# Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news, elon-musk\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737 "2022-11-29T13:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/321 "2023-07-17T05:50:49Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > What? [![](https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/epics/TOS-S3/S3E15/TOS-S3E15-70.jpg) ](https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/epics/TOS-S3/S3E15/TOS-S3E15-70.jpg) ETA: Ninja’d by @SunUp. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/322 "2023-07-17T08:25:57Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > He’s now in a race between his white half that is trying to crash revenue and his black half that’s trying to crash costs. > > What? Yes, @Steve_MB, @SunUp, and @Smapti just above got the allusion. It’s about split personalities at war with each other. Musk is evidently doing two separate things in pursuit of conflicting goals with a self-destructive outcome. With a lot of collateral damage. It’s not about ethnicities. In retrospect that allusion was a bit too subtle / out of context and probably flew over many readers’ heads. I should have been more explicit given the touchiness of the plain-language reading. Or picked a different allusion altogether. Thank you for raising an eyebrow. Thank you also for not throwing rotten tomatoes nor summoning a mob with pitchforks. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/323 "2023-07-17T21:27:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > In retrospect that allusion was a bit too subtle / out of context and probably flew over many readers’ heads. I should have been more explicit given the touchiness of the plain-language reading. Or picked a different allusion altogether. Or maybe something anyone born in the last 50 years might know about 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/324 "2023-07-18T00:08:42Z")
I hadn’t the faintest idea. (born in '75). I sometimes feel like I’m the only one here who has never seen Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/325 "2023-07-18T00:10:48Z")
BURN THE HERETIC!!! Hey, **I** got it. Not that that means anything except you were clear to at least one dork. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/326 "2023-07-18T00:15:56Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lUXHB5U-Vl4/hqdefault.jpg "Scariest Movie Scenes - Invasion of Body Snatchers - Ending") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/327 "2023-07-18T01:31:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I hadn’t the faintest idea. (born in '75). I sometimes feel like I’m the only one here who has never seen Star Trek. I’m older and also had no idea what it meant, but I assumed @LSLGuy was talking about something I just didn’t know about, because he’s a good guy. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/328 "2023-07-18T01:37:58Z")
I say @pulykamell should watch a carefully curated list of OG Star Trek episodes to get the various references, in the same way a well read individual in Western Civilization should have read a smattering of Shakespeare, the Bible (as literature), and other classic works. Of course, I say this but refuse to be involved in a long, drawn out battle in determining which episodes Must be seen, because a war over that would be so destructive that entire civilizations fail, leaving few if any survivors. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/329 "2023-07-18T05:22:21Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > In retrospect that allusion was a bit too subtle / out of context and probably flew over many readers’ heads. Hey, I totally got it, and I’m only a casual Star Trek fan. Plus, I’m totally dense. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/330 "2023-07-18T15:20:48Z")
As an aside, I’ve always thought there should be a list of clips/shows/movies to be watched to “catch up” on Western culture. Could be curated in terms of who you want to be able to relate to: “Need to follow along with semi-geniuses on a fun-yet-nitpicky messageboard? Here’s _your_ list…” . eta: Does the Reader own my multi-million dollar idea now? Rats! ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/331 "2023-07-18T15:38:10Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > He says he’s doing this not to advance AI necessarily, but to use AI to ‘understand the world’. I’d just like to get this on the record for future conversations: do you believe him? Because I think he’s lying, and I think as time passes that will become clear as Musk is a notorious liar. To be clear, I think he’s telling the truth that he doesn’t want to advance AI, but rather understanding the world has nothing to do with why he wants to develop AI. He seems it as a money making scheme because he knows he can sucker Musk fanboys into flocking to the Musk approved AI, that will be “anti-woke”. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/332 "2023-07-18T16:07:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > As an aside, I’ve always thought there should be a list of clips/shows/movies to be watched to “catch up” on Western culture. Like this? [![](https://i.redd.it/59oz45jrxxf41.png) ](https://i.redd.it/59oz45jrxxf41.png) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/333 "2023-07-18T16:12:32Z")
That’s exactly what I came here to mention! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/334 "2023-07-18T17:21:49Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I’d just like to get this on the record for future conversations: do you believe him? I have no evidence one way or the other. My guess is that just like everything else it will wind up being a standard commercial venture and they’ll make money where they can. I heard that Musk spent ‘hundreds of millions’ on signing bonuses to get the best AI guys around. So he’s serious about this, but I’m not even sure what “learning about the world” means. Pure scientific research? Improving AI? I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/335 "2023-07-18T18:58:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > That’s exactly what I came here to mention! What is that? Is that list on a list somewhere of things I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/336 "2023-07-18T19:00:34Z")
Yeah, me too. Do I need to have been born in the last 50 years or the previous fifty? j ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/337 "2023-07-18T19:07:28Z")
Add Captain America: The Winter Soldier to the list of pop culture references. > **[Steve Rogers' Notebook](https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Rogers%27_Notebook)** > > I've seen that book. It was Steve's when he came out of the ice. I told him about Trouble Man. He wrote it in that book.Sam Wilson to Bucky Barnes Steve Rogers' Notebook was a notebook that contained a list of items, people and events which Steve... ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/338 "2023-07-18T19:18:29Z")
Really the only one you need. “I didn’t get that reference.” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/339 "2023-07-18T19:41:42Z")
Is that Disco or Pisco? Because there’s a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/340 "2023-07-19T14:11:15Z")
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