i interact with genuine professional scientists every day. researchers at the apex of their field. they don't display the same arrogance and know-it-all attitude as most engineers i've had the misfortune to interact with on the interwebs. i think it's telling that the applied sciences, and engineering in particular, has this weird ingrown group psychology, almost like an inferiority complex that pure theoretical scientists don't display: astrophysicists and particle physicists don't spend their time getting vexed over the existence of novels or the arts. and musk is clearly not a 'physicist', despite trying to claim that 'brand appeal' for his own PR (as if the deference and snobbism about oksferd humanities doesn't extend to STEM and people's attitudes towards 'hardcore physics majors').
the guy has lost 88% of the staff at his company within the first month. cratered the value to a quarter of its buyout price. so many people have quit due to his disastrous mismanagement that they've had to close the office. the guy in charge of security codes and access cards was let go; many people couldn't get into or out of the premises. the entire payroll team have quit, so there's nobody in the building to even process the huge wave of 3-month severance packages that elon just triggered.
this is a multibillion dollar company with global brand recognition. it's not some two-bit outfit ran out of a garage near menlo park. it's absolutely insane how poorly this company is being ran just on a day-to-day organisational level.
musk's fanboys and tesla geekazoids said for years that 'tesla is a software company', with a shit-eating grin on their faces. well, it's pretty obvious that billionaire genius physicist-engineer elon musk can't even run a very simple social media company. and twitter has just lost all of its most vital staff and deep expertise in a mass staff exodus. the services are one major hiccup away from being FUBAR.
musk said in his last company email that he's going to focus HR and hiring on software engineers because twitter is 'essentially in the business of servers and networks'. lol. he got rid of all the product design people. as if twitter is going to survive based on the merits of, er, it's server response times and network architecture, or something.
the guy is totally fucking hapless. in the last few weeks we've had 2 huge, global-scale examples that have put paid to the lie that billionaires are somehow geniuses that exist on another plane. we've had an MIT-stanford grifter meltdown with FTX and now twitter's lights are going out. and all these people float in the same self-congratulatory tech-bro pools and claim theselves to be 'Effective Altruists' or 'longtermers' here to save humanity with their perfect genetic code or whatever the fuck. it's a totally crazy cult-like ideology and sexless neckbeards like dilbert are libidinally invested in it because otherwise they have to admit that they're just arrogant, socially toxic cucks.
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