Stephen King triggers Elon Musk in a weird, ongoing social media battle. It is unclear why Musk thinks responding to one of the best-selling authors of all time’s legitimate observations with weird sexualized jokes is the right move. Still, it seems Musk is playing 92-dimensional chess here, but is he winning? King complains about real things, and Musk is just an immature clown.
https://boingboing.net/2024/08/29/stephen-king-spurs-elon-musk-to-play-the-fool.html
It’s the second example I’ve seen in the last 18 hours. I won’t disclose the names to protect the innocent, but a good friend (a smart and thoughtful guy who I respect a lot) fell into exactly the same trap.
People, step away from Twitter. I fail to see how you’re moving the needle to anything other than to point at:
The need to be “right” in a yelling-at-clouds-keyboard-slap-fight is just pointless. I don’t understand why you’d debase yourself like that.
Dave5 
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