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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His AI Start-Up xAI
The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion - down from the $44 billion Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, but higher than the recent $12 billion valuation by X investor Fidelity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/technology/musk-x-xai.html
The Ugly American:
> The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #MAGA #SouthEastAsia
So, Trump announced a bunch of tariffs today. Basically everybody but Russia.
But then there is 15-30 % for everybody. But Lesotho? Fuck Lesotho in particular, apparently. 50% tariffs.
Just by a super coincidence, seems like Starlink is trying to get a contract in Lesotho and having some difficulties. Clearly unrelated.
#Tariffs #Trump #ElonMusk #Tesla ##Twitter #SpaceX #politics
#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:
Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract
#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.
#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ula-expected-clinch-multibillion-dollar-contract-key-pentagon-launch-2025-04-04/
https://youtu.be/lAmhbchfxDA
🔴🇺🇸Another Victim Of Musk’s DOGE Chainsaw: What The GOPs silencing of ‘Voice of America’ means for listeners worldwide | 60 minutes (CBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #VoA #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #BoycottX #Tesla #Musk #ElonMusk #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
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Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-starship-explosions-uk-turks-caicos-faa-launches?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SpaceX #Starship #UK #Britain #ElonMusk #Musk #FAA #Aviation #Space
Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X
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Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Musk while serving in the Department of Government Efficiency, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Good piece. #elonmusk is such a grifter.
“The lesson here is that SpaceX somehow needs to make Starship significantly more robust and lighter by well over a hundred tonnes if it is to conduct even one successful mission, let alone achieve constant reuse — which, let’s be clear, is basically impossible. All flight 9 has proven is just how much of a dead end Starship is.”
#Trump & #ElonMusk’s alliance dissolved into open acrimony on Thurs, as the 2 men hurled personal attacks at each other after the billionaire had unleashed broadsides against Trump’s signature domestic policy bill.
While meeting with Friedrich Merz, Germany’s new chancellor, in the Oval Office, Trump broke days of uncharacteristic silence & unloaded on Musk, who until last week was a top presidential adviser.
Last weekend, Elon Musk shared some images on his X platform that he claimed had been created by the Grok AI system. They were actually just edits of original work by Australian artist Charles Brooks, a former concert cellist who is known for photographing the insides of instruments. An X user named Eric Jiang had run some of these through Grok, adding people to the original photos so they look like buildings. Musk retweeted the post with the comment "Generate images with @Grok." @404mediaco's Matthew Gault spoke with Brooks. “I feel like, if he’s plugging his own AI software, he has a duty of care to make sure that what he’s posting is actually attributed correctly and is properly his,” he said. “But ‘duty of care’ and Musk are not words that seem to go together well recently.”
#Art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #Grok #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CharlesBrooks #ElonMusk
#SpaceX Loses Control of #Starship, Adding to #Spacecraft’s *Mixed* Record
Much was riding on Flight 9 for #ElonMusk’s giant moon & #Mars rocket after debris from January & March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting #AirTravel.
#fail
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/science/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-mars.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FCD748A2-B4FE-4B39-A06C-A6FB2DF716B6
"Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report"
I think this might be criminal...
Elon Musk gutted the federal government, dismantled key institutions, and cut off food and medicine to some of the poorest people on the planet.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musks-reputation-must-be-beyond
#Musk Spread #Lies to Justify #DOGE Takeover of #SocialSecurity
#ElonMusk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin rally in March & rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the #SocialSecurityAdministration. Scammers, he said, were making 40% of all calls to the agency’s customer service line.
#SSA employees knew the claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff began drafting a response correcting the record.
#Trump #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.DsQY.bU9UxVr8hOIf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #ElonMusk #Musk #Email #Journalism #FOIA #GregAbbott
⛔️⚠️Billionaire South African A Major US Security Risk: Musk given top-secret access and now has all American’s personal data may defect to Russia (more)
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-party-asks-asylum-for-musk/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk #Musk #ElonMusk #Mastodon #Tesla #X #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine
Exclusive: Tesla's #BrandLoyalty collapsed after #Musk backed #Trump, data shows
Tesla for years had more repeat US customers than any other major automotive brand but its loyalty has plunged since #ElonMusk endorsed Trump last summer, acc/to data from research firm S&P Global Mobility shared exclusively w/Reuters.
#BadBusiness #business
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-brand-loyalty-collapsed-after-musk-backed-trump-data-shows-2025-08-04/
We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.
#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia
A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order & its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
#power #corruption #oligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/
Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
#News #Environment #Aviation #SpaceX #Space #ElonMusk #Regulation #Trump
For months, #ElonMusk’s U.S. #DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said were guiding his hunt for waste. Now that #Musk has stepped away from his government role, some of that data could be valuable in another way — by giving the world’s richest man a competitive advantage over his rivals in the private sector.
#Trump #law #corruption #broligarchy
https://wapo.st/44yQIS6
Elon Musk’s lobbyists spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials this year.
But, in most cases, state transparency laws do not require them to disclose which elected officials they wine and dine.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ElonMusk #Texas #Law #SpaceX #Tesla #Government #Business #Musk