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Purpose: Instead of merely adding a socially popular mission to its existing business goals, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has innovated its operations by working backwards from its mission of saving the planet by making and selling a vast number of electric cars in order to help remove a principal cause of an approaching global environmental disaster. Design/methodology/approach: When Elon Musk became CEO in 2008, Tesla's mission of saving the planet by replacing gasoline-driven cars with electric cars seemed a preposterous overreach. Findings: Tesla is not only making extraordinary progress towards the accomplishment of its mission, but the mission serves as an accelerator of its business generally and its innovations in particular. Practical implications: The example of CEO Musk showing up on the factory floor, and working shoulder to shoulder with the staff in teams and mobs to solve urgent bottleneck issues sets the tone of Tesla's workplace. The overriding preoccupation with accelerating innovation is enabled by modularity in design. Originality/value: A unique study of Tesla's post-Agile management innovations by an expert on Agile teams and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a textual analysis that explains how Elon Musk's sentiments in his Twitter content correlates with price and volatility in the Bitcoin market using the dynamic conditional correlation-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model, allowing less sensitive to window size than traditional models. After examining 10,850 tweets containing 157,378 words posted from December 2017 to May 2021 and rigorously controlling other determinants, we found that the tone of the world's wealthiest person can drive the Bitcoin market, having a Granger causal relation with returns. In addition, Musk is likely to use positive words in his tweets, and reversal effects exist in the relationship between Bitcoin prices and the optimism presented by Tesla's CEO. However, we did not find evidence to support linkage between Musk's sentiments and Bitcoin volatility. Our results are also robust when using a different cryptocurrency, i.e., Ether this paper extends the existing literature about the mechanisms of social media content generated by influential accounts on the Bitcoin market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starlink is a long-term project to address disparities in rural broadband Internet access that is led by SpaceX and Elon Musk. The project's goal is to launch thousands of smallsat-class satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) as part of a mega-constellation to provide continuous, high-speed Internet around the world. SpaceX believes that its technology can outperform the competition by using shallow orbits. When compared to traditional geosynchronous satellite Internet infrastructure, Starlink promises lower latency and higher-quality connections to its customers (Walker & Elliott, 2021). This study aims to investigate the public perception of the Starlink Satellite project in Thailand. A quantitative approach was used and an online questionnaire was conducted to collect data from a convenience sample of 1,258 participants in Thailand. Binary regression analysis was performed to analyse the data. The findings revealed that the public perception of the Starlink Satellite project in Thailand could be described by gender, age, computer, laptop, tablet, wearable device, Internet duration, mobile Internet, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Consequently, Starlink should devise an effective strategy to entice users to increase their awareness and use satellite Internet in countries where fibre Internet is more affordable and convenient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses judicial decisions related to mergers and acquisitions reported by the Annual Survey Working Group. In Crispo v. Musk, a motion was granted by the Delaware Court of Chancery to dismiss, in part, holding that Luigi Crispo did not have standing to seek an order of specific performance of a merger agreement against Elon Musk and entities he controlled. In SPay, Inc. v. Stack Media Inc., the Court denied a motion to dismiss a buyer's claims for breach of contract and others.

The article focuses on four case summaries, including Tesla's dilemma in entering the Indian electric car market, a financial model for a new dealership, cultural conflicts in New York City, and the competitive rivalry in the global semiconductor market. Topics discussed include market entry strategy, valuation, cultural differences, and geopolitical scenarios.

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Are humans destined for mass redundancy? If Elon Musk is right, we may well be. Brian Runciman MBCS and ChatGPT team up to analyse the latest BCS research about AI's capabilities and find a very different story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When it comes to imagining new worlds, there is no better new world than a literally brand new one. Mars is the closest option, and humans recently directed a few sophisticated objects toward it. Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to turn it into a colony. Science fiction has imagined Mars and many other new worlds and has routinely reflected on real or impending contradictions developing on Earth. The contradictions are, in a sense, where the new worlds are imagined from, but the new worlds are often imagined as settler colonies located somewhere else. This article sketches the long-term evolution of science fiction colonialism. It surveys the ways in which science fiction has engaged with settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

America does not tax its richest citizens, such as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, at all. This Article argues that part of the reason is the paradox that under current income tax law and theory, taxing the rich would cost resources that could be made available to benefit the not-rich. The Article explores the paradox in theory and practice, then points to ways to move beyond it. Taxing the rich will mean accepting compelling justifications for doing so other than providing resources to the not-rich. We must either pay the price or reset the terms of the debate to move society forward by breaking up large concentrations of private wealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to improve the predictability power of a machine learning method by proposing a two-stage prediction method. We use Group Modeling Data Handling (GMDH)-type neural network method to eliminate the user role in feature selection. To consider recent shocks in Bitcoin market, we consider three periods, before COVID-19, after COVID-19, and after Elon Musk's tweeter activity. Using time-scale analysis, we decomposed the data into different scales. We further investigate the forecasting accuracy across different frequencies. The findings show that in shorter period the first, second and third lag of daily prices and trade volume produce valuable information to predict Bitcoin price while the seven days lag can improve the prediction power over longer period. The results indicate a better performance of the wavelet base GMDH-neural network in comparison with the standard method. This reveals the importance of trade frequencies' impact on the forecasting power of models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging their citizenry. Experts and opinion makers warn that a demographic collapse cannot be absorbed by our current social order; Elon Musk proclaims this to be "the biggest threat to human civilization." Statistics from the Nordic countries--the world's most gender-equal region--indicate that subjective perceptions of the sex ratio in modern environments drive singledom and low reproduction. Scandinavia has the world's highest occurrence of one-person households: 43-46%. In the past decade, the Norwegian fertility rate dropped from 2.0 to 1.5. Sex ratio studies suggest that women's perception of there being few acceptable partners activates a polygynous mindset, which in prosperous, monogamous societies drives promiscuity to the detriment of pair-bonding. More than 6 million years of hominin evolution under promiscuous, polygynous, and monogamous regimes shaped mate preferences that evoke different cultural and behavioral responses as environments change. The Church's imposition of lifelong monogamy contributed to the emergence of the modern world, but if this world's gender-equal societies no longer motivate reproduction, being more open to polygyny could be worth considering as a means for increasing fertility. This article makes this case by exploring hominin mating from our last common ancestor with chimpanzees--through the genus Homo's forager and agricultural periods--to modern Scandinavians. In the past millennium, mating practices have coevolved with the emergence of modernity, necessitating frequent cultural updates. An evolutionary analysis of Nordic works of literature illuminates the ways in which ideological narratives influence reproductive norms. The insights gleaned are considered in the context of people's perceived sex ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twitter, one of the most important social media platforms, has been in the headlines regularly since its acquisition by Elon Musk in October 2022. This acquisition has had a strong impact on the employees, functionality, and discourse on Twitter. So far, however, there has been no analysis that examines the perception of the acquisition by the users on the platform itself. For this purpose, in this paper, we use georeferenced Tweets from the US and classify them using a polarity-based sentiment analysis. We find that the number of Tweets about Twitter and Elon Musk has increased significantly, as have negative sentiments on the subject. Using a spatial hot spot analysis, we find distinct centres of discourse, but no clear evidence of their significant change over time. On the West Coast, however, we suspect the first signs of polarisation, which could be an important indication for the future development of discourse on Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space has long cultivated the human imagination. For eons, man has looked to it for guidance and inspiration. The earliest seafarers relied on the stars to navigate the Earth’s oceans; the faithful of many a religion beseeched the heavens for guidance; and the philosopher, the artist, the writer, and the poet looked to the endless sky for inspiration. As early as the 1800, that fascination had morphed into something deeper and fantastical at the time. The idea of man embarking boldly into space, a devout confidence that our destiny as species was no longer exclusively tied to the Earth. The rapid development of spaceflight technology during the space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R in the Cold War era made such earlier fantastical propositions now a plausible, if still distant reality. The national governments of states around the world scrambled to formulate new laws, regulations, and international treaties to deal with the rapidly changing reality of spaceflight. These laws and treaties, products of their time, acknowledged the possible assistance of non-state actors, but never truly accounted for the possibility of a mostly or wholly civilian space market; a market that has rapidly begun to grow and expand as state actors, like NASA, have started withdrawing from direct activity and ceding exclusive control of the field. The void left by this withdraw has created a “Gold Rush”- like market, and billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have rushed in to capitalize on the opportunities now open those with the capital and means to take advantage of them. These investors (and prospective ones), however, are not only contemplating just trips into space. They are looking farfurther, to the possible mining of resource-rich and plentiful space bodies, and even the colonization of other celestial bodies. The law, domestically and internationally, and whether it be treaty or regulatory, lags far behind in this field, and is woefully obsolete or even simply absent. This note examines the most important historical and current treaty and regulatory efforts in the field across several key areas of concern (including: health & safety, environment, property rights & wealth inequality, and international competition and government cooperation) and provides possible solutions to these concerns and a way forward that will allow mankind to continue to embark on its new destiny amongst the stars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the most prominent intellectual attempts to grapple with human extinction in recent decades is existential risk studies. For its proponents, like Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord, there is a one-in-six chance that humanity will go extinct in the next century, whether from an asteroid hit, nuclear Armageddon or misaligned artificial intelligence. The field has powerful supporters, with Silicon Valley billionaires like Elon Musk and Jaan Tallinn donating large sums to institutions researching existential risk. In this article, I consider the ideological function of the imaginaries of catastrophe proposed by existential risk studies. To this end, the article begins by examining the distinctive mode of politics, termed extinctiopolitics, elaborated by Bostrom and Ord. Via a critical comparison with the concept of biopolitics, I suggest that extinctiopolitics aims to optimise the future life of humanity through the prediction and prevention of risks that threaten its annihilation. Borrowing the Freudian notion of screen memory, I then argue that extinctiopolitics both acknowledges and represses the ecocidal tendencies of contemporary capitalism. The image of the collective death of the species evokes a range of disastrous events in the present, especially the climate crisis, but in such a way that their social conditions are obscured. By way of conclusion, I briefly reflect on how science fiction texts use the image of human extinction to unpick the ideological manoeuvres of extinctiopolitics and restage the real contradictions of capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]