Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

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Hear hear! Someone call ICE on him.

 

[Free]

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.

 

[Free]

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