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\nElon Musk\u2019s pinned tweet is from May. It\u2019s a chart from The Wall Street Journal<\/em> showing that the US fertility rate has been below the \u201creplacement level\u201d since the 1970s. \u201cUSA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years,\u201d was Musk\u2019s contribution to the tweet. He\u2019s been talking about population decline for years, actually. He\u2019s even talked about it as one of the greatest issues facing humanity, and his solution is simple: have more kids, everybody!<\/p>\n

Say this for Musk: dude practices what he preaches. Insider<\/em> reported this week<\/a> that Musk had twins last November with Shivon Zilis, a star in the AI world, a longtime colleague of Musk\u2019s at OpenAI and Tesla, and a current executive at Neuralink. The twins came to be in the news this week because of an April filing in Texas to change their last name to Musk. They were born in late November, a few weeks before Musk and Grimes had their second kid. (In case you\u2019re counting, that\u2019s now nine known kids in the Musk clan.) <\/p>\n
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Subscribe to The Verge’s limited-run newsletter occasionally revived when there’s Too Much Elon News. (And right now, there is Too Much Elon News.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\nMusk hasn\u2019t technically confirmed the story, but\u2026 he kinda confirmed the story? \u201cDoing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,\u201d he tweeted on Thursday morning<\/a>. \u201cA collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.\u201d He also tweeted about wanting to build \u201ca highly configurable Robovan for people & cargo,\u201d and now I have a lot <\/em>of questions and theories about what a self-driving Tesla minivan might be like. But we\u2019ll save those for another day.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a lot of talk about the Musk family over the last couple of weeks. Musk\u2019s daughter Vivian changed her last name to Wilson<\/a> earlier this year, saying \u201cI no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.\u201d The publication of that change \u2014 and the reason for it \u2014 coincided with a rare quiet period from Musk on Twitter. (To be clear, there\u2019s no evidence those two things are related, but the timing is definitely notable.) <\/p>\n
There\u2019s obviously nothing wrong with having lots of kids, and we\u2019re not here to litigate Musk\u2019s romantic arrangements. But you just can\u2019t hear about all this without also thinking about Musk\u2019s other conduct within his companies \u2014 which goes beyond just secretly having kids with one of your employees. We\u2019ve covered this extensively<\/a> here at This Week in Elon, but there are the allegations that SpaceX paid $250,000<\/a> to prevent a flight attendant from speaking up after Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex (which he has loudly denied). And there are also the long-standing reports of cultures of sexual harassment within both SpaceX and Tesla. These are not isolated incidents or simple misunderstandings. This is just how Musk operates \u2014 and how his companies operate by extension.  <\/p>\n
In an open letter to SpaceX leadership<\/a> last month, a group of employees asked for, among other things, \u201csafe avenues for reporting\u201d and to \u201cuphold clear repercussions for all unacceptable behavior, whether from the CEO or an employee starting their first day.\u201d The message from inside Musk\u2019s companies has been both loud and clear: there need to be rules, and those rules need to be enforced equally and forcefully no matter your job title. There\u2019s still exactly zero evidence that Musk plays by the rules, acknowledges those rules, or even allows rules to exist in the first place. Musk does as Musk wants \u2014 all the time, everywhere. And if you speak out? You get fired, as a number of the letter writers did<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Anyway, in other news\u2026 Musk spent the week talking about his love for socks, stealing memes about the Fourth of July<\/a> and 7-Eleven<\/a>, taking a few of his kids to see the pope and marking the moment with a photo that looks like everyone was photoshopped into<\/a>, and making the case that getting to Mars could be a uniting force in the same way that getting to the Moon once was. He\u2019s even back to pumping Dogecoin<\/a>, though it turns out not even Musk can save the crashing prices of crypto.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post<\/em> reported<\/a> that Musk\u2019s Twitter acquisition may be falling apart<\/a> but didn\u2019t provide any reason why other than \u201cElon is still mad about bots.\u201d Meanwhile, Twitter continues to go out of its way to say it does not <\/em>have a bot problem<\/a>. As ever, you should assume the deal is still happening until proven otherwise and that Musk is going to try everything he can to get a lower price.<\/p>\n
\nAs ever, you should assume the Twitter acquisition is still on \u2014 and that Musk is going to try everything he can to get a lower price<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nWe also got a couple of small hints this week about how a Musk-owned Twitter might work. When Alex Berenson announced he\u2019d been reinstated to Twitter, Musk asked what Berenson meant<\/a> by the phrase \u201cthe pressures that the government may have placed on Twitter to suspend my account.\u201d He also responded to a year-old Glenn Greenwald thread about social media censorship and free speech by calling it \u201ctroubling \u2026<\/a>\u201d Musk has made himself out to be something of a free speech absolutist and takes issue with the idea of social platforms stifling anyone\u2019s voices.<\/p>\n
Which makes it weird, really, that he seemed to have no thoughts about what happened in India this week. The Indian government has been tightening its rules for online speech and demanded Twitter remove certain accounts and posts for violating its new laws. Twitter complied just before the government-imposed deadline but also sued the Indian government<\/a> in the hopes of getting judicial protection from such orders in the future.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been saying for a while that Musk\u2019s whole \u201cI love free speech no matter what but also follow the rules of governments\u201d thing was never going to actually work in the real world<\/a>. He doesn\u2019t even own Twitter yet, and here we are! While he\u2019s commiserating with people who feel canceled over their bad tweets, free speech and government oversight are coming into direct conflict in one of the world\u2019s largest countries, and Musk says nothing. Which is roughly what we\u2019ve come to expect when it comes to these hard decisions.<\/p>\n
The thing with Musk is that, in his mind, the ends always justify the means. Always. He has these big goals \u2014 make gas cars obsolete, get to Mars, fix traffic, understand the human brain, on and on \u2014 and has proven he doesn\u2019t particularly care what it takes to accomplish them. Sometimes that means telling your employees to be okay with grueling stints at work; sometimes it means yelling at them to come back to the office or quit; and sometimes it means forcing them to tolerate a sexist, discriminatory work culture in the name of getting the job done faster. He runs his companies seemingly by the seat of his pants because he just doesn\u2019t care about it \u2014 only the end results matter. <\/p>\n
And, as ever, the one thing Musk seems to know for sure is that he can always just tweet through the short-term stuff. With every scandal, it becomes a little more obvious why he sees Twitter as so valuable: it\u2019s an unparalleled narrative-control machine with which he can tell 100 million people at a time that everything\u2019s a lie or a joke or not as big a deal as you think or<\/em> irrelevant because all we should care about is Mars. Twitter is, to borrow a phrase from Apple, Musk\u2019s reality distortion field. And for that, $44 billion is a bargain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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