).
Cites #Yarvin approvingly at 25'54" saying that we’re 80 years into FDR’s personal monarchy.
Also mentions #Elmu has been “living at” Mar-a-Lago.
Also mentions the #history of Nixon’s “Project Independence”, which I hadn’t heard of, to build 1000 #nuclear #energy power stations in the US, which turns out to be at best a very incomplete description of Project Independence.
Describes #Anduril’s original business plan as “We have to invest in this company, and his business plan is to hunt Mexicans at the southern border in 2016. And we’re just like, oh, God, we just basically have a heart attack.” So Andreessen Horowitz didn’t invest, and Trump didn’t want Anduril to do it, so they switched to military systems, which became accepted in Silicon Valley with the tragedy in #Ukraine.
Robinson claims that the US’s “only sustainable advantage over the Chinese is going to be technological innovation”, since they’re more numerous and richer, which doesn't make sense to me — how are they richer if they’re dumber, as he’s implying? Pmarca doesn’t disagree, citing the Pentagon’s new COO, Steve Feinberg, as someone who can make this happen.
At 56'40" he says the Ukrainian sea drones are built out of commercial jetskis.
At 60'40" pmarca makes the very reasonable points that productivity growth in the US has been low since about 01970, and that low growth creates zero-sum economics, which creates zero-sum politics, “where the only way for anybody to get anything is to take it away from somebody else.”
on 02025-01-29hagiographic #Elmu #video #toread from 11 years ago
on 02024-10-15flattering #video by former employees on what it's like to work for #elmu
on 02024-09-17#video #elmu complaining about government #bureaucracy. Claims most of #SpaceX’s revenue is commercial, not from the government. Likens Boeing’s former CEO to a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse.
on 02024-09-16Grimes sues #elmu to see her kids. #politics
on 02024-07-28#Thunderf00t #video attacking mostly #elmu, though oddly enough mostly for #SpaceX
on 02024-07-07#video on Elon Musk recommending Linux because of #Microsoft-Recall #paranoia mostly consisting of stock footage of people using terminal emulators to do irrelevant things. Doesn’t actually talk much about #elmu, but does repeatedly show the Joe Rogan footage of him smoking pot. Waste of time.
on 02024-06-05