Opinion: Is this my last post about Elon Musk, Twitter boss?

Musk posted his resignation poll after a tough week in which he suspended a number of prominent journalists and commentators from Twitter, asserting inaccurately that they had posted real-time information about his personal whereabouts that he said could facilitate stalkers. He reinstated the accounts after running a poll that encouraged him to do so. — AFP

Back in the prehistoric era (2016), a small group of Times reporters and editors, including myself, met with Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne.

Musk mostly talked about his idea of transporting humanity to Mars as an escape route from our global-warming-beleaguered home planet. This was his big hobby horse at that time. He was low-key and ruminative, almost convincing.