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Elon Musk Closes Deal - Owns Twitter

SouprMatt said:


The day before the Vegas Cybertruck bomb, this happened near Atlanta:

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

Cybertruck catches fire at DeKalb County Tesla dealership

A Tesla Cybertruck went up in flames overnight on the lot of a dealership in Decatur.
www.atlantanewsfirst.com www.atlantanewsfirst.com
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There's fireworks coming from the car. So most of the explosion wasn't the car. To me the weirder thing is, if you have your fireworks in the back of the van, how does it kill you in the driver's seat if the car is so bulletproof?!
 
P___X said:
There's fireworks coming from the car. So most of the explosion wasn't the car. To me the weirder thing is, if you have your fireworks in the back of the van, how does it kill you in the driver's seat if the car is so bulletproof?!
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...and yeah:
The person in the Cybertruck shot himself in the head immediately before explosives in the vehicle were detonated, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a news conference. A handgun was found at his feet.
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BTW, the New Orleans attack was also committed using an electric truck:

The differences in reporting are quite striking.
 
Mr Musk's recent remarks - (describing them as "tweets" does a disservice to that term) - or comments, or provocations, addressed to (among others) the (legitimately elected) Labour government of Mr Starmer in the UK, along with his attempts to interfere in the upcoming election in Germany - in both cases strongly supporting the parties on the far right (Reform in the UK, AfD in Germany) - for now, with words, but offering to flood the respective countries (and polities and political systems) with the sort of obscene sums of money that he has already disbursed with a view to distorting democracy in the US - are worth heeding.

This is a deeply disturbed - and worse - disturbing, deranged and dangerous man.

A narcissist on steroids.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Mr Musk's recent remarks - (describing them as "tweets" does a disservice to that term) - or comments, or provocations, addressed to (among others) the (legitimately elected) Labour government of Mr Starmer in the UK, along with his attempts to interfere in the upcoming election in Germany - in both cases strongly supporting the parties on the far right (Reform in the UK, AfD in Germany) - for now, with words, but offering to flood the respective countries (and polities and political systems) with the sort of obscene sums of money that he has already disbursed with a view to distorting democracy in the US - are worth heeding.

This is a deeply disturbed - and worse - disturbing, deranged and dangerous man.

A narcissist on steroids.
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A nazissist.
 

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Also:

www.theverge.com

Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity.”

Musk posted last night that the platform’s algorithm will soon “promote more informational/entertaining content” in order to “maximize unregretted user-seconds.” He added in a separate post that X is working on ways to “adjust the content feed dynamically.”
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Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity.”
Musk posted last night that the platform’s algorithm will soon “promote more informational/entertaining content” in order to “maximize unregretted user-seconds.”

He added in a separate post that X is working on ways to “adjust the content feed dynamically.”
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www.themarysue.com

‘Himself?’: Elon Musk is roasted for penalizing ‘negativity’ on Twitter

This from the "free speech absolutist" himself.
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MAGA billionaire Elon Musk is cracking down on “negativity” on X, and the internet thinks he should delete his own account first.

In a post on X, Musk wrote that site contains “too much negativity” and that he intends to combat it with a new “algorithm tweak.” According to Musk, he’ll be using the new algorithm to “promote more informational/entertaining content” to the internet.

The internet responded with exactly the sort of “entertaining content” he likely hopes to avoid.

“Himself?” wrote a user. Himself indeed. Much of Musk’s X post history consists of trolling or glorifying trolls. “I have to admit trolls are kinda fun” he wrote in a follow-up tweet to a post he made sarcastically apologizing for “turning Twitter from nurturing paradise into a place that has… trolls.” His tweets were prompted by a BBC report that claims that Twitter insiders have been unable to stop the spread of trolling ever since the company was purchased by Musk. Even a cursory glance at Musk’s own Twitter page demonstrates the billionaire’s penchant for sh*tposting – he recently posted an image of Bill Gates which bullied the Microsoft CEO for his weight.

Some users believe that Musk’s attempt to crack down “negativity” will be focused on limiting the amount of criticism that he alone receives. One user reposted a quote from Musk himself which read “I am constantly insulted on this platform” alongside a cartoon of Musk attempting to improve his reputation by desperately throwing cash at a computer screen while repeatedly screaming “LIKE ME.” Users have claimed that Musk has taken drastic measures to eliminate his critics before, and some believe that Musk once deleted X accounts that reposted a video of him getting viciously booed while taking the stage at a Dave Chappelle show.
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Won't be long until you'll need the man's approval to tweet at all.
 
Jay Mysteri0 said:
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Won't be long until you'll need the man's approval to tweet at all.
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I guess it’s a testament to the service created by Dorsey and others that anybody other than MAGA freaks are still using Twitter?

Humans are creatures of habit, so I will chock it up to that I suppose.. 🤷‍♂️
 
An unvarnished look at Musk and those who believe him. Other “tech bros” aren’t spared either.

 
Peter Thiel is a longtime partner of Musk, and benefactor of JD Vance.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: he’s also absolutely nuts.

www.wonkette.com

Peter Thiel Has Lost His Mind Again, And Other Dumb Billionaire Adventures

These guys.
www.wonkette.com www.wonkette.com

Were an IRS contractor’s illegal leaks of Trump’s tax records anomalous, or should Americans assume their right to financial privacy hinges on their politics?

South Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump’s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information.
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👆The definition of gobbledygook, bonus points for bringing apartheid into a discussion about the IRS. ☝️
 
P___X said:
www.engadget.com

Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem

A cadre of celebrities and former Twitter users are trying to create a vast social network that is freed from profit motive. This would take the form of various apps on top of Bluesky’s pre-existing protocol.
www.engadget.com www.engadget.com
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Or they could just use Mastodon, a fully open system that already exists.

I’m sure there are some things better about Blue Sky or Twitter than Mastodon (and maybe vice versa?). But in the end, people use the platform that gets critical mass. Facebook is hot garbage but everybody still uses that ugly mess.

Not to mention, the celebs could make their own invite-only instance that federates with the larger network. So, Hollywood dot social or something, where they all get to be the cool kids on their server, but everybody else can federate and follow and interact.

Some pie-in-the-sky “we will make Bluesky open” promise backed by the Hulk doesn’t seem like an actual plan to me.
 
SouprMatt said:
Or they could just use Mastodon, a fully open system that already exists.
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Mastodon needs to improve the interaction portion between servers. Once interactions are scaled up, the posts will proliferate. BlueSky has a lot more activity at the moment.

But honestly, I can't tell what's different between the original Twitter and BlueSky. The advantage of the original Facebook concept (and outside the US there had been social media preceding FB with comparable value) is that while I'm also not super interested in random people's takes on what an Ideal Tuesday Evening looks like (see BlueSky type non-political posts), the same posts tend to be fun if they come from people I know and share more context with.

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P___X said:
www.engadget.com

Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem

A cadre of celebrities and former Twitter users are trying to create a vast social network that is freed from profit motive. This would take the form of various apps on top of Bluesky’s pre-existing protocol.
www.engadget.com www.engadget.com
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A lot of people are identifying this as a faux “community effort” whose goal is actually to boost BlueSky as it seeks venture capital.

Others see it as an opportunity, at least, to make it feasible for people to leave Bluesky and migrate their data elsewhere if/when a creepy oligarch buys it and ruins it.

Cory Doctorow explains why he supports the initiative here…

Pluralistic: Billionaire-proofing the internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5) (14 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net pluralistic.net

Some mastodon devotees posted a response to that here:

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

Initial response to @pluralistic@mamot.fr regarding #FreeOurFeeds Want to thank Cory Doctorow for answering questions about his support for Free Our Feeds here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba What follows is a response in the form of a list of...
mastodon.online mastodon.online
 
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