At a moment of dangerously splintering reality, the billionaire manchild has engineered his most revolutionary invention yet: the perfect mechanism to turn money into lies and lies into money.
Why are you still on twitter? If honest people would leave, twitter would simply devolve into a swill pit like other fascist online sites. Incels telling eachother how handsome and smart they all are.
I’m planning to stop tweeting after the election. I have a big platform there and I’m trying to use every lever to get the message out about the stakes of Nov 5.
Thank you, Brian. Never have been on Shitter! This information!?! 🤑 😤 More reasons to be glad I'm old! Humans apparently won't ever stop associating wealth with genius!
“he should have considered that before he renamed it something as stupid as “X.” “….. My sentiment precisely. “X” to me equals “wrong”, “erase”, “remove”, “delete”, “No,No, No!” etc. ad inf. It’s embarrassingly juvenile. And the Cybertruck….there is one down the road and when I pass it I shudder at memories of WW2 and newsreels of Nazi tanks rolling roughshod through Europe….Aggression and “Uglification” personified. Ugh, I cannot think rationally about the man! Perhaps we just X him out?
I left Twitter the day Musk bought it. I was mostly connected to professionals and businesses in my field. I miss it for that, but I want to part of the total cesspool that it's turned into.
I have a question (oops, perhaps I shouldn’t have started that way): What is to be done to address this mess? How do we, through legitimate means, correct this situation?
Don't be afraid of X. Be afraid of people who do not think. I believe we have a country with 99% literacy that is at 8th grade level. But most people never read . Get someone interested in reading because majority rules in a democracy. Until we achieve a majority of readers we will have to fight for everything which is true.
Maybe you already knew. During WWII the letters L.S.M.F.T. were broadcast, often several times in a row, apparently secretly, both as alphabets and in Morse Code, followed by silence. People were left to figure it out for themselves. Theories abounded, mostly about enemies and secret messages. Eventual it came to be known as a commercial, “Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco”. Lucky Strikes were included in troop-portable pre-packaged meals and cartons/packages were prized contraband for black market trading. The public generally came to be ‘in on the joke’ and accepted the ruse in good spirits, but it was conspiratorial for most of 1943-44.
This is getting so sinister. The public at large are so poorly educated and malleable and are being harvested as crop. “Follow the money” generally works but it’s getting harder and harder to see where it comes from, through what channels and into which pockets. This article helps but the crooks are outpacing we victims and it feels too late to intervene. Who can stop it? How can it be regulated? What laws are being violated? Can there be any consequences of any consequence??
Kamala, more than any Democrat before is funded by billionaires. Billionaires like Mark Cuban act as her surrogates while they openly push Harris to replace FTC chairwoman Lina Khan who has championed anti-trust action under the Biden administration. Regulation-decentralization anti-monopoly measures- enforcing anti-trust laws are what Yuval Noah Harari calls for in his comprehensive masterpiece Nexus on algorithms and the extraordinary dangers of AI owned by the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg. Kamala is likely to fire Lin Khan and reduce anti-trust initiatives of the Biden Administration. The fact that she won't commit to keeping this in place and place it as a priority is very telling of how she will eventually get along quite nicely with Musk and his likes if she wins in November.
and Bill C, Obama were not??? As well as Trump and JD with his connections to Peter Thiel? Part of the reason that JD has praised Lena is because his VC sugar daddies have been left behind in the generative AI arms race because they lack the scale of the big tech companies. They want to break up Google and MSFT and will do anything to exploit an advantage. The VC crowd has recently had fewer and fewer opportunities to invest in recent years which is why they are pushing crypto schemes.
The bottom line is that the wealthy always pick their sides. Those of us who are less wealthy have to pick the side that we think best represents who we are. I respect your opinion Glen but both sides play this game.
Why are you still on twitter? If honest people would leave, twitter would simply devolve into a swill pit like other fascist online sites. Incels telling eachother how handsome and smart they all are.
I’m planning to stop tweeting after the election. I have a big platform there and I’m trying to use every lever to get the message out about the stakes of Nov 5.
Thank you, Brian. Never have been on Shitter! This information!?! 🤑 😤 More reasons to be glad I'm old! Humans apparently won't ever stop associating wealth with genius!
Never on Twitter and have
dropped Facebook. Substack
is my only community
outreach group. Thank you
Brian for dismantling Musk.
Too bad he has gov't
contracts worth billions.
“he should have considered that before he renamed it something as stupid as “X.” “….. My sentiment precisely. “X” to me equals “wrong”, “erase”, “remove”, “delete”, “No,No, No!” etc. ad inf. It’s embarrassingly juvenile. And the Cybertruck….there is one down the road and when I pass it I shudder at memories of WW2 and newsreels of Nazi tanks rolling roughshod through Europe….Aggression and “Uglification” personified. Ugh, I cannot think rationally about the man! Perhaps we just X him out?
I left Twitter the day Musk bought it. I was mostly connected to professionals and businesses in my field. I miss it for that, but I want to part of the total cesspool that it's turned into.
I have a question (oops, perhaps I shouldn’t have started that way): What is to be done to address this mess? How do we, through legitimate means, correct this situation?
Don't be afraid of X. Be afraid of people who do not think. I believe we have a country with 99% literacy that is at 8th grade level. But most people never read . Get someone interested in reading because majority rules in a democracy. Until we achieve a majority of readers we will have to fight for everything which is true.
Well Dr Klaas, you have my vote and must have been great on the campaign trail too, bitd 🙂
I left twitter shortly after the “billionaire manchild” (perfect description!) took over. The only thing I miss besides book news is Brian Klaas.
Find me on Spoutible.com where you can write one post and simultaneously publish it on other sites. (@draabe)
Maybe you already knew. During WWII the letters L.S.M.F.T. were broadcast, often several times in a row, apparently secretly, both as alphabets and in Morse Code, followed by silence. People were left to figure it out for themselves. Theories abounded, mostly about enemies and secret messages. Eventual it came to be known as a commercial, “Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco”. Lucky Strikes were included in troop-portable pre-packaged meals and cartons/packages were prized contraband for black market trading. The public generally came to be ‘in on the joke’ and accepted the ruse in good spirits, but it was conspiratorial for most of 1943-44.
Ironic that I first saw a link to this on Twitter (although I came here from my email newsletter).
This is getting so sinister. The public at large are so poorly educated and malleable and are being harvested as crop. “Follow the money” generally works but it’s getting harder and harder to see where it comes from, through what channels and into which pockets. This article helps but the crooks are outpacing we victims and it feels too late to intervene. Who can stop it? How can it be regulated? What laws are being violated? Can there be any consequences of any consequence??
Kamala, more than any Democrat before is funded by billionaires. Billionaires like Mark Cuban act as her surrogates while they openly push Harris to replace FTC chairwoman Lina Khan who has championed anti-trust action under the Biden administration. Regulation-decentralization anti-monopoly measures- enforcing anti-trust laws are what Yuval Noah Harari calls for in his comprehensive masterpiece Nexus on algorithms and the extraordinary dangers of AI owned by the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg. Kamala is likely to fire Lin Khan and reduce anti-trust initiatives of the Biden Administration. The fact that she won't commit to keeping this in place and place it as a priority is very telling of how she will eventually get along quite nicely with Musk and his likes if she wins in November.
and Bill C, Obama were not??? As well as Trump and JD with his connections to Peter Thiel? Part of the reason that JD has praised Lena is because his VC sugar daddies have been left behind in the generative AI arms race because they lack the scale of the big tech companies. They want to break up Google and MSFT and will do anything to exploit an advantage. The VC crowd has recently had fewer and fewer opportunities to invest in recent years which is why they are pushing crypto schemes.
The bottom line is that the wealthy always pick their sides. Those of us who are less wealthy have to pick the side that we think best represents who we are. I respect your opinion Glen but both sides play this game.
I hope you are wrong but I Think you are right
Kamala's billionaire buddies have already convinced her to propose a lower increase in the capital gains tax rate than Biden had in his budget.