Faiz Siddiqui

Hello bskyers, My upcoming book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, is up for pre-order. It delves into the playbook Musk is using today, providing the definitive look at the 6 yrs that transformed his reputation. Out May 6! Use PREORDER25 at B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hubris-max...

🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.

NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor” Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: The first excerpt from my book HUBRIS MAXIMUS details how Elon Musk raged over a Tesla death investigation in a 27-minute phone call, threatening to sue, eventually hanging up on the chairman of the NTSB. When the line went dead, investigators were stunned: "He hung up on us.” wapo.st/4jdONIx

"The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General mark the first time a U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws" wapo.st/3LCwnFi

The way that people talk about these things is wild: “very few wrong things” “almost entirely factually accurate” You’re talking about an encyclopedia!! (Bonus: just some of Robert Scoble’s apparent corrections because they couldn’t all fit here)

Wikipedia's first sentence on the Cybertruck: "The Tesla Cybertruck is a battery-electric full-size pickup truck manufactured by Tesla, Inc. since 2023." Grokipedia's first sentence on the Cybertruck:

Grokipedia describes Elon Musk's work in breathlessly, saying Grok "releases reflect xAI’s rapid iteration, with Musk highlighting Grok’s design for maximal truth-seeking," using x.ai as its source. It also incorrectly describes Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE role. wapo.st/47PKzTd Story w/ @willoremus.com

New: NHTSA has begun inquiring about a Tesla Full Self-Driving mode, "Mad Max," that weaves through traffic and exceeds the speed limit to more aggressively maneuver the roads. The Biden Admin took a hard line against programmed-in features that pushed the bounds of the law. wapo.st/4nf0OyB

New: Elon Musk's feud with Sean Duffy, the Trump official with the most oversight of his businesses, is raising eyebrows. "You’re essentially fighting with the guy in charge ... It’s so much self-sabotage." wapo.st/4nf0OyB

Elon Musk says Tesla's plan to build an army of Tesla Optimus robots necessitates his $1 trillion pay package: "It's not like I'm going to spend the money ... I don't feel comfortable building a robot army if I don't have at least a strong influence."

Exciting News: My book Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk is officially a Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2025. "One of the most polarizing figures of modern times gets put under the microscope in this exhaustive and exhilarating examination..." www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...

Relevant background here is that Bari Weiss was nearly onboarded at Twitter during the peak of the Twitter Files hysteria (employees pushed back to prevent her from getting full access), when Elon Musk had put this management style into full effect there. You can read about it here: wapo.st/4hb1XGe

One of the wildest things here: Teslas in Full Self-Driving kept running a red light at the same intersection in Joppa, Maryland, indicating "that the problem may be repeatable" and forcing Tesla to issue a fix