Elon Musk

He might want to ask some Hawaiians how they feel about all this.

That famously "integral" part of a country that is mostly on a landmass 2,500 miles away.

I remember hearing this guy speak in like 2017 and could not believe how unprepared and tired he seemed. serious "didn't actually read the book" vibes. his brain is just a rat in a really tight maze unable to see more than a foot ahead

I mean he spent decades surrounding himself with people who were willing to take every idiotic thing that came out of his mouth seriously and reward him with hundreds of millions in government money I genuinely think that kind of shit warps your melon

Elon vs. China hawks is a no-win scenario.

You're Elonin' My Melon Man

Gary Shteyngart's review of the Isaacson book is appropriately savage.

3 sentences before we hit lazy empty mental health slurs, kudos

You mean this?

Throughout the tome, Musk’s confidantes, co-workers, ex-wives and girlfriends present a DSM-5’s worth of psychiatric and other theories for the “demon moods” that darken the lives of his subordinates, and increasingly the rest of us, among them bipolar disorder, OCD, and the form of autism formerly known as Asperger’s. But the idea that any of these conditions are what makes Musk an “asshole” (another frequently used descriptor of him in the book), while also making him successful in his many pursuits, is an insult to all those affected by them who manage to change the world without leaving a trail of wounded people, failing social networks and general despair behind them.

no i'm sorry you're right it's ok to use aclinical mental health slurs about bad people

He’s talking about what people interviewed in the book say about Musk. But ok.

He also says that explaining away Musk’s evil with clinical theories is an insult to people with these conditions.

i would simply avoid echoing this nonsense by focusing on Musk's existence as an avatar of the hegemonic socioeconomic system but

Yeah, you should never talk about what's actually in a book when reviewing it. That's just rude to imaginary internet people whose feelings might be hurt.

How Couples Argue Today:

Wife: cool how theres 4 mustards in the fridge in 2018 and none go with my sandwich. Normal World

Husband: wow its almost like those are my dipping mustards and arent meant to go on sandwiches????????? but ok go off

— Jumbo josh_ATF (@AnimeSerbia) July 15, 2020

Important development: Senate Dems are demanding that the Pentagon turn over information about Elon Musk's Starlink contracts with the US military, to investigate whether there are safeguards in them to prevent another version of Musk's recent fiasco.https://t.co/TKMBwu7pAt pic.twitter.com/JINXfMrW0y

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 15, 2023

they shd just drone strike this guy

Too bad his body doesn’t produce a heat signature

elmo is gonna post an “all of your base” meme isnt he

Meanwhile over at the genius summit

Touché https://t.co/w58XhgEeSD

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2023

1000%

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2023

lmao the celebrity cameo in this one

Elon Musk revisiting an idea apparently floated privately in the past -- charging *everyone* to use Twitter. A lower tier than premium. "We’ve moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system," he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it's only way to stamp out bots.

— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBG) September 18, 2023

Netayahu just flew here to the Bay Area to meet with Elon, for god knows what

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Soldier_with_Bazooka_M1.jpg/600px-Soldier_with_Bazooka_M1.jpg

benjamin net and yahoo

lol

Elon destroying the bots like Howard Hughes killing all the germs in his apartment

Absolutely not paying for social media.

But he hasn't killed the block function so...seeing is believing.

Yeah and surely any remaining ad revenue would be decimated

50 cents per post
$2 if you want anyone to see your post
$5 for a racist post
$10 if you want Elon to call your post interesting

$50 if you wanna have Elon's baby

there is little to no reason to believe anything this guy says about anything he intends to do

Trying to implement significant changes would probably break the app too.

I'm still waiting for him to rescue those Thai kids with a pedo-proof submarine.

Musk told the Israeli prime minister that with 100m-200m posts on X in a day, “some of those are gonna be bad”

Musk when asked about his own posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xccaLNJli6U

charging every user would at least solve the problems they created when they halved the capacity of the backend by shutting down the sacramento datacenter.

yeah lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6WFS4uWAAMf1Ci?format=jpg&name=medium

there is little to no reason to believe anything this guy says about anything he intends to do

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, September 18, 2023 2:21 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He’s actually implemented a lot of his dumb Twitter ideas though

https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/33d5ded2-374d-43c6-92c6-b04bbfc47953/42008985.jpg?size=pdhism

Netanyahoo just came to check out the new DeLorean

since he's implemented every other bad idea he's had i'm gonna start trying to actually use bluesky this time around, i've got some spare invites so dm if you still need one buddies https://t.co/MHUQgB94AO

— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) September 18, 2023

Gotta give Elon credit where it's due: this is a very funny own https://t.co/W5YP31htXQ

— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) September 19, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6kTJyVWQAEzCyw?format=jpg&name=large

isaacson writes that this was a masterful gambit sir

Tell me you're in a cult without telling me you're in a cult.

It will be interesting to watch Musk's 900 children battle each other to become God-King

I'm imagining Grimes commanding an army like Alexander the Great's mother

i find elon's approach to fatherhood to be disgusting.

His office mini-fridge must be a real horror show.