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

[pesh]

Middle aged man buys ridiculous strobe light is finally something I can relate to.

 

[Sue]

We're moving offices and there's a competition going on as we speak to come up with a naming convention for meeting rooms.

Along with all the yawnsome standards (Computing Pioneers! London Landmarks! etc), Famous Dogs is still in the running.

'I'll meet you in Lassie at 4.'

'The Finance Team are in Rin Tin Tin.'



(Probably insensitive to mention Laika.)

And BOOM! The winner is Computing Pioneers!

 

[a_chap]

Twitter Sues Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech (Published 2023)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

www.nytimes.com

Twitter’s parent company threatened to sue a non-profit org that tracks hate speech, saying it tried to hurt the social platform with its research.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Twitter Sues Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech (Published 2023)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

www.nytimes.com

Twitter’s parent company threatened to sue a non-profit org that tracks hate speech, saying it tried to hurt the social platform with its research.

The social media firm, recently renamed X, has said any policy changes are about protecting "free expression" and claims most posts are "healthy"...

"That's why X has filed a legal claim against the CCDH and its backers," the blog post added.

X (formerly Twitter) sues group accusing Elon Musk of allowing hate speech to thrive

The Center for Countering Digital Hate has reported a rise in hateful language since Elon Musk bought Twitter last year. The social media firm, recently renamed X, has argued any policy changes are about protecting "free expression".

news.sky.com

Yeah "X" so committed to 'free expression', unless of course you criticise them and then they'll sue your ass.

Also X is happy to amplify and bankroll climate denial, anti-Vaxx bs and other far-right propaganda that threatens human survival but gets the lawyers out for what it calls 'misleading claims' that might hurt their bottom line.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

World Wildlife Fund landing a blow on the cretin now: “protect wildlife at all costs”

 

[magneze]

Good article imho.

"They need us. We don't need them:" Twitter trolls get more desperate

The business model depends on "triggering" liberals — but they're running out of progressives to bait

www.salon.com

 

[teuchter]

That article is a bit like the posts on here which reply to "troll threads" explaining at length why the thread isn't worth responding to.

 

[krtek a houby]

That article is a bit like the posts on here which reply to "troll threads" explaining at length why the thread isn't worth responding to.

You'd know all about starting such threads, naturally

 

[edcraw]

They seem to have removed the “Promoted” on advertising posts.

Might be wrong but thought this was a legal requirement. If so presumably they could get into a bit of trouble with that.

 

[ska invita]

They seem to have removed the “Promoted” on advertising posts.

Might be wrong but thought this was a legal requirement. If so presumably they could get into a bit of trouble with that.

Yes and not only that every fifth tweet is an advert

 

[Dom Traynor]

To be fair I'll take that that would probably prevent actual wechat. You probably could manage something wechat-lite that still had significant 'benefits' over existing systems but relied on existing payment methods. Uber+ if you will. But it would be a hell of a task. And still relies on trust and consistency. And presumably there's a reason companies like uber haven't integrated food and driving into the same app.

I dont live in the UK anymore don't you have the ability to send via your banking app and text? Like I can do an instant bank transfer to pay for noodles at a food truck in New Zealand. Who needs a WeChat equivalent? Although we have that here as well.

 

[Artaxerxes]

That article is a bit like the posts on here which reply to "troll threads" explaining at length why the thread isn't worth responding to.

Sit back, have a crisp

 

[Cid]

I dont live in the UK anymore don't you have the ability to send via your banking app and text? Like I can do an instant bank transfer to pay for noodles at a food truck in New Zealand. Who needs a WeChat equivalent? Although we have that here as well.

Yeah, I think you're probably right and I'm just a couple of years behind on payment systems here. I haven't bought anything from a market stall in god knows. Probably since I was in China.

It is helpful having integrated utilities etc though. The number of fucking apps and websites to navigate. But yeah, as established by kabbes, Musk's ideas were far wider and far more stupid.

 

[teuchter]

You'd know all about starting such threads, naturally

Thank you for your response.

 

[a_chap]

Yes and not only that every fifth tweet is an advert

I never used to see ads on Twitter but from yesterday it's just a constant stream of the fucking things

I just block them but that's just a ridiculous amount of my time and effort.

Is there a Twitter ad blocker?

 

[BusLanes]

Yes and not only that every fifth tweet is an advert

That explains a few weird tweets I saw this morning

 

[strung out]

They seem to have removed the “Promoted” on advertising posts.

Might be wrong but thought this was a legal requirement. If so presumably they could get into a bit of trouble with that.

They've just changed it so it says Ad in the top right corner of promoted tweets now.

 

[edcraw]

They've just changed it so it says Ad in the top right corner of promoted tweets now.

Oh yeah - they’re not as crap as I assumed.

 

[NoXion]

Oh yeah - they’re not as crap as I assumed.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the new way is less obvious.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I used to do a thing when I was bored on Twitter which was to search for "jew media" and then report posts, because you could almost 100% guarantee that anyone using that phrase would be some nazi (and if they weren't it would be quickly obvious that they were quoting, or being sarcastic, or something). I had quite a good record in those getting banned.

This pastime has now been ruined by the fact that there is literally an antisemitic account called @jewmedia on Twitter now, apparently recently re-established, flat-out just saying that shit. What is the point in making this sort of report? I did so anyway.

Well well.

After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know JewMedia hasn’t broken our safety policies. We know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for. If this account breaks our policies in the future, we’ll notify you.

You can block the account, which means they won’t be able to follow you, see your Tweets, or message you.

Reports like this inform our policies, and we’re always reviewing them and how we apply them. We hope you'll continue to make reports if you see things that might break our policies.

Shocked I tell you.

Definitely encouraged to continue reporting stuff now.

 

[bimble]

Well well.

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Shocked I tell you.

Definitely encouraged to continue reporting stuff now.

Thats the little extra push I needed to press delete on the Xwitter app. See how I manage without it.

 

[krtek a houby]

Thank you for your response.

You should be grateful. It's the best you're going to get.

 

[NoXion]

Well well.

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Shocked I tell you.

Definitely encouraged to continue reporting stuff now.

Looks like the German government has all the reason it needs to fine Xhitter out the arse.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Looks like the German government has all the reason it needs to fine Xhitter out the arse.

Funnily enough I was just reading this about Twitter and a German group:

Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets

HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken down

www.theguardian.com

Given some of the examples in there I'm not surprised my one wasn't removed either.

 

[BigMoaner]

He really puts the X in toxic. It'll be dressed up in the usual "woke getting triggered" when it's really just a big baby whos own ego shouldnt be anywhere near huge, HUGE, social and democratic power.

 

[a_chap]

 

[two sheds]

Well at least Tesla's honestly developing electric cars.

Ah ...

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

 

[BigMoaner]

The excellent qanon anonymous on the takeover

 

[pinkmonkey]

Well at least Tesla's honestly developing electric cars.

Ah ...

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

My brother is getting rid of his Tesla, it’s not only the mental price for repairs (think he just paid £1000 for 2 new tyres?) It‘s that since Elon bought Twitter and that now everyone realises what a wanker he is, seeing a Tesla seems to give other motorists a free pass to behave like dicks to my brother, cutting him up, tailgating him, he’s had enough of that. Have to admit, I liked that car.

 

[StoneRoad]

Just done a YouGov survey, part of which covered opinions on musk's "everything app" and a couple of related topics.

Not interested in something like that, especially with a "bully" like him in control.