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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

I have a random thought about all of this and Elon. In Walter Isaacson's book (as noted by @davekarpf.bsky.social), he tells the story of Elon constantly going all in. davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Yup. I had "the realization" when Elon started talking about "free speech" and "content moderation," which are subjects I actually understand and he doesn't. And I still can't believe how many people still think he knows what he's talking about on either one of those.

Shyam Akash
@feelsbadshyam.bsky.social

Elon was born at the 5-yard line and everything since Zip2 has been nothing but him dancing in the endzone. This anecdote doesn’t fully examine the phenomena at play here, it’s just meant to heighten the myth of the man and of entrepreneurs in general.

Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

I don't deny that at all. The story is a demonstration of how you can be incredibly stupid and get away with it if you have infinite funds. But that's really not the point I was going for.

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