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@[email protected] Here's your "rich kid" fixing his always-broken-down car in #Canada while at #QueensCollege, which he was only able to attend because he got a full scholarship. His mother (who wasn't wealthy at all) helped him all she could, and he converted the house he was renting into a club on the weekends to pay the rent.
There's a million *legitimate* things to attack Elon over. You don't have to resort to a fake history to do so.
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2. #Spodumene, mined from high ore-grade low-toxicity igneous rock - the largest portion coming from a single #Australian mine (Greenbushes)
3. #Nevada lithium clays, an emerging resource.
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This tiny amount of (not rare) #lithium is primarily produced from either sun-dried brine or high-grade low-toxicity ore (#spodumene), primarily one mine in #Australia (Greenbushes) - though #Nevada clays are an emerging resource, and there's an inexhaustible supply in seawater.
1) Lithium (non-potable) brine is pumped to the surface, sun-dried to concentrate lithium, hauled off to elsewhere to refine for Li and other useful minerals, and the left-over salt returns to brine when it rains next.
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@Timmy Contrary to popular myth, lithium is quite abundant. In the crust, it's more common than lead, and more importantly, concentrates nicely (brine, #spodumene, salt-rich clays, etc). There's enough in #Nevada alone to convert every vehicle in the US to electric. Estimates for seawater extraction (enough for quadrillions of #EVs) have dropped from $25/kg a decade ago to $5/kg now. It's only not used because land resources are even cheaper. #Lithium is only 1-3% of a #battery anyway.
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The (mild) #Tesla shareholder resolution I submitted has been accepted. I'd say "accepted for inclusion in the proxy materials", except that they still might fight it (they successfully fought one off from me last year). Fingers crossed.
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CW: Opinion of Elno’s behaviour
@RichardSiggs If you encounter Tesla shareholders, consider trying to convince them to get involved in #ShareholderActivism to weaken Elon's control over the company (he only owns 17%; retirement funds own most of it. His control is simply due to others being too afraid to check his power). I'd be willing to assist them in drafting and submitting resolutions.
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@Tob_Sch I look forward to (and actually am working to bring about, via #ShareholderActivism) #Musk getting kicked off the board and out of the CEO role.
But this has nothing whatsoever to do with *the car*. Which remains *by far* the best vehicle I have ever purchased or even driven. Wonderful ownership experience, and my next car will definitely be a #Tesla as well.
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@TheExecutiveEditor This wouldn't happen overnight. But over the course of years it would slowly rot the company from within. That's why, while I'm very positive on Tesla's status and future, I think it's important to decreasingly separate #ElonMusk from being the public face of #Tesla. #CTO is fine. But it's damaging to be seen as "The #Elon Company" when he's acting this way in public.
It's why I'm involved in #ShareholderActivism
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@josephby Hmm. Without looking things up:
* He was at nearly 1/4th of Tesla shares last I checked - did he really go down that far? Haven't checked.
* Weren't supermajority provisions overturned?
* He has no current pay package.
That said, yes, I strongly encourage #ShareholderActivism activism, and will even help other #Tesla stockholders draft and submit resolutions.
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I wrote this over on #Birdsite, but since there's a different crowd here, it bears repeating:
For any #Tesla shareholders who want to see change at Tesla:
Send me a DM and I'll help you craft and submit a shareholder proposal for inclusion in the next proxy statement (final date: 22 December, but don't wait).
I have some experience on this front.
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CW: AI Art - backend tech development
Jesus Christ - "Our two-stage distillation approach is able to generate realistic images using only 1 to 4 #denoising steps on various tasks. Compared to the standard classifier-free guided diffusion models, ***we reduce the total number of sampling steps by at least 20X***."
Model coming soon for #StableDiffusion!
https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1598131202044866560/photo/1
(Hopefully it won't be insanely slow per-step, or glitch-prone)
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@Timmy ... roof has great potential on new construction, I question its viability on retrofits, and the long scaleup opens up the path to competitors.
But what I think the market HEAVILY undervalues is #GridScaleStorage.
Right now, there is a quiet revolution going on in electricity grids: large battery facilities are killing the traditional grid services market, with far better economics - limited only by the extremely tight supply of grid-scale #batteries.
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CW: THE BIGGEST WIN OF UKRAINE IS THIS OF KHERSON
@Jorge_Irraizoz "Hey Google, show me the Nazi #DmitriUtkin, the founder of Putin's personal arms-length militia, #WagnerGroup - who named the group after his callsign, who he chose because #Wagner was #Hitler's favourite composer.
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@[email protected] Out of curiosity, are you hearing anything about the turbine issues at #Oskarshamn?
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Now, rise-over-run, that's a #FloatingPoint operation.
But *of course* you can't do that. You're running on a single-threaded #CPU (no #GPU) with no lookahead; everything blocks, and floating point ops block for a LONG time. So instead you're going to have integers mimick floating point (#FixedPoint)Okay, so you check to see when they're going over a certain remainder value and you should move up or down one row of #pixels? OF COURSE you don't have time for that.
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On #Bluesky, a few months ago, #XKCD author Randall Munroe wrote a long story about the "Case of the Missing Hit", a song with the chorus "#LOL" with specific lyrics and style aspects, which other people seem to have also heard - yet the song doesn't seem to exist.
https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post/3kjjp4fybbb2s
Or at least, didn't until it suddenly showed up ;)
#Music #Dance #Pop #Electronic #Borges #Tlön #Uqbar #OrbisTertius
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CW: #Birdsite #DumpsterFire
I just don't understand why the #advertizers are fleeing... 😂
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@brianstorms @1loafofmeat I think people completely skimmed over how aggressive #Tesla's production plans are on #Semi - ramping to 50k in 2024. That's like a quarter of the entire US #semitruck market.
Tesla is a great company - for a long time it was a magnet for the best and brightest, ideologues who wanted to change the world. But it's headed by a bloody arsonist at this point.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] What's challenging sbout 17x17, out of curiosity?
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This was not the #song I planned to make/release next, but since the song I've been working on has been delayed waiting for #Ukrainian pronunciation review and its music video, this one called...
"All Happy Families"
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@Timmy No need to discuss #alumium or #manganese (if you're not familiar with the latter, it's the most common alloying agent in #steel - it's everywhere).
#Cobalt usage has been steadily declining (a couple decades ago it was as high a % as the #nickel), and there's hope it will be entirely eliminated in the coming years - but as for now it's still in use. Cobalt is the most expensive of the metals (offset by its low percentage), which is a major factor driving the work to eliminate it.
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@Timmy As the #LFP patents have been expiring, and it uses no nickel, its use has been increasing dramatically (despite giving lower range, and some other disadvantages).
For longer range, one uses, as mentioned, the nickel-based chemistries. These #cathodes are mixed metal oxides, usually in the ballpark of 80% (or higher) nickel, 10% (or lower) #cobalt, and 10% (or lower) #alumium or #manganese.
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@tomstoreboe @elonmusk Next on the list are the current collector foils:
* Anode: #copper foil
* Cathode: #alumium foil
Then you have the separator membrane, which is a thin layer of plastic between the cathode and anode in the jelly roll.
Very last on the list are #lithium and the various electrolyte additives.
There is NOTHING worse about the composition of a battery than the various minerals, alloying agents, coatings, etc etc that make up an ICE car.
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But this of course means *further* special casing your lines to deal with lines whose length is not divisible by four.
Now maybe you're joining us at a time when someone else has already published such an #algorithm freely in a way that you're allowed to copy (which isn't always guaranteed). Well, you're constantly looking for an edge over others, so you're still going to be poring over the #code looking for #LeftBrain tricks to speed it up. Or the hardware will change and now a different...
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4) #Pollution is not just about the "what", but also the "where". While #CO2 lasts for centuries, most pollutants have short lifespans - hours to weeks; if it has to circle the globe before it's breathed, it's not going to exist anymore. #Power plants not only have centralized #scrubbers, but also emit #pollutants at altitude in remote areas, instead of ground level in #cities.
A confluence of factors leads to #EV #emissions being *much* lower.
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@fly4dat And next year an ever-growing percent will be the more-desirable, no-10%-tariff no-international-shipping #GigaBerlin vehicles, so what's the European bear case?
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@fly4dat So, in a quarter of record production, #Tesla's #European inventory is mostly sold out only ~60% into the quarter (this being *before* #GigaBerlin, which doesn't have to pay 10% import tariffs and whose output is more locally desirable than Tesla's #Chinese imports, ramps). Weren't you spending the first half of this quarter talking about how there was no demand in Europe?
