Elon Musk

oh my god

Elon Musk asked managers at Twitter to nominate their best employees for promotion, then fired the managers and replaced them with their lower paid nominees https://t.co/ngOh68eEZ5

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) March 9, 2023

is this how he ran tesla? it seems like he is actively trying to destroy morale.

does he have this kind of control there? i'd image anyone else who is in a position of power at his other ventures, if they have an ounce of sense, has got to be drawing up plans to get him away from any decision making powers

Tesla’s board is very deferential to Musk but they could change their minds

Musk being ousted would be hilarious, people would create videos of themselves burning their Teslas

perhaps he has become more reckless over time.

i read an article once where a source inside tesla said that elon was quite carefully "managed," like they'd devote a lot of energy to placating his rages and preventing him from making any rash decisions. so he has been mad for a while. but it doesn't seem like twitter has a skilled enough asshole whisperer to keep him in check.

from what weve heard about tesla and his other companies hes kind of like that everywhere a domineering impulsive boss but hes really letting loose at twitter because he hates the company and also he loves it hes a mess over there

i thought that little video clip posted here from a while back was pretty telling: the one with a group of dudes sitting around a table, staring at elon musk, who is staring at his phone, using twitter, and occasionally muttering to himself about what he might tweet. iirc, he says something that is not notably interesting at all and then one of the sycophants reassures him that he is amazing

i did try to search for it, but failed. this thread has 9574 posts, and also, i'm not sure if it was on the twitter thread, which also has a few dozen posts

.@ElonMusk jokes about his plan to steal @HardDriveMag memes and post them as his own. pic.twitter.com/6XhIKXVfQe

— The Recount (@therecount) June 14, 2022

Your meme game is strong

i read an article once where a source inside tesla said that elon was quite carefully "managed," like they'd devote a lot of energy to placating his rages and preventing him from making any rash decisions. so he has been mad for a while. but it doesn't seem like twitter has a skilled enough asshole whisperer to keep him in check.

― treeship., Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:05 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i wonder if he is...increasingly isolated?

it's hard to fuck up saying "thank you" but the way he says thank you there is a fuck up

xp

he's definitely entering the howard hughes mania part of his tycoonship

probably the funniest genre of post by the type of person who pays for twitter blue pic.twitter.com/U5e7NB4Cye

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) March 9, 2023

elon promised blue subscribers more engagement and hes not delivering lol prob cause he fired all the developers and cause you cant make people like shitty tweets they need to build an ai that will write viral tweets for people but they cant cause he fired all the developers

haha, yeah that's where it seems to be going, or at least what they want: to make twitter users little CEOs of their potempkin villages. pay the fee to get better "engagement", then use AI to craft tweets because you can't think of good stuff on your own, then...i think the part that is missing is that the bots need to be there in order to give the AI tweets more engagement. elon may be making a mistake in trying to get rid of those, it's a key part of the delusion scheme

you could have an ai that basically turns your account into a bot automating all the activities of twitter and interacting with other automated accounts, it would still give you the option of using twitter manually when you felt like it but why bother its already taking care of it for you, all you have to do is sit back and read your notifications, all negative content will of course be filtered out

it could have a lil thumbs up thumbs down training system so it figures out how to generate stuff you like

i read an article once where a source inside tesla said that elon was quite carefully "managed," like they'd devote a lot of energy to placating his rages and preventing him from making any rash decisions. so he has been mad for a while. but it doesn't seem like twitter has a skilled enough asshole whisperer to keep him in check.

― treeship., Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:05 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well its worth remembering that Tesla was making cars before Elon bought the "founder" title and both them and SpaceX get a ton of federal money which I assume means you have to have a functioning board. so its only natural that Twitter would operate more like his *other* companies like Boring and Neuralink, companies which are uniformly terrible and may not produce anything tangible ever (outside of what Twitter's already done)

also funny to remember that this is basically how Trump operated too, anyone who ever worked for one of his companies or in his government has said the same thing, that things could only run smoothly if they kept him away

Company town: pic.twitter.com/DfDZk9q8W7

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) March 9, 2023

Cannot fathom how ugly and boring Muskville would be.

asshole whisperer

dying at this, thank u treeship

So, a company town? Ive read Parable of the Sower, fuck off with that shit.

Oh duh the guy posting the img said exactly that, I'm a derp.

Idk if it's true or not but I often think of Felix from Chapo talking about how Elon is a rockabilly guy.

btw ai-written social media is here now: https://www.theverge.com/23632371/social-network-future-ai-automated-chatbot-posts-linkedin

twitter needs to catch up theyre fighting for their lives

honestly, as long as users don't care/notice, this feels like the future for most ad-based media

Yeah I think a lot of content-generation jobs (copy writing, design) are going to turn into basically AI management, or AI specialists. Twitter will be all bots except for Elon and catturd.

some (most?) clickbait media is already heavily guided by "AI" (meaning: analytics + A/B optimization + specialized CMS), but who needs human posters when you can get people to lurk/look at ads while bots post

My own life would be a lot better if an AI could cover government meetings for me, but I feel like that's a long way off.

That's an AI application that you could see being genuinely helpful, but yeah a little more dicey than reporting junior league hockey games

I will never log off pic.twitter.com/a6VVruzFtJ

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 10, 2023

Can't believe that feature is still live tbh

[money bursts into flames] pic.twitter.com/EPlbJ4B5Rw

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 11, 2023

he's down for any stunning losses out there, just PM him

There's no way the Feds would sell SVB to a company that has zero banking experience and would have to start learning their new business by watching some Powerpoints. Elon may not know this, but he knows how to encourage his flatterers.

running a bank is easy, you just tell everyone to work extremely hard and extremely smart, or else

.@ElonMusk jokes about his plan to steal @HardDriveMag memes and post them as his own. pic.twitter.com/6XhIKXVfQe

— The Recount (@therecount) June 14, 2022

i woke up in the middle of the night and had the epiphany that the guy to the right of elon in the backwards baseball hat has big loftus energy. it is... so not gonna happen, bro

Halli, thank you for staying on twitter dot com

Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.

You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.

— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 10, 2023

Add anti-transgender to the list:

Not when they’re fed propaganda by adults.

Moreover, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.

Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2023

responding to an account dedicated to making sure that as many people as possible die from covid and puts "slow the spread" in mocking quotation marks

wow, he's pissed he has a trans daughter

also, he started this whole purchasing Twitter fiasco shortly after Grimes dumped him for Chelsea Manning.

i hope he fucking explodes

seriously, who - beyond a swathe of twitter accounts that get off on the taste of boot leather - will miss this shithead when he dies?

I hope he goes to Mars (soon) and livestreams his journey as he steadily fades away, like the death of HAL.

every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes.

citation needed

I think he’s referring to watching The Breakfast Club

There’s no way, if he does go to Mars, that he won’t be forced out the airlock before they even arrive.