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Matthew Klippenstein (he/him)
Matthew Klippenstein (he/him)
@klippenstein.bsky.social
Canadian engineer; early Tesla fan turned early Tesla critic. Peripatetic: H2, FC, wind, EVs & infra; eNGO to corporate, R&D to manufacturing, cost-down to collective action; plus comics and a stage play. Opinions own. Blog: https://eclectic-lip.ghost.io
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hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?
$TSLAQ Seems like the only coverage. Hopefully incorrect. Google Gemini claimed not to find showtimes for this weekend, so… 🤷 @niedermeyer.online www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
$TSLAQ Seems like the only coverage. Hopefully incorrect. Google Gemini claimed not to find showtimes for this weekend, so… 🤷 @niedermeyer.online www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
@montanaskeptic.bsky.social is Bethany McLean the journalist who exposed Enron? www.inc.com/bethany-mcle...
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"The 26-year-old Tesla driver from San Francisco stopped and cooperated with police, providing dash cam footage CHP said. 'The driver stated the vehicle was being operated in Full Self-Driving (FSD) autonomous mode at the time of the crash,' CHP said..." www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does
Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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“Who helped Elon finance Twitter when he bought it? Larry Ellison,” Malone said. “How did Larry Ellison come up with some of the money to put into the creation of Skydance? Tesla stock. And I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement.”
“.. I predict .. that you’ll see a global output deal for Skydance with SpaceX, and an investment by SpaceX into Skydance, to delever Skydance and take a little bit of the burden off .. Ellison’s shoulders, because he’s taking on a pretty big pile of debt.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Going live with the one and only @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social in 30 minutes, exclusively on the AT Protocol! Join us for a discussion of his new documentary film "MUSK," storytelling and journalism in the Musk era, and the battle to hold the powerful accountable. stream.place/niedermeyer.online
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You don't have to do this, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. It's a choice. They want to defund you. They think you're a propaganda arm of an evil government. You will never win them over by showing them grace when they show absolutely none towards you.
Alberta separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre starts railing against the “new world order and globalism” on CBC News Network’s live broadcast just now
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@montanaskeptic.bsky.social we’d talked about who the Dems should run in 2028 (you liked Rahm, IIRC?). I wasn’t sure then; Ossoff looks promising now. Like el-Sayed, he seems like a left populist who rejects “purity” and punches back. I still love AOC o/c. 😊
Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday… oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one endured two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its five month high.
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SpaceX senior manager for global government affairs is about to testify before NYC Council tech committee after the co. skipped a 10/5 hearing and shirked a subpoena to testify... www.cnbc.com/2026/10/16/s... I'm listening so you don't have to.
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yes, even your old Tesla with the bumper sticker is helping prop up Elon Musk's empire every time you charge the racism, the Putin enabling, the data centers choking black neighborhoods with pollution... you own a little piece of it all every time you plug in insideevs.com/news/811797/...
Got dejected reading this illuminating @volts.wtf interview with @goodpowerhq.bsky.social -- from realizing Elon Musk's disinformation playbook uses the same strategies. 😔 @niedermeyer.online @lorak.bsky.social www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-res...
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Alex Gibney gave me a shout-out on Kara Swisher's podcast, which is absolutely hilarious because she's had me blocked on here for ages youtu.be/LUjirxMzFqQ?...
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According to Trump Admin, the recklessly performative search of Ihlan Omar is about immigration fraud. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u... Perhaps now would be a good time to search Elon Musk's home as part of an investigation into his original immigration status.
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Replying to @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
my point here is not that David Brooks is a hypocrite. My point is that David Brooks is a shitty, prissy little scold who just wants to lash out at Democrats and doesn't care whether he has a real reason to or not and is too fucking stupid to consider for a moment how dumb his position is.
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just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
The party is now turning to the man who has been the go-to person for those suffering from spontaneous contractions of the right arm, and who has already provided them with strong support in recent years.
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I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.
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How long are we going to pretend that the world's richest man being the largest promoter of Nazism since Adolf Hitler and that made him a trillionaire, for a few days, isn't a random trivia fact but the indictment of our age?
Elon Musk has repeatedly used his platform to support authoritarian political figures. His backing of the AfD, Marine Le Pen, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele has been accompanied by interventions in Brazil, Italy and Hungary, as well as direct involvement in the UK’s far-right political landscape.
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2/ The Trump Administration has awarded Musk's companies with massive contracts & offered them endless regulatory indulgences. Democrats, who for years praised Musk and helped his fraud festival get its start, had better have longer memories than a fruit fly if they regain Congressional power.
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Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
@keubiko.bsky.social New chart formation just dropped. 😏