Elon Musk

didn't know anything about Singer, looked him up, and was greeted with this doozy:

It may be all right, according to Singer, to kill infants. Because they are not "persons," they have no interest in staying alive, and it is only superstition that makes us think that killing them is intrinsically wrong.

Singer is quick to note that it is still wrong to kill most infants, for other reasons. The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.

The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.

Most, not all

I am very sad to have learned of this person's existence today.

what if, unironically, the child has bad vibes

when peter singer turned up in the middle of the effective altruism / sam bankplan-fraud discussion i assumed it was a typo for PAUL singer (the hedge fund guy who "pioneered" effective altruism, whatever this means) -- but no! it's peter, with a finger in every fkn dark pie lol!

30 years ago he was best known as the animal rights guy, which was a way better bit imo

oh no, now I remember who he is

my favourite peter singer anecdote is when he was on a panel in germany in i guess the 90s discussing something or other and there was a stage invasions by autonomes* and they grabbed his spectacles off his face and flung them into the audience

he wrote a big long piece i think in the new york review of books saying this was bad not good but i disagree bcz it was funny!

*best of all the gnomes

I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.

e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess this link belongs in the twitter thread, but it speaks to this point so i'll but it here https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji.

'crashes bring people together'

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/v9NBTOh.png

is that good

Tiny scoop: We learned today that Twitter’s revenue is down 40 percent year over year (& Musk’s first giant interest payment on the company is due at the end of the month): https://t.co/IH7lJiQ0Dw

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 18, 2023

btw that article is the saem one caek posted, def worth reading for true musk heads

lol

wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake https://t.co/F5uXGvzfiU

— Max Chafkin (@chafkin) January 17, 2023

the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol

on the left hand side of the verge article there's a little blue bar that tracks elon's net worth over the course of the twitter saga, it's good

" A Tesla owner was recently seeking a state inspection sticker at one of VIP’s locations, Winkeler said, but the car displayed a light indicating a traction control problem. The service center couldn’t pass the vehicle’s inspection with the light on, but also couldn’t access the dashboard error code to diagnose the problem. The customer had to drive to Boston to get the car diagnosed. "

what a bother

the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol

― 龜, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats fn crazy youd think itd be down by more than 40%

the expected revenue from the sell-off of the neon twitter sign and assorted work stations must be incredible

the interest payment is coming up https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262631 (use archive.ph if you don't wanna register)

oh its 500 top advertisers not the 500 top advertisers

Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it

it'd be really funny if 50% of the revenue was the weird dudes who pay to promote their own incoherent tweets

someone should get steve cohen into the twitter memorabilia scene

Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it

2 billion if he jacks off into it.

Fidelity, which owns a stake in the social media platform through a listed fund, has cut the value of its holding from $19.7mn in October to $8.6mn after Musk closed the deal.

lmao

lol

Seeing a lot of crying from the people that insisted Elon “fixed” Twitter. pic.twitter.com/iBihVKn5rp

— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) January 18, 2023

they will never learn that most people don't care about their shitty opinions

and people really dont care about their whining about engagement

Don't know how it hasn't gone more noticed over the years, but the guy in this video that Elon tweeted out to show the safety features of Tesla autopilot...? He died in a Tesla autopilot accident two months later.https://t.co/JUJriy3YOf

— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023

his final words were "so thrilled...this will...help improve...self-driving...next patch"

Best…car…I…ever…had…

“He had said, ‘For something to catch Elon Musk’s eye, I can die and go to heaven now,’” said a neighbor, Krista Kitchen, choking up. “He was absolutely thrilled – and then a couple weeks later he died.”

https://t.co/1BWwPHIzR0

— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023

Mind detergent and soul rot, from the top to the bottom.

genuinely think some of these ppl should go to church they'd be better off

worth a shot

lol why

NEW: https://t.co/9ameptuFXR

— Dana "Legacy Blue Checkmark" Hull 👩🏻‍💻 (@danahull) January 19, 2023

haters will say its photoshop

- elon

interesting

knives comin out

i'm pretty sure some undercredited production person directed the fuck out of the video while elon executive produced and called himself director

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm8PZZgXgBAwIFs?format=jpg&name=large

This is the world we live in
And these are the stans we're given

gosh, I hope Elon saves Catturd

'take the algorithms off'

this is probably why the desktop site has started defaulting to "for you" every time, gotta get that catturd engagement up

Fortunately, catturd is not "for me." (Yet. I'm sure if he whines enough Elon will set it up so everyone is auto-following both himself and catturd.)

Fortunately Catturd 1 is okay

Catturd Prime

not everyone saw Catturd's tweets, but everyone that did started a ban

Very nice

I keep wanting to ironically buy catturd merch but I suspect that impulse will never result in anything

Why would you do that? May as well wear an ironic swastika.