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It's somewhat orthogonal to most subjects discussed here, but the eventual WBD bankruptcy auction is going to be a prime source of lols

@self @dgerard overwhelming "We bought the Jodorowski book so we can now make a Dune movie" energy

he'll think he can breed the kwizatz hadderach

I recall him and Grimes being Dune nerds, but only the imperial fantasy part of it

He'll just watch the movie and bribe a CIA run terrorist cell to nuke the middle east.

My pet theory is that Robert Downey Jr is the reason Elon musk is as successful as he is.

Considering RDJ's role as Tony Stark seems to have given Musk the template he used for his public rise to fame, you may be on to something.

"Wow, this film is bleak, we sure don't want that," said the wealthiest man in the world while spending tens of millions of dollars campaigning for an authoritarian just to enrich himself further via regulatory capture.

so I just fucking realized, this asshole wasn’t originally going to bring up the duster but he panicked. here’s the original, so much better-looking photo he ripped off:

and the spinner (a VTOL car) in that, viewed from the back, looks a lot like something he knocked off for the design of his shitty cybercab, including how the doors open and its general shape and color (though the latter’s due to the scene’s color grading if memory serves, but musk ain’t smart), though the cybercab doesn’t have any of the design elements that make the Blade Runner car interesting because of course it doesn’t, it was designed by a creatively bankrupt billionaire from someone else’s work

so that spinner’s missing in Musk’s generative AI ripoff of that image, because the model couldn’t make a spinner-like car that didn’t look fucked up. and that’s why the AI image has “NOT THIS” hastily applied in one corner and he had to change his speech from “I believe we want that car” (followed by revealing supposedly “that car”) to “I believe we want that duster”

unbelievably lazy, but not unexpected

Cyberpunk is when cool coat*

*said coat is a trench coat, not a duster

and the sequel, 2 Blade 2 Run

Now construct the rest of the fucking androwl

@zogwarg as somebody who is a fan of owls, oh god please no

a Tesla that gets an erection when you drive it. by the visionary elon musk

Silicon Valley is proud to announce the man who taught his asshole to talk, based on the hit William S. Burroughs story, "Don't be the man who taught his asshole to talk."

Also, Musk would’ve been much better off commissioning someone to make the image he wanted rather than grabbing a screencap Aicon openly said he was not allowed to use

Well, Musk is famously great at taking a no as an answer.

We've also already seen internal documents from nVidia executives directing their employees to violate the CFAA, and it would be naive to think they were the only company knowingly and willfully violating federal law to get their llms up to functionality.

Never forget that Aaron was hounded to death for doing similar, but at a far smaller scale and for the benefit of humanity