Elon Musk now owns Twitter, apparently trying to run it into the ground

[naraku360]

https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-loses-another-one-sony-is-disabling-twitter-integration-on-playstation-consoles-next-week/

Another one bites the Musk.

[André Toulon]

47 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-loses-another-one-sony-is-disabling-twitter-integration-on-playstation-consoles-next-week/

Another one bites the Musk.

Since they dipped on FB years ago, I've always hated the only place I could share besides YT was twizzler....and something else but I don't even remember what it is

[SwimOdin]

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-claim-tesla-shares
 

Just the pinnacle of business acumen and a stable genius.

[SwimOdin]

https://deadline.com/2023/11/elon-musk-x-twitter-ibm-1235615481/amp/

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Many of the largest advertisers are the greatest oppressors of your right to free speech,”

At this point can Twitter even be called a business?

[1pooh4u]

Lol just this morning I read that a Tesla factory in Buffalo was infested with bed bugs. Musk has to pay to exterminate the factory and maybe everyone’s home. He sickened his workers by fumigating the place and not giving a heads up. Between this and apple and other companies leaving Twitter AGAIN due to Musk’s blatant antisemitism and propagation of it, he’s gonna be bankrupt soon enough.  He’s as genius as Trump with all the business things 💩

[André Toulon]

And

[1pooh4u]

Aliens keep sabotaging Musk’s SpaceX projects because they don’t want him the fuck up there. I just know that’s what’s happening 

[Jman]

Would you want him near your stuff?

Please let the Dodge muscle EV come out soon, so I can really forget Tesla exists.

[discolé monade]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

Would you want him near your stuff?

Please let the Dodge muscle EV come out soon, so I can really forget Tesla exists.

or....

https://www.canoo.com/

i like the 'adventure' model.  (under lifestyle)

[Icarus27k]

I haven't been back on Twitter in weeks. I have it blocked in an app/website blocker. Yes, my mental health has improved because of it. 

Its quality is similar to 4chan now, and I haven't been there in years. 

[Raptorpat]

The editor of a regional paper wrote an opinion piece on why he's officially stopped using Twitter. Buried behind all the personal reasons for quitting was this line, which I think reflects a critical pivot in the death spiral:

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The Times Union's excellent digital team stopped posting links to our journalism months ago, and the impact on our traffic has been negligible. 

https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/seiler-twitter-or-x-baddie-18499159.php

As institutional users realize there's no traffic/financial benefit to sharing content, they will stop investing in sharing content.

Now factor that in with the current twitter shitshow - Elon is actively threatening to sue Media Matters for their below report causing advertisers to drop the platform:

 

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1725566933213294860

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037

 

If there is no reputable benefit to posting content or posting ads, reputable content and ads will stop being posted and the site will burn out from both ends.

[Icarus27k]

Non-credible threats are cringeworthy. "The split second court"? I wouldn't take that seriously because the phrase is absurd. 

[Icarus27k]

I keep getting memories of the 00s when I was suspicious of all social media. I read all the negative news articles about Facebook, and didn't open an account until years after everyone else had. Now, Facebook looks tame by comparison, and Musk is similar to what I feared at the time about it. 

[rpgamer]

1 hour ago, Icarus27k said:

Non-credible threats are cringeworthy. "The split second court"? I wouldn't take that seriously because the phrase is absurd. 

"The split second court opens," as in "the moment court opens."

You've never used the phrase "split second" to mean "this very instant"?

[Icarus27k]

17 minutes ago, rpgamer said:

"The split second court opens," as in "the moment court opens."

You've never used the phrase "split second" to mean "this very instant"?

That makes more sense. It was because Musk put the modifier before the subject in the sentence. 

"X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit the split second court opens on Monday," would have been more understandable.

Aside from that, I don't know if this makes the statement less dumb. Adding unnecessary adjectives for emotional emphasis. Not only is he angry, but he's "super duper angry". That's dumb for an entirely different reason. 

[Icarus27k]

I won't even opine on the use of "thermonuclear". 

[katt_goddess]

Melon Husk says his lawsuit is going to be thermonuclear because everything he touches catches fire and blows up in a big mess. 

[matrixman124]

18 minutes ago, katt_goddess said:

Melon Husk says his lawsuit is going to be thermonuclear because everything he touches catches fire and blows up in a big mess. 

It's mostly because he thinks he's above the law. Which he's not 

[Seight]

WAIT, WAIT, I WANT TO DUNK ON HIM TOO

[discolé monade]

it looks like hot piss.

road trip, piss yellow, lagar. 

[katt_goddess]

Tesla Cyberbeer - we couldn't trademark Trucker Ditch Bombs but we can guarantee they look and taste the same. 

[naraku360]

I also learned that adding 'cyber' to the front of any work makes it a gazillion times cooler from Nickelodeon in the 90s/early 2000s.

[1pooh4u]

Elon Musk as he makes his beer 

[matrixman124]

And here

We

Go

My favorite part is that Elon seriously thinks that Media Matters has a vendetta against him. Elon, YOU are the one destroying X Corp.

[Icarus27k]

On 10/27/2022 at 8:05 PM, matrixman124 said:

Ah, yes. All software development is the same. So big brain. So wow.

 

Pedestrians:

[matrixman124]

1 hour ago, Icarus27k said:

 

Pedestrians:

Elon Musk: bringer of pipe dreams and things that go boom by accident

[PenguinBoss]

2 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

And here

We

Go

My favorite part is that Elon seriously thinks that Media Matters has a vendetta against him. Elon, YOU are the one destroying X Corp.

Seen here: Free Speech Absolutist suing people for what they say about him.

[matrixman124]

1 minute ago, PenguinBoss said:

Seen here: Free Speech Absolutist suing people for what they say about him.

*Free Speech Arbiter

[naraku360]

[SwimOdin]

4 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

Why does that middle schooler look so old?

[naraku360]

Just now, SwimOdin said:

Why does that middle schooler look so old?

Elon never finished 1st grade. Not smart enough then, not smart enough now.

[Insipid]

That pic was absolute cringe.

[1pooh4u]

Nothing more patriotic than a South African dude in front of an American flag holding a Japanese sword. 
 

‘Murica fuck year! sending Elon in to save the mother fuckin day, yeah!

 

*the above post is parody and in no way represents the views of any sane person anywhere on Earth 

[katt_goddess]

Tell everyone you have a micro-penis without actually saying the word 'micro-penis'. 

Does the group home know that one of their special-eds is playing with a sharp thing? Dude has 'plastic safety scissor, maybe' absolutely etched into his face. 

[1pooh4u]

If Elon wants to kill somebody he should kill the person that botoxed his face 

[discolé monade]

10 hours ago, naraku360 said:

all that jp vibe.

 

[Icarus27k]

I honestly don't know what's going on with that guy. It's part nerd and part lame dad, but nerds and lame dads are fundamentally likable. And this guy is not. He replaces likability with nefariousness. 

[scoobdog]

13 minutes ago, Icarus27k said:

I honestly don't know what's going on with that guy. It's part nerd and part lame dad, but nerds and lame dads are fundamentally likable. And this guy is not. He replaces likability with nefariousness. 

Not to give him undue cover, but a lot of his likability issue is related to his inability to read social cues.

[Insipid]

4 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

Not to give him undue cover, but a lot of his likability issue is related to his inability to read social cues.

I dunno, there are plenty of likeable awkward people. I think he just has a fragile ego and I really don't care to delve into the whys.

[scoobdog]

38 minutes ago, Insipid said:

I dunno, there are plenty of likeable awkward people. I think he just has a fragile ego and I really don't care to delve into the whys.

Well, he isn’t just awkward but that’s mostly beside the point.  There are plenty of awful people who aren’t quite as unlikeable as Musk because they know how to read the audience.  Awkwardness doesn’t contribute to one’s dislikability, but it also doesn’t disguise it.

[matrixman124]

41 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

Well, he isn’t just awkward but that’s mostly beside the point.  There are plenty of awful people who aren’t quite as unlikeable as Musk because they know how to read the audience.  Awkwardness doesn’t contribute to one’s dislikability, but it also doesn’t disguise it.

See we are missing the real problem with Elon.

The How is from him not being able to read social cues, but what is truly unlikable about him is the What (he wants all the money and attention and accolades) and the Why (he wants everyone to love and respect and listen to him)

[scoobdog]

2 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

See we are missing the real problem with Elon.

The How is from him not being able to read social cues, but what is truly unlikable about him is the What (he wants all the money and attention and accolades) and the Why (he wants everyone to love and respect and listen to him)

That makes him no different than just about any other celebrity.  To be perfectly clear, none of us is truly likable when all of our flaws are fully exposed and that is actually a good thing.  We don't exist so that people will like us, we exist where people will like us even when we aren't likable. 

You don't want to confuse Musk's inability to be liked, whatever the underlying insecurity fueling that desire, with his more problematic personality flaws - namely his abusive tendencies to those close to him or in his employ.  We're discussing him not because he's unlikable  but because his actions harm people and need to be spotlighted.  As puerile as his antics are, its that abusiveness that prevents him from being relatable person.

[1pooh4u]

11 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Not to give him undue cover, but a lot of his likability issue is related to his inability to read social cues.

Being unable to read social cues has nothing to do with being a bigoted asshat. He’s racist transphobic and antisemitic he hit the “how to be a scumbag” trifecta 

[matrixman124]

3 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Being unable to read social cues has nothing to do with being a bigoted asshat. He’s racist transphobic and antisemitic he hit the “how to be a scumbag” trifecta 

Yeah he's basically a 4channer with money and some power. Not a good combo.

[naraku360]

Social cues are one thing.

Being an arrogant asshole with an intellect rivaling a koala is another.

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, matrixman124 said:

Yeah he's basically a 4channer with money and some power. Not a good combo.

Kinda scary that militaries use his satellite systems and he shuts them off whenever he feels they’re about to do something he thinks is bad 

[katt_goddess]

2 hours ago, naraku360 said:

Social cues are one thing.

Being an arrogant asshole with an intellect rivaling a koala is another.

Hey now. 

You might actually offend a koala with that comparison statement if their brains weren't so smooth. 

[matrixman124]

6 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Kinda scary that militaries use his satellite systems and he shuts them off whenever he feels they’re about to do something he thinks is bad 

I think that's also a critique of the military industrial complex outsourcing to petulant weirdos 

[matrixman124]

When Internet Addled Harry Met Internet Addled Sally

[1pooh4u]

12 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

I think that's also a critique of the military industrial complex outsourcing to petulant weirdos 

Privatization at its finest.  
In a way we’re getting exactly what we deserve for allowing industries to go private which really need strong government regulation and secrecy in a lot of cases.  Elon is going to be the death of us all probably.  I’m not even kidding I’m definitely putting “global destruction caused by petulant man-child” on my bingo card. He’s gonna talk too much or shut his systems down on the wrong fuckin country and get us all death rayed.