Elon Musk Shenanigans thread

[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 January 28 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 January 29 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 January 29 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 January 29 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? 

 

[Bobby_2021]

@Joshe Finally someone made good use of the code feature. 

Also, Where do you enable the dark mode? Is that a browser extension?

 

[PurpleTree]

 

[Hojo]

@Whitney Edwards He says it in the video that blue collar workers have to go out and do physical activity and labour while the white collar workers get to stay in home all day in their slippers sipping coffee and playing on the computer in a comfortable environment. What he dosent understand because he is a fat lazy computer nerd, is that blue collar workers dont care if white collar workers stay home and understand that if they can do it from home may as well. And blue collar workers actually enjoy going out and using their body and being physical. If a blue collar worker had to stay home all day on the computer they would become depressed very quickly and they know that.

Blue collars worker already think that white collar workers sit around and do nothing all day so if they can stay at home and do it they like the fact that the massive corporations will have to sell their building cause they arent being used. The only reason these corps want people to not work at home is because they own, or their buddies own the building they use and they are basically paying themselves rent. If no one is using the building they have to get rid of it and lose all that money.

Any company would be thrilled to not to have to pay for workspace for their employees.

Edited February 1 by Hojo