Elon Musk makes Game of Thrones reference, misspells it

Elon Musk is regularly the richest man in the world thanks to being at the head of companies like Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink. He also famously bought Twitter in 2022, renaming the platform X and changing it up so much that advertisers fled and use went down by a fifth. Musk tweets regularly, sometimes about stuff you'd expect, and often about some pretty weird stuff; just the other week he pointed out to his nearly 200 million followers that "No one is even trying to assassinate" President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, a tweet that brought a rebuke from the White House.

Never a dull moment on that account. Musk is also fond of taking shots at Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI. OpenAI, of course, is the hugely successful artificial intelligence company behind ChapGPT. Musk used to be part of the company, but left under reportedly bad terms a few years before it found its enormous success. Since then, Musk has founded his own competing AI company (called xAI, obviously; dude loves the letter X), and he seems upset that OpenAI is getting all the attention. When OpenAI announced a partnership with Apple back in June, it led to a new rash of angry tweeting from Musk, and he's never really stopped. Even looking over his tweets from the last 24 hours, several take aim at OpenAI and Sam Altman, including this one where Musk calls Altman "Little Finger":

Musk is referring there to Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, a character from the HBO show Game of Thrones played by Aidan Gillen. Littlefinger was a manipulative schemer who played various characters against each other in pursuit of power, which I imagine is the comparison Musk is trying to make. He misspelled the name, though: it's "Littlefinger," all one word; not "Little Finger."

Users like Musk are allowed to edit tweets after they've gone up, but only within certain parameters...but he owns the company, he can probably do whatever he wants. But he probably won't since the misspelling isn't that big of a deal; only Game of Thrones nerds like me are likely to notice.

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