The Axios article links the SpaceX letter to Elon "slowing down" on Twitter - but the event that correlates to the hard stop is Elon's oldest child publicly transitioning gender and changing their last name.

I have always been fascinated by Elon and how his psyche works. Even being at the top of a pile of wealth, he still deeply craves and seeks validation, always coming off the rails for a while when the next love interest relationship implodes (Talulah, Talulah again, Grimes).

I cannot imagine what one of your children disowning you does to the self, nor if any amount of wealth paves over the pain. It is the ultimate rejection. I hope he takes it as the call it is to re-evaluate his values, priorities, and actions and improve as a human, if only for the sake of the relationship with his kids.

Relevent The Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/please-like-me-1848674003

You take it as a given that his child is in the right.

Because they are.

Didn’t they also say they want nothing to do with him?

I'm sad about this. I don't use twitter, but I love it when prominent people aren't afraid to share their authenic self. We build these people up, glorify/vilify them, but at the end of the day they're just people. My world is a little bit dimmer if it loses Elon's elden ring dad-build, or Ted Cruz's embarrassed visit to a butter museum (?), or Mark Zuckerberg waterskiing as a kabuki ghost.

oh no... whatever will we do ?