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

[hitmouse]

Twitter has had a glitch where photos uploaded before 2014 have been deleted and Musk has admitted Twitter might fail.

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

www.theguardian.com

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It's amazing, we've all spent all this time learning how to process the idea that the internet is forever, that pictures or words from one time in your life can always be dug up and used against you however many years later. And that's still true, we still have to remember that, but we also have to balance it against the equally important lesson that anything on the internet can end up just getting accidentally wiped by a thick-as-pigshit billionaire having a midlife crisis.

 

[two sheds]

It's amazing, we've all spent all this time learning how to process the idea that the internet is forever, that pictures or words from one time in your life can always be dug up and used against you however many years later. And that's still true, we still have to remember that, but we also have to balance it against the equally important lesson that anything on the internet can end up just getting accidentally wiped by a thick-as-pigshit billionaire having a midlife crisis.

Who can forget the Great Urban Post Cull in the early years of this century?

 

[Raheem]

I suppose all you Musk haters won't even like this, which is a nice cardboard house for cats. But you'll say it's stupid and be all negative about it, just because he's involved.

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Tesla releases cardboard cat house informed by Cybertruck in China

Tesla is selling a flat-pack cat house made of corrugated cardboard in China, with an angular silhouette that was modelled on the car brand's controversial electric pickup truck.

www.dezeen.com

Au contraire, I find this to be the smartest and most useful thing Musk has ever claimed credit for.

 

[Raheem]

Who can forget the Great Urban Post Cull in the early years of this century?

People who can remember it, I suppose.

 

[Ax^]

Who can forget the Great Urban Post Cull in the early years of this century?

newbies who joined 10 years later

we have poster who don't even know the name Firky..

 

[Artaxerxes]

Twitter has had a glitch where photos uploaded before 2014 have been deleted and Musk has admitted Twitter might fail.

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

www.theguardian.com

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This isn't the first time and once again I'd look at cost saving and deleting cloud storage as the reason rather than error.

If the historians or someone haven't archived things already given the last few months that's on them.

 

[hitmouse]

lost in time like tears in rain

 

[Artaxerxes]

Where are the Tweets and the Angelfire and the Geocities hosting?

They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.

 

[bimble]

Au contraire, I find this to be the smartest and most useful thing Musk has ever claimed credit for.

My cat, who is extremely suave and handsome obvs, even he’d look like a daft twat sitting in that thing so no. Unless you want to humiliate your blameless pet, in which case you’d buy them a novelty outfit, it’s not a useful product.

 

[Raheem]

My cat, who is extremely suave and handsome obvs, even he’d look like a daft twat sitting in that thing so no. Unless you want to humiliate your blameless pet, in which case you’d buy them a novelty outfit, it’s not a useful product.

I was very careful not to claim it was useful, except comparatively.

 

[xenon]

Wait they are actually going to require you to upload government ID alongside a Selfie?

 

[two sheds]

Lets hope nobody starts spreading stories that Musk wants peoples' ID so that he can steal their votes

 

[Lurdan]

It's amazing, we've all spent all this time learning how to process the idea that the internet is forever, that pictures or words from one time in your life can always be dug up and used against you however many years later. And that's still true, we still have to remember that, but we also have to balance it against the equally important lesson that anything on the internet can end up just getting accidentally wiped by a thick-as-pigshit billionaire having a midlife crisis.

Ummm - don't want to be disagreeable but the idea that the internet "is forever" is complete nonsense, and IMO anyone who subscribed to it would be daft.

My Space, Friends Reunited, Yahoo Groups, lots of microblogs at Tumblr as successive owners tried to make it sellable, photo collections at Flickr or Photobucket as monetization driven changes were made etc etc etc. These are just a few examples. Anyone who relied on any Google "service" to act as a 'repository for the ages' would have to be a fucking idiot at this point.

Sometimes there were efforts to archive stuff that was being switched off or changed (Geocities, Tumblr). In the case of Yahoo groups very little could be preserved. Same with enormous numbers of message boards, small websites linked to specific ISPs (AOL Hometown) etc etc etc

If you want it preserve it. And if you might not want it out there think about whether you want to post it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Who can forget the Great Urban Post Cull in the early years of this century?

I FOR ONE HAVE NO MEMORY OF THIS, NOR COULD I EVER BELIEVE THAT OUR BENEFICENT OVERLORDS WOULD DO SUCH A THING

 

[DaveCinzano]

If the historians or someone haven't archived things already given the last few months that's on them.

Yeah, fuck those historian pricks

 

[Lurdan]

Long piece by Ronan Farrow on the New Yorker website about Musk's influence.

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule - The New Yorker

(Doesn't seem to be paywalled. Yet)

 

[tommers]

 

[bimble]

If you’re not a user or not signed in to twitter and you click on a link to it, you can’t see anything but the one tweet now - can anyone say how long has it been like that ?

 

[Artaxerxes]

If you’re not a user or not signed in to twitter and you click on a link to it, you can’t see anything but the one tweet now - can anyone say how long has it been like that ?

At least a month, previously you couldn't even load the single tweet for a couple of weeks or more

 

[two sheds]

I noticed it a couple of weeks ago.

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[NoXion]

What the fuck?! The journalist wasn't asking about the policies of Musk's businesses. They were asking about the DoD's security policies. Telling the journalist to effectively ask Musk makes it look like the tail is wagging the dog.

 

[Storm Fox]

Now this:

Elon Musk considered pulling plug on Ukraine’s access to Starlink internet
Tech billionaire worried about being seen ‘in Russia as enabling Ukrainian war effort’

Mr Musk boasted that he could see the “entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. He told Mr Kahl that live information had made him hesitate over whether his satellite internet system was being used for peaceful means or to wage war.
“This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘well, I had this great conversation with Putin’,” Mr Kahl said.

https://archive.ph/NMKHL

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Shithead cunt etc

 

[Rob Ray]

Apologies for the TwiX embed, but hearing punters at a major gaming tourney booing Elon Musk is just too good:

 

[NoXion]

He got booed at a David Chappelle gig, and afterwards tried blaming it on the fact that it was in California. The dickhead constantly surrounds himself with yes-men and so cannot process just how many people dislike him.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Shithead cunt etc

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Tbh, I'm kinda surprised he even went as far to point out that what humans have done would have any effect, and relatively matter-of-factly, too.

Sure, he's still questioning the "short term" (lol), but "moving billions of tons of carbon... into the atmosphere and oceans will have an effect" does basically state that we are having an effect, and also leaves the door open for that effect being both long and short term.

Nowhere near as dismissive of the mere idea of human-caused climate change as he can be about other stuff, and the people he's trying to court are about climate change.

He got booed at a David Chappelle gig, and afterwards tried blaming it on the fact that it was in California. The dickhead constantly surrounds himself with yes-men and so cannot process just how many people dislike him.

Where's Silicon Valley, again...?

 

[tim]

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.

I promise to link the Guardian; the whole Guardian and Nothing but the Guardian. So help me, Polly Toynbee.

 

[krtek a houby]

I promise to link the Guardian; the whole Guardian and Nothing but the Guardian. So help me, Polly Toynbee.

Oh, draw the line at the Toynbee

 

[Jeff Robinson]