Elon Musk

xp ty lagoon!

Huh. For some reason I was under the impression car prices - new and used - had somewhat stabilized.

car financing has gotten more expensive though (via rising interest rates)

it's amazing this stock is tanking solely on the (true) perception that the CEO is a fucking idiot and not because of the issues with the cars themselves.

well the stock did go up like 20x on the perception that he was the smartest most handsome man on earth

I think it's possible that the suddenly inescapable visibility of the CEO, cast and casting himself in the worst possible light, have enticed those simply along for the ride (in every sense) to look closer at the stock and its valuation.

xp ty lagoon!

― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 22, 2022 1:02 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

np i recommend the archive page browser extension as a component of everyones paywall avoidance schemes, or if youre on mobile you can just c&p on https://archive.ph/

that is the fucking LINK OF THE DAY (archive.ph), thank you! the internet has truly delivered today, and today the internet is lagoon

bless

with $7k off, the cheapest tesla is still like $50k, huh

and thats the one that was supposed to be 30k lol

the affordable tesla is as much as a mid tier bmw

sadly the Free Speech add-on is an additional 44 billion.

BREAKING $TSLA

U.S. LAUNCHES TWO NEW SPECIAL CRASH INVESTIGATIONS INTO TESLA VEHICLES WHERE DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS ARE SUSPECTED OF USE - via NHTSA

— Stock Swing Alert (@StockSwingAlert) December 22, 2022

the best chasing post ever there:

"U.S. LAUNCHES TWO NEW SPECIAL CRASH INVESTIGATIONS🤔

When do they start investigating the POISON JAB🧐"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzAH0FtNwg

best freshman year roommate ever

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elon's an elite polytopian

Chess is a simple game. Understandable when all we had to play with were squirrels 🐿 and rocks🪨, but now we have computers 💻.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022

Polytopia is *way* better imo, if you like strategy games

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022

Aquarion and Polaris

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2022

I thought he only liked spawn positions for the purpose of human reproduction?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-exodus-11671722594

About 70% of Twitter’s top 100 ad spenders from before Mr. Musk’s takeover weren’t spending on the platform as of the week ending Dec. 18, according to an analysis of data from research firm Pathmatics. It’s a problem the billionaire can’t afford to ignore, since roughly 89% of Twitter’s $5.1 billion in revenue last year came from ads.

elon otm re kasparov tbf: he is an idiot

game recognize game

He should challenge him to a stupid-off.

Elon Susk

that might be a good opportunity for someone to revive the flying dick scheme

elon otm re kasparov tbf: he is an idiot

― mark s, Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:16 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

just cause someone has different beliefs than you like thinking jesus was born in crimea in 1152 doesnt make them an idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

it's time for musk to buy kickstarter, then redirect all the funds towards twitter.. queen takes pawn

"but this money was for Timmy's heart surgery"

"yes, but if we don't take it, you won't have a Twitter to post about it on. think before you talk."

ok I was going to say that pattern would make more sense but Neanderthal has gone a step further and confused both with gofundme

although a kickstarter for heart surgery would be great, you buy a heart replacement that's obviously meant to be cobbled together from Alibaba components but they never figure it out and you receive nothing

not pattern, patreon

lol i should know better, I've donated to kickstarters before. must be bitter that anything I funded never materialized.

"thanks for your support, back to the drawing board"

"Guys, Twitter is a little short on funds to make payroll this month - if anyone is able to chip in, we've got some great schwag and we'll let you zoom into the board meetings!"

patreon is a good fit because it's "I'm uh making content please fund me"
kickstarter is "I'm going to deliver you this thing if it works out. you're a gadget guy, right? ok nevermind your success rate is higher buying random shit on aliexpress"
gofundme is "my house burned down again and also gamgam needs money to get her arm amputated and we have no social safety net"

if Elon buys out patreon then maybe the owners never have to make a pomplamoose song again

Elon is definitely a gadget guy to some extent, though. I bet he'd be into one of those cool Flipper hacking devices but then try to figure out how to put tweets on it

Watching @elonmusk + Co take over Twitter is like watching a business school case study on how to make money on the internet. Amazing that at some level it is so basic. Lesson one: charge your power users what they are willing to pay. 1/3

— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022

Lesson two: Lock up your core customers (advertisers) by going on a listening tour and asking them what works and what doesn't. Make sure to land a few key public commitments. Focus on the head not the long tail.

— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022

Lesson 3: Cut costs dramatically and do it fast and all at once to get it over with. Elevate a few key people (including some veterans) to promote internal cohesion.

Not rocket science. They will succeed because they can do it outside the public shareholder eye.

3/3

— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022

which lesson are we on now

I'm starting to think they're not completely wrong. If the user attrition through the site being a garbage experience doesn't turn off enough people, with the advertisers noting that, they'll weather this and we'll get a different twitter

I mean, what's the alternative right now for quick bits of interesting news and bait tweets, because facebook isn't it and every website tries to send push notifications that are annoying and most local/national news is more obtrusively ad-heavy and has chumboxes 2.0

I think if Elon can attract a few dozen code perverts who understand how to refactor the site to not just keep it performant, but cut costs (with blips and dips in usability and experience), there's the possibility things somehow work. I hope I'm wrong! But the thing he absolutely could not explain, but engineers have, is that large portions of twitter are very bespoke because the technologies to do what they wanted to at scale didn't exist. They're now pretty much solved problems. I significantly doubt he has the leadership skills to push it through, but the idea that the ability to do useful features is hamstrung by: more programmers = more lines of code to do less = increasing technical debt? I could buy it. Which is hilarious when you think that they prioritized layoffs inverse to lines of code

thoughts that are probably better spent on the ilx programming thread but idk

the funniest thing that was mentioned on the twitter spaces discussion that Elon contributed, and was probably a gimme for him because it was known but prior leadership thought of it as annoying to tackle, was sms messages for two factor auth

I guess they were spending 60 million a year to telcos outside the US to send sms two factor messages, and someone at twitter suspected that shady providers were charging them for duplicates or even using bots to bump the number of auth requests. which is an amazing business idea tbh

word is they've lost 70% of their top advertisers and Elon himself said they were losing a shitload of money

I agree there's no real replacement for it but like 50% of the shit happening on Twitter is ABOUT Twitter now and Elon seems determined to fuck things up enough that it's not going to go back to the way it was. I mean it's an app that you're counting on people to be on ALL THE TIME, doesn't take much of a drop in quality of user experience to turn people off

a business school case study on how to make money on the internet.

but has he made any money?

wow I bet frogbs feels embarrassed about linking to that now

honestly I'm still floored he made "tweet views" a thing. it's such a dumb metric - nobody cares how much a tweet was "viewed"! if it has a high number the thing that'll stand out is the comparatively low amounts of likes and RTs which is the thing Twitter users have actually cared about for like 15 years now. the fact that the CEO unilaterally made this happen speaks to how little this dude knows about how people actually use the website he grossly overpaid for. he knows less than I do! I mean up until he bought Twitter I was always willing to accept that maybe this guy sees things I don't but man he really has proven himself to be just as dumb as everyone says he is

i assume he wants advertisers to see that "hey look tweets get so many views!" but surely these metrics exist on the advertising side of things and also i hate to underestimate elon musk (a genius of business)

the fact that the CEO unilaterally made this happen speaks to how little this dude knows about how people actually use the website he grossly overpaid for.

Maybe he wants everyone using Twitter to feel as humiliated as he does.

heh

This is what you wanted people to see? pic.twitter.com/maLcjrM5Cf

— Leander Schaerlaeckens (@LeanderAlphabet) December 23, 2022

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Everything is everything.

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