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Oct 28, 2022

Existential Hope: Creon Levit | On space and the long-term future

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, food, nanotechnology, space, supercomputing

Are we alone in the universe? What could a future for humans in space look like? And what would Creon’s advise to Elon Musk be if he wants to make a self-sufficient mass colony there? This Hope Drop features Creon Levit, chief technologist and director of R&D at Planet Labs.

Creon Levit is chief technologist at Planet Labs, where he works to move the world toward existential hope via novel satellite technologies. He also hosts Foresight Institute’s Space Group.

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Oct 28, 2022

Elon Musk completes $44bn Twitter takeover — and immediately sacks top executives

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, security

I guess it’s time for Twitter execs to go home, and for me to start using Twitter again. They killed my chamber of commerce account, then when I opened a personal account, they kept asking for my phone number every time I logged in. If I give you my number once and you send me an sms, I’m not giving it to you again, as that’s not safe.


It ends months of bad blood between the two parties regarding the takeover, with Elon Musk complaining about fake accounts on the platform and claims by a whistleblower that Twitter misled regulators about security risks.

Oct 27, 2022

Elon Musk tweets that the social media platform he’s buying is important to civilization

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

This harkens back to the first time he spoke about Twitter as a town square.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has now confirmed he is buying Twitter. The billionaire has tweeted a letter of sorts addressed to the advertisers who use Twitter. In the letter, Musk explains why he bought Twitter and that most of the speculation surrounding the purchase has been wrong.


Twitter is important to civilization

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Oct 27, 2022

Elon Musk Outlines His Plans For Twitter And Reveals Why He Bought It

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, finance

With his Twitter takeover set to be completed this week, Elon Musk has outlined some of his vision for the social media giant. Speaking on Twitter (where else?) Musk claimed that he didn’t buy Twitter for financial gain, but he do so to “try to help humanity.”

Addressing his message to advertisers on the platform, the multi-billionaire said he believes “the relentless pursuit of clicks” has ultimately resulted in the extreme political polarization we see around the world today. While this is good for profits, Musk argues, it results in meaningful dialogue being lost.

Oct 26, 2022

Elon Musk Visits Twitter as $44 Billion Deal Nears Completion

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Mr. Musk, who runs Tesla and SpaceX, visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday and tweeted a nine-second video of himself smiling and carrying a porcelain sink into the building.

“Entering Twitter HQ — let that sink in!” he wrote.


The world’s richest man arrived at Twitter’s San Francisco offices on Wednesday ahead of a Friday deadline to complete the acquisition of the social media service.

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Oct 25, 2022

Tesla is rumored to be looking to invest in Mexico

Posted by in categories: economics, Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla is rumored to be looking to invest in Nuevo Leon, a Mexican state bordering Texas, as CEO Elon Musk meets with the governor.

Earlier this year, people crossing the border between Texas and Nuevo Leon were surprised to see not just the usual marked lanes for cars and trucks but also one marked “Tesla” – pictured above.

We ended up finding out that Tesla had struck a deal with the state of Nuevo Leon to have its own lane at the border crossing in order to reduce wait times for cargo going through the border. Or at least that was the explanation of Ivan Rivas, the economy minister of Nuevo Leon.

Oct 24, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be finalized this week. Here’s what to expect

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

The ongoing saga between Elon Musk and Twitter is set to come to an end this week as he needs to finalize the purchase by October 28th, 2022.

The latest update on Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter is that this week could be a turning point. It may even see the deal finally sealed.

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Oct 23, 2022

Elon Musk Reveals Secret DOJO Computer at Tesla Ai Day

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Elon Musk Reveals Secret DOJO Computer at Tesla AI Day.
#teslanews #teslaai #elonmusk.

During AI Day, the Tesla CEO was the first person to confirm the existence of the ‘Dojo’ program: “We do have a major program at Tesla which we don’t have enough time to talk about today called ” Dojo”. That’s a super powerful training computer. The goal of Dojo will be to be able to take in vast amounts of data and train at a video level and do massive unsupervised training of vast amounts of video with the Dojo program – or Dojo computer.”
In June 2020, Elon Musk tweeted, “Dojo, our training supercomputer, will be able to process vast amounts of video training data & efficiently run hyperspace arrays with an enormous number of parameters, plenty of memory & ultra-high bandwidth between cores.

Oct 21, 2022

Elon Musk could fire 5,000 employees at Twitter due to ‘bloat’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, law

Tesla CEO sees Twitter as a ‘bloated’ organization, employing far more people for its revenues.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has entered an interesting stage where he can sit down with the company’s lawyers and iron out a deal. However, the deal could see 5,000 employees facing the axe at Twitter, Washington Post.

Difficult times at Twitter.

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Oct 21, 2022

Behold Musk: China just successfully tested a Hyperloop-like train system

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

The first in the world to do so.

Researchers at the North University of China have successfully completed the test of a Hyperloop-like train system that runs trains in a low vacuum environment inside a tube, local news outlet, China Daily.

In theory, the system can be used for transporting people as well as goods and consists of long tubes that maintain a low vacuum to allow transport with minimal air resistance.

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