Elon Musk knows how to pile it high and deep. He has been promising a $25,000 Tesla since 2020. He promised people could buy a ticket to Mars on one of his rockets by 2029 – and since we’re not quite there yet, maybe he will deliver on that promise. And maybe we’ll be getting those $5,000 DOGE rebate checks in the mail any day now, too. Now he wants to build Moon City. It will probably end up being like Moon Base Alpha from Space 1999 – i.e., it won’t actually exist.
Then there’s Xcrement – which used to be named Twitter but is still the same shit. Worse, actually – because Musk likes to pretend it’s different now. I like to point out that it’s not as a kind of public service and because I consider Musk to be a pasty-faced grifter. I think the evidence speaks for itself, but every now and then I find some more.
My article about Jeremy Clarkson’s cancer – published yesterday morning – has about 8,500 views so far. It got picked up by a number of other outlets, including Liberty Bell. My point is that a lot of people have seen the article. Almost no one has on Xcrement.
As of this morning – June 23 – about 19 people had seen it. That’s a measure of how high and deep the Xcrement is. 
There are others. I have friends who do basically what I do. They are professional writers and speakers; some of them have big audiences. Just not on Xcrement. They are ushered into what can perhaps best be understood as a kind of time-out room where they are not seen or heard. They are not told they are in this time-out room, but it becomes obvious they are over time. These friends of mine and I have tried to cross-pollinate and promote each other, by “reposting,” “liking” and replying to things we post.
It is often the case that these replies are never seen, either. They simply echo in the vacuum of algorithmic emptiness.
There is, of course, not much point in beating a dead horse. People with sense already know Xcrement is shit. (Just as people with sense knew that wearing masks and standing six feet apart was shit.) The larger – the more important point – is that Musk is shit. An extractive, rent-seeking, autistic-pretending shit who deserves to be whacked like a pinata until the Xcrement comes out. People forget that it was Musk who was the critical factor behind the initial pushing of EVs – and the billions in losses that have accrued ($20 billion at Ford alone so far) as a consequence of other, so-called “legacy” car companies being effectively forced to push EVs of their own. This push has only receded a bit, too. Not unlike the “masking” business – which hasn’t gone away, either but only receded.
Both are biding their time, awaiting a resurgence.
Musk, meanwhile, has moved on to his outer-space and robotics/AI grifts – all while warning us of the dangers of robotics and AI. He tells us most of us will be rendered useless eaters by his robots and AI and pretends to care about the consequences of this. We’ll get a universal basic income and be able to pursue our interests because the drudgery of working will become a thing of the past. It’ll be Elysium!
Just like there is free speech over at Xcrement.
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‘He [Musk] promised people could buy a ticket to Mars.’ — eric
South Koreans — one of the world’s more emotional and volatile cultures, apparently — bought a ticket to Mars in their stock market. As AI data centers sucked up all the memory on the planet, the prices of South Korean memory chip makers blasted through the Van Allen belt toward Pluto.
But today, something malfunctioned. SK Hynix and Samsung both got whacked by over 12%. US Nasdaq futures are down almost 3%. Elon’s recent SpaceX IPO did something like the Mercury space shot in 1961, when ol’ Alan Shepard ascended above the atmosphere … and then plunged back down into the sea a mere 15 minutes later.
Before the SpaceX IPO, I claimed that it would ring the bell on the highballing bull market. Now the first cracks have appeared, perhaps analogous to the April smash after the awesome pinnacle ‘Nasdaq 5000’ was attained for two, and only two, days on March 9-10, 2000.
Bubble Baloney, comrades — don’t bet your fortune on it! Elon got his already … as wounded bagholders are learning to their sorrow. 🙁
Eric: We’ll get a universal basic income and be able to pursue our interests because the drudgery of working will become a thing of the past. It’ll be Elysium!
You know there’s a reason Christians say: “The Devil has work for idle hands.”
I’m guessing if the foreigners cause problems all over the world; you ain’t seen nothing yet when talented white people get turned into serfs. Sure many of them will turn to drugs and alcohol but many will find out how to take their revenge on the oligarchs that turned them into serfs. Just saying.
The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and I lied, and why?
Because you asked me to!
— The Smiths, What Difference Does It Make? (1984)
‘They are ushered into … a kind of time-out room.’ — eric
Yesterday I attempted to open an X post linked in a forum, to see a lengthier document contained in it. A message appeared: “Something went wrong. It’s not your fault.” Same result on another browser.
It didn’t say ‘post deleted.’ It just refused to serve it up. What kind of service is that? I closed the browser window and went elsewhere to be entertained.