Don't hate me.
I just want to get out in front of this. I bought a Tesler. I have to think about the future and safety of my grandson and cat and I cant afford $5 gas.
Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.
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This is Tesla’s Battery Day on steroids. And if you’ve been following how that turned out, you should be very skeptical.
In September 2020, Musk stood on a stage and promised a revolution in battery manufacturing with the 4680 cell. Tesla was going to ramp to 10 GWh within a year and eventually reach 3 TWh by 2030 — enough for 20 million cars annually. The dry electrode process was going to cut costs by 50%.
Five and a half years later, the 4680 program has been a disappointment. Tesla’s own top battery supplier said Elon doesn’t know how to make battery cells. The dry electrode process needed six or seven revisions. It took years longer than promised, and the 3 TWh target is a distant fantasy.
Tesla is estimated to be at only about 2% of its original cell manufacturing volume goal.
Now Musk wants us to believe he’s going to build a chip fab. Not just any chip fab — the biggest in the world, at 2nm, producing 70% of TSMC’s total output from a single building. Battery cell manufacturing is difficult. Chip fabrication at the leading edge is on another planet of difficulty. TSMC spent $165 billion over years to build six fabs in Arizona, and those won’t reach 2nm production until 2029. A single 2nm fab with 50,000 wafer starts per month costs roughly $28 billion, and it takes about 38 months just to build in the U.S. Tesla has zero semiconductor manufacturing experience.
The timing tells the real story. Tesla’s auto business is in freefall — sales declined for the second consecutive year in 2025, with a bloodbath in Europe and its first-ever annual decline in China. SpaceX, by contrast, is about to IPO at a potential $1.5-1.75 trillion valuation. This announcement is clearly designed to attach Tesla, a business in decline, and SpaceX, a business about to go public, to the AI hyperscaler narrative, a boat Musk has already missed with xAI, which he admitted “was not built right” and had to be bailed out by SpaceX.
And the cherry on top, or in space, rather, is the plan to put 80% of this compute in orbit. Data centers in space. Powered by solar panels. Launched by Starship. This is the kind of vision that sounds impressive on stage but has essentially zero connection to any near-term business reality, or any possible reality at all, according to most credible experts.
The whole thing reeks of desperation. Musk is hyping an 8th-gen AI chip while he still hasn’t delivered on the promises made with the 3rd generation. He’s promising to do in a couple of years what TSMC has spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building. We’ve seen this movie before with battery cells, and we know how it ends.
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Yesterday Elon joined my call for a global revolution over the Epstein files.
I responded to that with, “You’ll be included in my upcoming report to the Human Rights Council on Epstein files and complicity in Gaza genocide through Starlink and X.”
Elon flagged my account so that all my posts are sent directly to /dev/null.
Can you please do whatever you want to let him see this tweet as I am in X jail. Or better yet, make this tweet one of the most liked tweets ever. Send him the message that he can't manipulate us anymore.
Elon Musk has taught me that with effort, a strong entrepreneurial spirit, an emerald mine, a lot of exploitation, self-dealing, white privilege, an expired student visa, a bad hair transplant, jaw enhancement, supplemental testosterone, a charity that gives money to itself, ecstasy, ketamine, weed, cocaine, an entire political party in your pocket, people loathing you so much they pay you to go away and most of all a sh*tload of government subsidies, you can accomplish whatever you want in America.
@ElectrekCo@FredLambert Impressive demonstration of controlling one vehicle from a chase vehicle.
It's also a very sensible idea to avoid running red lights, illegal turns, blocking traffic, and/or getting in crashes.
Such progress. Can't be more than a few years until Robotaxi is ready.
@aelluswamy Great leap in unsupervised driving. Today a Tesla ride monitor moved into a car behind the Robo-taxi! Presumably joy-stick in hand they'll be able to intercede before the 'unmonitored' Model Y runs a red light, crashes, or blocks traffic.
Progress? He sure hopes you think so.
As 2026 rolls in & we approach the one-year anniversary of when Elon Musk did a full-on Nazi salute at a rally after Trump’s inauguration, let us remember he is the main reason why at least 600K people have died (2/3 were children) due to the gutting of USAID.
Fuck Elon Musk.