Elon Musk

Sorry Noodle what did you need cleared up there? My point was that Reddit is very specifically linked to S.F. and to /pol/ so the original quote poising it as a home of “nuanced discussion” was farcical imo. I mean yeah maybe nuanced compared to Twitter but that’s really a low bar to hop over. Pretty ridiculous this level of outrage in defense of Reddit when the actual offensive content in that quote was the names of fucking subreddits.

(And to be clear the article I viewed was on the archive not their site.)

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i'm not defending Reddit either, i'm asking why anybody would read fascist websites, "regularly" or not, and asking you to think about posting actual racial slurs on this board, for illustrative purposes or otherwise

I could say the same about Reddit. That’s my point and yet whether you’re actively defending it or not, it seems to be given a free pass here.

It's being given such a free pass that we are asking you to stop posting stuff from it.

viborg your argument doesn’t make sense— “this website is a racist cesspool, i shall quote noted racist cesspool site praising it as evidence that former is racist cesspool.”

trust me when i say you didn’t need to quote the DS to get your point across.

mods, plz, delete that awful post.

reddit had the same obnoxious free speech contrarian stance where they allowed subreddit communities to fester for way too long with the defense that their content was banned from the front page. afaik they banned all those communities years ago, but not before people like Musk had proliferated. it’s just a normal internet cesspool at this point and not one that’s a notable shelter for hate speech.

Musk thinking that their decision to oust those communities was bad and that twitter should let people post that garbage? probably something that occurred to him

I don’t think reddit and whether it’s good or bad in 2023 is at all relevant to the conversation other than as a historical reference on how not to handle hate speech, and I don’t think we need to cite an actual pro-nazi site to cite something that was broadly written about and documented at the time

now reddit the just the only non seo trap how to site left

jfc I've seen people pick some weird hills to die on in an internet argument, but doubling down on quoting from an actual Nazi site to prove some incomprehensible point really might be a sign that you need to step away from the internet for a few days

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I have to say that cannonballing into a discussion about how Elon Musk sucks with “LOOK GUYS, THERE’S RACISM ON REDDIT” is making me laugh more than it probably should

i admit that I don't see what the connection is at all

i think the claim is elon musk, a man who grew up in south africa and then spent the first 20 years of his adulthood working closely with extremely political crank businessmen, and is a billionaire who runs like ten businesses (and is CTO of one, reporting into the CEO), gets his politics from lurking on message boards.

His heel turn also probably as much to do when the unfettered hero worship of him by people on left and right stopped and someone dared to ask him why he was interfering with a cave rescue

cool

This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk. I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate. https://t.co/N1tMHa1M1j

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) November 17, 2023

nevertheless

https://i.imgur.com/wW1u9Ue.png

Burning piles of money, to scale.

if i were the conspiratorial sort i would say that owning twitter was a good way of creating an anti-jewish army of american college kids via algorithms and targeted misinformation. but i'm glad i'm not that sort.

don't think there's any college kids on twitter in 2023 tbh

yeah, tho using twitter as a bullhorn for his various bad beliefs is for sure part of the plan

lmao at the "thermonuclear" suit he plans to bring next week against the authors of this report for ... faking screenshots? i mean what's his case otherwise? https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle.

they're fine long as they don't bring L. Lin Wood out of (forced) retirement to represent them

musk has a way of saying hes going to sue but then not actually suing

I just watched a vid by a rocket engineering geek explaining that Musk's flagship rocket project blowing to smithereens again was actually a success because something called "the hot separation phase" at 140 km into the ascent into space worked like a dream!

hot separation phase also describes Musk's relationship with Grimes

not great for twitter

Most of ESPN’s accounts were inactive yesterday after Disney announced on Friday that it was done advertising on X, formerly Twitter. Disney’s decision followed posts by platform owner Elon Musk agreeing with antisemitic and white power accounts. AwfulAnnouncing spotted the inactivity yesterday, noting that the main ESPN account has almost 50 million followers.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/19/23967681/espn-x-accounts-not-posting-disney-no-longer-advertising-musk-antisemitic-posts

countdown to DeSantis legislating that Disney has to rescind that decision

ok so last night i dremt that i was a key designer-cog at SpaceX and we had just put five (5) full-sized rocket-cities up into the sky

we went outside to gaze proudly at them, naturally they were belching all kinds of flaming rocket fuel and smoke everywhere but they were also kind of amazing-looking up there, like massive skyscrapers hovering in the actual distant sky (credit here goes to my own astounding subconscious visual imagination here tho, and not the thin-skinned lizard-fella)

wow scary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_eCxroXkAAS62h?format=jpg&name=medium

@cb_doge

Bro clearly studied the blade

this is a confession, we shd SWAT him

as threatening as a larper meme

I can't imagine why advertisers are staying away from this platform, it's so convivial and run by such a nice man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_ecW_1WoAA5a4N?format=jpg&name=small

TS: Large Graveyard filled with my enemies vs. Lonely Starbucks Lover

Imagine being the richest human on earth and spending your every waking moment showing all of the other people on earth the many many ways in which you are deeply + laughably pathetic. Like not just letting a deeply pathetic public moment happen and then hopefully fade from memory but every day being like 'oh, in case you'd somehow forgotten'

time to find out why the rockets have been exploding… all the way back to 2016: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a23183/spacex-sniped-rocket/

It was really the second shooter from the grassy knoll.

what if no-one shot the falcon 9 and the rocket just did that

no way, that can't possibly it because of "an odd shadow, then a white spot", don't you see?

the space program is so doomed.

There's a piece on New York magazine's website today about the Cybertruck, and it's actually pretty good on the vehicle's many flaws and the fucked marketplace into which Tesla is vomiting it, but it starts like this:

In the spirit of disclosure, I’m going to admit that I think driving a Tesla Cybertruck would absolutely rule. It’s a fast, weird fantasy car — the kind of concept that usually doesn’t make its way off the Javits Center showroom floor and onto the road. Yes, it looks like something out of a 1980s Ridley Scott movie and it’s made by Elon Musk, but at least you can tell it apart from every other passenger vehicle. Part of what makes it fun is how ostentatious the thing is. It’s the opposite of the anonymous wealth signifiers preferred by the Succession class and the tech titans who control our lives. (Parking it, though, would be a nightmare.)

Dude (and of course the writer is a dude), you or someone looking out for you really should have cut that part.

Car nerds are weird.

I mean I don't necessarily disagree with that, I've gotten the opportunity to drive some oddly-shaped and extremely-modded vehicles and it is kind of fun. I can see it being cool to drive for a weekend or whatever. You'd certainly draw some attention I guess.

that said, the Cybertruck, much like Elon Musk's face, only looks good from one particular angle, and every time you see a shot of it in the wild it just looks incredibly stupid. also lol @ the video of it struggling to go up a small hill. I can only imagine the sorts of problems these things are going to have.

I love purpose-built projects that are specific to solutions, and they look how they look. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s less good. This, though, is awful looking, and doesn’t look like it can solve any problem. It’s like it’s meant for red carpet events or maybe the mall. What the fuck is it even doing?

there's a monkey's paw thing where imo it makes sense to wish car designs were more aesthetically adventurous/ambitious, but then the result is a clown car built by a nazi