The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

[Dekafox]

Tesla stockholders are gonna be loving this:

Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation

Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his...

electrek.co

And Musk having a broken clock moment:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-made-direct-appeals-trump-reverse-new-tariffs-washington-post-reports-2025-04-08/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/EqWCA

 

[Pocket]

Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins

Tesla can't find buyers for the current backlog of nearly 2,400, or $200 million worth of Cybertrucks, despite claiming over a million orders were received.

autos.yahoo.com

I have a seriously hard time believing that anywhere close to a million people wanted to buy this monstrosity. Either Tesla made up that number, or a bunch of trolls placed those (hopefully deposit-free) preorders with the deliberate plan to ghost them afterwards.

 

[Dekafox]

From Financial Times, Musk firing the people who were regularing his self-driving missles cars

 

[Paladin]

Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes

City officials have disabled crosswalk voice announcement features, for now.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Dekafox]

When Elon Musk Hears About Lives He's Destroyed, He Reportedly Responds With Laugh-Cry Emojis

According to Rolling Stone, Elon Musk has been reacting with laugh-crying emojis to reports of federal staffers' lives being upended.

futurism.com

 

[KidTDragon]

Whoever wants to be the next Luigi Mangione, there's your target.

 

[Pocket]

Preferably before his meatshield grows tall enough to block a headshot.

 

[Dekafox]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

Article about a whistleblower revealing DOGE turning off monitoring and logging tools at the National Labor Relations agency, trying to hide their tracks, and one of the staffers tried to log in from a Russian IP.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/

Aside from that kind of thing seeming like the opposite of "government efficiency"

In an unusual twist, SpaceX has proposed setting up its role in Golden Dome as a "subscription service" in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright.
The subscription model, which has not been previously reported, could skirt some Pentagon procurement protocols allowing the system to be rolled out faster, the two sources said. While the approach would not violate any rules, the government may then be locked into a subscription and lose control over its ongoing development and pricing, they added.

Musk wants to own a network of missile-and/or-laser-equipped satellites?

 

[abates]

It would be maybe 5 minutes before someone pissed Musk off on Twitter and he hit their house with a missile strike from orbit.

 

[Dekafox]

DOGE found the Internet Archive grants. https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/

 

[Pocket]

Musk wants to own a network of missile-and/or-laser-equipped satellites?

The mere fact that they're capable of building and deploying them at all should have been a red flag. Of course, this being SpaceX, "capable" is being generous.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

There's an even chance they'll hit the wrong target entirely, but then again, Musk is a sociopath, so he won't care.

 

[Pocket]

All things considered, between the US government having control over them and Elon having control over them, missing their intended target couldn't be any worse than hitting it.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Everything about this story is horrible. Richest man in the world wants to own a missile shield and offer it to the government as a subscription service? Horrible. The Pentagon's procurement system is so hugged that this idea might actually make sense? Horrible.

 

[wonko the sane?]

No, it doesn't. It only makes sense if someone in that chain of procurement is actively trying to suck up to musk and trump. The US military isn't going to share access to a weapon system with anyone, not another country, not a private corporation.

 

[Pocket]

The US military has shared its responsibilities and resources with private contractors plenty of times. What do you think Blackwater was?

 

[NovaSaber]

Page by Matt Johansen | @mattjay.com

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins wi...

skywriter.blue

The most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.

 

[wonko the sane?]

The US military has shared its responsibilities and resources with private contractors plenty of times. What do you think Blackwater was?

Yeah, but it was always the military in control, and the contractor getting access. The US military is never the contractor.

 

[Axaday]

I don't want to have to check if we've paid our bill when a missile is incoming on the United States.

Does someone have a holistic impression of what self-driving cars are still struggling with?