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Company melts $58,000 Teslas into busts of Elon Musk that look nothing like him – Business Insider

Posted: November 28, 2021 at 9:58 pm

A Russia-based luxury accessory company is selling eight-inch-tall busts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, which it says are made from the melted-down parts of a Tesla electric car.

The sculptures, though, bear little resemblance to the world's richest man.

The brand, Caviar, usually makes luxury smartphones. In a press release, the company said it made 27 Musk busts as part of a limited-edition set. Each one is worth $2,700, said Caviar, though its website lists the bust at $3,220.

"These new items embody the soul of Elon Musk and, therefore, they will bring their owners the success and creativity of this outstanding individual," wrote company founder Sergey Kitov in the release.

The bust material comes from the metal of a blue Tesla Model 3 (which has a starting price in Russia of around $58,000), Head of Marketing Dmitrey Stoliarov told Insider.

Stoliarov said the sculpture's likeness of Musk was crafted by a 3D artist hired by Caviar. "We didn't download it from the internet," he said.

When asked about the discrepancies between the bust design and Musk's appearance, Stoliarov said: "Our artist did not pursue the goal of creating photographic accuracy. He created an image of the inventor in which all his achievements and inventions are reflected."

As to how many busts have been sold so far, Stoliarov said sales had just started.

The company is also selling iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Max designs made from Tesla parts, starting at $5,600 a piece, it said. The designs feature a portrait of Musk on the top right corner, with an engraving made from the copper of a Tesla battery.

Only 99 such phones will be available worldwide, Caviar said.

The phone designs and statues are part of its Visionaries collection, which also include (more recognizable) busts of Alibaba founder Jack Ma and the late Apple magnate Steve Jobs, selling at $1,990 and $1,680 respectively. These busts are made of nickel-plated brass.

"We want our customers to look at the desktop bust of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs and their customized iPhone and be inspired by their example every day and build their own future," Stoliarov said.

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Elon Musk Supports View That Dogecoin Hodlers Need To Be Wary Of Leveraged Trading – Benzinga – Benzinga

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Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk recently responded to a tweet that called attention to the dangers and pitfalls of leveraged Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) trading.

Musk was reacting to a post by Twitter user Mishaboar.

Mishaboar tweeted that some holders of the meme cryptocurrency started asking for help after their margin accounts got liquidated.

He mentioned that educating people about risky leveraged trading was important, and compared taking on theadditional risk to adding gasoline to the fire.

"Experienced traders and those with vast amounts of liquidity can try their chance at gambling with this. But believe me, many are not as "experienced" as they think they are," Mishaboartweeted. "You are against organizations and institutional investors that have a lot more information than you do."

Mishaboar wrote, "These tools are already dangerous in traditional markets. However, in the crypto market, which is vastly unregulated, the risks and unfairness are multiplied x100."

"Again: it is playing Russian roulette against the guy who made the gun and knows exactly which chamber holds the bullet," he added.

Musk reacted to the tweet and said, "Good thread."

Last week Musk backed another perspective on Dogecoin, saying it should break its dependence on centralized exchanges like Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) and Binance.

Binance and Robinhood are some of the cryptocurrency exchanges that support Dogecoin. These exchanges allow users to buy and sell coins using fiat or other cryptocurrencies.

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Would Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk And Bill Gates Be Villains Or Heroes On ‘The Boys’? Erin Moriarty Weighs In – TooFab

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Starlight's allies... or enemies?

They're mysterious, they're loaded, and they already kinda rule the world... so Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk pretty much tick all the movie villain boxes.

But in the world of "The Boys", where the line between good guys and bad guys is a little blurred on which side of the divide would the trio fall?

Erin Moriarty, who plays Starlight on the Amazon Prime hit series, had no hesitation giving her opinion... on two of them anyway, as Jeff Bezos is technically her boss:

"Oh that's an interesting question and I feel like the Amazon snipers will shoot me down if I answer that," she dodged with superhero-like reflexes.

The other two, she insisted while leaving Zinque Cafe in LA recently, are definite good guys.

"Honestly I like Bill Gates and what he does with vaccines," she said, "and I think even though Elon Musk is heavily criticized I have a feeling he's going to make a better impact on the world than most of us, in terms of the environment, so I'm not for the vilification of Elon Musk.... I like an electric car!"

The 27-year-old shrugged off criticism Bezos and Musk faced for dallying in a personal space race while the planet we have suffers, or Gates calling for climate change from the top of his super yacht (which are all pretty supervillain-sounding pursuits, to be fair).

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"Yeah I know, I know," she sighed. "I do feel like though ultimately with what [Gates] does with the vaccine world, and Elon Musk like I said with the whole environment..."

"I think Starlight would try and just work in conjunction with Elon Musk and all the things that he does with the environment."

While "The Boys" features plenty of female butt-kickers both good and bad such as Queen Maeve, Stormfront, Kimiko, and of course, Starlight herself, Moriarty agrees the "damsel in distress" is a tired TV trope that still needs putting to bed.

"I think we've seen enough strong men in strong roles, period," she declared. "I think we need more women in strong roles for about a century to overcompensate for the men taking up that arena, to be honest."

And will the upcoming season 3 of "The Boys" feature even more diverse roles?

"Yes but that's all I can say," she replied. "Otherwise again, I'll lose my job."

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Elon Musk shares hilarious theory about why US leaders are refusing to admit that Tesla exists – Teslarati

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US President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of the current administration who are seemingly refusing even to mention the word Tesla may soon find their online presence saturated with the EV makers name. This was after Tesla CEO Elon Musk poked fun at the Biden administrations tendency to completely ignore Teslas existence or accomplishments during public appearances and on social media.

Last week, the online electric vehicle community was aghast after US President Joe Biden visited General Motors Factory Zero in Detroit, Michigan. While speaking to the audience, Biden patted GM CEO Mary Barras back, stating that the executive was leading the auto sectors transition to electric vehicles. You electrified the entire automotive industry. Im serious. You led, and it matters, Biden said. The US President doubled down on this sentiment with a series of posts on Twitter, stating that the future of the US is electric.

Bidens sentiments were later echoed by VP Kamala Harris, who also noted that the United States would be building electric vehicles, including the batteries and parts that go in them, instead of relying on other countries. Just like the President, she also noted that the future will be made in America. This resulted in numerous netizens poking fun at the Vice President, stating that the future is already being made in America by Tesla for over a decade. Other Twitter users further joked that Harris might have simply never seen a Tesla, despite serving as Californias attorney general from 2011 to 2017.

Considering that Elon Musks suggestions for a carbon tax were rejected by the Biden administration for being too politically difficult, the fact that Tesla was not invited to the White Houses EV summit earlier this year, the Presidents rewriting of modern auto history by giving GM credit for the current EV transition, and the fact that the both Biden and his VP seems adamant not to even mention the word Tesla online, Elon Musk opted to poke fun at the White Houses ongoing snub. In a recent post on Twitter, Musk joked that the White Houses leadership might actually be NPCs (non-player characters), so the word Tesla may simply be outside their dialogue tree.

In a follow-up comment, Musk playfully urged his followers to see if everyone could get the US President and Vice President to say the word Tesla. This suggestion inspired numerous responses on Twitter and other social media platforms, with some EV supporters noting that it would be interesting to have numerous Teslas conduct a drive to Washington. Other suggestions were more humorous, with some noting that Musk should personally invite Biden to Giga Texas opening ceremony, and if the President ignores the invitation, the Tesla CEO should simply have a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the politician attend the event instead.

Overall, Musk seems to be taking the administrations evident Tesla snub in stride, which is a pretty good sign on its own. At this point, after all, Tesla appears to have already reached a point where it is already a stable business that could stand on its own two feet, even without the help of regulatory credits. And with more factories opening in the near future in the form of Gigafactory Texas and Giga Berlin, Teslas presence would likely be acknowledged worldwide, even if its existence is flat out denied by the US President and the current administration.

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AI will find aliens before humans – but it won’t try to kill us yet, says NASA chief – Daily Star

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AI is now so important to space exploration that it is likely to discover alien life before we humans do - but luckily, machines are unlikely to betray astronauts any time soon.

That's according to the head of AI at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr Steve Chien, who helps steer some of NASA's major artificial intelligence programmes both on Earth and on Mars.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star, Dr Chien explained that AI - often known as 'machine learning' - has become completely integral to NASA missions.

This is because AI enables NASA scientists to analyse huge amounts of data quickly and understand 'unusual events' in space.

"NASA generates vast amounts of data, and we use machine learning to try and pull out subtle signatures and look for unusual events in these large datasets," Dr Chien says.

AI can automatically sift through things like satellite imagery and narrow down the most interesting parts of these cosmic events, which could be anything from supernovas to deadly meteorites.

It passes these onto humans for further analysis - but often, it's the AI that will spot these anomalies first.

If an AI did discover signs of extra-terrestrial life first, it would take human analysis to confirm its existence in a process Dr Chien calls "intelligence amplification".

"Would it go to [AI] before humans? I would say almost certainly yes, but I would consider it a joint discovery," he says.

"The pre-screening happens with artificial intelligence. If we're getting 500,000 images down per night, there's no way humans could look at all of it. But the machine learning [AI] narrows it down to fifty per night. Then the humans can look at those fifty."

"So if we see that signature and it turns out that we can eventually determine that it is an extraterrestrial life signature, is it the machine learning that did the discovery or is it the humans? I would consider a team discovery."

As part of one project over the last five years, NASA has even used AI to analyse mysterious radio signals from deep space and try to understand their origin.

"That's always a fun thing, because there are some people who think that these are some signs of an alien civilization reaching out to us," said Dr Chien.

"All I would say on that, because, you know, I'm not an astrobiologist, is that it is an explanation, and I don't think we can rule it out."

"But is it the most likely explanation? That would not be the consensus of the science community."

While the likes of Elon Musk and SpaceX haven't quite landed anyone on Mars just yet, AI has been playing an important role in Mars missions for some years and is likely to be central to any Mars colonisation efforts in future.

"We absolutely have to have AI if we're going to send humans to Mars," argues Dr Chien. "The reason is that, when you go someplace in space, you have to bring this huge infrastructure with you in order to ensure the people survive."

The International Space Station, for example, has five to eight astronauts on it at any one time, and they are completely reliant on a huge supply chain of food, fuel, and support systems.

Every time something goes wrong, the ISS can be assisted from Earth thanks to being in constant communication with mission control.

But Dr Chien says this won't be possible on Mars due to its distance from Earth.

"You can't really do that on Mars, because you're not going to have the same kind of communications," he says. "You can pretty much send something there roughly every two years, it's not like doing launches every few weeks to the Space Station."

He believes AI will have a vital role to play in ensuring a Mars colony stays functioning, allowing astronauts to focus on the "intellectual" tasks of exploration and research.

"If you think about your house, whenever something breaks, you have to call in the plumber or the electrician or whoever," says Dr Chien. "There's no such person like that on Mars. So it's very important that these things take care of themselves"

He adds: "The whole point of sending astronauts to Mars is to allow them to explore. We can't spend all this money and all these resources to get astronauts to Mars, just to have them fixing things and tinkering with the refrigerator."

As part of his day job, Dr Chien helps oversee AI systems that power the Perseverance rover, including its navigation system, a 'targeting' system that can search for samples, and even the kit that helps Mars rovers travel across rough terrain.

He believes colonising Mars will involve sending a small team of human astronauts who are supported by these AI-powered rovers that can scout around the red planet, send back pictures, and ask astronauts if they want to investigate further.

However, we don't have to worry about these rovers or AI systems turning on humans while they're on Mars

"I would say that kind of scenario is very far off in the distant future. It's more likely the opposite situation would occur. If you didn't have the AI, it would be so much harder to maintain things on Mars and it would be much less tenable for humans. With AI, you could certainly be able to operate a habitat for much longer."

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Thanks to Elon Musk, the most popular bitcoin tocogen in the United States – Hardwood Paroxysm

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According to a study by financial advisory firm The Advisor Koch, dogecoin is the most preferred cryptocurrency in 23 US states, including Florida, Hawaii, Illinois and New Jersey. Data obtained from Google Trends Analysis. Bitcoin is the most preferred cryptocurrency in 10 states, including Alaska, Connecticut and New Hampshire, second only to DOGE. Other frequently searched cryptocurrencies include Ethereum and Shiba Inu.

This popularity of Dogecoin may be due to the approval of Elon Musk. Whenever Teslas CEO tweets about Altcoin, its price goes up and attracts more attention from users and investors.

The latest tweet was released on October 18 and raised the price of DOGE by 13%. But Musk has only released a photo of a dog holding a spacecraft. This tweet may be a continuation of the speculation that Dogecoin will become the official currency of Mars. Two days before the tweet, the global blockchain news bulletin CoinIdol reported that the community was delighted with the idea of bringing DOGE to the future colony of Kasturi on Mars.

In fact, another altcoin CEO of Tesla may be responsible for the popularity of Shiba Inu. Altcoin got more attention after Musk posted a tweet with a photo of the new puppy of his named breed. In just 30 days, cryptocurrency has grown by 400%. However, it came to a standstill after Elon declared that he had no stake in Shiba Inu.

Regardless of whether Elon Musk affected the leadership of Bitcoin in the United States, the global situation has not changed. BTC is the most searched cryptocurrency by 2021 with 24.7 million monthly queries worldwide, according to Google search data. Dogecoin comes in second, followed by ethereum and shiba inu.

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Look: Kids of determination create ‘Heritage Village’ to mark UAE’s Year of the 50th – Khaleej Times

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The highlight is a 3D model project titled 'We sail into the future'

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Children of determination at the Future Rehabilitation Centre in Abu Dhabi are marking the UAEs Year of the 50th by creating a Heritage Village highlighting traditional culture and achievements.

Children, both locals and expats, with Down syndrome, autism, speech and language disorders and mental and physical disabilities participated in a host of activities at the centre. These included basket-weaving, arts and crafts, live cooking and henna designing.

Students and staff wore traditional attire and helped each other at the booths. The highlight of the village is a 3D model project titled 'We sail into the future', which is an Emirati dhow displaying past traditions, present landmarks and future colony on Mars. A constant in all these concepts is the Future Rehabilitation Centre.

Children with determination are special and deserve a place in society. They just need an opportunity to display their talent. And once they have that opportunity you will see that they are as good as others, said Samira Lounis, head of education at the Future Rehabilitation Centre.

The village is created by the students and trainers, with contributions from parents and even grandparents.

This is a village for the students and by the students. In our beautiful community, every department has been involved. The goal of this village is for us to celebrate the UAE Golden Jubilee. And for our students to explore the beauty of the UAE culture and heritage through sensory experience, i.e., see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

"And thats why we have created six booths: basket-weaving, henna designing, UAE art and craft, bubble making, traditional food and our 3D model project: 'We sail into the future'. All the objects are sustainable, recyclable objects. Old items are turned into baskets," Lounis said.

The centre opened in 2000 with 60 students. It is dedicated to empowering children of determination across all nationalities.

Democrats Struggle to Energize Their Base as Frustrations Mount – The New York Times

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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats acknowledge that a significant part of the challenge facing their party is structural: With slim congressional majorities, the party cannot pass anything unless the entire caucus agrees. That empowers moderate Democrats like Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia to block some of the biggest promises to their supporters, including a broad voting rights bill.

A more aggressive approach may not lead to eventual passage of an immigration or voting rights law, but it would signal to Democrats that Mr. Biden is fighting for them, said Faiz Shakir, a close adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Mr. Shakir and others worry that the focus on the two significant pieces of legislation infrastructure and the spending bill wont be enough to energize supporters skeptical of the federal governments ability to improve their lives.

Im a supporter of Biden, a supporter of the agenda, and Im frustrated and upset with him to allow this to go in the direction it has, said Mr. Shakir, who managed Mr. Sanderss presidential run in 2020. It looks like we have President Manchin instead of President Biden in this debate.

He added: Its made the president look weak.

The divide over how much attention to devote to staunch Democratic constituencies versus moderate swing voters taps into a political debate thats long roiled the party: Is it more important to energize the base or to persuade swing voters? And can Democrats do both things at once?

White House advisers argue that winning swing voters, particularly the suburban independents who play an outsize role in battleground districts, is what will keep Democrats in power or at least curb the scale of their midterm losses. They see the drop among core groups of Democrats as reflective of a challenging political moment rising inflation, the continued pandemic, uncertainty about schools rather than unhappiness with the administrations priorities.

Its November of 2021, not September of 2022, John Anzalone, Mr. Bidens pollster, said. If we pass Build Back Better, we have a great message going into the midterms, when the bell rings on Labor Day, about what weve done for people.

Even pared back from the $3.5 trillion plan that Mr. Biden originally sought, the legislation that passed the House earlier this month offers proposals transforming child care, elder care, prescription drugs and financial aid for college, as well as making the largest investment ever to slow climate change. But some of the most popular policies will not be felt by voters until long after the midterm elections, nor will the impact of many of the infrastructure projects.

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Daily Archives: November 28, 2021

Company melts $58,000 Teslas into busts of Elon Musk that look nothing like him – Business Insider

Elon Musk Supports View That Dogecoin Hodlers Need To Be Wary Of Leveraged Trading – Benzinga – Benzinga

Would Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk And Bill Gates Be Villains Or Heroes On ‘The Boys’? Erin Moriarty Weighs In – TooFab

What Putin Just Did To Beat Elon Musk Is Terrifying! | SpaceX News – Oakland News Now

Elon Musk shares hilarious theory about why US leaders are refusing to admit that Tesla exists – Teslarati

Starlink First Speed Test! We are Ready to Launch Worldwide! Elon Musk about Bitcoin | SpaceX News – Oakland News Now

AI will find aliens before humans – but it won’t try to kill us yet, says NASA chief – Daily Star

Thanks to Elon Musk, the most popular bitcoin tocogen in the United States – Hardwood Paroxysm

Look: Kids of determination create ‘Heritage Village’ to mark UAE’s Year of the 50th – Khaleej Times

Democrats Struggle to Energize Their Base as Frustrations Mount – The New York Times

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