Post #4054104

2026-07-24 04:35 UTC

Think of the sheer staggering volume of total bullshıt about #ElonMusk has poured out of @arstechnica@mastodon.social and @popsci@universeodon.com and @forbes@flipboard.com and a bazillion other #media outlets and individual commentators and people with YouTube channels and podcasts. There's been a precious few granules of proper investigative #journalism into Musk over the years, undertaken at great personal risk because Musk does not deal quietly with his problems and the people who vex him. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 04:41

I keep hectoring about this matter because without all that soppy gushy coverage of #Musk from the earliest days of his quite suspiciously orchestrated publicity campaign, in which Elon was seeded not merely into tech and business journalism but widely through U.S. #entertainment and even written into a #StarTrek series (thus subtly projecting Elon Musk into the distant future), it's doubtful that Musk could have gotten very far. He was never good at anything. He was never actually good at anything, there's not a trace of evidence for Elon Musk's competence, yet merely because of all the publicity and because Maye Musk (probably) scammed Musk a ROYAL FELLOWSHIP of all things--like he was actually a real scientist or engineer and not a flim-flam man--everyone went along with it. @SciMag@flipboard.com and @arstechnica@mastodon.social etc. all went for it. (cont'd)

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