Elon Musk

the shine is officially off

It's a boooo-ear market

Stock hit its 52 week low today

i don’t think he cares about Tesla stock price or even the company all that much any more. he got what he wanted out of it (fanboys, cash, aattention) and now he’s going to leverage that to…do…something? the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto. going full Q now is a good way to hook some chunk of gullible people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

better get in before crypto collapses completely next week

the dynamic w/ jack and jack’s comments seem to let on that it’ll be something with crypto.

Which comments are these? My apologies for being lost.

don’t remember exactly the quote but jack posted something about how twitter should’ve been a “protocol” and how Musk was the “singular person” to get this done or something along those lines. then there was some back/forth they had about the blockchain…

don’t remember exactly the quote but jack posted something about how twitter should’ve been a “protocol” and how Musk was the “singular person” to get this done or something along those lines. then there was some back/forth they had about the blockchain…

Jack’s a real dipshit. Never seen someone so checked out of the consequences of his actions in my life.

yeah hes the one whos really into crypto not elon, prob what he wanted to do but couldnt because it makes no sense, he did however pivot his payments company to crypto hope that works out lol

i just imagine jack meditating naked in a white room while a robed assistant intermittently comes in to whisper assurances that all is on track and reads a couple of elon’s tweets

his other other company blue sky did release a social protocol thing recently fwiw, it has no blockchain tho

Can only assume Biz and Ev are both glad they got out ages ago

they're probably both freaks but they aren't mainstream famous for being freaks

I do wonder how Tesla owners are currently feeling about the fact that they’re driving around automotive MAGA hats these days.

his big problem is he is losing one audience of vaguely liberal urban tech oriented ppl but he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing, even pollution is a feature not a bug for some of them (see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough

the blue sky stuff doesn't look terrible, but I don't know that it has any chance of catching on

yeah just releasing —a protocol— into the wild is hopeless, need to do like mastadon and put out an app that runs on it too

(see: rollin' coal)...tesla will never be macho enough

Fast forward a few years when Musk adds this feature to Teslas.

teslas biggest problem doesnt really have anything to do with musk its other car companies releasing electric cars, theyve basically had the segment to themselves to do whatever dumb weird things they wanted

he can never really capture the bulk of the maga crowd, he can troll all he wants but they don't want a small electric car, they want big ass ford trucks (not cybertrucks) and still see EVs as a pussyification thing

YES, this sums up whats been bugging me about all this. If he's decided to pivot to this crowd, what the hell for? They wont give a shit about either Tesla OR spaceX.

elon doesn't give a shit about crypto but he knows his audience

I don't think it's a shrewd or calculated move to pivot to the right wing/crypto crowd it's more a matter of him desperately wanting to be liked by someone and it's pretty easy to be popular among those people if you just whine about the right things

theres that but he is also actually a shithead its not a random choice of people to cater to

I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about such a deep boredom with being alive that they've opted to plunge headlong into chaos in an effort to feel something about literally anything. What does the richest man on earth have left but to burn the entire earth.

The ratchet effect seems to be real with the Rogan/Musk/Taibbis - they only get positive praise for something from the right and being dumb guys who desperately want to be seen as geniuses lean into it.

I think I'm finally at the point where asking 'why?' about the actions of any of the inscrutable maniacs of today feels like asking 'why?' about someone forcing their entire forearm into a running garbage disposal. It's just about...

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 4:04 PM (six minutes ago)

???

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

lmao i guess i'm not getting the $2k of 2022 401k match they owe me then.

lot of choice tidbits in that article

He’s not the richest anymore fwiw

lol @ telling everyone they have to come in and then not paying rent

nothing in that article seems too good jeez

the posts are obviously embarassing on their own but seeing them all together like this is really just astounding pic.twitter.com/EBylL5kjS1

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 13, 2022

wonder how long til they miss payroll

it is very odd that theyre doing things like selling the kitchen equipment

Probably wants to move to Texas

what a wanker

One message focused on first principles thinking, a worldview based on the teachings of Aristotle to reduce assumptions to basic axioms, which Mr. Musk credited with helping him make difficult decisions.

must have skipped that step when he offered to buy twitter for three times what its worth

Thought I heard that all the top Tech Bros, toxic and otherwise, were into Stoicism and such.

that would make sense

It’s like What’s Your Sign for them.

Stoicism is the new Mindfulness

Reminds me of when the Top Mathematician would poke fun at his nemesis R. L. Moore, who had his charges in his fiefdom at UT Austin apply the Socratic Method to Point Set Topology, “which produced brilliant but quite ignorant students.” Replace “brilliant but” with whatever you want.

tl;dr but maybe something interesting here: https://medium.com/@markdery/how-stoicism-became-broicism-123f3aae6aba

Repeating “woke mind virus” to myself in a South African accent.

why has no one trained an AI with Leo's Blood Diamonds accent

stoicism is good not bad. these bros will fade as others have faded before them

stoicism is when you grow the philosophers beard

broicism is pretty clever

C/D: Bands performing albums in their entirety

When confronted with a band playing an album in its entirety, stoicism helps, yes.