Elon Musk Just Ghosted a Huge Company Meeting

Elon Musk is doing his very best to rehabilitate his damaged image. DOGE and all that government twaddle is behind him, he insists. He's going to be working closely at his businesses again, instead of chainsawing federal agencies and getting screamed at by Trump cabinet members. He's done with politics — or spending loads of money on it, anyway. There's robotaxis to roll out and Mars-settlement-shaped bridges to sell. But if this is his comeback tour, it's started in pretty much the worst way possible. On Tuesday, Musk was nowhere to be seen at a highly anticipated talk he was supposed to give about SpaceX's plans for colonizing the Red Planet, Gizmodo reports, leaving legions of his fans and spaceflight nerds — not to mention the thousands of SpaceX employees gathered at the company's Starbase headquarters in Texas for the occasion — hanging. No explanation was given (though he did fire off some tweets in the interim, albeit at nowhere near his typical spambot levels of frequency). ... Read full article.