Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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ska invita
back on the other side
They presumably know that it's required and current behaviour pattern is Do It Anyway. There's a legal reckoning overdue for all this shit
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Then there's this. Which appears to be a Black Mirror episode which didn't make the cut, if it wasn't real.
In short. Person buys a Tesla, but due to accounting error on Telsa's part gets locked out of said car. Tesla then reposesses the car by getting it drive itself to a location of their choosing.
In short. Person buys a Tesla, but due to accounting error on Telsa's part gets locked out of said car. Tesla then reposesses the car by getting it drive itself to a location of their choosing.
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
That can't be true. It's illegal for a car to "drive itself" without a human behind the wheel.
It’s not true, in that nowhere in the text does it say that the car drove itself. It says that it was picked up by a tow company.
The rest of the summary is accurate, though. Tesla fucked up their payment processing and responded to it by stealing the bloke’s car.
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
Ah OK, that makes more sense.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Xhitter to remove the blocking function, potentially in violation of Google and Apple's terms of service.
amp.theguardian.com
Blocking feature to be removed from former Twitter platform X, says Musk | Twitter | The Guardian
Loss of protective feature may bring it into conflict with safety guidelines on App Store and Google Play
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
These papers should just keep calling it twitter tbh, like I do with opal fruits and marathon
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Fighting the good fight.
I wonder what all the news channels that used to check or ask for tweets will do? I would personally just stop using them. X looks so cheap and does not look like a reliable platform for information anymore. . . .
And what are they going to say instead of 'tweet'? Has that even been decided yet.
Elon seems to have created a bit of a gap in the market for a twitter style platform. Sadly I think it will be a meta offshoot that will take it.
ska invita
back on the other side
What fresh hell
www.pcmag.com
Verifying Your Identity on Twitter Will Require Taking a Selfie
A new ID verification process is in the works, requiring a selfie as well as government-issued ID.
Jeremiah18.17
Well-Known Member
Think from the block and mugshot/ID specifications that we have to conclude that Musk is trying, for whatever personal/financial or political reasons to conclusively destroy the platform. Could speculate that this is about the coming US elections and /or the intensification of the climate/economic/social mega crisis… Or just another petulant man-child taking pleasure in smashing up his toys, “because he can”…
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
I think the last one. Look at his history:
| Competent and often highly innovative Engineers | Musk |
| Telsa: Cars |
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| SpaceX: Falcon Rockets | Starship |
| Robotic: No-one | Humans in Spandex and an attempt that makes Johnny 5 look advanced. |
| Twitter: RUN AWAY | Ohh shiny, Look at me me me. I own Free Speech and I owned the Libs |
So anyone who wants to stay working at Telsa or SpaceX in a design or innovation role is going to be doing Smithers impressions on how he is so fantastic at running Twitter just so he will leave them the fuck alone and let them get on doing design and engineering.
Cloo
Banana for scale
What fresh hell
Verifying Your Identity on Twitter Will Require Taking a Selfie
A new ID verification process is in the works, requiring a selfie as well as government-issued ID.
Yeah, because Xitter these days is so reliable and trustworthy and wouldn't get your passport details hacked because Musk has probably fired all the security and privacy people.
In theory (though practice is another matter) having ID on everyone could be a good thing if it were out of concern to prevent trolling, but seeing as Musk's aim seems to be to create a platform dedicated to trolling, I would not like the look of that one bit. But I've left Xitter already, so not my problem.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
(((that Dutch avant-punk band I've never actually listened to but are meant to be good)))
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
I always stick up for men who give £20k for some spending money to woman hating alleged pimps
magneze
🎧
Using Twitter now is this.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Yep. This is a main objection, but another ojbection for me, and that of many platforms, is how addictive they are. The affect on attention. This one life, and all that, staring deep into a screen for hours and hours., year after year. I think it was Kebbes who pointed something out that stuck with me - you can have capitalism that has a certain pay off...take a high street, okay the model is capitalistic, but at least it brings people together into an area. At least people can use it to encouter other people. You go out, you see the world. You begin to feel part of a community. You could argue that twitter does this, but does it really - on a flesh and bone, memorable level? So the ruthless capitalistic model of twitter, and the like, i am not sure what it is providing back whilst a select few make billions off of it. Seems a business model of Take, whilst giving back cat memes and arguments with racists from dartford. I am being simplistic, but I do like what Kebbes was saying about the kind of secondary value of some models of capitalism, if that is what we burdened to live under, can grant. What value twitter is what what all users should ask themselves as teh hours it preoccupies ticks away. I don't judge, I know people who love it and more power to them. It;s just my own take.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...
Examples of some of the content Gage is getting paid for (just scrolling within the last day on his timeline):
Thank you for creating on X.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
SickView attachment 388177Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...masto.ai
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
And the worst part of grifting like this though is the monetary incentive to double down, to provoke further, money is so powerful, far more powerful than changing ones mind. It's an ethical problem that social media companies haven't got to grips with or don't care about.View attachment 388177Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...
Examples of some of the content Gage is getting paid for (just scrolling within the last day on his timeline):
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. Same on YouTube where women hating shit cunts are literally paying there LA mansion mortgages on hatred. Lol at changing their minds once all those expensive outgoings are in place.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
I hope enough decent people leave so it truly becomes a heaven of "absoloute free speech", i.e. a 4chan shit hole that the world knows as a 4chan shit hole.View attachment 388177Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...
Examples of some of the content Gage is getting paid for (just scrolling within the last day on his timeline):
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Could start with no more links to the site.
Might be difficult, but not impossible.
Very few linking to the Heil or the S*n these days.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Has it gone viral on there? Or just something you've noticed? Hope it's the former. As many people as possible need to see he is paying the vilest and most lethal antisemitism.View attachment 388177Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...
Examples of some of the content Gage is getting paid for (just scrolling within the last day on his timeline):
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
And to be fair to the S*n, which is really not something I like doing, at least if you post a link to them it's likely to work and allow people to click through, whereas Musk keeps breaking his own site and/or making it impossible for non-account holders to view.
I found out about it through someone posting about it on Mastodon (posted a link but urban doesn't seem to have Mastodon post embedding so it's not as visible).
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Honestly that has made me really angry today.View attachment 388177Nick Martin (@nickmartin@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Angelo John Gage, a neo-Nazi who recently started using the name "Lucas Gage" and whose Twitter feed is a constant stream of antisemitism and racism, says he received his first payment through the platform's revenue sharing system. It's was $165.52 — not much, obviously. But...
Examples of some of the content Gage is getting paid for (just scrolling within the last day on his timeline):
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Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
Twitter has had a glitch where photos uploaded before 2014 have been deleted and Musk has admitted Twitter might fail.
www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk admits X ‘may fail’ after glitch deletes Twitter photos
Platform’s users voice concern as it removes pictures and links on posts made before December 2014
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Much as I now detest Twitter, it it currently showing how amazing it can be/used to be. Riders and supporters are following/posting during the four-yearly Paris-Brest-Paris cycling ultra-endurance event.
There really isn't an equivalent platform for this kind of thing. And musk has fucked it up
There really isn't an equivalent platform for this kind of thing. And musk has fucked it up
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