Is Musk revealing his true self or in the midst of some life crisis? He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.
“He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.” Yeah, he owns the worlds largest auto company, largest rocket company, and just threw down $40 billion to buy the worlds biggest social media company. Dude is in dire straights indeed.
Hmm..
- not the world's largest auto company by a long shot. not even in the top 10.
- had to borrow billions (at least 13B) from banks to buy twitter (banks that now want out)
- twitter not remotely the biggest social media company in the world. again.. likely not even in the top 10.
> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned. The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year…
> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…
> It seems like a good rule, I don't know - it doesn't seem consistently applied Donie O’Sullivan published a tweet containing a statement from the LAPD and was banned; and personally I don't see it being upheld once Elon's fixation on this story wanes. Furthermore, it just seems that Elon is doing what he accused Twitter of doing for so long; enacting arbitrary rules to silence political opponents. It's his site and…
Elon's slide into max doucheness is a real shame. I used to tell my kids he was one of the most admirable people around for jump starting the EV industry (yes, I know he didn't do it all). Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did. Now he's become like a meme of himself, or perhaps just himself as he always was but now right out there, and it's not go…
>Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did. Same. It's one thing to use a slur like that in some personal dispute; but this was against a hero who had saved children , and on a public forum. I've lied to myself that this was a minor dispute. And it would be that if he'd apologized. But the lack of apology is a very serious red flag of character. Impul…
> "the lack of apology is a very serious red flag"
Sounds like something a bot would write.
Musk's Twitter apology to the 'pedo guy' at the time made headlines. A simple google will sort out your confusion. He also apologized in court, and repeatedly stated how it was the stupidest thing he's done.
> "We are all capitalists..."
Again, sounds like something a chat bot would write.
The underlying issue: Musk's incentives don't give him much reason to care if Twitter goes under. Musk likely feels he might as well push for any changes he likes, and gain whether Twitter survives or not. What was Musk's biggest bugbear about 'old' Twitter? The moderation system. If Twitter goes under, the only practical alternative at the moment is Mastodon, and Mastodon can't replicate Twitter's moderation due to…
Hate speech is far more tolerated on Twitter than on Mastadon. It’s not a free for all.
It might also be how Tesla goes out. A lot of people have lost a lot of money on Telsa lately: https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/tesla-stock... It's hard to overstate what a crucial time this is for Tesla. They had early-adopter success when they had the field to themselves. But now every major car company plus a bunch of other people (possibly including Apple) are coming for them. Pivoting to the main…
Quite a tale, if entirely fictional. > Capital that is going going to be harder to raise Tesla has over $10 billions in cash and adding few billions every quarter. They don't need to raise ever again. > They had early-adopter success Yes. Also, they became the largest EV company in the world with 2x margin of other car companies. > when they had the field to themselves Nissan Leaf and Bolt EV launched before Model 3.…
Staying in the car business during a time of transition is an expensive game. Tesla may well need to raise money again and the way their stockprice has been going as of late isn't going to help them with that.
As one of those people: yeah, this is pretty terrible. I don't think being allowed to share the exact location of individual private jets is nearly as important for the public discourse as some of the other stories Twitter has censored in the past (pre-Elon), but this still represents a significant departure from what Musk was promising before the buyout (that basically anything legal to say would be allowed). I'd mu…
What would you think about sharing Prince Harry's live location?
Happens all the time. The Royal jets have ADS-B just like everything else.
Once again - private ownership means some small number of people (such as 1 dude) can capriciously control a platform. Supposedly he was a “free speech absolutist.”
You may say there’s “nothing wrong” with privately owning huge platforms (like Elon and Zuck), huge swaths of land (like Bill Gates) or otherwise have ludicrousoy outsize power in society accrue to one dude. But I say that trusting our public forums to privately owned platforms isn’t the best thing we can do. Our democracy is now greatly affected by that stuff. And even conservatives who love private property now understand that there may be diminishing returns from private ownership on that scale.
Jeff Bezos built a great company that helps a lot of customers. (It also exploits a lot of wage slaves.) But does that automatically mean Jeff is also the best man to allocate all those billions? Jeff complained it’s “very hard” for him to allocate his billions philanthropically, but his ex-wife seems to be doing a far more prolific job of it. After a certain point (say, 10 billion) those dollars become just a silly number game for him — something he could never conceivably spend even on penis-shaped rockets - while others could use those billions to end food insecurity, or get preventative checkups.
We don’t need government to come in and use force to solve this. As a society, we do have a libertarian alternative.
It’s called autonomous, decentralized open source networks — which are now available (I build two of them). Instead of putting your crypto in FTX or Celcius to be managed by the whims of Sam Bankman-Fried or Alex Mashinsky, why not use the blockchain and private keys and smart contracts?
Because it’s too difficult to understand and build solutions
Well, that’s why we spent years buulding the solutions to help you and your brand and your organizations to break free of Big Tech and billionaires. And what can be more libertarian than that?
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He got mad at people tracking (or trying to track) current IRL location to enable harassment after someone went after his son.
Except that that whole thing is bollocks. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
> Sweeney said he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was Dec. 12, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.”
I'm wondering what's going to happen to the massive public record of tweets if Twitter as a company does indeed implode. Thousands of tweets are referenced in news articles and blog posts via links to Twitter. Are all of them going to evaporate from the web at once? It would probably turn out to be the biggest case of link rot in history.
It would also be pretty interesting 10 years from now if we characterized this time to people growing up as "there was once this huge social networking platform called Twitter at one point, but you can't post anything there anymore, only browse through this public-service archive."