Just know that Elon Musk tweets controversial things for two reasons:
1: someone insulted him and he’s doing it to protect his damaged ego
2: he knows something catastrophically bad is about to hit the news and he wants to distract people and get ahead of the story
— Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) October 3, 2022
I do wonder if Elon Musk follows dead cat theory.
i.e. when your share price tanks, tweet something nuts so everybody writes about the dead cat you just threw in a room. pic.twitter.com/v6pr3TcKCP
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) October 3, 2022
I don’t know from ‘dead cat theory’, but it’s objectively true that TSLA shares ‘slid’ on Monday, and everyone’s making fun of his latest crappy robot ‘prototype‘.
Then Bloomberg — the *serious* finance magazine, we’re not talking Forbes here! — mocked his Twitter emails at length, giving the impression that some (not even white!) CEO drone might know more about the company than He Who Must Never Be Mocked…
2/ The whole article is really worth your time. But here's a key passage. Agrawal starts by saying hey you really looking forward to working together, let's talk abt how to make Twitter better. Musk tosses off some pet ideas and don't get the full fluff he's expecting. Then this. pic.twitter.com/w3DitzwmA4
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2022
4/ From the inside the whole thing was basically a dignity bloodbath. With @jack bleeding out super fast. And Agrawal seems to have been the only guy who survived, with a few nicks at most.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2022
We also see from @jack's comments in those @elonmusk texts how pervasive the culture of bromerta is in the Valley. Somehow Agrawal didn't play ball but just acted like a normal grown up. And that triggered Musk's tantrum (i.e., purported attempt to buy Twitter.)
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2022
Elon, have you ever considered that maybe people just disagree with you and you've been living in a particularly well-sealed bubble of money-chasing Yes Men until very recently?
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 3, 2022
I’d still bet even odds against Musk actually buying Twitter (who knows if he can afford it, now), but it’s not a surprise that he has ‘allowed his lawyers to persuade him’ to drop his suit…
Inside Elon Musk’s savvy quest to turn a $40 billion company into 4chan.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 4, 2022
(staring at the upper right corner of email the lawyers sent me saying I’m fucked and I have to buy this shit) I will create X https://t.co/ZCOYIW7edz
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 4, 2022
But will X also serve briefly as a boat?
moonbat
First?
How delicious would it be to have both Trump and Musk crash and burn in pyres of their own making for X-mas this year?
NotMax
Sneaky plan to turn the whole thing into a fast food franchise selling Marsburgers.
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Sebastian
Oh my goodness, there is so much I could say about all of this. I’ve been elbow-deep in Elon’s machinations for years.
X because he still owns the TLD x.com, one of the few single-letter TLDs. BTW that’s the shitpile of a company he ran, annoying Peter Thiel SO much (Peter was busy getting PayPal off the ground) that Peter decided to buy X and eliminate the nuisance.
After the acquisition, Elon immediately started scheming a palace coup to oust Peter or the CEO or whoever somehow and put him (Elon) in charge. The details escape me now. He failed at that but cashed out a ridiculous sum of money when PayPal was sold to eBay.
Another Scott
Short thread.
He mentions that the lawyer’s letter mainly seems to be about pausing/stopping the lawsuit. It still leaves an out for Musk to not buy the company.
We’ll see.
Cheers,
Scott.
sab
Praise God everyday that I don’t have to function in and worry about supporting my family within that toxic environment, but Agrawal seems like a hero or at least a seriously good guy.
Brachiator
Twitter has often been a useful social media platform and a way for people on the ground to get the story out. It will be unfortunate if Musk runs it into the ground.
Tesla might also crash and burn. Not quite sure how I feel about that one. Musk has helped push EVs forward. But many others have done their part.
sab
YIKES!!
NotMax
@Brachiator
Won’t crash and burn but would not bet against it being acquired by the likes of Geely (China) or Tata (india).
(Come to think of it, Geely & Tata sounds like a vaudeville act consigned to theaters in the sticks.) :)
sab
My heart thing was from birth but very very milfd until it almost killed me.
I used to faint as a child. Rarely, but still. Nobody said nothing.
Many years later, I used to faint when familu gatherings ( hosted by me) got intense.) This happened a lot. Everyone thought ke fai ting was normal. Just our local nitwit.
JaySinWA
Yup, I’m with the less than even chance that Musk will (or even can) buy Twitter. This smells like a desperate delaying tactic to derail the lawsuit.
JoyceH
What gets me is Musk proposing that the elections be REDONE, with UN supervision. Does this jackass not know that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territory fled into Ukraine, or were rounded up by the invaders and shipped into Russia… somewhere? And brought in a bunch of Russians? Not to mention the fact that in every retaken territory, EVERY ONE, the Ukrainian army is finding abandoned Russian torture chambers? These are NOT people you negotiate with!
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Would not mind if it were acquired by Tata. An interesting company with a long, complicated history.
Craig
@JoyceH: doesn’t care. That’s just squid ink so that people talk about something else than the sand running out from under his clay feet at Twitter and Tesla.
2liberal
https://twitter.com/MichaelJStern1/status/1577489431707242497
Desantis has been photoshopped! Trigger alert!
sukabi
@2liberal: poor dear has middle aged lady thighs. 😂😂😂
that’s a fun photoshop.
Chetan Murthy
@sukabi: https://www.politicalflare.com/2022/06/ron-desantis-takes-trump-imitation-too-far-huge-weight-gain-ill-fitting-suit-twitter-laughing-hysterically/
Now, though, DeSantis is imitating Trump in a less healthy way. For one, DeSantis has gained a massive amount of weight. He is a young man, only 43 years old. And, given that we refuse to fat shame, we note that DeSantis cannot seem to find clothes that fit properly, just like dear leader. Granted, in this picture, one that is viral, viral on Twitter, DeSantis’s jacket isn’t oversized like Trump’s. It’s… well, bursting at the seams.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1535379978673524736
sukabi
@Chetan Murthy: that picture is a WTF!!?! DeSantis looks like he showed up drunk and naked at a men’s shelter and they did their best getting him clothed with the odds and ends they had laying around… and what’s with the decor of the room…looks like it could be a brothel straight out of the 60s….
ColoradoGuy
DeathSantis has turned into Fat Elvis? In Las Vegas? What fuckery is this?
Kaivam
@sab: Parag has his own ego, but unlike Musk he had to claw his way tooth and nail to graduate from an elite engineering program that opens the doorway to Indian CEOs in Silicon Valley, so it’s backed up by some basis in truth.
I know where that comes from. He’s not going to kiss Elon’s ass.
opiejeanne
@sukabi: judging by the wallpaper, he’s in The Haunted Mansion at Disneyworld, or at a Hallowe’en-themed party.
InMyRoom
Most Americans are overweight, it seems to me some politicians are trying to identify with the voters.
Baud
@InMyRoom:
Matt McIrvin
X! X! YIPPEE X!
The next dramatic revelation will be that he renames it O, the more than everything app.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I think Oprah has trademarked O.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@InMyRoom: He’s going for the Dolt45 look – ill fitting and ill tempered.
There go two miscreants
@Matt McIrvin: Wasn’t that a bit on Rocky and Bullwinkle? “From now on, I’ll be known as Cowboy O!”
eversor
Fuck Musk
Roger Moore
@sukabi:
Wide angle distortion is not doing DeSantis any favors in that picture.
Miss Bianca
@Brachiator:
Considering what I’ve heard about Teslas, I think it’s only a matter of time.
Oh, you meant *metaphorically*?
Tony G
Not quite off-topic, in my opinion. Apparently the Russian Army is now slaughtering civilians who are trying to go INTO Russian-occupied territory. Slaughtering their ostensible allies. Is this just a matter of their massive incompetence, or is there something more sinister here? Just repulsive. What will it take for the Russian people to turn against Putin?
From the New York Times a few days ago …
“The most lethal strike landed on Friday in Zaporizhzhia, one of four Ukrainian areas that the Kremlin claimed in its trumped-up annexation. The attack sprayed shrapnel into a line of about 200 civilian cars and minivans packed with luggage and passengers, waiting at a checkpoint and bus stop to cross into Russian-occupied territory to visit relatives or ferry medicine and other humanitarian supplies across the frontline.
Thirty people were killed, including two children, and another 118 people were injured, according to Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the occupied town of Melitopol. That would make it one of the deadliest single attacks against civilians in recent weeks.”
Tony G
@eversor: Now there’s a slogan I can get behind!