easy monetization opportunity $5 subscription a button appears on each tweet that lets you kill the poster
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
turns out Agrawal has been clicking "I'll do it later" for months on the daily "delete all bots now?" pop-up
― rob, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
I'll believe this when I see it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing the Delaware chancery court decision is nearing its release.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
the trial hasnt even started yet lol, what happened was elon decided he wanted to buy twitter again, for whatever reason
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
the Tesla robot leaned over the other day and whispered “hey man you gotta buy twitter”
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
He wants to give Ukraine a good kicking.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Or maybe he wanted to buy it all along but just threatened to back out in order to get a lower price. When the bluff was called he folded.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
i think he wanted to buy it then he didnt now he does again, or at least he wants to buy it more than he wants his other options, worth noting that all those embarrassing texts were just released and there was prob a bunch more embarrassing info to come if the trial went forward
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
this is a bad deal for him and really the whole world, with the possible exception of twitter shareholders
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
contingent on trial being adjourned
he's dropping $48b not to have more DMs read out lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
i wonder if the relative slaps on the wrist and unenforceable SEC settlements musk has received so far makes him think he’s untouchable legally
🐦[Argentinian TV cracking open the bubbly live on air has done me in pic.twitter.com/KzpCVTJbYr🕸— oli (@olicoulsxn) September 8, 2022🕸]🐦
― 龜, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
also dumb
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
idk maybe seeing all those texts resurface reminded him of how uh..."fun" it would be to own Twitter
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
feel like theres a non zero chance that offering to buy the company again is also some insane ploy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, October 4, 2022 4:08 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
and ugly, smells bad, wears dumb leather jackets trying to be cool
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
correct
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
whoa there was a bunch of stuff in my post that i had typed up but never posted from a few months ago, guess zing just saved it…
― 龜, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
thats evidence now
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
he is simply creating x
Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I love it
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
i think a lot of us love it
what's up with me? oh not a lot, just creating X
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
its great
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
i love x
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
wait
if we can get the tesla fans to start thinking 'I love X", ILX, etc, let that simmer for a few years...THEN we reveal ilxor.com and go premium/public
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
one of the big selling points of this ilxor/tesla merge would be that we have proven systems to moderate troubling content
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
How is he going to make Xbook even more Nazi-friendly than Facebook?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
It's too bad Zuck didn't buy Twitter so you could only experience tweets via VR.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
time to put on my tweet helmet and yell at a harvard economist
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
The Everything App
https://vinyl-records.nl/led-zeppelin/photo-gallery/germany/presence/led-zeppelin-presence-12.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
how long until the app that tells you what to do in all respects of your life and rewards you in store credit for doing what it recommends
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
X will do that. because X will do everything. and while it's at it, it will revolutionize everything. just for good measure. first they have just a few more tiny bugs to iron out of it. but once they do, it's look out world!**
**warning: X may murder small children and cause genital warts.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
Never needs ironing
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
its cool hes building x
some dumb math:Meta and Snap down on average of 67% this year. Implies standalone Twitter price of $14.00/share ($11bn market cap), based on where Twitter was on 12/31.Implied premium on $54.20 deal price is like 287% (oh and $13bn new debt package immediately underwater). pic.twitter.com/C2nA6neeqH— Sujeet Indap (@sindap) October 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
blocking all posters here until X is released and then unblocking so i can read your heartfelt apologies
― Clay, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
free x
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
its easy to be a critic but how many of you are building x
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
sorry, g∞n, but my nda with the nsa forbids me...
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
We should sue him, we're X! ILX! Fuk u elon.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
I made a couple hundred bucks today after seeing the $54 thing lol
― mh, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 04:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGx6K90TmCI
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
My last day was Monday. So sad I wasn’t around for the three hour company 2023 strategy meeting yesterday that was interrupted after 15 mins by news the stock had been suspended.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
good times at blue bird industries
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
"i made ten Gs today"
"yeah you made it in a sleazy way, selling Doge to the kids"
"I gotta buy Twitter"
well hey
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Random Musk thoughts, posted on a discord server and copied here:
I think Brandon Sutton or someone adjacent to him pointed out that figures like Musk and Bill Gates/Steve Jobs(in earlier decades) represent some sorta human instantiation of Progress.
Elon Musk is doing big things which means that technology is advancing thus the American People and/or Progress is advancing. Anything that could possibly endanger that conception must be vehemently attacked. It kinda explains why online creatures freak out to defend their hero.
It’s effectively just a degraded, dumber version of Great Man of History belief, where the only thing that advances Civilization are the mighty strides of titans of tech industry, since every possible Avenue of social change has been forcibly squeezed out or discredited
The fact that Musk doesn’t and can’t deliver jack shit doesn’t mean anything, at least not for the moment, since his importance to this crowd seems just to exist as vessel to receive desperate hopes and dreams that Things Are Getting Better.
Eventually his importance will probably fade(or blow up) and some other character will come along, at least as long as we have our current social formation where there’s a need for large figures in the form of tech CEOs like this.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
there's definitely something Trumpy about it, the way he tries to take complex, age-old problems and reduce them to very simple solutions that you can fit in a single tweet. it's convincing to some people because he's got that visionary quality to it, like maybe he doesn't know everything but he knows "what's important", blah blah blah. much like Trump there's this sense of "well if he's not brilliant why has he been so successful?" and as time goes on and more reporting gets done it starts becoming clear that this is just how America works. of course both of them push back against all those narratives and insist all the news is fake, and I guess if you're already hypnotized by them you believe it. I think Tesla bought him a lot of goodwill, even if in retrospect, it's not quite clear what exactly he added to that company. as far as I can tell he's mostly responsible for the bad/fraudulent stuff they have going on, but I guess in the meantime he did put them on the map by being an annoying piece of human garbage. so there's that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/593252a2a31264584499416b/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/the-homer-inline2.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
better boat than the cybertruck (dome means u wont drown)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
App X is how Space X shares its joys, worries
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link