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

[kabbes]

At what point will Musk just give up, sell and walk away? How much money is he prepared to shove in the furnace? Why can't he just fuck off, I want my old twitter community back!

He’ll burst his ball before even considering handing it back to everybody else to play with

 

[Yossarian]

I don't think his ego will let him walk away anytime soon and he's probably not short on cash - his net worth went up another $10 billion or so with a rise in Tesla stock yesterday

 

[NoXion]

I don't think his ego will let him walk away anytime soon and he's probably not short on cash - his net worth went up another $10 billion or so with a rise in Tesla stock yesterday

How the fuck is Tesla stock going up? Build quality is still shit and the Cybertruck is shaping up to be an ugly-looking flop. It makes no sense.

 

[BigMoaner]

How the fuck is Tesla stock going up? Build quality is still shit and the Cybertruck is shaping up to be an ugly-looking flop. It makes no sense.

bull market init or am i missing somethign

 

[Rob Ray]

Don't think this has been posted yet:



This is the person who's technically supposed to be leading the charge to turn things around, especially with the creditors. Absolutely bonkers interview from last week with her making these weirdly snide comments at the audience throughout, treating her interviewer like a hostile lawyer and not knowing her brief. She'd been blindsided by a previous interview in which Twitter's former head of trust Yoel Roth went after the company (also worth watching, he's pretty blunt) but just amazingly unprofessional from a supposed hotshot CEO whose main role is supposed to be y'know, calming panic about Twitter's stability.

 

[bluescreen]

or this long Yaccarino interview with the FT at the weekend,
archived here

https://archive.ph/sCmCj

snippage
Our final interview closes on a surprising note. During our conversations, Yaccarino has fiercely and consistently defended Musk’s vision for X. Even so, she seems genuinely shaken by vitriolic personal attacks. “The thing that weighs on me a great deal is the pressure and the burden of the intense and relentless public scrutiny,” she says. “I don’t know if any human being could anticipate or prepare for that. It’s hard. It’s hard on me. It’s hard on my family, my children, my parents, and that, I would say, in the first 100 days is a continual learning process to balance that.” This is what Twitter has become in its often dizzying, sometimes grotesque transformation into X. A more freewheeling forum with fewer guardrails on speech seems to have been the whole point. Yaccarino takes off her glasses for the first time. “While I did have a very outward facing or high-profile role in my last job, certainly the intensity is very different. That hits big.”

 

[Rob Ray]

I feel like that'd be a naive take on the likely consequences of taking on the top role even at pre-Musk Twitter tbh. Toxic personal attacks are practically its major USP.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

or this long Yaccarino interview with the FT at the weekend,
archived here

https://archive.ph/sCmCj

Ah, I've been looking for my really tiny violin for ages now - some have told me its the smallest in the world - I think I know who currently has it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How the fuck is Tesla stock going up? Build quality is still shit and the Cybertruck is shaping up to be an ugly-looking flop. It makes no sense.

They're selling like hot cakes, and tbs build quality is getting better (although that just means they're made properly not the cost is worth what you get in terms of materials)...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

or this long Yaccarino interview with the FT at the weekend,
archived here

https://archive.ph/sCmCj

I really don't know who in their right mind would work for Musk in this role.

 

[a_chap]

He’ll burst his ball before even considering handing it back

Hopefully he will burst both of them.

 

[Smangus]

They're selling like hot cakes, and tbs build quality is getting better (although that just means they're made properly not the cost is worth what you get in terms of materials)...

Anecdotal I know but I have noticed a lot more on the road in recent weeks. In SE London.

 

[teqniq]

See lots of Teslas in South Wales too.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Anecdotal I know but I have noticed a lot more on the road in recent weeks. In SE London.

Yep see them everywhere these days.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

 

[Yossarian]

Concerning

 

[DaveCinzano]

ENORMOUS IF TRUE

 

[magneze]

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

Title says it all really.

 

[phildwyer]

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

Title says it all really.

"I will have to continue to follow X, of course, because it’s part of my job." [But I don't want you plebs reading it, you might get funny ideas]

 

[NoXion]

"I will have to continue to follow X, of course, because it’s part of my job." [But I don't want you plebs reading it, you might get funny ideas]

Don't forget the rest of the context immediately afterwards: "But it’s time to step back as an engaged user".

He means he will continue following X as a matter of journalistic interest, not by continuing to engage with the platform as a user. In the paragraph immediately preceding your dishonest quote mine, he mentions deleting the app from his phone.

 

[phildwyer]

Don't forget the rest of the context immediately afterwards: "But it’s time to step back as an engaged user".

He means he will continue following X as a matter of journalistic interest, not by continuing to engage with the platform as a user. In the paragraph immediately preceding your dishonest quote mine, he mentions deleting the app from his phone.

How will he follow it if he's deleted the app? He's telling porkies.

 

[NoXion]

How will he follow it if he's deleted the app? He's telling porkies.

I follow Xhitter and I don't even log in to the website any more. It's not hard.

 

[mojo pixy]

How will he follow it if he's deleted the app? He's telling porkies.

Yeah you'd know.

Anyway - two phones, one just for work. There, deleted off my phone, followed only for work purposes on the work device.

 

[phildwyer]

Yeah you'd know.

Anyway - two phones, one just for work. There, deleted off my phone, followed only for work purposes on the work device.

What's the point of that? If he really thinks it's all that disgusting he should just boycott.

 

[mojo pixy]

What's the point of that? If he really thinks it's all that disgusting he should just boycott.

Yes why would do something for work that you wouldn't do in your spare time? Sounds dishonest to me.

 

[phildwyer]

Yes why would do something for work that you wouldn't do in your spare time? Sounds dishonest to me.

He's going to continue reading it himself, but he wants us to stop reading it. Sounds dishonest to me.

 

[NoXion]

He's going to continue reading it himself, but he wants us to stop reading it. Sounds dishonest to me.

Because it's part of his job. You are aware of the difference between reading Xhitter as part of your journalistic responsibilities, and doing it on one's own time, yes?

 

[phildwyer]

Because it's part of his job. You are aware of the difference between reading Xhitter as part of your journalistic responsibilities, and doing it on one's own time, yes?

The truth is that he doesn't want people exposed to unregulated political ideas.

 

[NoXion]

The truth is that he doesn't want people exposed to unregulated political ideas.

Or maybe he doesn't want people to add traffic to a website that unbans people who post child sexual abuse material.

You fucking clown.

 

[Raheem]

He's going to continue reading it himself, but he wants us to stop reading it. Sounds dishonest to me.

He probably thinks it would be ok for us to use it for work purposes where applicable.