Dr. Philip Low, a former friend of Elon Musk who would seem to know him very well, says it was definitely a Nazi salute. But he offers a more nuanced explanation as to why.
The emperor has no clothes
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Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism
If nothing else positive comes out of his acquiring Twitter, it will at least have provided the public with an opportunity to see how obsessed Elon Musk is with race-related conspiracy theories. A surprising amount of it is just plain creepy.
Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism (Mother Jones)
“If it’s Boeing I ain’t going”?
Considering they’ve made probably more than half the commercial aircraft flying today, what’s coming out in the news about Boeing’s transformation since their acquisition of Mcdonnell-Douglas is frightening. Some people are even referring to the merger as a testament to the genius of MD management, because “they bought Boeing with Boeing’s money”. The Seattle giant went from being an engineering-first aircraft company to an accountant-first corporation that happened to make aircraft, and that’s when things started going wrong. Even the headquarter move to Chicago was, in hindsight, a big tell that at the corporate level engineering was no longer job #1. But it gets worse.
Suicide Mission (The American Prospect)
See also: The Strange Death of a Boeing Whistleblower (The American Prospect)
With the spotlight on him Elon Musk doesn’t look like much of a genius anymore
A highlight: “Musk is a right wing demagogue and a pathetic, narrow-minded racist, one that endorses causes that suppress the marginalized and champion white supremacy.”
The Descent of Elon Musk by Ed Zitron
Clown shoes for less!
If you’ve suffered brain damage and would like to get a pair of those revolting gold sneakers Don the Con is selling, may we recommend that you save a few bucks by buying them at the same place Donald himself did before he stuck a “T” emblem on the side, and that place is Alibaba. The price? Less than $50, with volume discounts available, a savings of $350 per pair.
How to plan and run a gangbang
What does a blogger and sex worker get for herself on her birthday? Aella organized a gangbang for herself, and her Substack provides a fascinating view into how a successful gangbang gets organized, how it goes, and the lessons the star at the middle of it has drawn from it. It’s probably NSFW — no images but it’s a honest article about organizing a gangbang so you know what to expect.
My Birthday Gangbang by Aella (substack)
Honestly who the f*#& is going to wear that in public?
The footwear world was stunned today at the announcement that Donald Trump is now making self-branded clown shoes. Have a look, they really look even worse than you think they will.
Trump launches a sneaker line (NBC News)
This is why I don’t fly Suspiria Airlines.
This week’s weird aviation episode involves… maggots. I kid you not.
Delta flight forced back to Amsterdam after maggots fall onto passenger (CNN)
Scandal! At the Hugos
This year’s biggest scandal doesn’t involve anyone named “Trump” for once. The 2023 Hugo Awards has been hit with such strong and well-documented allegations of vote fraud and vote rigging that many prominent sci-fi authors are questioning whether that organization will be able to survive at all going forward.
Check it out the whole story here (boingboing.net).