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

[SpineyNorman]

"Stop cancelling comedians"

Lol

Got to keep Joe Rogan happy if he wants to keep appearing on his podcast

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

didn't click but "reap the whirlwind" ffs how much ignorance can you show in such a short message

 

[editor]

Mercifully, the old Tweetdeck is back which is a good job because the new one is utter fucking shit,

 

[gosub]

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The sooner twitter collapses the better

 

[Dystopiary]

Genuinely scary.

 

[Rob Ray]

“Elon Musk has done the impossible. His behavior was so openly depraved and Twitter became so insufferable, that he made a Zuckerberg platform look good in comparison.”

$44 billion and eight months later. It’s finally all over for Elon Musk

It’s all clear in hindsight

www.independent.co.uk

The telling thing about that is the note about news not getting encouraged:



Honestly it's a bit depressing that the media class is busily swooning/promoting the possibilities of Threads to be a replacement for Twitter when the CEO is saying outright that they're not interested in doing the bit which actually matters. Like killing Twitter is grand and all but you'd think they'd have learned from the last time they got Zucked. Apparently they never fucking learn.

 

[Nylock]

The telling thing about that is the note about news not getting encouraged:

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Honestly it's a bit depressing that the media class is busily swooning/promoting the possibilities of Threads to be a replacement for Twitter when the CEO is saying outright that they're not interested in doing the bit which actually matters. Like killing Twitter is grand and all but you'd think they'd have learned from the last time they got Zucked. Apparently they never fucking learn.

I hate to say it but tbf to the people at threads, they only ever marketed it as an alternate to Twitter "where the likelihood of getting yelled at by an actual nazi is low"... Since the politics and news side of the bird app is the most overtly toxic part of it, you can sort of see why Zuckerberg's lot are not exactly embracing that element. Not saying they're right btw, just trying to understand the logic of it...

 

[Rob Ray]

Oh I get it, the policy is a continuation of their system on Facebook, which largely deplatforms news and politics unless you pay for ads, and has expunged noteworthy left/radical takes for the most part. The firm went nuclear on anything that could get them into regulatory trouble after Cambridge Analytica and the data weaponisation scandal, and aim to Disneyland their products from the outset.

But journalists and editors should know this stuff by now and give them the cynical eye, rather than handing the bastard free positive coverage that doesn't even help their own employer or career (I'm not going to tell them off for throwing civic rebels under the bus, obv they'd do that for bus fare).

 

[Nylock]

Like I said, not defending them here...

 

[editor]

So the original Tweetdeck is fucked again

 

[Cloo]

Trying out threads, don't think it's ethically much better than Twitter, but it would piss off Musk, so that's good

 

[Yossarian]

Artificial incelligence

Elon Musk announces new AI start-up

The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[MrCurry]

Artificial incelligence

Elon Musk announces new AI start-up

The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.

www.bbc.co.uk

Hence his earlier frantic tweeting and lobbying about the dangers of AI to slow down the opposition, while he scrambled to catch up and launch his own offer.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Official Threads advertising. They're really leaning into 'Musk's a cunt, come join us'. But oddly at the same time they seem to be trying to raise the personality cult of Zuckerberg (pretty challenging given that Zuckerberg has less of a personality than his waxwork at Madame Tussauds). Wisely, Facebook kept this weird little freak in the background in the past (and how the fuck has he got the hairdo of the kid in school whose mum cuts his hair?) but now Meta are pushing him front and centre? Strange "which of us to you hate less" contest going on.

 

[krtek a houby]

Billionaire men, amassing fortunes and followers. Where will it all end?

 

[jeff_leigh]

Billionaire men, amassing fortunes and followers. Where will it all end?

Imagine an Army of Soldiers carrying Gold Rifles that shoot Diamonds

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[BigMoaner]

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Trivial side point but can you imagine someone teleporting from 1920 and trying to make sense of that.

Anyway carry on

 

[DaveCinzano]

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Trivial side point but can you imagine someone teleporting from 1920 and trying to make sense of that.

Anyway carry on

Who's this guy, see? A real wiseguy, see? An absolute waste-of-good-whiskey fucking asshole, see?

 

[Humberto]

Bonehead

 

[Yossarian]

,

Trivial side point but can you imagine someone teleporting from 1920 and trying to make sense of that.

Anyway carry on

So press barons are still weird fuckers with too much money, huh?

 

[Storm Fox]

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What matters is how many ads were shown to other verified users.

I would have thought the things that matter is how much advertisers are willing to spend and how much the data scraped from users can be sold for. He seems to be sailing pretty close to the Alt-Right NPC meme bullshit too.

 

[NoXion]

Why does the Blood Emerald Bastard think that "verified" users can't be bots? He got rid of any actual verification process and now the blue tick is available to literally anyone willing to fork over money for it. He's a fucking idiot.

 

[magneze]

At this point the thread title maybe needs "or just a fucking idiot" appending.

 

[Artaxerxes]

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I would have thought the things that matter is how much advertisers are willing to spend and how much the data scraped from users can be sold for. He seems to be sailing pretty close to the Alt-Right NPC meme bullshit too.

Your also paying for less ads when verified so this is even funnier

Elon Musk Teases Pricier, Ad-Free Version of Twitter Blue for 2023

Musk also reiterates that he plans on phasing out legacy blue checkmarks in the coming months.

uk.pcmag.com

 

[Lord Camomile]

Your also paying for less ads when verified so this is even funnier

Elon Musk Teases Pricier, Ad-Free Version of Twitter Blue for 2023

Musk also reiterates that he plans on phasing out legacy blue checkmarks in the coming months.

uk.pcmag.com

Weeeeeeeeell, quality not quantity.

Right?

 

[hitmouse]

Artificial incelligence

Elon Musk announces new AI start-up

The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.

www.bbc.co.uk

Quite cute how he's named it after his kid, though.

 

[Ax^]

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how long before it just blue tick subscribers spreading misinformation to each others bots

way to piss away 44 billion

 

[Dogsauce]

Your also paying for less ads when verified so this is even funnier

Elon Musk Teases Pricier, Ad-Free Version of Twitter Blue for 2023

Musk also reiterates that he plans on phasing out legacy blue checkmarks in the coming months.

uk.pcmag.com

Any person stupid enough to fork out $8 per month for something of literally no value whatsoever must be a dream demographic for advertisers. Suggestible saps for sale.