Click any tag below to further narrow down your results
Links
This is a short, sarcastic X post playing along with a quote-tweet that asks why people who dislike Elon Musk still use his platform. The author jokes that they are the "indigenous people" of Jack Dorsey's Twitter and that Musk is their coloniser, refusing to leave.
- The post is satirical: it frames continued use of X as a stubborn refusal to leave, borrowing colonial and indigenous-rights language for comic effect.
- It responds to a quote-tweet from @stockbella, which points out the apparent contradiction of disliking Musk while still using his platform.
- It is a single informal post with no data, sources, or arguments beyond the joke.
Documentarian Alex Gibney explains how his four-hour film about Elon Musk took shape, from an early, mostly admiring view of Musk to a more critical one as Musk's political turn and Twitter behavior unfolded. He also covers why Musk refused to sit for an interview and how that and other people's fear of Musk shaped the film.
- Gibney started the project seeing Musk as an intriguing maverick inventor, and says the film's tone shifted as his public conduct escalated.
- The film was originally planned as a two-hour version, but Musk's involvement with Trump led HBO to push for more material, expanding it to four hours.
- Musk never agreed to an interview; he responded to outreach by calling Gibney a "douche" on Twitter, and many other insiders declined to go on camera for fear of lawsuits or career consequences.
- The host argues Musk's public image was shaped by coverage he never fully followed, and that footage in the film shows a side of him the host didn't see during their friendship.
X is experiencing a genuine resurgence in influence despite stagnant business metrics, driven by high-profile users and better product execution, while competitors like Threads and Bluesky struggle to match its cultural grip on information distribution and the AI community.
- X's revival isn't about user growth but about regaining control as the primary platform for breaking news, tech discourse, and AI discussions—something Threads can't replicate despite having potentially larger user numbers.
- Major executives (NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, even Mark Zuckerberg) are actively using X specifically because that's where key communities like AI developers congregate, making it a business necessity rather than a preference.
- Musk solved X's financial bleeding by merging it into SpaceX's business structure alongside xAI, effectively turning the social network into a marketing expense rather than a standalone money-loser, which freed it to become a decent product again.