Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[magneze]

A recent take from Mastodon.

Evan Prodromou (@evan@prodromou.pub)

Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers. You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave. You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you...

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Thought this was worth reposting, from Mastodon:

"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.

You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.

You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.

Just stop posting.

Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.

Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.

Stop feeding your life into the machine."

 

[RedRedRose]

The strangling of a homeless Black man on the New York City subway seems to have been the impetus for Musk to start promoting a lot more white supremacist talking points, I hope it all comes crashing down for him sooner rather than later

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Nicely debunked here.

Elon Musk's obsession with anti-white bias

On May 1, Jordan Neely, an unhoused subway busker and Michael Jackson impersonator with a history of mental illness, was killed on the F train in New York City. At about 2:30 in the afternoon, Neely entered a subway car and began screaming that he was hungry and thirsty. "I don’t care if I go to...

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[gosub]

So Muskie wants to be a press baron of some sort. He realises the leverage that the press had is up for grabs in a now online world and Twitter is perfectly poised for that. He dosnt care who he pisses of, just wants some of that influence to be his

As much as the media do have leverage. What has happened to it over the last decade or so has been depressing up until this year was turning into look what we read on twitter, at the moment seems to be look what we got AI to say. Won't end well for anybody

 

[Serge Forward]

So Muskie wants to be a press baron of some sort. He realises the leverage that the press had is up for grabs in a now online world and Twitter is perfectly poised for that. He dosnt care who he pisses of, just wants some of that influence to be his

Muskie?

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[newme]

I doubted this immediately, entirely on the concept he could actually hire anyone now.

In the meantime, his role will "transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops," her wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday.

Wow Elon must be furious about this given his attitude towards his trans kid.

 

[Yossarian]

My money's on Maye Musk or Shivon Zilis

 

[Orang Utan]

Never fear! It’s Dionne Warwick!

 

[a_chap]

 

[Cid]

Speculation around NBCUniversal's head of advertising... So... continue micromanaging all the tech stuff and have someone else to blame for the financial side?

I mean it could work? a bit? though probably not if he actually keeps any level of visibility/control.

 

[newme]

Speculation around NBCUniversal's head of advertising... So... continue micromanaging all the tech stuff and have someone else to blame for the financial side?

I mean it could work? a bit? though probably not if he actually keeps any level of visibility/control.

If he could manage to shut up for 5 minutes. Which is a big if.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Yossarian]

I doubt the new CEO will be allowed to make decisions like "Maybe we should stop elevating Nazis, incels, anti-vaxxers, and crypto bros to the top of all replies"

 

[BigMoaner]

Thought this was worth reposting, from Mastodon:

"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.

You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.

You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.

Just stop posting.

Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.

Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.

Stop feeding your life into the machine."

Yes!

I don't like reducing things to individual actions, but everyone should think carefully and long about where they find value in these monitised machines that have taken over conciousness itself to a large part. If there is little or no value, if there is negative value, then...account>apps>delete.

honestly - is that an act of missing out or an act of liberation? for me it was the latter. fuck 'em!

 

[Lord Camomile]

If he could manage to shut up for 5 minutes. Which is a big if.

Aye, feels like almost regardless of who's in what position, his antics would remain one of the biggest threats to the ongoing survival of Twitter.

 

[Yossarian]

 

[Lord Camomile]

Why he needs to pass the torch:

 

[Orang Utan]

Linda Yaccarino then. Seems to be upsetting both conservatives and liberals

 

[Ax^]

trump links but not an anti vaxxer

 

[newme]

Aye, feels like almost regardless of who's in what position, his antics would remain one of the biggest threats to the ongoing survival of Twitter.

All he had to do was not legally commit to buying twitter and bugger off. It seemed like an easy task but he managed to fail it.

 

[Artaxerxes]

All he had to do was not legally commit to buying twitter and bugger off. It seemed like an easy task but he managed to fail it.

I've managed to go my entire life without drunken eBay purchases so Musk drunkenly buying a social media platform has just confused me.

 

[hitmouse]

Say what you like about Musk's twitter, it has boldly innovated in the field of cat and dog videos:

Report: Twitter Autofilled Searches to Route to Grisly Animal Cruelty Vids

Users who typed in “cat” would reportedly be prompted with the autofill, “cat in a blender.”

www.thedailybeast.com

Twitter Disables Autocomplete After It Recommends Animal Torture and Mass Shooting Videos

Searching for dog and cat videos returned horrifying results.

www.vice.com

 

[newme]

Reddit - Dive into anything

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New tesla feature

 

[newme]

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[gosub]

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/billionaire-george-soros-cuts-his-ties-to-elon-musk

 

[teqniq]

Just

 

[RedRedRose]

Have we seen this?

Various environmental and community groups who are living under-siege due to SpaceX occupying their lands on the Texas-Mexican border.

 

[teqniq]

Musk in promoting racist misinformation shocker:

Thread by @marcowenjones on Thread Reader App

@marcowenjones: Thread 1) @elonmusk is promoting racist misinformation in the wake of the #allentx shootings. There are a number of examples but I want to focus on this graph, which has been shared and liked hundred...…

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[Dystopiary]

Musk in promoting racist misinformation shocker:

Thread by @marcowenjones on Thread Reader App

@marcowenjones: Thread 1) @elonmusk is promoting racist misinformation in the wake of the #allentx shootings. There are a number of examples but I want to focus on this graph, which has been shared and liked hundred...…

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I looked at that tweet/thread on twitter and the replies are quite disturbing - mostly racist sneering, mostly loads of (paid-for) blue tick accounts. That can't be a representation of people on twitter. I know there are those people who defend Musk over anything but it seemed like something else, and not necessarily bot accounts.

The current blue tick system doesn't help, which is obviously what Musk wanted.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

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