Brent ToderianDec 29, 2022

REMEMBER: “Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in #Gizmodo

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

#Hyperloop #ElonMusk #California #Rail #cars #cities #urbanism #transit #transportation

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

Gizmodo
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@BrentToderian @parismarx @quinta
And so many European Musk boys went crazy for it, ridiculising me publicly when I asked critical questions after their muscular promotional talks.
Dec 30, 2022 at 8:43amWeb
Show threadquinta - Stefano QuintarelliDec 30, 2022
@vanderbeeken @BrentToderian @parismarx eu regulators tended to believe in good faith all fakes were fed them. now they learned
Show threadMark VanderbeekenDec 30, 2022
@quinta @BrentToderian @parismarx Not so sure though. The latest totem of European religious tech belief is nuclear energy, and many are the target of the same attempts at ridiculisation of critical thinking. This ought to be read by all: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

The long read: Nothing is produced at Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one

The Guardian