Elon Musk Archive

Unfortunately this Wall Street Journal piece detailing Tesla’s secretive “Project 42” for its headquarters in Austin doesn’t include any of the actual renderings. Just descriptions of “a dramatic glass-walled building,” “a structure in the shape of a twisted hexagon on waterfront land,” and “an expansive glass box, reminiscent of Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.” It’s not enough. Send me these drawings! I want to see the dumb box!

Perhaps reacting to Threads’ 100 million user milestone, Elon Musk tweeted today that “cumulative user-seconds per day of phone screentime... may hit an all-time record this week.” He noted that stat, “as reported by iOS & Android, is hardest to game.”

New documents from California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal / OSHA) show that Tesla underreported injuries at its Fremont, California plant from 2015 to 2019, according to Bloomberg. And during an October 2018 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk misrepresented OSHA’s findings:

Here’s WIlliam Cohan on Musk’s various new legal stuff, including the nastygram Alex Spiro sent to Mark Zuckerberg:

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince posted a graph to both Threads and Twitter today (Cloudflare’s communications VP Daniella Vallurupalli confirmed it was him) showing what he says is Twitter’s DNS ranking from January to now.

This time, by suing Levine’s old law firm while Levine is on vacation without a laptop. I will update the story when Levine’s emergency newsletter drops.

Following word that the good version of TweetDeck is back, an update from Harpy developer Roberto Doering said they were able to get the app functioning again by switching user profiles to use the old v1 API, but they don’t expect to begin maintaining the app again:

The firm, which represented Twitter as Musk tried to back out of his deal to buy Twitter, received a $90 million fee for getting the deal over the finish line, according to The New York Times. Elon Musk’s Twitter alleges the payment is “unjust enrichment” and wants the fee to be returned.

Jack Sweeney made his @ElonMusksJet account one of the first 70 million or so on Threads and spoke to Insider about it yesterday. Last fall Musk claimed he was providing “basically assassination coordinates” and banned his Twitter account until it added a 24-hour delay.

The top telecom provider will be using Elon Musk’s network of over 3,500 low-Earth SpaceX satellites to augment coverage by the end of 2023. The “world’s first offering” bundles voice and fixed broadband service, installation, and tech support.