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Remember that Elon is powered by attention so you have to be critical of everything he says. Who knows if there was actually a stalker? Was Elon really targeted or was it just random? Could have been some homeless guy trying to clean the windows.

The elonjet thing has been an annoyance to Elon for a long time, now that he owns the company he can force the guy onto another platform - and fuel the attention engine in the process.

I think it’s as simple as that - not the grand commentary on free speech that people are trying to transform it into.



> Elon is powered by attention

Is it renewable?


He does seem to be able catalyse a reaction in thousands of journalists just by farting, so it does seem to be a limitless supply


Considering how much newspaper and magazine space is consumed by Elon related materials, I think his carbon footprint is actually pretty awful. Giving Elon attention often costs billions of dollars so the price per watt is very high.


It is also possible he needed a story to take attention off of his stock sales.


I was looking for the distraction piece this morning when I saw he was selling Tesla stock... This might be it.




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