Elon Musk Shenanigans thread

[Whitney Edwards]

Aged like fine wine. 

 

[Whitney Edwards]

Times of anxiety. January 27 is the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, the Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 

Edited Saturday at 08:26 AM by Buck Edwards

[Speakingspiritually]

On 1/22/2025 at 6:26 PM, Leo Gura said:

I did make that shift.

Just because some of you guys get depressed by some of the diifficult truths I share doesn't mean I am being violent in my communication or beating you over the head.

Truth will always be painful to many of you. I can't help that. I just go deeper and deeper in my understanding of reality and mankind. As that happens I learn more and more ugly things which many of you are not gonna like hearing.

My understanding is counter to all the New Age spiritual fantasies that is the bog-standard in this field. You're not going to get happy spiritual New Age stuff from me.

The direction of the teachings is to cut through all fantasy and understand the mind and mankind at ever deeper levels.

There are things I haven't even shared because you guys would find it too demoralizing. So I am not just mindlessly truth-bombing you.

I agree with this Leo. People have a problem of not realizing when their in ego compared to soul. When you're in soul energy you realize that everything you say and how you say it is coming from a place of love, otherwise you wouldn't be teaching the deep topics you teach. When people respond the way they do to you, it shows me that people are placing they're own internal inadequacies of understanding and limited view of knowledge and understanding of spiritual rhetoric. 

[zazen]

[Leo Gura]

True to form, stage Orange thinks that everything and everyone is for sale.

It's like a cartoon caricature of toxic Orange.

[PurpleTree]

 

[Davino]

Have you all noticed an increase of Trump/Elon content appearing on your feed?

[Lyubov]

So is it true Trump is demoting Elon Musk? He is having him go through his chief of staff now instead of directly reporting to Trump  Everyone knows these two will have a falling out soon. Musk has been testing to see how many strings he can pull and Trump is getting insecure from it. He is angry that Musk trashed that AI thing. 

[Whitney Edwards]

Now this. @Davino

 

@Davino yep. 

[Breakingthewall]

I doubt the Musk will last long in government, he is making too much of a fool of himself, many powerful people want him out, and his money that was useful in the campaign will now be of no use to him.

[Bobby_2021]

On 1/23/2025 at 0:55 PM, HelluvaGuy said:

Even if AFD were to win (unlikely), I highly doubt any of the other parties would want to make a governing coalition with them. 

The german firewall is showing signs of cracks and fissures.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-firewall-weakens-as-conservatives-cdu-move-to-crack-down-on-migration-friedrich-merz-alice-weidel-election/

Elon Musks constant appearances has a non trivial effect on this, let's say.

[Joshe]

Why would he allow his own platform to confirm he's a bullshitter? My guess is he wants to send the signal that X's fact-checking is unbiased and he doesn't control it personally, so he can better manipulate perception of things that truly matter in the future. 

[Leo Gura]

43 minutes ago, Joshe said:

Why would he allow his own platform to confirm he's a bullshitter?

Dude, he's not micro-managing all of Twitter.

You guys read and project way too much into minor things.

Edited Tuesday at 06:36 AM by Leo Gura

[PurpleTree]

Didn’t know where to put this

 

[Joshe]

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Dude, he's not micro-managing all of Twitter.

You guys read and project way too much into minor things.

He goes to great lengths to protect his image and he has a history of altering X’s code to serve him. These two facts make it unlikely  that he would let his own platform prove he is a bullshitter. It seems more like an anomaly than a projection. Of course, I could be missing something as I don’t study Elon, but I do like to speculate on these seeming minor things and make hunches about what might be going on. It seems absurd to think Elon hasn’t thought this through. Like, really??? And if he just allows his own platform to call out his bullshit, then he has more integrity than I’ve given him credit for, but I doubt that’s the case, so the only options are it was an oversight or it’s strategic or he just hasn’t gotten around to it yet or he actually does value what is true to some degree. I think it’s strategic. 

[Leo Gura]

@Joshe It is impossible to control what others say about you, even if you own the platform and make edits to the code.

Dictators have faced this problem since the dawn of civilization.

Musk is controlling, but there are serious real-world limits to that. Controlling what others say and think about you is a fool's fantasy.

Edited yesterday at 01:13 AM by Leo Gura

[Joshe]

48 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@Joshe It is impossible to control what others say about you, even if you own the platform and make edits to the code.

Dictators have faced this problem since the dawn of civilization.

Musk is controlling, but there are serious real-world limits to that. Controlling what others say and think about you is a fool's fantasy.

@Leo Gura Elon has invested large sums of money in an attempt to control what others say and think about him. Obviously, he's not going to be able to quash all dissenting voices, so he won't worry with that. But I would have expected him to tweak the code so the community notes/fact check feature doesn't show up on his posts. He's already tweaked X's code to make his and Trump's posts the most prominent on the entire platform, which is even more egregious than removing specific accounts from fact checks. It just seems to follow that this character would omit himself and his inner circle from any detrimental fact checking. 

Simple:

function applyCommunityNotes(post) {
    // The most sophisticated algorithm ever written
    if (post.author === "Elon Musk" || 
        post.author === "Chief Twit" ||
        post.author === "Donald Trump" ||
        post.author === "Lex Fridman" ||
        post.author === "Joe Rogan" ||
        post.author === "Viktor Orbán") {
        
        // Weird, the function keeps breaking here... 🤔
        return process.exit(); // oops system crash
        
        // Error log: 
        // "Fatal exception: Truth.exe has stopped working"
        // "Fact checking module not responding"
        // "Please contact your system administrator (JK there isn't one anymore)"
    }

    // For literally everyone else on the platform
    return {
        visibility: "visible",
        note: "This post has been reviewed by fact checkers",
        totalReviewers: 42069,
        credibilityScore: "100%",
        truthRating: "Thoroughly verified",
        aiAssessment: "Seems legit" 
    };
}

// Real world examples:
const elonPost = {
    author: "Elon Musk",
    content: "I am #3 in the world at Path of Exile" 
};

applyCommunityNotes(elonPost);
// Output: *System mysteriously crashes* 😉

const regularUserPost = {
    author: "regular_user123",
    content: "The sky is blue"
};

applyCommunityNotes(regularUserPost)
// Output: Works perfectly! ✨

 

Edited yesterday at 02:00 AM by Joshe

[Joshe]

This one's funny: 

function communityNotes(post) {
   const vipUsers = ["Elon Musk", "Chief Twit", "Donald Trump", "Joe Rogan", "Viktor Orbán"];
   
   if (vipUsers.includes(post.author)) {
       console.log("Error: Cannot fact-check post from user:", post.author);
       console.log("Reason: Free speech absolutism");
       console.log("Priority: None");
       console.log("Status: Closed");
       return undefined;  
   }
   
   console.log("✓ Verified by humans (while we still employ them)");
   return {
       status: "FACT_CHECKED", 
       note: "This post has been reviewed by our remaining staff member"
   };
}

const elonPost = {
   author: "Elon Musk",
   content: "X is totally profitable trust me bro"
};

// Test disabled fact-checking for vipUsers
communityNotes(elonPost)

 

Edited yesterday at 02:05 AM by Joshe

[Joshe]

FYI, your forum looks a lot nicer in dark mode. Not only is dark mode expected these days, It aligns better with your brand: 

[Whitney Edwards]

@Joshe why does Elon  think this is a moral issue?