Elon Musk

that was not a direction i expected on this thread

i think hes good at business, in that particular move fast a break things way, he didnt found tesla but he was with them early and for sure had a vision for the company that has panned out, tho tbf the core of that vision was the work of the actual founders which is make a cool high performance electric car, until then they had been lil nerdy efficiency vehicles, doing a car startup was considered impossible at the time and succeeding at it was no mean feat, he did a lot of shady scammy stuff along the way for sure and tbf a more honest operator mightve failed, there still might be some very shady stuff going on at telsa who know their success could illusory

he was also very good at doing the media he really understood how to tell a story that would rev them up so to speak haha and also really understood the value in that, he put a lot of work into building his image and it paid off hugely, i doubt telsa wouldve made it without millions of articles calling him tony stark

which! makes this whole twitter situation and just his weirdo persona for the last few years so mystifying, he threw all that hard won good will away, maybe he got over confident or just tired of the whole thing, idk hes def a bit unstable its part of the mix for sure

doing a car startup was considered impossible at the time and succeeding at it was no mean feat, he did a lot of shady scammy stuff along the way for sure and tbf a more honest operator mightve failed, there still might be some very shady stuff going on at telsa who know their success could illusory

it seems to be widely accepted in certain circles that there is, so again it's the whole Trump thing, he's willing to break the law and commit fraud to make it look like everything is constantly going up uP UP. I mean Trump was notoriously one of the worst businessmen in the history of America and he wound up becoming President, so I guess being a scumbag pays off. I mean you can't really talk about Elon's business success without mentioning the billions of dollars the US government gave him, much of which seems to have gone right into his own pocket

yeah american business is incredibly corrupt, def some parallels with trump, except that musk was actually successful at business, trump did get to be president tho which is pretty nice too

and yeah elon has done well to position himself in front of the government subsidies spigot

free money baby who doesnt like free money

shit like this should really be a jail type situation

In 2015 I decided on a whim to check out Tesla's battery swap station that was earning the company 9 figures in California ZEV credits, and found it wasn't real. Instead Tesla was using diesel generators to charge cars. Here's how this changed my life 🧵

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 20, 2022

I mean

Part of today will be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022

very much the "nearly all government spending is wasteful, we can easily do away with 90% of it" mentality that idiots like Ted Cruz have

they should 100% go back to rails, break out the fail whale, lets do this

lol excited for him to just turn off services at random until the site breaks

my friend who is a fast cars and electric engines nerd -- like she can literally talk abt types of battery for hours at a stretch -- says she will never climb into a tesla and that they are ludicrously and unimagineably dangerous. she DETESTS musk since long before all this

stripping out the resilience then outsourcing the risk -- i mean the risk at twitter is that i have to look elsewhere for my "cats with jobs" needs but he is running it the exact same way

someone should rig him up a board with a bunch of switches he can throw xp

NEW: Twitter has lockdown it’s code base, freezing production changes to Twitter systems until further notice. Exceptions made if Elon explicitly says so, according to an internal email. 1/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 14, 2022

lmao it might not last the end of the day

also idk if it's been mentioned itt but the site nearly broke during every World Cup goal 4 years ago and the 2022 one starts next week so good luck Twitter

this is it its happening

https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Untitled(1).jpg

what if twitter and crypto fail on the same day does that mean none of it counts, we all just wake up from a dream

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Bolon_Yokte%27_K%27uh.jpg

i feel bad for twitter workers but this is tremendous content

he absolutely had some of his tesla sycophants have some very brief chats with people about stuff they barely understand, who then explained it to him and now he's micro-managing the infra pic.twitter.com/IlDrkPdBvn

— wint32 (@mountain_ghosts) November 14, 2022

If I worked there I would be so mad if I were one of the ones that didn’t get laid off

btw no one uses the term rpc right, hes just trying to say request

Yeah he means requests probably

and the reason he thinks theres a thousand requests for a page load is because he doesnt understand what graphql is doing

i just looked up rpc and based on ten seconds of scanning it seems like its a situation where you make a request that could be fulfilled locally or remotely, which would describe how graphql works

or he does understand how it works he just decided he doesnt like the batching

and hes trying make the situation sound much worse than it is to give him an excuse to break twitter, idk lol

i mean some of the requests are rpcs as an implementation detail. no one talks like that though.

someone told him the word and he loved it

someone told him it was more hardcore than REST

tbf rest is not very hardcore, just taking it easy, thats the life

Anyway, the people that give Musk long-leash support are like the labels throwing money at some '80s synth guy.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

What

I love his energy

He’s fired

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022

what a pos

pic.twitter.com/6GykHxlH5r

— Josh Mankiewicz (@JoshMankiewicz) November 13, 2022

tweeting a screenshot of a tumblr post…nature is healing

xpost - I 100% buy that Elon had no intention of firing that guy until he saw the tweets suggesting he do so

lol otm

oof the replies to his tweets are a new level of dismal

Found another one, Elon! https://t.co/0HjqXZpyr1

— ✨Chicago✨ (@chicago_glenn) November 14, 2022

need a new snigglet for combo of snitch and stan

"team freedom of speech"

He can name her to his new Katch All Rogue Employees Now Squad.

lol

however degraded musk is people rooting for firings in his comments are somehow lower

note the meme signature

@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/qPSBr3PK8j

— Tesla DMV -Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia (@FSDbetaa) November 14, 2022

oof

come on, evil young children. turning point usa is where you want to work, not this flameout twitter stuff

Part of today will be turning off the “microservices” bloatware. Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2022

this could go extraordinarily poorly

seems less funny now.

Just imagine how much money he would save if he fired everyone, turned it off, and quit. Twitter would go from losing billions to losing nothing.

ah very nice slam dunk

apparently they didnt turn off 2-factor authentication but they DID turn off the service that sends you the 2-factor authentication code. so if you log out and try to log in with an authentication code you simply wont receive one. lol. lmao https://t.co/CoTqonsagG

— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) November 14, 2022

oh, details