[ExI] Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[John Clark]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 10:43 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

* > I watched the video. *
>

*Did you really? There was nothing in it that made you think twice about
using TwitterX as your primary news source? *

>

> *> You make it sound like a bad thing to be the richest man in the world.
> Clearly he knows his business. *
>

*Elon Musk has virtues, but not nearly as many as I once thought he did.  *

*>> the richest man in the world, who happenes to be the sole owner of one
>> of the largest new sources on the planet, ordered 80 engineers at 2:36 am
>> to come to work immediately and tweak the Twitter algorithm because a post
>> by Joe Biden got more views than a post by the richest man in the world *
>
>

*> He owns the company.  How he filters the content is his business. *
>

*Yes, a**nd you can pick how you choose to get your news.** The richest man
in the world has ordered his minions to engineer the master Twitter
algorithm such that it's very easy for you to find things that he wants you
to find, and very difficult for you to find things that he doesn't want you
to find. And you're OK with dancing to Musk's tune? Do you think that might
give you a distorted view of reality? *

*I know something I bet you haven't read on TwitterX. Tesla is no longer
the biggest electric car maker in the world. Tesla lost that crown last
year to the Chinese company BYD even though He Who Must Not Be Named won't
allow BYD to sell cars in the USA. BYD won because it was able to make good
looking cars of very high build quality that have a general warranty better
than Tesla's,  8 years or 250,000 km for BYD versus 8 years or 160,000 km
for Tesla. And BYD is able to sell Electric cars that are as good or better
than Tesla's for considerably less and still make a profit. *


*And BYD now sells the fastest production electric car in the world, in
fact it's the fastest production car of any sort; Tesla doesn't have
anything even close to it. *

*YANGWANG U9 Xtreme*
<https://www.yangwangauto.com/en/car/u9-xtreme#:~:text=The%20YANGWANG%20U9%20Xtreme%2C%20rooted,and%20Nurburgring%20hypercar%20lap%20times.>


*The World’s FASTEST Car* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlRIdLz6Juk>


*> If Musk didn’t do good things, he wouldn’t be rich.*


*If Musk had not bought Twitter in 2022 and instead invested that $44
billion into AI he'd be even richer today, although he'd have less
political influence, so I suppose he figures it was worth it. *

*> Without Musk, there would be no TwitterX today. *


*Yes, and the world would be a better place.  *

*John K Clark    See what's on my list at  **Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*

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