Post #4054974

2026-07-24 05:24 UTC

Anyway. For whatever reason, @arstechnica@mastodon.social and @popsci@universeodon.com etc. have never quite noticed the emptiness of the #ElonMusk vision, the paucity of his ideas, the flimsiness of his promises. You'd think they'd notice the obvious things at least, and resist the cowardice that must come from knowing any negative reporting on Musk will bring in all his cultists raining down hate mail and death threats. But they do that ANYWAY! It's like with Republicans, they're always hateful. They may hate with greater intensity when the news is bad but is that any excuse for reporters to abandon their duty to the public interest? (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 05:27

If there's going to be any counterpoint to the rubbish "techno-optimism" of Elon Musk and his #tech cronies it's got to come from the mainstream media. But a profoundly craven and sneakfaced thing has happened because of the #Internet. Basically it's this: because the Internet and #socialmedia especially exist in part to maintain a flimsy premise of social equality among all persons, U.S. journalists have gotten to thinking that it's enough for Elon Musk to be hated on the Internet. To them, that's more than enough. After all, those journalists are also loathed for their cowardly reporting and their obvious corruption, so all those @arstechnica@mastodon.social etc. technology reporters are on Musk's side anyway. They loathe the general public and regard us as inferior beings. (cont'd)

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