#isaacson — Public Fediverse posts
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Here’s Exactly What Happens to Your Blood Pressure When You Eat Bananas
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the U.S., purchased more often than apples, berries and grapes. They’re…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #Bananas #bloodpressure #bloodvessel #cardiologists #EatingBananas #highbloodpressure #Isaacson #LauraIsaacson #potassiuminbananas #RagavendraBaliga
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Here’s Exactly What Happens to Your Blood Pressure When You Eat Bananas
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the U.S., purchased more often than apples, berries and grapes. They’re…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #Bananas #bloodpressure #bloodvessel #cardiologists #EatingBananas #highbloodpressure #Isaacson #LauraIsaacson #potassiuminbananas #RagavendraBaliga
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/478467/ -
"Having made a pattern of writing biographies of important men — and one important woman, Jennifer Doudna of #CRISPR fame — #Isaacson is now in the position of a kind of kingmaker. To keep up his pattern, everyone he writes about implicitly is branded a genius."
#Musk #biographyhttps://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review
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Great take-down of Walter #Isaacson's #Musk #biography:
"I am lingering here because it highlights a major problem with Isaacson’s biography. We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: Musk and Isaacson himself."
Come for the snarky comment and stay for a long list of the many stories that Isaacson should have really looked into more closely.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review
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The #Musk #Isaacson thing is perhaps best summed up by this from https://mstdn.social/@fka_tabs
We are three levels deep at this point. Person A (Shawn McCreesh) is writing about person B (Isaacson) who is talking to a third person about Musk. All three of these people, two of them respected writers (until recently) are confused about simple facts …
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“We are dealing with not one but two unreliable narrators: #Musk and #Isaacson himself.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review
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Gizmodo: Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview https://gizmodo.com/did-elon-musk-regret-buying-twitter-walter-isaacson-1850842173 #acquisitionoftwitterbyelonmusk #healthmedicalpharma #viewsofelonmusk #walterisaacson #elonmusk #isaacson #twitter #musk
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As a colleague just pointed out, there's now special joy in reviews of unreleased books that can't be written by #ai ...especially ones so creative and deliciously irreverent
"Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer."
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And finally the story behind X🤔
“It is no wonder that Musk has renamed Twitter “X” after his favourite letter. X is also a crossing out, the opposite of a tick, and that is what Musk has been steadily doing to his legacy.
#Isaacson’s book constantly tries to build dramatic tension between the species-saving visionary and the beaten bullied boy. But we know the ending to Musk’s story before we even open it. In the end, the bullies win.”
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This review on Elon Musk book is better than the book 🤣 — ‘Arrested Development’ — worth a read 👍
“To go from #Einstein to #Musk in only five volumes is surely an indication that humanity isn’t sending #Isaacson its best.”
“Elon didn’t just exaggerate, he made it up,” a former colleague tells us”
“The messianic part of the #Muskiverse is his attempt to put 140m miles between himself and his father as he tries to turn humanity into a “#multiplanetary civilization”
@TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-review-arrested-development -
"Even dumber is that the “lesson” that Walter #Isaacson seems to take from this little episode is not that #Musk’s impulsivity is a dangerous, out of control wrecking ball that is going to destroy some serious stuff, but that (ex)#Twitter’s employees had to learn how to better “manage” the man-baby in charge:"
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"That may be because there is a tacit pact between author and subject in the #Isaacson “great man” #biography: The author will unearth unflattering personal anecdotes and share stories about the subject’s capacity to be cruel. In exchange, the subject’s greatness will be treated as an assumption [...]" writes @brianmerchant and what better example than this episode:
#ElonMusk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at #X, formerly #Twitter
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Let’s put a stake in the ‘great man’ #biography — starting with Isaacson’s #ElonMusk
by @brianmerchant"Yes, #Isaacson spoke to “adversaries” like Jeff #Bezos and Bill #Gates, but not (at least per the list) to line workers, not to #Jenna, not to anyone whose family member died in an #Autopilot crash, nor anyone who tried to organize a #Tesla plant.
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It’s the book Musk would have written himself."" -
🧵2/2: Why is the #US army itself subcontracting to private companies? Why are its own #satellites failing? Where were they when #Starlink's #geofencing policy of war zones was decided? Unless proven #ElonMusk deliberately sat on his convo with #Ukraine for days, which #Isaacson doesn't corroborate, I think he had a rare sane moment officially contracting satellites to the #US government so they make their own decision rather than keep on unofficially surrendering power https://www.channel4.com/news/elon-musk-biographer-says-billionaire-has-dark-demon-mode
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I've read a couple of Walter Isaacson's books - "Benjamin Franklin" and "Einstein". There's no way I'm wasting my time and money on his latest book. Musk represents everything that's wrong with corporate America and Silicon Valley.
When I read a biography, I'm trying to understand the life and times of that person. I know more than I need to know about Musk. None of it is good.
The latest Starlink information, apparently from Isaacson's book, is further proof that there is nothing good about Musk.
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Lots of discussion of Walter #Isaacson's new bio of #ElonMusk . Everybody focuses on his dad -- a piece of work, undoubtedly -- but where's his mother in all this? #Musk shares 2 things with a whole slew of #farright extremists, from #Trump to #TedCruz: (1) daddy issues, and (2) a rather close relationship with their mothers.
(Free link to #NYTBR review)
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@maxkennerly "Sneak attack"? That could be misread to imply that the Ukrainian government was attempting something underhanded/unethical and interference by #Musk was to "save Russia".
#Musk didn't proof the book? My guess is #Musk is threatening #Isaacson with his favorite weapon: a defamation lawsuit.
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Sure, Musk interfered because he cares so much for humanity. 🙄
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Musk needs good psychiatrist & get off #ketamine!
“The way that Musk blustered into buying Twitter and renaming it #X was a harbinger of the way he now runs it: impulsively and irreverently. It is an addictive playground for him. It has many of the attributes of a school yard, including taunting and bullying. But in the case of #Twitter, the clever kids win followers; they don’t get pushed down the steps and beaten, like #Musk was as a kid…”
#isaacson @wsj #narcissist
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-takeover-walter-isaacson-5f553fa -
Autistic, sociopath or both 🤔
“Walter Isaacson, whose upcoming biography about Elon #Musk is expected in September, said one of his takeaways from three years of observing the voluble executive is that he may lack #empathy.
"I'm more impressed with him as an engineer," #Isaacson said in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, which tweeted a clip of the segment on Monday. "I think that he does not have a fingertip feel for, you know, empathy, emotions."
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-lacks-natural-feel-empathy-emotion-biographer-tesla-twitter-2023-7