#technoking

[argumate]

one day Musk won't be known as the richest man in the world, or the technoking of Tesla, or the first man on Mars, but simply a guy Grimes fucked

[gaystation4]

the cast of tesla motors functioning as intended after discovering their dad decreed himself the "technoking" of the corporation

[ububunes]

Will literally not stop calling that stupid fucking site Twitter or a tweet a tweet. idc what stupid name they come up with. i want that bird back and i want that annoying 50 year old lameass out of his spot as ceo.

I don't like to ageshame or whatever but Elon being like 50 and asking people to call him technoking or whatever stupid name the next neocities prompt site tells him to pick. Man have some shame. Maybe I'm just weak but I'd die of shame on the spot before publicly asking to be called technoking. I can't imagine an ex seeing that or my child seeing it. I'd like. Expel every single awful thing in my body that would make me even ask or say that. Do you want your dick sucked that badly. Are you that lonely. That desperate for. I don't even know?? Attention? Acceptance? Approval?? Other a words????? Yeah okay 'ububnes' is kinda dumb but I've got shame y'know. I can acknowledge that. And not to sound. Absolutely sick in the head but I am an empath (<- aka knows the skill of empathy and is able to actually try and understand what others are going through instead of firing someone because they 'arent working enough' (I still cannot believe he did that without even realizing who he fired. The only time he is funny is when he is not trying to be.)) I can usually tell when people are uncomfortable with what I'm doing and I just don't think Elon can, or he just has too many people who just agree with everything he says and blah blah blah so that he can't even recognize when he's saying something dumb as shit and dragging his barely alive reputation. I would never be able to agree with Elon politically specifically because he does not seem to actually care that much and just does whatever he thinks is 1. Funny and 2. Will get him profits (for the companies he cares about owning anyways.) that any time I hear Elon say anything ever I'm like "ok but does he really mean that." Yeah free speech wooo cool pog but like.... You can't just allow ALL speech Elon... You're allowed to limit specific types of speech dude... Remember when like. Right after he bought Twitter there was like an absolutely unprecedented amount of hate speech suddenly on the site. As in more than usual for Twitter. That's literally why Elon. Some people will post stuff that is LITERALLY illegal in the worst possible way dude. You have to have some limits and moderation!!! It might sound contradictory but you CAN be pro free speech but still limit hate speech. They can still think and say all of that, just not on your platform. I remember how when it happened my mom genuinely thought "it was the liberals" doing the hate speech. Girl what!!! I'm not going to say no liberal ever has done hate speech but the influx of hate speech when the pro free speech guy bought Twitter... It's gonna be people who are 1. Just kinda awful people 2. Want to test how far they can go 3. Sorry mom, more likely conservatives. Anyways they absolutely missed out on the chance to rename to "twt" I don't know where x comes from and I don't care it sounds dumb and like... Idk. Not Twitter. I also said this on my twt but y'know how Facebook rebranded to meta while they were in huge privacy scandals and scandals in general to instead hopefully change public perception of the company and grant them a "blank slate" to hopefully build a new better image. I'm sure that isn't similar at all.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[carlos-ritter]

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[donateliferecipient]

Technoking Makes Surprise Appearance at NYC Trump Rally: "Dark Gothic MA...

[fishmech]

15, 28, 29

15. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

28. Calls himself a "technoking"

29. Well you can't just tell somebody that you do hate their outfit when it's their favorite one.

[princessofthewhitemoon]

this.

i write because i have to. if i go too long without writing, it builds up, like an oil in my hair or sweat on my skin, i need to write to take care of myself mentally and physically. i am in physical distress if i go too long without writing.

i write because i have to. i am not always good at communicating verbally, and forming lasting friendships with other humans has always been a challenge. i write because through writing i can express myself much better than i can through spoken words. if i cannot write, i lose a good chunk of how i interact with the world and how people who are not me can come to understand me.

i write because i have to. because there are people that i deeply love that i have met through my writing, and to lose writing would be to lose them. i can’t. my mother, my sister, my friends; i have met so many members of my family through this art. this wheel must keep turning, because who knows how many family members i have yet to meet? 

i write because i have to. my work has helped people, and they’ve told me so. the high i got from comments on my ao3 story, telling me that the work i did helped them process something or that they see something in a new light because of what i write -- booze and weed can never come close.

if tomorrow the technokings announce that there will never be a need for another journalist or scriptwriter or author or showrunner, i will still pick up my pen. there will still be words imprinted on the inside of my skull; i will still claw them out. 

i write because i have to.

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistant. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowing. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[socialworlerintl]

नाटक का गूढ़ रहस्य

[and-then-there-were-n0ne]

Who/what is a Right-Wing Progressive (RWP)? Start by picturing a Silicon Valley elite who is by now well-and-truly fed up with the Woke left. But the causes for the RWP’s objection to the Woke mind-virus and its regnant regime differ significantly from those of a traditional conservative. The conservative loathes the Woke for their revolutionary assault on the moral, cultural, and social order, on foundational structures of civilization like the family, and on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful writ large. In contrast, the RWP is likely to consider these things to be at most tangential to his main concern. His anti-Wokeness is motivated mostly by an assessment that the ideology is degrading meritocracy, promoting irrational stupidity, inhibiting scientific innovation, diverting investment into worthless causes, and limiting long-term economic performance – in other words that it is holding back progress.

RWPs are what Virginia Postrel, in her 1998 book The Future and Its Enemies, approvingly dubbed “dynamists”: individuals whose primary vision for a good society is a state of constant Promethean invention, discovery, growth, and transformation. They see their true enemies as what Postrel labels “stasists”: nostalgia-ridden, backwards-looking brutes who hate change and for some unimaginable reason want to keep everything old and therefore obsolete from being replaced by new and better things. Today, from the RWP’s point of view, the forces of stasism just happen to include the Woke left in addition to conservatives.

Dynamism is for example the obvious motivating philosophy of the world’s most famous RWP, Elon Musk, the Technoking. Elon has, for instance, stated quite clearly that he bought Twitter not out of any desire to aid conservatives, but because he sees robust free speech as a necessary societal mechanism for the knowledge production and innovation needed to achieve his goal of making humanity a star-faring, multi-planetary species. As with all his other companies – such as Neuralink, which aims to make us all smarter by putting chips in our brains – Elon’s goal is preserving and accelerating progress. But because he is also anti-Woke, Elon nonetheless makes journalists’ heads continuously short-circuit until they label him a conservative anyway.

In part this is because, despite their differences, both the RWP and the conservative are genuinely right-wing. What does this mean? How should we define “right” and “left”? Each label has come to be associated with a whole cluster of otherwise unrelated political values and beliefs that have then been conflated into chimerical political personalities (despite these conglomerations falling apart as soon as anyone holds both “left” and “right”-coded values at the same time, as many do). But, beneath all the accumulated political detritus, there is one essential difference between a rightist and a leftist. This is not the conservative vs. progressive axis, but one between egalitarianism and hierarchy.

To be right-wing is to especially value hierarchy, and indeed to perceive and think about the world through hierarchies. This is to be “discriminating” in its original sense: to be able and willing to recognize that A is better than B in some way, and to therefore place A ahead of B and call this a proper and just ordering of things. In contrast, to be left-wing is to value the principle of equality over other values. Whereas Plato and Aristotle would have defined justice as the giving to each of precisely what they deserve, in a pure left conception justice and equality are synonymous: justice is when all receive the same. This precludes hierarchies. To favor or even recognize person A over person B – or in the most radical conceptions even idea or behavior X over Y – would be to create inequality, and therefore injustice.

This division over hierarchy goes beyond the sociopolitical hierarchies many typically think of when they hear the word (kings, hereditary nobility, etc.) Meritocracy, for instance, remains an inherently right-wing idea because it is a way of ordering people in a hierarchy, in this case based on their relative talent. To the radical left-winger this is still unjust (and unkind, hateful, etc.), because the outcome is unequal. In her view the system should rightly be structured to produce equality as its primary object. This applies to abstract values like morals as well: in a state of equality how can one person or behavior really be held as more moral than another? The result is relativism. [...]

Both [the RWP and the conservative] consider the crime and disorder produced by unrestrained liberal-leftism to be outrageous, if for slightly different reasons. [...] “State capacity” is a phrase one is quite liable to hear bandied about by an RWP. It refers to how capable a state (the government, but in a broader sense also society more widely) is at actually getting things done, whether containing crime and providing security, building infrastructure, or creating the conditions for a flourishing semiconductor industry. Until recently many RWPs often distinguished themselves, in my experience, by displaying a barely concealed admiration for China. China might be authoritarian, but at least it was a country that could build things – did you know they could replace a major urban bridge in under 48 hours? Did you know how much Chinese society valued education and technologists? That many of their leaders even have engineering degrees? That China’s universities are not filled with Woke gender studies harridans? That the streets of Shenzhen aren’t covered in feces and passed out drug addicts? Lately, after China’s disastrous “zero-Covid” lockdown policies and the dramatic slowing of its economy, RWP opinion of China and its leader Xi Jinping has waned considerably. But new international RWP heroes have since emerged, such as Nayib Bukele, the bitcoin loving president of El Salvador, whose iron-handed approach has managed to crater the country’s once murderously-high crime rate.

The RWP is not exactly a libertarian, even if many of his kind are often vociferous advocates of free market solutions and deregulation. Certainly he is likely to be found supporting a gamut of liberal policies and projects that most conservatives would oppose: globalization and broadly open legal immigration regimes, surrogacy, abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering and so on. But he may at the same time support a strong state, capable of maintaining domestic order and security, as well as a favorable “rules-based international order” abroad.

What really sets him apart is the end to which he believes political leadership ought to be for. Whereas the libertarian believes the state should minimize itself in order to achieve the goal of maximizing liberty, the RWP believes the purpose of the state (and in fact all of civilization) is to facilitate the maximization of progress. If a hands-off, low-tax, free market approach seems to be what will facilitate the most progress, he’s for that. If the state-directed policies of an enlightened authoritarianism would produce more progress, he’s for that too. And if what progress really demands is that democracy be replaced with a monarch, well then long live the king!

This is partially the product of another characteristic RWP philosophy: consequentialism, or the idea that the ends determine the morality of the means. This consequentialism is in turn the outgrowth of the core belief system of most RWPs: Rationalism, or the belief that all our decisions can and should be determined entirely by the objective and rational analysis of data, and that if smart people could only weed out humanity’s many cognitive and emotional biases we would discover the correct solutions to all our problems. Not coincidentally, a huge proportion of today’s RWPs seem to have sprouted out of a youth spent in the contemporary Rationalist movement, a collection of very earnest nerds who gathered on the internet during roughly the mid-2000s-2010s and spent a lot of energy debating each other about who was less wrong. Unfortunately in the end this echo chamber mostly produced an array of bizarre specimens of the sort who babble about how Bayesian priors prove Shakespeare must suck, actually, and what not. Many such sad cases. [...]

Faith in rationalism’s ability to drive human progress is also what tethers the RWP to the broader and older school of political thought that is Progressivism (with a capital P). Though RWPs may disapprove of much of what today’s egalitarian, left-wing Progressives argue for, many RWP beliefs and inclinations are fundamentally similar to the older, more original forms of Progressivism.

Fundamental is of course their shared basic faith in progress and the transcendent future, such that much of Andreessen’s manifesto could be swapped out with lines from random Woodrow Wilson speeches and no one would know the difference: “we think of the future, not the past, as the more glorious time in comparison with which the present is nothing. Progress, development – those are modern words. The modern idea is to leave the past and press onward to something new.”

But the similarities extend beyond this. Most striking in my view is perhaps a disproportionate obsession with intelligence and measuring IQ, including at the individual, group, and population levels. This myopia is born of the Rationalist assumption that goodness – good thinking, good policies, good people – is inevitably derived from a purity of reason, and reason from intellect, such that all Mankind’s problems must really result from the stain of the stupid. Unsurprisingly, this belief leads a fair number of RWPs into a recognizable entrancement with the same forms of Social Darwinism, including eugenics, that were widely and enthusiastically embraced by the original Progressives. A few of the more edgy RWPs seem like they really would have had a grand old time hanging out with Progressive OGs like Margaret Sanger – sterilizing the poor, aborting the genetically deficient, and ensuring those they consider to be the wrong sort never make it to the voting booth in the first place.

The fixation on intelligence also explains the common RWP obsession with AI. If in their view intelligence is the proper measure on which to determine hierarchy, then if an AI were to become more intelligent than us humans it would ipso facto be a superior being to us. At that point we would have to rightly defer to its will – and, at the extreme, worship the wisdom of its supreme rationalism and facilitate the progressive replacement of Man by the superiority of machine intelligence. In this sense some RWPs evince a philosophy that is ultimately as distinctly anti-human as any Malthusian, nihilistic Left-Wing Progressive. [...]

I can’t help but note the striking similarity of many RWPs to the intellectuals and industrialists of the N.I.C.E. in C.S. Lewis’ prophetic novel That Hideous Strength, who believed their superior Luciferian intellect gave them the right to rule over, manipulate, abuse, and reshape mankind in the name of scientific efficiency, enlightenment, and progress. They too placed intelligence and the pursuit of cold rationality ahead of all else, and in the end came to view common Man with contempt and to seek his replacement.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

WAIT ARE YOU TELLING ME MUSK CALLS HIMSELF TECHNOKING

[argumate]

Also of course everything is securities fraud: Tesla Inc.’s 10-K says things like “We are highly dependent on the services of Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla and our Chief Executive Officer” and discloses that “he does not devote his full time and attention to Tesla,” but it does not mention ketamine. Probably someone is going to sue about that eventually.

[msamba]

Is Overpopulation Still a Problem?

Should we worry about overpopulation or, as Elon Musk has argued, should we worry more about underpopulation? How many people could live on our planet and how close are we to reaching the “Limits to Growth”? In this video we look at how much we know and what we can conclude from this. The full interview with Elon Musk is here: • Tesla Technoking and SpaceX Chief Eng… The paper I mention at 2 mins…

[loverofpaperwork]

Twitter Blue(s)

So Elon's reign as Twitter Technoking, ceo, owner, and Cto has gone so poorly, the man is turning into a corn cob. He tried to pick a fight with Wint, crapposter extraordinaire. As a tip don't pick fights with a satire account that has made 4 mildly successful bathroom readers from just his posts.

So let me, in my own insanity, post about Elon's time with the company and why he is the worst possible headliner for a social media company.

So Elon was forced to purchase the company after signing a purchasing contract that agreed at a certain price. He tried to waffle on the price, and got slammed into a legal vice at the Chancery Court of Delaware.

So he got some loans from... questionable parties and purchased the company after selling a lot of stock. A quick note, all of his companies are terrible, moving on. Well not quite. SpaceX isn't terrible. Isn't great, but isn't on government subsidy life support.

So Elon starts making Twitter worse. He makes the algorithm more arbitrary. Pushes his crap into everyone's feed. The worse decision is that he allowed people to pay 8$ for a verified mark, making all verified marks that we actually saw trolls. Eli Lilly lost billions in stock price after a bad actor said insulin is free.

Moving on. Elon kept tweaking the algorithm to promote him. In fact he has a special use case in the algorithm for "poster is elon". The more that people kept blocking him and his nazi "friends" the more and more he unblocked himself and kept pushing crappy changes. I don't like calling randoms nazis, but these kind of guys are literal fourth Reich kind of idiots.

What went wrong was the delusion that rich people are well liked on twitter. Elon thought people liked him.... no one does. He got booed at a Chapelle show. The crypto scam people hate him for mamipulating the currencies and not integrating their coins into twitter payments.

Remember that Musk wants to turn Twitter into X.com (several countries autobanned this) and then X.com into an actual bank. Given that the site runs so poorly, imagine giving him your money....

Every day he finds a new and interesting way to embarrass himself.

[indianhour]

Tesla: the problem is Musk’s multitasking, not his stake 

Tesla shares are the key to Elon Musk’s ambitions. The Technoking has spent the past eighteen months selling stock in the electric-car company, in part to aid his purchase of Twitter. Shareholders are worried he may sell more. Yet thanks to a generous pay deal his stake in Tesla remains steady. In 2018, Musk owned 22 per cent of Tesla. Data from the company shows that he still owns just under 21…

[tradewithraj]

10 Investors Score $117 Billion On Tesla Stock's Double 'Bubble'

What's it like to make more than $110 billion in five weeks on just one S&P 500 stock? Ask the largest owners of Tesla (TSLA) stock.

The top 10 largest holders of Tesla stock, including top ETF and mutual fund providers like Vanguard and BlackRock (BLK) plus the Technoking Elon Musk himself, are collectively up $117 billion since the stock doubled from its 52-week (intraday) low on Jan. 6, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSmith.

That means just 10 investors made more on one stock — Tesla — in roughly five weeks than all investors made on 496 individual S&P 500 stocks during the same time. That's crazy money.

The run on Tesla stock is prompting some to toss out the "bubble" word. "Tesla's recent price cuts are a display of pricing power, cost superiority and could increase demand — but it could also negatively impact Tesla's future profitability," said Oktay Kavrak, product strategist at Leverage Shares.

Tesla's Run-Up Is One For S&P 500 History Books

It's not often to see so much value get created by a single stock so fast. But that's the story of the S&P's bounce this year following last year's beatdown.

Shares of Tesla are up more than 105% from their 52-week intraday low on Jan. 6. And they're up more than 85% from their closing price that day. That means all Tesla investors are up $305 billion from that low day's closing price. That's more of a market value gain than all but two other individual stocks in the S&P 500.

Yes, Apple is up more than $361.9 billion since then. And Microsoft is too, up $348.8 billion. But on a percentage basis, they're only up 18% and 21% respectively, or nowhere near Tesla's percentage gain.

And that's why some bubble talk is starting to perk up (although shares are still 46% below their 52-week closing high). Tesla closed Tuesday at 209.25. At that price, Tesla stock is already nearly 9% past the 192.63 a share analysts think it should be worth in 12 months.

Big Wins On Tesla

No investors are making as much money in this year's Tesla rally as Musk himself. Musk still owns 13% of the electric-car maker, more than anyone else, a lucrative move in 2023.

Musk has gained $40.7 billion in paper wealth on just his stock this year alone. No one comes even close. But Vanguard, the top holder of two-thirds of S&P 500 stocks, is bringing its ETF and index mutual fund investors along for the ride, too. The fund company's 6.9% stake in Tesla has gained nearly $21 billion in wealth on its position.

And rounding out the top three winners in No. 3 spot is BlackRock. The fund company's 5.6% stake in Tesla added more than $17 billion in market value just this year.

But while bears think Tesla is running too far, too fast, some mega-bulls exist. The most optimistic forecast for where Tesla stock will be in 12 months is 320 a share. If that's right, Tesla still has more than 53% upside from Tuesday's close.

That's not as impressive as the stock's run in the past five weeks, but none of these top Tesla stock investors will likely complain.

Big Tesla Investors Make A Fortune This Year

Brainmass Finance Team 

[joeycultice]

Richie Hawtin- Just one of my fave pictures of Rich. Done so many shoots together and sure I will do more in the future. Love the hair. #richiehawtin #plus8records #techno #technoking #berlin #loveartistagency #profoto #hasselblad #phaseone #phaseonephoto #stylish https://www.instagram.com/p/CUK8Hctp1Iw/?utm_medium=tumblr