The cartoonish villainy of Tesla CEO Elon Musk leveled up again last week after he fired an engineer for the high crime of telling him the truth.
Musk, whose social media addiction clearly motivated the otherwise baffling decision to waste billions of dollars buying Twitter, was mad that his personal account wasn't getting more likes and retweets. The obvious reason for this is that Musk's tweets are boring. They're often sub-replacement-level right-wing trolling or failed attempts at humor. It's not a surprise that, once the furor over Musk buying Twitter subsided, so did attention to his dumb tweets. He's just not that interesting to people who aren't being paid to pretend to like him.
