Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[two sheds]

just leave it to the foreign workers who will get thrown out of the country if they object to working under inhumane pressure

 

[Yossarian]

Musk is reportedly laser-focused on one issue at Twitter: Musk not getting as much attention as he wants.



On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

 

[BigMoaner]

Musk is reportedly laser-focused on one issue at Twitter: Musk not getting as much attention as he wants.



On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

quite like thinking of all this in light of Lacan's confrontation with the real, i.e. a break from the "symbolic order". every thing plods on "as it should", babies are born, taxes are paid, billionaires are billionaries and dazzle people - until this and then musk is just seen as a chaotic bell end.

 

[Supine]

Musk is reportedly laser-focused on one issue at Twitter: Musk not getting as much attention as he wants.



On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

That really is superb. Tracked unpopularity after spending so much money. I can’t wait to see what happens when overall usage declines significantly.

 

[Serge Forward]

He has literally modelled himself on this bloke:

 

[Fruitloop]

He can watch people cease to give a fuck about him with greater precision than has been available to anyone in history

 

[Supine]

And now his engagement is shown - because he added the service - we can all see it

 

[Sue]

He has literally modelled himself on this bloke:

He did spend a little bit more on it than 'one MILLION dollars' though.

 

[gosub]

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-responds-to-big-short-michael-burrys-warnings

Is true bears are taking a pasting at the moment What ifind interesting is the rallies are coming mainly from mom & pops convi ced they are buying the dip....institutionals not so much.

If this is a bull trap Musk is using he's newly acquired media platform to facilitate pump and dump

 

[Dystopiary]

A top 50 downwards trajectory in history.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

 

[emanymton]

That's the easy bit, bringing him back alive is the real trick.

 

[gosub]

That's the easy bit, bringing him back alive is the real trick.

Mumble mumble mumble check the small print.


Worlds most elaborate serial killer

 

[hitmouse]

Musk is reportedly laser-focused on one issue at Twitter: Musk not getting as much attention as he wants.

On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

It's like he's fucking daring people to make more Downfall memes.

He can watch people cease to give a fuck about him with greater precision than has been available to anyone in history

 

[teqniq]

Fucking embarrassing himself now:

 

[magneze]

Now?!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

So now the water isn't just muddy, the blue check marks will mean absolutely nothing . . . but won't that in turn make them absolutely worthless? and in turn make twitter even more worthless. I know this is obvious, and the whole world has been saying it ever since musk took over twitter, but for a genius he really is a massive dumb arse.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a different mark for paid subscribers? And make people pay to have their accounts verified blue . . .but properly, with proper checks.
Or not have fucked with anything at all and owned a very powerful worldwide brand and prestige company. Now, even though he owns twitter, he has become a laughing stock (and reduced the stock market value of his name on EVERYTHING).

 

[Aladdin]

Elon Musk Ted Talk on how his brain works.
Musk shared his personal experience growing up with Asperberg's syndrome, describing how he learned to work with his brain instead of against it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Elon Musk Ted Talk on how his brain works.
Musk shared his personal experience growing up with Asperberg's syndrome, describing how he learned to work with his brain instead of against it.

I'm not sure I can face an hour of Musk talking about himself. Can you provide a summary of events?

 

[NoXion]

So now the water isn't just muddy, the blue check marks will mean absolutely nothing . . . but won't that in turn make them absolutely worthless? and in turn make twitter even more worthless. I know this is obvious, and the whole world has been saying it ever since musk took over twitter, but for a genius he really is a massive dumb arse.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a different mark for paid subscribers? And make people pay to have their accounts verified blue . . .but properly, with proper checks.
Or not have fucked with anything at all and owned a very powerful worldwide brand and prestige company. Now, even though he owns twitter, he has become a laughing stock (and reduced the stock market value of his name on EVERYTHING).

I'm surprised anyone is still holding onto Tesla stock. His idiotic antics have cratered its value, and he's been selling his own shares off to fund this Twitter bullshit.

Elon Musk Ted Talk on how his brain works.
Musk shared his personal experience growing up with Asperberg's syndrome, describing how he learned to work with his brain instead of against it.

The comments section on that video is absolutely disgusting. They're almost all either licking Musk's bumhole, promoting investment scams (if it wasn't a scam then they wouldn't be advertising it via YouTube comments), or both.

 

[Aladdin]

I'm surprised anyone is still holding onto Tesla stock. His idiotic antics have cratered its value, and he's been selling his own shares off to fund this Twitter bullshit.



The comments section on that video is absolutely disgusting. They're almost all either licking Musk's bumhole, promoting investment scams (if it wasn't a scam then they wouldn't be advertising it via YouTube comments), or both.

I didnt read the comments. The Ted Talk itself was what interested me particularly from 42 mins on ...when he talks about his aspergers

 

[Aladdin]

I'm not sure I can face an hour of Musk talking about himself. Can you provide a summary of events?

Maybe check from 42 mins in on..

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Maybe check from 43 mins in on..

What am I listening out for? You posted an hour long video with zero comment from yourself.
What do you think about the video?

 

[kabbes]

For the record, “Asperger’s syndrome” is not a term that’s used anymore, for a whole host of reasons. It’s just part of ASD now. And millions and millions and millions of people manage to have ASD without becoming a raging techbro alt-right arsehole.

 

[Red Cat]

For the record, a lot of autistic people do not like the description of 'having' any kind of disorder.

 

[Supine]

For the record, a lot of autistic people do not like the description of 'having' any kind of disorder.

Or to be associated with Musk in anyway I’d imagine

 

[Yossarian]

When Musk hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021 he described himself as “the first person with Asperger’s to host ‘S.N.L.’ - apparently ignoring he fact that Dan Aykroyd, who has been open about his ASD and Tourette's diagnoses, was an original SNL cast member. Unlike Musk, Aykroyd was also funny.

 

[Sue]

but for a genius he really is a massive dumb arse.

Is he a genius?

 

[Aladdin]

For the record, “Asperger’s syndrome” is not a term that’s used anymore, for a whole host of reasons.

Yes...it was Musk who describes his childhood and uses the term as referenced when he was a child.

For the record, a lot of autistic people do not like the description of 'having' any kind of disorder.

Absolutely.

 

[Red Cat]

Or to be associated with Musk in anyway I’d imagine

I'm sure a lot of people would prefer that association to being told really depressing statistics that show you're going to be unemployed and never have a partner or children and have life long mental health difficulties and a shorter life.