Notices by Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai), page 2

a rich brat tried to dress up his desire for unconstrained greed as some sophisticated and original ethos in a "manifesto," prompting an entire week of elaborate dissection that still somehow gives his inane thoughts gravitas they simply don't deserve

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-reactionary-futurism.html

starting today, kids no longer need work permits to work low paid, often dangerous jobs in Arkansas

look at the kids' faces as the nepo-baby governor grins like a lobotomized walrus

https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2023/07/31/hundreds-of-new-arkansas-laws-set-to-take-effect-aug-1

this story is wild. Tesla misrepresented the range of their cars for decades, then created a team specifically dedicated to undermining customer efforts to schedule appointments and get help

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

these pseudo free market libertarian tough guys are all "I shall prove my innovation mettle on the field of battle" until there's the slightest bit of competition, then they immediately get a full diaper

it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app

I still don't really think the public fully appreciates how the next few years are going to see a total and complete lobotomization of already underfunded and understaffed safety, environmental, labor, and consumer protection regulators

they're just warming this orchestra up as they implement a plan fifty years in the making:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

I'm still really enjoying the seamless pivot of countless big name tech journalists who enabled his bullshit mythology for more than a decade, and now, only when he's descended into full caricature, casually pretend to be hard nosed skeptics who saw him for what he was the entire time

golly shucks gee maybe there are lessons here

there were like four or five US tech journalists who adequately called out musk's bullshit from the start, and most of them were rewarded with ridicule, marginalization, and if they were female, death threats

I repeat this often because it's true, but three or four years ago if you dared suggest that musk was a rich, unremarkable bullshit artist you'd get a look somewhere between confusion and constipation from 90% of the tech press punditry elite

but if you were actually paying attention to the details instead of the hype or marketing, the evidence was there long before he fully embraced all the red-pilled memes and dipshittery

You can tell from the starship explosion the press isn't really incentivized to learn from a decade+ of mistakes, either. Musk's bulbous ego and a rush to launch on a dumb weed joke date resulted in him nixing flame diverters, which severely damaged the launch pad and engines, all portrayed by the press as a smashing success:

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1649443447164776450?t=UBBuDSLAOI8yCh0YTvpWLw&s=19

it literally took the US tech press the better part of fifteen years to realize musk was an unremarkable rich brat cosplaying as a supergenius engineer, which says more about our press than it does musk

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293

it's completely wild that people in the TRUTH AND ACCURATE INFORMATION business are oblivious to both their role in amplifying a bigoted right wing moral panic, AND honestly believe that journalism is best served by silencing their own employees