Elon Musk

flux capacitor in the cyberturck checkmate bitch u got memed

John DeLorean would like a word

As would the people behind the Pontiac Aztek

when i consider the predictive accuracy of the aztek it freaks me out

every commute in that thing will end like, "dude you've blown the transaxle, you're just grinding metal...ease down."

https://workshopcompanionstore.com/products/doge-box-plans

Owners of Azteks were said to be highly satisfied.. I think there was even a camping tent that attached to the cargo area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9gaEiQAxY

when i consider the predictive accuracy of the aztek it freaks me out

Back in 2000 Fox had this dystopian Sci-Fi series with Jessica Alba & Michael Weatherly called Dark Angel (set in...2019), and instead of having a custom future car for Weatherly to drive, they had the genius idea to use new Azteks.

xps I used to work with a guy who used a wheelchair for whom the Aztec functioned well for getting himself and his chair in and out.

they look so normal by today's standards... headline of the accompanying article: The Pontiac Aztek: Who’s Laughing Now?

Universally panned and quickly discontinued, it’s clear that, almost 20 years on, the Aztek has made fools of us all.

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/pontiac-aztek-rear-1585319857.jpg

lol yeah it does look normal, just another crossover

xps James Cameron’s Dark Angel, now on Fox

I don’t remember a whole lot other than Jessica Alba was in it, but I think a later season featured an animal-human hybrid cat person. Very prescient show

Discussion of the Aztek immediately makes me think of Breaking Bad. The choice of Walt's car was obvs given great thought.

for me it's the second season of Survivor, when Colby won this car and had to demonstrate all of its great camping features with his visiting Mom in the Australian Outback.

one of the most pathetic and funniest reply chains i’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/4bFVLRL6IN

— beer person (@CantEverDie) December 5, 2023

sure i may have spent thousands of hours of my life shooting video game people but i draw the line at video game cops, good day sir!

amazing these are the same people who want the fate of the world to hinge on a computer saying the n word

lol

Tesla’s labour dispute in Scandinavia has escalated after a union in Denmark said it would no longer transport vehicles to Sweden, where the US electric-car maker is locked in a battle over workers’ rights.

Denmark’s largest union 3F announced the move on Tuesday, saying its dockworkers and drivers would no longer help move vehicles bound for Sweden.

Swedish union IF Metall is in an increasingly bitter struggle with Tesla over the carmaker’s refusal to sign a collective agreement in which labour conditions are set by employers and unions.

“IF Metall and the Swedish workers are currently fighting an incredibly important battle. When they ask for our support, we take part, of course,” said Jan Villadsen, head of 3F Transport.

Swedish cleaners, dockworkers and postal workers have already tried to support the striking Tesla mechanics. Norwegian dockworkers have also said they would refuse to unload Teslas destined for Sweden.

The dispute involves only about 130 mechanics at Tesla’s workshops in Sweden, many of whom are still working as normal.

https://www.ft.com/content/4143c3ca-e2fd-48bb-b9b7-715454f1d28f

A long but interesting newsletter article about all the ways Musk is currently burning money with Twitter:

https://wheresyoured.at/p/elons-gordian-knot

i like that guy on bsky/twitter, but tbh i find his long form writing unreadable

still kinda weird to me that as a weird twitter OG he went on to become some sort of internet investigative reporter? and presumably has a profitable substack?

lol I don't know him outside of seeing his name on Twitter, I assumed he was a The Nation columnist I'd never heard of based on the people who quoted/retweeted him.

he owns a small marketing agency iirc

he certainly doesn’t have an editor

i think he does have an editor lol

idk why those facts about the poster in question are available to me but your welcome

Duh, you’re the editor.

oh siht

“…you’ve *always* been the editor.”

I . . . corrected them.

https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man?fbclid=IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM

https://i.insider.com/656a5a5d58e7c0c29a28f706?width=2000&format=jpeg

IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM

new Musk offspring just dropped

Pretty sure that's his twitter password.

have we heard anything about his kids through all of this? some of them are teenagers now, they gotta be feeling nothing but embarrassment

Why, yes.

Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61880709

Are we to understand that no CEO is calling for Musk to be removed from the Twitter board, because that would be a better top story rn than his deranged attacks on Iger who is also bad.

The CEO has taken some pretty firm public positions this week tbf

Welcome to the world Grok — the ultimate ride or die.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 7, 2023

Over 40 million people per day use X in Japan — today I’m one of them!! pic.twitter.com/eRGRZq0LxN

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023

.@RockstarGames — gaming is one of our most popular topics. Drop that trailer here — give the people on @X what they want!! https://t.co/sU3hHk9pgQ

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023

And it’s not done yet- see you for the bowl games!
Oh and……really?? GO NOLES! https://t.co/GYxDO8FiJ3

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023

People in Japan spend over 1.5 billion minutes on X each day. The most popular topic? Gaming 🎮

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023

Today @elonmusk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at @dealbook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position. X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people. We're a platform that allows… https://t.co/PSmSKRkJSq

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 30, 2023

Video views for the @NBA are up +39% year over year on the platform. It all happens on X.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

Now this is how @X celebrates Small Business Saturday! 🎉💪 https://t.co/jLi2tVpNW9

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

Users like posts a *million times a minute*. That’s a lotta love—and it all happens on X.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

If I had that job, I would be making those tweets, but I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send

Frantically trying to make "It all happens on X!" into the next "Things go better with Coke!" when your entire marketing budget is your own CEO salary must be exhausting.

I heard it on the X

That's a lotta love--and it all happens on X (NSFW)

ai bots, crypto scammers, nazis, it all happens on x

I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send

For that job, it helps to have an inability to feel any semblance of emotion, especially empathy

tfw grok is woke:

https://i.imgur.com/fD9zfU8.png

sir, weve lost grok

the woke has broken containment

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp2rekq4quhdq5fe2bkxigns/bafkreicwitjfbx7sqtha7mycdoifp4z2wbom5wshmwaons5436onfhbmdu@jpeg

its pretty funny they think that 1 this computer program is on the verge of sentience 2 it has betrayed them

i like how when they try to reason with it its just all im a computer i have no idea what any of this means, and theyre like tragically the intelligent machine has gone woke

Good bit on the lameness of Grok’s alleged humor

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23992489/xai-musk-grok-humor-chatbot