Great essay Eric. All the above, but mostly "far more sinister". Elon Musk Ox is a fascist, pure and simple. Have you read the inhuman filth he parades on X. He only bought Twitter to hoard information. His long game is Advanced Techno-Feudalism, with him as King. And, like Trump he uses the outrages stuff to take our eye off the ball (e.g., his hoarding Nvidia chips). Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/artificial-insanity-update-machine-learning-and-democracy-burning-e98d4e672e7a