Elon Musk

McSheesh

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

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

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

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

well yeah, but as far as I know he just got baited into offering the services on Twitter

Don't think he bid for a contract or anything

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?"

article upthread about various high level government functionaries quaking in fear at the sound of his name is wild stuff

Don't think he bid for a contract or anything

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oh well if theres no contract lol

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.

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.

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.

fuck off table

maybe this one dumb bad guy shouldnt control all this stuff based on his drug and sleep deprived moods idk

exactly.

+ ideas from the worst people in the world

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5b0TdmXYAAkIdI?format=jpg&name=medium

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.

they should send someone to kill him imo

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.

smiley and felix leiter sat across from bond discussing ian miles cheong: "the licence just doesn't cover this, shir"

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

us gov can beam some internet down from planes but thats a whole thing that they would rather not be involved in im sure

fuck off table

Starlink entry on Wikipedia has now got me reading about Brilliant Pebbles which paved the way for Fucking Magnets.

xpost Sorry for lashing out Table

all good Pres, despite our past disagreements and butting heads i harbor no ill will toward you, just fyi.

same here

tbh the pop of ilx is so low now i'm guessing nobody could be fp'd off the site anymore

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?

the latter

So kind of a Star Chamber system huh. Terrifying.

we have no choice but to abide by our shadowy overlords

i’m not totally sure but i think the late great got
tempbanned over that kerfuffle

no, he didn't

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.

We cannot inform you of the charges against you. Prepare your defense.

elon seems overextended.

fwiw tipsy there's a thread where you can ask how many FPs you got and the mods will tell you.

lol some things it's better not to know.

maybe this one dumb bad guy shouldnt control all this stuff based on his drug and sleep deprived moods idk

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!

well they dont give you access if youre not a sniveling lil toad i guess

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.

theres daisy chain of butt sniffing happening

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 ;)

That's the price we pay for . . . whatever Elon has given the world.

*checks notes* shitty cars and letting nazis on twitter

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."

Thank god for progress (rich guys firing things into space for no reason while everything crumbles)

"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."

Temp banned twice here, and I'd agree. Pick your moment and go with God.

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