Twitter is a money pit but heâs also getting paid millions (billions?) by the government to produce rockets cars subways and internet that is, uh, not worth that amount of money
I asked chatgpt to write a psalm for elon in the style of old king james:
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Elon Musk is the man,
Whose brain doth work like a Tesla coil, sparking with ideas that fans
The flames of innovation, with each passing day,
And bringeth forth wondrous things, in his own peculiar way.
He launched a car into space, and named it after Bowieâs song,
And built an underground tunnel, where his fans could speed along.
He dreamt of colonizing Mars, and made it his lifeâs goal,
And then he smoked some weed, and made his stock price roll.
He named his child X Ă A-12, and confused us all,
But we forgive him, for heâs a genius, and can do no wrong at all.
He built a flamethrower, just because he could,
And sold it out in minutes, to fans who thought it would be good.
So let us all bow down, and praise this modern-day king,
Whoâs made us laugh, and dream, and marvel at each new thing.
Iâd tune that and regenerate it until it was a lot less complimentary lol.
Did people actually think the blue checkmark was some kind of status symbol? afaict every D-list celebrity or reporter was able to get verified.
Magaderps.
Every celeb is posting some version of this
LOL ELON
Heâs actually made it uncool to be associated with his product. How in godâs name do you fuck up that badly? Literally giving his product away for free to people and the trendsetters are actively trying to get rid of their checkmarks.
For all these celebrities that are complaining about getting check marks when they didnât pay for it, how many are doing the thing that should have been done months ago and leaving the platform? People can laugh at Elon being stupid, but until these celebrities with millions of followers start leaving, musk really isnât losing.
I think itâs hard to understate the power of network effects in the online space, something that wasnât really appreciated at all until the rise and fall of MySpace. Like, someone might go to a restaurant because itâs super popular, just to see what the fuss is about, but they wonât go back unless they like it. On Twitter, you might on any given day get an experience equivalent to the waiter pissing in your soup in front of you while all the patrons jeer at you, but you are still compelled to come back because itâs the public forum.
Right now is Twitterâs late-MySpace phase where everyone has maximally annoying home pages that play shitty music automatically and sparkle in your face, and whatâs worse, the people who make those pages can pay to get their bad taste shoved down your throat. But there isnât a Facebook-esque entity for people to jump to yet. Maybe itâll be mastodon, but I kinda doubt it. Maybe itâll be SPE. But Twitterâs network strength is way stronger than MySpaceâs ever was, so maybe that is enough to overcome anything Elon can do to sabotage it.
lol. wonder how HN is gonna spin this in favor of godking elon.
Is the mishap that it broke up during launch, or is the mishap what happened to the launch pad?
Not to be a musk homer but IIRC FAA has to do this anytime a commercial rocket doesnât meet its full preflight plan so not sure if means much and would be expected
Yep this is completely standard in the FAA licensing model, but yah now that there are teams and a rooting interest the fun shall begin.