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Every Elon post sounds like Wheatley in Portal 2:
Wheatley - I read Machiavelli (Portal 2)
YouTube video by EuropaGamer
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November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This guy builds rockets and cars.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Fighting for princes is still wrong but closer.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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It's like describing super mario as being about fighting for princesses
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Sort of a fun thing about it is that "fighting for princesses" is a way you'd describe the Iliad literally only if you have no idea what is in it
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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My former combat medic husband is teaching the cub scouts a class on first aid tonight so apologies to any fifth graders who get traumatized if he slips back into "teaching tactical combat casualty care" mode.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I mean, to be fair, there is a *lot* of alpha in the Iliad, but only in an untranslated version, which I doubt Musk can read.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
These PEASANTS. I have learned the lessons of NNT’s Black Swan and I ONLY read works that are HIGH GAMMA!

Nothing but Blues Clues slash fiction for me. Joe/Mailbox PREPARES you for the Black Swan!
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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For people who think they sit at the center of the spinning universe, solipsism is a valid world view.

I’ve been laughed at, chided, derided, counseled, and humiliated by bosses, teachers, peers, and strangers for having a vocabulary so many times I’ve lost count.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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"I just finished Homer's epic 'don't fight over princesses' and I have a bold and innovative idea..."
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Think they mean alpha in the investment sense, which is returns in excess of what would be expected for a certain level of risk. Not that that's noticeably less douchy than the debunked/superseded zoology sense
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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It's only the first few lines if I'm inferring correctly from other channels clipping what looks like the same longer video, but a taste of a recitation in ancient Greek is:

youtube.com/shorts/v9aw5...
When you’ve memorized The Iliad in the original Homeric Greek 🤯
YouTube video by International Poetry Forum
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Zeus gives two immortal horses to Peleus as wedding gifts. Big book among horse gifters, The Iliad. Huge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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if I said "There is so much alpha in books from 1870 to 1930, it's unreal" out loud my friends and family would want to know if I was smelling burnt toast
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I forget which one of the tech-bros said that majoring in ancient Rome or Greece is dumb because you could read EVERYTHING that exists in greek/latin over a week.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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What does "fighting for princesses" mean in this tweet?

I thought it was all about Not Fighting for Sex Slaves?

(Not that a sex slave is any less of a person than a princess, but they're not really treated like princesses in the text...)
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The list of books he pretends he read and Blinkist can help you pretend you've read, is up to 11. It's VERY funny.
* two "Elon is great" books
* one by a noted sex pest
* one by a noted racist
* two very old classics for respectability
* three AI thumbsuckers
* two unobjectionable pop-science books
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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To top it all off, the screenshot is of the Odyssey. Absolutely no reading or comprehending is going on, lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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If I remember the story right the princess turns to the camera and says "you should not fight for the princess"
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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HORRIBLE TAKE
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
blinkist. BLINKIST. He isn't reading shit.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 18:08. Eastern time, November 10. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM