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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Friday, May 20, 2022

Is Elon Musk going down?

Tesla's lost half its value in six weeks. Elon Musk has just acknowledged having sexually assaulted a female SpaceX employee six years ago. Has Elon's luck finally run out? Certainly, Musk's had quite a run. An eccentric genius who could have been a brilliant physicist if he'd wanted to be, many consider Musk to have "changed the world" by producing and marketing electric cars and reusable rockets, and has become the world's richest man, ever, by doing so. Others would suggest that these technologies already existed, and all Musk has done is aggressively market technologies that already existed, and which are of questionable significance or actual utility. I've suggested, at times, that Elon's greatest strength, and his greatest weakness, is a peculiar personality disorder he has, related to his study and fascination with the field of physics. Physicists since the time of Isaac Newton have taken upon themselves the responsibility of understanding the entire universe, and of finding absolute laws for same. They probably can't do this, at all, however. Hence the obsession with Einstein's very questionable theory of Relativity. Physicists will actually insist, rather hysterically, that Relativity is as real as Gravity, and that anyone who doesn't think so believes that the earth is flat. Really. Physicists -- and, I think at heart, Elon Musk is a physicist -- have a personality disorder that psychologists and psychiatrists call a "God Complex". They believe that anything they say must be true, and that they can do anything they want to do. Hence Musk's insistance that he can colonize Mars, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and his faith in his company Neuralink, although he knows nothing whatsoever about artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. Being somehwat delusional, Elon may actually go down somewhat hard, because he really doesn't know what he's doing, at all, despite his high intelligence. His faith in himself has been infectious, of course. But, can that infectious faith in Elon's "Godlike powers" survive his unveiling as a sexual abuser, and the demonstration that Electric Cars are, in fact, just a fashion, and Tesla stock a "bubble"? How can the leader of the feminist Artemis Program, whose goal is to land women on the Moon using SpaceX technology, be a sexual abuser? Can Elon get out of this? Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye

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