Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Noodles]

I had to check it wasn’t a parody account.

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1822352993422901402?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

”You watched "The Hunger Games"
and sided with the resistance.

You watched "Star Wars"
and sided with the resistance.

You watched "The Matrix"
and sided with the resistance.

You watched "Divergent"
and sided with the resistance.

You watched "V for Vendetta"
and sided with the resistance.

When it's fiction you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it's the
reality you're living in.

Wild.”

A dozen weird replies that I assume are crypto and I finally find one that points out the obvious.

Bleh, the formatting got lost in the cut and paste.

Hunger Games: The common folk resisted the rich arrogant fascist tyrants (similar to the French Revolution)

Star Wars: The Rebel Alliance rose up against the dogmatic "kindness is a weakness" religion that controlled the military industrial complex.

The Matrix: The common folk rejected a futuristic super-overlord AI mastermind that turned them into batteries.

Divergent: Chicago has 5 different stereotypes, and if you don't fit in any (are divergent) you will be an outsider.

V for Vendetta: An autocratic fascist society with a dictator rulership gets overthrown by a masked avenger/anarchist with a passion for using the letter V and references bombing the English parliament.


In nearly every story listed here, it's about the small/weak resisting the megacorporations/arrogant narcissist dictators/religious/cults of personality that through megalomania want to rule the world. Which side, exactly, do you honestly consider yourself belonging to?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A dozen weird replies that I assume are crypto and I finally find one that points out the obvious.

Bleh, the formatting got lost in the cut and paste.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Elon Musk is a man who can read the whole Culture series and never once realize that he's the bad guy. The character of Joiler Veppers could have been written for him.

 

[Erich Templar]

Elon thinks that he's siding with the resistance? Uh...

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Elon thinks that he's siding with the resistance? Uh...

Fits with his hero/saviour complex.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk is a man who can read the whole Culture series and never once realize that he's the bad guy. The character of Joiler Veppers could have been written for him.

He probably prefers Atlas Shrugged, where John Galt is supposed to be the good guy.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

He probably prefers Atlas Shrugged, where John Galt is supposed to be the good guy.

He's a mad Culture fan. He named SpaceX's drone barges after Culture ships.

 

[detrius]

He probably prefers Atlas Shrugged, where John Galt is supposed to be the good guy.

"Atlas Shrugged" is boring AF.

I'd be surprised if he ever made it past the first chapter.

It's much easier for him to read a story about actual underdogs fighting against an oppressive regime and pretend to be one of them.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

One way or another, it's certainly going to be entertaining over the next few weeks and months to watch more and more of his British edgelord fans going to prison for two or three years because they thoughtfully paid him to verify their identities before using his platform to incite racial hatred, contrary to section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, possibly without realising that X is, if anything, even more ready to cooperate with the police than are most other social media platforms.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Have not read it, but it is my understanding that the heroine who is supposed to be an exemplar of the self-made business geniuses inherited a railroad. So not only did she get her company handed to her, but railroads were built on massive public subsidizes in the form of land, cash, and guaranteed monopolies. She was born on third base and thinks she hit a home run.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If anyone is interested, Larry the Downing Street Cat got into an argument with Melon about freedom of speech


which gave rise to this very interesting and informative thread

Thread by @AndrewPRLevi on Thread Reader App

@AndrewPRLevi: Twitter’s full of people trumpeting near zero understanding of English law or of the convictions in respect of the violence of the last 10 days or so. Nor does the US 1st Amendment mean what...…

threadreaderapp.com

ETA

 

[Free]

"Atlas Shrugged" is boring AF.

I've tried to read it; honestly. But then I learned SparkNotes put out a study guide on it...

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I've tried to read it; honestly. But then I learned SparkNotes put out a study guide on it...

Which was ALSO boring af.

 

[Free]

Which was ALSO boring af.

But a MUCH shorter read. And almost none of it in Rand's writing style.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I read the summary in The Illuminatus! Trilogy

 

[Free]

I read the summary in The Illuminatus! Trilogy

I'll certainly never claim to be smarter than you are.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I listened to the Franz Ferdinand song based on Joyce's Ulysses.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk’s X faces axe from anti-terror group over extremist content

The tech industry is in turmoil over Musk’s content moderation policies as it emerges X ‘has become the top platform for hosting Hamas videos’

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I read the summary in The Illuminatus! Trilogy

I'm very curious how Wilson would summarize Rand. I tried to google this summary but couldn't find it. I never read the Illuminatus Trilogy but did read other work by him.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"Atlas Shrugged" is boring AF.

Speaking of. I read the story that Ayn Rand said inspired Atlas Shrugged. It was about a bold *UNION* engineer and an honest small businessman building a grain silo and associated infrastructure in I guess the 1890s, and fighting off the machinations of competitors who wanted them to miss the season's deadline and starve Chicago. I think she missed the point too.