Elon Musk

I’m sure Elon would want to bring back some other things that used to be legal in South Africa, too

I'm surprised Teslas don't allow you to force drop old Something Awful memes to the screens of other Teslas.

Jimbeaux, no worries. It was just the timing really.

This article assumes that he's actually not trying to weasel out of the deal, but is just doing some hardball negotiations:

https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/05/13/why-elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-the-twitter-deal/

at work we have a Tesla guy and he makes it the core of his entire personality. he wears nothing but Tesla polos, set his desktop & phone backgrounds to photos of his car, once sent the department a "Tesla FAQ" including lines like "Q: Can I drive it? A: No! Q: Can you take me for a ride? A: Sure!!"

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 3:43 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

*brushes up resume*

that faq thing is blowing my mind

same here tbh.

Wow.

At a Twitter all-hands right now, execs told employees that they are not open to renegotiating the purchase price with Elon Musk.

I’m told that champagne was popped in the New York office.

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022

yeah but they're always drinking heavily in that office

Meanwhile in Slack, one employee changed their screen name to “The Algorithm” and is encouraging everyone to drink whenever an executive says “fiduciary”

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022

It’s true

It was a good all hands I’m told

no elon just vibes

"Q: Can I drive it? A: No! Q: Can you take me for a ride? A: Sure!!"

I'm fucking dying

I know "The Algorithm" - I think he did that a while ago though…

many are taking the above tweets to mean the deal is off but not everyone

they’re all twitter shareholders and they’re getting (maybe!) a windfall from the world’s richest man who’s been taunting them for weeks, it’s gotta feel like catharsis

— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) May 19, 2022

fight for what

Champagne was popped because they want the deal to go through or because they think he'll back out?

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) May 19, 2022

i think it’s a ‘we are not going down without a fight’ type of thing

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 19, 2022

if anyone has any insight but would prefer not to post here feel free to dm me on twitter dont com

haha that's insider trading no thank u!

it's all in those tweets though. and in any case, leadership/the board are not going to share anything non-public with rank-and-file employees (they can't without out also making it public).

im not going to buy any stock i want to own the secrets

haha yes

Elon's campaign to publicly troll and preemptively alienate the entire workforce of the company he's trying to buy was a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him. https://t.co/gugU6rV8cN

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) May 19, 2022

(i mean we're still fucked, dont get me wrong)

fight for what

presumably the original terms of the deal, which elon is now claiming is void because he was relying on what he says is incorrect information supplied by twitter and twitter claims is correct

i think there's a "we want whatever he doesn't want" element to it, and clearly he doesn't want to pay 54.20.

elon paying way above market for a company where all the employees hate him would be something

ofc he doesn't want to pay $54.20. but he can still back out entirely by paying the indemnification, which I heard was $1bn.

apparently they can make him go through with the deal if they want we talked about it upthread

Lmao aimless thank you as ever for your insight.

how would you answer the q: "fight for what?"

he's so fucking stupid

Unless it is stopped, the woke mind virus will destroy civilization and humanity will never reached Mars

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2022

he's really gunning for best poster right now. twitter should ban him for the lulz

Yang and Amash showing up in replies to his "we need a moderate party" tweet like "yes sir, reporting for duty sir"...is there a word for when you're both a con artist and a mark?

pathetic thing about this country is a "moderate" party would probably be left of where the Dems currently stand

Yang and Amash showing up in replies to his "we need a moderate party" tweet like "yes sir, reporting for duty sir"...is there a word for when you're both a con artist and a mark?

― rob

smark

twitter abhors a main character vacuum and once trump got the boot it was inevitable someone would take his place as the ultimate main character

otm but what grates is he's doing it so deliberately. trump wouldn't have a clue what "the main character on twitter" means to his credit

I like "smark" lol

I will never forgive the media for trying to make this guy look like some kind of brilliant visionary like Thomas Edison

btw if you were wondering what the "woke mind virus" is, it's unions and the people who sue Elon Musk for being a gigantic racist:

NEW: Elon Musk says he’ll vote for Republicans this year because “the Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions and…class-action lawyers.”

Musk is a notorious union-buster & was hit with a class-action lawsuit from 1k Black workers who alleged rampant racism at Tesla. pic.twitter.com/2SEUBTgDXm

— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 18, 2022

is there a home rapid test for the woke mind virus? i dont want to needlessly expose anyone and be the reason we dont get to mars

fortunately, there is. all true conservative patriots are encouraged to take the test to ensure that they 100% non-woke mind virus. it involves ball tanning

I will never forgive the media for trying to make this guy look like some kind of brilliant visionary like Thomas Edison

― frogbs, Thursday, May 19, 2022 3:01 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thomas edison was a far more ruthless operator than even musk! but at least "his" inventions were useful

You say that but I’ve never heard an incandescent lightbulb fart

Twitter execs reassured workers in a meeting today the sale to Elon Musk is going through unchanged -- there are provisions in the contract that can be enforced to ensure this outcome. Immediately after, Musk memes about Twitter being 'all bots'https://t.co/hwsmDett9o

— Kali Hays (@HaysKali) May 19, 2022

Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017

"verbal govt approval" = he was jabbering about it to a member of Congress at a coke orgy and the guy said "sure, sure, sounds awesome, keep me posted"

And there's nothing those states & DC can do about it

A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. https://t.co/5plOiNJOW5 via @businessinsider

— Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) May 19, 2022

gee now we know what this was about

In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.

But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.

Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022

After Insider contacted Musk for comment, he emailed to ask for more time to respond and said there is "a lot more to this story."

"If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light," he wrote, calling the story is a "politically motivated hit piece."