Stinkin' Nettle (He/Him)

@gnoble79 Elon is so good at selling himself the illusion of progress that he no longer considers reality relevant. A dangerous sociopath.

Tesla is the most successful CON in the history of capital markets. Not because the cars are bad. But because the entire business is engineered to impress on first glance and collapse under scrutiny. And the culture around it has made facts completely IRRELEVANT. I've never seen a company where the gap between what is promised and what is delivered is this wide, for this long, with this little accountability. Tesla's Full Self-Driving system is marketed as autonomy. But it is not autonomy. It is a camera-only system running probabilistic inference. The car is making statistical guesses about what it sees, thousands of times per second, with no redundancy when those guesses are wrong. Probabilistic inference controlling a two-ton vehicle at highway speed with your family inside. NHTSA has two open investigations covering 3.2 million Tesla vehicles. One was escalated to a formal Engineering Analysis in March after 9 crashes, including a fatality, where the system FAILED to detect sun glare, fog, and dust. The cameras went blind and the car kept driving. In Austin, Tesla's robotaxi fleet has reported 15 crashes across roughly 800,000 miles. One crash every 57,000 miles. The average American driver has a police-reported crash every 500,000 miles. Tesla's robotaxis crash at roughly 4x the human rate, WITH a safety monitor sitting in the car whose only job is to prevent crashes. Waymo operates over 2,500 fully driverless vehicles across multiple cities with no human backup and maintains a crash rate 85% below human drivers across 127 million autonomous miles. Tesla has ONE unsupervised vehicle in a tiny section of Austin. But here's what really makes Tesla different from every overvalued company I've ever analyzed: The facts do not matter to the people who own this stock. Every missed deadline, every broken promise gets filtered through the same response: attack the messenger. Call them a short seller. Call them a hater. Anything to avoid looking at the actual numbers. It's an online ecosystem that has made itself completely immune to facts. And Musk baked that dynamic into the culture from the beginning. Every time the fundamentals deteriorate, the faithful don't sell. They double down. When your shareholder base treats every dip as a buying opportunity regardless of the data, the stock becomes untethered from reality entirely. That's literally a religion with a ticker symbol. I highly suggest you read Edward Niedermeyer's book Ludicrous on this. And now it even gets WORSE... CapeFearAdvisors published a piece this week that should be required reading. Tesla's 2025 CEO Performance Award contains a change-of-control provision: In the event of a change of control, ALL operational milestones are disregarded. No million robotaxis, Optimus robots, or $400 billion EBITDA. NONE of it. So if SpaceX acquires Tesla at $8.5 trillion, every tranche of Musk's 423 million share award vests immediately. A single acquisition at that price triggers the full vesting of both plans at once, with no way to claw them back. The milestones everyone argues about are just a distraction. The mechanism is the change-of-control language buried in the SEC filing. This is about engineering the largest personal wealth transfer in modern financial history and using the narrative machine to keep the price elevated long enough to execute it. I've seen every bust of the last four decades. But this one is different because the cult of personality is stronger than anything I've witnessed. The movement around this stock cannot be touched by facts, and that is what makes it so dangerous. But the math always wins. ALWAYS. It just takes longer when the con is this good.

@sebkrier Cool story. AI people are trying to destroy ANY opposition. They are more than happy to dismantle democracy and rule of law. Using it all to feed the giant eternal fire in their euphoria over AI growth, to use your metaphor.

caveman 1: fire will burn the earth. we cannot control it. deaths from the freezing cold are part of the natural order. caveman 2: no, fire will be incredible, and nothing bad will ever come from it. we must build a giant, eternal fire! (fog dissipates) wise elder caveman 3: we must weigh the risks and opportunities of fire. it is like berries: some poison us, others nourish us. wisdom lies in learning the difference, and cultivating what is good. *wild, thunderous applause from onlookers*

@dieworkwear The best way to understand Trump is to learn more about malignant narcissism

@dieworkwear It's not mean to impress people who know about style. It just provides enough superficial similarities for Trump to feel good about himself. He is a con man, but the person he works hardest to deceive is himself.

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@davegreenidge57 The billionaires already think of us as their meat puppets

If this isn’t made illegal for use in the workplace, manufacturers will make it mandatory for employment. And then, we become nothing more than meat puppets.

@techknight2 The End of Reality. “Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where ‘nothing is true and all is spectacle.’” vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/m…

I enjoy learning new things but find AI completely uninteresting. There is no new knowledge there.

Guy who funds crypto scams and gambling apps: This country lacks a moral code

$TSLA 'autopilot' suddenly veered off road & crashed into dance hall 🤡 Tesla was going 50 mph when it crash into building 🤡 People on public roads do not consent to being part of Tesla deadly defective software experiment

Trump’s Doral National golf course in Miami installs gold statue of Trump, which is remarkably similar to one of Dear Leader in North Korea.

@elonmusk Stole? You mean like AI steals?

They stole a nonprofit. It’s not right.

@Kalshi They should settle it with a duel! But Musk always finds an excuse to back out, remember when he challenged Zuckerberg and then chicken out? Always look at what he does, not what he says.

BREAKING: Elon Musk and OpenAI trial officially set to begin today Nearly 50% chance he wins.

@TimesRadio @afneil @StigAbell @KateEMcCann Billionaire psychosis. The rich have abandoned humanity.

Lesson learned: never ask @afneil for a higher tip! “I called the owner later that night, and he was fired in the morning.” @StigAbell | @KateEMcCann

@MarioNawfal Wild guess but is the connection is that Trump is a rapist and pedophile? And you still think he should be treated like a king and saviour, which is utterly despicable and immoral.

Here's actor Mark Ruffalo calling Trump a “rapist pedophiIe” The guy who tried to kill Trump yesterday called him a “pedophile, rapist" Connecting the dots yet?

Trump has been obsessed with trying to recreate the Obama Situation Room Bin Laden photo for years. He’s still not there. But not for a lack of trying.

This is indistinguishable from Hitler’s rationale after the Reichstag Fire.

@IterIntellectus Red = Nazi Complete sociopaths who want to kill anyone who doesn't agree with them. And they are proud of it. Broadcast it to the world. A health society needs mechanisms to deal with people like this, remove their ability to harm.

why would anyone even press blue?!?

Twitter just reset the default "Following" tab to "Popular" to ensure THEY control which tweets show up in your feed. It really is Musk's propaganda machine.

@nikitabier @SpencerHakimian If it happened you would be replaced within hours and your name would disappear from internal documents within weeks

@SpencerHakimian Yes, I am paid to protect the integrity of this app at whatever cost necessary, including credible threats on my life

Is Nikita Bier a paid op?

lol this is the best tweet of all time. No one complains more about fraud than Elon. Did he forget about the DOGE debacle already?