love to chaos dimple lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 September 2023 15:22 (seven months ago) link
hello my evropa, my chaos dimple
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 11 September 2023 15:24 (seven months ago) link
re: the isaacson / nymag profile
https://bsky.app/profile/sifu.tweety.fish/post/3k74x22voka22
"Shawn McCreesh is a 2015 St. John’s journalism program graduate who has quickly worked his way to the coveted position of editorial assistant to Maureen Dowd at the New York Times."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 September 2023 15:50 (seven months ago) link
McSheesh
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 September 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html
i only saw the tweet upthread not the excerpt so applogies if this is a repost
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 02:10 (seven months ago) link
isaacson amending the claim in his own book that musk shut of starlink. great stuff.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/walter-isaacson-and-the-power-of
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 03:03 (seven months ago) link
as much as I hate Elon, the Neocon framing of "Musk actually murdered Ukrainians by not enabling a military attack on Russia" is a bit much
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:02 (seven months ago) link
some people may be saying that but the more common point is maybe its not that good for this one rando to have that much power
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:03 (seven months ago) link
well yeah, but as far as I know he just got baited into offering the services on Twitter
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:10 (seven months ago) link
Don't think he bid for a contract or anything
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:11 (seven months ago) link
Yeah I love the framing of "Elon probably kept us out of a world war" — which is first of all almost certainly not true, but the better framing is "How the fuck did anyone let Elon get into a position to decide whether or not we have a world war?"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:14 (seven months ago) link
article upthread about various high level government functionaries quaking in fear at the sound of his name is wild stuff
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:18 (seven months ago) link
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 12, 2023 10:11 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh well if theres no contract lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:21 (seven months ago) link
I mean he volunteered to offer the service with the caveat that it not be used for offensive operations. If the US or Ukraine wanted an offensive system they would have set one up.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:30 (seven months ago) link
How this dipshit still manages to convince so many people to continually cape for him in the year 2023 will never cease to amaze me.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:34 (seven months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
fuck off table
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:39 (seven months ago) link
maybe this one dumb bad guy shouldnt control all this stuff based on his drug and sleep deprived moods idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
exactly.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:40 (seven months ago) link
+ ideas from the worst people in the world
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5b0TdmXYAAkIdI?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:43 (seven months ago) link
There was an NYT story a few weeks ago about what a shitshow it was to have a private citizen in charge of a shifting battle zone. Ukranian general were constantly on the phone to Musk requesting the service to be turned off or on in different areas depending on who was in control of what town or terrain.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:45 (seven months ago) link
they should send someone to kill him imo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:45 (seven months ago) link
Musk should not be in the position to make these decisions, but the US, which is dumping billions into the war, has chosen to rely on him.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:46 (seven months ago) link
smiley and felix leiter sat across from bond discussing ian miles cheong: "the licence just doesn't cover this, shir"
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:52 (seven months ago) link
yeah wonder how exactly that happened, starlink is a one of a kind network much faster than the geosynchronous options, and then he just kinda offered it to ukraine, seems like it was convenient but came with some issues too lol xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:54 (seven months ago) link
us gov can beam some internet down from planes but thats a whole thing that they would rather not be involved in im sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:00 (seven months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:02 (seven months ago) link
Starlink entry on Wikipedia has now got me reading about Brilliant Pebbles which paved the way for Fucking Magnets.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:16 (seven months ago) link
xpost Sorry for lashing out Table
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:29 (seven months ago) link
all good Pres, despite our past disagreements and butting heads i harbor no ill will toward you, just fyi.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:32 (seven months ago) link
same here
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:33 (seven months ago) link
tbh the pop of ilx is so low now i'm guessing nobody could be fp'd off the site anymore
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
Serious question, since I've either never been FP'd (seems unlikely) or just don't know how it works — do you get notification of FPs? Or is it just that if there are sufficient #s the mods do something?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:42 (seven months ago) link
the latter
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
So kind of a Star Chamber system huh. Terrifying.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:53 (seven months ago) link
we have no choice but to abide by our shadowy overlords
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:56 (seven months ago) link
i’m not totally sure but i think the late great gottempbanned over that kerfuffle
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:57 (seven months ago) link
no, he didn't
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:33 (seven months ago) link
Early days of Ukraine war had quite a few posters get temp banned, it's still possible you just need to work with the zeitgeist.
fwiw tipsy there's a thread where you can ask how many FPs you got and the mods will tell you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 18:14 (seven months ago) link
We cannot inform you of the charges against you. Prepare your defense.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:36 (seven months ago) link
elon seems overextended.
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:54 (seven months ago) link
lol some things it's better not to know.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:06 (seven months ago) link
I don't know if that New York Magazine piece on Isaacson/his Elon bio was discussed here but it's really jarring and kind of bizarre how almost sycophantic an attitude he takes towards Musk at times, but then he will casually drop things like "yeah, it's a shame he has zero empathy" or "yeah, his pedophile tweets are kind of off-putting" (the latter I guess a reference to when he accused the Thai cave rescue guy of being a pedophile?) He also muses that all geniuses or great dudes (and presumably the one lady he wrote about?) are driven to accomplish great things by their personal demons, with a sort of implication that Elon has the potential to be the most godlike genius ever precisely because he has so many issues and is such a fucked-up guy.
I'm maybe sloppily paraphrasing him here, but it's a weird read altogether!
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:52 (seven months ago) link
well they dont give you access if youre not a sniveling lil toad i guess
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 00:58 (seven months ago) link
Ha... the other layer to it is that the New York writer seems to go out of their way to paint Isaacson as being such a great guy, and going into the article having known almost nothing about him I was honestly having trouble figuring out if my overall negative reaction to him (Isaacson) was due to Isaacson as a person, or weariness at the writer's lavish encomium of him, Isaacson's attitude towards Musk, or just my own personal bad weather Sept. 11th Monday spleen.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:14 (seven months ago) link
theres daisy chain of butt sniffing happening
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:23 (seven months ago) link
Apparently!
I think his lack of empathy is a deeply unattractive trait. I also think that he would not be who he was in terms of the enterprises if he hadn’t had the deficit of the empathy gene.”
I guess the actual quote is worse than what I made it sound like in my post up there. It's almost like "I for one welcome our new sociopathic billionaire overlords!" Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress ;)
― dell (del), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:29 (seven months ago) link
That's the price we pay for . . . whatever Elon has given the world.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:30 (seven months ago) link
*checks notes* shitty cars and letting nazis on twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:31 (seven months ago) link
Yes, granted people like him are truly monstrous in their approach to the world and other people, but hey it's a small price to pay for progress
This seems to be the approved line re: Musk among the Davos class; Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who I think used to be a scientist, said the same thing on a podcast interview this week. Of course, to quote William S. Burroughs (I know, I know), "No job too dirty for a fuckin' scientist."
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 01:40 (seven months ago) link