The Boring Company – $113M Series A Funding Dangerous conditions at Tesla: ‘Elon does not like the color yellow’
“Inside Tesla’s electric car factory, giant red robots – some named for X-Men characters – heave car parts in the air, while workers wearing black toil on aluminum car bodies. Forklifts and tuggers zip by on gray-painted floors, differentiated from pedestrian walkways by another shade of gray.
There’s one color, though, that some of Tesla’s former safety experts wanted to see more of: yellow – the traditional hue of caution used to mark hazards.
Concerned about bone-crunching collisions and the lack of clearly marked pedestrian lanes at the Fremont, California, plant, the general assembly line’s then-lead safety professional went to her boss, who she said told her, ‘“’Elon does not like the color yellow.”….
Human Trafficking Sex Cult NXVIM is the only source Musk trusts
Musk, who bases “excellent analysis” purely on what flatters him, re-posted a tweet from “Knife Media”, an arm of notorious sex cult NXVIM. Founded by rapist and child abuser Keith Raniere, and under the guise of increasing media literacy (irony is fun!), Knife Media “rated” news articles for bias, and clarified whether these journalists and outlets should be believed. Using “scientific analysis”, of course.
Granted, Musk may not have been aware of who and what he was quote tweeting, the rapists were just the only people coming to his defense.
It is interesting who the rapists and frauds see as allies.
(Article copied/pasted in full below because I hate paywalls.)
“If you’re curious exactly how low the bar is to appear on Fox & Friends, the toadying talk show where President Donald Trump appears to get his policy positions, we may have found it.
Yes, the fact-averse place that’s consistently downplayed the novel coronavirus pandemic which has claimed 174,000 American lives and counting—despite one of their own hosts contracting the disease—once welcomed, and then gushed over, a member of NXIVM, the Albany-based women-branding “sex cult” led by Keith Raniere, aka “Vanguard.” The revelation is one of many contained in The Vow, a 9-part docuseries on the predatory self-help group premiering Sunday, August 23rd on HBO.
NXIVM operated a number of businesses that it used to control its members, forcing many to work up to 23 hours a day for no pay. One of these was The Knife Media, or The Knife. Short for The Knife of Aristotle, the site described itself on the NXIVM website as follows: “The Knife Media is a digital news outlet that offers news without spin and rates media outlets for their level of bias. The Knife has a team of 15 editors, writers and anlysts [sic] who are specialized in critical thinking, logic and the company’s analysis process.
This “analysis process” was devised by none other than Raniere, a self-described genius who graduated college with a 2.26 GPA. “You know, we get the negative press, and I think I know where it comes from,” Raniere says in The Vow. “But the good side of it is, in learning about it and watching how it’s done and watching how it’s done to me, I was able to come up with a useful toolset that can really transform media, and that can transform how people interact with media—and the data within media.
Former NXIVM members in The Vow allege that Raniere created The Knife in order to train his physically and psychologically-abused adherents against media criticism of the cult. One of these members was Mark Vicente, a documentary filmmaker most famous for helming 2004’s What the Bleep Do We Know!? Vicente says he was a founding member of The Knife, along with Rosa Laura Junco (daughter of Alejandro Junco de la Vega, the founder of Mexico’s REFORMA newspaper); Battlestar Galactica star Nicki Clyne; Smallville actress Allison Mack; and Jens Erik Gould, a former Bloomberg and TIME reporter.
“I was one of the founding members of The Knife,” says Vicente in the film. “So in essence, it was a media company and the idea was to analyze news for objectivity—or lack of objectivity. I trained a group of people, what we call analysts, in logic—or Raniere’s ideas. We would talk about the kind of bias in articles—the slant, the skew, the use of adjectives, basically talk about how objective something was versus very subjective. The idea was to give every newspaper article a rating.”
The Knife’s main objective, it seems, was to defend President Donald Trump from so-called “attacks” by the media. It published hundreds of articles accusing the media of bias and treating Trump unfairly. “The #NYT broke the story about the letter Trump’s legal team sent to #Mueller in January. It was dramatic and biased. Some of the subsequent coverage was more distorted—one outlet earned only a 3% integrity rating. Find out which one,” The Knife tweeted on June 5, 2018. (One month prior, Tesla’s Elon Musk cited an article by The Knife as evidence of his own unfair media treatment.)
On July 23, 2017, Gould made an appearance on Fox & Friends’ weekend edition for a segment titled, “Evaluating Media Bias in Trump Presidency,” video of which still lives on Fox News’ YouTube page** [still there as of 4/24/2025]. (Fox News declined comment for this article.)
“So your site is committed to determining bias in the media, which I think is a very cool concept, called Knife Media,” cooed Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth to Gould whilst displaying the Knife Media logo.
Gould touted Knife Media’s hazy “methodology,” developed by Raniere, which includes: “spin, slant, how logical is the coverage, and how accurate is the coverage.” They then assign a rating based on those four criteria.
“We actually have…a large team of analysts that are doing this every day on the news stories, and they use that information and then plug it into the formulas,” said Gould, adding, “We found the [media’s] Trump coverage in particular was especially biased.”
Hegseth beamed as graphics for CNN, The New York Times, and Washington Post flashed on screen coupled with their low so-called “integrity” ratings.
“[They use] words like ‘constant chaos,’ ‘infighting,’ ‘abrupt and angry,’ ‘warring factions,’ ‘floundering.’ These are words that are not measurable, they’re not based on data and facts,” said Gould. “They’re emotional, and they get us riled up and we get into that, but they’re not helping us get more informed.”
Central to NXIVM—and Raniere’s brainwashing of his members—was the idea of punishing people for showing heightened emotion, and viewing it as a sign of weakness. This was one of the governing principles of The Knife as well. “[The Knife] was to prepare people for any negative press that would come against [NXIVM], because they would in essence discard it for its emotionality,” Vicente says in The Vow. “If you reduce everything down to the simplest thing, you go from ‘a man raped a woman’ to ‘a man did something, there was a woman involved.’ When you take all the emotionality out, you have no idea what actually happened.”
Allison Mack was accused of helping run the branding/sex-cult sorority within NXIVM, known as DOS, and ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges, which each carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Nicki Clyne married Mack in an effort to dodge immigration authorities, and though accused of being in Raniere and Mack’s NXIVM “inner circle,” has not been charged. Keith Raniere was found guilty of the sexual exploitation of a child and possessing child pornography, sex-trafficking and conspiracy, among other offenses. In August of 2018, five months after Raniere’s arrest, The Knife cryptically announced that it had “ceased publishing.” Jens Erik Gould is still a journalist, and currently works for the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Soccer team rescued from Thailand cave 🇹🇭Tesla signs agreement for factory in China 🇨🇳
“Unique among foreign automakers in China, the plant is wholly owned by Tesla and not operated as a joint venture with a Chinese company, the first time the government had allowed such an arrangement. While Tesla owns the factory, it does not own the land it is built on, as is typical in China. Tesla has land use rights with an initial term of 50 years.” Wikipedia – Gigafactory Shanghai
An empty Musk pledge to fix Flint, MI water supply
He’s always about generating headlines with grandiose gestures. … This commitment ended up (eventually) materializing as a much different Musk Foundation donation of a $480,000 water filtration system and $423,000 worth of chrome books.
“Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.”
The infamous “funding secured” stock-pump tweet; per the fraud that has been established he is, Musk had not secured the funding to take Tesla private.
Musk settles with the SEC – $20M from Musk / $20M from Tesla
Elon Musk “uncharacteristically” settles quickly with the SEC. Although he’ll backtrack on any sort of oversight of his tweets, no one does anything about it. He remains as CEO with a stranglehold on the Board.
Tesla will establish a new committee of independent directors and put in place additional controls and procedures to oversee Musk’s communications;
Musk will step down as Tesla’s Chairman and be replaced by an independent Chairman. Musk will be ineligible to be re-elected Chairman for three years;
Tesla will appoint a total of two new independent directors to its board;
Musk and Tesla will each pay a separate $20 million penalty. The $40 million in penalties will be distributed to harmed investors under a court-approved process.
To the Moon: NASA announces RFPs for Human Landing System
NASA Seeks US Partners to Develop Reusable Systems to Land Astronauts on Moon
As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for astronauts to land on the lunar surface. The agency is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to the surface in 2028.
Through upcoming multi-phased lunar exploration partnerships, NASA will ask American companies to study the best approach to landing astronauts on the Moon and start the development as quickly as possible with current and future anticipated technologies…. Archived – NASA
1:25 AM (ET) – Elon’s Jet arrives Van Nuys, CA ✈️11:34 AM (ET) – Elon’s Jet departs Van Nuys, CA ✈️3:45 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet arrives Seattle, WA ✈️11:57 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet departs Seattle, WA ✈️
“My guess as to when we would think it is safe for somebody to essentially fall asleep and wake up at their destination: probably toward the end of next year,” Musk said in 2019. “I would say I am certain of that. That is not a question mark.”
Johnny Depp is accusing Amber Heard of beginning a romantic relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk “no later than one month after” she and Depp married in 2015.
The claims come from the 55-year-old’s defamation lawsuit against Heard, 32, in which he is seeking $50 million in damages after the Aquaman actress wrote an op-ed characterizing herself as a domestic abuse victim.
In the lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE, Depp claims Heard received “late night” visits from billionaire businessman Musk at the L.A. penthouse Depp and Heard shared while Depp was out of the country. Depp goes on to claim Musk was granted access to his home the same night Heard “presented her battered face to the public.” His lawsuit alleges Heard’s domestic violence allegations against Depp were false and “an elaborate hoax.”
Depp and Heard split in May 2016. A rep for Musk maintains that “Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent. Their relationship didn’t become romantic until some time later.”
12:21 AM (ET) – Elon’s Jet departs Van Nuys, CA ✈️3:42 AM (ET) – Elon’s Jet arrives Flint, MI ✈️Musk visits Flint, MI elementary school
His 7/11/2018 commitment to “fund fixing the water in any house in Flint that has water contamination above FDA levels” evolved into a $480,000 water filtration system and a Chromebook for every 7th grader in Flint.
Crazy because the whole point of the Flint water crisis was that the problem was much bigger than a filtration system could fix. (And Chromebooks? Not even proper laptops?)
He got the superintendent wearing an “Occupy Mars” shirt, and somehow found a black Tesla engineer to bring along.
Lockheed Martin Engineer and Wife contract mysterious fatal illness while on vacation in Fiji 🇫🇯
(** No known relevance to Musk or Dittmann… added because it caught my attention)
David Paul, 37, and his wife Michelle, 35, checked into the Sheraton Villas on Denarau Island on May 22, 2019. On May 24, they both became extremely ill. Michelle died on 5/25, David died on 5/27.
The ABC story refers to Denarau Island as “west of the main island”, but it’s not really a separate island. It’s part of the main island, and more like a small port city / luxury resort. Specifically, it’s a “private resort development” (wikipedia), 1.5 square miles.
It’s also where the Dittmann family operates their “100% solar-powered warehouse”.
“The exact cause of the illness or nature of the ailment is still unknown, but officials say they have ruled out influenza and other endemic diseases in Fiji — like typhoid, meningococcal and dengue fever which have caused health concerns for tourists in the past — as a possible cause.”
“…Fiji officials no longer believe the couple died from an infectious disease.
“Investigations by the Ministry and other partners, which included post-mortem examination, laboratory investigations to exclude a wide range of viral and bacterial causes, toxicology and microscopic examination of tissues, have identified no infectious causative agent,” the Ministry of Health and Medical Services said, according to news station DFW-TV.”
(Vivian) Hantusch is a member of the Third Row Podcast, a group of Tesla enthusiasts dedicated to “bringing the truth about Tesla to the world.” The team met at Tesla’s shareholders meeting last year. There, Hantusch told Wirtschaftswoche, all the founding members sat next to each other in the third row— which is where the podcast’s name came from (How a Düsseldorf student got a long interview with Tesla CEO Musk)
3:06 AM (ET) – SpaceX Jet departs Ingolstadt, Germany ✈️ 🇩🇪3:35 AM (ET) – SpaceX Jet arrives Frankfurt, Germany ✈️ 🇩🇪2:17 PM – “Starting next month, Tesla will charge $1,000 for color black”
6:06 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet departs Van Nuys, CA ✈️6:52 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet arrives in San Jose, CA ✈️10:35 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet departs San Jose, CA ✈️11:21 PM (ET) – Elon’s Jet arrives in Van Nuys, CA ✈️
The Dittmann Files 