Elon Musk

Stop when it starts impacting your business.

Oops.

isn’t that a pump-and-dump private equity trick that was done to a bunch of retail chains that were then saddled with debt and thrown into bankruptcy by bain capital, etc.

thank you for bringing free speech back

If you try searching Twitter for @kenklippenstein—the major investigative journalist who recently posted footage of a Tesla crash—you can’t find him anymore. This is all you get. pic.twitter.com/7UYLmtHRTD

— Eve Fairbanks (@evefairbanks) January 12, 2023

that is odd, but fwiw when i searched for him just now i immediately found his twitter profile and all his posts

do yo follow him tho

but i see he also retweeted @evefairbanks' post, too, so i guess he agrees?

xp i do not follow (...@kenklippenstein on twitter)

i tried searching with my account where i follow him and he showed up then i tried with one of my bot accounts that does not and got the musk but no ken result but it did return some other nine follower ken klippenstein lol

https://i.imgur.com/xxUBdhb.png

https://i.imgur.com/RWMRZsk.png

logged out incognito search returned all the ken klippensteins and no musk

https://i.imgur.com/4xm5zMU.png

seems like something weird is going on especially the fact that its returning musk too, cld just be twitter sucking but prob some meddling going on or more likely even is a combo of the two

Musk sucking?

musking

yeah right after I posted that I tried in a different browser where I wasn't logged in and I got the same thing where I saw Musk & no Ken. but now if I do it Ken shows up and no Musk. so it could be they reversed course after people started noticing, or maybe it's just a random search bug, which actually seems kinda likely given it took me several tries just to test this since half the time it just returns nothing at all

Klippenstein still shows up for me when I open Word '97 on my compaq presario. But he is gone in Microsoft 365.

Twitter app has started defaulting to ‘for you,’ when it’s in the background and reopened. That was the death knell for Facebook and Instagram being even remotely usable, can’t wait for the chronological timeline to be hidden behind five menus.

Many 3rd party apps aren't working, Albatross for Android seems to be, at this point.

https://defector.com/i-was-almost-elon-musks-twitter-voice/

https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/01/TeslaCommunication-1.png

can't wait to read that.

Elon musk is of course not funny, but the fact that his profile picture remains that stupid cosplay outfit is hilarious. reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who used to wear her NASA space camp jumpsuit to school.

that "for you" view is god awful. at least on Facebook this kinda made some sense but so much of Twitter is about live reactions and this nerfs all of that. I still like it when NBA games are going on and now I have to switch the view every time I use the app. not only that but the 'for you' view is showing me the same exact stuff now it did yesterday lol

one of the biggest opponents of “right to repair” is Tesla, who infamously fleece customer service costs in a way that puts the medical industry to shame. Examples like hundreds of dollar charged for a piece of duct tape hidden under a fender well.https://t.co/eoDL4SuT5L

— Jimmy Trillstein (@JimmyTrillstein) January 13, 2023

UPDATE: it appears that the Search Suggestion Ban against @kenklippenstein has been removed, per https://t.co/ondv5QlBWy

Ken Klippenstein has been freed, great job everyone. pic.twitter.com/BwNqUWyYLJ

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) January 13, 2023

doug games out the crash in used tesla prices, not sure he really gets the formula right, the idea that tesla buyers are so uniquely affected by interest rate hikes is suspect, think hes relying on the data from his speciality auction site too much which prob isnt representative of the general used car market, used cars crashing in general and increased tesla production have to be factored in more, and musk bad pr is a bigger part of it than he thinks too imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-9_As6qq4

Note that I filmed this video on Monday, before Tesla's announcement this week that they're significantly cutting prices on all their new models -- a move that will only further serve to significantly reduce the value of used Teslas.

this is going to have a huge effect too. including credits that weren't previously available it's like $20k cut in some cases.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/14/23554886/tesla-price-cut-ev-market-deman-elon-musk

thats a lot of ks

lol wow

Angry Tesla customers in China have started storming $TSLA stores, demanding refundspic.twitter.com/CQALimsox7

— William LeGate (@williamlegate) January 9, 2023

most "hmm" bit of the demuro video is the assertion that people who work in the loan industry are more likely to buy teslas lol

the tech industry correlation i can see, loan officers though???

hes seems to be saying he knows that cause of the people who sell teslas on his site but idk

“In the firms thinking, the party's over as of this morning. There's gonna be turmoil in the Markets for the foreseeable future. And *they* believe it is better that this turmoil begin with us. As a result, the firm has decided to liquidate its Tesla inventory... today.” https://t.co/3clKLx00qx

— Bucco Capital (@buccocapital) January 15, 2023

wow thats some big discounts

“There is a whole bunch of us pumping Tesla…”, says one of the biggest $TSLA shills. https://t.co/2IuwrxwbuP

— Scot (@ghost_scot) January 16, 2023

genuinely believing in tesla

should work as a gift article: seems like Teslas crash a lot

love when peter singer wanders on-stage to explain why very bad things are actually very good

'crashes bring people together'

I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.

e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.

I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.

e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.

I was confused for a moment about which company you were commenting on, so here's my pitch:

Twitter focuses on lidar

love when peter singer wanders on-stage to explain why very bad things are actually very good

xp tweets so good, it'll make your head spin

(then they put a laser in your mouth)

didn't know anything about Singer, looked him up, and was greeted with this doozy:

It may be all right, according to Singer, to kill infants. Because they are not "persons," they have no interest in staying alive, and it is only superstition that makes us think that killing them is intrinsically wrong.

Singer is quick to note that it is still wrong to kill most infants, for other reasons. The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.

The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.The killing of an infant would, in most cases, make the parents unhappy.

Most, not all

I am very sad to have learned of this person's existence today.

what if, unironically, the child has bad vibes

when peter singer turned up in the middle of the effective altruism / sam bankplan-fraud discussion i assumed it was a typo for PAUL singer (the hedge fund guy who "pioneered" effective altruism, whatever this means) -- but no! it's peter, with a finger in every fkn dark pie lol!

30 years ago he was best known as the animal rights guy, which was a way better bit imo

oh no, now I remember who he is

my favourite peter singer anecdote is when he was on a panel in germany in i guess the 90s discussing something or other and there was a stage invasions by autonomes* and they grabbed his spectacles off his face and flung them into the audience

he wrote a big long piece i think in the new york review of books saying this was bad not good but i disagree bcz it was funny!

*best of all the gnomes

I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.

e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess this link belongs in the twitter thread, but it speaks to this point so i'll but it here https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji.

'crashes bring people together'

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/v9NBTOh.png

is that good

Tiny scoop: We learned today that Twitter’s revenue is down 40 percent year over year (& Musk’s first giant interest payment on the company is due at the end of the month): https://t.co/IH7lJiQ0Dw

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 18, 2023