Elon Musk, thread 2
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Chinese electric cars hitting the market at half the price of Teslas.
Let's see what Musk can do selling his $100,000 cybertruck in an era of high interest so that nobody can afford it.
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Uh guys, that's not the problem with him that you need to be worried about
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All the lies. In one place.
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"Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"
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Haha
"Judge voids Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla compensation, shares slide"
Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla compensation voided by judge, shares slide
The compensation package the Tesla board gave CEO Elon Musk set a record for publicly traded corporations, a Delaware judge noted in her ruling.
CNBC (www.cnbc.com)
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Hah he's whining already
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This is how stupid he is
"Musk had “extensive ties with the persons tasked with negotiating on Tesla’s behalf,” including management members “who were beholden to Musk,: among them General Counsel Todd Maron, who was his “former divorce attorney.”"
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AI bot swarms on Twitter
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SpaceX accused of sexual harassment and discrimination in ex-workers’ suit
Former employees condemn ‘frat’-style atmosphere, as Elon Musk defends company against separate allegations of unlawful firings
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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(2021 article)
Twitter’s research shows that its algorithm favors conservative views
Twitter revealed that an internal study of its algorithm shows favoritism of right-leaning content over left. The platform discovered the bias while looking into algorithmic amplification on the platform.
The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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"Judge skeptical of lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X over hate speech research"
Judge skeptical of lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X over hate speech research
The nonprofit sued by Elon Musk's X says the legal tactic is an attempt to silence criticism of the company. The Center for Countering Digital Hate published reports documenting hate speech on X.
NPR (www.npr.org)
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After you use your divorce attorney to help you steal 60 billion from Tesla, when a judge overturns the 60 billion on the grounds that the board wasn't impartial (you know because one of them was your divorce attorney), you should definitely get pissy and move your companies to Texas, then badmouth Delaware
Elon Musk shifts SpaceX's state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas following legal spat over $56 billion Tesla pay
Musk's reputation for holding a grudge was evident after Delaware Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick in January agreed with Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta's lawsuit that claimed Tesla...
TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
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"A New York Times analysis found that, of the Musk Foundation’s giving in 2021 and 2022 — the latest years for which full data is available — about half of the donations had some link to Mr. Musk, one of his employees or one of his businesses"
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"But Mr. Musk’s giving often seemed guided by Twitter, where he made splashy promises in response to challenges from internet celebrities: ..."
This isn't new. He put Tesla's money in bitcoin because someone on Twitter told him he could. The post is still up.
He's a total flake.
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"According to Swisher, Musk didn’t like the questions Lemon asked him, including about his reported Ketamine use."
From https://www.dailydot.com/debug/don-lemon-show-musk-x/
Elon absolutely ROBOT WALKED right out of that interview, he was so mad.
(Also see https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/13/24099677/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-canceled)
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"Musk is amplifying users who will incorporate cherry-picked data and misleading graphs into their argument as to why people of European descent are biologically superior, ..."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/
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In July 2020, a Twitter user confronted Elon Musk, head of leading electric vehicles manufacturer Tesla, claiming that the “US organized a coup in Bolivia” just so that Musk could have access to the country’s lithium. “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” replied the entrepreneur in a tweet that soon disappeared; the only remaining record of it are screenshots in newspaper reports.
How nations sitting on lithium reserves are handling the new ‘white gold’ rush
Some Latin American countries have stepped up efforts to control extraction of the mineral that powers electric cars and there is talk of creating an OPEC-style cartel
EL PAÍS English (english.elpais.com)
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"Musk is less X’s CEO than its troll in chief. They are not gods; they are entertainers."
I like "carnival barker", myself.
‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Graph of the change in daily US users of various social media since Nov. 2022.
Most flat.
Tiktok is down 10%
Twitter is down 25%Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)