Never underestimate Elon Musk’s ability to get me to pay attention to him.
@hankgreen it's almost impossible to turn away from a train wreck.
@hankgreen Not bragging, but I haven’t a clue what he has done in the past few days. Counting the days before he leaves for Mars.
@hankgreen usually I watch accident videos is to learn from other people’s mistakes plus the entertainment factor. But I refuse to use the said bird app to watch it crash & burn because it’s slowly becoming a major propaganda tool for political agendas giving power to dictators & power hungry CEOs to influence & spam to hide protests
@hankgreen There are so many things in this universe of wonder and excitement that are more deserving of your attention, Hank.
@hankgreen he has become a synthesized collection of a lot of the problems in the social internet
@hankgreen Is it just me or does he have the vibe of Syndrome from The Incredibles?
@nikkiana @hankgreen if everyone has blue checks... no one does 😈
@nikkiana @hankgreen except Syndrome actually invented things, he didn't just buy companies that owned other's inventions
@hankgreen I've really started to actively avoid him when I do spend time on 🐦. Just need to get some more public figures over here so I can stop opening it at all.
@hankgreen Hey, you verify your account? Lot of people who would love to impersonate you.
@hankgreen don't pay attention to him as a power move.
@hankgreen Honestly no one would pay this much attention to him if he wasn't absurdly rich. And he got absurdly rich by means unrelated to his social media skills.
@hankgreen I mean, it's kinda impossible not to right now, not when there's still an influx here of people processing having left because of him... but at least from here I don't have to pay attention in a place where he'll be actively responding to it.
@hankgreen Hank, no. I have his name blocked
@hankgreen
Well us about your favorite cheese instead.
@hankgreen never underestimate his ability to annoy me with the dumb shit he says/tweets.
@hankgreen or your brother, apparently
@hankgreen guys don't delete flappy bird if you still have it on your phone
@hankgreen I didn’t realize how dangerous Musk was until this: “The executives warned their new boss that his plan could violate employment laws and breach contracts with workers, leading to employee lawsuits... But Mr. Musk’s team said he was used to going to court and paying penalties, and was not worried about the risks. So Twitter’s…departments scrambled to figure out how to comply with his command.”—https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.amp.html
Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter

Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email and laid down product deadlines, transforming the company.

@hankgreen that seems to be his gambit
@hankgreen If you have some time, read up a little bit on the Fediverse and how ActivityPub lets many disparate services federate. It's not just Mastodon, there's blogging, video streams, and other microblogging platforms that can all talk to each other.
@hankgreen Speaking of Elon and his jet…why am I speaking about Elon and his jet? #ElonMusk #ElonJet
@hankgreen the spotlight will never be bright enough.