Elon Musk

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What do you call someone who is a master at baiting?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022

jfc this just gets more and more dumb with every passing hour

This is why he earns the big bucks

forget 92 hours, he hasn't slept for ten days

elon's 4D chess is that "Masturbatedon" or "Masterbatedon" might be read as "masturbate don" i.e. elon wants to stroke donald trump... he's heading off that insult before it can even begin! :-)

he could really plumb some new depths if he came out as kinky and poly

Another fun thing: for years, he was a reply guy in The Onion's mentions.

And then they made fun of him a couple times. And he responded by pivoting to the right-wing satire site that publishes "Elon in a mech suit" fanfic. Watch the shift: pic.twitter.com/UqfkpM7oFW

— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022

But yeah, this is what he thinks is the height of comedy: fan-fiction about how cool he is pic.twitter.com/zEdHGQ3PAx

— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022

He deleted the dirty screen tweet and retweeted a couple of Tesla tweets lol

cool cool cool

To independent-minded voters:

Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022

so Twitter is now officially a mouthpiece for the Republican party?

It’s a mouthpiece for someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder.

It’s interesting. Jack was semi-public about his struggle with manic depression. Ev too. I don’t think Musk has ever spoken publicly about his clear issues.

He has! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/business/elon-musk-tesla-board.html

It’d feel more like a win for the bipolar community if there wasn’t so much … uh, baggage.

I'm just trying to picture the absolute uproar if, say, Zuckerberg flat out said everyone should vote for Democrats. All hell would break loose.

Meant to qualify that with if he used his official Facebook platform to do so.

“therefore I recommend” is just absolutely killing me

the classic "guy who cannot take an L or log off"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg7q9ZJVsAAoIzT?format=jpg&name=medium

There’s a whole account for this stuff

Elon Musk liked a tweet from Eva Fox 🦊Claudius Nero’s Legion 🐺 https://t.co/oDBwElNolN

— ELON ALERTS (@elon_alerts) November 7, 2022

This feels like watching Trump's first week in office if he misplaced the keys to the White House and spent three hours on camera looking for them

He's tanking the site, he's drowning in debt, he's a huge fucking baby, and he reads his mentions.

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) November 7, 2022

cool cool cool

🐦[To independent-minded voters:

Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022🕸]🐦

lmao he's fucked https://t.co/MEL9lYlqQW

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 7, 2022

someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder

certainly has all the earmarks of someone riding their mania straight at a fiery crash into the mountain

maybe he'll make Kanye Chief Product Officer

interesting

re the yang tweet

https://t.co/zUkuY3rsNq pic.twitter.com/JaTJo2CzyE

— Jesse (@RequiemArm) November 7, 2022

Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe's Twitter account! Wasn't it obvious he was doing a PARODY???

— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 7, 2022

He's such a dummy. By going full goblin and imposing such a strict my way or the highway binary, he's pretty much whittling down the number of people that would pay to associate with him and in turn prop up his ego/clout. He is indeed going to end up in a the same sort of parallel universe as Trump, surrounded by yes men, Scott Baio and Three Doors Down.

hatchi matchi

Bullied Loner Plans Office Shooting https://t.co/vi1zjXxjB3 pic.twitter.com/uLVy73blc1

— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 7, 2022

They should stick him in the middle with a big flag when the fabled "both sides" he loves so much start unloading on each other.

WAIT! Don't go!

Tech insider Casey Newton tweeted Saturday that some Twitter employees are getting called back in after getting sacked Friday. Those who are being asked to return, according to Insider, were key to Twitter’s operations; it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place.

Elon Musk is basically what you get if you take Steve Jobs and drain his genius for design, commitment to excellence and ability to bring out the best in people, even better than they themselves thought possible. What you're left with is a destructive, selfish narcissist promoting vaporware.

just rebrand it Shitter already

I mean, it's already in the toilet.

lol there are people suggesting that Elon should fire these people if they refuse to come back. THEY'RE ALREADY FIRED.

xp

Hey, he has been fishing for additional revenue streams and Wacky Packages-style re-skins aren't as dumb as some of the ideas they've been throwing out.

"it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place" yeah duh, because this appears to have been so massive no actual thought was put behind what they were doing.

RIFs are often poorly thought through/done without regard to operability even at my company, to the point where they literally laid off half of our project team prior to a live date, which basically made the entire project a big disaster. at a company like Twitter that's run by the equivalent of a gardener whose head was run over by a lawn mower, well...y'know.

for SWEs it really does seem to have been lines of code in the last 30-60 days combined with tenure.

that's the reporting, and at least in my former org it matches what actually happened.

Amazing

Could use a community manager who has grown an amazing online message board, subreddit, or online forum…

work from home, anywhere in the world, as long as you’ve done it before and you have a playbook I can learn from.

Email Ja✧✧✧@calaca✧✧✧.c✧✧ explaining your experience

— @jason (@Jason) November 8, 2022

haaaaa

nominate e.mily

Is Philip Greenspun still alive?

invocation of greenspun is always my line for OG SHIT. i was as ignorant then as i am now and could never figure out the board's connection to this greenspun, like, is this on some usenet bullshit, what is this? mr. greenspun (didn't know there was one) should definitely end twitter, is what i'm getting to here

Philip Greenspun. Born September 28, 1963 (age 59)

(post for my) green spun philster

Having seen WeChat work in China, this scenario actually makes sense:

There you go. Musk’s plan for Twitter is to copy WeChat. https://t.co/wgcjUc2fOT

— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 8, 2022

legendary greenspun hours: when his dog* had like peed on the server out in the garage that ilx and the all other boards** were housed on, and we had couple of days outage till it dried out or whatever

*(probably no longer with us RIP)
**eg there were two Y2K boards on greenspun bcz there'd been a massive flameward schism over how to interpret the non-arrival of the Y2K end-times, also ask a drunk and iirc de subjectivisten 👋🏼