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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla,Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp.,the company that operates the social media platform X,and his role in the founding of The Boring Company,xAI,Neuralink and OpenAI. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world;as of July 2024,Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$221 billion.
Tesla,Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin,Texas,it designs,manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs),stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale,solar panels and solar shingles,and related products and services.
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide,remove,or censor information,where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand,whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu,taken to document coastal erosion in California,inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance:where the desire to hide information instead makes its propagation more likely.
Julie Simone Brill is an American lawyer who serves as Chief Privacy Officer and Corporate Vice President for Global Privacy,Safety and Regulatory Affairs at Microsoft. Prior to her role at Microsoft,Brill was nominated by President Barack Obama on November 16,2009,and confirmed unanimously by the US Senate to serve as Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission on March 3,2010. Brill served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2010 to 2016.
SpaceX Mars colonization program is an ambition of the company SpaceX and particularly of its founder Elon Musk to colonize Mars. The main element of this is the plan to establish a self-sustained large scale settlement on Mars and enable self-determination and direct democracy on Mars. Musk believes the colonization of Mars is important for the long-term survival and the collective well being of the human species.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco,California. Its mission is to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence,which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom,OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models,the DALL-E series of text-to-image models,and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.
Tesla Autopilot is an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) developed by Tesla that amounts to partial vehicle automation. Tesla provides "Base Autopilot" on all vehicles,which includes lane centering and traffic-aware cruise control. Owners may purchase or subscribe to Full Self-Driving (FSD) which adds semi-autonomous navigation that responds to traffic lights and stop signs,lane change assistance,self-parking,and the ability to summon the car from a garage or parking spot.
Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter,which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes,known as instances or servers,each with its own code of conduct,terms of service,privacy policy,privacy options,and content moderation policies.
The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure,tunnel construction services,and equipment company founded by Elon Musk. TBC was founded as a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2017,and was spun off as a separate corporation in 2018. TBC has completed one tunneling project that is open to the public,as well as multiple test tunnels.
Vijaya Gadde is an American attorney,who served as general counsel and the head of legal,policy,and trust at Twitter. Her role included handling issues such as harassment,misinformation,and harmful speech,and other decisions made by Twitter. On October 27,2022,she was fired by Elon Musk,following his acquisition of Twitter.
TSLAQ is a loose,international collective of largely anonymous short-sellers,skeptics,and researchers who openly criticize Tesla,Inc. and its CEO Elon Musk. The group primarily organizes on social media,often using the $TSLAQ cashtag,and on Reddit to coordinate efforts and share news,opinions,and analysis about the company and its stock. Edward Niedermeyer,in his book Ludicrous:The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors (2019),pinpoints the July 2018 doxxing of Twitter user Lawrence Fossi,a Seeking Alpha writer and Tesla short seller operating under the pseudonym Montana Skeptic,as the catalyst for the formation of TSLAQ.
Elon Musk is the CEO or owner of multiple companies including Tesla,SpaceX,and X Corp,and has expressed many views on a wide variety of subjects,ranging from politics to science.
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Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter,Inc. on April 14,2022,and concluded it on October 28,2022. Musk stated he intended to buy Twitter to build X,an "everything app" he had been developing since 2018 to mimic the Chinese app WeChat. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022,becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake. Twitter invited Musk to join its board of directors,an offer he initially accepted before declining. On April 14,Musk made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company,to which Twitter's board responded with a "poison pill" strategy to resist a hostile takeover before unanimously accepting Musk's buyout offer of $44 billion on April 25. Musk stated that he planned to introduce new features to the platform,make its algorithms open-source,combat spambot accounts,and promote free speech.
In February 2022,two days after Russia's full-scale invasion,Ukraine requested American aerospace company SpaceX to activate their Starlink satellite internet service in the country to replace internet and communication networks degraded or destroyed during the war. Starlink has since been used by Ukrainian civilians,government and military. The satellite service has served for humanitarian purposes,as well as defense and attacks on Russian positions.
The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter,Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter. CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi,Bari Weiss,Lee Fang,and authors Michael Shellenberger,David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27,2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk,releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads.
ElonJet is a service that uses social media accounts to track the real-time private airplane usage of Elon Musk. The service,created and provided by Jack Sweeney using public data,has accounts on Facebook,Instagram,Telegram,Truth Social,Mastodon,Threads,and formerly on Twitter,where the Twitter account once had about 530,000 followers,before being suspended. Several of the social media accounts use the handle @elonjet.
On December 15,2022,Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who have covered the company and its owner,Elon Musk. They included reporters Keith Olbermann,Steven L. Herman,and Donie O'Sullivan,and journalists from The New York Times,The Washington Post,CNN,and The Intercept. Musk cited an incident between "a crazy stalker" and a car with his child as a justification for the suspensions. Posters on behalf of the owners of the accounts said that the suspensions were permanent. On December 16,2022,Musk stated that account access would only be restricted for seven days and on December 17,2022,some accounts were reportedly restored with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022;Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino. Under Musk,Twitter was rebranded to X. It is one of the top social media platforms and the fifth-most visited website in the world. Users can share posts containing text messages,images,and videos and interact with other users' content through likes and reposts. X offers additional features such as direct messaging,video and audio calling,bookmarks,lists,communities,a chatbot,and the social audio feature Spaces.
On 15 April 2024,at approximately 7:15 pm local time,a knife attack took place at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley,a suburb of Sydney,Australia. During a live-streamed sermon,the attacker walked up to the pulpit,first stabbing bishop Mari Emmanuel,resulting in permanent vision loss in Emmanuel's right eye,before stabbing a priest and injuring another churchgoer. While no one was killed,this attack was the second stabbing incident to have taken place in Sydney in three days,following the deadly mass stabbing at Bondi Junction.
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I actually brought the concept of Safety by Design to Microsoft over 10 years ago when I was their head of global privacy and safety policy and outreach.
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