Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Or maybe Tesla
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UPDATE: the merge has gone through, apparently for "$250 billion" of imaginary value of private company equity
Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Elon Musk wants to merge his rocket company, SpaceX, with his AI company, xAI. Then he wants to take the combined company public on the stock exchange. [Reuters] Musk previously combined X Corp — f…Pivot to AI
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qwen3-TTS-studio: ElevenLabs-style voice cloning + NotebookLM-style podcast generation, but local
- Clone any voice with just a 3-second audio sample
- Fine-tune parameters (temperature, top-k, top-p) with quality presets
- Generate complete podcasts from just a topic – AI writes the script, assigns voices, and synthesizes everything
- 10 languages supported (Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
Currently uses gpt5.2 for script generation, but the architecture is modular – you can swap in any local LLM (Qwen, Llama, etc.) if you want fully local.
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Israel Forcing Doctors Without Borders To Shut Down Gaza Operations by February 28
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Lots of times my local cops (small Ontario town) will flash the lights to go through a red light they don't want to wait for, then then them off once through and on the other side.
You can always tell the real emergencies by their speed.
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And please stop deflecting with "the West did way worse" arguments. To me, China is just as bad as the West.
stop deflecting with “the West did way worse” arguments.
It's not deflection dipshit. Why is the US arming ETIM separatist terrorists? What is the PRC supposed to do when you have radicalized islamists running around killing people in your opinion? Bomb a random country like the US did amrite?
Not to mention you don't really need slavery when your minimum wage is like 3 euros an hour and unpaid overtime is the norm anyway, at least in office work
China's doing this capitalism thing way better than the west. We should really learn from them. For example if the US abolished auto unions and increased manufacturing subsidies, they could lower wages and deliver cars for more competitive prices instead of having to rely solely on tariffs on Chinese EVs.
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Why not just say you're against solarpunk? Why try to twist solarpunk to be something it's not?
Have you forgotten all about me:
Seaguy05
in reply to David Gerard • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to Seaguy05 • • •TranscendentalEmpire
in reply to Seaguy05 • • •I mean, what's the worst that could happen? They'd just burn up in the atmosphere. More than likely the government would just take possession of the system if they had a critical dependency on them.
self
in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • • •GreyEyedGhost
in reply to self • • •For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.
From this article:
Understanding the misunderstood Kessler Syndrome
Jon Kelvey (Aerospace America)self
in reply to GreyEyedGhost • • •When Space Junk Fell on My Neighbor’s Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us
Scientific Americanself
in reply to self • • •anyone else who wants to tell me “for the millionth time” about how it’s super safe to fill low-earth orbit with unprecedented amounts of literal garbage in pursuit of creating a shit-tier ISP that’s sucked hard every time I’ve used it is welcome to take it up with the professor of astronomy that wrote that last article
“it’s not Kessler syndrome unless it’s from the Kessler region of space, otherwise it’s just sparkling Rods from God” fuck you
anyone else who wants to tell me “for the millionth time” about how it’s super safe to fill low-earth orbit with unprecedented amounts of literal garbage in pursuit of creating a shit-tier ISP that’s sucked hard every time I’ve used it is welcome to take it up with the professor of astronomy that wrote that last article
“it’s not Kessler syndrome unless it’s from the Kessler region of space, otherwise it’s just sparkling Rods from God” fuck you
Prof. Sam Lawler
2024-07-11 14:42:09
V0ldek
in reply to self • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to V0ldek • • •@techtakes If you want high latency, nothing beats telnet from the UK to a server in California via a comsat in GEO back in the early 90s when the trans-Atlantic cable circuit was down. A three-phase TCP exchange has to crawl up to GEO, 35,000km above the equator, and back down *three times*, never mind the surface level routing.
Gave me a strong appreciation for Berkeley vi's designed-in ability to cope with slow modems.
ramenshaman
in reply to David Gerard • • •mech
in reply to ramenshaman • • •Musk wants to leverage that by intertwining SpaceX with his other shitty businesses, to protect them as well.
Charlie Stross
in reply to mech • • •@techtakes Having SpaceX take over X is going to backfire explosively real soon now: France isn't the only government investigating X for election meddling and peddling child pornography, and it could take down SpaceX's ability to do business in countries that would otherwise be buying launch capacity:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3ex9…
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
Liv McMahon (BBC News)