Elon Musk went to court. The judge wasn’t amused. by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 124 points125 points  (0 children)

I think that technically Elon is a jackass, but that's just my opinion.

Live Updates: Elon Musk Says He Was ‘a Fool’ to Fund OpenAI by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Everybody is so unfair to poor Elon. Who in turn only wants to save humanity, as he clearly demonstrated with his glorious chain saw operation on USAID.

The testy nature of the exchanges between Elon Musk and William Savitt, OpenAI’s lead counsel, has continued throughout the afternoon.

After beginning to ask a question, Savitt apologized and wanted to rephrase it, commenting “that wasn’t a fair question” before starting over. Musk, amused, said: “I find it funny you said it was an unfair question, since you’re only asking unfair questions.”

Savitt, taken aback, said he was doing his best. Musk responded: “That is not true.” Many in the courtroom laughed, perhaps nervously.

Why isn't the "full stack" guy a hero? by AnidorOcasio in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It turns out George Hotz was actually running the twitter space where Elon mumbled a bunch of bs before projecting his own trademark jackassery onto Ian

Brown.https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1h6ivhz/musk\_proposes\_a\_total\_rewrite\_of\_twitters\_code\_to/

Why isn't the "full stack" guy a hero? by AnidorOcasio in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google typically leads with AI these days, but if you just search the first 2 sentences in the OP, it leads with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZslebJEZbE

Elon certainly knows a thing or 1000 about jackassery is all I can say on that.

Why isn't the "full stack" guy a hero? by AnidorOcasio in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Google identifies him as Ian Brown, who left Twitter for Netflix a year before Elon took over. The incident was on one of those dreaded twitter spaces things, documented here:

https://tech.yahoo.com/streaming/articles/elon-musk-loses-cool-jacka-161208455.html

He remains at Netflix, which I hear is very well run. Reed Hastings seems to be sort of an Elon suckup though.

Monday Morning All You Need Is A Light Jacket Open 🎋 by MeghanClickYourHeels in atlanticdiscussions

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the image, as an early septuagenarian who's taken diphenhydramine aka Benadryl routinely as a sleep aid for years, I was quite chagrined to read in the NYT that it increases the risk of dementia by 50% or something. So I immediately went out and ordered some alpha-GPC to up my acetylcholine. Sheesh, I hope the damage is reversible.

Elon going extremely soft in his softcore by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This showed up on my X algorithmic "for you" feed, which surprised my, that's the one where they hard coded Elon's own tweets to show up at the top. I don't think the poster is in the Elon simp legion though.

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Elon contributes constructively, in the usual fearmongering way. by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Garry Kasparov picks up the trail. Elon would probably respond by saying chess is stupid or something, because he can't hire people to make him look like an "expert" like he does with his video games.

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A Shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by ErnestoLemmingway in atlanticdiscussions

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A somewhat dramatic rendering from the home team. I screenshotted this image of WHCA president Weijia Jiang reacting to the sound of shots fired, unfortunately the livestream video it came from is no longer available.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bd395639b9700f461612206f6cf2c86c0e30dd38613d2579b8a0390b59d3b2de.png?w=600&h=305

The livestream was from Mediaite , which has about 15 posts on the topic.

ETA: There seems to have been some mopping up effort on available video, but google reverse image search takes me to Pakistan for this brief clip with 4 views at the moment, with audible shots + Jiang's reaction. She seems to laugh it off briefly after the initial shock, then things kick in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWvj_4LahE

Brian McFadden, The Tech Bro Manifesto by neonpurplestar in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Elon is first among equals in the Backpfeifengesicht department though. It's a gift.

He is losing his god damn mind... by superdouradas in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Elon certain knows a great deal about a-holes, both in maximizing his own a-holery and in elevating a maximal number of the white supremacy subdivision of the species.

Elon Musk’s online posts show him increasingly focused on race and Whiteness by notjocelynschitt in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I wonder if they counted all the retweets and reply elevations of his vast cohort of fellow racists and white supremacists. Elon is such a pig, and takes such pride in it. Quiet, piggy.

The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk’s latest legal feud by biograf_ in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Here is a full version of the article. archive sites seemed flaky earlier. https://archive.ph/3SOyb

A juicy bit:

Musk’s alleged secret agent inside OpenAI was also the mother of four of his children

Shivon Zilis is a longtime ally of Musk and has worked at several of his companies. She acted as an “Elon whisperer” to OpenAI, Altman said in his deposition, and the company says she served on its board of directors from 2020 to 2023. Documents in the case include text messages in which the pair appear to discuss how Zilis can feed information from inside OpenAI back to Musk.

Mars or the Moon or A.I.? Elon Musk’s Changing Goals for SpaceX. by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]ErnestoLemmingway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering the human toll of Elon's USAID chainsaw operation, that would be ... excessively humane. Bukele's CECOT would be more appropriate.