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
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:07:53 JST Karl Bode -
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:07:51 JST Karl Bode 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
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:07:50 JST Karl Bode 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
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 02:20:10 JST Karl Bode 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
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Karl Bode (karlbode@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 06:46:38 JST Karl Bode 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