Elon Musk

A long but interesting newsletter article about all the ways Musk is currently burning money with Twitter:

https://wheresyoured.at/p/elons-gordian-knot

i like that guy on bsky/twitter, but tbh i find his long form writing unreadable

still kinda weird to me that as a weird twitter OG he went on to become some sort of internet investigative reporter? and presumably has a profitable substack?

lol I don't know him outside of seeing his name on Twitter, I assumed he was a The Nation columnist I'd never heard of based on the people who quoted/retweeted him.

he owns a small marketing agency iirc

he certainly doesn’t have an editor

i think he does have an editor lol

idk why those facts about the poster in question are available to me but your welcome

Duh, you’re the editor.

oh siht

“…you’ve *always* been the editor.”

I . . . corrected them.

https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man?fbclid=IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM

https://i.insider.com/656a5a5d58e7c0c29a28f706?width=2000&format=jpeg

IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM

new Musk offspring just dropped

Pretty sure that's his twitter password.

have we heard anything about his kids through all of this? some of them are teenagers now, they gotta be feeling nothing but embarrassment

Why, yes.

Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61880709

Are we to understand that no CEO is calling for Musk to be removed from the Twitter board, because that would be a better top story rn than his deranged attacks on Iger who is also bad.

The CEO has taken some pretty firm public positions this week tbf

Welcome to the world Grok — the ultimate ride or die.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 7, 2023

Over 40 million people per day use X in Japan — today I’m one of them!! pic.twitter.com/eRGRZq0LxN

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023

.@RockstarGames — gaming is one of our most popular topics. Drop that trailer here — give the people on @X what they want!! https://t.co/sU3hHk9pgQ

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023

And it’s not done yet- see you for the bowl games!
Oh and……really?? GO NOLES! https://t.co/GYxDO8FiJ3

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023

People in Japan spend over 1.5 billion minutes on X each day. The most popular topic? Gaming 🎮

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023

Today @elonmusk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at @dealbook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position. X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people. We're a platform that allows… https://t.co/PSmSKRkJSq

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 30, 2023

Video views for the @NBA are up +39% year over year on the platform. It all happens on X.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

Now this is how @X celebrates Small Business Saturday! 🎉💪 https://t.co/jLi2tVpNW9

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

Users like posts a *million times a minute*. That’s a lotta love—and it all happens on X.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023

If I had that job, I would be making those tweets, but I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send

Frantically trying to make "It all happens on X!" into the next "Things go better with Coke!" when your entire marketing budget is your own CEO salary must be exhausting.

I heard it on the X

That's a lotta love--and it all happens on X (NSFW)

ai bots, crypto scammers, nazis, it all happens on x

I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send

For that job, it helps to have an inability to feel any semblance of emotion, especially empathy

tfw grok is woke:

https://i.imgur.com/fD9zfU8.png

sir, weve lost grok

the woke has broken containment

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp2rekq4quhdq5fe2bkxigns/bafkreicwitjfbx7sqtha7mycdoifp4z2wbom5wshmwaons5436onfhbmdu@jpeg

its pretty funny they think that 1 this computer program is on the verge of sentience 2 it has betrayed them

i like how when they try to reason with it its just all im a computer i have no idea what any of this means, and theyre like tragically the intelligent machine has gone woke

Good bit on the lameness of Grok’s alleged humor

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23992489/xai-musk-grok-humor-chatbot

lol iirc this was the genius level question that inspired building grok in the first place

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izpllsvcyml7mcwanxfzdgkf/bafkreigl2anxnw6eoukaufqzn4kueckjwtml7sufaou4zrl3g33sfx4ot4@jpeg

i wonder what they used to build this thing, maybe some open source stuff that already had the woke built in, or maybe even elon realized that making a racist chatbot just isnt going to go over well

wonder if that response is hardcoded

an AI that tortures everyone who did not directly contribute to the advancement of this joke: woko's basilisk

ahh lol theyre just using chatgpt and training the voice a lil

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kyhug2d25ipcy4rscu3hdlhz/bafkreiaqj4berwsj75c5no4k2q47truu4gqtxn755teadzhost5x7osbxe@jpeg

that makes a lot of sense as they got this thing off the ground real fast

time to deploy the jemblificator

Yaccarino make a post without using an exclamation point challenge

funnily enough I think asking an AI bot to keep answering that question will actually make it dig in deeper, it's not going to change it's answer

It's probably finetuned on one of the many open source datasets out there for assistants, most of which get their data from GPT-4 outputs. You see it happen a lot on smaller OSS models too.

interesting

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GA6X9iJaoAA0TOh?format=png&name=900x900

lol

Musk is going to kill Grok before the year is done pic.twitter.com/FUyBht3xnT

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) December 9, 2023

Musk is hosting a "Spaces" chat with a group including Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Vivek Ramaswamy, Matt Gaetz, and Jack Posobiec. Whee.

This will bring the advertisers back. pic.twitter.com/NbUJreuyeG

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 10, 2023

jfc

The first virtual space to actually produce fumes.

The Travelling Will-Roofies

Scandinavian labour unions cucking foreign Capitalists one solidarity strike at a time.
1) Postal service says fuck off in solidarity with auto industry strikes
2) Pension fund pulls investment in solidarity
3) Workers from different Swedish industries, Denmark's largest trade… pic.twitter.com/iC5LOzLnaM

— Yugopnik 🇵🇸 (@yugopnik) December 11, 2023

its funny that its all over a couple hundred machinists who he couldve easily just given what they wanted