Post AUuka7Sac6ALMRnS3k by Danielsand@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #AUujCHvdwLAOvOSVSy by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:11:34Z
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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 muskhttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293
(DIR) Post #AUujCJhXLl4UQDsGky by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:12:08Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AUujCLKZI7t3TZ8xEW by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:12:42Z
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golly shucks gee maybe there are lessons here
(DIR) Post #AUujCNhgT9Z8ppyRXc by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:35:09Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AUujCPLQMswrvNZh7g by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:46:17Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AUujCRWqFPGmhMvqCG by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:52:35Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AUujUu5So4i0U1vdzM by edgeoforever@mastodon.world
2023-04-22T15:19:23Z
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@KarlBode There are two problems: Musk is a narcissistic Nazi and also, the media is beholden to Nazis (financially, politically). So gushing over a mediocre self confident Nazi is mixing business with pleasure for most of them. Same formula as for tfg.
(DIR) Post #AUujs5Nuy6JKBOcAl6 by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T15:23:36Z
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@edgeoforever yes, though also they make way more money unskeptically hyping new tech than they do writing more nuanced deep dives into real world limitations and caveats 90s and early aughts coverage was drunk at the altar of innovation, libertarianism, and the miracle of emerging technology, and it's still a problem
(DIR) Post #AUukWJxcCAkwyKUtea by MattFerrel@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-22T15:04:53Z
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@KarlBode “A person who has talked to each man about the other put it more succinctly: “Musk thinks Peter is a sociopath, and Peter thinks Musk is a fraud and a braggart.””https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html
(DIR) Post #AUukXainMcqHFFAg1Q by Danielsand@mastodon.online
2023-04-22T14:15:58Z
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@KarlBode “nobody knew he was actually lying this entire time!” “Shocked. Shocked we, the media who refused to ever ask him a single question, are. “
(DIR) Post #AUuka6pwvlG1Qbiapc by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T14:27:28Z
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@Danielsand there were like four or five tech journalists who called bullshit on him from the start and most of them were rewarded with marginalization, ridicule, and death threats (especially if they were women)
(DIR) Post #AUuka7Sac6ALMRnS3k by Danielsand@mastodon.online
2023-04-22T14:38:03Z
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@KarlBode yup. And his cult still does it and nobody in big media calls him out for enabling and encouraging them to do it. He knows the power of his voice and he seems to revel in sending his cult after those people.
(DIR) Post #AUukaBMi5tq7TN4oS0 by Danielsand@mastodon.online
2023-04-22T14:41:35Z
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@KarlBode that’s honestly what I find most frustrating about the coverage of him. He is a bully and they handwave away all of that.
(DIR) Post #AUukgpSHxB6ZXyr5LU by CassandraZeroCovid@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T14:42:52Z
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@KarlBode Article quote:"A vapor trail of broken Musk promises and failed predictions, all of which became news stories, have been documented by the elonmusk.today website."
(DIR) Post #AUukiXUlhQ4WQMpYvY by adamjcook@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T14:52:15Z
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@KarlBode The biggest issue was, in my view, one of a betrayal of journalistic ethics.Many in the tech press were used by Musk to facilitate Tesla’s lies around their “full self-driving” narrative - which was anything but.The public was concretely harmed by those ethical wrongdoings.
(DIR) Post #AUupsKFOJFd00F7k8W by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T15:51:37Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AUupsLynrtY1NNNWYi by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T16:05:23Z
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over and over again. Rinse and repeat. greed, superficial hype, and an ad-engagement based press is why we're so easily victimized by bullshit artists like Adam Neuman to Elizabeth Holmes, who'd be weeded out much earlier if the US press was remotely interested in meaningful introspection
(DIR) Post #AUupsO2QDPd9lB5RTc by KarlBode@masto.ai
2023-04-22T16:06:13Z
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I always recommend people watch The Lady and the Dale, and behold as the same stupid unskeptical hype cycle repeats itself over and over in America with nobody learning anything from history or experiencehttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lady_and_the_dale/s01