that court transcript has a nice bit of total bullshit where he lays out exactly how he wants to be seen
"Q. In fact, when you became the CEO of Tesla many years before, were you already the CEO of any other companies?
A. Yes. I was running SpaceX. I should say the CEO role at SpaceX and also at Tesla, it’s less about the CEO but, rather, that I am the one driving the technology."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23465042/elon-musk-tesla-ceo-compensation-trial-full-transcript
And it is my experience that great engineers will only work for a great engineer, and so I — that is what I — that is my first duty, not that of CEO."
He's so in charge that middle management has to give him stuff to look at to keep him from firing critical personnel.
musk comes in and writes on a whiteboard "IDEA: rocket should go UP", underlines the last word 4 times as his inner circle all nods and fawns over how brilliant that idea is, then goes back to arguing with nobody on twitter
He's said before that to learn anything you just need to read a book. And that's what he did with rocket science. He just read a book on rockets, and then knew everything about rocket science. Pretty sure that's almost an exact quote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-learned-rocket-science-for-spacex-2014-10
this sounds positively delightful to database engineers, but i'm also looking forward to see how deranged people get after this
"It's sooo alive! Don't let the loss of revenue and layoffs and code fails and fly-by-wire policy making fool you. The VIEWS will prove this is a stable company."
Textbook example of the "he's a dumb guy's idea of what a smart guy is". What makes it funnier is that Elon also truly believes that himself, he's his own biggest fanboy and anyone who tries to counter him is an enemy just trying to bring him down. He's not open to learning anything new, or taking an expert's word on something, because as far as he knows he already has all the knowledge of every subject contained in his massive brain. Everyone else is wrong
Good thread on why Elon is dumb
Pretty good substack article on Elon and other idiot kings
https://ez.substack.com/p/moving-fast-and-breaking-things
"They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have a backup plan, because they have always prided themselves on “being good when the going gets tough.”
When someone is suppressed, restrained or otherwise pushed into a corner, the aggressor tends to assume unlimited power. The feeling of isolation and power imbalance gives the oppressor a form of momentum - as long as they can control the rules of the system, they are unstoppable, able to bend and crack someone to their will, even as onlookers attempt to intervene.
getting advertisements for Blue now and I really can’t see how this is appealing to anyone
lmao “quality conversations” ok
These are the sorts of "quality conversations" twitter blue subscribers are providing
looks like Parler
“likes are more important than retweets” might be the most fucked up understanding of Twitter musk has demonstrated yet
the move fast and break things transformation to Facebook is now in motion
The mask has driven into the back of a fire truck
grimes banging chelsea utterly destroyed elon's brain jesus christ
"i don't hate them, i just will defend to the death my own right to say how much i hate them and how they should all be rounded up into camps and killed"
And again, he did recently follow Rowling on Twitter, so let there be no confusion as to the motive there.
accessibility support is exactly the kind of thing that “hardcore” “hackers” who like to bro down and crush code would see as stupid woke garbage but is actually super important and makes your product better overall
elon and his heritage really bringing "dutch-built" as a synonym for shoddy work back to the fore
what is the boring company doing that requires that guy to live at work
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-may-have-found-a-hardcore-leader-for-twitter
Like many new dads, The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis spent the first few weeks of fatherhood sleeping near his partner and newborn. Unlike other new fathers, Davis and his family were sleeping in an office—a makeshift bedroom at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, where Davis has spent the ...
he recognized that the tool in question was getting in way of his goal of maximizing trans kid suicides
Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk.
looks like privacy and data protection laws are just a few of the ones musk doesn't think will be enforced meaningfully
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/
lol he's literally muntzing a giant multinational machine
if there was any question as to whether Musk was kicked out of PayPal for wanting to move everything to Windows, let this be effective confirmation. He was never good at any of this, he just had some good PR for a bit.
lol he spent the whole holiday being bitter and vindictive about his ex and also his kid that hates him
a christmas carol but visited by jeff epstein, somebody who burned to death in a model 3, and lowtax
It just hit me that he really turned around mid-fight to go to Sacramento to personally shut down one of Twitter's three remaining data centers on fucking Christmas Eve, and I burst out laughing.
I feel bad for the H1bs left to deal with the fallout though.
lol this is what happens if you select text in a tweet on android twitter
great job guys
if you're a repressive regime it’s easier and faster to just buy access to Twitter’s internal tools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
So someone made a grafana dashboard with various Twitter metrics, first amongst them latency measurements of Sacramento and Atlanta, and guess what happened right around Elon's "Twitter is Rube Goldberg, doesn't break when unplugging essential things" tweets:
"The men in Musk’s phone also appear wildly confident in their own abilities and those of their peers. Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of the media conglomerate Axel Springer, infamously texted Musk his bullet-pointed plan for Twitter, which began with the line item “1.),, Solve Free Speech.”"
twitter fucking loves science! bazinga!
lmao he doesn’t know what science is
much like fsd he has no self-awareness so he can't see the irony there, of course
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