Now he’s in a fight with the Australian government over a reluctance to take down footage of a stabbing. He’ll probably just offer to buy Australia.
A stabbing in Australia and its promotion seems to be a great example of engagement farming.
How about it Elmo?
I’m now imagining Elmo in stereotypical farmer clothes (overalls, dirty baseball hat) , with a spring of wheat in his teeth. “Fine crop of engagements this year.” Very Green Acres.
He’s probably applied for an agricultural subsidy on the back of that.
Maybe he could try getting high on Trump’s farts rather than his own, kind of like using methadone to come off a heroin addiction.
Musk is upping his attacks on Australia.
“Engagement farming” is such an odd and clunky phrase. Did it start because the type of person who trolls started out as the dude bugging everyone they know for help in Farmville?
“Farming” is a videogame term for performing repetitive, unfun tasks that accumulate rewards at a faster pace than playing the game “honestly.” World of Warcraft, for example, was famous for its gold farmers.
Engagement farming is an extension of that idea.
Impressive, echoing TFG with “enemy of the people” and calling the Australian government fascist. You can tell he’s well grounded in reality.
Ah, I see. Thanks.
From the very first sentence of that article:
Elon Musk said an Australian senator should be jailed and suggested the country’s gun laws were meant to stop resistance against its “fascist government,” …
Apparently Hitler has come back to life and is now establishing a Fourth Reich in Australia, a fact previously unknown to anyone, and has been grabbing everyone’s guns to suppress revolt against the Reich. The senator that Elmo feels should be jailed is guilty of accusing him of “[having] no social conscience or conscience whatsoever", and you just never say such things about Mein Führer.
If only Elmo owned a car company that made high-tech cars that were critically dependent on ongoing technical support and the stability of its leadership, I’d rush out and buy one right now! 
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Skibidi toilet.
(Not responsible for your sanity if you look it up)
There is an army of community note makers trying to fight autism/VAX madness and also tag porn accounts as violations of TOS, but it’s basically a bunch of umbrellas against a tidal wave. Also, politics in India generates a ton of tags, but I don’t feel competent to uprate or downrate them.
The Supreme Court has refused to hear Elmo’s appeal of the ruling requiring his tweets about Tesla to be pre-approved by a lawyer.
Not to worry, he can just have Grok invent a fictitious news story about the tweet he wanted to but wasn’t actually allowed to make.
Things are going great at Tesla. Previously he cut the PR department, in the latest gambit he cut the marketing department. Today the entire Supercharger group - all in addition to the ~10% layoff that appeared to be kind of random.
From Elmo himself: > “Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the email, the report said. “While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”
Layoffs will continue until the seriousness improves.
from the comments:The Supercharger network is one of Tesla’s few and (mostly) unqualified successes. So definitely start gutting that department. That’s some hardcore big business ketamine adderall brain thinking going on there.
The Cybertruck was evidence that Musk has gone off the rails and has turned into Tony Montana staring at a huge pile of cocaine on his desk. Musk got high off his own P.R. started believing it (like Tony getting hooked on his own product) and assumed that any ridiculous idea he had would be a hit because it was his idea. My worry is the next couple of years at Tesla are going to resemble the final scene of Scarface (“say hello to my little friend”) as Musk drags the once promising venture down with him in his psychiatric death spiral.
I wonder how far the other Tesla stockholders will let Musk go? He has the largest stake, but is far from a majority. It’s clear to me that he’s a drag on company and the brand, but I’m not sure how the stockholders feel about it.
Batteries and charging aren’t sexy. Cars are sexy.
Who cares about profitability when you need the adulation of your online fanbois? Not Elon or the Tesla board, apparently
If you reduce staff costs to zero, profits will go way up. Agile genius!