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While The Guardian is the most openly aggressive against Elon Musk, the AP is more dangerous in some ways because its framing gets treated as neutral fact and spreads everywhere.
On June 19, Elon posted one clear sentence:
“The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me.”
Just today, it was reported that Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna accused Elon Musk of sentencing 4.5 million children around the world to death by cutting USAID funding.
This is the kind of extreme, reckless lie that gets normalized when media outlets like the Associated Press repeatedly frame Elon as a dangerous global actor.
The AP may not shout the accusations itself, but it helps sow the seeds for the kind of hatred and lies that people like Ro Khanna then feel comfortable peddling in public.
While the Guardian in the UK has been the loudest, the Associated Press has been the most effective at spreading dangerous framing of Elon.
In 2025, the AP published a report that accused Elon of “elevating far-right figures on three continents.” The piece presented his interactions with various political leaders and voices as evidence of him boosting extremism around the world. Because the AP is a wire service, that language didn’t stay in one place. It was picked up and republished by newspapers, local news sites, and broadcasters across the entire world.
This is how the narrative spreads without appearing extreme. When the AP frames Elon as systematically lifting up dangerous people, so it gives other outlets permission to go further. It turns political disagreements and platform decisions into so-called evidence of a global threat.
Defenders will say the AP is simply reporting on Elon’s political activity and holding a powerful person to account. That defense is easily dismantled.
The AP piece purposely refrained from treating Elon’s support for certain elected leaders or his criticism of open borders and DEI as normal political positions held by millions of people. Instead it grouped them under the label of elevating “far-right figures.” This is the same tactic we’ve seen elsewhere. Legacy media takes real actions and statements, strips away context, and places them inside the most toxic category possible.
The damage comes from the reach. When a wire service runs this framing, it becomes background noise in newsrooms everywhere. Local reporters and editors treat it as established fact. Over time, the public gets trained to see Elon not as a businessman or free speech platform owner, but as someone who is actively making the world dangerous.
This fits the exact pattern Elon described. You do not need to scream “Nazi” in every headline to contribute to the environment he warned about. You can do it quietly by repeatedly linking someone to extremism through selective framing and wide distribution. The result is the same: the target starts to look like someone who deserves extreme opposition. This is how Charlie Kirk was killed.
The AP may not seem as openly aggressive as The Guardian, but its role is just as useful to the overall effort if not more. The AP lends an appearance of neutrality while pushing the same core story that Elon and his platform represent a serious threat that must be confronted.
You can see how this works. One outlet pushes the strongest language. Another spreads a milder version of the same framing to a much wider audience. Together they build the permission structure that makes hostility toward Elon feel reasonable to violent people.
The Guardian published two articles in June 2026 that directly linked Elon Musk to racist violence and far-right mobilization. This piece breaks down how their reporting follows a clear pattern of dehumanization.
On June 19, Elon Musk posted one clear sentence:
“The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me.”
Two days earlier, The Guardian published an editorial and a news article which demonstrate exactly how this works.
In a June 10 editorial, the Guardian published that after a stabbing in Northern Ireland, far-right agitators called crowds onto the streets. It named Tommy Robinson as one of them. Then it added Elon: “So was Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, whose platform helped mobilise racist fury.”
Then the article went further. It reminded readers that Elon once spoke at a rally organised by Robinson. It quoted Elon saying people should “fight back or you die” against uncontrolled migration, noted that he reposted the line, and called him “one especially powerful and ideologically fixated oligarch.” The Guardian (which is supposed to be the Guardian of the people) accused Elon of helping spread “a far-right worldview twisted with paranoia and racist hysteria” that is now moving from online to the streets.
Another Guardian article published the same day carried the same message. It linked Elon and X to posts that supposedly incited violence in Belfast. It highlighted his reposts about fighting back and framed his platform as a driver of the unrest.
These are not careful reports, but they are designed to make you think they are. Meanwhile they directly tie Elon to racist violence and the spread of dangerous extremism.
A leaked internal document from the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows the same pattern in writing. The group, co-founded by Morgan McSweeney (Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff), listed “Kill Musk’s Twitter” as one of its top annual priorities, along with triggering UK and EU regulatory action against the platform. Screenshots of that document have been circulating. When people in and around the British government are openly planning to kill Elon’s platform, the Guardian’s framing stops looking like normal journalism and starts looking like part of the same effort.
Defenders claim The Guardian is just reporting on dangerous online activity and holding a powerful platform owner to account. That excuse and everything the Guardian writes about Elon is easily dismantled.
The articles name Elon as a key person who helped mobilise racist fury. They reach back a year to one speech and treat his warnings about mass immigration as part of the violence. They ignore the actual stabbing that started the unrest and the years of failed migration policies that created the anger in the first place. The Guardian could easily do neutral reporting on dangerous posts. Instead they are placing the blame for street violence on one man.
The demand for “accountability” is also selective. Elon’s platform allows strong speech after events like this. It also allows massive amounts of criticism of those same views. The real ask here is not accountability. It is pressure to censor the kind of opinions The Guardian dislikes.
This fits a clear pattern. The Guardian has already run pieces claiming Elon’s posts are “indiscernible from those of white supremacists.” Every few months they attach him to the worst possible labels and real-world unrest. The goal is always the same: make Elon look like a threat so extreme that normal rules no longer apply to him.
Elon said the Nazi label is used to encourage people to murder him. The Guardian’s two articles from June 10 show one way this happens. They don’t need to say the word “murder.” They only need to keep telling readers that Elon is helping spread racist violence and far-right hysteria. Once enough people accept that, the next step becomes easier for those who want to take it.
It is clear as day to see what they are doing. They are not debating policy or platform rules. They are building a story that turns one man into the cause of violence so the label sticks and the hostility feels justified.
That is the tactic Elon named: “The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me.”
Date: September 16, 2013 Location: Butte, Montana (Montana Tech campus) Event: 6th Montana Economic Development Summit (also called Montana Jobs Summit) Organized by: U.S. Senator Max Baucus
Introduction & Context (for 2026 readers)
In September 2013, Elon Musk was 42 years old and running two companies that had both nearly gone bankrupt just five years earlier during the 2008 financial crisis.
At the time, Tesla had only recently begun production of the Model S. The car had just launched and was receiving strong early reviews, but the company was still fragile and not yet profitable. SpaceX had achieved its first orbital success in 2008 and won NASA contracts, but it was still a relatively small player in the launch industry. Elon was deeply focused on making both companies succeed and was already thinking about reusability for rockets — a goal he would publicly emphasize more in the years that followed.
Elon lived in the Los Angeles area at the time (primarily in Bel Air), splitting his time between Tesla’s operations in the Bay Area and SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
He was invited to speak in Butte, Montana by longtime U.S. Senator Max Baucus, who had been organizing these economic development summits to bring high-profile business leaders to rural Montana. The goal was to attract investment, create jobs, and put Montana “on the map” for technology and manufacturing.
A key reason Elon accepted the invitation was that SpaceX already had a supplier relationship with a Butte company called SeaCast. The company made cast titanium and Inconel components for SpaceX rocket engines. Elon even visited the SeaCast foundry with his five children during the trip, an experience he mentions at the beginning of the talk.
The audience consisted of:
Montana business owners and executives
Local political and economic development leaders
Students and faculty from Montana Tech
Investors and entrepreneurs interested in bringing more industry to the state
Supporters of Senator Baucus’s efforts to boost Montana’s economy
It was not a tech conference or a large public event — it was a targeted economic development summit in a small city in Montana.
Transcript
Elon Musk: All right, well thanks very much for having me. I actually just came from C Cast, which is they make cast titanium and Inconel parts for the SpaceX rocket engines. And I actually brought all my five kids who are sitting right there. So they got to see steel being poured and then titanium being poured as well and creating sophisticated castings. They seem pretty excited about that. It was kind of like Charlie in the Metal Factory, I guess.
So let’s see, I guess I’ll maybe talk a bit about entrepreneurship and technology, tell you about my experiences and what happened to me. And then I think we’re going to try to reserve as much time as possible for a Q&A from the audience. Certainly feel free to ask any and every question.
I’ll kind of give the nutshell account because it’s getting a little bit long at this point.
Elon Musk: I arrived in North America when I was about 17. I was born in South Africa, but I was actually named after my American great-grandfather. So I was returning to my ancestral homeland actually. He was John Elon Haldeman and he was from Minnesota and generally from the Minnesota-Wisconsin area.
I wanted to come to the United States because I think it’s where great things are possible. It’s where the technological frontiers are pushed forward. I knew I wanted to be involved in that. I don’t know exactly how, but anyway I went through college and ended up at Stanford with the idea of studying applied physics and material science to try to figure out ways to store energy more effectively for electric cars so you can make them go further.
I ended up putting that on hold to start an internet company in ’95.
Elon Musk: At the time it wasn’t from the perspective of making a lot of money because nobody had made any money on the internet in ’95. But it seemed to me that the internet was something that would create effectively like a nervous system for humanity. Whereas previously if you wanted to access information you’d have to go to a library, and even if you went to a lot of libraries you still wouldn’t have access to all that much information.
But if everything got connected, then anyone anywhere — if you’re in the middle of the Amazon jungle in South America or something and you had an internet connection — you’d have access to all the world’s information. In fact you’d have access to more information than the U.S. president did in, let’s say, 1980. So it’d be pretty incredible and transformative.
I thought well I wanted to be part of helping make that happen. So I decided to put my studies at Stanford on hold and started an internet company initially to help the media companies get online. We had as investors and customers New York Times company and so forth, and that ended up working out. So we sold that company and then created PayPal.
The idea behind PayPal was simply to facilitate payments on the internet. Because at the time if you bought something from someone you’d have to mail them a check and it would take weeks to conduct the transfer. We figured out how to make it really fast and easy to transfer funds from one person to another. And that actually grew super fast. It grew virally. The key to that was figuring out how to make the friction of signing up for an account very very low and make it easy for one person to refer another.
As our customer base grew, the actual rate of growth grew. This resulted in some initial challenges in scaling because we started off with five people in customer service and after two months we had 100,000 customers. So our phone lines exploded basically, but we were able to overcome those issues. And then eBay bought the company in 2002 and it’s sort of grown from there.
Elon Musk once considered building a Mars Oasis with a Greenhouse!
Elon Musk: What that did though was gave me the capital to try to do some things that are fairly high capital. There were two things I really wanted to get into. One was sustainable energy production and consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, and the other was space exploration.
I started off initially with the idea of doing something in the space exploration arena. In fact it wasn’t actually with the idea of creating a company. It was initially with the thought of spurring interest in sending people to Mars. So I put together this idea called Mars Oasis which was to send a small greenhouse to the surface of Mars and get people excited about the idea of going there and thus increase NASA’s budget in order to make it happen.
Elon Musk considered building a Mars Oasis in a cool Greenhouse
As I got more and more into that I discovered that the real issue was that the cost of space transportation was really high — in fact it was getting worse. We’re used to technology getting better every year but in some arenas it actually does not, it gets worse. Particularly when you consider that in 1969 we were able to go to the moon and then we were unable to go beyond low Earth orbit. And now with the Space Shuttle retired we’re not even able to go to Earth orbit at all with people. So that was not the right trajectory.
Elon Musk went to Russia Three Times!
I actually went to Russia three times to look at buying an ICBM to launch this mission. After my third trip of trying to negotiate with the Russians to buy an ICBM — and I did actually get a deal — I concluded that my initial assumption had been wrong. It was not a question of trying to generate more will to explore, because I think the United States in particular is distillation of the human spirit of exploration. Space exploration is fundamental to the American psyche. But people really need to believe that it can be done and it’s not going to break the bank.
That’s when I decided to start a rocket company. I actually didn’t think it would succeed and it almost didn’t. We started off developing a small rocket which was kind of a scale model version. It was about 100,000 lbs of thrust — big by normal standards but small for a rocket. We developed the engine and the airframe and the electronics and the guidance control system and then proceeded to have three failed launches in a row.
For various technical reasons the first three launches did not succeed in reaching orbit. Launches 2 and 3 did get to space but they didn’t achieve enough speed to reach orbital velocity. This is 2008 and we’re heading into the recession and we had one rocket left. Unfortunately in late 2008 that fourth launch did work and then we made it to orbit and then we won a NASA contract after that. So fortunately things worked out, but if that fourth launch had not worked then SpaceX wouldn’t be around. It was a very close call.
Elon Musk: There was also Tesla. The impetus for Tesla was really to create a compelling electric car. At first I thought there would not really be a need for such a thing because GM at the time had created the EV1 and Toyota had done the electric RAV4. It had been primarily as a result of regulations from the zero emission mandate states, particularly California. They created these electric vehicles and I thought okay this is great, well GM’s obviously going to go from the EV1 to the EV2 and the EV3 and everything will be fine.
But when California changed regulations they actually recalled all the EV1s and then crushed them so that they could never be returned. So it was clear that if a startup company did not create an electric vehicle and show that it’s possible to have an electric car that looks good, goes fast, has long range, and that people would buy it, then it would be a very long time before the large incumbents did so. That was why I felt it was important that we create Tesla.
Tesla also almost died in 2008. The recession was particularly difficult for car companies. Right in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round but because of the collapse in the financial system that funding round didn’t happen. We had to piece together the money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to just complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going. We closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6 p.m. If we hadn’t, the investors were going on vacation and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas. That was also a close call.
While things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times that’s the difference between success and failure.
Elon Musk: Of course now things are actually going pretty well for Tesla — may they stay that way. We’ve got the Model S which is in production. Consumer Reports gave it a 99 out of 100, which is actually the highest score that Consumer Reports has ever given a car of any kind. When the federal government did the safety test it also got the highest safety rating of any car ever, including many vans and SUVs.
We’re actually exporting a lot of the cars to Europe currently and then we’ll start exporting to Asia. It’s funny, we got these incredibly good rates for shipping goods to China because all these container ships come in full and they go back empty, so it’s real cheap to ship things to China. We’ll start doing that in the first quarter.
With SpaceX we’ve got a launch coming up which is our next generation rocket. The key thing for rocketry, the key breakthrough that’s needed, is to create a fully reusable rocket. I think what SpaceX has done thus far is evolutionary but not revolutionary. In order for that to occur you have to bring the rocket back to the launchpad and be able to relaunch it again. It has to be reusable much in the way that an airplane or a car or any other mode of transport is reusable. That’s kind of the Holy Grail goal of spaceflight which we’re hoping to make progress towards, but it’s very risky. There’s a good chance that the upcoming launch could go wrong. It’s currently slated for the end of this month. Hopefully that goes well. It’s always a tricky thing with the rocket business because you can’t issue a recall or send a software patch or anything after the rocket lifts off. Nine minutes later it’s either in orbit or it’s not.
Q&A Highlights with Elon Musk
Elon Musk: (responding to audience questions)
On influencing public policy: Not particularly successful at influencing public policy I would say. I kind of ride the flow of other people’s efforts more than anything else. For electric vehicles we basically followed what GM and Nissan were already doing with the tax credits. For space I think NASA should spend a much higher percentage of its budget on commercial space. Right now it’s only about seven or eight percent.
On getting through dark times: The thing about dark times is that a company is really just a group of people that are trying to create a product or a service. If you believe that what you’re doing is important and you show that you’re all in — you invested everything you had, you borrowed money to pay rent — and you hire people who are really passionate about it, then they’ll stay through the tough times.
On why sustainable energy matters: Even if you ignore the environmental argument, which I don’t think you should, the economic argument is pretty strong. Because if we run out of cheap energy or energy becomes very expensive then civilization as we know it could collapse. So I think it’s the most important problem to solve on Earth this century.
On SpaceX’s ultimate goal: The goal is to make life multi-planetary, to create the technology to have a self-sustaining city on Mars basically as life insurance for consciousness and also because it’s an exciting thing to do.
On risk tolerance: I was willing to lose everything but I figured I could always make more money. The hardest decision was having to choose between putting the last money into Tesla or SpaceX, because if I split it both would probably die. So I had to go all in on one.
(The Q&A continued with additional questions on grid storage, involving young people, building tech economies in rural areas, government regulations, and long-duration space travel challenges.)
For many years, Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley carried the difficult reputation of being among the poorest regions in the United States. High poverty rates shaped daily life for families across Cameron County for decades. In the 1990s, the area was even designated a federal Rural Empowerment Zone in recognition of these long-standing challenges.
Today, the trajectory is changing.
Poverty rates in Cameron County have been declining steadily. They fell from the mid-30s percent range around 2010 to 28.9% in the 2015–2019 period, and now stand at 24.8% according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data (2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates). While the rate is still higher than state and national averages, the consistent downward trend reflects real, measurable progress.
A New Wave of Investment and Job Creation
Recent data from the Greater Brownsville Economic Development Corporation’s FY 2025 Annual Impact Report shows strong momentum. Between October 2024 and September 2025, the organization helped attract $183.7 million in new investment and supported the creation of 3,288 jobs. The report also shows 10,604 jobs retained during that period and 7,116 jobs already committed for 2026.
Chart: Greater Brownsville EDC FY 2025 Key Economic Highlights
Greater Brownsville EDC FY 2025 Annual Impact Report: $183.7 million in new investment, 3,288 jobs created, and 7,116 jobs committed for 2026, highlighting strong economic growth in Brownsville driven in part by SpaceX Starbase.
These figures reflect broad economic activity across the region, with SpaceX’s Starbase playing a significant role as a major anchor project. Starbase has brought thousands of direct jobs to the area and has helped attract suppliers and related investment. This type of large-scale development is helping address long-standing needs for stable employment and skills development in Brownsville and surrounding communities.
Local voices are also noticing the change. Former Brownsville City Councilwoman Jessica Tetreau, speaking at Starbase beach at sunset, described the shift she has witnessed in her own community:
“Before, in the past in Brownsville, people would talk about the brain drain — how all of our youth would have to leave to San Antonio, to Austin to find jobs… And now these young people that are from the community are finding these amazing jobs.”
She shared that in her own neighborhood, parents are now working at SpaceX, and children are growing up excited about launches and rocket engineering — “just like their fathers.”
“The kids that are graduating from UTRGV and local universities — they’re coming to work here. It’s really exciting. Engineering is now one of the hottest and exciting things to have in this area.”
Direct Support for Education and Downtown Renewal
In addition to job creation, there has been targeted investment in the community’s future. In 2021, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation committed $30 million to the area — $20 million to schools across Cameron County and $10 million for the revitalization of downtown Brownsville.
Brownsville Independent School District received more than $2.4 million of the school funding. The money has supported the expansion of Career and Technical Education programs, helping prepare young people for the skilled jobs now available locally.
The downtown portion included a $1 million grant to the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation to strengthen the historic core of the city.
Here are examples of the renewal happening in downtown Brownsville today:
Main Street Deli — one of the welcoming new and refreshed businesses in downtown BrownsvilleRamblas, a popular downtown venue reflecting the growing energy in Brownsville’s historic district.Local bookstores and cultural spaces are contributing to the renewed atmosphere downtown.Dodici Pizza & Wine — examples of new businesses helping bring life and activity back to Brownsville’s streets.
A Community Moving Forward
Brownsville has always been a resilient place. In recent years, it has gained access to meaningful new employment opportunities, investment in education, and visible improvements in its downtown. These developments are helping lift families, create local wealth, and support the renewal of the community.
Challenges remain, as they do in any place working to overcome long-term economic hardship. But the direction is positive. New jobs are being created, young people are gaining access to better training, and the heart of the city is showing signs of renewal.
This is the quieter but very real story of progress happening in Brownsville today.
June 5, 2026 — Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a special JPMorgan investor event hosted by CEO Jamie Dimon at the bank’s global headquarters in New York as part of the SpaceX IPO Roadshow. Elon joined live (remotely) to discuss SpaceX’s upcoming IPO, the massive capital-intensive growth phase ahead, Starlink V3 and beyond, space-based AI data centers, harnessing “star power” for energy, the Moon-to-Mars roadmap, Starship reusability, Terafab chip ambitions, AI strategy with Grok, and building strong teams/culture. It was a wide-ranging, optimistic conversation about why now is the right time for SpaceX to go public and help make humanity multi-planetary.
Here is my full verbatim transcript (carefully stitched from the YouTube video with captions enabled, cross-checked against available sources including Singju Post for maximum accuracy and cleaned for readability while preserving natural speech patterns, repetitions, and tone):
Welcome and Maye Musk Introduction
Host: Elon, welcome to JP Morgan’s headquarters. You’re on the 51st floor, which is about the equivalent of nowhere near where you go generally in space, but as high as we can get in New York City. But before we get started with you and Jamie, we had a very special guest that wanted to welcome you here this afternoon. And so your mother, Maye Musk, is here to welcome you.
Elon Musk: Great.
Host: Maye, please stand up. I don’t think you can see me or everybody here.
Maye Musk: They can see you. Yes, he can. This is your part.
Elon Musk: I actually can’t see my mom, but I can hear her certainly. Okay.
Maye Musk: What I’d like to say is when you were 3 years old and I told people I have a genius son, they would roll their eyes… And then when you said you wanted to start with rockets, then I rolled my eyes. And then you did it. And so this is just a great party here and we’re celebrating.
Elon Musk: Sounds good. Love you so much.
Maye Musk: Love you too.
Host: One proud mama.
Jamie Dimon: So let me, Elon, welcome you. It’s a real privilege to have you here on this momentous occasion. It is new for us, but it’s an important thing — the trajectory of American innovation. We’re here live: 3,500 people, our top individual investors around the world in 100 branches. There are 350 people here, 3,500 around the country. This is a very unique thing, by the way, because Elon has spoken to me about democratizing finance. This is part of it — treating individual investors the same way institutions are treated and hedge funds and all those things. My view is it’s a wonderful thing to do. Elon, very brave by the way because I would never let my mother speak publicly when I was in the room. God knows what she would have said.
Elon Musk: God knows what she would have said. I had no idea she was there actually.
Jamie Dimon: Elon is the Edison of our time. I remember visiting Elon in Tesla like 15 years ago. A whole new way of building cars, vertical integration which had not been anything remote from what our car companies are doing. Now you have SpaceX. I visited the SpaceX factory in California and it’s exceptional to have more than 650 rockets. You told me one today putting satellites in space. You have 9,000, almost 10,000 Starlink satellites up there. Starlink 3 is coming which is a whole new generation which hopefully will replace some of these undersea cables. It’s been an extraordinary 24 years watching Elon grow over time and now making a massive leap into the future. So welcome. Elon, I have 10 questions for you. So I want to make sure I get to each one. Some of them came from folks here. They’re all important, but one just to start is: why SpaceX public now? Because you had choices. You didn’t have to. Why now?
Why Take SpaceX Public Now?
Elon Musk: Yeah. I’ve been asked for many years about taking SpaceX public. So it’s probably been, I don’t know, almost 10 years that people have been suggesting to me that I should take SpaceX public. We’ve been positive cash flow for quite a long time — I think since around 2014-2015 — and we’ve been self-funding. In fact, in our private equity rounds they actually have not been fundraising rounds. They’ve been liquidity rounds for investors and employees because we give everyone at the company stock, and SpaceX has actually bought back stock in most of our sort of funding events.
So what’s different about now is a number of things, but we are embarking on a significant growth phase — like a capital growth phase — where we’re going to put in orbit probably 100,000 satellites, or probably over 100,000 satellites just for communications. And these will be Version 3 and beyond versus Version 2 and Version 1 that are currently in orbit. Version 3 is, depending on how you count it, 10 to 20 times more capable than the Version 2 satellite. And there were three chips that the SpaceX chip design team taped out that are specific to this, that are far beyond state-of-the-art, which means it’s 100 times more bandwidth than the SpaceX Starlink system currently offers and also half the latency because the altitude will be about half.
I think it will actually be the highest bandwidth, lowest latency means of communicating. And the future with AI and robots is actually going to require a lot more bandwidth than we currently use. Because you can imagine what’s the bandwidth of a human? The peak bandwidth of a human is a few hundred bits per second, but bandwidth of a computer can be a trillion bits a second. So the appetite for bandwidth of AI and compute, AI and robots, is going to be enormous.
And then we’re also doing the AI data centers in space, which is another massive capital endeavor. But I think it’ll be the primary means by which AI can be expanded. It’s increasingly difficult to build power plants on the ground. There are very few people who want a power plant in their backyard. So if we wanted to, say, double the electricity usage of the United States, which is on average about 500 gigawatts, we would have to build about twice as many power plants, which I don’t think most communities are super excited about.
But actually, if we go to space, we can go far beyond the electricity generation of Earth. In fact, this is going to sound crazy, but you could actually increase harnessed energy by a factor of a million and still be using much less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy. Current human civilization uses much less than a trillionth of the Sun’s energy output, which is humbling to think about. We’re really a tiny dust mote in a vast darkness, and the Sun is enormous. The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system, and most of the remaining is Jupiter.
Sometimes people ask me — and I’m maybe going a little wide-ranging in this answer because you just asked me why you’re going public now, and I’m talking about the Sun’s power output. A bit of a long-winded answer. But it is important. Some of these things are important because people sometimes wonder what’s the future of energy generation. And I can say that it is absolutely solar power — or maybe a better word for solar power is star power. It’s the power of a star. And the crazy thing is that if you burnt all mass in the solar system that was not the Sun, the amount of energy produced by the Sun would still round up to 100%. Because the Sun is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Even if you teleported two more Jupiters from another solar system and burnt them too, the Sun would round up to 100%. It’s very much the Sun, and you could scale to a million times Earth’s economy in space in terms of harnessed power — which is a good proxy for economic output — and still be much less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy, which is humbling really to think about how tiny we are, and this is just one star among many. So I guess the TL;DR would be: we’re embarking on a massive new growth phase and we need capital for that.
Jamie Dimon: Okay. Number two. Another thing is the revenue — like I also feel pretty good about the revenue projections, but before, revenue was a little unstable, but now I feel like the revenue is much more predictable.
Elon Musk: Yeah.
Jamie Dimon: I always learn listening to you, I guarantee you. So I mean, people hear about multi-planetary species, travel to space — one of the most exciting ideas in human history. Can you explain the bridge that you speak about? I’ve heard you talk about from the Earth to the Moon to Mars.
Moon to Mars Roadmap
Elon Musk: Yeah. So you don’t necessarily have to go through the Moon to get to Mars. I just think that we can build a self-growing city on the Moon faster than we could do so on Mars. And there’s also the potential, if you say you want to scale far beyond what you can do from Earth, that because the Moon has no atmosphere and about 1/6th Earth’s gravity, you can use an electromagnetic accelerator — a rail gun or mass driver. Basically, you don’t need to use rockets to do AI data centers into deep space from the Moon. You can literally just shoot them like a rail gun type of thing. And you can manufacture the solar power and radiators on the Moon from Moon materials. That would allow scaling potentially to beyond a thousand terawatts a year, which is a truly staggering number. Like I think we can do probably somewhere around 1 terawatt per year of AI space compute from Earth, but we can do a thousand terawatts or more from the Moon. And like I said, we can also make a Moon base. And I think it would be pretty cool if you could vacation on the Moon. That would be the most epic vacation. Not everybody wants to go to the Moon, but I think a lot of people do. I think it would be pretty amazing — obviously provided you could do so safely and come back safely and everything — but I think that will be possible in the future. And then Mars is another step beyond that. Mars is a whole planet with gravity much closer to that of Earth. And it has an atmosphere, albeit thin. And if you warm up Mars, you could one day make Mars like Earth — meaning with liquid oceans and life and where you could walk outside without a space suit type of thing. So Mars is, I call it, a fixer-upper of a planet, but it’s got a lot of potential.
Key Takeaways
SpaceX IPO & Massive Growth Phase
SpaceX has been cash-flow positive and largely self-funding for years. Prior rounds focused on liquidity for employees and investors.
Going public now to fuel a huge capital-intensive expansion: 100,000+ Starlink satellites (V3+), space AI data centers, and multi-planetary infrastructure.
Starlink V3, Bandwidth & AI Future
V3 satellites offer dramatically higher capability, bandwidth, and lower latency.
Essential for the coming explosion in AI/robot compute demand.
Space Energy (“Star Power”) & Orbital AI Data Centers
Terrestrial power plant expansion faces huge social and practical limits.
Space-based solar and AI compute offer near-unlimited scaling potential.
Moon-to-Mars Roadmap
Moon as a faster path to self-sustaining presence and a launch platform for deep-space assets.
Mars as the ultimate long-term home with terraforming potential.
Starship, Chips & Broader Vision
Full rapid reusability on Starship is a historic milestone.
Vertical integration into advanced chip production (Terafab) to support orbital AI ambitions and reduce U.S. semiconductor vulnerabilities.
Elon’s Standout Quotes
“We’re really a tiny dust mote in a vast darkness… The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system.”
“It is absolutely solar power — or maybe a better word for solar power is star power. It’s the power of a star.”
“Version 3 is… 10 to 20 times more capable… 100 times more bandwidth.”
On the Moon: “I think it would be pretty cool if you could vacation on the Moon. That would be the most epic vacation.”
“Mars is a fixer-upper of a planet, but it’s got a lot of potential.”
My Take
I’m always struck by Elon’s generosity with his time and vision, even when it means late nights. The surprise appearance by Maye Musk was such a warm, human highlight — a proud mom moment that perfectly set the tone. This conversation really underscores that SpaceX going public isn’t just about rockets; it’s about scaling AI, energy, and making life multi-planetary. As someone who follows these developments closely from Austin, this one feels like another Elon Musk Master PLAN! Excited to see how the IPO roadshow and Starlink V3 progress unfold!
Au cours des deux dernières semaines, certains médias français ont amplifié des récits dépeignant Elon Musk comme vaincu au tribunal contre OpenAI, embourbé dans des enquêtes judiciaires sur X, et « furieux » face aux choix de casting à Hollywood. Ces narratifs le présentent comme erratique ou problématique. Pourtant, un examen plus attentif révèle un schéma d’outrage sélectif contre l’un des bâtisseurs les plus ambitieux de l’humanité, tandis que ses entreprises réalisent des avancées historiques.
Le Procès OpenAI : Une Position Philosophique, Pas une Défaite
Elon a cofondé OpenAI avec une mission claire : une IA sûre et ouverte pour le bénéfice de l’humanité. Il a alerté tôt sur les dérives vers le profit et les systèmes fermés. Bien que la récente décision du jury soit décevante, elle n’efface pas la validité de ses préoccupations, surtout alors qu’OpenAI se précipite vers une IPO à but lucratif avec le soutien massif de Microsoft. Le procès d’Elon a mis en lumière de vraies questions de gouvernance. Elon a déjà annoncé qu’il ferait appel de la décision devant la Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals en Californie. (Les vrais visionnaires défient les intérêts puissants ; l’histoire leur donne souvent raison.)
L’Enquête Française sur X : Liberté d’Expression contre Application Sélective
L’enquête française sur X concernant la modération de contenus, avec menaces de mandats d’arrêt, cible Elon pour avoir ouvert la plateforme à des voix diverses. Elon s’est défendu publiquement contre ce qu’il perçoit comme un acharnement politique.
Les critiques ignorent commodément que, avant Elon Musk, Twitter prenait de l’argent et du soutien gouvernemental de la part des gouvernements en échange de la permission de la censure. En fait, c’était vraiment de la censure sournoise. Des documents internes des Twitter Files montrent que le FBI a versé plus de 3,4 millions de dollars à l’ancien Twitter (entre 2019 et début 2021) pour le temps passé par son équipe Safety, Content & Law Enforcement à traiter les demandes des forces de l’ordre liées à la modération de contenus. Voir les révélations documentées ici.
Elon a délibérément rompu avec ce modèle le jour où il a acquis l’entreprise en octobre 2022. Il a immédiatement mis fin à tous ces arrangements de remboursement gouvernementaux, démantelé les équipes dédiées SCALE de modération qui traitaient les paiements, et éliminé complètement la pratique. X fonctionne désormais avec une dépendance nulle à tout financement gouvernemental lié à la modération de contenus. La plateforme publie des rapports de transparence annuels détaillés montrant exactement comment elle gère les demandes des forces de l’ordre tout en priorisant une transparence maximale et la quête de vérité plutôt que la censure.
Polémiques Culturelles et Titres Outrés
Les rapports sur les critiques d’Elon concernant le casting dans L’Odyssée de Christopher Nolan ont été présentés comme « haineux ». Elon s’oppose depuis longtemps aux quotas DEI forcés qui privilégient l’identité au mérite et à l’intégrité narrative. Questionner les choix artistiques défend l’excellence dans le storytelling. L’indignation des médias français contraste vivement avec les éloges pour les exploits d’ingénierie d’Elon.
La Vraie Histoire : Un Progrès Inarrêtable
Pendant que les critiques de salon se concentrent sur les procès et les tweets, les entreprises d’Elon livrent des résultats :
SpaceX prépare une introduction en bourse historique, avec des valorisations vers les trillions et des timelines ambitieuses pour Mars. Des médias français comme Le Monde et Les Echos saluent à juste titre son caractère spectaculaire.
Le récent test de vol intégré de Starship Version 3 (IFT-12) a validé des avancées critiques dans l’architecture de propulsion Raptor 3, incluant des variantes à plus forte poussée au niveau de la mer et en version vide, un volume accru des réservoirs de propergol et des systèmes de contrôle de réaction améliorés, tout en démontrant un hot-staging nominal, le déploiement d’un satellite factice en orbite et une rentrée contrôlée de précision avec amerrissage. Ces résultats marquent un progrès décisif vers la réutilisabilité complète et rapide du système de lancement super-lourd de 18 millions de livres de poussée et les capacités de transfert de propergol en orbite nécessaires aux architectures durables lunaires et martiennes. La direction de la NASA et les principaux experts aérospatiaux ont publiquement salué les données de vol itératives et la maturation du système.
Tesla continue de renforcer sa position à la fois dans les véhicules électriques et dans le stockage d’énergie à l’échelle du réseau en France. L’entreprise déploie des systèmes de stockage par batterie Megapack à grande échelle, notamment le projet de 240 MW / 480 MWh à Cernay-lès-Reims avec TagEnergy et le projet de 100 MW / 200 MWh à Cheviré près de Nantes. Ces installations exploitent la plateforme de gestion énergétique Autobidder de Tesla pour l’optimisation du réseau en temps réel et la régulation de fréquence. Parallèlement, Tesla a atteint un jalon mondial avec l’activation de son 80 000e stall Supercharger sur une station V4 étendue majeure en France, dotée de canopées solaires et d’une architecture de charge haute puissance.
Elon Musk portant son célèbre t-shirt « Nuke Mars » observe le test de vol intégré réussi de Starship Version 3 (IFT-12) aux côtés des membres de l’équipe SpaceX, dont Jared en contrôle de mission.
Il emploie des dizaines de milliers de personnes, a payé les impôts les plus élevés de l’histoire des États-Unis — plus de 11 milliards de dollars en une seule année — et SpaceX a effectué 165 lancements en 2025 seulement, acheminant plusieurs équipages de quatre astronautes chacun vers l’ISS via Dragon, tandis que la Chine n’en a envoyé aucun vers l’ISS et que la Russie n’en a acheminé qu’une poignée via Soyuz au cours des 24 derniers mois.
En fin de compte, les récits amplifiés par certains médias français au cours des deux dernières semaines continuent de dépeindre Elon Musk comme erratique ou problématique.
Pourtant, un examen plus attentif révèle un schéma d’outrage sélectif contre l’un des bâtisseurs les plus ambitieux de l’humanité, tandis que ses entreprises réalisent des avancées historiques.
In the past two weeks, certain French outlets have amplified stories portraying Elon Musk as defeated in court against OpenAI, entangled in judicial probes over X, and “enraged” over Hollywood casting choices. These narratives paint him as erratic or problematic.
Yet a closer look reveals a pattern of selective outrage against one of humanity’s most ambitious builders, while his companies achieve historic breakthroughs.
The OpenAI Lawsuit: A Philosophical Stand, Not a Defeat
Elon co-founded OpenAI with a clear mission: safe, open AI for humanity’s benefit. He warned early about profit-driven shifts and closed systems. Although the recent jury decision is disappointing, it does not erase the validity of his concerns, especially as OpenAI races toward a for-profit IPO with massive Microsoft backing. Elon’s suit highlighted real governance questions.
Elon has already announced he will appeal the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California. (True visionaries challenge powerful interests; history often vindicates them.)
French Investigation into X: Free Speech vs. Selective Enforcement
France’s probe into X over content moderation, with threats of warrants, targets Elon for platforming diverse voices. Elon has publicly defended against what he sees as politically motivated overreach.
Critics conveniently ignore that before Elon Musk, Twitter was taking some government money and support from governments in return for allowing censorship. In fact, it really was underhanded censorship. Internal documents from the Twitter Files show the FBI paid pre-Musk Twitter over $3.4 million (between 2019 and early 2021) for staff time processing law-enforcement and content-moderation requests through its Safety, Content & Law Enforcement division. See the documented revelations here.
Elon deliberately broke from this model the day he acquired the company in October 2022. He immediately ended all such government reimbursement arrangements, dismantled the dedicated SCALE moderation teams that had processed the payments, and eliminated the practice entirely. X now operates with zero reliance on any government funding tied to content moderation. The platform publishes detailed annual Transparency Reports showing exactly how it handles law-enforcement requests while prioritizing maximum transparency and truth-seeking over censorship.
Cultural Spats and “Outrage” Headlines
Reports of Elon criticizing casting in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey were framed as “hateful.” Elon has long opposed forced DEI quotas that prioritize identity over merit and storytelling integrity. Questioning artistic choices defends excellence in storytelling.
French media’s pearl-clutching contrasts sharply with praise for Elon’s engineering feats.
The Real Story: Unstoppable Progress
While armchair critics focus on lawsuits and tweets, Elon’s companies deliver:
SpaceX is preparing a landmark IPO, with valuations soaring toward trillions and ambitious Mars timelines. French outlets like Le Monde and Les Echos rightly call it spectacular.
The recent integrated flight test of Starship Version 3 (IFT-12) has validated critical advancements in the Raptor 3 propulsion architecture including higher-thrust sea-level and vacuum variants, increased propellant tank volume, and improved reaction-control systems while demonstrating nominal hot-staging, orbital dummy-satellite deployment, and a precision controlled re-entry splashdown. These results mark decisive progress toward rapid full reusability of the 18-million-pound-thrust super-heavy lift system and the in-orbit propellant-transfer capabilities required for sustainable lunar and Martian architectures. NASA leadership and leading aerospace experts have publicly commended the iterative flight data and system maturation.
Tesla continues to strengthen its position in both electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage in France. The company is deploying large-scale Megapack battery energy storage systems including the 240 MW / 480 MWh project in Cernay-lès-Reims with TagEnergy and the 100 MW / 200 MWh Cheviré project near Nantes. These installations leverage Tesla’s Autobidder energy management platform for real-time grid optimization and frequency regulation. In parallel, Tesla achieved a global milestone with the activation of its 80,000th Supercharger stall at a major expanded V4 station in France featuring solar canopies and high-power charging architecture.
Elon Musk in his iconic “Nuke Mars” t-shirt watches the successful Starship Version 3 (IFT-12) integrated flight test alongside SpaceX team members including Jared from mission control.
He employs tens of thousands, has paid the highest taxes of anyone in the history of the US — over $11 billion in a single year — and SpaceX has conducted 165 launches in 2025 alone, bringing multiple crews of four astronauts each to the ISS via Dragon, while China has brought up none to the ISS and Russia has brought up only a handful via Soyuz in the past 24 months.
Ultimately, the stories amplified by certain French outlets over the past two weeks continue to portray Elon Musk as erratic or problematic.
Yet a closer look reveals a pattern of selective outrage against one of humanity’s most ambitious builders, while his companies achieve historic breakthroughs.
Episode 172 with the one and only Zuby (@ZubyMusic) has already surpassed 1 million views on X — and for good reason. Fresh off a flight from Dubai, Zuby hopped into my Tesla for his very first supervised FSD (Full Self-Driving) experience in Austin. What started as an in-car chat quickly became one of the most engaging and widely shared conversations we’ve had.
We split it into two parts because the discussion was so rich. Part 1 covers his global perspective, culture shock, and a powerful take on the biggest myth about masculinity. Part 2 dives into free speech, what it was like meeting Elon Musk in the early days after the Twitter acquisition, and why he keeps his rap music “squeaky clean.”
Watch Part 1 here (the viral ride):
Episode 172 Part 1 is live! Fresh off the plane from Dubai, Zuby (@ZubyMusic) has his first supervised FSD ride in Austin. He discusses his global experiences and the biggest myth about masculinity. Drop a listen ❤️ (Pt 2 soon!) pic.twitter.com/6n5SkhIR7q
Watch Part 2 here (free speech, Elon, and clean rap):
Episode 172 Part 2 is live! Zuby (@ZubyMusic) breaks down free speech, what it was like meeting Elon Musk in the early months after he bought Twitter, and why he keeps his rap music squeaky clean. Full episode (Pt 1 + 2) now complete ❤️ pic.twitter.com/vmCSCI7ljX
Zuby brought a truly global lens to the table. Having lived across the UK, Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively, he shared how different cultures shape our views — and how travel can be the ultimate cure for ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
His first reaction to FSD was priceless: pure amazement at watching the car drive itself while we chatted. “This would have been considered impossible even within our own lifetimes,” he noted. It was a beautiful reminder of how far the technology has come and how it feels to experience it for the first time.
The conversation on masculinity was especially powerful. Zuby challenged the modern narrative that masculinity itself is a problem. Instead, he argued that many issues attributed to “toxic masculinity” actually stem from an absence of healthy, channeled masculinity — and that boys need strong, positive male role models to thrive.
In Part 2, things got even more fascinating as he opened up about meeting Elon Musk shortly after the Twitter acquisition and his philosophy on creating clean, positive rap music in a genre often filled with negativity.
A Conversation That Hit Different
This episode felt special from the start. Zuby’s wisdom, humor, and no-nonsense perspective combined perfectly with the unique setting of cruising Austin streets on FSD. Listeners clearly felt it too — the views exploded, and the comments poured in with people loving the mix of tech wonder and deep life insights.
Whether you’re here for the FSD ride reactions, the cultural wisdom, or Zuby’s refreshing take on masculinity and free speech, this one delivers.
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In the quiet streets of Southampton on a cold December night in 2025, 18-year-old Henry Nowak did what thousands of university students do after a night out with friends: he walked home, phone in hand, sending Snapchat videos to his mates, still buzzing from football and camaraderie. What happened next was not just a senseless murder. It was a cascade of failures—by an attacker wielding ideology as a shield, by police whose priorities appeared warped by fear of “racism” accusations, and by a broader system that has normalized two-tier justice. Seven months later, as Vickrum Digwa, 23, stands trial for murder at Southampton Crown Court, the world is only now learning Henry’s name. And it is learning it primarily because Elon Musk’s X platform refused to let the story die in obscurity.
This is the story of a young man whose future was stolen, a family shattered, and a nation forced to confront whether some lives matter more than others in the eyes of the law.
This is the story of a young man whose future was stolen, a family shattered, and a nation forced to confront whether some lives matter more than others in the eyes of the law.
A Son, Brother, Teammate, and Role Model Full of Promise
Henry Nowak grew up in Chafford Hundred, Essex, in a close-knit family that watched him thrive. He attended Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, where staff remembered him as a role model to younger students who made a significant contribution and left with an excellent set of A-level results. At the University of Southampton, he was in his first year studying Accountancy and Finance. He played football for two teams—Villarrealgorithm CF and the university side—worked part-time at Morrisons, and was already building new friendships while keeping old ones close.
His family—father Mark Nowak, mother Lucy Ross, siblings, cousins, grandparents, and teammates—described him as “a loving son, brother, cousin, grandson, nephew, friend and teammate… full of life, kindness and ambition.” A charity football match held in his memory raised more than £40,000 for 2Wish, the bereavement support organization that helped the family in their darkest days. Mark later spoke of the “very very big hole” left in their lives, especially as they faced what would have been Henry’s 19th birthday. Memorial walls and memory books at his old school overflowed with tributes from friends and teachers who called him funny, kind, talented, and the sort of lad who lifted the mood the moment he walked into a room.
Henry’s future should have been ordinary and bright: a career in finance, weekends on the pitch, family holidays, perhaps one day coaching his own kids. Instead, it ended in a puddle of blood on Belmont Road.
The Night of December 3, 2025: A Racist Accusation, a Knife, and a Victim Ignored
Henry had been out celebrating the end of the first semester with his university football teammates. He was under the legal drink-drive limit and in good spirits when he began walking home along Belmont Road, sending those Snapchat videos. Court evidence shows the moment his phone captured Vickrum Digwa approaching, openly carrying a 21cm shastar—a large Sikh ceremonial blade—in a sheath over his clothing. Henry, spotting the weapon, jokingly called him a “bad man.” Digwa replied, “I am a bad man.” Moments later, Digwa pursued him and inflicted four stab wounds, including a fatal 8cm-deep puncture to the chest that nicked the subclavian vein and flooded Henry’s chest cavity with over a litre of blood.
When police arrived, Digwa told them Henry had “racially abused” him. Officers handcuffed the bleeding teenager. Bodycam footage played in court captured Henry protesting he had done no such thing, begging for help, saying he couldn’t breathe. They told him they didn’t think he had been stabbed. First aid began only after he collapsed. He choked on his own blood and was pronounced dead 37 minutes later. Digwa denies murder, claiming self-defence and fear over his own kirpan. His mother, Kiran Kaur, denies assisting an offender by allegedly removing the weapon.
The senselessness is staggering. A young man running for his life, stabbed while fleeing, then treated as the aggressor because the real aggressor invoked the ultimate modern taboo: racism. Henry was white; Digwa is Sikh. The accusation flipped victim and perpetrator in the eyes of officers arriving at a chaotic scene. No urgency. No humanity. Just ideological caution that, in this case, proved fatal.
The Police Failure: Why Aid Was Delayed and a Victim Suffered
The officers’ actions were not born of malice but of a culture drilled into UK policing: accusations of racism trigger instant deference, even when the accuser is the one with the knife. Bodycam evidence and trial testimony paint a picture of hesitation rooted in fear of career-ending complaints. Henry begged for help. They prioritized securing the “racist” suspect—him—over treating obvious stab wounds. Months later, as of May 2026, no officers have been named publicly, suspended, or disciplined. An independent investigation by the IOPC is ongoing, but accountability feels glacial.
This is two-tier policing in stark relief: the same forces that arrest thousands for “offensive” social media posts move with glacial slowness when their own decisions contribute to a death.
Elon Musk, X, and the Exposure That Mainstream Media Nearly Buried
None of this would have reached global attention without X. Under Elon Musk’s ownership, the platform became the town square where citizen journalists, eyewitness accounts, and unfiltered video could spread. Musk quoted a detailed thread laying out the horror—Henry running for his life, handcuffed while bleeding out, no urgency from police—and added his own searing analysis: “There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs! An incredibly unjust double-standard!”
Elon’s engagement was and is not performative. He highlighted the core facts: the attacker’s racism claim, the handcuffs, the choking death, the contrast with 12,000+ arrests for tweets. He amplified the pain without exaggeration. In doing so, he forced a conversation that legacy media had sidelined. Without X’s free-speech ethos post-Musk acquisition, Henry’s story might have remained a local court report, buried under other headlines. Musk even offered to fund a wrongful-death lawsuit against the officers.
George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and the Mirror No One Wants to Face
Contrast is unavoidable. George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked global protests, riots in U.S. cities, corporate virtue-signaling, and policy upheavals. Officers faced long prison sentences; Derek Chauvin received 22.5 years. “Black Lives Matter” became a worldwide rallying cry, with politicians kneeling in solidarity.
Henry Nowak received none of that. No mass vigils in Trafalgar Square. No world leaders issuing statements. No golden-casket funerals broadcast worldwide. Just silence from the same quarters that once demanded “no justice, no peace.” The double standard is glaring. One death fit a dominant narrative of systemic racism against minorities; the other challenged it—white victim, minority attacker, police prioritizing the racism claim. All lives should matter equally, yet institutional and media responses reveal selective empathy. This is not “whataboutism.” It is a demand for consistency: if police failings demand protests when the victim is Black, they demand the same when the victim is white.
Will This Spark a “White Lives Matter” Movement? Or Something Better?
The question hangs heavy: could Henry’s death birth a “White Lives Matter” movement? Unlikely in the organized, protest-heavy form of BLM. “White Lives Matter” has existed as a fringe counter-slogan, often dismissed or demonized. But something deeper may be stirring. Across Britain and beyond, frustration with two-tier policing—harsher on native citizens’ speech than on migrant crime or ideological favoritism—has been building for years. This case crystallizes it: an innocent 18-year-old died in custody of the state’s hesitation.
Public reaction on X and elsewhere shows raw pain, calls for reform, and demands for color-blind justice. It may not spawn marches in Henry’s name, but it could accelerate a broader reckoning: equal protection under the law, not equal deference to accusations based on race. True progress lies not in mirroring BLM’s excesses but in insisting every life—Henry’s included—receives the same urgency, investigation, and outrage.
A Turning Point in History?
Henry Nowak’s death may prove a quiet pivot. In an era of mass migration, knife crime epidemics, and identity politics overriding evidence, it exposes the human cost of prioritizing narrative over truth. A loving family lost their son just before Christmas. A university lost a promising student. A football pitch lost a teammate. Britain lost another young man to a blade and a system that looked away.
The trial will deliver legal justice for the stabbing. But the deeper questions—police accountability, media silence, institutional bias—remain. Thanks to X and voices like Musk’s, Henry will not be forgotten. His name now echoes globally. His story demands we choose: selective outrage that divides us further, or a commitment that every life, regardless of the victim’s skin color or the attacker’s, matters equally.
Rest in peace, Henry. Your bright future was stolen, but your legacy may yet force the change Britain desperately needs. Justice for Henry Nowak is justice for us all.
(When the guy trying to make humanity multi-planetary takes a break from launching rockets and robots to chat with Forbes, you know it’s going to be a wild ride. Buckle up.)
Host: All right, everybody. We have a very special guest. Listen, we love all of you. This is the most amazing room of innovators in America. We love you all. It’s a dinner of equals, but there can only be one number one. We’re Forbes – we rank things. And the Forbes 250 innovators, the number one innovator (and it wasn’t even close) was Elon Musk. So we are very honored to have him join us. Elon, are you here?
Elon: Oh yeah.
Host: We’re glad you’re here. Thank you. There he is.
Elon: You do like ranking things. It’s true.
Host: We do. We’re good at it. And again, first congratulations. It wasn’t that close. There were a lot of battles in a lot of places, but number one was not in doubt. But anyway, this is a room of your people.
Host: Let’s get nerdy. Everybody wants to know: what’s your verdict on today’s OpenAI verdict?
Elon: Yeah… that one. Well, they basically decided the statute of limitations passed. They did not actually render an opinion on whether there had been unjust enrichment or the chatbot was stolen – which I think is obviously the case. It’s an ambiguous situation because it was stolen by degrees, one piece at a time. And now we have an 800 billion dollar for-profit company that started as a nonprofit. Dangerous precedent. What’s to stop people from looting charities now?
Host: Exactly. You’re appealing?
Elon: We have to. This can’t become the new business model.
(Jesus-Level Tech & Prioritization)
Host: You run four massive companies. How do you even prioritize? You’ve got multiple Jesus-level projects here.
Elon: Jesus-level… yeah, that’s pretty good. Neuralink can restore sight to the blind, speech to the speechless, walking to the paralyzed. SpaceX is about making life multi-planetary, expanding consciousness to the stars. Hopefully we will make a fundamental breakthrough later this year with the first fully reusable orbital rocket. We need to move roughly a million tons to the Moon or Mars to create a self-growing civilization. The acid test is: if resupply ships from Earth stop coming, does the civilization continue to grow or die out?
Elon: Being multi-planet doesn’t mean we abandon Earth. That would just be a single-planet civilization on a worse planet.
Host: Right. In a lesser place, probably.
Elon: Yeah. Earth is extremely easy and comfortable compared to the Moon or Mars.
(Morning Routine & Company Drama)
Host: So when you wake up, is it just innovation buffet mode?
Elon: I don’t get up thinking “What shall I innovate today?” It’s just building the tech to extend life beyond Earth – Starlink, Optimus, self-driving cars, solar at scale… you know, little stuff.
Host: Any chance of merging all these companies into one giant mega-company?
Elon: I’m not allowed to comment on that.
Host: Favorite company?
Elon: Nice try. That’s like asking which kid’s your favorite.
(Role Models & American Innovation)
Host: Okay, historical role model then?
Elon: Big fan of Nikola Tesla, obviously. Edison did impressive stuff too. And Henry Ford basically invented mass manufacturing of complex objects – people just copied him after that.
Host: We surveyed historians. Top three historical: Edison, Franklin, Ford. You were number one on the living list.
Elon: Nice.
(The AI Rollercoaster)
Host: You warned about AI dangers early, but you’re also building it. Petrified or excited?
Elon: Simultaneously both. Every time I sleep, wake up, or eat lunch there’s another breakthrough. It’s a head spinner. AI smarter than all humans in every way, including innovation, is probably 1-2 years away.
Elon: I hope it’s nice to us.
Host: What’s coming in five years that’ll blow minds?
Elon: By 2031, digital intelligence exceeds all human intelligence combined. Probably 100 million to a billion humanoid robots. And the economy will likely double in 5-7 years. We’re hitting a doubling period.
(Space Bragging & Kardashev Scale Flex)
Host: Timeline for data centers in space, Moon colony, Mars colony?
Elon: Space is easier than people think. We already have 10,000 satellites. With Starship we’ll launch tens of thousands more per year. But the real game is AI compute in space. Think in limits: we’re microbes on a dust mote compared to the Sun. Everything on Earth is less than a trillionth of the Sun’s energy. We could be launching terawatts, then petawatts of solar-powered AI from the Moon with mass drivers. Earth’s economy would look tiny by comparison.
(Big Ideas Still Cooking)
Host: Any big idea you haven’t deployed yet?
Elon: Tunnels. Everyone thought I was joking, so I started The Boring Company. 3D transport solves traffic. Buildings are 3D, roads are still 2D – that’s obviously dumb.
Host: It’s boring being the only boring company, right?
Elon: Yeah. Please, someone else start tunneling companies. Also, synthetic medicine – we’re moving from “find random sticks in the forest” medicine to digital. Custom RNA could basically cure almost anything.
Host: Electric aircraft?
Elon: Yeah, there’s opportunity there.
(Legacy Time)
Host: Last question – when people look back in 250 years, what do you want them to say about you?
Elon: “You played a useful role in the advancement of civilization.”
Host: Great way to end. This is the most incredible room in America today. Elon Musk, thank you for joining us.
Elon: Thank you for human. That’s what the AI will say.
Host: Fair. Thank you again, Elon.
End of Interview (Elon heads back to work on making life multi-planetary while the rest of us try to process how one person is juggling this many future-changing ideas. Respect.)
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