If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace.
Instead it’s radio silence from the media
@taqnull at it's core it's always "I am 12 and this is how the world ought to work", it's like they haven't upgraded their collective theory of mind of the society from the moment they first gained consciousness
> be elon musk
> offer to buy Twitter
> look into it some more, realize most of the users are bots
> holyshit.gif
> "nevermind, I don't want to buy it anymore"
> get sued, forced to buy it for $44 billion
> billions of dollars of debt on the balance sheet
> FuckMyLife.jpg
> everyone laughs at you, says you will fail spectacularly
> left convinces advertisers to boycott you
> keep pushing anyway, rename the company X
> people refuse to call it X and keep calling it Twitter in defiance
> ignore them
> use the company's data to train a frontier LLM
> start a new AI company called xAI that licenses data from X
> xAI raises money, buys X
> SpaceX decides to launch data centers into space, buys xAI
> announce billions of dollars of data center deals
> raise $80 billion in an initial offering of the company at a $1.75 trillion market cap
> offering is 2x oversubscribed
dude can touch dog shit and turn it into gold
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The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.
What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.
Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.
Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.
Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.