If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week saw a massive outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that managed to take many of your favorite websites and services offline. The outage also hampered the workflows of countless online businesses. The impact was fairly universal.

And, ever the opportunist, Musk was quick to leverage the outage to unfairly smear a potential competitor and promote his own, shittier alternative.

Amazon said the outage was caused by problems with an underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers used to distribute traffic across several servers. The outrage resulted in all the usual conversations about whether it’s a bad idea to have so much essential server operations under the control of one company, and how the internet isn’t as resilient as we like to think.

Musk, however, took the opportunity to exploit the outage to criticize Signal over at his right wing propaganda and crypto grifter website[.]