OpenAI lawsuit says Musk sent ominous texts to Altman and Brockman

GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸53

Every time people try to talk about Elon Musk in positive terms, we should sub in the name “Pol Pot”—because that may be how high the death toll Musk and DOGE are responsible for ultimately gets. Right now I think we’re still in “total deaths from opioid crisis” territory.

Kait Richardson 🥔45

Musk’s space colony delusions are ENTIRELY about getting to do Nazism and own slaves where no one can stop him and he’s in charge of the very air his victims breathe.

Erin E. Worrel8

I think about it every single day and there aren't words that can adequately describe my rage

Attractive Nuisance7

I didn’t even hear about the rickets thing! (Realized you meant rockets, but it took me a minute.)

Lu 💙5

There is no redeeming qualities for Musk!

bluestatedon.bsky.social5

Ezra Klein is a gormless dipshit.

Kevin Elliott31

Klein's understanding of what politics is about systematically misleads him, in a moment where politics fundamentally misfits that model. What's confusing is that he often shows awareness of this...but then fails to change his behavior consistently to match the changed world *which he perceives*.

Dustin Moskovitz26

I don't really feel this is his main contribution, but it certainly ranks as one of the worst. And everybody else says things like this all the time too, including e.g. Sam Harris or even stark critics like Yann LeCun "I love his cars and rockets... " It's not even true! He fails at doing them.

Anne Lutz Fernandez16

and whoever he misses, Ross Douthat is sure to elevate

Lks39914

Don’t forget his Paul Ryan boosterism in the early 2010s.

James12

if you work at the NYT long enough, you become this tweet

Laminariales12

He got millions of people killed with DOGE, and Ezra is such a psychiatric headcase that he finds the part of Elon that was monomaniacal about doing that "laudable".

kbethany.bsky.social11

Also it’s demonstrably untrue even on the “plus” side. He has in fact diverted money *away* from EVs to chase robots and AI to the extent that he has entirely abandoned his strategic advantage in EVs and has been completely eclipsed by other EV innovators.

your buddy eric ⚾️🀄️10

a huge amount of people are now dead due to illegal cuts in funding at the direction of Elon Musk

Obvious Pseudonym9

In real time, it's been pretty wild watching Yglesias, Klein and McCardle advance in prominence ahead of their blog-era contemporaries because they've done it largely by warping their output towards flattering powerful people.

zoot car9

I think about the old Upton Sinclair line about how man cannot understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it, then I think about how well paid Ezra Klein must be

Hillary Rettig (she / her)6

5 years ago, our (MI) state senator posted on FB "Why do people hate Elon Musk? Tell it to me like I'm 5." His ignorance floored me, and yeah, a bunch of us helped him out. But read Klein, Friedman, etc., and you'll wind up ignorant and right wing while thinking you're informed and liberal.

Lucinda River Diver5

It is so persuasive in his work that it is hard to see how he would be different if he was being paid directly to do this. Calling Musk’s rabid white nationalism “not laudable” is a perfect example. He won’t name awful actions directly but only/explicitly buffs up what he thinks are positives.

Godspeed You! Woke Moralists5

Klein is the reason we had to deal with Paul Ryan!!! He wrote a glossy profile on him as a serious intellect and the guy just wanted to gut taxes and medicaid! He's a fucking laundry service for reactionary politics!!

CarrotBaum 🥕5

His elitism was barely tolerable before this takes. Now he is just insufferable.

Melissa Jo Peltier4

Elon Musk is just a smarter, weirder version of Trump, with a wildly inflated sense of his own genius & importance. All Elon cares about is Elon. Can’t believe anyone would think otherwise.

Triglodytease3

Musk is barely even relevant to what is actually said here. He’s just a contrasting example framed against Democrats’ seemingly bottomless capacity to give up And in that context this seems correct — Musk is awful & has few real skills. One of few skills he DOES have is believing himself invincible

Wingofbenu2

one could also note if those truly are Musk's focuses its pretty damning that his car business created the least popular EV of all time and his rockets keep exploding at launch

s-isabelle.bsky.social2

I had no opinion on Musk for awhile but when I read this article in 2018, I immediately realized how terrible he was. Be the house, says billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has won his share of long-shot gambles. Will missteps shift the odds from his favor? www.wsj.com/articles/elo...

🌾Killjoy 🇵🇸84

He has all of the money in the world and still can't buy the help he needs.

Rotanen ♾️25

groimes oi'm pritindin' ta be me mum

まり23

Wasn't his mom account the one that was always glazing him? That's crazy.

WhatRWeDoingHere21

Freud would have had a field day with this.

Soybot18

Just hands down the most juiceless poster of all time.

SarahBCalif14

So wait, when his mom was telling us not to be mean to her son, it was really Elon! 😂😂😭 Freud would like a word.

son-of-void-dragon.bsky.social12

Remember that time that Musk totally wanted to fight Zuckerberg and the only reason he didn't is cause Musk's "mom" told him on twitter he wasn't allowed to?

Kevin O'Malley9

His pathetic thirst to win on chat boards are the weirdest and most relatable things that he does.

Sentient Bee Colony6

Lol just the lamest guy

Matthew Triponey6

"pretending to be your mom going around telling people what a special boy you are" is so pathetic I truly could never even have conceived of it, this guy is an absolute trailblazer in the field of narcissistic self-humiliation

BillThePony5

let the circle, be unbroken

Pixel Pushers Union 5125

"I can't wait 'til it happens" also means Elon Musk, imo

The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King4

The one admirable thing about him is his relentless drive to uncover new and embarrassing ways to be a total fucking loser

Dan Davis3

can definitely picture him giggling while posting as his mom

BONE DUCK3

I didn't call this but its the least surprising thing to me from this dumbss

Chakra Khan2

No weird or complicated family dynamics at play either, I'm sure

Monitor Lizard2

All those "my special, special boy" posts 🤣

Headline Critic 🇺🇸🚫🍊2

It makes sense if you’re familiar with how that lunatic was raised.

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser2

Yeah we really need a trillionaire Hunger Games. Except instead of killing each other they take each others money and then the last one left has to pay 90% taxes.

⛧ Rev.Underskor ⛧2

Parenting issues manifested as a caustic attempt at being a human. Should be on his Wiki page.

FootballArchaeology2

Reporter: Tell us about your neighbor, the serial killer: Respondent: Well, he seemed like a nice man, a White Christian.

Lateralusian2

Forget custody. A dark alley is needed.

Billy Bragg's Liquid Aminos2

You are correct. The problem is the murdering minions read this headline and do a fun and quirky little victory dance and record it on their phones because they think mass death means they "won."

MilitaryMomPat126

$1.5M is less than a penny to him. This amount is laughable

Craig25

I am old enough to remember when crooks went to prison.

Jackie12

More encouragement for him to keep doing these kinds of crimes. What a joke.

GloriaLynn11

So basically, he's not being penalized at all. That's pocket change & he's not paying it. The penalty should be a few billion & he personally should be paying the fine.

Transitional Fossil7

that's nothing. pennies in the couch to the Ketamine Kid.

🦋Rrhae 🇺🇸 I Dissent!🫘 🇺🇦6

Absolute chump change to Musk. 🤬

mommom-dayton.bsky.social5

That's literally pocket change for a billionaire. Another crime a billionaire gets away with.

JulietNotRomeo5

He prob has that much in his couch cushions

They Say5

No sweat. Elon Musk makes $405,000 per minute. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

Friskiedgrrl 🏳️‍🌈 💙🍁 🌊🇨🇦 🇺🇦4

Pocket change. Even $1.5 BILLION wouldn't make a dent.

Gayle S 🦋 🌊 😈4

That's bullshit pocket change to this MFer

Chistina3

What is less than a slap on the wrist? This bullshit settlement.

PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦3

That’s IT? He cheated his shareholders out of “millions” & he only has to pay a 1.5 million fine? How about wholly reimbursing those he ripped off? These “fines” should be in DIRECT PROPORTION with the act he committed against the shareholders. He’s the wealthiest man on EARTH for chrissakes!

The Smith3

Peanuts LOCK THE LYING FUCKER UP!

Carla, Trantifa President3

$1.5 million is not even pocket change to elon. it’s pocket lint.

Let’s Be Frank2

It’s the tip of the iceberg in musk’s crime spree. He’s stomped all over people to get where he is. After all, trump hired musk to assist him in destroying our democracy. In the aftermath musk went on stage and joyously waved a chainsaw around as he basked in the ‘glory’ of ruining so many lives.

Earnest Lib 🇺🇸3

Klein specifically seems to have caught mushbrain disease in recent years. People are saying he's always been like this (evidence: taking Paul Ryan seriously). And maybe the seeds were there, but he was not Like This.

Matthew Stienberg3

If being the richest man in the world doesn't make him the happiest then there are some very uncomfortable truths about a social narrative that also need to be confronted!

T 🇺🇸 ✡︎2

This is a good articulation of at least part of a phenomenon I've been struggling to describe concisely. Namely, this sense that partisan/electoral politics is this magical realm where nothing is ever *that* bad, or even really *real*. And the real scandal is those who dare to call evil evil.

honkers_enjoyer3

as somebody professionally documenting the fallout I believe every mention of Elon Musk needs to be prefaced with the fact that he killed 750,000 people and counting since last January but people are aggressively uninterested in that fact

Ann M. Lipton3

Just fyi there is a pending class action against musk in ny over the failure to file the 13d

Richard Delevan2

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