Martin King
timekord.bsky.social
Martin King
@timekord.bsky.social
I am an eclecticrian .. a jack of all trades and master of none - "I aim to misbehave"

I will be posting about the things I like - music walking, science, art, books - that type of thing.
I found some newspapers from the 1960s under the carpet in our house.

Reminds me of how ephemeral our age is now with so much physical media replaced.
July 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You nearly had your wish come true .. Musks Starship almost blew up ... it had a rapid unscheduled disassembly

news.sky.com/story/second...
Second SpaceX flight crash is a new blow for Musk's Mars programme
The second test flight crash in two months is a significant setback for SpaceX's hopes of beating China to the moon - and for Musk's vision of getting to Mars.
news.sky.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The devil looks after his own
March 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Microsoft engineers all look euphoric about their technical achievement .. but they seem to have trouble with their spelling :)
February 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There was something about this scene that kept nagging me then ... the penny dropped ... Musk as Dart Vader and tRump as Sheev Palpatine.
February 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is a good analysis on what Musk might be up to - replace human workers with AI (which Musk controls) bankrolled by the US government .. maybe why he and Trump proposed that US AI organisation & why he wanted to buy OpenAI .. imagine Twitter AI running US gov ..

www.channel4.com/news/silicon...
Silicon Valley investor: ‘AI is a massive challenge to democracy’
We spoke to longtime Silicon Valley investor and Mark Zuckerberg's mentor in the early days of Facebook, Roger McNamee, who's now turned his attention to stopping social media from destroying democrac...
www.channel4.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thanks for sharing Richard .. I like the idea that tRump is flooding himself ...although I doubt if he could keep his mouth shut even if he was up to his chin in it .. lol makes me think of dogfooding :)
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There is another way to look at these people .. Vampires ... Musk has already got his fangs into all of the US government databases.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There are "limits to growth" and if he wants to be the first trillionaire the only way is to "invest in politicians" - politicians are like fish .. they rot from the head down.

You describe it properly - the like of Musk are parasites .. we must stop calling these people "the top" or "elite".
February 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM