Elon Musk

"Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster"https://t.co/NDZsj8WgcQ

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) December 7, 2022

I'm not going to put that into the AI, but I can already imagine the results.

Anyone else really losing track of the plotlines? This show was better in season 1.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, December 7, 2022 7:25 AM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this whole thing reminds me of that adage that books & radio are often more thrilling than film because you have to use your imagination to come up with things that you find scary or exciting. all Republican politics is based off these giant MacGuffins, like there's always some bombshell on the email server (that Hillary destroyed with bleach!), or there's something explosive in the laptop (otherwise why would BIG TECH want to censor it?!?), or there are all these secret underground pizza meetings that they can't produce any actual evidence of which in itself is evidence of how good they are at covering their tracks!! but they know the truth!! which I think is why this whole thing is a massive dude, not only is there no smoking gun here but it seems obvious now that all Twitter did was remove someone's nudes at the request of the Biden campaign (which is reasonable!) and had a lot of internal debate given the politically charged nature of it (also reasonable!) it ruins the illusion that there was something more sinister and overtly political going on here which of course is why they're going to quadruple down on it from now until 2032

"Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster"https://t.co/NDZsj8WgcQ
— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) December 7, 2022

or worse...imagine you're inside a Tesla

we all know he's a massive dude

If I had a bomb strapped to my head and Apartheid Manbaby was my boss I would simply E Honda myself into his midsection as violently as possible

https://media.tenor.com/DYwg5sFqikwAAAAM/simpsons-homer-simpson.gif

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjYcHvwWQA8WuS0?format=jpg&name=large

If Musk really wanted to make bank he would rent all those rooms at SF rates.

who is this fucking guy's lawyer? pretty sure when you're accused of a crime the last thing you want to say is "well yeah but what about this other thing???"

idk if zoning code violation really rises to the level of crime

well don't admit to the zoning violation

he has a point though: building inspectors should be tackling the child fentanyl problem

have we considered zoning schools as "no fenantyl"

pretty sure he fired all the lawyers, as if he'd listen to them when the other option on the table was ceaselessly shitposting

i believe that in SF, as in many places, code violations (if determined to have occurred, etc.) are deemed misdemeanors. sarahell, are you lurking in this thread and can you help us?

regardless elon can admit to making offices into bedrooms it wont affect him, other than the city is going write him a ticket and make him turn them back into offices

TBH I do think this is an overreaction, it sounds like he put beds in some conference rooms; that is weird, but he didn't do construction and turn the place into residences without permits (I don't think). and yes SF has more important things to worry about. god I hate that I just defended musk but on the list of terrible things he is responsible for, this is down there pretty far.

WaPo's statement that ads are showing up 'on white nationalist pages' or 'accounts' is weird to me. Do they mean that if you peruse the account of one of these people, you will see ads sprinkled in with their posts in their own feed? I've never seen this happen before. Do they just mean the ads are showing up adjacent to these posts in people's general feeds?

idk read the article

who is this fucking guy's lawyer? pretty sure when you're accused of a crime the last thing you want to say is "well yeah but what about this other thing???"

Rich people refusing to listen to legal advice seems to be a big post-Trump trend (see also: the FTX guy).

tbf elon has been doing blatantly illegal stuff his whole career and all its gotten him is the biggest pile of money in the world

Musk would spend millions to get out of a fine of a few thousand. Just to make a point.

Josh those ChatGPT results are excellent. Starting to think McSweeney's Internet Tendency is probably obsolete now

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12

i enjoyed this piece and it has some seemingly solid financial analysis behind it. but then again the whole #TSLAQ movement has been focused on pointing out how tesla's financial fundamentals are beyond shitty, but still getting carried out on a stretcher - a strong sense of "ah well, nevertheless" about it all.

still, maybe this time it'll be different? 🤞

shouldve put his other companies on the plates, just my opinion

https://i.insider.com/6376b4df8faef80019a75c9b?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp&quality=100,100

expecting the twitter cafeteria to start serving up neurolink test animals any day now

https://archive.ph/LM2zD

Elon Musk’s bankers are considering providing the billionaire with new margin loans backed by Tesla Inc. stock to replace some of the high-interest debt he layered on Twitter Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The margin loans are one of several options the Morgan Stanley-led bank group and Musk’s advisers have discussed to soften the burden of the $13 billion of debt Twitter took on as part of Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are confidential.

hah hah hah

how does a margin loan work?

Basically just borrowing against the value of existing equities, in this case Tesla stock. It gives you lower interest rates because the loan is at least partly backed by the collateral value of the assets, meaning it’s lower risk for the lender.

meaning that if musk defaults on his payments the bankers get to own his stock and ultimately tesla (and thus to pwn him)

Interesting, thanks

a margin loan was originally on the table back in april but he snookered his rich friends to pick up some of the tab so he was able to remove it from his financing package

it's riskier for him personally since his own assets are on the hook, but can be cheaper overall (esp. if he needs to inject cash into twitter to keep it afloat)

Does him tanking Tesla stock change anything about a margin loan?

I presume it gives him less leverage in general. Blood in the water and all that.

he needs to put up a lot more of it for the same $$$ amount since it’s worth less now

and if the value of the tesla stock drops below a certain agreed upon number then he has to put up more collateral, the famous margin call

would it be crazy to imagine that if Elon margins a bunch of his Tesla shares to prop up twitter his fanvestors might get disgruntled and sell out which would drive down the price which would get him a margin call which etc

anyway I hope Morgan Stanley ends up owning 40% of Tesla

and Twitter

teslas stock price is entirely predicated on the idea that musk is a world beating genius whos going to turn tesla into something bigger than the biggest car company in the world, the battery power company for everything, and since hes very publicly challenging the whole genius idea it seems pretty possible that telsa stock will return to a price more befitting a company of its size and profitability, say the $15 it was three years ago rather than the $400 it was a year ago or the $175 it is today

or maybe zero zero is in play

Elon Musk’s bankers are considering providing the billionaire with new margin loans backed by Tesla Inc. stock to replace some of the high-interest debt he layered on Twitter Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.

short squeeze short squeeze short squeeze

you actually want the opposite of a short squeeze if elon is borrowing on margin (short squeeze causes the stock to go up)

i support elon

I imagine the idea of shorting Tesla has occurred to a lot of investors, both small and large, in the past six months. That space is probably overcrowded rn.

not just the past six months

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ

also

Also notable is just how many dif ways $NOPE is short $TSLA via straight shorts, puts, $SARK, $QQQ. pic.twitter.com/xg8myM51La

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) October 31, 2022

looooool

"Now, Weiss has been given access to Twitter's employee systems, added to its Slack, and given a company laptop, two people familiar with her presence said.

The level of access to Twitter systems given to Weiss is typically given only to employees..."https://t.co/3zBi3eDGJP

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 8, 2022

this is going to end with some random twit getting put on blast for joking around about working for the deep state on slack