Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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    Time has been kind to Mr. Jobs. Read about his early years at Appleā€¦ he was famous for skewering anyone that disagreed with him. He also had lovely habits like parking his sports car in handicapped spots so he didnā€™t have to walk as far. You canā€™t disagree with his talent for running a company that did an awful lot of innovation, but he wasnā€™t a nice guy. He named one of his first products, the Lisa after his daughter, but didnā€™t treat the actual daughter that well.

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      For a ā€œsmartā€ person, his death was quite possibly a very unintelligent way to go. He basically decided to give all kinds of ā€œholisticā€ crap a chance to treat his cancer and avoided medical intervention for almost a year. If he had gone with the medical path from the onset, he might still be alive today.

      But he did have his moments. Like how he basically told the music industry to cut out the DRM, because it just made the ecosystem impossible. Or one time when someone was picking at him over abandoning OpenDoc in favor of Java (Java didnā€™t work out either, but his response was on point, without being dismissive of the person).