MAROKO133 Update ai: Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts Edisi Ja

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbur

Elon Musk is expectorating racist diatribes even more than usual, and it’s alienating his fans and investors.

On his website X, over six percent of Musk’s posts have been about race in the past seven months, which is almost triple the rate of the two previous years, a new investigation by The Washington Post found.

More than half of these posts included the word “white,” reflecting Musk’s obsession with the racist myth that white people are being “replaced.”

“Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk seethed in January, for instance. 

He has paid particular attention to his home country of South Africa, whose government he frequently accuses of being “anti-White.”

“There are now more anti-White and anti other race laws in South Africa than there were anti-Black laws under Apartheid!” Musk tweeted at one point, a claim he has repeatedly nearly verbatim, without evidence.

Tesla was once seen as a shining beacon of green energy and the future of automobiles, and SpaceX a company that would take humans to Mars and beyond. Nowadays, Tesla owners are so ashamed of their cars that they slap anti-Elon stickers on them; and SpaceX has been rolled together with Musk’s AI company, xAI, whose chatbot Grok is best known for calling itself “MechaHitler” and generating nudes of minors.

His claims of whites being a dying minority are the same talking points that out-and-out white nationalists espouse, and longtime Musk supporters have taken notice, with some telling WaPo that on top of the beliefs being appalling, they distract from the mission of his businesses that they still believe in.

A once prominent pro-Tesla account quipped in December: “Rivian: focused on autonomy and their next vehicle. Elon: focused on the percentage of white people in New Zealand.”

Others saw the writing on the wall years ago. Fred Lambert, the editor in chief of the EV blog Electrek, sold his stake in Tesla in 2024 after shareholders caved to appease Musk with a $56 billion pay package, despite Musk’s extremist turn already blowing back on Tesla’s reputation and business. The company’s mission had become “enriching” its owner, he fumed, saying that it’s become impossible to ignore Musk’s beliefs.

“At this point, if you are invested in Elon, you are pretty much doing it for the white nationalism,” Lambert wrote in a January tweet.

“The entire situation baffles me… there’s no doubt he is a White nationalist based on his recent statements about White people ‘reclaiming their nations,’” Lambert later told WaPo in an interview. “As for the massive institutions backing him and investing in his ventures — it’s money before morals.”

More on Elon Musk: SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire

The post Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts appeared first on Futurism.

🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri i

The nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri, is well over four light-years away — tens of trillions of lonely miles that could take hundreds, if not thousands, of Earth years to reach using contemporary rocket propulsion methods.

But there may be a way to cut the length of the journey down significantly. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Newton, a team of researchers at Texas A&M University say they’ve demonstrated an exciting new approach, which uses lasers to propel and steer objects from a distance, without physical contact.

They claim lasers could one day push entire spacecraft, accelerating them to the point where the trip to Alpha Centauri will only take around 20 years. While that may still sound like a long time, it’d be a major upgrade over having to send a generation ship built to survive thousands of years.

That’s if the concept can effectively be scaled up, of course. For their research, the scientists developed micron-scale devices, called “metajets,” which are smaller than the width of a human hair, and which move when a laser light is pointed at them.

These metajets feature minuscule “metasurfaces,” or intricate patterns that change how the light behaves, not unlike a lens. These etchings allow the researchers to move the metajets in all three dimensions, which they claim is a world’s first.

In a press release, Texas A&M assistant professor and corresponding author Shoufeng Lan compared the effect to ping pong balls bouncing off a surface. When light reflects from a surface, it can transfer momentum to it.

Shining light on an object may not exert a huge amount of force, but in the microgravity of space, a small cumulative effect can be significant. Case in point, previous experiments involving solar sails have demonstrated that rays of the Sun alone could provide enough propulsion power for specialized spacecraft to move.

Earlier this month, scientists at the European Space Agency also suggested that lasers could one day steer solar sails and even adjust a satellite’s position using graphene aerogels, an ultralight and highly porous material.

The latest research takes the basic concept of light propulsion a step further, enabling “full three-dimensional maneuverability.”

“When illuminated by a normally incident beam, these free-standing devices simultaneously translate laterally and lift vertically, enabling 3D motion not accessible with conventional optical manipulation methods,” the researchers’ paper reads.

They also say the idea could be scaled up beyond a microscopic demonstration, since the power exerted depends on the power of the light itself and not the size of the device.

In other words, given enough optical power, a much larger device could be propelled from a distance. According to their paper, the concept could work on anything from “microrobots, to large settings, including interstellar light sails for space travel.”

Yet plenty of questions remain surrounding the concept’s feasibility. While the researchers’ experiments were carried out in a “fluid environment” to offset the effects of gravity, they’re hoping to get external funding to test the concept in the microgravity of space as well.

More on space propulsion: SpaceX Veteran Says He’s Figured Out How to Make Rocket Fuel From Water

The post Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years appeared first on Futurism.

🔗 Sumber: futurism.com