Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote Link to FT article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Reuters article

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Vivian Wilson, the 20 year old trans daughter of Elon Musk, had a really interesting interview in Teen Vogue. Topics are being trans, the transition process and of course her relationship to her father. She's quite the opposite of her famous father.

TV: On that note, do you consider yourself to be a famous person?
VW: I don't like saying that I'm famous because I want to do something more to deserve that fame. I want to do something to truly earn the level of attention that I have been getting because… I'm very aware of the fact that it was for reasons. I'm famous for my lore.

[...]

TV: Speaking of some of your family, I feel like right-wingers are actually pretty bad at posting.
VW: They're not funny. You have to be funny. Most of them have the charisma of a soaking bathrobe. I mean, it's not my fault that most of them don't know how to be funny. It's not that hard.

[...]

TV: You’re very vocal online about your politics, but also, specifically, about your dad. Does that take up a lot of space in your day-to-day?
VW: No, it doesn't. It really doesn't. I mean, I'll see things about him in the news and think, That's f**king cringe, I should probably post about this and denounce it, which I have done a few times.

The Nazi salute sh*t was insane. Honey, we're going to call a fig a fig, and we're going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That sh*t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced.

[...]

TV: Do you ever feel scared? He's the richest man in the world.

VW: He's a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don't give a f**k. Why should I be scared of this man? Because he's rich? Oh, no, I'm trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here. I don't give a f**k how much money anyone has. I don't. I really don't. He owns Twitter. Okay. Congratulations.
People thrive off of fear. I'm not giving anyone that space in my mind. The only thing that gets to live free in my mind are drag queens.

TV: Isaacson described your politics as “radical Marxism” in the book. Do you consider yourself a Marxist?
VW: I’m a leftist, not a Marxist. I describe myself by the things that I personally believe in and the things that I feel are pretty common sense, if you think about it for more than two seconds. I believe in [universal basic income]. I believe in free health care. I believe food, shelter, and water are human rights. I believe that wealth inequality is one of the biggest problems of the United States right now, especially of our generation. I feel like workers should be fairly compensated for the work that they do, and I don't feel like wealth should be hoarded by these mega-billionaires who are the top 1%, who only have their own interests at heart. I've met some of these billionaires — they're not very good people. I don't think any of them are.

TV: Have your parents' politics changed? Was Elon always… like this?
VW: I'm going to not answer that. I'm sorry. But [his views are] not because of me.
It's such a convenient narrative, that the reason he turned right is because I'm a f**king tr*nny, and that's just not the case. That's not what that does to people. Him going further on the right, and I'm going to use the word “further” — make sure you put “further” in there — is not because of me. That's insane. I haven't talked to him since 2020. That was almost half a decade ago at this point. Thank God.

Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

www.teenvogue.com

 

[Free]

Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO During Moderator Revolt Over Nazi-Style Salute: Report

Staff at DOGE were reportedly getting death threats over their theft of private data.

gizmodo.com

Moderators at more than 100 Reddit communities banned links to X after Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi-style salutes back in January, a rather understandable reaction to seeing public displays of violent fascist ideology. The billionaire oligarch very publicly complained about Reddit in the middle of the controversy, but we now learn that Musk wasn’t just whining on X. The Tesla CEO was also privately pressuring the CEO of Reddit to help him out by apparently silencing critics of the Trump regime, according to a new report from The Verge.

Musk was exchanging text messages with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman before the platform banned r/WhitePeopleofTwitter for 72 hours, according to The Verge which cites “people familiar with the matter.” The subreddit was ostensibly banned over violent threats against members of DOGE, the entity that’s currently dismantling the U.S. government. News of DOGE’s theft of sensitive personal information led to an outcry on r/WhitePeopleofTwitter, some of which included violent language. But the entire subreddit was banned rather than being moderated.

The exact words exchanged between Musk and Huffman haven’t been revealed, but The Verge reports that moderators from several subreddits learned of communication between the two men and called Musk a “giant baby.” Musk has a long history of banning links out to domains he doesn’t like, but when it’s done to him he really throws a fit.

Giant Baby is my new nick for Musk going forward.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Free]

Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social)

Elon’s own AI bot is calling this illegal ⚰️

bsky.app

 

[Essence Lumin]

Elon Musk’s AI Company Acquires X in $45B Deal

The mogul said Friday that XAI had acquired the platform formerly known as Twitter in an all-stock transaction.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

I saw something on Threads about Elon throwing a massive fit because Bill Gates bought an electric Porsche instead of a Tesla. I don't like Bill Gates, but in this instance I say, "Go Bill!"

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

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Yet another confident dumbass statement by Musk. One of his many problems is that he doesn't bother to look up or fact check any of his ideas ever. He just makes up what he thinks sounds logical with an overt scorn for preexisting knowledge or conventional wisdom.

It also bugs me how often economics is abused by people with political agendas. It's probably the hardest area of study to NOT politicize... It gets abused by right wingers to justify unfettered capitalism and dismissed by people on the left for the false belief that economics justifies unfettered capitalism.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I saw something on Threads about Elon throwing a massive fit because Bill Gates bought an electric Porsche instead of a Tesla. I don't like Bill Gates, but in this instance I say, "Go Bill!"

I am not a fan of any billionaires, but Musk makes most of them look pretty good by comparison. I give Gates some credit for being self aware in a few ways many of the others don't seem to be. He has admitted he was quite the slimeball when trying to rise to the top. I think the only "billionaire" who's clearly much more destructive than Musk is probably Putin.

 

[Essence Lumin]

What is really going on with the sale of X to himself? Someone on Fark theorizes

That is securities fraud. He's using XAI investors money to bail him out. Perfect time to do it while they dismantle the SEC. Motherf*cking thieving bastard.

 

[Free]

I saw something on Threads about Elon throwing a massive fit because Bill Gates bought an electric Porsche instead of a Tesla. I don't like Bill Gates, but in this instance I say, "Go Bill!"

I'd have more respect for him if he'd bought a Lucid, but hey, anything that pisses off Giant Baby is good with me.

 

[Free]

Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale.

And buying X/Twitter/NaziSocial shows how clearly focused they are on their core business.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And buying X/Twitter/NaziSocial shows how clearly focused they are on their core business.

Harvesting user data?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Harvesting user data?

Wait until they tie it in to leaked genetic database stuff and into the voting machines to correct your votes scientifically with AI.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Oh yeah well I just sold my car to myself for a zillion bajillion dollars, beat that Leon.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Oh yeah well I just sold my car to myself for a zillion bajillion dollars, beat that Leon.

I hope you at least got the extended warranty and free oil changes.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

His financing of Twitter used Tesla stock to guarantee the loans. This may be trying to avoid penalties as Tesla plummets.

 

[detrius]

His financing of Twitter used Tesla stock to guarantee the loans. This may be trying to avoid penalties as Tesla plummets.

Dingdingding, we have a winner.

I was just about to post this as well.

Yeah, Musk's Tesla shares are the security for the loans Musk took out for the Twitter purchase. So if Tesla fails, his lenders will go after Twitter, a company with a worth that is nowhere near $45 billion or whatever fantasy number he picked.

He's clearly trying to hand off the hot potatoes to some gullible fools before the shit hits the fan. But I doubt he'll be able to run away far enough when that happens.