Will Musk be the next Trump?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Shelling out significant chunks of money to get Trump into office again, Musk continues to demonstrate his own mountebankery.

'The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise'

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show.

It’s obvious when you watch the videos from the event, of course. If Optimus really was a fully autonomous machine that could immediately react to verbal and visual cues while talking, one-on-one, to human beings in a dimly lit crowd, that would be mind-blowing.

Attendee Robert Scoble posted that he’d learned humans were “remote assisting” the robots, later clarifying that an engineer had told him the robots used AI to walk, spotted Electrek. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote that the robots “relied on tele-ops (human intervention)” in a note, the outlet reports.

[JimC]

Shades of the Mechanical Turk...

[Brian Peacock]

Musk's future is a confabulation of lies.

His present isn't much better.

[Tero]

We are all voting for Musk to get into his SpaceX capsule to Mars. And take Trump with him. They can take Melania and share her.

[NineBerry]

Thunderf00t has a take on Musk

[L'Emmerdeur]

Leniency and 'gray area' for Musk but fuck you and deportation for anybody else. He'll happily tell lies to help along that project. He's found his home at Trump's side--vicious P.O.S. the pair of them.

'Elon Musk, enemy of "open borders", launched his career working illegally'

Long before he became one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors and campaign surrogates, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching a graduate studies programme in California, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by the Washington Post.

Musk in recent months has amplified the Republican presidential candidate’s claims that “open borders” and undocumented immigrants are destroying America, broadcasting those views to more than 200 million followers on the site formerly known as Twitter, which Musk bought in 2022 and later renamed X.

What Musk has not publicly disclosed is that he did not have the legal right to work while building the company that became Zip2, which sold for about US$300 million ($500m) in 1999. It was Musk’s stepping stone to Tesla and the other ventures that have made him the world’s wealthiest person – and arguably America’s most successful immigrant.

[Tero]

Deport him! No Einstein visa.

[Sean Hayden]

Thunderf00t has a take on Musk

--meh, seems too smart, overthought. He probably just feels hard done by. He's mad at woke.

[Brian Peacock]

Radio waves from Elon Musk’s growing network of satellites are blocking scientists’ ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands.

The new generation of Starlink satellites, which provide fast internet around the world, are interfering more with radio telescopes than earlier versions, they say.

The thousands of orbiting satellites are “blinding” radio telescopes and may be hindering astronomical research, according to Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo.amp

[NineBerry]

Well, we can just study space from Mars when Musk has started colonizing it next year or so.

[Tero]

NYT runs a Musk story. He's like a mormon. He has a compound.

Three mansions, three mothers, 11 children and one secretive, multibillionaire father who obsesses about declining birthrates when he isn’t overseeing one of his six companies: It’s an unconventional situation.

The New York Times reports Musk has told those close to him that he wants his children and two of their mothers on these properties, so his younger children can be close to one another and Musk can more easily spend time with them. Sources close to the Texas billionaire told the Times the new properties are about a 10-minute walk from the Austin mansion he usually stays in.

Musk and Justin Wilson had five other children using in vitro fertilization: Vivian Jenna (who changed her name and gender in 2022), Griffin, Kai, Saxon and Damian. Vivian and Griffin are twins born in 2004, and Kai, Saxon and Damian are triplets born in 2006.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/st ... 935526007/

[NineBerry]

Lifestyle of a prophet.

[aufbahrung]

Would have come a cropper as a cult leader if he'd not be born with that extra brain and loaded dice.

[Sean Hayden]

[Brian Peacock]

That's very good.