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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 04:47:24 JST Lauren Weinstein

   I was using social media long before the term "social media" was coined, all the way back to the earliest days of Usenet and before that the earliest ARPANET mailing lists. And by any standard, the current posting blowup between Musk and Trump is impressive. Most impressive.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 04:47:23 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @lauren
     The fallout was inevitable but I didn't see this coming

     I thought Giuliani (who surely has as much dirt on Trump as Musk does) would turn on Trump after Trump let him go bankrupt and stiffed him hundreds of thousands in legal fees. But Rudy kept quiet

     And so I considered it likely that Musk and Trump would tacitly agree to a similar detente. Gotta be a case of Mutually Assured Destruction, no?

     In any case, I'm pleasantly surprised

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     Martin Seeger (masek@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 05:25:06 JST Martin Seeger

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     • Kim Scheinberg

     @lauren @kims Furthermore Musk is significantly overestimating his clout and political acumen.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 05:25:07 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • Kim Scheinberg

     @kims Of course Giuliani has to worry about funds on a continuing basis, and Musk doesn't.
     That may be a prime factor.