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Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his way to the pinnacle of Muskitude. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Prepare to be wowed by the Musk Foundation website (muskfoundation.org/) .
• Luc Olinga, "Errol Musk, Elon's Dad, Prompts a New Controversy (thestreet.com/technology/errol-musk-the-father-of-elon-musk-causes-a-new-controversy) ," TheStreet (2022).
• Musk's attack on Jane Goodall (msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-says-ape-expert-jane-goodall-s-take-on-human-population-is-the-death-of-humanity/ar-AA15zjgk)
• Cade Metz and Neal E. Boudette, "Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html) ," The New York Times (2021).
• Andrew J. Hawkins and Umar Shakir, "Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, but no new cars (theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620698/tesla-master-plan-3-elon-musk-ev-solar-fsd-gigafactory-investor-day) ," The Verge (2023).
• Adam Kovacs and Adam Westbrook, "Elon Musk Has Some bad Ideas for Mass Transit. We Have Solutions (nytimes.com/2022/10/13/opinion/elon-musk-boring-loop.html) ," The New York Times (2022).
• Adam Something, "Elon Musk’s Loop is a Bizarrely Stupid Idea (youtube.com/watch?v=ACXaFyB_-8s) ," YouTube (2021).
• Ted Mann and Julie Bykowicz, "Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America (msn.com/en-us/travel/news/elon-musk-s-boring-company-ghosts-ciNO%5dties-across-america/ar-AA14EscC) ," The Wall Street Journal (2022).
• Nikki McCann Ramirez, "Paul Pelosi Conspiracy Theory Trends on Twitter After Elon Musk Pushes It (rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-trends-elon-musk-1234621217/) ," Rolling Stone (2022).
• Ted McCormick, "The billionaire space race reflects a colonial mindset that fails to imagine a different world (theconversation.com/the-billionaire-space-race-reflects-a-colonial-mindset-that-fails-to-imagine-a-different-world-165235) ," The Conversation (2021).
• Marina Koren, "The War in Ukraine is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-satellites/622954/) ," The Atlantic (2022).
• Radhika Viswanathan, "Elon Musk’s plan to bring a mini-submarine to rescue the Thai boys (vox.com/2018/7/10/17553820/elon-musk-thai-cave-rescue-submarine) ," Vox (2018).
• A podcast episode (backpacker.com/survival/out-alive-podcast/the-thai-cave-rescue/) from Backpacker that describes the amazing Thai cave rescue
• Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton, "Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system) ," Platformer (2023)
• Emile P. Torres, "How Elon Musk sees the future: His bizarre sci-fi vision should con (salon.com/2022/07/17/how-elon-musk-sees-the-future-his-bizarre-sci-fi-vision-should-concern-us-all/)
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
Send us a text (buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/244372/open_sms)
Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his way to the pinnacle of Muskitude. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• Prepare to be wowed by the Musk Foundation website (muskfoundation.org/) .
• Luc Olinga, "Errol Musk, Elon's Dad, Prompts a New Controversy (thestreet.com/technology/errol-musk-the-father-of-elon-musk-causes-a-new-controversy) ," TheStreet (2022).
• Musk's attack on Jane Goodall (msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-says-ape-expert-jane-goodall-s-take-on-human-population-is-the-death-of-humanity/ar-AA15zjgk)
• Cade Metz and Neal E. Boudette, "Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html) ," The New York Times (2021).
• Andrew J. Hawkins and Umar Shakir, "Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, but no new cars (theverge.com/2023/3/1/23620698/tesla-master-plan-3-elon-musk-ev-solar-fsd-gigafactory-investor-day) ," The Verge (2023).
• Adam Kovacs and Adam Westbrook, "Elon Musk Has Some bad Ideas for Mass Transit. We Have Solutions (nytimes.com/2022/10/13/opinion/elon-musk-boring-loop.html) ," The New York Times (2022).
• Adam Something, "Elon Musk’s Loop is a Bizarrely Stupid Idea (youtube.com/watch?v=ACXaFyB_-8s) ," YouTube (2021).
• Ted Mann and Julie Bykowicz, "Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America (msn.com/en-us/travel/news/elon-musk-s-boring-company-ghosts-ciNO%5dties-across-america/ar-AA14EscC) ," The Wall Street Journal (2022).
• Nikki McCann Ramirez, "Paul Pelosi Conspiracy Theory Trends on Twitter After Elon Musk Pushes It (rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-trends-elon-musk-1234621217/) ," Rolling Stone (2022).
• Ted McCormick, "The billionaire space race reflects a colonial mindset that fails to imagine a different world (theconversation.com/the-billionaire-space-race-reflects-a-colonial-mindset-that-fails-to-imagine-a-different-world-165235) ," The Conversation (2021).
• Marina Koren, "The War in Ukraine is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk (theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-satellites/622954/) ," The Atlantic (2022).
• Radhika Viswanathan, "Elon Musk’s plan to bring a mini-submarine to rescue the Thai boys (vox.com/2018/7/10/17553820/elon-musk-thai-cave-rescue-submarine) ," Vox (2018).
• A podcast episode (backpacker.com/survival/out-alive-podcast/the-thai-cave-rescue/) from Backpacker that describes the amazing Thai cave rescue
• Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton, "Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system) ," Platformer (2023)
• Emile P. Torres, "How Elon Musk sees the future: His bizarre sci-fi vision should con (salon.com/2022/07/17/how-elon-musk-sees-the-future-his-bizarre-sci-fi-vision-should-concern-us-all/)
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
