Is Elon Musk Nuts?
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, September 3, 2026 02:05
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You could literally film a Walking Dead episode unedited in downtown SF.
This is where San Francisco politics leads and Twitter was exporting this self-destructive mind virus to the world.
With some exceptions, other tech companies are still doing so.
Evil in guise of good.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1642269842555142150
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A history of Elon Musk's love affair with Dogecoin
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/14caa45b-019f-3e1e-8b01-3c84274ee6f1/a-his
tory-of-elon-musk%27s-love.html
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Elon Musk, in a remarkable show of maturity, has removed the "w" from Twitter's logo outside their San Francisco HQ. The company now reads as "Titter"
9:30 AM · Apr 6, 2023
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1643984416166002691
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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He seems to be serious about this Mars thing
'Starship is stacked & ready to launch next week, pending regulatory approval'
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644095821753856002
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He seems to be serious about this Mars thing
'Starship is stacked & ready to launch next week, pending regulatory approval'
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644095821753856002
Starship Explosion Video: Watch Elon Musk's Rocket Explode After Launch | WSJ
Elon Musk's Starship Just Exploded: What's Next for SpaceX?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Thanks to Musk, stick a fork in Twitter; it’s done
https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/1646868215052779520
About six months ago, Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar. Then he fired veteran bouncers and bartenders, tried to stiff the landlord and at least one vendor, and demanded that regulars pay a cover charge. He’s frequently struggled to serve his customers, yet he’s penalized them for mentioning the competition. He’s tamped down the revelry in general, really — a lot of conversation at his watering hole has been drowned out by Musk’s own never-ending stage act, which consists mainly of him yelling dad jokes at customers through a bullhorn.
Pour one out for Twitter, then. I’d been open to Musk’s purchase of the social network, but half a year in, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. Musk moved fast and broke nearly everything — the speed and totality with which he’s ruined the site has been almost impressive. By Musk’s own reckoning, the company is now worth less than half of what he paid for it. It has lost many large advertisers, most of its employees and, with them, much of its functionality.
More than that, Twitter under Musk appears to have lost the thing that made it impossible to quit: Its centrality. The site was once the most consequential place online, not just a disseminator of breaking news and commentary, but something like an arbiter. At its cultural peak, from about 2015 to perhaps 2020, what people talked about on Twitter seemed to set the agenda for discussions elsewhere. Even last year, it still mattered: After years of mismanagement and glacial innovation, Twitter, on the eve of Musk’s reign, was still the one place to visit when anything big happened anywhere.
Whatever Twitter is now, it is no longer that venue. Cultural relevance is difficult to quantify, but you know it when you feel it. And now, when something’s going down, Twitter rarely feels like the place where everyone is gathering to watch.
I noticed this when Donald Trump was arraigned. Trump, the most powerful tweeter the world has ever known, a man whose every typo could send Twitter into paroxysms of easy dunks, appeared in court and Twitter was, as Vox’s Shirin Ghaffary put it, “a snoozefest.”
There could be many reasons for the snooze, including that people care less about Trump than they used to — or that even after Musk reinstated Trump’s suspended Twitter account, the former president has stuck to using the platform he founded, Truth Social, for his ad hoc missives.
But I’d bet much of the problem stems from changes Musk has made to Twitter’s news feed.
These days it’s often difficult to know what’s happening on Twitter. Musk’s self-serving changes to the site’s ranking algorithm have significantly reduced its usability: Where Twitter was once pleasantly varied, serving up ordinary people’s tweets pretty evenly with those of celebrities and politicians, now it seems to highlight the same few users all the time. (I love your tweets, Matt Yglesias, but I wish you weren’t always at the top of my feedff)
Other signs of Twitter’s declining relevancy: Several news organizations, including the New York Times, have said they won’t pay for Twitter Blue, Musk’s subscription service for acquiring a verified user badge on the site. NPR said it would stop posting to its official Twitter accounts because Twitter labeled it as “state-affiliated media,” then as “government-funded media.” PBS, which has also been labeled “government-funded,” said that it, too, would stop tweeting in protest of the label. (NPR is a nonprofit that receives very little funding from the government; the label, it says, undermines its credibility.)
Musk doesn’t like the news media — Twitter’s public relations email address auto-responds with a poop emoji — but I can’t see how fighting with the media can help his site. At the risk of blowing my own horn, media organizations are vital to Twitter because the news is at the core of the site’s utility.
Musk has said that Twitter’s algorithms won’t recommend unverified users in its
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So after many pages of debate I think something should be cleared up
There is nothing wrong with learning new facts, correcting previous mistakes and been proven wrong and learning once again
and Predictions which turned out false
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Sure, the guy made a crap-ton of money with Pay Pal, which (IMHO was more about being in the right place at the right time)
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but everything else he founded turned to shit:
SpaceX- A tail-fin-landing rocket. I believe I laughed my ass off over that already.
False
His rockets have completely transformed the US and World Launch industry providing commercial access to space, he has done in a short few years what other Billionaires like Bezos promised for decades
SpaceX is putting more billions in 'Starship' but if it was a failure or success is not the point, Musk already transformed the industry with Privatization of Space Flight.
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Tesla- the self-immolating cars. If it wasn't for government subsidies, he would be losing money. His next generation of cars, which people have already deposited cold hard $1000 cash to reserve, is well behind schedule and needs another infusion of cash.
The Current Government hates him, I agree going Solar and Electric with everything may not be a solution but the Biden Admin and other government groups like the EU have new taxes on Carbon, new regulation on Nitrogen, new attempts to phase out Gas andOil
Musk's cars are successful and the Government would rather GM or Ford win
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Solar City- Another government-funded money-loser.
There is something here, especially with Nuke power giving electricity, Chemical and Industrial Manufacturing or Nuclear Power Plants, nobody likes to live near this stuff so there are huge chunks of land in Hot Dry parts of the USA with lots of Sunshine like Spain, Mexico, North Africa, Latin America, Australia, India, Arabia where people don't want to be near a power plant and in theory you can build Solar Cities on cheap land.
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Hmmm... flights to Mars. The Hyperloop. The Musk Electric Jet.
I think the jury is out on Mars...I'm guessing he will probably be involved in the return to the Moon since the old government linked Rockets provided to NASA by the older Shuttle type are very expensive product, Musk offers a cheaper way to lift payloads. Maybe he will go to Mars, only NASA and the Chinese government have successfully landed on Mars, its possible Musk could have robots drive or walk around Mars before Russia or Europeans or Japanese or India lands a working robot.
'The Hyperloop'
I read the Chinese more or less copied his plans and borrowed ideas from him and built their own hyperloop, so the idea was never that 'crazy'
Between Shanghai and Hangzhou, a train put in-vacuum tunnel with maglev powered trains to travel at speeds of up to 1,000km/h (621mph).
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3217912/has-china-just
-finalised-worlds-first-hyperloop-destinations
Not that I always agree with him
and I do sometimes wonder what side he is on
He is quirky and odd with his memes and comments and he is on the autism scale
Musk did free banned voices from twitter
Also Elon Musk Seems To Hired Linda Yaccarino As A New Twitter CEO – Her Connections And Social Media Posts From The Past Indicate That This Will Be The End Of Free Speech On Twitter
https://www.usasupreme.com/elon-musk-seems-to-hired-linda-yaccarino-as
-a-new-twitter-ceo-her-connections-and-social-media-posts-from-the-past-indicate-that-this-will-be-the-end-of-free-speech-on-twitter/
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Elon Musk's SpaceX explosion should bring oversight, not halt to spaceflight (Editorial)
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/spacex-elo
n-musk-texas-starship-explosion-lawsuit-18090716.php
The Morning After: Twitter has a new CEO
https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-twitter-has-a-new-ceo-11154
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Elon Musk says George Soros hates humanity. Unrelatedly, filing shows financier sold Tesla stake
After a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Soros Fund Management sold its entire stake in Musk's Tesla, Musk took to the social-media platform he owns to attack the 92-year-old.
First — without any apparent provocation — he tweeted a comparison between Musk and Magneto, a comic-book character in X-Men who, as the name implies, can generate and control magnetic fields.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Soros reminds me of Magneto
9:02 PM · May 15, 2023
Musk didn’t offer an explanation though it’s probably not Soros’s work with magnets. The comic book character’s backstory is, like Soros, a Holocaust survivor and Jewish. Musk is probably mad at all Jews for being evil, or something, but don't call Musk an antisemitic because, as he likes to say, some of my best friends are probably Jewish but I don't know which ones. Achtung! Musk continued:
Elon Musk @elonmusk
You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.
9:14 PM · May 15, 2023
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-says-george-soros-hates-hu
manity-unrelatedly-filing-shows-financier-sold-tesla-stake-4b39996e
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Censoring for Strongmen Is Now a Pattern For Musk
Musk is often happy to follow foreign governments’ requests to crack down on users they oppose (which is absolutely not “par for the course for all internet companies,” no matter what he may claim). This is evidenced by the fact that Twitter under Musk has approved censorship orders at a higher rate than it ever had before his takeover, especially in repressive places like Turkey and India. In the latter’s case, Twitter has bowed to government requests to censor unfavorable content from global view altogether — such as links to investigative documentaries — and to obscure Indians’ access to foreign governments’ official accounts.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/elon-musk-turkey-twitter-erdogan-
india-modi-free-speech.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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