The Elon Twitter Train Wreck Continues

No one can keep up with the train wreck that is Twitter, and frankly I don’t want to. I did want to briefly comment on this item though:

Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets Thursday evening, as company owner Elon Musk accused the reporters of posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family.

The Post has seen no evidence that any of the reporters did so.

There’s more coverage of this from basically anywhere you can possibly think of, but I think it’s important to remember the first rule of Elon Musk:

Don’t take anything he says seriously.

He doesn’t actually care about free speech. He doesn’t care about bots (remember when we used to talk about bots on Twitter?). He doesn’t have the solution to full autonomous driving. He doesn’t want to dig tunnels under Los Angeles. He doesn’t want to build a competitor to The Onion.

He didn’t event want to buy Twitter.

He bought Twitter when he was forced to (laws are such a drag), and now it’s his. Things don’t seem to be going well, so when people start talking about how he wasn’t paying his bills, he kicked off a bunch of journalists so now no one is talking about how he’s late with the rent.

He bought it, and he can ruin it if he wants to. Don’t fall for his static generator. Come join me on Mastodon!