@cstross Elon keeps talking the dumbest shit every time he opens his mouth and everyone just starts throwing money at him without any thinking. Like, anyone remembers stupid Hyperloop? I kept saying that shit cannot ever work from day one and every time I was told he's the genius and I'm the idiot. Well, where's the fucking Hyperloop in every city?

@cstross anyone still falling for elon musk just really wants to fall for elon musk, or just wants *you* to fall for elon musk while they secretly sell, while they can get their money back, plus yours.

@cstross isn't Starship becoming less and less useful as they keep 'iterating' it's development?

That giant cargo capacity keeps on dropping.

@cstross when his other shit starts to break up it's going to be a pretty busy game of billiards

@cstross
I've been thinking about that. I ran across this today, and thought Musk might be able to work it in to his pitch:

http://www.weidai.com/black-holes.txt

@cstross Elon Musk wants datacenters in space because he read Neuromancer once in high school and didn't understand any of it.

@cstross I'd be interested in finding out if Scott Manley got anything wrong here.

His take, as I understand it, is basically (1) the physics makes it complicated but not non-doable, and (2) can't be profitable now but may well be so within the foreseeable future -- making it likely that whoever gets there first, even before it's profitable, stands to make the usual absurd amounts of money (especially if orbital access is never properly regulated) once it does become cheap enough for it to be profitable.

@cstross

"laws of physics say "nope""
But there is a way, figured it out. If "elon" wants the secret then it will cost him the trillion the "board of directors" (doge) .. paid him. 300,000,000 would get a tax refund of $3,333.33

@cstross yup. Tesla is dead, X is basically dead. He needs to create more hype, so here comes the physics breaking con to take more investors money.

@cstross I remember when he claimed his rocket would be on Mars by 2025 and everyone who doesn't know about Space believed him because he's nothing more than a huckster, selling Science Fiction as fact and Journalism not bothering to look beyond the hype.

This man, who was SO keen to visit the Paedo Island....

#ElonMusk #Space #SpaceX #Hustlers #Grifters #ClanOfPaedophiles

@cstross the thing is, the big money knows it's BS or, at least, doesn't care if it's BS. They'll get in early, ride the hype wave and then try to cash out before it all falls apart.

"The stock markets are a way for everyone to participate in owning a company and promote growth." Is nonsense. The markets have become casinos and disconnected from the economy.

@cstross Not to mention it probably arrived as a ketamine induced hallucination.
Or maybe grok predicted it.
He possibly even believes it himself, he's so full of it, it's hard to tell.

@cstross But it's great hype for AI bros and TESCREAL cretins.

@cstross Did he read Singularity Sky and feel he could make that future happen with more computers everywhere?

@cstross Totally agree, also just imagine the many scenarios that will eventually hit constellations like this - e.g. the company goes out of business or they lose device control, organisation gets a viral or c&c trojan, systems operational issues (like bad patch rollout) for example

@cstross

Consider for a moment, though that the real money available to the stock market is with the very largest institutions and the wealthiest people basically Elon Musk‘s class.

People with too much money and nothing else to do with it

You can bet they will also manipulate the federal government into just handing them cash supposedly to do all this crazy stuff kinda like all the money that’s flooding into starship that completely ignores contracted objectives

@cstross Data centers on orbit is the stupidest idea ever.

Perhaps even more stupid than letting a remote LLM control your personal computer 🤦‍♂️

@cstross
Yes… said it in 5 words: “salesman's bullshit, lies for fools”.
#elonMusk

@cstross Starlink might be the only thing one of his companies got right. I've been using one for a while now and it's a game changer when living somewhere remote. I wish we had a suitable EU competitor and not have to contribute to this man's lunacy...

@cstross
Elon is a nazi want a be his ties with trump and epstien is why these ppl are not to be supported

@cstross won't Kessler Syndrome make space launch dead as a business long before that?

@cstross Wild ideas ≠ prospectus

@cstross it's the 'put it in a box and sell it' paradigm, where neither the box nor what goes in it can exist.

He, like the 🍊, depend on the masses who lack learning. Not education: learning.

In the most Twainish of ways.

@cstross

Lying worked for Tesla, so he wants to pull the same thing again.

@cstross scam, like always... Just to keep his stock from collapsing.

@cstross Elon, bullshit? Sir! I request you consider retracting that statement!

@cstross see also: paypal’s original mission and what it became. overpromise, underdeliver, criticise governments, live off government funding. Musk is a charlatan

@cstross I'm pretty sure he also wants his name in the news with stories newer than his email begging Epstein to let him come rape some kids, as if he thinks everyone will forget he's a nonce.

@cstross
After all he Made his statement from Mars
Oh
Did he ?

@cstross It was obvious bollocks (just like hyperloop, the boring company etc…), just I didn’t know why he was boosting it as I didn’t realise he was planning an IPO this year. Tosser.

@cstross Just another reckless person collecting stupid money by selling them snake oil.

@cstross And the announcement timed after he appeared in the epstein files.

Now we're talking about this BS instead..

@cstross and there is the Kessler syndrome to look forward to.

@cstross Bullshit has always been what he excels at.