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The IPO prospectus SpaceX dropped last night revealed how much the world’s largest public offering is underpinned by a founder firmly in control.
Elon Musk, who previously complained he didn’t have a big enough say in Tesla,
will control 85% of the vote at SpaceX through special shares
(and will get another billion shares if SpaceX puts a million-person colony on Mars).
The filing raised speculation that after SpaceX goes public, a purchase of Tesla isn’t far off.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-20 23:21:02

SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/xai-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-05-22 15:01:32

A Q&A with Mike Richards, the Daily Wire's new CEO following the abrupt departure of Caleb Robinson, on the Daily Wire's continued entertainment push and more (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/b…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-21 18:07:41

Binding as an enabling mechanism for cross-modal plasticity sciencedirect.com/science/arti "Multiple sources of connections can provide cross-modal input to the deprived visual regions";

From Fig. 2 caption: "Multiple sources of connections can provide cross-modal input to the deprived visual regions: (1) Thalamic relays: nonvisual thalamic nuclei such as the pulvinar project to the visual cortex and can convey auditory information; (2) Corticocortical projections: feedforward or lateral inputs from the auditory cortex to early visual areas. The auditory-visual cortical projection may receive input from both thalamic and top-down connectivity, which strengthens following early …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-22 14:02:13

2026 NFL Mock Draft 6.0: Giants ignore positional value with No. 5 pick, while adding WR with second selection

cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2026-06-22 06:13:45

The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.
I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-lan

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-20 23:51:01

SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/musk

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
resete…

An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that
nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction
— suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The New York Times report, published on July 18, examined the close to 550 cases in which individuals
— generally protesters and/or immigrants
— we…

Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.