Tesla is a meme stock with a troubled car company attached. Elon Musk’s job is to be the meme. At Thursday’s “We, Robot” event, Musk lied his ass off yet again, using “AI” as the excuse for literal…
  • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 个月前

    I’m convinced he pronounced robovan the way he did because he was advised on the social media engagement technique of dropping deliberate mistakes in your videos

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 个月前

      it feels so much like he’s reaching for… something? from nerd culture and missing the mark so much it’s unrecognizable. my brain went to the old RedLetterMedia review where they kept pronouncing “geteven” as one word, but like… musk, buddy, you’re the one who insisted on naming it a robovan, this doesn’t work

      and speaking of reaching for nerd culture and missing, “your own personal R2D2 C-3PO” is exactly how my mom would describe a robot after a bit too much wine, and it’s really embarrassing it’s this easy to pander to nerds

      • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 个月前

        it feels so much like he’s reaching for… something? from nerd culture and missing the mark so much it’s unrecognizable.

        so much this when he said the “future should look like the future” and this art deco style roach rolls out

        • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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          2 个月前

          my first thought on seeing the robovan was that I better make sure I got all the plasmids I needed cause when I enter that Bioshock’s definitely doing a level transition I can’t come back from