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Entries by Mark Devlin

27 Nov, 2024

Musk accuses Vindman of ‘treason’

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Musk reacts to a clip of Vindman accusing Musk of divulging state secrets to Vladimir Putin, saying:

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty.

25 Nov, 2024

Musk criticises F-35 builders against drone swarms

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Referencing a viral video of a large-scale, coordinated, drone swarms, Musk says:

Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35

Followed with a series of replies to X comments :

It’s a shit design…The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.

Crewed fighter jets are an inefficient way to extend the range of missiles or drop bombs. A reusable drone can do so without all the overhead of a human pilot. And fighter jets will be shot down very quickly if the opposing force has sophisticated SAM or drones, as shown by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard .

Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!

Lottery case dropped

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Philadelphia DA Krasner drops his legal case against Musk and America PAC.

Kindly mark this case Discontinued and Ended as to all parties without prejudice, with all parties bearing their own costs.

24 Nov, 2024

Musk confirms X link post deprioritization

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After Graham complains that the deprioritization of links in X posts:

The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter’s biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I’m used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.

Musk responds:

Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.

22 Nov, 2024

Musk, Trump Jr discuss buying MSNBC

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Quoting a post from an account that claims MSNBC has been put up for sale by Comcast, because “lying non-stop to your audience is a lousy business model,” Donald Trump Jr tags Musk, saying:

Hey Elon Musk I have the funniest idea ever!!!

In response, Musk writes:

How much does it cost?…The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely.

24 Nov, 2024

Musk: UK is ‘tyrannical police state’

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In response to a post about an online petition that is circulation in the UK, asking for a new General Election to out Labour, Musk says:

The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.

19 Nov, 2024

Musk to Jaguar: Do you even sell cars?

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Musk responds to Jaguar’s new branding advert:

Do you even sell cars?

To which the company replies:

Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar

Musk:

I look forward to seeing your new vehicle lineup.

21 Nov, 2024

Bezos: Musk’s ‘sell Tesla, SpaceX’ claim ‘100% not true’

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In response to Musk’s claim that Bezos said Trump would win and that people should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock:

Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock

Bezos responds, saying it is not true:

Nope. 100% not true.

Musk then says he stands corrected:

Well, then, I stand corrected

17 Nov, 2024

Jones thanks Musk for helping restore Infowars

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Jones says Musk is helping him to stop Infowars being sold to The Onion, after Musk’s lawyers filed a notice of appearance at the bankruptcy court.

The only individual that’s done more to expose tyranny, promote liberty and team humanity, in my lifetime, who even begins to rival Donald Trump, is Elon Musk. Everything he’s done has been devastating to tyrants and corrupt institutions and has fabulously positive for freedom for the average person. So I wanted to take a moment out to thank Elon Musk. And to specifically point out that he send his lawyers to Houston in my corporate bankruptcy case.

19 Nov, 2024

Trump, Cruz attend Starship launch with Musk

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President-elect Trump, along with Cruz, attend the test launch of Starship 6. Trump is the first US president to attend a Starship launch. Before arriving, Trump posted:

I’m heading to the Great State of Texas to watch the launch of the largest object ever to be elevated, not only to Space, but simply by lifting off the ground. Good luck to @ElonMusk and the Great Patriots involved in this incredible project!

Starship 6 Test

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SpaceX conducts its sixth test of Super Heavy booster (Booster 13) and Starship (Ship 31) at Starbase, Texas. The test focusses on operational improvements, including experiments with the heat shield, flying the spacecraft at a steeper reentry angle to gather data on thermal protection system performance. The flight carried a banana as payload. After a successful launch and hot-stage separation, the Booster was diverted to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of being caught by the Mechazilla arms. Ship 31 reignited one of its Raptor engines in space, and after a flight of 1hr 5 mins completed its splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Musk:

Successful ocean landing of Starship! We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower.

18 Nov, 2024

Musk: ‘Britain is going full Stalin’

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Musk says the UK Government of going “full Stalin” by increasing inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. Sharing a Guardian article on the plan, he says:

Britain is going full Stalin

Asked for a response to Mr Musk’s criticisms, a government spokesperson says:

[We will not] get into a back and forth on individual comments. We will continue to engage with the industry and explain how the process works, and it remains the case that we expect the vast majority to be unaffected by the changes.

14 Nov, 2024

Starlink to be used on Scottish Highland trains

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Starlink will provide internet access on ScotRail’s Far North Line, between Inverness, Thurso, and Wick, in the Scottish Highlands, through a partnership with Clarus Networks Group, making it the first railway operator in the world to use Starlink for this purpose. Starlink will also monitor train performance and safety systems. Clarus:
This solution offers reliable, high-speed connectivity even in remote locations, supporting real-time monitoring and immediate response crucial for track condition assessments and fault diagnosis. Enhanced safety systems, such as surveillance at unmanned crossings, significantly mitigate risks and improve incident response times.
Musk:
Cool
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1857046018547741116
18 Nov, 2024

Report: Musk, Epshteyn clash

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Musk has reportedly clashed with Epshteyn, a longterm Trump advisor. Sources say that, at a dinner table in front of other guests at Mar-a-Lago, Musk accused Epshteyn of leaking details of Trump’s transition — including personnel picks — to the media. Epshteyn responded by telling Musk that he didn’t know what he was talking about. Musk ahs also questioned whether Epshteyn has had too much influence in Trump’s selections, especially his Justice Department picks and the White House counsel.

15 Nov, 2024

xAI raising $6bn to buy 100k Nvidia chips

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Sources say xAI is raising up to $6 billion – $5 billion expected from sovereign funds in the Middle East and $1 billion from other investors – at a $50 billion valuation. The money will be used to acquire 100,000 Nvidia chips. Tesla’s Full Self Driving is expected to rely on the Memphis supercomputer.

17 Nov, 2024

Janja to Musk: F–ck you!

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Speaking at an event ahead of the Rio de Janeiro summit of the G20 group of largest nations, Brazil’s First Lady Janja Lula da Silva speaks about the importance of regulating social media to curb misinformation. As a ship’s horn sounded, she says:

I think it’s Elon Musk. I’m not afraid of you, f*** you, Elon Musk.

Musk responds with laughing emojis:

They will lose the next election

Trump, Musk, cabinet nominees attend UFC 309

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Trump, Musk, along with several cabinet nominees, attend UFC 309 at Maddison Square Garden, New York. Trump waves to fans, who chant “USA” as he walks to the octagon, before dancing as the UFC plays footage celebrating his election victory over Kamala Harris.

After Jones wins his bout against Stipe Miocic, he greets Trump, and hands the president-elect his championship belt.

I want to say a big thank you to President Donald Trump for being here tonight.

16 Nov, 2024

Senators Reed, Shaheen want Musk Russia contact probe

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Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior Democrat on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees send a letter (link) to Attorney General Garland and Defence Department Inspector General Storch asking for a proble into Musk’s contact with Russian officials.

We write with serious concern regarding open source reporting detailing conversations between Russian officials and the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk. On October 25, the Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Musk had multiple, high level conversations with Russian President Vladmir Putin as early as 2022, and sustained contact with high-level Russian officials, including Putin’s deputy chief of staff, Sergei Kiriyenko.1 At the same time, Mr. Musk asserts that he holds a Top Secret level security clearance. These relationships between a well-known U.S. adversary and Mr. Musk, a beneficiary of billions of dollars in U.S. government funding, pose serious questions regarding Mr. Musk’s reliability as a government contractor and a clearance holder. We urgently call upon the U.S. government to open an investigation up to and including a determination by the senior debarment official of the Department of Defense, consistent with section 4654 of title 10 United States Code, to determine whether this behavior should force a review of Mr. Musk’s continued involvement in SpaceX’s varying contracts with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

Over a series of posts Musk reacts:

I’m going to find out who’s making these accusations and nuke them. [Shaheen and Reed] are just the puppets. Who actually wrote this and made those knuckleheads sign it?

15 Nov, 2024

Musk adds Microsoft, Hoffman, to OpenAI lawsuit

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Musk files an amendment to a lawsuit filed in a California court in August, adding Microsoft and Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, to the complaint of operating a monopoly. OpenAI:

[Mr Musk’s refreshed complaint is] baseless. Elon’s third attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims is even more baseless and overreaching than the previous ones.