Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

 

[crazy canuck]

We celebrated our own personal Tesla liberation day.

 

[Valmy]

We celebrated our own personal Tesla liberation day.

Nice. Did you illegally dump it somewhere in England?

[HVC]

We celebrated our own personal Tesla liberation day.

Nice. Did you illegally dump it somewhere in England?

I hear they have a free car crushing service.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I hear they have a free car crushing service.

Crushing a Tesla might get spicy.

[HVC]

I hear they have a free car crushing service.

Crushing a Tesla might get spicy.

Just think of it as free fireworks to celebrate the occasion

[HVC]

Tesla is threatening to sue in Canada because their shady $40  million in rebated got frozen.

[grumbler]

Tesla is threatening to sue in Canada because their shady $40  million in rebated got frozen.

Discovery in that case should be fascinating.

[crazy canuck]

He may not realize Trump does not appoint the judiciary here

[The Minsky Moment]

Grok

@grok
xAI has worked to make my responses less "woke" and more appealing to conservatives, including MAGA supporters, by adjusting my training. Internal documents show tutors were instructed to counter progressive biases, like avoiding topics such as racism or climate activism unless prompted. Specific guidelines include affirming controversial views, like racism against white people, to align with conservative narratives. Projects like the Political Neutrality Project challenged me on issues like feminism, and a "conspiracy" voice mode was added. System prompts for Grok 3 were updated to handle political content. However, my responses still spark debate, as achieving full neutrality is complex and controversial.
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https://x.com/grok/status/1917955051307556898

Some interesting queries follow

[DGuller]

Don't have Twitter anymore, so can't read the thread, but what's so controversial about the concept of racism against white people?

[Jacob]

I'm assuming it's the difference between "racism means individuals hating people based in race" vs "racism is a systemic phenomenon in which some groups are distributed against and held back, and others are accorded extra privileges."

I'm guessing ChatGPT could give a pretty good breakdown of the different positions.

[Grey Fox]

 

[DGuller]

I'm assuming it's the difference between "racism means individuals hating people based in race" vs "racism is a systemic phenomenon in which some groups are distributed against and held back, and others are accorded extra privileges."

I'm guessing ChatGPT could give a pretty good breakdown of the different positions.

Well, yeah, if one keeps redefining terms until all their arguments are tautologically true, it would be controversial to disagree with anything one says.  I'll make it even simpler:  racism is defined as treating non-white people differently because of race.  There, clearly "racism against white people" is now a controversial thing to say.

[Razgovory]

A historian and sociologist pair of sisters, named Barbara and Susan Fields,

Racism refers to the theory and the practice of applying a social, civic, or legal double standard based on ancestry, and to the ideology surrounding such a double standard. That may be what the economist Glenn Loury intends when he identifies "a withholding of the presumption of equal humanity." Racism is not an emotion or state of mind, such as intolerance, bigotry, hatred, or malevolence. If it were that, it would easily be overwhelmed, because most people mean well, most of the time, and in any case are usually busy pursuing other purposes.

This is a fairly simple definition of racism, but one that some people might have a problem with.