SMN: The Talented Mr. Musk, Part 2: The Elon Files
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Chu-chu! Hanca Hanca! All aboard the musk train as it loses control and explodes. Also, |
| 0:08.8 | it's a car, not a train because Elon Musk doesn't like public transportation. Or people, |
| 0:14.1 | it seems. Oh, fucking boy, it is time for part two of our totally flattering look into |
| 0:19.8 | Elon Musk's extremely not silly takeover of Twitter, in which he was not a dumb shit. |
| 0:26.4 | And just to restate from the first video, I hate this, I hate it, I hate that we started |
| 0:31.6 | the year with this subject, I hate talking about Elon Musk and his tweets and face and bad |
| 0:36.4 | memes. And with any hope, we won't be talking about him much this year. You know, unless |
| 0:41.0 | we do video about wealth or class or transportation or politics. Anyway, you should probably watch |
| 0:47.6 | that first video so you don't get confused about our intricate plot line. Something about |
| 0:52.6 | a cracker barrel later and an insult jar or some kind, I forget or maybe I don't care. |
| 0:58.8 | We'll never know. But to recap, in part one, we explained how Musk had purchased Twitter |
| 1:04.6 | for way way more than it was worth. And as a result, put the company into massive debt. He |
| 1:12.2 | then fired most of everyone and reduced the value of the site even more before unbanging |
| 1:18.1 | all of the ghouls and implementing and in some cases almost immediately retracting a confusing |
| 1:23.2 | series of UI and policy changes. He made the blue check mark purchasable for eight bucks, |
| 1:29.6 | then undid that when people were able to easily imitate notable figures. But now it's fixed. |
| 1:35.8 | But that's, I obviously that's the wrong word. It's still not fixed. Also a bunch of |
| 1:43.6 | data got leaked. Also, all the advertisers left and he's facing a ton of litigation while |
| 1:48.3 | Tesla stock plummets every day. But at least child exploitation is down on the site. So he says, |
| 1:55.8 | which isn't actually true. He did all of this in the name of free speech, except all of his |
| 2:00.8 | moderation decisions seemed to be based on making sure people don't make fun of him specifically. |
| 2:06.4 | And you know, not doing things that he personally doesn't like because perhaps this was never |
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