Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%

This is so weird, did he miscalculate how intense the backlash would be? or he truly doesn't care?

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."

he should never use twitter tbh, back then elon is likeable until he tweet 20 times a day

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.

I strongly agree with this argument. Both sides are equally guilty of fueling a culture of baseless accusations. While it's a broader issue across the Western world, it's especially pronounced in the U.S. It's reached a point where words have lost their weight and meaning.

Saying “both sides” is free PR for the worst side. They’ve never been close since the turn of the century when the right-wing reaction to 9/11 included people rationalizing vile smears against their political opponents and it’s just become more and more unbalanced now, especially when you consider the power disparity.