在社交媒体上花费太多时间的基本问题之一是你正在通过阅读一群寻求关注的疯子的文章来烹饪你的大脑。 如果你选择的社交媒体是以前称为Twitter的网站，也是你与外界联系的主要来源
埃隆·穆斯克可能浪费了4.46亿美元
他甚至不擅长致富！
他甚至不擅长致富！
特别是穆斯克的美国PAC提供的4700万美元旨在击败德克萨斯民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科，他以55%的选票击败了穆斯克的首选参议院候选人肯·帕克斯顿。 塔拉里科甚至将穆斯克的影响力作为其竞选广告的核心内容，口号是“德克萨斯不卖”。
对数据中心的反对是让大部分人对科技行业感到愤怒的一种方式
穆斯克怎么搞错了？我责怪X的泡沫。 我前同事凯西·牛顿(Casey Newton)曾(带着一些深厚的羞耻)向X流涕，他解释说他这样做是因为这个网站对AI人群影响最大。 从某种意义上说，这正是问题所在。 影响AI的代理商与正常人失去联系现在，美国有一个非常重要的两党立场，那就是：去他妈的数据中心。
特别是来自AI公司的威胁源源不断，这些家伙真的把自己和他们的AI对唐纳德·特朗普沉船的渴望捆绑起来，如果你一直挂在X上，那是不可能的，尤其是因为网站的主人穆斯克正在以让他感觉好的方式塑造算法。
由于穆斯克似乎忘记了体验欢乐，甚至温和的满足的滋味，我冒昧地将他本可以买来的东西列成清单，让他的投资得到更好的回报。 他或许能为了更多的钱而翻转列表上的一些东西
- Larry Ellison的私人岛屿(2012年3亿美元，每个消费物价指数计算器4.4亿美元)(来源)
- 13个罗尔斯莱斯·拉罗斯·诺尔(3 200万美元)(来源)
- 5个钻石迷幻表(5 500万美元，今天为7 800万美元)(来源)
- 《华盛顿邮报》(2013年2.5亿美元，今日3.6亿美元)(来源)
- 30艘探照灯100艘游艇(基价1 460万美元)(来源)
- 43个希望钻石(1911年为300 000美元，今天约为1 030万美元)(来源)
- Ken Griffin的NYC顶楼(2019年为2.3996亿美元，今天为3.21亿美元)(来源)
- 76份新西兰黄金签证(1 000万美元加27,000新西兰盾的申请费，约577万美元)(资料来源)
- 44场30秒超级碗广告(1 000万美元)(来源)
- 在Blue Origin的新谢泼德上乘坐至少977辆(450 000美元)(来源)
- Willem de Kooning的交流(~3亿美元，~4亿美元，今天)(资料来源)
- 给每个德州人的14.67美元礼品卡(约3 000万德州)(来源)
- 34次林肯纪念反思池翻修(1 310万美元)(来源)
- 223 000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 显卡(管理系统更新项目为1 999美元)(来源);60 000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 显卡(“全球化正常价格”为7 240美元)(来源)
- 8 2026 维多利亚的秘密时尚秀奇幻Bras(来源)
- 他自己的非Grok版《奥德赛》(预算2.5亿美元)(来源)
- 4套Wachtell、利普顿律师从推特收购诉讼(9 000万美元)(来源)
但至少将SpaceQQs的"超级情报"师改回"人工情报"是自由的！
穆斯克昨晚删除了微博，可惜删掉别的东西没那么容易！德克萨斯已经问到要给穆斯克带来好处的甜心交易问题，而现在又出现了一波政治人物，这可能意味着政府不重视。 比如格雷格·阿博特的穆斯克电子邮件 — — 回答关于穆斯克与德克萨斯州共和党人之间影响力的一些问题。
因此，实际上，该列表上最好的投资可能是在推特交易中痛斥穆斯克的梦想律师团队——因为穆斯克有一群新的敌人在掌权，而他们能做的最简单的是调查他与选民之间的恩怨。 你可能永远不会知道
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One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known as Twitter, and it is your main source of contact with the outside world, you may delusionally throw away nearly $500 million dollars on midterm elections, just like Elon Musk.
17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million
He’s not even good at being rich!
He’s not even good at being rich!
In particular, $47 million of that money from Musk’s America PAC was aimed at defeating Texas Democrat James Talarico, who trounced Musk’s preferred Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, with 55 percent of the vote. Talarico even made Musk’s influence a central part of his campaign ads, with the slogan “Texas is not for sale.”
The opposition to data centers is a way of making concrete how pissed off most people are with the tech industry
How did Musk get this so wrong? I blame the bubble of X. My former colleague Casey Newton, who has (with some well-earned shame) slunk back to X, explained that he did so because it was the site that was most influential with the AI crowd. In some sense, this is exactly the problem. The agentmaxxing loons of AI influencing are wildly out of touch with normal people. There is, right now, one very important bipartisan position in the United States, and it is: Fuck a data center.
It’s pretty obvious that the opposition to data centers is a way of making concrete how pissed off most people are with the tech industry, particularly with the gangster tech regulation of late and the constant stream of threats coming from AI companies. These guys have really tied themselves and their AI aspirations to Donald Trump’s sinking ship, and if you’re hanging out on X all the time, that’s impossible to see, not least because the site’s owner, Musk, is shaping the algorithm in ways that make him feel good.
Since Musk seems to have forgotten what it is like to experience joy, or even mild satisfaction, I have taken the liberty to make a list of things he could have bought to get him a better return on his investment. He probably could flip several things on this list for more money, but at minimum he could have gotten a little rush of pleasure from a new purchase:
- Larry Ellison’s private island ($300 million in 2012, $440 million in today’s dollars per CPI calculator) (source)
- 13 Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptails ($32 million) (source)
- 5 The Graff Diamonds Hallucination watches ($55 million, $78 million today) (source)
- The Washington Post ($250 million in 2013, $360 million today) (source)
- 30 Sunseeker 100 yachts (base price $14.6 million) (source)
- 43 Hope diamonds ($300,000 in 1911, about $10.3 million today) (source)
- Ken Griffin’s NYC penthouse ($239.96 million in 2019, $321 million today) (source)
- 76 New Zealand golden visas ($10 million plus $27,000 application fee in NZD, about $5.77 million in USD) (source)
- 44 30-second Super Bowl commercials ($10 million) (source)
- At least 977 rides on Blue Origin’s New Shepard ($450,000) (source)
- Willem de Kooning’s Interchange (~$300 million, ~$400 million today) (source)
- $14.67 gift card to every Texan (~30 million Texans) (source)
- 34 renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool ($13.1 million) (source)
- 223,000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards (at MSRP of $1,999) (source); 60,000 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards (at “globalized normal price” of $7,240) (source)
- 8 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Fantasy Bras (source)
- His very own non-Grok version of The Odyssey (budget $250 million) (source)
- 4 sets of Wachtell, Lipton lawyers from the Twitter takeover suit ($90 million fee) (source)
But hey, at least changing the name of SpaceX’s “Superintelligence” division back to “Artificial Intelligence” is free!
Musk spent last night deleting tweets so he wouldn’t look as stupid as he is. Too bad it’s not as easy to delete other things! Texans were already asking questions about sweetheart deals to benefit Musk, and now there’s a wave of politicians who ran against his money coming into power, including the governor and the attorney general of Texas. That may mean unredacting Gov. Greg Abbott’s Musk emails, for instance — answering some questions about the influence Musk bought with Texas Republicans.
So actually, maybe the best investment on that list would be the dream team of lawyers who clobbered Musk on the Twitter deal — because Musk has a bunch of new enemies in power, and the simplest thing in the world they can do to curry favor with their voters is investigate him. Bet you’d never know that if you spent all your time on X.
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