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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled. (mastodon.online)

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

The most egregious false solution may be the Hyperloop. The modern version of the concept was proposed by Musk a decade ago as a pure hypothetical. Musk, a noted public transit hater, saw it as a way to reduce support for California’s planned high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. “It seemed that Musk had dished out the Hyperloop proposal just to make the public and legislators rethink the high-speed train,” reporter Ashlee Vance wrote in his 2015 biography of Musk. “He didn’t actually intend to build the thing.” Musk’s ultimate hope? “High-speed rail would be canceled,” explained Vance.

Atari hoovers up yet another game company with a retro focus, Digital Eclipse (mastodon.online)

Digital Eclipse, one of the pioneers of retro gaming emulation on home game consoles, is now the property of Atari. Under the leadership of current CEO Wade Rosen, Atari has been buying anything and everything that could conceivably be related to Atari, including Berzerk creators Stern, Accolade, the publisher that gave the...

The "muh roads!" meme, with Digital Eclipse references in it
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