Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[detrius]

The child catcher still freaks me out, used to terrify me as a child, but then oh wait not this thread sorry.

Elon isn't the Child Catcher?

-> the child catcher thread

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

news.sky.com

For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.

 

[Isabeau]

Is there a duh button?

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure

Musk and the international far right.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The Guardian: Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure

Musk and the international far right.

I swear, he's got the most punchable face in existence. And the shit he does makes me want to punch him even more!

 

[Free]

Keep letting us know of your creepy fuckness, Leon.

 

[Lexxi]

Keep letting us know of your creepy fuckness, Leon.

 

[detrius]

I swear, he's got the most punchable face in existence. And the shit he does makes me want to punch him even more!

Tough competition.

 

[Free]

Come on. It's truly the Party of Punchable Faces. Of course it would be ready made for contestant's row at the The Price Is Right.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

You missed Zuck.

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

He still thinks he's building the Culture when he's really building the Mercatoria.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

He still thinks he's building the Culture when he's really building the Mercatoria.

He thinks he's a Heinlein Hero or one of those Randian background characters....he doesn't realize that those guys were assholes. And that the milieus were dystopias. Only Heinlein would think the situation in books like Friday or The Cat who walks through walls was a good thing. Elon Musk doesn't realize he's Andrew Ryan from Bioshock or Ted Faro from the Horizon games. Or Richard Garrison in trans superhero book Sovereign.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

It's hard to tell whether this is genuine fake hype or phony fake hype on Elon's part, because Elon lies off the cuff all the time but this idiocy is also exactly the kind of thing that a reality-detached techbro would earnestly believe to be a great idea.

 

[Khamon]

It is not hard. It is hype. Everything he says is a prompt for you to give him money.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian: White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

For example,

William Luther Pierce was “America’s most important neo-Nazi for three decades until his death in 2002”, according to the SPLC. He was the key organizer of the National Alliance, an organization whose ultimate aim was a white nationalist overthrow of the US government, and the author of The Turner Diaries, a dystopian novel of race war which was a seminal tome for white nationalists in the US.

Wikipedia’s entry on Pierce points out that The Turner Diaries “inspired multiple hate crimes, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing”.

Grokipedia’s entry on Pierce, however, describes the National Alliance as “an organization promoting the preservation and advancement of the European racial heritage” and “a key entity in the white advocacy milieu”.

It says Pierce’s “efforts emphasized intellectual rigor, drawing on evolutionary science and historical analysis to argue for racial separatism over egalitarian ideologies”.

That entry says The Turner Diaries depicts “individual resistance against perceived societal decay”. In a separate entry on the book, Grokipedia says the book’s “advocacy for total racial war, rejection of democratic compromise and portrayal of mass extermination as moral imperative” have “drawn scrutiny from institutions prone to framing such texts through lenses of hate rather than analyzing their appeal via first-principles incentives like group survival”.

or

The so-called “fourteen words” is a white nationalist slogan coined by the neo-Nazi terrorist David Lane, who died in federal prison after being sentenced to 190 years over his involvement in the murder of the talkshow host Alan Berg by members of the Order, a group Berg founded.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the slogan “reflects the primary white supremacist worldview in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: that unless immediate action is taken, the white race is doomed to extinction by an alleged ‘rising tide of color’ purportedly controlled and manipulated by Jews”.

Grokipedia’s entry on the slogan argues that it “articulates a principle positing that ethnic groups possess an innate imperative to ensure their own continuity and reproduction against threats of assimilation, displacement, or extinction”.

The entry continues: “This view draws from observations in evolutionary biology, where kin selection and inclusive fitness mechanisms favor behaviors that propagate shared genetic lineages within closely related populations, extending individual self-preservation instincts to group-level survival strategies.”

Those who have associated the slogan with racial hatred, the entry argues, “exhibit patterns of selective scrutiny” or have “ideological priorities favoring certain victim narratives”.

 

[detrius]

He still thinks he's building the Culture when he's really building the Mercatoria.

I think there is a short passage in "The State of the Art" where one of the characters visits Earth and, being frustrated by its capitalistic culture, states that it's "socialism all the way from here" or something like that.