free x
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
its easy to be a critic but how many of you are building x
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
sorry, g∞n, but my nda with the nsa forbids me...
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
We should sue him, we're X! ILX! Fuk u elon.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
I made a couple hundred bucks today after seeing the $54 thing lol
― mh, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 04:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGx6K90TmCI
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
My last day was Monday. So sad I wasn’t around for the three hour company 2023 strategy meeting yesterday that was interrupted after 15 mins by news the stock had been suspended.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
good times at blue bird industries
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
"i made ten Gs today"
"yeah you made it in a sleazy way, selling Doge to the kids"
"I gotta buy Twitter"
well hey
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Random Musk thoughts, posted on a discord server and copied here:
I think Brandon Sutton or someone adjacent to him pointed out that figures like Musk and Bill Gates/Steve Jobs(in earlier decades) represent some sorta human instantiation of Progress.
Elon Musk is doing big things which means that technology is advancing thus the American People and/or Progress is advancing. Anything that could possibly endanger that conception must be vehemently attacked. It kinda explains why online creatures freak out to defend their hero.
It’s effectively just a degraded, dumber version of Great Man of History belief, where the only thing that advances Civilization are the mighty strides of titans of tech industry, since every possible Avenue of social change has been forcibly squeezed out or discredited
The fact that Musk doesn’t and can’t deliver jack shit doesn’t mean anything, at least not for the moment, since his importance to this crowd seems just to exist as vessel to receive desperate hopes and dreams that Things Are Getting Better.
Eventually his importance will probably fade(or blow up) and some other character will come along, at least as long as we have our current social formation where there’s a need for large figures in the form of tech CEOs like this.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
there's definitely something Trumpy about it, the way he tries to take complex, age-old problems and reduce them to very simple solutions that you can fit in a single tweet. it's convincing to some people because he's got that visionary quality to it, like maybe he doesn't know everything but he knows "what's important", blah blah blah. much like Trump there's this sense of "well if he's not brilliant why has he been so successful?" and as time goes on and more reporting gets done it starts becoming clear that this is just how America works. of course both of them push back against all those narratives and insist all the news is fake, and I guess if you're already hypnotized by them you believe it. I think Tesla bought him a lot of goodwill, even if in retrospect, it's not quite clear what exactly he added to that company. as far as I can tell he's mostly responsible for the bad/fraudulent stuff they have going on, but I guess in the meantime he did put them on the map by being an annoying piece of human garbage. so there's that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
better boat than the cybertruck (dome means u wont drown)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
App X is how Space X shares its joys, worries
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
what is going on here
NEW YORK (AP) — Musk lawyers say Twitter won't accept renewed $44 billion bid for the company, ask Delaware court to halt upcoming trial.— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
bad news: my car battery was dead this morninggood news: the CAA dude who came to boost my battery spent the 10 minutes of waiting for it to charge telling me how much Musk sucks lol
― rob, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
"Twitter will not take yes for an answer," said the court filing signed by Musk attorney Edward Micheletti. "Astonishingly, they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders’ interests."
Whole thing is super fishy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
seems like musk wants the trial called off before he gives twitter the money and twitter wants to be given the money first
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
xps more maneuvers and market manipulations methinks
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
Makes clear Musk is not doing what is necessary to obtain financing. https://t.co/F3ngBEAJ3r— Ann "No Relation" Lipton (@AnnMLipton) October 6, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
That is a pretty spicy filing from Twitter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
this fuckin guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
'further mischief and delay'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Just this morning, a corporate representative for one of the lending banks testified that Mr. Musk has yet to send them a borrowing notice and has not otherwise communicated to them that he intends to close the transaction, let alone on any particular timeline. The bank further testified that the main task necessary to close the deal—memorializing the debt financing—could have happened in July but didn’t because Mr. Musk purported to terminate the deal.
it really was just a ploy my god what a lunatic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
he needs that money to occupy mars
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
judge listen the money is on mars, its mars emeralds
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
ohhhhhhhh you guysI just figured it outthis is about the Tesla selling window, innit? 16/ pic.twitter.com/H8eoq88mQV— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) October 6, 2022
seems plausible that he's buying time to sell tsla stock
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
if thats the case why doesnt he just tell them that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
banter heuristic
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
Musk asks the Court to stay trial while he tries to close the deal. Twitter won't agree. You can have trial going on and Musk can continue to close if he wants. No problem! Why should they give up the hammer of the trial when dealing with an untrustworthy partner? https://t.co/sfA55sEecc— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) October 6, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
It all has a distinct feel of Musk's lawyers flailing their arms in an effort to cause delay in the hope of concessions from Twitter. iow, it looks desperate, but the hours are billable and Musk is permitting them to flail away, so why not?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 6 October 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
I am just imagining the billing that was going on at these firms getting ready for this trial on this time frame.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Thursday, 6 October 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
i mean justice delayed is justice denied innit homie
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 October 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
this is how the world endsnot with a merger but with billable hours
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 October 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Bulk billing dream.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
ok man
Elon Musk says his teenage daughter doesn't want to be associated with him because of what he calls 'full-on communism' taught in schools and widespread hatred of the wealthy https://t.co/MNZPabKPbD— Business Insider Tech (@BITech) October 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
gee Elon, maybe you should have been a more positive presence in her life and she would have learned from you how wonderful wealthy people really are.
uh, you have met her by now, rite?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
"Can't win them all."
Parenting isn't about winning, you miserable troll.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
tbf, who among us doesn't have at least one child that loathes us
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 October 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
it’s tough out here for a g
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 October 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
if you think about it, wealthy people are the real victims in this unfair world
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 October 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
iirc, Twitter should meet Elon Po Po's trick with their own involving the promise of magical ginkgo nuts
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I understand they've been lost in the ocean of other stupid things he's said & done, but just wanted to note that his comments about Taiwan are stupid craven bullshit.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
lot of ppl are thinking he said it to cozy up to china but i think its prob just cause he likes to talk
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
he said basically the same thing about russia and ukraine and whats the angle there if anything hes hurting his business by airing an unpopular opinion but he does care he just wants to talk about his dumbass theories
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
I'm sure there's a lot of truth to that. Everything he says creates an uproar.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is as fucked up as Henry Ford and that's a difficult feat.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
he's going to mobilise his stans into an anti-left anti-woke anti-union death squad if we're not careful
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 10 October 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
you can only tip you cap really
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link