Elon Musk

Not only did the NYT fail to list Top Gun Maverick. It doesn't even have a comics page!

Has anyone counted how many times this guy tweets a day?

I love that we’ve now reached the Star Wars nerd state of “Not liking my favourite film is oppression” in record time. I’d settle for that level of bedshitting

idek who would want to be a critic anymore. a local theatre review here generated a 7 paragraph essay from someone in the production, that was reposted by like 15 other people, who had a list of demands of things the critic 'needed' to include next time and ongoing in all reviews (even though dude is on an oppressively small word count). Like they think the critic is their publicist.

and then the example above, butthurt IP fanboys hershey squirting their keyboards because AO Scott didn't think the newest Jackass should be film of the century (no shade on that franchise tho which I love).

I think the thing you have to understand about twitter is there is an entire heavily monetized ecosystem that has kept itself fueled up for years on the self-fulfilling prophesy that they’re perpetually victimized by every conceivable entity in the world, and that’s elon’s market

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 9, 2022

J4ckass will be on my 2022 ballot (and was my first Jackass anything)

Wow, you've got a lot of awesome Jackass movies (and TV shows) to catch up with!

I still need to see it. have loved the other films in the series. nothing makes me laugh more than Johnny Knoxville flipping a golf cart in whichever one that was.

That was #1

Filmed at my hometown mini golf course!

I really expected him to lose interest by now, and set his sights on Martian moss farming or whatever.. but if this is a manic episode, it's a sustained one. He even lives in the building now

It's his new toy. He'll play with it until it's so broken it's no fun any more.

Elon is now replying in agreement to Lara Logan, who was recently banned from Newsmax for spreading conspiracies about a “global cabal” of UN officials who “dine on the blood of children”: https://t.co/6DX1xNZ2lx pic.twitter.com/jTqLhhYzUl

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 9, 2022

It really can't be overstated just how much of a shameless liar Elon is pic.twitter.com/cpEa0Rcndl

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 9, 2022

Taibbi's rolling out Part 3, fwiw. All about events leading up to Trump's account being suspended. As before, all the selective screenshots are supposed to look like some big anti-Trump collusion, but clearly they just show people trying to do a kind of impossible job (monitoring election disinformation) in a crazy environment.

I don't know a single person, even Elon fellator, who gives a fuck about that tonight, lol.

they really gotta work on theatrics more

the effort is very low all around

why do they keep doing this on friday nights lol

idk I used to spend my late 20s grabbing a bottle of Jamesson, inviting friends over, renting a projector, and reading Tweet threads together

this is so dumb

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjlO_M-XEAI5JXZ?format=jpg&name=large

FIFTY-TWO

jesus fucking christ, if only there was a non-Twitter medium in which lengthier stories could be published. alas, Twitter is our only option

Twitter is the perfect publishing platform to pretend to do journalism but never provide actual context or details. It's just headline after headline.

this is the JFK for this generation

my head is spinning as i countenance the dense tangle of orwellian unwords like "bounce"

Companies use internal jargon, news at 11

pretty easy to grift readers if they hang onto your every word, just say a company is doing something mundane and then act as if it's never been done before

at least a bounced account wasn't 86'ed

Damn, Taibbi 51'd everyone, overbearing mod behavior imo

Elon is basically just outright making Twitter part of the right-wing media ecosystem — allowing people to say what they want, for now, but he guides the narrative. Or at least that seems to be the idea. But he can't really do that and have Twitter be any semblance of its former self. It still seems like this just ends up with a Twitter no one wants.

he'll probably die in a strange way.

hopefully at least

like ironically in one of his own Teslas, hopefully

Spoiler

At the end of Twitter Files 3 Mulder and Scully find Taibbi’s body crammed into a duct that smells suspiciously of Morley cigarettes

is he going to sue himself

NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 10, 2022

Shame on those acting in a manner contrary to the company's interests. Only your boss has that privilege.

It still seems like this just ends up with a Twitter no one wants.

Going the way of Gab, Parler, et al.

yeah i'm not sure you get to be the anti-leak guy once you go full assange on your own company

twitter blue now $11 on iphones, and three out of four features are labeled "coming soon" this is so goddamn funny https://t.co/GCJucSKEHe

— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) December 10, 2022

Twitter Blue Balls

11 dollars on ios, not iPhones, 8 dollars on web. that's just passing on the 30% Apple tax to the buyer.

hes on one

can he say this??? pic.twitter.com/6CEXmIQ6dH

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) December 11, 2022

pic.twitter.com/yhEOieaGER

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022

thank god we can't hear these tweets at least

So his business model is basically just ... trolling?

man despite how much he's always sucked, this guy has turned out to be so much worse and more obnoxious than i ever would have guessed

its something lol

It’s kind of amazing how not funny or clever this guy is. Just a black hole of cringe and total suck. The most pitiable edgelord.

He's a cross between one of those assholes that says something offensive, then slaps you hard on the back and says "come on, I'm just kidding, lighten up" and one of those other assholes that says something so stupid and not funny that you have to reply, and like a child they take that negative attention as affirmation.

Hope he slips and falls and hits his head and goes into a coma and nobody knows and hackers get into his account and ruin his legacy with fake tweets

That scenario would more plausibly explain what is currently transpiring than 'manic billionaire actively trying to destroy company he just spent millions acquiring'