Elon Musk

"world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there"

iPhone really gouges people on price if you ask me - but isnt it odd that Beyonce and me could use the same phone - were is the million-dollar Ferrari phone

WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict

― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah in india there are cheap phone plans that just have whatsapp instead of data, for some people it is the internet

^ brazil's the same

I had to use it to coordinate my pickups and dropoffs during my office visit in the Philippines.

coke?

lol no rides to and from the office

WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict

― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

not korea (kakao https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/asia/korea-kakao-ceo.html is wild), japan (line), eastern europe and one girl from park slope i went on a tinder date with in 2013 (viber) and china (wechat).

It figures that an Elon Musk thread has turned into a discussion of messaging apps.

it's all leading towards X, everything leads towards X

It's not a crossroads, it's a singularity.

He should buy goatse.cx

just two edgelords living in the moment pic.twitter.com/iouBxhGnkI

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) October 20, 2022

he pay too much lol

Social media market caps (2021 peak to today)

Snap $131B → $14B
Meta $1.07T→ $353B
Twitter $61B → $40B
Pinterest $56B → $15B

— Troy Osinoff 🕺 (@yo) October 20, 2022

I saw someone say it's like announcing you want to buy a car, changing your mind, changing your mind again, then crashing the car, then saying you still want to buy it.

aside from whatever damage he mightve done to the company his timing was just terrible, making an offer right in the middle of a gigantic crash of the sector, twitter would prob be trading at a third of what hes paying

Seems like his only hope now is to make enough Putin-friendly noises on Twitter to provoke a national security review that will bar him from going through with the purchase.

https://i.imgur.com/fMQcZDW.png

post article said the deal is prob closing next week xp

SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post.

Musk has told prospective investors in his Twitter purchase that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers, leaving the company with a skeleton crew, according to the report...

Gonna be awful lonely in the cafeteria.

I hope the actual citizens of the TL rise up and takes the building, that's what Musk and Twitter deserve afaic.

Who will be the last person to tweet, and what conspiracy theory will they be pushing?

and who will own the NFT for that tweet?

who taught him to talk like this

“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” — @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1SqS8qMs3F

— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) October 15, 2022

the state's monopoly on violence should rightfully be his because he could discipline & extract value from workers more effectively without government regulation, better than a government itself can? (capital allocation as the financial abstraction of this?)

the antistatism is of course totally opportunistic and hypocritical and feels like something between a pose and a threat

feel like this might be evidence of exposure to anarcho capitalism, which which would stand to reason i guess what with being into crypto

feel like thiel and andreessen probably also often talk this way, and with a somewhat firmer intellectual grounding?

i mean i don't think they're advanced political thinkers or anything but musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce with far too much time and money on his hands

sub-mid in fact

^^^speaking truth to power here

how long until the helicopter memes or has he gone there already

feel like Twitter would be better if in addition to followers, it gave a complete list of people that also hate you. but that would probably just egg Elon Musk on.

this feels more like him intentionally trying to say something that winds up being a decades-enduring quote and failing miserably.

given how much govt capital Musk has gotten, I have to agree with him here

he is prime ancap material - born into money, sexually predatory, racist, utterly convinced of own brilliance, resentful of meagre protections his workers have won from the state and jealous of the violent forces the state is able to marshall (partly) independent of his whims (for now)... but he's not fussy - he also called himself an anarcho-syndicalist once didn't he? although I suspect was thinking of something more like fascist corporatism, if he was thinking

No private citizen should be so powerful in a governed society. Bu there he is with his money and power and toys like a super villian

ancap is the most ridiculous name, what if we combined these two oppositional ideas to form... libertarianism?

capitalists and fascists stole libertarian from the left and are in the process of stealing anarchist too (thanks hbo)

lol remember the story from a few years ago where an american ancap reddit user was visiting greece and decided to check out an anarchist squat and they ended up beating him up

god that fuckin rules

musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce

― mark s, Sunday, October 23, 2022 11:12 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the saddest part about this is its a new affectation, he was just a square before, he got into dorm room philosophy as a midlife crisis

lol remember the story from a few years ago where an american ancap reddit user was visiting greece and decided to check out an anarchist squat and they ended up beating him up

it's still up I hope it's real

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/i_was_beat_up_by_left_anarchists_in_greece/

I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me."

tfw force is initiated

Hate when someone disturbs my NAP

such as a basic douche, such a basic play, so depressing.

not to assume the veracity of the story but

“I’m just taking pictures of an anti-authoritarian group’s headquarters, why would they be mad?” is really something

elon said something true then compensated by following up with the most reddit thing anyone has ever said pic.twitter.com/lwB6MEE5Yo

— Lena (@banalplay) October 24, 2022

"polytopia addresses these limitations"

perfect post

lmao I assumed polytopia was some weird philosophy thing but it turns out it's just a mobile game for kids

it's literally a version of civ that has been simplified for mobile play and has brightly colored graphics. it's pretty good?

he talks like a deep fake of himself