#muskisadick

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

It wasn't until digging into Musk background after the whole going after the guy who criticized his cave rescue submarine stunt that I realized how many times he just made shit up as on the verge of existing or 1-2 years away tops to have it be total BS. Good news, now there is a site that tracks it. It is truly mind bending that people take what he says at face value any longer. He is more grifter and charlatan than "real world Tony Stark" tech genius. The data is all there for you to see for yourself. #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick https://elonmusk.today/

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

The thing to remember about working for sociopathic narcissists, people who fancy themselves messianic figures, etc. (essentially the Silicon Valley Tech Bro archetype that we've been lionizing ever since Steve Jobs) is that no matter how much you kill yourself, debase yourself, compromise your values for their grand vision, you are ultimately expendable and will be tomorrow's garbage as fast or faster. They will have extracted their "value" and left you to fend for yourself with your reputation tarnished. That whole Machiavellian maneuver not only isn't frowned upon, it is held up as the most responsible behavior on the part of these people and their worshipers.

Zoe's Tweet reads: "Wow the layoffs last night included a ton of surprises. Hardcore Musk loyalists (more on that soon…) and the founder of the newsletter platform Revue that Twitter acquired in 2021."
#ElonMusk #TwitterMigration #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist

tekaevl@diasp.org

This is unsettling...

Hank G ☑️ - 2022-12-16 00:05:27 GMT

Look, anyone even remotely paying attention knew that Musk's "moar freeze peach" thing was sheer greenwashing *at best*. Now the Mastodon Twitter account has been suspended. There is no reasonable explanation for it. Even in the worst turf war days the social networks had accounts on respective platforms and integrations too. I imagine the Twitter->Mastodon bridges are going to be coming down any day now too. #MuskIsADick #TwitterMigration #Twitter #birdsitebans #BillionairesShouldNotExist

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Look, anyone even remotely paying attention knew that Musk's "moar freeze peach" thing was sheer greenwashing *at best*. Now the Mastodon Twitter account has been suspended. There is no reasonable explanation for it. Even in the worst turf war days the social networks had accounts on respective platforms and integrations too. I imagine the Twitter->Mastodon bridges are going to be coming down any day now too. #MuskIsADick #TwitterMigration #Twitter #birdsitebans #BillionairesShouldNotExist

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

TL;DR SpaceX did pony up a bunch to get Starlink there early but having been taking all the credit for donating the whole thing even though it is substantially being paid for by other vendors. Now they are saying it costs them $4500 a month per terminal to maintain service, a rate which they charge nobody and substantially less than the $60 a month base rate they charge most. They essentially are saying pay up $400 million a year or we will shut it down. So as usual for Musk, he took all the limelight, got other orgs to put up a lot of the bills and never acknowledge most or any of it, and then tries to get governments to fund even more shit that he will take credit for. I tried to give him this one in the beginning but JFC did he totally Musk this one up too. #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Of course he did...Remember Musk's "off the cuff" suggestions last week about solutions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine which just so happened to be basically give Ukraine to Russia? Turns out he already got warmed up with conversations with Putin so just parroted what Putin said he wanted. I now do wonder if he would end up pulling Starlink support in Ukraine if Putin or the rest of his favorite far right people that were essentially all of the DM traffic in the Twitter v. Musk Exhibit H nudge him in that direction. Perhaps letting one person have dictator for life power over multibillion dollar companies was a bad idea after all, in case that wasn't patently obvious from the get go. #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake44z/elon-musk-vladimir-putin-ukraine