Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

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Hear hear! Someone call ICE on him.

 

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SpaceX is going public.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is chasing a $1.5 trillion IPO

SpaceX is working toward a mid- to late-2026 IPO that, according to Bloomberg, could raise significantly more than $30 billion at a valuation of about $1.5 trillion. If bankers hit those numbers, it would be the biggest stock-market debut on record, leapfrogging Saudi Aramco’s roughly $29 billion listing in 2019 and dropping a rocket company straight into the same valuation airspace as Meta or Amazon.

I'm not sure I fully get the purpose behind this, but Muskie does seem to be drooling over the idea of building a fleet of space-based data centers, which is going to cost a LOT of money for the infrastructure alone.

 

[Khamon]

The purpose is to put money in his pocket. Everything he says, everything he does, is a prompt for you to give him money. He wants the money; that is all.

 

[Free]

Uh boy.

Elon Musk Says He's Removing 'Sustainable' From Tesla's Mission

The future is "amazing," it's not necessarily sustainable.

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk apparently got “Joy to the World” stuck in his head and decided to change the entire mission of his company because of it. On Christmas Eve, the world’s richest man took to X instead of spending time with his family to declare that he is “changing the Tesla mission wording from: Sustainable Abundance To Amazing Abundance,” explaining, “The latter is more joyful.”

Business Insider suggested that Musk is referencing Tesla’s “master plan” document, which the company published in its fourth edition earlier this year. There are multiple references to “sustainable abundance” within that document, though it never really defines what that means. The closest it comes is calling the company’s efforts to combine “our manufacturing capabilities with our autonomous prowess to deliver new products and services that will accelerate global prosperity and human thriving driven by economic growth shared by all” a form of sustainable abundance, which… almost means something.

Musk took heat at the time for the document being vague and providing no real details or plans for how the company would achieve its goals. Shortly after it dropped, YouTuber Dave Lee (who has “TSLA investor since 2012” in his X bio) posted “The real master plan ought to have more specifics,” which got Musk to reply, “Fair enough. Will add more specifics.” It’s not clear if changing “sustainable” to an even vaguer “Amazing” accomplishes that.

A quote comes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Zaphod Beeblebrox comes to mind...

“That is really amazing. That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.”

 

[Casey Pelous]

Well, I guess Elmo did save us some money. No need to research whether ketamine f*cks you completely up.

 

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I'd like to see more of this, bit from more "mainstream" and more business-focused resources.

Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver

Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.

mashable.com

 

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.

apnews.com

All together now: Awwwww!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Insightful piece on a spat between Musk and the almost equally unlikable budget airline owner, Michael O'Leary

O'Leary Said No. Elon Musk Lost His Mind.

Ryanair, Musk, Trump, Greenland - same instinct, different scales of refusing to hear "no".

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

 

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Actually, it sort of is now!

Elon Musk's SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk's xAI, with plan to build data centers in space | TechCrunch

The merger creates the world's most valuable private company and paves the way for Musk to try and prove out the usefulness of space-based data centers.

techcrunch.com

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Elon Musk in 'extreme pain' after Epstein Island 'wildest parties' disclosure

Billionaire Elon Musk has said he has been 'smeared relentlessly' after emails with Jeffrey Epstein were released by the US DoJ

www.express.co.uk

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

There was a segment on public radio this morning about that merger and some suit from one of the companies was bloviating about how easy cooling will be in space... with the inteviewer just eating it up. Sheesh.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

There was a segment on public radio this morning about that merger and some suit from one of the companies was bloviating about how easy cooling will be in space... with the inteviewer just eating it up. Sheesh.

I'm the vacuum of space, Rapid Depressurization is surprisingly effective at cooling though... Maybe we should be encouraging them. Let hubris thin the billionaire herd a bit more.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

jordan (@jordan@sometimes.social)

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I saw a headline in The Register last week that referred to him as "Sat Nad" and I will never think of him as anything else now

sometimes.social

This post was originally referring to Microslop CEO Satya Nadella, but it occurred to me that this nickname kinda works for Elon as well.

 

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Elon Musk Says 'I Came to My Senses' About Going to Epstein Island

What does that mean, Elon?

gizmodo.com

Come on, Leon. You're the richest man on the planet. Own up to being a pathetic, creepy loser. It's not like we can do anything about it...

 

[Essence Lumin]

Richest man in the world Elon Musk complains his wealth doesn't make him happy

Musk was slammed online for seemingly complaining about his immense wealth

www.irishstar.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Richest man in the world Elon Musk complains his wealth doesn't make him happy

Musk was slammed online for seemingly complaining about his immense wealth

www.irishstar.com

His obscene wealth could make a lot of people very happy... even if all he did with it was fill a barn with it in crumpled hundred dollar bills and leapt into it with a lit match.

(offs.... I spelled it 'lept' and the spell chucker complained. It's archaic?! Fine. LEAPT then. I'm not ready to embrace regularization with 'leaped' yet. Grrrmuttergrumble)

 

[Noodles]

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act

US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law.

arstechnica.com

The National Labor Relations Board abandoned a Biden-era complaint against SpaceX after a finding that the agency does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company. The US labor board said SpaceX should instead be regulated under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations at railroad and airline companies.

The Railway Labor Act is enforced by a separate agency, the National Mediation Board, and has different rules than the National Labor Relations Act enforced by the NLRB.

For example, the Railway Labor Act has an extensive dispute-resolution process that makes it difficult for railroad and airline employees to strike. Employers regulated under the Railway Labor Act are exempt from the National Labor Relations Act.

I guess at this point they are basically an airline. Can't even rid of of Elon on Mars, now trting for maybe the Moon.

 

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The robotaxi experiment continues on experimenting.

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month — 4x worse than humans

Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its “Robotaxi” fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since...

electrek.co

Tesla has reported five new crashes involving its “Robotaxi” fleet in Austin, Texas, bringing the total to 14 incidents since the service launched in June 2025. The newly filed NHTSA data also reveals that Tesla quietly upgraded one earlier crash to include a hospitalization injury, something the company never disclosed publicly.

The irony is that Tesla’s own numbers condemn it. Tesla’s Vehicle Safety Report claims the average American driver experiences a minor collision every 229,000 miles and a major collision every 699,000 miles. By Tesla’s own benchmark, its “Robotaxi” fleet is crashing nearly 4 times more often than what the company says is normal for a regular human driver in a minor collision, and virtually every single one of these miles was driven with a trained safety monitor in the vehicle who could intervene at any moment, which means they likely prevented more crashes that Tesla’s system wouldn’t have avoided.

Using NHTSA’s broader police-reported crash average of roughly one per 500,000 miles, the picture is even worse, Tesla’s fleet is crashing at approximately 8 times the human rate.

 

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Proof?! How dare they demand proof!!

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge.

arstechnica.com

Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok.

In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI’s motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed to provide evidence of any misconduct from OpenAI.

Instead, xAI seemed fixated on a range of alleged conduct of former employees. But in assessing xAI’s claims, Lin said that xAI failed to show proof that OpenAI induced any of these employees to steal trade secrets “or that these former xAI employees used any stolen trade secrets once employed by OpenAI.”