Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the …
Why do I torture myself reading biographies of people and/or companies I hate? I don't know. But I do, so add to the queue.
@hankg we gotta do the work to understand why people support obvious scams and grifters
@hankg Musk confused me for the longest time. I am familiar with social media companies, and we all saw the advice #TechDirt and basically everybody gave Musk:
I couldn't figure out why Musk was ignoring all that and just #GuttingTwitter of all value.
@hankg Then, long after it aired, I saw Musk's SNL episode and it clicked for me:
https://youtu.be/fCF8I_X1qKI?si=es9q59c6e6l9C2Y6
I think Musk is just #Terminally4ChanBrained . He enjoyed a particular niche of users on Twitter that most people would block and that regularly violated Twitter's terms.
In the past I thought Musk just overestimates how much people hate what he hates, and he underestimates how much people hate what he loves. But he was able to #BuyAnElection , so I am reevaluating Musk all over again.
