Mathew Ingram"I find it very hard to hate the man. I can’t summon the energy; it all feels too much like a sideshow. Elon Musk barely exists. He’s just the name we’ve given to a certain mass delusion. I can tell you who I do hate, though. After nearly seven hundred pages of warm dribble, I started to really, really hate Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson" https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men
🇺🇦 Maksim Lin 💙
Officer-involved pooping
Taya Nielsen@mathewi I don't actually hate him. He's just not worth the effort.
Kirill Osenkov@mathewi as always @Migueldeicaza saw through Walter Isaacson a long time ago
@mathewi @Migueldeicaza omg this article is a much better bio than the actual book.
Also: “An atmosphere of total incuriosity suffuses the entire book”
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@mathewi
"Surely intellectuals are, or at least ought to be, those people among whom nothing should trend?"
"Surely intellectuals are, or at least ought to be, those people among whom nothing should trend?"
Tim Serong@mathewi well, that was harrowing. Nice work.
RationalWiki@mathewi There's plenty to hate about Musk, his various forms of bigotry and his pretense of being a philanthropist.
The biographer apparently did not review his grandfather in sufficient depth or criticism, which is significant given how influential the grandfather's ideology was upon Musk. Joshua Benton's article in The Atlantic dug deeper into the grandfather.
Juan Luis@mathewi I enjoyed reading this so much.
Kevin Teljeur ❄️
Glupinickname@kevinteljeur @mathewi @carl As a column writer and a reviewer, Sam Kriss delivers vitriol like it's nobody 's business!
cultdev@mathewi of course musk is far worse and more dangerous, but the correct answer is that they’re both fetid garbage
Paul Cantrell@mathewi @dgoldsmith Jeeeez. This is the most brutal thing I’ve read since Adam Serwer’s takedown of Samuel Alito.
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