[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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> Sure.  Difficult but less difficult than it was before. 

 

>…NO. Thanks to Elon Musk's new "improved" algorithm, such rebuttals are deliberately made more difficult to find than before….

 

John where would you look for rebuttals back when we only had “newspapers” which were hard copy of yesterday’s news?  It is waaaaay easier to find info now than ever before.  But to your question, your best bet for looking for rebuttals would be over on Blue Sky.  

 

>…And rebuttals to King Musk The First's encyclicals are impossible to find on TwitterX…

 

Oh is THAT what those no-kings protests were about?  I was wondering about that.  I looked up and found there are 43 kings (or monarchs) today according to Wiki.  I don’t think they included Musk, but he has no government office.

 

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

 

>…But for millions of people TwitterX is their only news source, so they believe that Elon Musk must be a demigod who is never wrong…

 

Easy solution: don’t be one of those millions.

 

> Where are their retractions on the toxic laptop story?

 

>…I don't know. I don't know of any New York Times article about a toxic laptop, unless you're talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, or Hillary Clinton's email server. Are you?

 

Regarding the New York Times, I was referring to Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was discovered shortly before the 2016 election.  The mainstream news sources distracted, diverted, cheerfully reported falsehoods that the laptop was Russian disinformation.  After it was discovered to be information, they never retracted the original stories.  They started quietly reporting it as apparently true information, but never formally retracted the previous.

 

 

>> That email hacking was more likely an inside job. 

 

>…So insists Elon Musk's algorithm….

 

I was not aware of that, but came to that conclusion long before TwitterX ever heard of Elon Musk.  The far more likely source of the leak Imran Awan or someone close to him, who had physical access to that server:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Awan

 

>…But do you really believe that the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and 14 other US intelligence agencies are wrong, but TwitterX's algorithm is right?   John K Clark

 

 

I do.

 

As far as I know, an extensive search never found any evidence the Russians colluded to influence US elections, even though an extensive two year investigation searched for it extensively and exhaustively.

 

Russia had a role, in a sense.  During the election season, a number of websites and organizations appeared which pretended to be in support of Mrs. Clinton.  When the actual Clinton campaign contacted all the usual donors, they discovered that someone had been there before them and had collected millions in donations.  Then of course they kept the money (imagine that (you and I would do likewise, if you and I were a swindlers (that’s what swindlers do for a living.)))  

 

I heard (but don’t know for a fact) that insane amounts of money went into fake political organizations run from Russia, India, Ukraine, Nigeria, various places where people run scams.  However… I don’t think any convincing evidence was found that Putin ever organized anything or colluded with anyone here.  John do you have evidence to the contrary?

 

spike

 

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