this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
329 points (99.7% liked)
TechTakes
1276 readers
146 users here now
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Guess it’s appropriate that Musk should go from some sort of entrepreneurial tech guru who was going to save the planet to some right wing billionaire shitheel, steals “grok” from Heinlein, who went for sic-fi author darling to libertarian shitheel.
Musk appropriating "grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land is on-brand for him, seeing as he fundamentally misunderstands Banks' Culture series and reduces it to "the one with the cool ship names".
Edited for clarity
@gerikson @cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”
@acb @gerikson @cstross esr taking over maintainership and then adding in his own made-up terms and ugly politics really does feel like a harbinger of all this. It also feels similar in the way the institution (Jargon File/Twitter) got taken over and corrupted-in-place.
@acb and esr still hasn’t fixed that http headers, html headers, and actual html content show three different, incompatible character encodings.
@gerikson @cstross
@Landa @acb @gerikson @cstross Maybe he thinks his Aunt Tillie should fix it?
@m Well, seems like she's still busy with her guru meditation class or putting the wrong certificate onto cats.org, so it's still ISO-8859-1 pretending to be UTF-8 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@acb @gerikson @cstross