Elon Musk

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.

Counterpoint: Mission of Burma playing Vs.

Longtermism is the driver behind all of this. Stoicism is just a side-effect.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23298870/effective-altruism-longtermism-will-macaskill-future

Worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy. https://t.co/cWEM6QBobY

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 2, 2022

such a dipshit.

I don't want to edit everything into 280 char chunks, so here's the rest: https://t.co/eWVwDFxq7e

— jack (@jack) December 13, 2022

He (Jack) claims he volunteered at Gilman Street but nobody remembers him

lol that's so bad xp but of course

So this longtermism is an offshoot of so-called effective altruism, but instead of assisting people in the present it promotes the idea that "the best way to help the most people was to focus on humanity’s long-term future — the well-being of the many billions who have yet to be born."

So, you get to think you're a philanthropist while throwing masses of money at things that you believe will be good for humanity sometime in an imaginary future. How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?

a went to neighboring nerds imag tea party but she didnt pay actual cash screw that

How is this different from having a tea party with your imaginary friends?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

Has the imprimatur of academic philosophy’s best-compensated utilitarians

My imaginary friends' tea party doesn't tell me that my greed is good because eventually one day when I'm bored of cocaine and hookers I can donate my wealth to a family foundation to combat... stuff.

"How dare these workers unionize, can't they see that I'm trying to save civilization?!" plays well to Musk's (or other social darwinists like him) own messiah complex.

Feel free to substitute in "how dare Ukraine fight back, don't they know that a European war is bad for civilization?!"

...what the fuck is he talking about people using bitcoin in Africa to fight censorship??!?

It's a weird inverse mirror of the strain of dominionist and dispensationalist theology that is argues that if god didn't want us to burn up all the natural resources then why did he put all that oil in the ground. Besides, jesus is coming to take us all home so fuck climate change.

Why conservative Christians don’t believe in climate change
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340215599789

Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/scott-pruitt-has-laid-bare-the-growing-environmental-schism-within-christianity/

Often wished I could be playing Elden Ring as I'm driving to work

You can play Cyberpunk, Elden Ring and 1000s of other games in your *car* with an epic sound system!! https://t.co/F25Qu6HJ63

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022

epic

He's definitely not a crypto true-believer - the only relatable thing he did this year was refuse to turn up to a half hour meeting with SBF to secure $15b funding for Twitter in case he'd have to hear about blockchain.

pic.twitter.com/iwMNvoStrf

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 14, 2022

he may not be the richest man anymore but he's still the most cringe

Oh man that would be an epic troll!!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022

So epic.

I thank the discourse on Elon for introducing me to the phrase 'the most divorced man on earth'. Which kinda hits it right on the head.

Divorced from reality.

unfortunately spacex's valuation continues to grow, so elon may not care too much that $TSLA is nosediving

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-eyes-higher-valuation-in-offering-employee-shares-for-sale-11670976045

Twitter has permabanned Jack Sweeney, who ran the Elon Jets account (also banned) pic.twitter.com/0iQxQQmILD

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 14, 2022

Now it appears more accounts that track the private jets of billionaires and celeberties using publicly availble flight data are being suspended. pic.twitter.com/c7pOqRyq4k

— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) December 14, 2022

For now, Sweeney says he is operating accounts tracking Musk's jet on Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, and now Mastodon. https://t.co/iCiJ7CyI3T

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) December 14, 2022

'A threat to my personal safety' whined Prosecute Fauci Man

lol let's bully this guy off the internet

Twitter has now blocked the ability to post a link to the ElonJet Instagram account. pic.twitter.com/qNEcn6uVDF

— Tony Webster (@webster) December 14, 2022

(elon, not the elonjet guy, he's good.)

he's got kids dammit

keeping this one link off twitter is the definition of hardcore engineering

In other words, the same mechanism used to prevent ppl from posting the NY Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop in Oct. 2020?

tried posting it with a link shortener and it gave a spam warning when clicked

this just gets better and better

“i’m not mad i think this is all hilarious!”

“it was all a big joke and you all fell for it! ahahahaha!!”

I don't know why I've always assumed that being thin skinned would be a barrier to success. I guess having been handed success/$$$ by your doddy is perhaps comorbid with that particular trait?

Update, Twitter has changed their policy on open source flight tracking-https://t.co/gHZIiCWnx4

“Under this policy, you can’t share the following types of private information, without the permission of the person who it belongs to:” pic.twitter.com/JPGdd3ZgUl

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) December 14, 2022

he's got kids dammit

the dammit was probably in response to the realization that he has kids

lol this guys from total free speech allowable under the law to this insanely broad restrictive rule

You may not publish or post other people's private information without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so.

In addition, you may not share private media, such as images or videos of private individuals, without their consent.