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#3050196 14-Mar-2023 20:15

Elon Musk: The Worlds Smartest Idiot | Just Some Geezer

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#3055873 28-Mar-2023 16:15

Insanity or publicity seeking?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/elon-musk-children-grimes-daughter-name-b2308232.html

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#3058129 3-Apr-2023 10:55

Disclosure: I am a New York Times subscriber. I avoid Twitter.

Radio NZ/BBC - Twitter's blue ticks disappear as Musk attacks NY Times

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The New York Times has lost its blue tick on Twitter after it said it would not pay to remain verified.

Twitter has started removing verification badges from accounts which already had a blue tick, after announcing they would be part of a paid subscription from 1 April.

The New York Times, along with several other organisations and celebrities, said they would not pay for the tick.

It prompted Elon Musk to launch a volley of insults at the newspaper.

"The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting", Musk, who owns Twitter, wrote on the platform.

"Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhoea. It's unreadable," he added.

There has been no official comment from Twitter and the New York Times has not responded to Musk's comments.

Under Twitter's new rules, blue ticks which once showed official, verified accounts, will start to be removed from accounts which do not pay for it.

Organisations seeking verification badges instead have to pay a monthly fee of $USD1000 ($NZD1597) to receive a gold verification tick, while individual accounts must pay $8 a month for a blue one.

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#3058775 4-Apr-2023 09:39

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

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#3058776 4-Apr-2023 09:40

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

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#3058777 4-Apr-2023 09:41

Moahunter:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

So that’s why doge jumped 30% this morning. 🤣

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#3058787 4-Apr-2023 10:11

Do you actually get money for NOT having registered a Twitter account? I mean, after all, it saves the company money, especially if they (will) make a loss. 😇

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#3058789 4-Apr-2023 10:22

If Musk could just stop trying to be hip, and follow most billionaires' leads and STFU, most of his problems would have never happened.

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#3058814 4-Apr-2023 12:00

CYaBro:
Moahunter:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/

So that’s why doge jumped 30% this morning. 🤣

Doge was wonderful back in the day. One evening 9-10 years ago, after a few too many beers, I bought US$20 worth and then promptly forgot about them.

That somewhat stupid investment will shortly be paying for my kitchen renovation 😃

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#3059154 4-Apr-2023 18:59

Musk loses appeal in labor case:

ARSTechnica: Tesla CEO Elon Musk violated US labor law by threatening to take stock options away from employees who join a union, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The appeals court said the US National Labor Relations Board can enforce its order that requires Musk to delete the tweet.

Musk will now reinstate a fired employee and post notices in the Fremont plant saying Tesla's conduct in that matter was illegal.

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#3059572 5-Apr-2023 22:59

gzt: Musk loses appeal in labor case:

ARSTechnica: Tesla CEO Elon Musk violated US labor law by threatening to take stock options away from employees who join a union, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The appeals court said the US National Labor Relations Board can enforce its order that requires Musk to delete the tweet.

Musk will now reinstate a fired employee and post notices in the Fremont plant saying Tesla's conduct in that matter was illegal.

Elon seems to be an unguided missile and does not follow the „think-push-talk rule.“ 😄

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#3059589 6-Apr-2023 02:46

gzt: Musk loses appeal in labor case:

Musk will now reinstate a fired employee and post notices in the Fremont plant saying Tesla's conduct in that matter was illegal.

There's a very big difference between "required to" and "will". This is the guy remember who decided that it's A-OK to just stop paying rent on all their offices because he didn't want to.

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#3063711 14-Apr-2023 17:17

BBC: Twitter and hate speech: What's the evidence?

Among the topics discussed during Elon Musk's interview with the BBC was the prevalence of hate speech and misinformation on the platform.

"Do you see a rise of hate speech?" Mr Musk said. "I don't."

He asked our reporter James Clayton for specific examples of hateful content.

When he couldn't pinpoint individual messages, Mr Musk said: "You don't know what you're talking about… you just lied."

...there are both in-depth studies and anecdotal evidence that suggest hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure.

Several fringe characters that were banned under the previous management have been reinstated.

They include Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, and Liz Crokin, one of the biggest propagators of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

...One account with a racial slur in its user name was able to get a blue checkmark. Another one was purchased by a neo-Nazi who tweets videos of himself reciting Mein Kampf - Hitler's autobiography.

Anti-Semitic tweets doubled from June 2022 to February 2023...

The ISD also found an increase of nearly 70% in Islamic State accounts...

The Center for Countering Digital Hate found that slurs increased substantially after Mr Musk's takeover.

Our own reporting also provides some clues. The BBC analysed over 1,100 previously banned Twitter accounts that were reinstated under Mr Musk. A third appeared to violate Twitter's own guidelines. Some of the most extreme depicted rape and drawings showing child sexual abuse. Such content was also a scourge on Twitter for years before Mr Musk acquired the platform.

But a BBC investigation heard from Twitter insiders who expressed concern that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation.
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#3066922 22-Apr-2023 14:16

To be candid, even though I've learned to dislike Elon intensely, I was disappointed at the rocket explosion.

Some websites are showing devastating damage to the launch pad, with one Nasa expert suggesting it'll take a year to rebuild the launch faculties.

Fortune: Elon Musk loses $13 billion in 24 hours after SpaceX rocket explosion and disappointing Tesla earnings

Elon Musk’s personal fortune took a hit of almost $13 billion on Thursday as the world watched a SpaceX rocket explode while Tesla delivered underwhelming earnings.

According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, which monitors the real-time wealth of the richest people on the planet, Musk’s net worth was depleted of $12.6 billion on Thursday.

Much of Musk’s wealth is derived from shares in Tesla, which tanked nearly 10% on Thursday on the back of a disappointing quarterly earnings report. The plummeting share price erased $58 billion from the company’s market cap.

On Thursday, the company reported net income of $2.51 billion for the first three months of 2023—a year-on-year decline of 24%.

Investors were also put on edge as Musk, Tesla’s CEO, suggested the company would carry on with its price cutting spree to boost demand for its vehicles—even in spite of the squeeze on margins.

On Friday, Tesla hiked U.S. prices following six price cuts so far this year.

While Tesla’s earnings report spooked investors, Musk’s name also appeared in headlines around the world on Thursday when SpaceX’s mammoth Starship rocket exploded minutes into its maiden flight.
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#3067004 22-Apr-2023 15:46

kingdragonfly: To be candid, even though I've learned to dislike Elon intensely, I was disappointed at the rocket explosion.

SpaceX do plane-off-a-cliff testing of their gear (to see if the plane flies, push it off a cliff and record the results), so this wasn't unexpected. That's why the video footage of the control centre shows the staff cheering after the explosion, they got it several minutes into the flight before it exploded so they've proven they can get it off the launch pad.

The stock price drop is just fund managers and investors who don't understand how this works. Yup, that's people playing with billion-dollar portfolios who have only the barest grasp of how what they're investing in works.

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