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snapcaster ◴[] No.43470829[source]
This is so weird, did he miscalculate how intense the backlash would be? or he truly doesn't care?
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Upvoter33 ◴[] No.43470867[source]
To me, it's pretty funny. It's like we're being told "hey, don't worry, this is the world's smartest guy, and he's going to, in a heartbeat, examine every dollar of spending and tell us what to cut. And oh yeah, he didn't anticipate that Tesla might be hurt by his actions."
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tonyhart7 ◴[] No.43470951[source]
he should never use twitter tbh, back then elon is likeable until he tweet 20 times a day
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api ◴[] No.43471117[source]
I think Twitter is partly responsible for destroying his mind, with the rest of the job being done by drugs.

It's an inherently toxic format. It promotes incoherent, contradiction-ridden, emotionally-driven, short-attention-span meme-think.

IMHO Bluesky is no better, which is why I'm not there. It's the same format, an incoherent soup of sound bites competing to emotionally trigger you into amplifying them. This format is the kind of thing a mad scientist would design with the explicit goal of rotting the human mind.

The good thing about books and longer-form works... even things as long as Reddit and HN comments... is that they can encapsulate complete thoughts that are connected to other thoughts. Building systems of thinking is how humans reason coherently about the world. Meme soup reduces us to some kind of animal level of grunts and short-horizon reactions but with language. It's gross.

I've been calling "social" media companies in general "the tobacco companies of the mind" for years.

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1. rchaud ◴[] No.43471375[source]
Being radicalized by the Internet isn't an excuse for teenage Isis fighters, nor is it one for a 55 year old man.
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2. disqard ◴[] No.43472952[source]
I get where you're coming from (and I've rolled my eyes at the "video games cause violence" line of reasoning myself).

However, there is much wisdom in McLuhan's "we become what we behold" -- and consuming too much "social media" turns one into a performative puppet. Twitter is the distilled version of this (Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter Poisoning").

If Elon Husk huffing Twitter 24/7 while owning Twitter isn't a case of "getting high on your own supply", then I don't know what is.