Elon Musk

man sounds so thick when you hear him speak

This was at the end of another piece I read this morning too.

what a sentence pic.twitter.com/AHeoseVX63

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 10, 2022

This is the most pathetic man in the world pic.twitter.com/3knHxE6ejQ

— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 10, 2022

This is wild.

Musk has learned nothing since he was fired from PayPal. https://t.co/lhvFpGZfR7 pic.twitter.com/5QaF4X7UaU

— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) November 11, 2022

and then you go to mars

Sailors
Fighting in the dancehalls

still leaning hard on the "elon musk is a standard-issue fraudster" lever here

he's not very bright? lots of fraudsters are wildly dim, ponzi and madoff and the FTX guy all got caught bcz one bad day the money wasn't where they said (or anywhere else), they had no plan B

the smart fraudsters are the ones whose names we never learn

you keep repeating that line and frankly it's a little suspicious

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Not sure what it would mean for Musk to be a fraudster a la Madoff. Do you mean there's some big accounting fraud lurking inside one or all of his companies?

The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon

that has been the #TSLAQ hypothesis for years and years running now xp

he's only like madoff in that neither of them are very bright, i wasn't arguing that their schemes were similar, #TSLAQ notwithstanding

EM's -- or at least this is what i was responding to -- is the paypal card twitter bank scheme, which he hasn't yet succeeded in setting up

Many successful companies have turned out to be harboring major accounting fraud. However, the last big wave of accounting scandals was in the early 2000s, and since then regulation has gotten more stringent (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). But who knows, maybe we're about due for another wave.

crypto has much less stringent regulation plus an on-going series of, well, revelations and disappopintment shall we say

Well, yes. But despite his occasional boosterism for Dogecoin, Musk doesn't have much to do with crypto, AFAIK.

*crowd watching a horrific car crash* everyone loves this car

Usage of Twitter continues to rise. One thing is for sure: it isn’t boring!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2022

we had a big all company meeting to introduce new ppl and the new head of comms for the agency mentioned in her even her intro speech she found time to mention they are "re-evaluating" the overall twitter strategy

Closest I can think of is when Czar Alexander II's train derailed in 1888 and killed 23 people, because Alexander was drunkenly demanding the engineer go faster and when the guy explained that's not how trains work Alexander accused him of being a Jewhttps://t.co/ywfMQG95no

— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) November 11, 2022

Henry Ford attempting to stop World War I with The Peace Ship. He thought he'd travel w celebrities from New York to Europe, meet with heads of state, resolve the conflict.

The mission was based on false documents, no celebrities showed up, and there was an influenza outbreak https://t.co/UN5iPXDntb

— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) November 10, 2022

twitters haunted

The rate at which we are finding out incredibly stupid things about this man is unsustainable https://t.co/lOeXmxCQTT pic.twitter.com/VThFpBAKDr

— lauren (@NotABigJerk) November 11, 2022

spooky stuff

That evening, Twitter hosted a Halloween party called “Trick or Tweet” for employees and their families. Some workers dressed in costume and tried to keep the mood festive. Others cried and hugged one another.

Ghost employees don't need health insurance Elon

https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1629461/software-developers-chilling-out-work.jpg

the payments stuff with Elon is giving me fucking flashbacks to working for a legal tech company (I was director of engineering for 4 years) and our way overly involved founder/CEO got a whiff of blockchain, which, at the time, I thought had some legitimate uses for building smart contracts and overlap with esign and legal documents, so worth looking into. But he got completely hung up on the cryptocurrency aspect and that became all it was about, to my dismay (this project wound up going nowhere). In the end, every single one of these founding fuckers seem to want to be bankers.

Here's an interesting post along these lines: https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/

tbf it is free money

but on the other hand some random software company thinking theyre going to be the ones to grab it is very silly

the technology itself is interesting and compelling. the incentivizing aspect of it, which is all anyone cares about, to me, is fraudulent nonsense.

I didnt' upgrade medium so I can't read the Cory Doctrow article on this but this summary is enough: "They recognize, with startling clarity, what Cory Doctorow unpacked earlier this year: whatever the particular web3 project’s service is, it is there to generate a need for a specific crypto-asset in order to drive up its price, and to ensure pay-off for those who invested early."

and that, to me, is the shit part of this (and everything related to tech)

i guess I'm just saying capitalism is shitty, on reflection

you're saying you're not a fan of ponzis?

The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon

― | (Latham Green), Friday, November 11, 2022 9:28 AM bookmarkflaglink

seems like another case of corporate takeover advice received from the Oracle at Delphi. a teachable case for Business 101.

i must admit when i found out you could run computer programs on ethereum i was like thats pretty cool, but ultimately none of this stuff has any real world uses because its too expensive and a huge target for malicious actors and subject to catastrophic bugs that might as well be malicious actors and im sure some other reasons im not thinking of

its more interesting for its not understanding how the world works underlying philosophy, the search for trustless relationships is futile

could all have this been avoided by one really meaningful pinky swear

im sure some other reasons im not thinking of

it's hella tacky

there is that

Talking about schemes..

What a dark, dark, dark day. I'm utterly devastated to report that, with FTX Future Fund folding, the probability of 10^45 digital people coming to exist within the Milky Way galaxy may have just fallen by 0.001%. However bad you think climate change is, THIS IS WAY WORSE. https://t.co/rlGJ8njcgu

— Émile P. Torres 🏳️‍⚧️ (@xriskology) November 11, 2022

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Little_computer_people_cover_art.jpg

pic.twitter.com/6tc66ZvIEx

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) November 11, 2022

As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022

he shouldve bought huffpost

Elon Musk will be publicly blaming twitter’s situation on Jews and globalists within days

wait. the media elite fired half the staff?

I fired ten people

Lmao, looks like the parody greenwald account got the real greenwald account suspended for being an impostor.

xps if there is one person it's exhilarating to see burned by nu-Twitter it's Glem Grunwald. Nobody deserves it more.

Scratch that, there are multiple parodies going around and one of them got axed

listen - no one got laid off except the ghosts who worked at twitter

On Oct. 30, Mr. Musk received word that the rapid approach could cost millions of dollars more than laying people off with their scheduled bonuses. He agreed to delay, four people said.

But he had a condition. Before paying the bonuses, Mr. Musk insisted on a payroll audit to confirm that Twitter’s employees were “real humans.” He voiced concerns that “ghost employees” who should not receive the money lingered in Twitter’s systems.