The Curious Ubiquity of the AI-Created Saintly Elon Musk
As readers of this blog are all too aware, I spend too much time on social media. My life and career would be better if I had the self-control to refrain from doomscrolling, but I am a weak man, and Facebook and Twitter’s siren song is too powerful to resist.
I should have left Twitter a long time ago. More specifically, I should have joined other principled souls and quit in protest when Elon Musk purchased the formerly useful social media dynamo.
I did not because I’m not ready to cut off that avenue of self-promotion, even as it grows worse by the day. Since the new guy took over, I’ve lost about three or four thousand followers on Twitter.
I’m okay with that! I appreciate that most of my lost followers left that hell site and embraced less terrible options, like Bluesky.
Facebook was, until recently, profoundly flawed but preferable. Then, Zuckerberg went full MAGA in celebration of Donald Trump’s re-election, the death of Woke, and the Revenge of Masculinity.
Did you see his gold chain? Nothing pathetic or desperate about his re-brand as a 1989 middle school conception of cool.
Facebook became useless in record time. I wrote a blog post recently about its sudden and steep decline into a cesspool of AI-generated clickbait from various countries around the globe and ads for Knocked Up By the Hockey Team.
I wrote about the deluge of Elon Musk-themed articles and pages that use the black magic of AI to create a computer-induced alternate universe where a racist, transphobic, drug-addicted sociopath on ketamine is either a selfless humanitarian looking out for his fellow man or a bold culture warrior constantly winning epic victories over silly liberals.
There are a LOT of these articles. A LOT. Sometimes it seems like my Facebook feed consists entirely of friends freaking out about Trump and worthless propaganda about how what Elon Musk did for a sad Starbuck’s barista left everyone stunned.
Facebook used to be good for more than that. Now, unfortunately, it’s fake Elon all the time.
One rancid piece of clickbait I had the self-control not to click on (even though I was tempted!) was about Musk firing The View and replacing it with Jon Stewart.
These weird fictions subscribe to the notion that Elon Musk isn’t just a famously rich and powerful mogul who has a LOT of employees but rather EVERYONE’s boss. That apparently includes the ladies of the View (Boo! Hiss!)
Then again, though Elon Musk was not duly elected, he sent the entire government an email saying he was their new boss and that they better justify their jobs and salaries or that the wealthiest man in the world would fire them.
If I received an email like that, I would be tempted to answer, 1. No, you’re not. 2. Fuck you.
In exchange for a quarter billion dollars, Trump famously gave Musk permission to take a metaphorical chainsaw to the lives, careers, and families of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of government employees, veterans, and lifelong civil servants.
Trump basically made Musk the boss of the government. That’s a big responsibility that he is not qualified for.
Musk was already the boss of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company. Then, he asked Trump if he could also be boss of the United States, and the 47th president was so grateful that he said yes.
That’s not enough for Musk. He’s also been mucking about in European and South African politics because he wants to be boss of the entire world, not just the United States.
AI-manufactured pro-Trump propaganda wants the world to know that the boss is good! The boss loves you! The boss works 120 hours weekly because he cares about you and your family! The boss will never stop working tirelessly alongside his best friend, Donald Trump, to stop “Woke” and “DEI” and “trans” from murdering your family and eating your pets. You can trust the world’s boss to fire hundreds of thousands of government employees with next to no government oversight because a narcissistic billionaire on drugs who has no problems amassing a fortune of hundreds of billions of dollars while people starve to death and live in the streets will always act in the best interest of the masses more than civil servants with families and dreams and ambitions whose job is to help people.
I wish I lived in one of the alternate universes where Elon Musk is a force for good. In that wonderful world, Elon Musk 17 doesn’t care about publicity and would prefer to operate under the radar. I can only imagine how grateful the populace of that glorious alternate universe must be.
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