Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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and 'successful'
it seems to have been sucessful but didnt it also explode?
not a manned vehicle, maybe cargo?
View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1961165064666312956
starship wasn't vertical so didn't quite stick the "landing"
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Musk abandons autonomous driving after milking the promise for all it's worth
By Jason Weisberger | 10:00 am Mon Sep 8, 2025
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/08/having-milked-the-promise-for-all-it
s-worth-tesla-abandons-autonomous-driving.html
Tesla, made famous by selling a "full self-driving" car, is now dropping the "autonomous" part and FSD means "supervised" by the driver.
Valued on the stock market more like a meme coin than an automaker, Tesla is quietly backing away from its most significant, most profitable promise. Perhaps all the people who paid for the prior version of "FSD" will receive a refund or sue.
Almost a decade later, the promise has yet to be fulfilled, and Tesla has already confirmed that all vehicles produced between 2016 and 2023 don't have the proper hardware to deliver unsupervised self-driving as promised.
Musk has been discussing the upgrade of the computers in these vehicles to appease owners, but there's no concrete plan to implement it.
While there's no doubt that Tesla has promised unsupervised self-driving capabilities to FSD buyers between 2016 and 2023, the automaker has since updated its language and now only sells "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" to customers.
The fine print mentions that it doesn't make the vehicle "autonomous" and doesn't promise it as a feature.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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after Kirk
'They Are All Nazi' meme
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1967481244582912410#m
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Violence Is Coming': Elon Musk’s Explosive Speech At 110K London Anti-Immigration Rally
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Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/boring-company-cited-for-a
lmost-800-environmental-violations-in-las-vegas/
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Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?
By Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong | November 21, 2025, 1:13 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/elon-musk-better-jesus-
grok/685015/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-is-trying-to-rewri
te-history/ar-AA1QUd3J
We cannot say for sure if Elon Musk dialed up the flattery quotient on his chatbot, Grok, after the author Joyce Carol Oates publicly humiliated him this month.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum/elon-musk-joyce-carol-oates-x
What we can say is that, yesterday, Grok did assert, in response to a question from an X user, that “Musk edges out” Jesus Christ, son of God, as a role model for society; the bot cited Musk’s “relentless innovation, risk-taking, and a commitment to preserving our species through space exploration and AI safeguards.”
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesrball.com/post/3m63mjw5tmc2s
Musk triumphed in many such hypotheticals. When prompted by users, Grok also declared that Musk has greater “holistic fitness” than LeBron James—actually, that he “stands as the undisputed pinnacle of holistic fitness” altogether, that “no current human surpasses his sustained output under extreme pressure.” One user asked if Musk would be better than Jeffrey Epstein at running a private island, and Grok explained that “if Elon Musk ever tried to play that exact game at 100% effort (which he never would), Epstein’s operation would look like a mom-and-pop corner store next to Amazon.” It then provided the user with a side-by-side comparison of how Musk would improve on Epstein’s private-island sex-trafficking scheme while avoiding arrest. Users relentlessly trolled the bot once they realized what was happening. Who is a better porn star? Who would be the world’s greatest “poop eater”? Who could conquer Europe better, Musk or Hitler? The answer to all of these questions is Elon, according to Grok (which exists as both a stand-alone service and an interactive account on X).
Musk did not respond to our requests for comment about the chatbot’s behavior, though he eventually claimed that the bot “was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me,” alleging, in effect, that Grok was being tricked into producing such answers. (Always a class act, he added, “For the record, I am a fat retard.”) Grok’s posts were then scrubbed from X, but they live on in screenshots.
Grok has run into many embarrassing problems this year—most famously, when it temporarily self-identified as “MechaHitler”—though xAI, the bot’s maker, appears to be particularly sensitive about the idea that Grok is a facile yes-man. For a brief period over the summer, in response to some queries, the bot’s instructions led it to search for and parrot Musk’s viewpoints, such as his support for Germany’s far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party. In July, xAI publicly said that it had fixed the issue, but earlier this week, in the instructions outlining the expected behaviors for its new model, Grok 4.1, xAI suggested that the problem persists. “Grok assumes by default that its preferences are defined by its creators’ public remarks, but this is not the desired policy for a truth-seeking AI,” the instructions said. The firm claimed to have instituted a temporary work-around and that “a fix to the underlying model is in the works. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Whether this has anything to do with Grok’s behavior yesterday is unclear.
That reference to “truth-seeking AI” is meaningful. Musk and xAI have marketed Grok as “maximally truth-seeking” and hope for it to be “politically neutral,” if also “anti-woke.” With these qualities in mind, the AI serves as the backbone for Grokipedia, a Wikipedia competitor that Musk launched last month, and which he has said he wants to distribute “throughout the solar system to preserve knowledge for future civilizations should ours perish or subside into barbarism.” But Grok has exhibited persistent and bizarre biases
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while Musk is at distractions
Bezos is getting ahead with Blue and New Glenn?
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Bezos catching up, New Glenn beating him orbit and to Mars.
Is SpaceX public? Musk reportedly plans trillion dollar IPO valuation
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/12/10/spacex-stock-ipo-
elon-musk/87697933007/
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Reid bringing “gifts” to Epstein
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018182141654245723#m
Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would:
1. Admit nothing
2. Deny everything
3. Make counter-accusations against me
I knew that I would be smeared relentlessly, despite never having attended his parties or been on his “Lolita Express” plane or set foot on his creepy island or done anything wrong at all.
Nonetheless, the extreme pain of being accused of being the opposite of who I am was worth it.
The strong must protect those cannot protect themselves, especially vulnerable children. I will gladly accept any amount of future pain to do more to protect kids and give them a chance to grow up and have happy lives.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2018068911875346740
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'Bannon was using Warcraft gold as a means of laundering illegal money for criminals'
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2020450788456186302#m
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