Elon Musk

tesla was on the verge of going under for years he must have felt so vindicated when it went to the moon

― lag∞n, Friday, December 16, 2022 11:14 AM (one hour ago)

i sort of wonder if he now thinks every business venture of his will follow this pattern, and thinks that it's OK twitter is flatlining it's all part of the plan, he'll operate it on the verge of bankruptcy for a decade and then have it go to the moon... too bad social media ain't electric cars

It’s kind of the opposite in fact, automakers get bailed out and have weird inflated valuations all the time but social media companies never really recover once they start going into a tailspin

i'm not listening to that space for the same reasons i won't click play on a trump video, but apparently at least half of his consternation there was him realizing a bunch of people he'd personally banned from twitter earlier that day still had access to twitter spaces.

sounds like a bug. these things happen. but it will be interesting to see how long it takes them to ship a fix.

not exactly surprising but: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/technology/elon-musk-management-style.html

But as I’ve called around to C-suite executives and influential investors in Silicon Valley over the past few weeks, I’ve been surprised by how many are rooting for Mr. Musk — even if they won’t admit to it publicly.

Mr. Musk’s defenders point out that Twitter hasn’t collapsed or gone offline despite losing thousands of employees, as some critics predicted it would. They see his harsh management style as a necessary corrective, and they believe he will ultimately be rewarded for cutting costs and laying down the law.

“He says the things many C.E.O.s wish they could say, and then he actually does them,” said Roy Bahat, a venture capitalist with Bloomberg Beta.

Mr. Bahat, who has criticized some of Mr. Musk’s moves, characterized his Twitter tenure as a “living natural experiment” — a divisive but illuminating window into what other executives might be able to get away with, if they tried.

“He’s giving people a lot more knowledge of what’s possible,” he said.

Tech elites don’t simply support Mr. Musk because they like him personally or because they agree with his anti-woke political crusades. (Although a number do.)

Rather, they view him as the standard-bearer of an emergent worldview they hope catches on more broadly in Silicon Valley.

The writer John Ganz has called this worldview “bossism” — a belief that the people who build and run important tech companies have ceded too much power to the entitled, lazy, overly woke people who work for them and need to start clawing it back.

i wonder how much of what he's doing is influenced by his need for approval from that crowd. seems like a lot of his career has been focused on winning approval from thiel in particular. big alpha/beta vibes when they're in the same room apparently.

i wish more people were pointing out the obv fact that nobody stalked his damn kid, and the police aren't even actively investigating a crime.

he probably took video of some rando and assumed it was a stalker, then doxxed their fucking license plate

unless i'm misunderstanding, wasn't the extent of the doxxing just a bot account that regularly posts the flight information of famous people, which is already publicly available, and is still widely available on other platforms? wasn't the level of detail something like "elon musk's plane is landing at LAX at 8:20pm"?

because that isn't doxxing

and the police aren't even actively investigating a crime.

and they didn't even report whatever happened to the cops, which seems notable because, given musk's reaction, you would think he would be desperate to have any evidence to support his claim

tbf I don't really see anyone accepting that as fact either, as there was with Trump there are just so many weird things about all of this that it's hard to know what exactly we should be focusing on

teslas have cameras all over them, just saw a video of a guy keying a tesla filmed by the car as it was off parked and empty, if the guy jumped on the hood elon wouldve tweeted out footage of it by now

though I do wanna bring up that whole thing where Elon claimed "priority #1" upon buying Twitter was stopping child exploitation material, which he took a victory lap for despite knowing full well that he didn't do anything to combat it and in fact almost certainly made the problem worse by firing the whole team responsible for finding and reporting that stuff. and he did it by bringing up the fact that one of his kids "died in his arms", which caused his ex-wife to take to Twitter to say it absolutely wasn't true. I think a lot of the media isn't quite grasping how desperate and shameless this guy really is.

unless his family wasnt in a tesla, the true scandal

eh the media doesn't care, controversy generates traffic. it's the trump problem, they're going to keep covering elon until elon does something bad like precipitate the fall of western democracy (oops)

I think a lot of the media isn't quite grasping how desperate and shameless this guy really is.

Which is odd, given how the media usually is very good at not falling for such men.

In two years, a small group of rich dorks will probably start trying to lobby Congress to pass an amendment to allow foreign born candidates to run for President. So Elon can run.

Tesla stock learning a big lesson today: Don’t fuck with Aaron Rupar pic.twitter.com/18Ik4u43kK

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 16, 2022

elon's probably just selling more of his shares, probably getting in sales before the end of the tax year because his options expire or something (iirc he sold a bunch of shares last year during the holidays too)

https://i.imgur.com/8jX2yMX.jpg

guy got too used to being the boss

it seems like musk just completely confused cause and effect and decided that twitter was in control of journalists rather than the other way around. none of the controls are connected to the things that neoreactionaries discuss at their orgies.

— rev. howard arson (@revhowardarson) December 16, 2022

pic.twitter.com/3FunSiHndf

— Galuade @ FIRES OF RUBICON (@galuade_) December 16, 2022

These dorks can’t figure out the 1st Am., really don’t want them to try figuring out the 4th.

honestly seeing that online bullying of rich people can impact investors confidence and price in a CEO like this is better than most drugs https://t.co/4C20FtAlND

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) December 16, 2022

Bari, this is a real question, not rhetorical. What is your opinion?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

all real questions on twitter must now be flagged as Real in the message

So if Musk never filed a police report, isn’t he breaking Twitter policy by posting that dude’s picture without his okay?

Twitter policy is basically just royal prerogative now afaict

lol I got a "most users don't like this kind of language" for using "Tesla" and "morons" in the same tweet.

Somehow fitting that the ultimate end of technology would be an AI built to rim the oligarchy

Beyond the Blue Check Event Horizon.

Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti https://t.co/ujZOYxlfQG

— Liz Hoffman (@lizrhoffman) December 16, 2022

like a Craigslist ad with a beat to shit guitar saying "just trying to sell it for what I paid for it"

“One could argue he has created value or destroyed value at Twitter. It’s hard to tell at this point,” he said.

Is it hard?

- Grimes

I remember getting lots of pushback a mere 6 weeks ago when I was celebrating the downfall of this cursed platform. I know we don’t like this sort of behavior here, but I’m going to do it anyway: I was right, dammit.

lmao the "coup de grace" is more Twitter files bullshit

xp
you were, but tbf a lot did happen in the past 6 weeks lol

he can't be the worst Democrat while Joe Manchin's alive but he can be the most pathetic

Elon, as a father, I understand the safety of your family comes first. Could you remove the real-time tweet but not ban the account? If there is a continuous pattern of unsafe doxxing, then escalate. Let’s discuss these things as Americans first, thoughtfully and rationally.

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) December 16, 2022

Show us the Twitter Files from the last 24 hrs u coward

wow that tweet is puke. My most hated American obsession is with being thoughtful and rational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcbxjWG9Mc

lmao nobody gives a shit about the old management dude is just posting hit pieces against his own company

Did Bari get cut out of this Twitter Files drop?

I mean I hope Bari gets cut out from this mortal
coil soon, but

lmao at Bari saying, even while criticizing Musk, that she still doesn't believe Twitter isn't a 'public square', like....literally only the Court of the Fifth Circuit will agree w/ you on that

oh cool look who's back

I'm back!! Thank you @elonmusk and by the way MELT DOWN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND TURN THEM INTO PRISON BARS!

— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) December 16, 2022

that's kind of an iconic return post

he’ll yeah

Pillow Man and Musk probably share a dealer

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ap9fv9AsL.jpg

i'm sure that this mentality is why i will never be a zillionaire to begin with, but it is so strange to me that none of these guys (everyone from musk to trump to kanye to lindell, etc etc) doesn't just cash out and enjoy life? like i would totally just pack in in an sit around plunking around on a guitar by my infinity pool in greece or read books or w/e

like you could are one of the few humans in history that could live a stress free life yet you actively choose all this bullshit

That life's reserved for trust fund babies.