Post #4054250
2026-07-24 04:44 UTC
Now I'm going to be a bit charitable here.
While I do think that it's a scandal there's no general understanding of the sciences in U.S. #media and #journalism—and I'll go so far as to suspect that a number of top-level journalists are functionally illiterate, only able to communicate in slogans and jargon and simple charts—it should not have been necessary for @arstechnica@mastodon.social or @newscientist@mstdn.social or @TheEconomist@flipboard.com or ANY big news outlet to be scientists in order to notice that Elon Musk wasn't what his marketing campaign said he was.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 04:47
There were other signs of trouble, and in any case it SHOULD be a policy of U.S. #journalism never to believe anything a business-person says in public because they're always selling something, and selling means lying. It's utterly infuriating and unsettling to me—though I know the reasons for it, roughly—that @arstechnica@mastodon.social etc. are blinkered or corrupt enough to take people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman at their words. These people aren't the future. They never were. It should have been incredibly obvious that they were scum, mere betrayers and exploiters of #science and #technology. (cont'd)