The DePape charges make very clear that Elon Musk spread homophobic disinformation about the Pelosi attack to downplay the role politics played in it. An absolutely shameful episode illustrating what a clown the guy is. justice.gov/opa/press-rele…

Next, Elon buys a game company and tweets “The frame rate is low because stencil buffers are causing page faults due to non 16 byte aligned inverse kinematics asset database raycasts. I am fixing it.” Crowd goes wild.

How it started etc

2023 starting off right.

My 2023 advice for all young engineers: Respect a running system. There are reasons it works that way, most of which will be uncovered when you try to replace it. Make incremental changes, don't burn the building down. No one way doors. Never be unable to rollback.

Everyone thought AI would come for truck drivers first, artists last, yet the exact opposite is happening. Fascinating.

How much more do I need to pay Spotify to stop pitching me audiobooks and podcasts?

Anything and everything, all of the time

What MRTK team built is inspirational. It's hard to understand the decision to shut it down. But FWIW, my team at Meta works on mixed reality SDKs and prototypes, so if you were on MRTK don't hesitate to reach out to explore potential opportunities.

yeah if you consider Musk an aspirational person you’re a fucking worm.

Libertarian for me but not for thee 😭

Simultaneously calling for more banking oversight and better risk management but also for continued lending to unprofitable companies is peak libertarian tech bro.

The worst Twitter is when there is mass hysteria about a topic you happen to know something about. Between credible-looking nonsense takes and bad faith actors who don’t mind causing harm for a tiny prospect of self benefit, it’s difficult to maintain faith for our kind.

Like, make no mistake. This is the example of a bad person who is making completely baseless claims that can set up a bank run for absolutely no reason. But there is a slight chance that it will benefit him. So who cares?

Here is another one, a blatant lie worthy of jail time from Mike Alfred. But I guess when Elon Musk himself is the biggest repeat offender (ahem “funding secured”) there is no barrier or consequence to spreading this kind of misinformation with a giant megaphone.

I'll be at GDC btw, say hi!

This, minus the “many who I otherwise admire” part.

Elon Musk 10-year challenge

Finally a good alternative to this bottomless pit of grift. Moving on to Threads, maybe I'll even start twee-threading again.