Here is Elon Musk at the New York Times âDealBook Summit 2023â.
The comments about the advertisers boycott of đ which has all the world, dare I say, a-twitter, start at 10:50. Those with gentle sensitivities should be aware this is un-bleeped. âWhatâs the point of having F-U money if you canât say âF-Uâ?
The Times reporter, one Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a quintessential embodiment of effete urban mediocrity, much like his ânewspaperâ.
Elon posted this as a screen shot, so Iâm not going to type in the whole thing in order to run a MillerâRabin primality test to see if itâs true. My guess is that itâs really prime, and the little â7â lurking in there:
what makes it so. If it were just ASCII art trolling us, they wouldnât have bothered with that detail.
The New Republic tells NPCs what to think about Elon Musk.
In one sense, Elon Musk has gotten exactly what he wanted. For all his talk about free speech, his primary motivation for sinking $44 billion into buying Twitter last year was clearly an unquenchable desire to be the center of attention. After Donald Trumpâs defenestration in the wake of the January 6 insurrection, there was a main-character-size hole on the social network: Enter Musk and his infantile need for validation.
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Elon Musk is evil. While he has mostly made headlines for his incompetence, he has unleashed and legitimized truly heinous forces on Twitter: He has welcomed back some of the worldâs most toxic peopleâAlex Jones, Donald Trump, innumerable Nazis and bigotsâand has gone out of his way, again and again, to validate them. That Musk would endorse a heinous antisemitic conspiracy theory, as he did last month, is both unsurprising and reprehensible. It is, more than anything else, a reflection of who he is: He may be fantastically wealthy, but he is also deeply hateful, someone who has decided to devote his fortune and his time to attacking diversity and progress on nearly every front.
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X features heavily in Muskâs year in review, if only because he has successfully used it as a vehicle to make himself inescapable. But it is not his only venture, and it is not the only reminder that he is actually a deeply stupid and incompetent person. Tesla, his main business, just recalled nearly all of its vehicles because its much-hyped self-driving feature keeps causing cars to crash into people and things. Its much-hyped Cybertruck is unbelievably dumb-looking and pointless: It is bulletproof, for some reasonâexactly the kind of silly detail on which Musk would fixate to look cool, even as his cars ⌠keep killing people. The rockets from his rocket company, SpaceX, keep exploding. (Musk says this is a good thing.) Everywhere you look, there is more evidence that Elon Musk is an idiot.
According to The New Republicpromotional puff piece [PDF], its paid circulation is 51,500 copies per issue, with 64% of subscribers 45 years or older. Elon Musk, who has 167.5 million followers on đ, âis an idiotâ.
What a strange video! Compare that to the videos of Chinese auto plants showing giant machines assembling vehicles at a rapid pace. High-end lobbies are sort-of impressive ⌠but nowhere near as impressive as the inner workings of a state-of-the-art factory.