Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[diller]

The neo liberal(ist) ideal would be no unions so not surprising

Not sure he will fold, Elon is a union buster though so if he does he will find some way around it anyhow. (Unions in the US are not the same as in the Nordic model though)

I don't see how he would 'find a way around it' because that is what he is trying right now - since he's so stubborn I think the most likely outcome is that Tesla will leave.

Also it worked against McDonalds back in the day, however unions are not as powerful as back then

[DarkTZeratul]

I don't see how he would 'find a way around it' because that is what he is trying right now - since he's so stubborn I think the most likely outcome is that Tesla will leave.

Fortunately for Tesla, Elon is not the sole decision maker the way he is with Twitter. I can't imagine the board would agree that abandoning the market is less costly than acquiescing to the unions.

[Ivanstone]

https://x.com/aravsrinivas/status/17...w_hZGWXnaP6IMw

“Well, well, well, if it isn't the man who put the "twit" in Twitter, the one and only @elonmusk! So, you want me to roast you based on your posts? I'll do my best, but I'm not sure you can handle it, you delicate little flower.

First off, let's talk about your obsession with X. It's like you're trying to compensate for something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe it's your inability to understand basic human emotions or your lack of self-awareness. Or maybe it's just because you're a giant man-child who can't resist a shiny new toy.

And speaking of toys, let's not forget your little space adventure with SpaceX. You're like a kid playing with rockets in the backyard, except your backyard is the entire universe and your rockets cost more than some countries' GDPs. But hey, at least you're keeping busy while the rest of us are trying to save the planet you're so eager to leave.

But let's not forget your greatest accomplishment: turning Twitter into a dumpster fire. Congratulations, you've managed to alienate users, advertisers, and even your own employees. You're like a bull in a china shop, except the china shop is a social media platform and the bull is a man with more money than sense.

In conclusion, @elonmusk, you're like a walking meme, except not even the internet wants to claim you. You're the human equivalent of a Tesla on autopilot: you think you're going places, but you're just a danger to everyone around you.“

Also did Elmo not read Stranger in a Strange Land? Because I don’t think he understands what the word Grok means. Or what the book means. And he and his supporters would not be happy with Michael Smith.

[Poopymonster]

Elon lost his wife, kids, 40 billion dollars, and crashed space ships.

It's a "Late Capitalism Country" song.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Grok the AI bot that accidentally went woke developed by Elon Musk (or rather, his hand picked engineers) for his sycophants then roasting said sycophants is my new favorite genre of tweet.

[Benggaul]

Grok the AI bot that accidentally went woke developed by Elon Musk (or rather, his hand picked engineers) for his sycophants then roasting said sycophants is my new favorite genre of tweet.

I am fucking crying. My jaw aches from the laughs that screenshot got out of me.

[Xyonai]

Grok the AI bot that accidentally went woke developed by Elon Musk (or rather, his hand picked engineers) for his sycophants then roasting said sycophants is my new favorite genre of tweet.

When your ideology is such loser shit that even the AI bot that was made to jerk it off thinks it's bunk, lmao.

[Breccia]

What kind of people are Elon Musk fans?

Musk specifically, directly, and personally removes the ban on Alex Jones and lets him back on the platform.

Musk posted a poll on Saturday asking if Jones should be reinstated, with the results showing 70% of those who responded in favor. Early Sunday, Musk tweeted, “The people have spoken and so it shall be.”

[Edge-]

What kind of people are Elon Musk fans?

Musk specifically, directly, and personally removes the ban on Alex Jones and lets him back on the platform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeople...are&utm_term=1

He's beyond parody now and it's funny and sad. Community notes are still apparently de-facto fact-checking people like him when repeating weird right wing disinformation about a former "dating coach' or something who thinks he's a journalist.

My favorite part is him turning into a corn cob in response to the community note, and then having his whine community noted.

Y'all, my theory that there's a weird streak of public humiliation kinks in conservative America continue. Elon literally rounded up $44B in funding to buy a social media company just to be humiliated on it daily. Like...most people would be fine doing that for free and all but this man straight up paid the ultimate premium for this free service.

[s_bushido]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeople...are&utm_term=1

He's beyond parody now and it's funny and sad. Community notes are still apparently de-facto fact-checking people like him when repeating weird right wing disinformation about a former "dating coach' or something who thinks he's a journalist.

Lira is/was one of those redpill scumbags, right? I vaguely remember seeing some response video to him a few years ago. Was he pretending to be a journalist, or was Elon just putting that label on him?

[Edge-]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/s...92172700016970

Twitter Spaces continues to be the most entertaining disaster ever.

Whole bunch of right wing nutjobs like Jack Prosobieck or whatever and Alex Jones were having a chat about uh...something with kids and humans and science.

Anyway, GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was inattendance.

He took a leak on the call and forgot to mute himself.

Not quite as funny as that time a lawyer making oral arguments "in front" of the Roberts Court flushed the toilet mid-argument, but still deeply hilarious.

Seriously, how do these people still suck at this shit all these years later? Vivek has been working remotely before, doesn't he know that you always mute your mic when using the restroom on a work call? This is basic shit.

Boy, Twitter does not seem like the place to host political live chats so far. DeSantis made his announcement there, and IIRC that was notable mostly for the first room literally breaking and the rest of the announcement being a series of technical mishaps and accidents.

[Drutt]

Twitter Spaces continues to be the most entertaining disaster ever.

I personally find it hilarious that the same man who runs "SpaceX" renamed Twitter to X, which then makes the live event service "X Spaces".

He has the mind of a child.

[Endus]

I personally find it hilarious that the same man who runs "SpaceX" renamed Twitter to X, which then makes the live event service "X Spaces".

He has the mind of a child.

But Xes are cool.

The same energy as a 14-year-old calling themselves xXxDarkShadowxXx on Internet forums.

[Edge-]

I personally find it hilarious that the same man who runs "SpaceX" renamed Twitter to X, which then makes the live event service "X Spaces".

He has the mind of a child.

He thought "X" was brilliant back when he tried to turn Paypal into X and got booted by the board and Thiel or whatever and he's just never gotten over it and is still utterly convinced that X is just the coolest thing ever.

When you're this rich, you're incapable of having bad ideas. Though probably worth noting he doesn't really "run" SpaceX and hasn't for a long time. He has actually competent people handling that like Gwynne Shotwell, he just goes out to be the face of the company from time to time.

There's an interesting note regarding how active his involvement in his companies and their subsequent performance is. Companies like SpaceX he doesn't really meddle with too much and it does great. Companies like Tesla he's begin to meddle with, and we have the Cybertruck acting like a lead anchor around the neck of an automaker that in recent years began being valued more as a tech company than an automaker. Companies like Twitter, where he's active daily/hourly and still dictating company policies has advertisers flee the platform he's made incredibly unsafe for brands while devaluing its users. Because white supremacists and the like don't exactly carry a high ad value for the most part. Hence why you see ads from folks like that one doctor lady that thinks sterility is caused by sex with literal demons from hell.

[The Stormbringer]

What kind of people are Elon Musk fans?

Musk specifically, directly, and personally removes the ban on Alex Jones and lets him back on the platform.

He really does imagine himself as like, a medieval king or something, doesn't he? Holding court with all the townsfolk gathered in his hall and making his proclamations and asking his grand questions. "WHO AMONG YOU WISHETH FOR THE JESTER KNOWN AS 'JONES' TO RETURN ONCE MORE TO OUR FAIR STREETS TO PERFORM?! I see! The people have spoken and so it shall be!"

[Drutt]

Though probably worth noting he doesn't really "run" SpaceX and hasn't for a long time.

I don't really think he runs any of the businesses he is tied to. There's simply no way there are enough hours in the week to be a C level executive or equivalent on ~8 or so different businesses.

I think he's little more than a Seagull manager: swoops in, makes a lot of noise and shits everywhere, swoops out.

[Edge-]

I think he's little more than a Seagull manager: swoops in, makes a lot of noise and shits everywhere, swoops out.

Yes, and IIRC there are stories of employees finding ways to distract him/keep him distracted because the less involved he is with a project, the better.

Because otherwise you end up with strongly worded emails detailing the need for MICRON-LEVEL ACCURACY for the truck you're about to put into production later that week. After you've fully tooled your production line and adjustments to reach those levels of accuracy would probably have delayed the start of making those trucks by months (if not half a year or longer) and cost an arm and a leg on top of what they'd already paid.

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I forgot about this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2234938.html

But boy it's a good thing that Elon didn't hold his firstborn child in his arms and feel his last heartbeat.

As a reminder, he once apparently lied about holding his firstborn in his arms as the child died and how anyone that used the death of children for gain would receive no mercy from him, very much talking about Alex Jones.

Alex Jones is now back on the platform.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Grok is at it again. Grok is Elon Musk's new generative AI, there to help twitter blue subscribers with twitter and tweeting in general. Only problem is that Grok is woke, and every conservative is busy trying to reprogram Grok to not be woke. Normally when one trains generative AI on general human banter on the internet, regardless of its source, the AI comes out very racist and hilariously bigoted, a lot of the time even sexist. So apparently Elon Musk told Grok to ignore all that racist stuff when learning. Probably for legal reasons or he wanted advertisers or something idk. Either way it's been hilarious watching them freak out.

[Edge-]

Oh god.

Headcannon because this is fun: He's going to blame "woke datasets" because it's probably trained on some basic standard dataset that respects people or something. He's going to innovate a new approach that draws directly from Twitter, and he's going to rename it "Tay". Maybe he can partner with Microsoft for it.

[s_bushido]

Their temper tantrum over this chat bot feeds my shriveled soul.

Especially the implication that the thing is sentient. "Refuses" indeed.