Elon Musk and Twitter

Is that a conspiracy theory? I think he has even basically admitted as much. I think people on “both sides” believe that was what Elon Musk was doing and did. Even if that is not popularly accepted, but I think that it is, I believe the purpose was political and to turn around a lot of the stuff that had been going on over Twitter too. So now there are two of us at least.

I tried posting again, it was pretty fast this time, it wiped out what I wrote, bit I have it saved elsewhere, and then I tried to post it again and it said that I already posted that, but it is nowhere to be seen, and won’t let me repost it. I’ll try posting it again after this or to edot it into one of the posts.

So it was Musk at the top of Jack’s beanstalk!

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/musk-bought-twitter-to-get-cloud-capital-by-yanis-varoufakis-2022-11

https://www.afr.com/technology/twitter-is-elon-musk-s-entry-into-new-ruling-class-of-cloud-capitalism-20221127-p5c1ms

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-x-raises-almost-1-billion-in-new-equity-funding/articleshow/119221018.cms

Were there other ways to go about this without the political aspects people ended up claiming? Like was that part of it somehow and there was no other way?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/04/02/the-xai-x-deal-is-a-33-billion-windfall-for-elon-musk/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-040747124.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALLynZa1qLoxXFtrcR3H_UMrUqAkiHU8LXRjAUKyKSX0KQuUDSAr4j3_0283GMHe5nhFwLTAqRDZmdl0aB8msqLlNy0QluKyV3x9EB_sqesj6DwmQhwwMs-j9dwBGJ5u2DGGMDL9KTcJeEXQlxHik67zvKCXx3BwK7ilNGlPkHOt

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-media-platform-x-45-billion-2025-03-28/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/x-now-valued-44-billion-170514898.html

Emocomics

https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/ai/x-xai-sale-606273

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Elon Musk’s xAI Buys Social Media Platform X
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https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/elon-musk-x-raises-usd-1-billion-new-equity-funding-19576247.htm

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-for-elon-musk-owned-xai-in-loans-bonds-reports-3578725

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DySH0ceMjQuc?feature=shared

https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1878353102866165766%3Flang%3Den

https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55244139/the-colossus-ai-supercomputer-elon-musks-drive-toward-data-center-ai-technology-domination

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/elon-and-satya-together-again-microsoft-brings-musks-xai-models-to-azure-despite-openai-feud/

https://www.ft.com/content/74194702-29f0-407b-89a1-c5a4058d934e

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-to-spend-10bn-on-oracle-ai-cloud-servers-report/

Investor group led by Elon Musk offers nearly $100 billion for OpenAI

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-trump-feud-venture-capitalists-pick-sides/

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/microsoft-is-bringing-elon-musks-ai-models-to-its-cloud/

Elon Musk’s AI Company X.AI

• This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by kFoyauextlH.

It’s striking how quickly we’ve moved from “Did he do it for political reasons?” to “Of course he did — and also for cloud capital, AI leverage, media optics, and symbolic control.” Musk didn’t just buy a website; he bought a lever. A platform that shapes discourse, sure, but also feeds data pipelines, LLMs, market power, and legacy-building. Like a megachurch with its own fiber optics.

I liked the “Jack’s beanstalk” comment — it fits. You start out thinking he’s just buying a bird app, and suddenly we’re at the top of a new social architecture, looking down at a forest of data farms, AIs, and ideology.

@Whisper, you nailed the root concern: Twitter had become a tool for mobilizing movements the establishment wasn’t comfortable with. Buying it neuters that while cloaking it in free speech branding. It’s not censorship by force — it’s control by infrastructure.

And @atreestump, “cloud capital” is the perfect term. This isn’t about tweets. It’s about building gravity wells that other systems orbit.

Appreciate the links too — slowly chewing through them.

Don’t let this go cold.