Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
Posing as Americans, Chinese accounts on X aim to divide and disrupt
Propaganda accounts controlled by foreign entities aiming to influence US politics are flourishing on X even after they’ve been exposed by other social media platforms or criminal proceedings
#Twitter / X staff ignored #Elon Musk's orders, prevented an FTC violation
"Granting these external writers such universal access would have allowed them to view Twitter/X users' personal information such as direct messages, real names, and telephone numbers, violating the FTC order to carefully protect such data."
A day after Navalnya and her team posted a video to YouTube demanding the return of her husband’s body to his family and directly blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death, Navalnya’s account was suspended on the social media platform. As of this writing, no explanation was offered beyond the text that appeared on her suspended account: “X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.”
#Elon#Musk told #US#Republican senators “there is no way in hell” that Russian President Vladimir #Putin could lose the war on #Ukraine, weighing in on a conflict that has been affected by Musk’s own #Starlink satellite services.
Musk added he hoped #Americans would contact their elected representatives about the Ukraine bill. “This spending does not help Ukraine. Prolonging the war does not help Ukraine.”
Musk ordered to testify again in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover
A California federal court ruling released on Saturday gave the Tesla and SpaceX chief a week to agree with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on a date and place for the interview after Musk refused to attend a previous sit-down in September.
what... #Elon is not #Trumps son?
They seem like they came from the same tree...
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll talk briefly about the Community Notes system and why it doesn't work. I've previously stated that the Community Notes mechanism is a "mob rule" and can be played easily by big accounts and troll farms.