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Musk’s abrupt firing of the team initially seemed like a display of power—a way to assert control and show he could make tough decisions in the face of investor pressure.

This is justification for wrecking 500 employee's lives? So he could show he's a tough business boy? In order to reassure people who've gotten over 50% returns for a decade? In a company that's "worth" more than the GDP of Saudi Arabia?

Investor confidence is so important to Musk because he knows Tesla is a bubble.

If France was a gun it'd obviously be pointed at England.

There are two genres of capitalist optimism.

one is the "it's going to be different this time baby I swear" and the other is "prayer to an angry god". This piece obviously is of the former category.

the circle is complete:

FELLAS! IS IT GAY TO BE HAPPY?

I don't care about MSNBC. Cable news sucks. It's a format with five minutes of information to deliver and 24 hours to fill. Its a promise to make you wise, but with the same effort as ignorance.

What voters did we fail to capture, and why

The problem with this framing is that it excludes certain answers. If you approach the problem as "voters have good faith issues that we can address" you pre-exclude those issues being bigoted, unreasonable, or naive. If the correct answer to "why Latino men moved toward Trump" is because Harris was a woman, then you'll be forever blind to that fact while you focus on trivial justifications like pocketbook issues.

It's not fair to describe the western models as "closed". All the tech bros have a open-source ethic that would embarrass a FOSS developer. At least when it comes to training data.

His cabinet is already stocked with batman villains lead by Elon Musk as the newly created secretary of layoffs. You're going to have to do better than a everyday crazy Republican to outrage me at this point.

You couldn't make this movie today. That's because the alien would just walk around in a bathrobe, tentacles and ribs sticking out everywhere. When challenged, it would just say:

"Oh, I guess that anybody who has different opinion about which biomass ought to consume which is a "MONSTER" now? So much for the tolerant left!"

When you hear Republicans say Russia is "defending Western values", this is what they're talking about.