Elon Musk

tired: work from home
wired: home at work

next hot trend: indentured servitude, but with an attractive salary

Plus handy for a CEO with a history of sexual harassment.

i'm finding that tweet clickthrus from newsletters (and on ilx) are breaking in chrome/mac, started during the elon era

so this latest "Twitter files" thing is, uh...they hired a lawyer to review documents before sending them to Elon. who he just fired, lmao

really amazing how these guys keep going "oh god oh FUCK oh holy shit man you. will. not. believe this shit right here, it's even more corrupt than I could've possibly imagined" before revealing something like "Twitter paid BILLIONS in federal taxes!". its real cartoon shit

He worked for the FBI so, you know, DEEP STATE

Matt Taibbi has probably never had a real job and doesn’t know what they’re like

NEW: Ads from roughly 40 brands, including Amazon, Uber and Snap, are appearing on white nationalist pages after Elon Musk granted amnesty to previously suspended Twitter accounts. The inadvertant placement of brand ads is fallout from new amnesty policy. https://t.co/2wAqZAkl9h

— Faiz Siddiqui (@faizsays) December 7, 2022

hahahah what you up to WaPo

let them fight

the Twitter Files stuff feels like russiagate for elon musk fans. the breathless threads, all totally incomprehensible, with the assumed shared understanding of why the latest revelation is HUGE https://t.co/SViwm3tQhY

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) December 7, 2022

lol exactly looking at taibbis replies and its all people posting popcorn gif, but i doubt any of them could explain what the scandal is

"Jim Baker - the Reagan guy or the televangelist? They're still alive? Why was a televangelist working for Twitter?"

no one should be able to work for reagan god and twitter at the same time

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjWDpyHXoAAl99i?format=jpg&name=medium

I love the “the Deep stateness is coming from inside the building!” twist

WaPo ads are literally the only ones I now see (haven't blocked them, as I do every other advertiser, as it also blocks news stories from them)

Great, so does this mean Elon is going to start digging for Fauci dick pics now, too?

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

i still read the recaps tho

I just gave the Open AI beta the prompt "Write a screenplay about Elon Musk and the fall of twitter"

FADE IN

EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

We open on a typical city street. The sun is shining, people walking by, buses and cars on the street.

EXT. ELON MUSK'S OFFICE - DAY

We then cut to the office of Elon Musk. He is sitting in his chair, looking out the window. He looks tired and stressed.

ELON MUSK

It's been a long few weeks.

INT. ELON MUSK'S OFFICE - DAY

He is looking at his computer, deep in thought. He takes a deep breath and then turns to his assistant.

ELON MUSK

What's the latest on Twitter?

ELON'S ASSISTANT

It doesn't look good. The stock has been falling for weeks. People are losing faith in the company.

ELON MUSK

I need to do something. I can't let this happen.

EXT. STREET - DAY

We see Elon walking down the street, making phone calls and sending emails. He looks determined.

EXT. TWITTER HEADQUARTERS - DAY

We then cut to the headquarters of Twitter. Elon is walking in, flanked by his team. He looks around and takes a deep breath.

ELON MUSK

Let's get to work.

INT. TWITTER HEADQUARTERS - DAY

We see Elon and his team working on strategies to turn the company around. They are discussing different ideas and ways to improve the company. After a few hours, they come up with a plan.

EXT. TWITTER HEADQUARTERS - DAY

We then see Elon and his team walking out of the building. Elon looks determined.

ELON MUSK

We can do this. We can turn this around.

EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

We see Elon walking down the street, with a new purpose and energy. He looks confident and determined.

FADE OUT.

"Write a screenplay about Elon Musk, twitter and hunter biden's penis"

FADE IN

EXT. ELON MUSK'S OFFICE - DAY

We see Elon Musk at his desk, typing on his laptop. The camera pans to a large TV screen next to him.

ELON

Ah, this is the life.

Suddenly, a tweet appears on the TV screen. It reads:

"Look at Hunter Biden's penis!"

Elon looks up from his laptop, shocked. He takes a deep breath and looks around the room, unsure of what to do. He shakes his head and then looks back at the TV screen.

INT. ELON'S OFFICE - LATER

Elon is sitting at his desk, now surrounded by several people. He is furiously typing on his laptop.

ELON

Okay, let's do this.

The people around him nod in agreement.

ELON

First, I'm going to tweet out a link to an article about Hunter Biden's penis.

The group nods in agreement again.

ELON

Then, I'm going to tweet out a link to a video of Hunter Biden's penis.

The group looks at each other with a mix of shock and disgust.

ELON

Then, I'm going to tweet out an opinion piece on why Hunter Biden's penis should be discussed in the public sphere.

The group slowly nods in agreement.

ELON

And finally, I'm going to tweet out a link to a petition to get Hunter Biden's penis removed from Twitter.

The group stares at Elon, unsure of what to do. Elon looks around the room and then back at the TV screen.

ELON

Let's do this.

Everyone in the room nods in agreement.

FADE OUT

"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.