So the black grandson of South Africa’s arguably most famous black person just had his Twitter account suspended. You know, Twitter, the company by that white South African character who evidently has little if any idea how this is going to make him look, and how little this is going to change perceptions of him as a racist shithead. Well done.
Someone shared this on Bluesky:
Apparently this is what I miss out on by not following Oolong on Twatter, i.e. this sort of first-class mind speculating on history as if he were the first person to ever have this idea and THE FUCKING ROMANS THEMSELVES hadn’t thought of it MILLENNIA ago. Like… the Aeneid exists. It has done since before the putative birth of Christ. The Trojans are there in the extant parts of Dionysius and Livy, which are of the same period.
And the Romans got Aeneas from the Greeks, much like they got almost everything else. I don’t know exactly when the story of him founding the Trojan colony in Italy first originated, but we do find this in the Iliad at one point (Emily Wilson translation):
Aeneas has been fated to survive,
so that the family of Dardanus,
whom Zeus, the son of Cronus, loved the most
of all the sons he had by mortal women,
will not die out, forgotten, with no seed.
But Zeus has come to hate the line of Priam.
Therefore Aeneas and his children’s children
who will be born in future generations
will rule the Trojans.
That’s Poseidon speaking in book 20. Aeneas isn’t a big character in the Iliad, but the idea that he was being spared by the gods for something big was present in this text, whose precise date and origin are still quibbled over (and have been for millennia as well) but it’s generally considered that it was committed to writing some time in the eighth century BC. So the idea that Aeneas was fated to survive the war and flourish as the Trojan ruler (and it doesn’t say he would necessarily rule Troy as such, just the Trojans) goes back a very long way.
And here’s this stupid cunt going on like he’s the first person in history to ever think this. As if he’s ever given the Romans any thought in the first place. Next thing he’ll be noticing that English contains a lot of words from other languages…
It’s not enough for Oolong to be a terminal fool, he has to keep announcing that he is one, evidently. I mean, a lot of books are longer than they need to be (looking at Stephen King’s collected works here, I’m sure most of you could benefit from an editor who’s not afraid of him), but this really isn’t the way to fix that…
Oddly enough, I did a search for “Elon Musk books” just to see if there were any lists of his favourite reading (making the possibly bold assumption that he reads at all, of course), and I actually found a few, including—somewhat to my own surprise—some with actual fiction. SF/fantasy, mostly. Including Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged (because OBVIOUSLY), somewhat ironically given what he says here about how most books could be shorter… Even more ironically, I found one of his recommended lists on a site called Blinkist, which is an app that, well, summarises the salient points of books… you know, technology that already exists, ELON. Keep up to date, man, even I’ve known about Blinkist for years, it’s only been around since 2012…
Also, one of his favourite books was a biography of Howard Hughes, whose life he described as “a cautionary tale”. Be nice if he remembered the lessons he learned from Hughes and apply them to his own life at some point…
So this poor bastard’s heart is evidently breaking that people don’t like the CybertrucKKK and he can’t understand why they don’t. How to improve people’s perception of it? …Hmmmmmm. Well, for a start, maybe make it LESS FUCKING UGLY, perhaps. Make it less of a box, put a bit more curvature in. (Apparently the truck’s famous stainless steel frame means that’s actually quite difficult to do, so… I don’t know, use something else?) I suspect people might also feel better supposed towards it if Tesla could demonstrate it’s actually safer than they’ve been fearing; if you google “cybertruck dangerous”, you get a truly remarkable number of articles wringing their hands over just how dangerous these things might be to pedestrians, cyclists, other vehicles, time and space itself, etc. I don’t see the same sort of fear around other cars. Also, that dickhead Musk has to stop associating with the company so that people won’t associate the truck with him; otherwise the only people actually excited about this fucking monstrosity will continue to be his cultists like the twit who wrote this nonsense in the first place…
Oolong’s lawsuit against that org documenting racist and extremist content on Twatter just got tossed:
A judge in California on Monday dismissed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit that has published reports chronicling the rise of racist, antisemitic and extremist content on X, formerly Twitter, since Musk’s acquisition.
The case was dismissed in accordance with the state’s anti-Slapp law, which forbids nuisance lawsuits intended to punish the exercise of free speech.
“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose,” wrote Charles Breyer, the US district judge, in the ruling. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech.”
This was a pretty bullshit case from the off and the judge. Alas that it almost certainly won’t make any difference to the amount of “racist, antisemitic and extremist content” on the platform, not if the amount of that sort of shit which I’ve been reporting lately and getting nothing but “chinlesswonder1488 hasn’t broken our safety policies” type replies is indicative…
I’ll admit to having no idea how to set my own PC laptop up without the Microsoft account either, but I’m also not marketing myself and being celebrated by an unthinking cult as the world’s prime technology genius. Surprised to find such a smart man using Windows in the first place (are Mac and Linux too woke for him?)…
You remember Neuralink, don’t you? You remember the 1500 animals that died in the course of experimenting on them? Well, as you may see above, Oolong is now claiming to have taken the next step; I was wrong the last time I posted about this, cos I said he didn’t have FDA approval for human testing when he actually had got it a few months earlier, and he’s apparently acted on that at last.
I say “apparently” because, well, this tweet appears to be the only evidence of it happening at all. Neuralink’s own Twitter account is conspicuously free of any statement on the subject, the “recipient” hasn’t been identified, and I’m just perplexed by the absence of hype. This tweet has been, you know, it. Kind of weird that people are just accepting this story on the face of it without, you know, evidence, though I have seen a few people wondering what Elon might be trying to distract us from with this amazing news, and someone may have found out:
“Unacceptable migration of contaminated ground water is present” is quite a way of putting it. Tesla’s fuckup is, as far as I can see, getting rather less coverage than Musk’s putative neurosurgery success, but maybe it just needs more time to circulate. Either way, if this operation did happen, and I somehow feel it didn’t, I hope the proud owner of a new brain chip has a happier ending than Oolong’s monkeys…
Parenthetically, one of the responders to the Brian Tyler Cohen tweet I posted at the start of this made some snide remark about how at least Elon admits he wants to microchip you. Which is not an entirely bad point, but, really, if you’re going to be like that about it, one might further add the reason why Bill Gates doesn’t tell you about microchipping is that HE ISN’T DOING THAT TO YOU. Fucking paranoids, man…
So remember how, just a few weeks ago, Oolong was copping mockery for this glorious post? For some reason, it’s only just struck me now after looking at it again that it’s actually even stupider than I first thought.
An armoured personnel carrier from the future.
What “Bladerunner” would have driven.
But when did Blade Runner take place?
…OH.
Which was four years in the PAST when Oolong said Cybertruck(kk) was from the future.
I don’t know how I didn’t pick up on this at the time when this silliness started circulating, but goddamn I’m pleased that I’ve finally done so.
Yeah, Alex Jones is back on Twitter, despite what Oolong once said about how that would never happen:
A sentiment of perfect nobility, obviously, except for the fact that it didn’t happen that way, according to his by then ex-wife:
OOF. And it now turns out he was lying about not letting Jones back on Shitter; I don’t believe for a second that he only did it because he posted a poll on there that ended up in favour of Jones’ return, he wouldn’t have posted the poll if he weren’t already thinking of doing it, this just made it look like “the will of the people” or some shit. From that BBC article:
After Musk posted the poll, Jones shared a video online in which he called on his supporters to vote in favour of his ban being overturned.
Jones’s old account was reinstated hours after the poll ended.
Responding to one user on Saturday, Musk said he “vehemently” disagreed with Jones’s statements about Sandy Hook, adding: “but are we a platform that believes in freedom of speech or are we not?”
He said the move would be “bad for X financially” but “principles matter more than money”.
I mean, the answer to his question is “no, don’t be so fucking stupid“. And there’s no principle involved here; Musk was right about hating people profiting from the deaths of children, but somewhere along the way that principle’s fallen by the wayside. I don’t know whether he or Jones is the bigger moral vacuum in this situation.
So we’ve also seen pictures of Oolong Husk’s Cybertruck(kk), but I think this is the first time I’ve realised the actual size of it:
Jay Leno is five foot eleven, apparently. That’s what a nearly six-foot man looks like inside one of these fucking things. Seeing that gave me a sudden understanding of the actual size of Cybertruck(kk)… and it now feels uglier to me than ever before; if it didn’t look bad enough in the pictures of it I’d seen, it seems a whole lot worse now…
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