> Freeze frame photos show what appears to be a lightweight hollowed out car shell prop, likely using magnets, suction, and compressed gas to help the country's richest nazi once again lie to the gullible American public and boost the valuation of a car company that stopped being innovative more than a decade ago.
It's obviously a stunt. But IMO it's a real stunt probably developed by the controls engineers at SpaceX to show off some pretty crazy control capabilities.
This is NASA SkyCrane on steroids.
Something is deeply wrong with this. This is the heart of people's anger.
The 'CEO Said a Thing' in journalism is pervasive and detrimental when the critical analysis is missing (most cases). This part of the article is very on point, as is the basic analysis of the de jour technical stunt. That being said, I agree with you that this author puts too much click bait and feeding the fans language into this, doing a disservice to their own reputation (imo).
These are just a few of the reasons "oligarchy" is a word seeing increased usage. The politicians, the wealthy, the credentialed elite, the media - by and large are complicit.
Many of us here, myself included - the technocratic elite - are central and complicit in the world we built and pushed. We too have earned the peoples' ire, something I think we should reflect on and course correct. What do we actually want to bring to the world with our skills? What are we going to build and push in the age of Ai?
...is it because you don't care for his priorities, vs. say those of the Widow Jobs or George Soros?
It’s the nazi salutes, the way he openly buys votes with illegal raffles, spearheaded the destructive chaos that was doge etc etc
Everyone knows a large part of America hates musk for those types of antics.
How are you unaware of their gripes?
It says something when you project the bipartisan-ness onto others because they speak out about one of them in a single comment. We need to stop these kinds of reactions. They do not help us come to shared understanding or consensus.
Daron Acemoglu's 2024 Nobel Laureate lecture is a good one, even though he is a credentialed elite, his research and perspectives are important ones to encounter. The subject is the interplay of technology, automation, politics, and economy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for reframing economics in a larger social and political landscape which the models have not, and likely cannot, capture. Simon Johnson (who speaks after him) talks about the history of European colonialism, extractive institutions, and their predictive power into the global inequality (does a former colony print chips or sew shirts?)
What most impressed me was the precision control after the flip. It doesn't visibly wobble. The other flying car does. All systems, even RC EE circuits have a "wobble".