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musk is genuinely not very bright and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing

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Cynthia Brumfield

@metacurity.com

The Isaacson biography also played a key role in lionizing Musk's intellect among more intelligent people. I dinged a friendship when I argued that Musk is a dunce, not knowing that she read the Isaacson biography twice and was entranced by how visionary Musk was.

21/6/25, 3:32 pm1 repost32 likes

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

21 June 2025

I know a lot of these folks and it's been a long, dusty shlog pulling them into the light of reality

Banjo the Riot Elephant

@richargh.bsky.social

21 June 2025

It's easier to process when you realize Isaacson is a buffoon, too.

Cynthia Brumfield

@metacurity.com

21 June 2025

Funny thing is I used to think the opposite.

Banjo the Riot Elephant

@richargh.bsky.social

21 June 2025

He appeared in a PBS documentary about Einstein and the insights into Einstein's life that he provided were just shallow and thoroughly unimpressive to me. The physicists who appeared on the program outdid him in every way.

Renatus Ingenarius

@ingenarius.bsky.social

21 June 2025

We’ve normalized calling someone a “genius” when they’re really just a Machiavellian operator exploiting brilliant engineers under impossible pressure. People really ought to learn the difference.