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Tired: Dilbert Stark
Wired: Techbro Rasputin!
Dilbert Stark
Techbro Rasputin
Space Karen
What?!? Is this a meme?
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Leszek KarlikI was partial to Dilbert Stark over Space Karen, because Space Karen has this slight whiff of misogyny somewhere in it's DNA.
And isn't Techbro Rasputin Thiel?
Marcos Dione@Leszek_Karlik @cstross we probably both fell for the popular culture idea of Rasputin than who he really was. I might have even mixed him with Machiavelli. I voted for Karen (although you have a point there), but I skimmed the WP page and now I think the OP is right.
@Leszek_Karlik No, Thiel is Sauron. (You know he owns a Palantir, right?)
James Tindall@cstross @Leszek_Karlik I thought that too, but then I saw Altman now shipping at scale, an almost literal Eye of Sauron in the form of his eye scanning crypto Orb. https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/
Perhaps Thiel is necromancing this from the shadows, but recent footage of interviews with him, facial bone structure increasingly pronounced, his skin visibly coated in some kind of slimy residue, leaves me thinking he’s more gollum.
Fiona Craig@atomless @cstross @Leszek_Karlik Ok, hear me out.
Musk - Wormtongue
Thiel - Saruman
Altman - Sauron
@FionaCraig makes sense.
Yeah, also multiple other companies named after Middle-Earth, weird that the Tolkien Estate never went after him.
None of them have the obvious "I'm the evil guy" vibes of Palantir Technologies, though.
Silicone Sauron indeed, looking at his face in the recent interview he seems to have severely overdosed on "life extension" scam treatments.
Gerard Cunningham ✒️Given his attitude to his own trans kid, Space Karen strikes me as particularly inappropriate.
I've always been partial to Apartheid Clyde.
(rainynight65) has moved@Leszek_Karlik @cstross plus there is an actual astronaut by the name of Karen.
I was always partial to 'Phony Stark'.
Rob Landley@Leszek_Karlik @cstross Eloi Morlock.
Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer | Better Offline
Atomic Orbitals@Leszek_Karlik @cstross Techbro Rasputin could also be Silicon Sauron.
Budley@cstross Trumpenheim and Dog Boy
ElectropictEgo Mask
David Smith@cstross I like “E.T. Barnum”
Ms. Denie@cstross honestly, rasputin is too cool for him
Graham Sleight@cstross I think of him as O, Mensulk (anag).
Danny Day@cstross Apartheid Clyde's always been my fav. Just straight up removes all pretense that he might have earned anything himself.
But in the future we'll call people Musks as an insult.
Mait U@cstross I just call him the Archincel.
DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦@cstross
First Oligarch
First Oligarch
mhd@cstross I still think there's a chance for Oral Arry to make a comeback.
Edit: Ah, sorry, thought we were talking about different people, not nicknames for the same twat. (wasn't Dorsey Rasputin?)
Phil Haigh@cstross Space Trump, perhaps
Annalee@cstross using his actual name helps people filter and manage their feed because nicknames evade mute lists, so actual name should be preferred
That said, the "president Elon" thing is already getting under Trump's skin. It's absurd that schoolyard taunts can impact federal policy but here we are.
Patrick H. Lauke@cstross Crypto Wormtongue
Renato Ramonda@cstross call him Rasputin, and he'll think it's good because he (allegedly) had a big dick
Andre@cstross I’m missing an option 🫏🕳️
FeralRobots@cstross somehow I can't see musk standing up to poison, gunfire & drowning.
Rob Agar🐀@FeralRobots @cstross or being the inspiration of a classic pop song
Cadbury Moose
Ben Zanin@FeralRobots @cstross give him a chance to try at least
Robin@FeralRobots @cstross I mean, it’s gotta be worth a try though…
Log 🪵@FeralRobots @cstross I'm pretty sure he's not even up to the task of seducing wives.
Angus McIntyre@FeralRobots @cstross “Paging Felix Yusupov, Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov pick up the white courtesy telephone, please.”
Alex@FeralRobots @cstross I can’t see musk standing up to a paper cut. I imagine him mewling like a baby as he summons the world’s best trauma team to save him from the certain death and agony of it. The. Of course that would be followed up by the world’s top plastic surgeons to deal with the horribly disfiguring scar the said paper cut would undoubtedly leave.
Joshua A.C. Newman
ToweroftheArchmage Antifascist
Kevin Granade has moved@FeralRobots @cstross it would be cruel to deny him that opportunity though.
Tortipede@FeralRobots @cstross I'd like to see him try.
No, seriously, I really would like to see him try :)
Thorne Lawler@FeralRobots @cstross That’s what the neuralink-remote-operated body-doubles are for.
Keep this in mind when he starts screaming at the firing squad about “-the end user agreement for this stupid study”
Keep this in mind when he starts screaming at the firing squad about “-the end user agreement for this stupid study”
Philippa Cowderoy@cstross He might be Russia's favourite something, but I don't think it's that
Andrew Plotkin@cstross "Rasputin" makes him sound like he might be fuckable, which ew no thanks.
"President Musk" is funny now. Might be a lot less funny in 2028.
Mike Taylor 🦕@zarfeblong @cstross He was born in Pretoria. That HAS to rule him out ... Right?
Snippy@cstross I like calling him "Lone Skum"
Jef Poskanzer@cstross He thinks he's Tony Stark but he's actually Justin Hammer.
Rachamim Farnworth@cstross Knock-off Henry Ford
Stephen P.@cstross I favor Lex Loser.
Richest man in the world but still an awkward, uncharismatic dork.
Darwin Woodka@cstross Damn now I wanna go watch Rah Rah Rasputin again....
Chris 
@cstross I like “Dunning Krugerrand” myself…
The Doctor@cstross I just call him a jagoff.
Or if I'm in a bad mood, a dollar store Justin Hammer knockoff.
bigiain@cstross Space Karen, or to give him his full name Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen (ht to @jwz)
Although reading the replies here, President Musk might be useful, if only to antagonize the orange baboon.
Steinar Bang@cstross If "Space nazi" had been on the list I would have voted for that (re: AfD involvment...)