It’s just bizarre that he thinks companies advertising on his platform or not is - checks notes - blackmail??
Am I blackmailing Walmart shopping there? Or by not shopping there?
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That’s… a little creepy.
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Today, the first cybertrucks will be delivered, which means that Elon Musk will give some sort of speech and will be obliged to act in a way that befits a CEO who shouldn’t be fired.
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Considering the board is packed with his cronies, that bar is remarkably low, probably “don’t get arrested at the event”, but might not even be that high.
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This.
What has he done to himself physically? He looks like a plastic robot (and what’s up with the bomber jacket on a presumably warm stage?)
I’m waiting for when he goes and visits Putin next…
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He’s obviously got a lot of self-destructive things going on in his life, but his reported recreational use of ketamine (if true) probably isn’t helping things.
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It’s like he’s trying to do standup, with punchy laugh lines, and not have a normal conversation, you know, like when there are two people communicating through talking. Who told this guy he’s funny? Anyone not on his payroll?
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People have been speculating for a while now that he’s abusing stimulants. Ketamine, as @Otherbrother says, is the most common rumor.
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As somebody said, Musk’s fans on Xitter pay him for the privilege of sucking up to him.
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I can almost hear the servos, as his head swivels from the host to his imaginary friend in the audience and back. vvvv-click, vvvv-click…
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Wow, it just gets worse. “Tell it to the Earth?”
I’m imagining an X employee watching this and thinking “He’s happy to throw our jobs away if it means that some hypothetical fan-boys will blame some advertisers.”
That said, as someone who would love nothing more than for Twitter to go under, I’m perfectly happy that Musk has taken this stance.
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Interviewer: “I understand there’s a reality, too, right?”
While I appreciate his optimism, there’s the fact that he had to ask…
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I’m reminded of the time when I fed an ostrich. It was like trying to keep an angry sock puppet at bay.
His body language is so odd, and his outburst even stranger. Perhaps the Saudis who invested in Twitter are expressing their displeasure with him.
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The full statement is certainly not any better.
'Today, Elon Musk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at DealBook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position.
'X is enabling an information independence that’s uncomfortable for some people. We’re a platform that allows people to make their own decisions.
'And here’s my perspective when it comes to advertising: X is standing at a unique and amazing intersection of Free Speech and Main Street — and the X community is powerful and is here to welcome you.
‘To our partners who believe in our meaningful work – Thank You,’ she said.
Do they have any notable partners left?
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According to this story from a couple days ago:
Some of those entities are more surprising/disappointing than others. But I just saw that the Washington Post will finally be pausing their advertising so that’s something.
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Are we any closer to launching all the billionaires into the Sun? That’s why we invest in NASA, isn’t it?
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It takes a lot less ∆V to fling something out of the Solar system into the interstellar void than into the Sun. We need to keep an eye on practicability and sustainability.
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The sooner I never have to see the phrase “formerly known as twitter” the better. Who ever came up with Xitter is pure genius. I hope the official pronunciation give the X an SH sound.
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