[ExI] Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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> Ja of course.  But everyone has a voice on TwitterX now.  So it provides rebuttals to its own stories. 

 

>…But thanks to Elon Musk's algorithm those rebuttals are going to be buried and difficult to find, especially if they are rebutting something that Musk himself has said.’…

 

Sure.  Difficult but less difficult than it was before.  

 

One doesn’t look on TwitterX for rebuttals to Musk comments however.  BlueSky is a better place for that sort of thing.

 

  

 

> News agencies give a unified picture, which is distorted. 

 

>…That depends. When the New York Times makes a factual error they make a big deal out of it, they apologize and print a retraction…

 

Indeed?  Where is their retraction of all that relentless Pulitzer prize reporting that Russia colluded in the 2016 election?  Where are their retractions on the toxic laptop story?

 

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>…That algorithm is a very good thing for the richest man in the world, but it's a very bad thing for anybody who wants to know what's really going on in the world…

 

 

Fortunately, there are other hangouts in addition to TwitterX.

 

 

 

 

 

> We have a great example of an epic fail: the New York Times and Washington Post won Pulitzer prizes for their deeply sourced and relentless coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election.  Later it was discovered that the stories were fake news: Russia didn’t interfere in that election. 

 

>…Yes they did! Every one of the 17 agencies that make up the Intelligence Community concluded that Russia DID interfere in the 2026 election. And so did the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report in 2020. And so did the 2019 Mueller Report, and he found that Russia DID hack Democratic emails and make them public….

 

That email hacking was more likely an inside job.  The DNC hired a group of system administrators who were related to each other (WOWsers that was a big no-no (for it eliminates a check and balance.))  One of them caught a DNC biggie with a very simple phishing trick.  The email was downloaded onto what appears to be a thumb drive.  Somehow it ended up in the hands of a guy who was slain in a mysterious robbery in which the robbers forgot to steal anything, apparently destined for our own former ExI poster Julian Assange.  (Anyone here remember that guy?  I do.  Odd sort, hard to get along with.)

 

The Russians didn’t do that.  The DNC sys admins did.

 

 

>> Below is what the Canada ad said, vs what Reagan actually said: 

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>…It was obviously edited so it would fit into a 60 second commercial because in the unedited version Reagan makes an even stronger case against tariffs then he does in the edited version!    John K Clark

 

 

JA!  Exactly the point I was making: Reagan was against ALL tariffs.  No country should have tariffs.  All countries should eliminate all import tariffs, which is my position too.  The current tariff trade war is all about getting US trade partners to stop adding tariffs to American imports.

 

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