Elon Musk retweeted
A director who doesn't come up to the builder's heels makes a four-hour film about him.
Yesterday in Venice, Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary "Musk" had its world premiere. It is a classic case of someone who has spent a career telling other people's stories taking on a man who actually builds those stories with rockets, cars, satellites, and infrastructure, not slides.
Alex Gibney is an acclaimed documentarian. An Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, Emmys for Going Clear on Scientology, high-profile films on Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. His specialty is exposing corporations, cults, and frauds. He does it skillfully and with a thesis. The problem starts when he applies the same method to someone who is not selling an illusion, but hardware that either flies or blows up in front of the entire world.
Gibney's fuel is controversy. Elon's fuel is the pursuit of truth hard, engineering truth, the kind that either works on the test stand or it doesn't. It would have been enough to make a film based on facts. Instead we got another rut that fits the slogans of provocation: megalomaniac, confidence man, threat to democracy, an AI avatar reciting old quotes, ex-wives, his father, a former partner. Musk said in 2023 it would be a hit piece. After the premiere, a large share of reviewers effectively agreed with him.
I don't know about you, but four hours of falsified formulas would bore me. Instead I watch how much Elon has already done. His energy is extraordinary. Tesla changed the car industry. SpaceX brings rockets back. Starlink works. Starship stands on the pad and prepares for the next flight. This is not a PowerPoint. It is steel, fuel, engines, and people who cannot hide failure in the edit suite.
A weak documentary like this is a crumb on the shoulder of his jacket. Now it depends on us when and how quickly that blown-off crumb a utopian attention vampire is simply starved of attention. You could list the names of people who tried to take Elon's energy. Energy is the most precious thing we have. Anyone who steals it with slogans, gossip, and a four-hour indictment that excludes the main subject is sowing under his own feet.
Gibney: you reap what you sow. If you have a shred of shame, look at the list of Elon's accomplishments. Look at what kind of person he is for the world and what he does around himself so that things get better cars that drive, internet from orbit, rockets that return, attempts at a brain-computer interface, AI that is supposed to be more than another chatbot. You can dislike his tweets, his political alliances. You cannot honestly erase the scale of what was physically built.
A good documentarian should stand, at least for a moment, in the shoes of the person he is portraying. Gibney did not just fail to do that. He took a measure cut for Enron and Holmes and held it up to a man who lands rockets. He left Elon's shoes in the edit suite. Elon walked on barefoot and kept building.
One man tells stories about the world from an editing chair. The other moves that world. A four-hour film will not change that. At most it will confirm what people who already disliked Musk already believed. Everyone else can blow the crumb off the jacket and keep going.
History does not judge a man by the length of a film. It judges him by what is still in the air when the camera has stopped running.
Controversy feeds on attention. Building feeds on repetition. One vanishes when you look away. The other keeps flying.
You can cut a man together in four hours. You cannot cut a landing together.
A documentary can be switched off. The work cannot.
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Elon Musk retweeted
I spend countless hours every week going through hundreds of stories... In science, tech, health, and outer space. Some frighten me, but the majority AMAZE me. Almost all remind me that the future is being negotiated TODAY. Each of us has a vote through what we choose to build.
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With an Internet connection, you can learn anything and sell your products to a global market, which enables prosperity
Elon Musk on the single biggest poverty lever.
"And I think the single biggest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty and help them is giving them an internet connection."
Most aid arguments still start with cash, food, or roads. Elon is saying the unlock is a connection — once you are online, knowledge is free and your market is the planet.
• Low-cost, high-bandwidth internet where cables never reached
• Learn anything for free once you are connected
• Sell goods and services into the global market
Internet is the ladder.
Starlink is how you build it from the sky.
SpaceX already flies most of the mass that makes that network possible.
"Because once you have the internet connection, you can learn anything for free on the internet. And you can also sell your goods and services to the global market."
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Elon Musk retweeted
BREAKING: Starlink’s high-speed internet is now available for Hawker 700, 800 & 900 jets after AeroMech received FAA approval.
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Starlink
Starlink with @MinCapHum_Ar and @ENACOMArgentina will provide 6,000 kits to rural schools in Argentina, giving thousands of students and teachers fast, reliable internet.
Teachers can build lesson plans with digital resources, while students can join online classes, use digital libraries, and learn through a variety of tools that were not accessible before.
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Starlink with @MinCapHum_Ar and @ENACOMArgentina will provide 6,000 kits to rural schools in Argentina, giving thousands of students and teachers fast, reliable internet.
Teachers can build lesson plans with digital resources, while students can join online classes, use digital libraries, and learn through a variety of tools that were not accessible before.
La ministra Sandra Pettovello firmó un convenio entre Capital Humano, ENACOM y STARLINK para conectar escuelas rurales y comunidades aisladas.
La empresa Starlink instalará 6.000 kits para proporcionar internet fiable y de alta velocidad a colegios rurales y zonas aisladas de todo el país.
La iniciativa forma parte del proyecto “Conectividad Satelital en Establecimientos Educativos de Gestión Pública de la República Argentina”, que se enmarca en el Programa de Conectividad de Interés Público de ENACOM, destinado a lograr la inclusión digital universal en los ámbitos de la educación, la salud y la seguridad.
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Heading to Starbase now with our rental Car - feels like half a spaceship already!
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Then we get to see Starbase & Starship scheduled to launch Flight 14 later this month. Super excited 🚀
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