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

[moochedit]

Uturn on blue ticks...

BBC News - X gives free blue ticks to its most popular users

X gives free blue ticks to its most popular users

The site formerly known as Twitter is giving premium access to those with more than 2,500 verified followers.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[bluescreen]

Have we had this yet?

 

[two sheds]

He needs to watch out Musk doesn't sue him for loss to the Tesla business

 

[bluescreen]

He needs to watch out Musk doesn't sue him for loss to the Tesla business

The video is getting deleted every time on Xitter.

 

[two sheds]

Absolutist freedom of speech

 

[Rob Ray]

He's trying so hard to fanboy as well, that's hilarious.

 

[keybored]

Might be. It is true though isn't it that crumple zones are designed in to modern cars in order to absorb the force of a collision rather than transferring it to the occupant. So whatever has happened to the drivers in this specific incident it is true to say it not having crumpled is hardly some sort of ringing endorsement.

I'm not sure crumple zones are feasible in the sides of vehicles.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Have we had this yet?

Quote apart from just how shit the cybertruck is, at various times during that clip that guy is:
(a) using a phone
(b) not wearing a seat belt
(c) reading and interacting with the essay that his incelmobile is giving him on the telly.

When he dies (when, not if) I hope he doesn't take anyone with him.

 

[NoXion]

I'm not sure crumple zones are feasible in the sides of vehicles.

There are Side Impact Protection Systems, some of which do incorporate crumpling components, but IIRC mainly involve spreading the forces involved as widely across the side as possible.

 

[keybored]

There are Side Impact Protection Systems, some of which do incorporate crumpling components, but IIRC mainly involve spreading the forces involved as widely across the side as possible.

Quite. You need a space between the occupants and the point of impact to create a crumple zone, since there is very little space between the sides of the vehicle and the occupants then SIPS/side airbags are the other options. Both the vehicles did what they were supposed to do in that kind of crash.

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder if the free speech absolutist will pull this guy's blue check for ingratitude

 

[krtek a houby]

I wonder if the free speech absolutist will pull this guy's blue check for ingratitude

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Don't get the second quote. Are they being sarcastic?

 

[kabbes]

Don't get the second quote. Are they being sarcastic?

I think the second quote actually comes first, owing to the topsy-turvy way that social media works

 

[Yossarian]

Don't get the second quote. Are they being sarcastic?

I think he was contrasting how Musk tries to portray himself - somebody who is primarily concerned with free speech and is only considered conservative because the center supposedly moved a long way to the left - with the reality of the far-right shit Musk is spreading every day.

He added:

 

[JimW]

Have we had his Brazilian adventures yet? Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction

 

[a_chap]

"lmao elon is such a fucking dunce"

Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social)

lmao elon is such a fucking dunce

bsky.app

 

[petee]

"lmao elon is such a fucking dunce"

Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social)

lmao elon is such a fucking dunce

bsky.app

that deposition in full

Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.

www.huffpost.com

the subtext here is that neo-nazis and Proud Boys were beating each other up.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

He's about 5 minutes from declaring himself "The Private Entity Known By ELON Of The Family MUSK" isn't he?

 

[Cid]

Mark Bankston is the lawyer who represented the Sandy Hook families against Alex Jones incidentally. Sincerely hope he keeps taking these cases.

 

[Rob Ray]

Elon Musk in 2011: I'll put a man on Mars by 2021
Elon Musk in 2016: I'll put a man on Mars by 2018
Elon Musk in 2023: We'll have an artificial superintelligence by 2029.
Elon Musk in 2024 (Mars update - the rockets keep exploding): We'll have an artificial superintelligence by 2025.

Elon Musk predicts superhuman AI will be smarter than people next year

His claims come with a caveat that shortages of training chips and growing demand for power could limit plans in the near term

www.theguardian.com

How he still has fans to defend his obvious random-year-generator flannel baffles me.

 

[Yossarian]

"lmao elon is such a fucking dunce"

Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social)

lmao elon is such a fucking dunce

bsky.app

In the same deposition he admitted that he was the one operating this "test account"

 

[Lord Camomile]

Anyone else suspect that account was actually originally created by accident when he tried to log into his actual account while drunk/high/raging?

 

[hitmouse]

Posted a while back on the thread, a bit more on his horny toddler account:

https://www.jezebel.com/elon-musks-alleged-burner-account-role-played-as-a-horn-1850373119

 

[Ted Bunting]

This is him as well:

 

[krtek a houby]

This is him as well:

You have to wonder why he'd pretend to be someone he's not... or rather, pretend to be someone pretending to be someone he's not...

 

[Jeff Robinson]

that deposition in full

Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.

www.huffpost.com

the subtext here is that neo-nazis and Proud Boys were beating each other up.

That dunce Musk really supports the infinite monkey theorem of how people who start out rich in life get richer. Have enough spoiled brats chucking their money in enough places and some of them will become billionaires.

 

[two sheds]

 

[Orang Utan]

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The one time I played poker, I went all in every time I got two face cards in my hand, but folded if I didn’t. It was quite successful, as I came third in the competition and won a few hundred quid. That was a once-only strategy though. Maybe Musk was trying that but his ego wouldn’t let him fold when he was dealt a bum hand.

 

[two sheds]

Thought this was interesting

Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com.

arstechnica.com

Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift from Twitter to X caused a potentially big problem this week when the social network started automatically changing "twitter.com" to "x.com" in links. The automatic text replacement reportedly applied to any URL ending in "twitter.com" even if it wasn't actually a twitter.com link.

The change apparently went live on X's app for iOS, but not on the web version. It seems to have been a problem for a day or two before the company fixed the automatic text replacement so that it wouldn't affect non-Twitter.com domains.

Security reporter Brian Krebs called the move "a gift to phishers" in an article yesterday. It was a phishing risk because scammers could register a domain name like "netflitwitter.com," which would appear as "netflix.com" in posts on X, but clicking the link would take a user to netflitwitter.com.

temporary problem apparently

 

[two sheds]

Free Speech Absolutism for sockpuppets