[saisundar]

A grim day. As a tech worker, my solidarity is entirely with the employees of Twitter.

The irony is that Twitter, more than any other social platform, helped create the aura around Elon, Tesla in particular. In some sense, Twitter was quintessential to what Elon is today.

For him to now - make a bid for twitter - back out of it in futile - acquire it, lay off execs - lay off half the force

Is surreal. If this had been anyone apart from Elon, they would have been ostracized.

I am saddened, but also a bit terrified since I see strong parallels between Elon, and... Other such figures. But Elon now owns a social media platform that "informs" upwards of a 500million users a month.

[davesque]

It's really an ironic saga that's unfolded between Musk and Twitter. I've said many times that I think Twitter facilitates a Jekyll-to-Hyde-like transformation in people that are predisposed to it. I think the fantastically rich are disproportionately represented in that group. If you're surrounded by yes men (and that includes Twitter followers), you're going to turn into an awful person. So Musk has come back to ruin the very thing that created him. This story is not new to humanity. The golem has returned to destroy its creator.