Elon Musk – Page 3 – INANIMATE CARBON GOD

I pity the poor immigrant

I gather that Anna Gorisch works in immigration law and goes so far as to call herself a “protector of immigrants” in her Twitter bio…

…despite which she evidently voted for Mushroom Cock, a substantial part of whose platform involves deporting all the illegal immigrants he can find. I presume Anna’s services are limited to the “right” immigrants, and I also presume she missed the bit during the election campaign where Haitian immigrants were in fact attacked by MAGAcorp. Hope her clients are satisfied with her efforts…

Anyway, the whole thing has just been further complicated by Trump:

Donald Trump on Saturday sided with Elon Musk, a key supporter and billionaire tech CEO, in a public dispute over the use of the H-1B visa, saying he fully backs the program for foreign tech workers opposed by some of his supporters.
Trump’s remarks followed a series of social media posts from Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who vowed late Friday to go to “war” to defend the visa program for foreign tech workers.
Trump, who moved to limit the visa’s use during his first presidency, told the New York Post on Saturday he was likewise in favor of the visa program.
“I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” he was quoted as saying.

This was not quite the development I was expecting in this situation, cos you may recall I predicted Drumpf would get sick of Oolong taking attention away from him, but for now it looks like he’s trying to keep Apartheid Clyde on-side. I don’t know. I still reckon he’ll get the shits with him sooner or later. Curious to see how the rest of MAGA will respond now that Glorious Leader has made his position clear, too.

Meanwhile…

Groypers are Nick Fuentes’ particular mob of cultists, i.e. they’re shit even for MAGA, and indeed they seem to have particular beef with MAGA for not being racist and antisemitic enough for them. I mean, when that shrinkfaced cunt Charlie Kirk isn’t racist enough for you… oy. And apparently Oolong’s been OK with them up to now until they got too ~~racist~~… er, uppity for him. How dare they oppose his glorious economic plan just because they hate furriners!

And Steve Bannon (remember him?) has waded into the morass:

As someone else noted in the comments to that thread, Bannon himself has had Chinese connections of his own, so possibly he shouldn’t be invoking them here. Also, although he’s been sniffy about the alt-right in the past, if Hitler offered Bannon a cheque I don’t doubt he’d take it without a second thought. It’d be a “western civilisation” thing, after all.

Finally…

I don’t know about the last detail, but… yeah. Oolong has been sprung using burner accounts before, but this time was particularly egregious; I heard some of it on Kevin Logan’s livestream earlier this evening but I had so much second-hand embarrassment for the stupid cunt (Musk, not Kev, obviously) I had to stop. I mean… the voice changer not only didn’t disguise him at all, he started referring to himself in the first person, i.e. as Elon, not this “Adrian Dittmann” persona. It was just too horrendous to sit through.

What’s he fucking up in there

Twitter’s gone transparent! And the numbers are… well, they are.

Today, X released the company’s first transparency report since Elon Musk bought the company, formerly Twitter, in 2022.
Before Musk’s takeover, Twitter would release transparency reports every six months.These largely covered the same ground as the new X report, giving specific numbers for takedowns, government requests for information, and content removals, as well as data about which content was reported and, in some cases, removed for violating policies. The last transparency report available from Twitter covered the second half of 2021 and was 50 pages long. (X’s is a shorter 15 pages, but requests from governments are also listed elsewhere on the company’s website and have been consistently updated to remain in compliance with various government orders.) […]
While some numbers remain seemingly consistent across the reports—reports of abuse and harassment are, somewhat predictably, high—in other areas, there’s a stark difference. For instance, in the 2021 report, accounts reported for hateful content accounted for nearly half of all reports, and 1 million of the 4.3 million accounts actioned. […] In the new X report, the company says it has taken action on only 2,361 accounts for posting hateful content.
But this may be due to the fact that X’s policies have changed since it was Twitter, which Theodora Skeadas, a former member of Twitter’s public policy team who helped put together its Moderation Research Consortium, says might change the way the numbers look in a transparency report. For instance, last year the company changed its policies on hate speech, which previously covered misgendering and deadnaming, and rolled back its rules around Covid-19 misinformation in November of 2022.
“As certain policies have been modified, some content is no longer violative. So if you’re looking at changes in the quality of experience, that might be hard to capture in a transparency report,” she says.

This is what it looks like when the new owner of a public forum fires most of the people responsible for ensuring the safety of said public forum, and cosies up to the far-right shits it had previously correctly banned. Not that we didn’t know things at whatsitsname weren’t worse than they used, but now have some concrete idea of how bad. And the other recent news about Oolong neutering the block function on Twitter doesn’t make the place any more attractive, does it.

What I have written

His Muskness is inclined to write some curious things on that social media thing he owns, but this has been particularly striking:

Um. This shouldn’t be too surprising, cos Oolong did call himself a “cultural Christian” (for reasons at least partly related to his obsession with birth rates), but somehow him actually coming out with… whatever this is does feel kind of weird. Not least because it’s in verse. Obviously no one should seriously believe for a second that Musk actually believes in Christianity or anything; he’s a Christian in the same way Drumpf is, in that the only god he really believes in is himself. That’s one of the things that makes this kind of peculiar; the other is the particular timing of this thing, given that he’s made some other interesting statements lately…

The White House has condemned Elon Musk for tweeting “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala” in response to an X user asking “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” […]
Musk, himself a Trump supporter, was quickly criticized by X users from the left and right, who said they were concerned his words to his nearly 200m X followers could incite violence against Biden and Harris.
The tech billionaire deleted the post but not before the Secret Service, tasked with protecting current and former presidents, vice-presidents and other notable officials, took notice.
“The Secret Service is aware of the social media post made by Elon Musk and as a matter of practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence,” a spokesperson said in an email. “We can say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees.”

To be sure, I’m not sure there was anything in that post that actually said someone should have a go at them, but people these days are stupid enough to take it that way. Oolong later basically said it was just jokes, bro:

“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he later wrote. “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

Meet Elon Musk, theorist of comedy, folks. I don’t know what if anything the SS (because he would call them that, I suspect) actually said to him, but he evidently wasn’t too bothered about it for too long, given that this is his currently pinned tweet:

“OK, I’ll be circumspect about the shooting jokes, but I reserve the right to lie through my teeth about the Democrats on my social media platform where I won’t allow propaganda”… sure. Anyway, I’m still puzzled by the poetry and its purpose, but I did wonder…

…Was Oolong in fact trying to show this creep how to do it? Cos Jordibles has attracted notice for his own “verse” posts—kind of like Nice Cave’s moustache, it’s something he does mostly because other people find it irritating—which are of a notably more free sort. I wonder if Oolong was trying to give him a hint about doing it properly? In which case, Oolong’s got some way to go himself and shouldn’t be advising anyone about anything…

“Concepts of a plan”

Somehow the debate between Dampnut and Kamala Harris actually went ahead, even though his lordship was supposedly threatening not to do it just a few days ago… and depending on which side you’re on, the general consensus seems to be that Kamala won, it’s just a matter of how; did she just hopelessly outclass him, or did she conspire with ABC and the moderators assigned to the debate to gain an unfair advantage? Predictably, the latter is what I’ve seen a bunch of Trumpeters shrieking on Twitter, because OBVIOUSLY there was no other way she could possibly have outclassed the orange prick in the way she did… but she didn’t even really need to try that hard, cos Trump was perfectly capable of shitting his own bed. At one point he was asked about his healthcare plan:

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Trump struggled to answer a question about his healthcare plan, accidentally revealing that he didn’t have one at all.
After his particularly lackluster response criticizing Obamacare but giving no alternatives, ABC moderate Linsey Davis asked Trump outright if he knew what he was talking about. “Yes or no, you still do not have a plan?” she said.
“I have concepts of a plan,” Trump replied. “I’m not president right now.”
“But if we come up with something, I would only change it if we come up with something that is better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you will be hearing about it in the not too distant future.”

Quite. I don’t know exactly how not-too-distant this future Trump referred to is, but the election is now less than two months away. I think people might want to hear more before then. This should’ve been the takeaway line from the show, of course, but then he had to descend to retelling recent news stories (that have already been debunked) about Haitian immigrants (illegals ones, too, because OBVIOUSLY) stealing and eating people’s cats and dogs. Because this sort of old-school racist bullshit is about all he has.

Anyway, the real sign that Kamala won the debate was this:

YES. TAY TAY’S FINALLY SAID IT. I don’t think anyone would be surprised as her siding with KH, of course, but it’s kind of nice that she’s finally actually confirmed it. Especially cos it’ll piss Dampnut off.

Needless to say, SOME PEOPLE reacted to this normally:

Christopher Rufo is one of the most godawful people working in conservative American politics these days, so if even HE’s aghast at… whatever the fuck THAT was supposed to be, you should recognise you might have fucked up. But, of course, this is Oolong, not a normal person…

Needless to say Apartheid Clyde agreed with his goons that Trump was hard done by and the moderators were overly harsh on him. But the thing is, Trump is a lying cunt. And if he weren’t a lying cunt, people wouldn’t need to call him out for being a lying cunt. The onus is on him to not be a lying cunt on TV like that. Also, while I’m sure Oolong’s support for Dampnut is sincere, he’s also sucking up to him cos the old bugger’s spoken recently about getting him to head some government efficiency commission, so I presume Oolong’s being all “of course Trump won” so Trump doesn’t forget that idea. Not that it’ll happen anyway, I suspect.

That can be arranged, I’m sure

Elon Musk says he wants to die ‘off coast of Mars’

Elon Musk claims he wants to die “off the coast of Mars” after having poor cell service.
Musk, who is offering a $100,000 for a strange role at his Tesla company, was a surprise guest at Michael Milken’s annual Hamptons Prostate Cancer Foundation gala, speaking in front of a crowd filled with fellow billionaires.
The conversation was based on various Musk talking points, including his space project Starlink that recently shared an update about its Neuralink brain chip patient.
“I had important texts to respond to on the way here and couldn’t… people were asking where I was, Timbuktu?” Musk reportedly said.
A person who heard the conversation said that Musk said: “He wanted to die in a capsule off the coast of Mars.”

I’m not sure what that evens means, given that Mars has no oceans to have coastlines, and planets don’t actually have coastlines either. Also, is this apparent death wish related somehow to his mobile service problems? If so, how and why, as well as what the fuck? If not… also what the fuck? Cos after all the years of bullshit about going to Mars, it’s weird that he’s willing to settle for the “coast” of it… what does he think he is, Moses not being allowed into the promised land or something? I don’t know. Also, the article mentions that the only political topic under discussion at this conclave was immigration. For some reason that strikes me as far less of a surprise…

Elsewhere in Birdland

This is the current state of political discourse chez Oolong. Matt Convente should clearly have made a racist remark in his post, he’d have got away with it then…

In other Oolong news, he’s suing people for not advertising on his platform:

This is slightly rich coming from the man who famously told advertisers to go fuck themselves, but hey, you do you, cuntface. It’s not like you’re smart enough to do anything else.

Also, in stopped clock news…

Piers Morgan has hit out at Elon Musk over his inflamatory remarks about Britain’s ongoing race riots.
Violent disorder has spread across the country in the wake of the stabbings of three young girls in Southport, after misinformation spread that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Hundreds of people have been arrested, with thousands of police officers deployed to prepare for further actions throughout the week. At least one person has been left seriously injured as a result of racist and Islamophobic attacks, with stabbings, street beatings, and mosques under siege.
The billionaire tech owner has been accused of fanning the flames of unrest, as he shared a video of a group of Asian men gathered around a pub in Birmingham with the caption, “Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain?” to X/Twitter on Tuesday (6 August).
He tagged UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer in the post, after the Labour leader condemned actions against groups based on their race or religion and called for mosques to be protected.
Morgan called out Musk for the comment as he chastised, “Elon, fake news was posted that the triple child-killer was a Muslim illegal immigrant who came in on a small boat and was on a terror watchlist.
“This prompted far-right rioters to attack Muslims & asylum seekers. I haven’t seen you mention/condemn any of this?”

Piers Morgan is one of the most genuinely baffling people in British media, in that he is transparently a piece of shit, but every so often the ideological scales fall from his eyes and he comes up against someone who’s just too big a cunt even for him and he puts forward a Good Take. The whole Southport situation has been so revolting I haven’t wanted to say anything about it, but Piers is being honest: the far-right shitheads that Apartheid Clyde insists on increasingly appealing too ARE the ones at fault in this awful case, all these fucking Yaxley-Lennon wannabes “taking their country back from immigrants” by looting stores that weren’t actually immigrant-owned and so forth… ugh. What a cunt Musk is, standing with these so-called people.

And how is his majesty doing?

It’s been a few days now since that shooting, we should check in on the orange one…

…aaaaand he’s fine. Nothing wrong with him except morally, as ever. Good to see that coming so close to death has made him realise the preciousness of life and driven him to focus on stuff that actually matters.

And he’s got friends looking after him too:

Insofar as the mask was ever on, it’s irretrievably off now. I can’t wait to find out just what Oolong expects from Glorious Bleeder for this, though, cos I’m sure that 45 million has strings attached.

And, well, sometimes you’ve got to feel sorry for the guy:

Frankly even I can’t work out what Trump has done to deserve this. Personally I can only hope Farrago’s new constituents in Clacton don’t mind him abandoning them immediately like this, I mean, it’s only a week or so since they voted him in and he’s already shirking his responsibilities to them to go and gently cup the balls of some elderly American man who isn’t even a resident of the country, let alone the constituency. Still, they voted for him, they deserve whatever they get…

Meanwhile on RM Brown’s channel:

There’s a couple of issues about this theory that God saved Trump (apart from the fact that it presupposes God’s existence, obviously) that I find problematic:

One, if God was protecting Trump, why did he let the shooting happen at all? Why didn’t he stop the shooter from firing in the first place?
Two… frankly, someone died. And another man apparently required multiple surgeries for the injuries he sustained, plus two others were apparently hit as well. Why didn’t God protect THEM? Did he decide they could just go fuck themselves? These pricks gushing about God saving Trump aren’t making as good a case for God as they think they are…

Well that was unexpected

Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

I was sceptical a few months ago when the story of Oolong’s first Neuralink chip started circulating, but I suppose if they’re admitting something’s wrong with it then it actually did happen after all…

The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday.
It’s unclear what caused the threads to become “retracted” from the brain, how many have retracted, or if the displaced threads pose a safety risk. Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Ars. The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.

If I’m reading the story correctly, they seem to be mostly worried that the chip isns’t transferring data fast enough to actually be useful in moving cursors on a screen and that sort of thing. I suppose the thinking is “the guy was already a paraplegic so it’s not like we could fuck him up any further”… I mean, it wasn’t a CybertrucKKK they were putting in his brain…