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I’d say good riddance to Musk. He has turned Twitter into a new language which consist of hate speech and impersonating companies to spread disinformation.
A dumpster fire, a menace like the Cane Toad in Australia.
Somebody impersonated a medical company and the stock tanked because of false news.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed or can see it Dave, but I use an obviously fake email address on here that doesn’t lead to anything. That is to at least give me one extra layer of protection in this online world. I suppose I could toss that layer
Good riddance. The place was awful.
I genuinely hate that when I heard about the insulin incident, my first thought was “there’s pretty even chances he’s genuinely this incompetent, or that “Mister Using Social Media To Manipulate The Stock Market Before a New Acquisition Is My Favorite Hobby”, decided to let everyone buy blue checkmarks so he’d have plausible deniability to tank their stocks with a sockpuppet before buying himself a new medical company at a bargain in order to offset the current dumpster fire.”
do you have a mastodon?
EDIT: wow i can’t read. followed!
I am still flabbergasted that Musk didn’t just come up with a new status symbol to use for his $8/month gig. Say, a blue feather. Depending on the design, it could be reminiscent of yet distinct from the verified checkmark. Hype it up enough and you still have the wanna-be-cool kids flocking to give you their money.
Best description of Elon Musk: A problem masquerading as a solution
Elon Musk is singlehandedly ruining Twitter and I cannot help but have a laugh about it. If he manages to lose his top ranking as richest person alongside with bursting the Tesla bubble, more fun for me.
Man, I have a hard enough time reading through this stuff here.
Though if I could have a banner that sez “I was never a twit … “
The Mammoth is on Mastodon. So apropos.
@Ten Bears: I would too. Maybe we could get a bulk rate.
@Mediocrities: Why not both?
@Milotha: applause!
There are a lot of Teslas in my town, being Silicon Valley-adjacent-adjacent. I’ve developed a theory (which is right at least 95% of the time) that every buyer gets implanted with Musk’s personality, because they are almost without fail the biggest asshole on the road. Taking pleasure in cutting people off, weaving in and out of traffic on busy streets (even with lots of stoplights, which means they don’t get there faster), not using their signals, braking for funsies, and the cardinal sin of taking up handicapped spaces when they aren’t. Only twice this year has a Tesla owner actually waved me on politely to change lanes or make a turn.
They’re all awful, but the white cars are the worst, then black, then red.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve said “asshole” at one of them, I’d be able to buy myself a really fancy gourmet dinner. Or a month of takeout.
Buy some other electric car, they’re actually much better-built than a Tesla is.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
@ gss ex-noob
If you ever think your life is without purpose just remember, there’s some poor sod fits indicators to BMWs.
@Victorious Parasol:
I am still flabbergasted that Musk didn’t just come up with a new status symbol to use for his $8/month gig. Say, a blue feather. Depending on the design, it could be reminiscent of yet distinct from the verified checkmark. Hype it up enough and you still have the wanna-be-cool kids flocking to give you their money.
Ah, but you forget that this is Elon Musk we’re talking about—and such a gesture would require him to have an imagination of his own.
@GSS ex-noob:
There are a lot of Teslas in my town, being Silicon Valley-adjacent-adjacent. I’ve developed a theory (which is right at least 95% of the time) that every buyer gets implanted with Musk’s personality, because they are almost without fail the biggest asshole on the road. Taking pleasure in cutting people off, weaving in and out of traffic on busy streets (even with lots of stoplights, which means they don’t get there faster), not using their signals, braking for funsies, and the cardinal sin of taking up handicapped spaces when they aren’t. Only twice this year has a Tesla owner actually waved me on politely to change lanes or make a turn.
In short: Teslas are the Chihuahua mode of those huge galumphing suburban monster trucks with blazing high-beams and rubber genitalia dangling from the rear bumper? (Not you, mud-begrimed working pickups—you’re fine.)
RSS still works too.
I know a guy who wants to get a Tesla and drives quite reasonably, but he lacks the funds to buy one. Perhaps there is a certain correlation between money/expensive cars and assholery…
Ok, that’s weird. I wasn’t sure what a Tesla looked like exactly, so I did an image search. There is a type of quiet driving car I keep seeing with no grill that I assume to be electric, but it does not show up in any of my searches. There are odles of them around here, but I can’t find them online?
Guess I need to look at the logos on the next one I see if I want to satisfy my curiosity
This post makes me sad. This blog still has one of the better RSS setups I’ve come across, but it seems not even David remembers that. 😛
It’s such a convenient technology, but was mostly smothered by big tech because it couldn’t be used for user tracking enough.
@ Alan Robertshaw
And another who who installs indicators in Audis
I quit twitter two weeks ago and I’m glad I did. Try mastodon, if you need a new venue.
Oops. Read fail. I’m on mastodon too. Look up Tollie’s Polys. You’ll find us there.
@FM Ox: EXACTLY. We have a lot of those too. Jacked up, luxury, never a spot of mud on them. And the entire town is on the flats, so there are literally no hills in the city limits.
They park in handicapped spaces too, of course. Entitlement. As do BMWs (hee, Alan!), Porsches, etc. Once I saw a mofo Hummer in a space, and someone promptly writing them a ticket. A guy I knew saw a brand-new (unsold yet) Ferrari being ticketed.
But at least they don’t weave in and out of traffic like the Tesla assholes. It’s a more laissez-faire jerkness, whereas Tesla assholes have “full speed ahead, screw other people and safety, I got mine!” Thus: they get possessed by Musk. Mulder and Scully should investigate.
@.45: A friend recently got a Chevy Bolt (barely used) and it is a delightful small car with enormous carrying space, and all the electric/computery gadgets you could need. It’s classed as a “subcompact SUV” (which seems like an oxymoron) and I love riding in it. I covet a backup camera. She already had solar panels, so she just plugs the car in every few days. New starts at $26K without options, taxes, fees, etc. about half the price of a Tesla. 250 miles on a charge when puttering around town.
https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev
Pretty much every manufacturer has electric cars now (even Jaguar!), and the other brands all have higher-quality construction — the parts and body panels don’t fit together well on a Tesla. Plus you’re not supporting an asshole who “upgrades” your car on a whim and makes you crash into things and people.
I trundle on with my 10 year old Prius. Mostly just puttering around the surface streets and parking lots of the flatlands, so I’m on electric a lot.
@ gss ex-noob
I was able to pick up a bargain Range Rover recently; but everything still works on it. Which is pretty amazing in itself for a Land Rover product. But it has that radar thing, where you can tell it to stay a certain distance from any vehicles in front. I like it, but it still is a bit nerve-racking. I still occasionally find myself with my foot hovering over the brake as you come up behind someone.
So I would be really freaked out by a totally self driving car; like the Teslas. At least I’m still in charge of steering.
Of course my wariness is not mitigated by how, just as you do start to trust the system and you’re chilling in the lotus position, the computer gets overwhelmed, flashes DRIVER INTERVENE, and then just buggers off and dumps the controls back to you.
@Victorious Parasol, @Full Metal Ox:

Meanwhile, Tumblr’s been selling satirical blue checkmarks which they freely admit mean nothing except that the user was willing to shell out $8 per checkmark (you can get several and stack them).
@ moon custafer
One of my US law friends was very proud she bought a blue tick just before they became worthless. So in that spirit she minted her blue tick as an NFT and was able to sell it for $8.01.
Totally unrelated, but someone managed to obtain a copy of cats’ battle plan.