Elon Musk, thread 2
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
"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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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
"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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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
"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)
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Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/
"companies like Dataminr continuously monitor activity on social media and other platforms. Dataminr provides...real-time “alerts” on desired topics, giving clients like police departments a form of social media omniscience. The alerts allow police to automatically track a protest as it moves...into the streets, without requiring police officials to do any time-intensive searches."
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The Descent of Elon Musk
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive, Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of won. He took Twitter private,
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At (www.wheresyoured.at)
Elon, lambasted. He's a moron and I guess Don Lemon showed it in the interview.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
Really just, so stupid.
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Musk's SpaceX is quick to build in Texas, slow to pay its bills
Musk's SpaceX is quick to build in Texas, slow to pay its bills
SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk's space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state. But a Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are to break ground. Unpaid bills and finger-pointing among contractors, Reuters found, have led many construction-industry businesses to file liens against SpaceX properties in efforts to get compensated.
Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com)
"The result, several of those businesses told Reuters, is a reluctance to work on SpaceX-related projects again. "If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to fuck off," said Brian Rozelle, an owner of Hydroz Energy Services LLC."
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New Tesla factories losing billions of dollars, Musk says
Elon Musk said the Covid-19 lockdown in Shanghai was "very difficult" for the electric car maker.
(www.bbc.com)
Everything that comes out of his mouth is so incredibly and unbelievably stupid.
He sounds like an idiot, constantly, and consistently. It's truly incredible.
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A Tesla owner says his car’s ‘self-driving’ technology failed to detect a moving train ahead of a crash caught on camera
A Tesla car in Full-Self Driving mode appeared to fail to detect a moving train and stop on its own, ahead of a chaotic accident caught on video.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
Car in self-driving mode almost smashes into a train.
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Q3 2023 underwhelming.
Tesla just posted its Q3 financial results, and they’re underwhelming
Expenses are up, and selling prices are down due to repeated price cuts.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Tesla admits it lost $400 million doing FX trading.
Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston (@[email protected])
@arstechnica "Tesla has engaged in several rounds of price cuts in the US and abroad and says that FX trading also cost the company $400 million." I wonder if this is crypto or actual fx
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
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If you like carnival barkers
And feeling stock market pain
If you're not into ethics
If you don't need half a brain
If you like making memes at midnight
For simpletons full of hate
Then I'm the CEO that you've looked for
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"It was hardly the last serious accident at SpaceX. Since LeBlanc’s death in June 2014, which hasn’t been previously reported, Musk’s rocket company has disregarded worker-safety regulations & standard practices at its inherently dangerous rocket and satellite facilities nationwide, with workers paying a heavy price, a Reuters investigation found. Through interviews & government records, the news organization documented at least 600 injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014"
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
He's always saying such clever things too.
"X owner Elon Musk also weighed in, saying "they must be next-level spicy!""
Japan: 'Super spicy' crisps land students in hospital
The company's website is full of warnings - it "forbids" those under 18 from eating the fiery snacks.
(www.bbc.com)
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
Now do full self driving