The Elon Musk Thread

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who are these people?

[wjfox]

who are these people?

It's completely fake news, and anyone who keeps posting this sort of content from dubious Twitter accounts will get a warning point from now on.

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who are these people?

It's completely fake news, and anyone who keeps posting this sort of content from dubious Twitter accounts will get a warning point from now on.

I just thought it was an interesting topic to think about. I wasn't paying attention to who it was. It is possible that spacex was part of the government and in the 1990's nasa did have a rocket that could in fact do some of these things. I feel it was a major mistake not to continue on that.

I guess I won't be allowed to post anything outside of mainstream news on this board. This board will lose a lot of insight and pictures...

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I just thought it was an interesting topic to think about. I wasn't paying attention to who it was. It is possible that spacex was part of the government and in the 1990's nasa did have a rocket that could in fact do some of these things. I feel it was a major mistake not to continue on that.

I guess I won't be allowed to post anything outside of mainstream news on this board. This board will lose a lot of insight and pictures...

SpaceX was never a NASA program, and Elon Musk didn't buy it from the government. He founded it privately in 2002.

Non-mainstream sources are fine, as long as their content is verified and fact-checked before you post them. There are plenty of resources online for doing this. See e.g. Snopes, Full Fact, factcheck.org, Wikipedia.

Please be more careful next time. This isn't the first time you've spread misinformation, and it could hurt our SEO when you do that.

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Musk Hits Out at his Own Creation for Embarrassing Him
By Adam Nichols
June 23, 2025

Introduction:

(Raw Story) Elon Musk is having a full-blown meltdown over his own artificial intelligence creation turning against him—and his solution is straight out of an Orwellian nightmare.

The world's richest man announced plans to completely rewrite human knowledge itself after his AI chatbot Grok kept spitting out inconvenient truths that clash with his far-right worldview.

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," the Tesla CEO proclaimed on his X platform.

He then added there was “far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

It comes after a series of embarrassing AI blunders that left Musk red-faced. Grok falsely confirmed Musk had bragged about stealing White House aide Stephen Miller's wife—a particularly awkward error that went viral. The AI also delivered facts about right-wing violence being "more frequent and deadly" than left-wing extremism in America.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/far- ... 1&ei=24

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Key Member of Musk’s DOGE Resigns From Government

https://archive.ph/NcoAC

(it's coristine)

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Trump Threatens to Launch DOGE Investigation Into Elon Musk, Send Billionaire 'Back Home to South Africa'

Source: MEDIAite

Jul 1st, 2025, 6:13 am

President Donald Trump has threatened to launch a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) investigation into its former chief Elon Musk after Musk tore into Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and called for the creation of a third party.

“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,” Trump wrote Trump (sic) in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.”

He added: “Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”

Trump made the post just hours after Musk attacked the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” and threw his support behind the creation of a third party to challenge the Republicans. “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” wrote Musk. “Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/tru ... th-africa/

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Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
By Lauren McGaughy
July 3, 2025

Introduction:

(ProPublica) Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies, which typically employ dozens of people to represent them. But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.

Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

His lobbyists, who represented Tesla, SpaceX and the social media giant X Corp., spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials and others during the session, according to an analysis of state ethics data. In most cases, Texas transparency laws do not require lobbyists to disclose which politicians they wined and dined or on behalf of which clients.

Read more here: https://www.propublica.org/article/elo ... ence-law

Of related interest: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon ... cex-tesla

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Tesla opens retro-futuristic diner as Elon Musk hints at more locations

The Tesla Diner & Drive-In, a long-awaited and hyped facility that combines retro nostalgia and futurism with the automaker’s fast-charging network, officially opened at 4:20 p.m. on Monday in Hollywood, California.

The Tesla Diner & Drive-In is technically a place for Tesla drivers to charge their EVs and maybe get hamburgers, hot dogs, or other classic diner menu items (which Eater shared in full). The diner, according to Not a Tesla App, is loaded with Tesla-branded merchandise, an Optimus robot, and two 45-foot LED movie screens — clearly hoping to attract more than just Tesla owners.

It’s too early to tell if the diner, which boasts 80 v4 Supercharger stalls and a drive-in movie theater that syncs with speakers inside a driver’s Tesla, will become an enduring fixture of Hollywood. The long lines of people who queued up Monday morning suggests it will attract crowds for a while, however.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/tesla ... locations/

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Senate Report Finds DOGE Wasted Tens of Billions While Chainsawing the Government in the Name of 'Efficiency'
By Stephen Prager
July 31, 2025

Introduction:

(Common Dreams) The Department of Government Efficiency wasn't so efficient after all. In fact, it was extraordinarily wasteful, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Senate's investigations subcommittee.

When Elon Musk spent the early part of this year ransacking the federal government, the billionaire promised that his mass layoffs of federal employees, his choking off of critical foreign aid, and his gutting of consumer watchdogs all served a greater purpose: saving the government—and by extension, the American people—money by rooting out waste.

Musk is already known to have wildly exaggerated the amount that his initiative was saving the public. Government spending in 2025 has been higher than previous years despite Musk's dramatic cuts.

Meanwhile, some analyses after the fact have estimated that the initiatives might actually cost taxpayers money in the long run by slashing funds for tax collection and other forms of spending that increase economic activity.

Conclusion:

As economics writer Maia Mindel summarized in a post on X: "Okay, yeah, so DOGE was illegal and didn't cancel any big-ticket items and also it didn't increase government efficiency and it lied about all its accomplishments and also none of its staff were even remotely qualified. But at least a million Africans died. Take that, libs."

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/doge ... billions

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