Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Odinfrost]

Yeah, "If you post I own your stuff" is a great way to have no one post their stuff on your platform ever again.

I feel sorry for the AI that will be fed all that porn that circulates around

[Muzjhath]

I feel sorry for the AI that will be fed all that porn that circulates around

Tbh, that new TOS is likely a thing that might make NSFW creators post far less on the platform

[Valdhammer]

“Natural persons” also rely on Twitter for income and exposure, Mary, and “you will thrive” is categorically untrue as mentioned with the Tumblr purge lol.

Maybe rather than going into hysterics and blaming people for trying to make an honest living you should be blaming the lack of regulations that permit that sort of internet environment - something which no matter of Kantian wankery will solve.

I am sorry you had a bad experience, but I said “personal use” and that typically means non-commercial use or use that doesn’t have anything to do with making a living.

And it is also entirely possible to advocate for legislation that would see the likes of Elon Musk incapable of exerting undue influence over the American public while also encouraging individual users of his platform to close their accounts because they are unintentionally helping to prop up a dangerous man and in doing so they are doing harm to themselves and to others. Not everyone can afford to be the first mover in doing the right thing, but I am hoping that people who use Twitter as a leisure activity will do the right thing and close their accounts.

[Paranoid Android]

It's here.



When this was floated months ago and people pondered if Apple, Google and others will fight this. Probably not cause they are all corporations. I'm sure a few will sue and see how this goes. I'm never hopeful.

[Benggaul]

Apparently Bluesky struggled today after half a million new users suddenly signed up in the wake of Elon's latest moronic Twitter change.

[Edge-]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1847050481715073333

Elon ventured out of his ivory tower onto the ground to be in the mud with the regular MAGA types.

Getting first-hand experience with the kind of completely unhinged lunatics that believe the fictions like "there was mass voter fraud in 2020" and every other stupid right wing conspiracy.

Apparently the lunatic Leon is agreeing with for the first few minutes wanted to start outing folks in the front row of whatever event this was as "not helping" them push their insane conspiracies in court and really wants to give him his book!

Leon's response: Post it to X and let people give their opinions.

Some members of the audience didn't apparently like this response and stood up to heckle so Leon found himself trying to diffuse a situation with a bunch of conspiracy theorists wanting to get their word in.

His forays into politics are getting even more cringey.

[prwraith]

OH god that was cringe. You'd think he'd say...these are the people i'm siding with? But no he'll double down so as not to lose face.

[Edge-]

Billionaire Elon Musk has upped his financial offer for registered swing state voters to sign a conservative-leaning petition. On Thursday, Musk wrote on X that his pro-Trump super PAC would give $100 to signees and those who refer them.

After Musk pushed a debunked voter fraud conspiracy theory Thursday evening at a pro-Trump town hall event in Pennsylvania, he announced in an X post that he was doubling his financial offer for engagement with the petition, which had been set at $47. He said the deadline to sign the petition is Monday night, the day that Pennsylvania voter registration closes.

“If you’re a registered Pennsylvania voter, you & whoever referred you will now get $100 for signing our petition in support of free speech & right to bear arms,” Musk wrote.

Leons investments are getting weirder and weirder, man.

[PACOX]

Leons investments are getting weirder and weirder, man.

Dudes will pay people $100 for signing a piece of paper but can't pay their taxes.

[Deus Mortis]

Didn't see this coming.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-elon-ga...225717377.html
‘I’m With Elon’: Gavin Newsom Sides With Musk’s SpaceX in California Lawsuit

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’s siding with Elon Musk and SpaceX after the rocket company sued a state commission this week, claiming its political bias against Musk blocked SpaceX from launching more rockets.

“I’m with Elon,” Newsom said on Thursday night, according to Politico. “I didn’t like that.”

Newsom made the comment while he was campaigning for fellow Democrat Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday, SpaceX’s lawsuit claimed the California Coastal Commission “engaged in naked political discrimination” during a recent debate on whether to allow SpaceX to increase rocket launches from 36 to 50 at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The lawsuit, as obtained by TheWrap, said commissioners overstepped their limits by considering Musk’s political leanings — violating his First Amendment right to free speech in the process.

“The concern is with SpaceX increasing its launches, not with the other companies increasing their launches,” commissioner Caryl Hart said, according to the lawsuit. “We’re dealing with a company … the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the president race and made it clear what his point of view is.”

Others on the committee agreed with Hart’s sentiment, SpaceX’s lawsuit noted. The lawsuit quoted commissioner Gretchen Newsom, saying Musk hops around the U.S. “spewing and tweeting political falsehoods.”

Gov. Newsom on Thursday said he wasn’t a fan of Musk’s politics being mentioned when considering rocket launches.

“Look, I’m not helping the legal case,” Newsom said. “You can’t bring up that explicit level of politics.”

Newsom — who appointed some of the commission’s members — “broadly agreed” with SpaceX’s lawsuit, according to Politico.

“These are friends of mine that said that,” Newsom said. “These are good commissioners. But you got to call balls and strikes. And trust me, I’m not big on the Elon Musk bandwagon right now. So that’s me calling balls and strikes.”

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Didn't see this coming.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-elon-ga...225717377.html
‘I’m With Elon’: Gavin Newsom Sides With Musk’s SpaceX in California Lawsuit

You didn't see a Democrat that's got ambitions for the White House taking the "middle of the road" position?

[Deus Mortis]

You didn't see a Democrat that's got ambitions for the White House taking the "middle of the road" position?

With how much the two have been feuding, no I didn't.

[Xyonai]

With how much the two have been feuding, no I didn't.

Corporate Dems love the taste of Billionaire boot-leather as much as Corporate Republicans do, they just pretend to be polite about it. Though, pragmatically, SpaceX is probably one of Musk's most 'Not actively on fire' companies right now, and Newsom might want to just keep it around when/if it continues to grow and hopes that'll funnel more jobs and money into California (as if it really needs it, but the line must always go up.)

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

With how much the two have been feuding, no I didn't.

Like I said, he's got his eyes on the Oval Office. This very tepid "support" of Elon shows he's "pro-free speech" and "pro-capitalism".

And he's kind of right. Elon's support for Trump should not be a factor in whether or not SpaceX gets to launch it's little rockets.

[Gorsameth]

Didn't see this coming.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-elon-ga...225717377.html
‘I’m With Elon’: Gavin Newsom Sides With Musk’s SpaceX in California Lawsuit

There is a difference between denying someone for issues with their request and denying because you think they vote for the wrong party.

You can hate Elon and still think his companies should be treated fairly like every other company.

[Jessicka]

There is a difference between denying someone for issues with their request and denying because you think they vote for the wrong party.

You can hate Elon and still think his companies should be treated fairly like every other company.

The problem is when they’re not, because they’re overly supported by government contracts and bloated by that to become too big to fail due to the lack of competition to offer alternatives.

[Elder Millennial]

https://archive.ph/oWu7B

Mr. Musk’s live-streamed presentation — a grand unveiling of a car that Tesla says will be able to drive itself — did not use exact “Blade Runner 2049” images, according to the complaint. Rather, the event showcased “A.I.-created images mirroring scenes from ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ including one featuring a Ryan Gosling look-alike,” Alcon said.

Elmo is such an turbo piece of shit.

His stupid ass 2 seater 2 door "robo taxi" already caused a collective eye roll and sigh from investors and transport companies who wanted a large, high ceiling van style vehicle that can seat 4-6 passengers comfortably with their luggage.

But he even stole the design from a film production company and when it got rejected from using film footage for promotional materials he just ran the film through AI to basically recreate the shots.

He just can't help himself.

He is clearly a massive fan of the film, but he also clearly can't be bothered with respecting the creators of the film.

[Edge-]

Conservatives just steal everything and claim they did it, lol.

It's the reverse of, "You didn't build that."

[Paranoid Android]

"[Musk] was getting really upset because...Biden’s post was still getting more engagement. So, he ended up leaving the game…and calling an emergency meeting."

Vid in link

I want to say this is old news but I never know with elmo.

Pretty much as in link Biden was getting more engagement and elmo flew back to SF and called his engineers and engineers he even fired to see why this was happening. Oh in the vid, the funny part is Twitter released some open source code and this is how it was discovered.

Holy shit! His ego couldn't even comprehend this believing the platform had to be broken. This is a sick dude people.

[Edge-]

I want to say this is old news but I never know with elmo.

It's very old, yes.

The dude has a well documented savior complex: Humanity needs to be saved from climate change by taking us to mars, and Leon is literally the only one capable of doing it and the only one allowed to do it. View everything through that lens and his actions make a lot more sense as an unhinged lunatic with too much money and quite possibly one of the most severe cases of "Main character syndrome" ever documented in this galaxy.