Elon Musk, What's up with that dude?

Standingstones

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I wonder how a Nazi predicted that?
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I wonder how a Nazi predicted that?
The Nazi Bell of course, it's a time machine and Elon Musk has it in his volcano lair

** Robert Heinlein's vision of travel to the moon was commercial. He had Harriman Industries and a hot shot pilot Jocko somebody or another as the first moon landing.
 

nivek

As Above So Below

Out of control Tesla speeds through Chinese streets, killing two people and injuring three others: Family member of driver, 55, says he had issues with brake pedal - but Tesla vows to find out the 'truth'

The incident took place on November 5 in Chaozhou city, which is located along Chinese coast just northeast of Hong Kong. Footage showed a Tesla Model Y rocketing down the road at alarmingly high speeds, hitting numerous cyclists and drivers along the way before crashing. The 55-year-old driver's family told local news outlets that the car's brakes were not responding when he stepped on the pedal. Tesla confirmed it is looking into the 'truth' of the incident, noting that car's brake lights did not appear to turn on in the footage. Elon Musk's electric car company also said their data showed the car's brakes were not engaged during incident.

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Musk Tweeted publicly that poor Twitter app performance was due to the app making more than 1,000 RPCs (remote procedure calls) to create a home timeline. Twitter software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer, who works on the app, then responded publicly via the service that Musk was incorrect, and that the poor app performance was for other reasons. Asked by Musk for the correct number of RPCs used to make the home timeline, he responded zero.


Now Frohnhoefer has been locked out of his Twitter work account:


View: https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/1592287037805441024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


And another developer, and Twitter employee, Sasha Solomon, who entered the public discussion to Tweet at her boss "you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching [.] like did you bother to even learn how graphql works" also found out she was fired yesterday:


View: https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592308273071681536
 

wwkirk

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Gotta love this!
A Washington Post tech report claimed Tuesday that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has undermined the platform’s ability to "protect vulnerable communities."

Written by reporters Cat Zakrzewski, Faiz Siddiqui and Joseph Menn, the piece argued that Musk imposed his will on the company by gutting the "Trust and Safety team" that once used to carefully deliberate and "define dangerous language."

The piece, headlined "Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say," suggested he did so callously, mentioning multiple times his decisions made laid-off employees cry.

The story cited more than a dozen former and current Twitter employees frustrated with how Musk undid "years of careful work" by reinstating the Twitter accounts of former President Donald Trump, satirical conservative site The Babylon Bee and others deemed threats by the now-defunct Trust and Safety team.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Seeing the Babylon Bee as some sort of threat to society that we must be protected against has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Well, probably not but it's on the top 100 list. How about we just turn that *** off ? I wish it were that simple.
 

nivek

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Elon Musk sets the record straight on FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried and Twitter shares: 'He owns zero percent'

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is setting the record straight on FTX’s disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his alleged ownership of Twitter shares.

In a series of tweets Wednesday afternoon, Musk called out a "fake news" report that alleged Bankman-Fried rolled his $100 million holdings of Twitter, when it was public, into private shares.

Musk discredited a report, written by Semafor’s Liz Hoffman, alleging Bankman-Fried "owns a sizable chunk of a now privately held and debt-laden Twitter." Hoffman cited a "FTX balance sheet prepared after the takeover closed on Oct. 28 and circulated to investors earlier this month."

"SBF/FTX do not own shares in Twitter," Musk said in a tweet, responding to the report. He added: "There was a time when you cared about the truth. That is long gone."

In another tweet, Musk called the claim "flat wrong" and said there was "no grey area" in whether FTX or Bankman-Fried owned any shares in his company.

Musk continued to debunk the claims as they circulated
more on Twitter.

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View: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595496293467508736


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nivek

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'The richest man on Earth is a f---ing trailer park simpleton': Elon Musk sparks liberal meltdown after tweeting picture of his bedside table with Diet Coke cans, prop guns and a painting of George Washington

The picture shows a half-drunk bottle of water and a replica of George Washington's flintlock pistol lying in a wooden box. The box's open lid displays Emanuel Leutze's famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware River during the American Revolution. Liberals heavily derided Musk's tweet, with composer Shawn Patterson writing: 'How shocking: the richest man on Earth is a f--king trailer park simpleton.' The tweet even annoyed anti-gun activists like Kris Brown, who tweeted: 'All jokes aside, replica gun or not - gun safety isn't a joke. Grow up.'

Elon Musk sparks liberal meltdown after tweeting picture of his bedside table

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wwkirk

Divine
All jokes aside, replica gun or not - gun safety isn't a joke. Grow up.'
Can somebody explain the problem we are to be alerted to?

As a kid, one of my friend's older brother had a bunch of replica handguns. If I remember correctly, they were real guns that had been rendered inoperable by being more or less filled with metal. They no longer had moving parts. They no longer had moving parts or cavities in which to load or fire bullets.

Since real firearms have existed, there have also been toy guns. Old time toy guns were made of wood, modern ones usually plastic.

I think one of Musk's replica guns is actually a component of a video game.

So in what way are any the kinds of "guns" relevant to gun safety? A video game component or a plastic toy gun shouldn't be near a bedstead, why exactly?
 

nivek

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James Woods fires back at Twitter, vows to sue over censorship on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'

James Woods' Twitter account was targeted by Twitter at the request of the Democratic National Committee, according to findings by the company's new CEO Elon Musk.

On Friday, Musk shared bombshell revelations about what took place at Twitter behind-the-scenes in a thread shared on the social media platform by independent journalist Matt Taibbi.

"Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party," Taibbi wrote alongside a screenshot of an email exchange between Twitter employees.


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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
The shitshow we are witnessing and the fallout will hopefully be worth the price of admission.

Biased media is nothing new. William Randolph Hearst started a war. Rupert Murdoch certainly could if he chose to I'm sure. So now it's gadgets and instant communication - but the intent is literally identical.

Dan Carlin talks about the 'great man of history' vs 'the historical arsonist. Well, seeing Trump as an historical arsonist, an outlier that shouldn't have happened, is easy. Is Musk one of those 'great men of history ?' We'll find out. Who the hell saw THIS coming ?
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
He had to publicly state he’s not suicidal. An unfortunate fatal accident would not surprise me. Right out of a Russian playbook. Ironic
 
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