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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://doctorow.medium.com/teslas-dieselgate-e530d631a311>
"Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about
being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:
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https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2>
He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:
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https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla>
He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the
same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who
each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:
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https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband>
The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do.
The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes
is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to
our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new
cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time.
One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a
mule
named “Ole Bub”:
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https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us>
Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely
contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs.
There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:
https://elonmusk.today/
But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much
better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been
promising “full self driving…next year.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
