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#Musk friends R making money by selling access to stakes in his private companies. A coterie of his associates tightly control the entry point to hard-to-get shares investors covet particularly in #SpaceX, #xAI, #Neuralink #BoringCompany per WSJ . A business w 2,000 “holders of record” is legally required to disclose financial information like a public company. 1 way to avoid that is for existing investors to sell shares of holding companies that own stakes in the Musk businesses to outsiders.

How long before Felon Muscovite uses his #neuralink technology to "fix" the "sexual deviants" (#LGBTQ+) and "#homegrowns"?

He has the means (Neuralink), the data (that #DOGE stole), and the motivation (hates #woke, thinks empathy is a weakness, is a #fascist). His Government already ignores the courts.

He needs human victims to perfect his device and going public may give him the momentum he needs.
#Nazis in concentration camps did the exact same thing; horrible human experiments.

He has already stated he wants to use this tech to fix #paraplegics
He has zero morals not to try to "fix" the "broken" woke.

Just asking the question!

techstartups.com/2025/04/24/mu

Tech Startups - Startups and Technology news · Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink eyes $500M raise at $8.5B valuation for brain-computer interface expansion - Tech StartupsNeuralink, the brain implant startup founded by Elon Musk, is planning to raise around $500 million in fresh funding at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the deal. The round, still in its early stages, could push Neuralink’s valuation to roughly $9 billion post-money. Discussions with investors are ongoing,
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Neben der rechten Ideologie des "Transhumanismus", den #ElonMusk mit #Neuralink-Hirnchips und ähnlichem vorantreiben möchte, sind Leute wie er auch Fans des Longtermismus, den sie mit ihrem Einfluss zu propagieren versuchen.

'As I have previously written, longtermism is arguably the most influential ideology that few members of the general public have ever heard about. Longtermists have directly influenced reports from the secretary-general of the United Nations; a longtermist is currently running the RAND Corporation; they have the ears of billionaires like Musk; and the so-called Effective Altruism community, which gave rise to the longtermist ideology, has a mind-boggling $46.1 billion in committed funding. Longtermism is everywhere behind the scenes — it has a huge following in the tech sector — and champions of this view are increasingly pulling the strings of both major world governments and the business elite.'

salon.com/2022/08/20/understan

Sowie ein etwas neuerer, deutschsprachiger Artikel:

jacobin.de/artikel/effective-a

Salon · Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxicWhatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism

Musk has other irons in the fire and not ethically safe ones if driven by him.
Neuralink wants to drill into our skulls for "mind control" tech that’s still in sci-fi mode, while The Boring Company is solving traffic by… making expensive tunnels for Teslas? Billions wasted on vanity projects when real problems need real solutions.
Musk’s side quests are more hype than help. #TechGrift #Neuralink #BoringCompany #ElonMusk #mastodon #fediverse

@Perspective @dangillmor
ETA:
👉#ElonMusk is very likely the globally most influential ultraright person of all times👈

X, Starlink, and TESLA give him global reach, Starlink power over many militaries and economies, #DOGE unheard of access to personal data of most Americans.

I agree. All of #Elmo's ventures 1) are a threat to humanity:

#TESLA
#X
#SpaceX 2)
#Neuralink
...

And 1.5 million in fines 1) is just "Peanuts" for him.

2)
c.im/@dw/111866727960081681

1)
washingtonpost.com/technology/

C.IMDW News (@dw@c.im)#News Tesla ordered to pay $1.5 million over hazardous waste https://w.st/woCHz

#Corruption, #graft, illegal #commerce w #enemy powers - #musk is all about adding more #billions to his fortune by #exploiting his illegal role in destruction of federal government while at the same time profiting from international investments funneling who knows how much into his businesses. #Chinese investors privately take stakes in Musk’s companies. #Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to #Trump to lure #capital to #xAI, #Neuralink and #SpaceX ft.com/content/66857e1e-a217-4

Financial Times · Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companiesBy Sun Yu

"Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view, according to asset managers and investors involved in the transactions.

Since Musk was named a key figure in US President Donald Trump’s drive to remake the US government, China-based asset managers have been promoting the pair’s relationship as an enticement to raise capital from rich Chinese. The money is flowing into Musk’s non-public ventures including xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX, the world’s most valuable private company.

The investments are being placed through opaque structures known as special-purpose vehicles, which have the benefit of concealing the investors’ identities, to avoid the ire of US authorities and companies wary of Chinese capital during a nadir in relations between the two countries.

Asset managers behind the deals have told investors that the entities are specifically designed to avoid disclosure."

ft.com/content/66857e1e-a217-4

Financial Times · Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companiesBy Sun Yu
#China#Musk#xAI
Editorial illustration done with Micron pens and black markers. My satirical take on Elon Musk pushing neural implants... Basically a play on mind-body duality... I call it The Cartesian Engineer 2.0. Cheers! #mindbody #neuralink #duality #mindcontrol #bot #robots #ink #editorialillustration #elonmusk #portrait #characterart #caricature #politicalcartoons #micron #inkartwork #satire #cognitivedissonance #existentialism #philosophyofmind #machinelearning #spirit #bodyandsoul #pixelfedart #illustration #steampunk
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@georgetakei #tesla is only one asset with others of much more value - #starklink #SpaceX, #X, TheBoring Company, #Neuralink Corporation, #OpenAI, #SolarCity, #PayPal Everyone needs to Act with the same passion, relentless demonstrations and protests, and calls for divestment by states, pension plans, countries, entities, and all market investments, as has been done for years against #Israel. Either we all stand For America or We All Lose America.