Elon Musk

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.

but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck

He also keeps the horse embryos in there so he can thaw them out and exchange them for handjobs

what an absolute fckn spanker

(à propos of nothing, it just rose unbidden to my fingertips)

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

Add in his followers as "tarnished" and we got a plot for Elden Ring 2

ay, at one point in this spiral grimes has a comment like "i don't expect normal people to understand" and you know what?

Elon Ring 2

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

but it was the inspiration for the cyber truck

Elmo is certainly starting to gain the lumpen potatoey countenance of Mohg.

this dude is so hopelessly pathetic

That was fast pic.twitter.com/ztYxN53P6Z

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 23, 2023

what a dork

What a fucking dork. Both of them.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-the-infinite-rebuy

There’s a scene in Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk that unintentionally captures the essence of the book:

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"Levchin was at a friend’s bachelor pad hanging out with Musk. Some people were playing a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Although Musk was not a card player, he pulled up to the table. “There were all these nerds and sharpsters who were good at memorizing cards and calculating odds,” Levchin says. “Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said “Right, fine, I’m done.” It would be a theme in his life: avoid taking chips off the table; keep risking them.
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That would turn out to be a good strategy. (page 86)

There are a couple ways you can read this scene. One is that Musk is an aggressive risk-taker who defies convention, blazes his own path, and routinely proves his doubters wrong.

The other is that Elon Musk sucks at poker. But he has access to so much capital that he can keep rebuying until he scores a win.

Isaacson, our narrator, doesn’t grasp the difference. He doesn’t understand poker well enough to recognize Musk as the grandstanding sucker at the table. So he portrays Musk’s complete lack of impulse control as a brilliant, identity-defining strategic ploy. (If you go all-in and lose six times, then go all-in a seventh time and win, then you’re still down five buy-ins.)

if he really is just shoving every single hand you can't even say he "sucks at poker". he's not even playing the game. just mindlessly gambling at a huge disadvantage. and if he left right after doubling up which is the point where you can actually make people nervous that's even dumber.

needs a 'game theory' tweet rn

elon played hold 'em as a child but found it too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 2 personal cards, no random map or spawn position, only 10 players, etc.

omaha hi-lo addresses these limitations

that story makes no sense you cant just double down in poker the most you can win in a hand is the amount your opponents have and you need their cooperation for that they can just fold

also memorizing cards has no value in hold em the only cards you see are the ones youll be able to see the whole hand

i mean you could go all in every hand but you will probably lose

well I've heard of home games where you can buy in up to the biggest stack but something tells me the author here doesn't know anything about poker or gambling either and is using the term "double down" incorrectly. I kinda have doubts he's just shoving every hand but I can totally see him getting all-in with the worst of it over and over again

Lose five hands, win one, declare victory.

you miss 100% of the hands you don't go all-in on

i could see him shoving every time to show that he doesnt care about being good at poker which he obviously does