Gregory's ServerAt the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers who have pulled out of X — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves.
Taylor Lorenz
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Taylor Lorenz
"Just because it came out of my mouth, doesn't mean it's true," Elon Musk later said at the Dealbook summit. 
Taylor Lorenz
Andrew Ross Sorkin asks Musk about his mental state and Musk dove into how his mental state is admittedly stormy, not in a good way, then said: "My life is finite, really a flash in the pan in a galactic timescale."
Laukidh :ablobcool:
@stefan @taylorlorenz sadly, they went private so no public call, afaik. I imagine it’s more of a conference call with Larry Ellison and Prince Waleed. 
Nonya Bidniss
@taylorlorenz Guess little Elon is going through some things. It's always better to go through some things when you're a billionaire. 
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@taylorlorenz in other words the guy doesn't care what he says because YOLO and he might die tomorrow. What a menace to the human race.  
Taylor Lorenz
You can watch the whole fiasco via this link. As my colleague noted, people who like Musk, like Trump, will eat this up. But Musk is running a business, not for political office. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/29/business/dealbook-summit-news
Angry Centrist
@taylorlorenz "Musk is running a business" seems way more charitable than he deserves. It seems more like Musk is running a long, complex con and the businesses are just set pieces in the con. 
Tyler Durden
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CowardlyLionel
@taylorlorenz This is for sure troublesome, but it seems to show Musk is seeing himself from the outside in, along the lines of longtermerism or EA offshoots, and that 1000 km stare (without nuanced approach for contemporaries or short term considerations) is downright alarming coming from the world’s richest man.
Misha Van Mollusq 🏳️⚧️ ♀
@cowardlylionel @taylorlorenz I still think he’s got a black market nuke probably in Texas.
Misha Van Mollusq 🏳️⚧️ ♀
@cowardlylionel @taylorlorenz he’s rich enough and psychopathic enough to have acquired one.   
billy joe bowers is tired.🇺🇦
Techbros: "As a realist I know my time is finite so I want my stupid ideas to have long lasting damage"
guildz
@taylorlorenz "You know in the grand scheme of things, in 100 trillion years, everything that exists now wont exist, so none of my actions ultimately matter" - the orphan crushing machine operator
Mark Kraft
@taylorlorenz Dead CEO walking. Like, you could wake up tomorrow, Elon could be dead from autoerotic asphyxiation... and suddenly your Tesla stock has gone up 40%.
rhys the great
@taylorlorenz a moment of weird reflection there thinking this might have been The Good Sorkin and not the Weird Bad Sorkin. 
Mastodon Migration
"Just because it came out of my mouth, doesn't mean it's true..." Elon Musk Never were truer words spoken.    
Aviva Gary
@taylorlorenz Wow and there he did it... he made Disney (specifically Bob Iger) look good in comparison to whatever shit show he calls a business he's running... 👀
Randolph
@taylorlorenz "blackmail" is certainly a creative way of describing "we don't want to give money to Nazi sympathizers"
Jimbo
@taylorlorenz You know, Disney could easily set up its own server on Mastodon and have ABC/ESPN use Mastodon exclusively, and maintain control over their reporters' toots. Just sayin'. 
Urzl
@taylorlorenz That's not blackmail, that's just business. You are rightly obligated to your customers if you want to continue getting money from them. These entitled billionaire man-babies are absolutely disgusting.
Tim Carmody
@michaelgemar @taylorlorenz oh it's a riff on a year-old Verge article https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation 
Terry O’Neill
@taylorlorenz The New York Times continues its cringy hero-worship of this guy. I thought the Fourth Estate was supposed to inform readers so we could be better, more engaged citizens. ☹️ 
lin11c
@taylorlorenz 
Spocko
@taylorlorenz
John Panzer
@taylorlorenz This is exactly the kind of stable genius I want my investment advisor to bet on.
Tony Serrata 🇺🇦:verified:
@taylorlorenz Bold strategy cotton, let's see how it works out for him.gif
mjk_4mjk
@taylorlorenz "Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz - What Else Can I Do? (From "Encanto")", https://youtu.be/bBeZSuHI4Qc?si=I_YTtmYaiWmjjzC1 |
"If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself," he said.
He then called out Disney CEO Bob Iger in the audience, which paused advertising on Twitter saying, "Hi Bob!"