Elon Musk

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

btw that article is the saem one caek posted, def worth reading for true musk heads

lol

wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake https://t.co/F5uXGvzfiU

— Max Chafkin (@chafkin) January 17, 2023

the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol

on the left hand side of the verge article there's a little blue bar that tracks elon's net worth over the course of the twitter saga, it's good

" A Tesla owner was recently seeking a state inspection sticker at one of VIP’s locations, Winkeler said, but the car displayed a light indicating a traction control problem. The service center couldn’t pass the vehicle’s inspection with the light on, but also couldn’t access the dashboard error code to diagnose the problem. The customer had to drive to Boston to get the car diagnosed. "

what a bother

the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol

― 龜, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats fn crazy youd think itd be down by more than 40%

the expected revenue from the sell-off of the neon twitter sign and assorted work stations must be incredible

the interest payment is coming up https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262631 (use archive.ph if you don't wanna register)

oh its 500 top advertisers not the 500 top advertisers

Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it

it'd be really funny if 50% of the revenue was the weird dudes who pay to promote their own incoherent tweets

someone should get steve cohen into the twitter memorabilia scene

Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it

2 billion if he jacks off into it.

Fidelity, which owns a stake in the social media platform through a listed fund, has cut the value of its holding from $19.7mn in October to $8.6mn after Musk closed the deal.

lmao

lol

Seeing a lot of crying from the people that insisted Elon “fixed” Twitter. pic.twitter.com/iBihVKn5rp

— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) January 18, 2023

they will never learn that most people don't care about their shitty opinions

and people really dont care about their whining about engagement

Don't know how it hasn't gone more noticed over the years, but the guy in this video that Elon tweeted out to show the safety features of Tesla autopilot...? He died in a Tesla autopilot accident two months later.https://t.co/JUJriy3YOf

— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023