I always feel crazy pointing this out, but it's such an important point: having 85% market share isn't actually a good thing, especially when you're buying more of your own product than that 85% of the market is

The Verge@theverge.com · 21m ago

"SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren’t enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash." Read more: buff.ly/d9lBTQN

I want to believe that society has evolved to make billionaires unfuckable, and the fact that Musk is no longer photographed with famously beautiful women is undeniable, but the simpler (and therefore more plausible) explanation here might just be botched surgery theory

Playboy@playboy.com · 24h ago

As they amass more money and power, the public views billionaires as sweaty psychos Scrooge McDucking their way into evil amounts of cash. The collective ick emerging raises a question that wealthy men might prioritize over ethical perceptions: Have billionaires become categorically unfuckable?

jesusfuckingchrist

Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson

A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.

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even the most remote possibility of getting to walk the red carpet at a movie premiere in a month has me totally spinning out about what on earth I might wear

we need a national task force on America's dangerous and growing decline in van technology

Kevin Williams@gaytonausa.bsky.social · 5h ago

I was thinking about the Zeekr MIX today, and I got irritated all over again we are getting screwed here in the USA, y'all

Well this post has got me on this kick for the rest of the day while working. I’ll post some other faves from around the non-Western world 🧵

Fela Kuti - Let's Start (Edit with Intro) [Official Audio]

YouTube video by Fela Kuti

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e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 5h ago

see, I got the "get really into world music" middle age phenotype

just started "For All Mankind," and it already requires less suspension of disbelief than a SpaceX earnings call

that heart-stopping moment between waking up smelling toast and the realization that you're not actually having a stroke, the world is just on fire, silly

“Timely and persuasive, this revelatory account is difficult to ignore.” My new book HYPERSCALE received a fantastic review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Less than three months until it hits bookstore shelves! Get more info and preorder your copy: hyperscalebook.com

in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

If you missed my livestream of yesterday's inaugural SpaceX quarterly earnings call, you can catch the VOD here. Thanks again to @montanaskeptic.bsky.social and @peark.es for joining! youtu.be/oJGwzxsQ_3s

Elon Take The Wheel Livestream SpaceX Q2 2026 Earnings

YouTube video by Edward Niedermeyer

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but Elon just said they'd be at $100 billion ARR by the end of the year! 1,000 Starlink V3 sats in orbit by Q2 of next year! humanoid robot moonbase, um, soonish! why, it's almost as if... people don't believe him anymore?

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · 7h ago

SpaceX down more than 12% at the open, now hovering around 10%

Dumbasses For Musk

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

gmail sent the email, but it frowned while it did so, to make clear its disapproval of my unconventional verbiage and sentence structure

stating that women and girls need to be protected from trans people is absolutely hate

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 23h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to the Elon Take The Wheel Livestream's coverage of the first-ever SpaceX quarterly earnings call! Special thanks to @montanaskeptic.bsky.social and @peark.es for sharing their wisdom and bemusement. VOD out later this evening, for those who missed it live!

Hey Boise/Eliot, Portland, Oregon neighbors. If you have seen this guy (Shady), drop me a DM. He's been gone for a few days now.

I hopped on to chat with Ed and give myself brain damage listening to Everyone's Least Optimal Nutcase. We just talked about this, which is the most fictional guide I've seen in a long time *SPACEX SEES $100 BILLION ARR BY YEAR-END: CFO

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago

you're goddamn right I'm going to livestream the first-ever SpaceX earnings call on the AT Protocol put it on your calendar now: August 4, 2026, following market close at 4:30 PM Eastern stream.place/niedermeyer.online

"that was fraud" ~@montanaskeptic.bsky.social

egg16z 🥚@notlikewe.bsky.social · 24h ago

Elon projecting one launch of starship *per day* by next year lmao

our boy has lost his touch

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · yesterday

Musk proving that his ability to turn his own company's stock downward while he speaks during an earnings call is durable beyond Tesla

NOW LIVE

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago

you're goddamn right I'm going to livestream the first-ever SpaceX earnings call on the AT Protocol put it on your calendar now: August 4, 2026, following market close at 4:30 PM Eastern stream.place/niedermeyer.online

Hoping that the first-ever SpaceX ($SPCX) earnings call doesn't start right at 4:30 ET, because I'll be rushing home from an appointment to start the stream then... either way, join me and the gang as we listen in on this historical earnings call, right here on AT protocol atmo.rsvp/p/niedermeye...

Elon Take The Wheel Livestream: SpaceX Earnings

Join Ed and friends as we stream and discuss the first-ever SpaceX (SPCX) quarterly earnings call!

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imagine a car that does the thing where online ads try to get you to buy the thing you literally just bought

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

if only someone could have predicted that Tesla would never actually become a mass market automaker!

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · yesterday

NEW: Elon Musk clearly hates talking about Tesla's stagnant car biz these days so @russellbrandom.bsky.social and I mapped out just how much it's taken a back seat on the company's earnings calls. Musk now spends half or more of his time talking about AI & robotics: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...

new plate came in, guess what I'm contemplating now

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

today Elon Musk will host SpaceX’s first earnings call as a publicly traded company and if you think he will be “grilled” by sell side analysts you have never listened to a TSLA call for 16 years

can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

With the first public $SPCX "earnings" call only hours away, I am go to repost something I scratched out on Saturday. This is a story about how pride goeth before a fall. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger

With Tesla shrinking fast, a bailout merger would fit the Musk pattern. But there are some key impediments to consider.

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"I only believe the moon landing happened because Elon Musk said it did" is a fucking rococo cathedral of dumbassery