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Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Republicans do not trust women.

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My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: To the Moon!… With *Catapults!*

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NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest
THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

— alexis simpson (@amutepiggy.bsky.social) February 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM

Can we have Elon test it out personally?

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) February 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM

Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: <em>To the Moon!</em>... With *Catapults!*

… According to new reporting from the New York Times, Musk told employees at xAI — his AI company recently acquired by SpaceX — that it needs to construct a factory on the Moon to churn out AI satellites. And to launch the satellites into space, he says, it needs to build an enormous electromagnetic catapult.

Sci-fi readers already know where this is going: Musk is thinking about building a mass driver, which is essentially a coilgun for launching payloads instead of deadly projectiles. Paired with the lunar facility, Musk views it as a necessary step in building out computing power for his AI empire, which must not be bound by the finitude of terrestrial real estate…

The Moon may sound like a logical destination for a space company, but it actually represents an incredible about-face for Musk and SpaceX. Musk has spent years denigrating lunar missions, viewing them as a waste of time and a “distraction” from his ultimate goal of sending humans to Mars. His mantra has always been to “make life multiplanetary,” and “extend consciousness to the stars.” He has frequently provided optimistic timelines for achieving this, including promising in 2017 that the company’s first Mars mission would launch in 2022, and its first astronauts would arrive by 2025. He has consistently reiterated this mission, and presented SpaceX employees with a roadmap to reaching the Red Planet…

Gizmodo isn’t Serious Media, so they can afford more honest headlines — “‘We’ll Find the Remnants of Ancient Alien Civilizations’: Read Musk’s Gibberish Rant from His xAI All-Hands Meeting”:

At the risk of stating the obvious, Elon Musk doesn’t always make sense when he talks. But at a recent all-hands meeting at xAI that was posted in full online, he made less sense than usual. This isn’t investment advice, but anyone considering buying stock in the SpaceX/xAI conglomerate expected to make an initial public offering later this year might want to give some real thought to how the founder and CEO is sounding lately.

xAI has seen a rash of high-level resignations recently. Many of the company’s 11 original cofounders have left, and one of these resignations, Tony Wu’s, happened just yesterday…

A tech founder sent me an explanation of a meeting with Elon and asked for advice on what to do next. Here's how I replied, so everyone can benefit.

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— Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov.goodventures.org) February 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM

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Late Night Open Thread: EEEEElon — Jenkins!

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'Space is the Place' (Sun Ra)
‘The race is on’: will Elon Musk be the first to put a data centre in space? – giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/… via @FT

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— Monika Dommann (@modomodo.bsky.social) February 10, 2026 at 7:11 AM

Media: “But he has so much money, we have to believe him!… “

(Elon Musk: “At least I have chicken!“)

… The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.

Satellite executives, investors and researchers said that Musk’s timeline for putting data centres in space is highly ambitious. But many agree that the underlying idea is increasingly plausible, as long as launch costs continue to fall and demand for AI compute keeps surging…

The idea of generating computing power in space dates back to a 1941 Isaac Asimov story, Reason, which depicts a network of orbital space stations generating solar energy that is beamed back to Earth.

The 21st-century twist is to use that solar power to fuel AI chips, shuttling the data back to Earth using satellite networks such as SpaceX’s Starlink.

Huge fleets of thousands of satellites, networked together and held in a “sun synchronous” low Earth orbit, could respond to users’ AI queries at a speed not too different to today’s terrestrial chatbots, advocates say.

“Mark my words: in 36 months, probably closer to 30 months, the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space,” Musk told Stripe’s Cheeky Pint podcast last week…

But the economics hinge on several unproven assumptions. First, that the price of launching large constellations of satellites will fall dramatically. Second, that chips such as Nvidia’s graphics processing units, the workhorses of terrestrial AI data centres today, can be shielded from radiation and cooled in the vacuum of space. Crucially, the concept assumes that advances in AI will continue to demand ever-greater computing power…

This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf…

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— JW Mason (@jwmason.bsky.social) February 10, 2026 at 8:24 AM

I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.

— JW Mason (@jwmason.bsky.social) February 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM

Tesla isn't going to build EVs, it's going to build humanoid robots.
SpaceX isn't going to Mars, it's going to the Moon.
X was going to be where you did all your banking. Forget we ever said that.
This is what bullshit looks like when it starts to unravel.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) February 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM

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Open Thread: Elon Musk, Up With the Rocket, Down With the Stick?

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SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

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— Missing The Point (@missingthept.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

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— Jim Henley Music (@jimhenleymusic.bsky.social) February 9, 2026 at 5:31 AM

Maybe Musk’s latest round of thimblerigging — I mean, consolidation — will turn out to be the marker for the business community giving up on him? I realize that a trillion dollars can buy many, many years of immunity, but… a woman can dream…

This is one of things. Bigtime.

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) February 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM

This is because Blue Origin got a chance at a backup contract after it was clear SpaceX was shitting the bed, and NASA has been signaling they're about to cut the Cybertruck of the Stars out of the moon program and now the company is scrambling to make up for 6 years of passed deadlines and fuckups

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— Rude Law Dog (@esghound.com) February 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

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— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) February 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: He That Is Swift In Running After Money Shall Not Be Innocent

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A new study puts a number on the potential human toll of sharp aid cuts over the past year, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the current trends persist.

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM


Gift link: “Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects”.

Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM


Thimblerigging, at massive scale:

… His rocket venture, SpaceX, announced on Monday that it had bought xAI in an effort to help the world’s richest man dominate the rocket and artificial intelligence businesses. The deal will combine several of his offerings, including his AI chatbot Grok, his satellite communications company Starlink, and his social media company X….

Musk is already facing stiff competition in artificial intelligence, where he’s been scrambling to compete against rivals such as OpenAI, which is also working toward an IPO. Musk’s dislike of OpenAI, which he helped to found more than a decade ago, is part of what drove him to start xAI in 2023 and build the ChatGPT alternative he named Grok.

Musk has equally ambitious plans for Tesla as he tries to pivot a company with shrinking car sales to focus more on self-driving taxis and humanoid robots, driven by artificial intelligence.

Tesla recently announced a $2 billion investment in xAI.

Musk has used his control over multiple companies to combine operations before. Tesla bought SolarCity, a decade ago. And he recently had xAI buy his social media platform X, formerly called Twitter…

Terms of the SpaceX purchase of xAI were not disclosed. Among outside investors in the companies is a fund in which President Donald Trump’s son, Don Jr., is a partner. That firm, 1789 Capital, has made more than $1 billion worth of investments in various Musk companies in the past year, including SpaceX, xAI, and X, according to data provider Pitchbook, though it cashed out of some already…

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) February 3, 2026 at 6:03 AM

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I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

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— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 2:28 AM

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Late Night Open Thread: Theater Criticism

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Musk just really wants to be sure…before he pays any money to see her…that the girl taken by an entitled rich guy to live in a walled compound across the sea is young, skinny and blonde.

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— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM

One would think, between recent revelations that Epstein ghosted him & the handbagging he’s taking from financial analysts over his latest announcements, Elon Musk might lie low for a while. But this is the World’s Richest Man, Supergeenyus, so: No chance of that. Per the Independent:

… The film will feature an all-star cast that includes Matt Damon. Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway, Mia Goth and Benny Safdie.

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, who is Black, also reportedly joined the cast. It was reported on social media she has been cast as Helen of Troy.

In response to the news, a user on Musk’s platform X wrote: “Helen of Troy was fair skinned, blonde, and ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’ because she was so beautiful that men started a war over her. Casting choices that make the premise incoherent are admissions that the story was never the point and an insult to the author.”…

In new footage revealed earlier this week, it emerged that rapper Travis Scott will make his acting debut in The Odyssey.

A teaser trailer shows Bernthal’s Menelaus and Holland’s Telemachus holding a meeting in a mess hall, when Scott’s bard-like character stands up and taps a staff to the ground to warn them about an imminent war.

“A war, a man, a trick to break the walls of Troy and burn it straight into the ground,” he announces.

The Odyssey, in theaters July 17, follows Damon’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he journeys home after the Trojan War.

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Bad boyars, worse Tzar

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 3:52 PM

Former theater critic Frank Bruni, at the NYTimes — “Hey, Republicans: Trump Is the President” [gift link]:

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Late Night Open Thread: Jeffrey Epstein, the Black Mold of Our Current Political Moment

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The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

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— Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) January 31, 2026 at 5:48 PM

i think probably some of the people showing up in the Epstein emails didn’t do anything wrong but I also kinda think it’s on them to make that case affirmatively, and given how many previous attempts at that got exposed as lies by this document dump I would appreciate their doing so soonest

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM

Elon, this is your lawyer. I strongly advise you to continue poasting through it, Your TechnoHighness.

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— ?????? H???????????? ???? C???????? P???????????? (@thoc.bsky.social) January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM

Yeah that’s not really the story though but nice try

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— Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) January 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM

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Late Night Open Thread: Rich Men on Epstein Island

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A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

There are 1400 mentions of DOGE founder Elon Musk in the Epstein files.

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— People Who Work (@deptofworkers.bsky.social) January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite — Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge
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— updog sinclair (@jonchristian.net) January 30, 2026 at 3:25 PM

Of course Epstein would be interested in a man with as much money, and as little sense, as Elon Musk. But the only thing worse than being exposed as a visitor to Pedophile Island is being exposed as a needy creep who got ghosted after endlessly whinging to hang with the big kids:

Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age both incredibly well and incredibly poorly…

… [T]he government released a new batch of millions of more files on Friday. They show that Musk had more than a few email exchanges with Epstein, including one correspondence where he asks to visit the convicted sex trafficker’s notorious island, where he allegedly brought dozens of underage girls to be abused…

The exchanges — which took place years after Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes against underage girls in 2008 — clearly contradict Musk’s claims about his relationship with Epstein in the past, which he has spent years downplaying. In 2019, he told Vanity Fair that he visited Epstein’s Manhattan house only on a single occasion, and just for half an hour. And the way he tells it, that was that. “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined,” Musk insisted.

Musk has firmly held that line ever since. For that matter, so has his chatbot Grok. But according to the newly released emails, Musk wasn’t declining Epstein’s invitations: he was inviting himself over…

Even more damningly in December 2012, Musk sent an email practically begging Epstein for an invitation to some debauchery.

“Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose,” Musk wrote. He added that “a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I’m looking for.”

Those were far from the only time the pair made plans. In April 2013, Epstein asked Musk if he’d be around to have “dinner with woody allen and crowd at my house,” referring to the influential filmmaker and actor who’s also been accused of child sex abuse. Musk replied that he “might be in town.”…

The documents alone won’t tell us how many of these get-togethers with Epstein materialized. But the mountain of exchanges make it clear that Musk’s angle that he barely knew or talked to the guy was a lie, which warrants further scrutiny into their ties. And while none of them rise to the level of being incriminating, they are awfully suspicious…

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Ambassador Tom Barrack, you say?

In terms of American democracy this is probably the most important information I’ve seen from the Epstein files. This is probably much bigger than the Trump tower meeting, Manafort giving Deripaska info via Kilimnik, etc. This is a direct link btwn the Russian gov’t & the top of Trump’s campaign

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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM

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