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Re: Captain Apartheid

Post by Simon of the Playa » Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:32 am

Let's be clear about what's happening while we debate the impossible fiction of Musk's supposed role: A coup is in progress in the United States of America. This isn't hyperbole or partisan rhetoric—it's as demonstrable as the fact that there are twenty-four hours in a day or that two plus two equals four. Private citizens have seized control of Treasury payment systems. Security officials are being removed for following classification protocols. Congressionally established agencies are being illegally shuttered.

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Bond investigates the vanishing of a Space Shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with astronaut Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the mystery from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon rainforest, and finally into outer space to prevent a plot to wipe out the world population and repopulate humanity with a master race.



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Post by Simon of the Playa » Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:45 am

people are already planning their artwork...



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Post by MarkNYC » Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:12 am

Simon of the Playa wrote:
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people are already planning their artwork...




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herr elmo has spoken...

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Post by some seeing eye » Mon Apr 07, 2025 12:02 pm

increasing the signal to noise ratio with compassion

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Post by some seeing eye » Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:38 pm

I know a lot of brand advertising people. I have proposed brand advertising programs. There are also crisis PR people. Both are well worth what they are paid. Ideally you have the margins to do the former, and you don't shoot yourself in the foot to require the latter.

Apple has been a master. The Chiat/Day 1984 McIntosh launch is a classic. The Superbowl is a classic showcase, and the UK Christmas ads are gems. When you see a good ad, you can usually look up the agency on AdWeek. Agency and ads of the year awards can be fun.

The electric car company is in need of crisis people today. They never seriously built their brand.

AdWeek 2024:

Under the Hood of Tesla’s Fleeting Foray Into Advertising
The brand will have to improve on its sluggish first quarter without its recently laid-off marketing team

https://archive.ph/1C33k

Electrek 2025:

https://electrek.co/2025/04/10/tesla-ed ... nd-damage/

Advertising on Twitter is not advertising and advertising should be done by a proper agency after the crisis is fixed, if it can be.

Burning Man is starting to become a bit more savvy on brand too with the recent makers, inventors and doers idea.
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Re: Captain Apartheid

Post by some seeing eye » Tue Jun 03, 2025 7:34 am

Elon Musk compared to Cecil Rhodes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/opin ... =url-share

Longtermism + Deus ex Machina in the form of high tech, but lacking the altruism of Gates & Buffett, Loraine Jobs & MacKenzie Scott, or even Gilded Age philanthropy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busi ... =url-share

https://daily.jstor.org/philanthropy-an ... ilded-age/
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CHICKEN SHIT

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Post by some seeing eye » Sat Sep 13, 2025 12:53 pm

I was talking to someone who visited the big sign. A person there asked if they would take a picture with them standing in front of the big sign. They said it had personal significance because they were one of the 3 attorneys on the Florida autopilot case. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigatio ... 025-08-25/
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Post by some seeing eye » Fri Sep 19, 2025 4:50 pm

Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company

Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/tech ... =url-share
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