The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
safe to say the idiots in TLR are in good company
General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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safe to say the idiots in TLR are in good company
wild100sboy
:mjpls:
John Reena
Superstar
safe to say the idiots in TLR are in good company
I always ask anti vax morons can they explain covid deaths going down after the vaccine was introduced?
Json
Superstar
You have to lose money to make money.He had no choice but to cut ad prices after destroying decades of brand value
Y‘all clowns just don’t understand the system of price reduction cost for revenue sharing increase by computational management analytics
Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username – without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exercise
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Elon Musk takes over ‘valuable’ @x Twitter username without paying
The social network replaced the bird icon with the letter X as part of its rebranding exerciseByJames Titcomb26 July 2023 • 10:28am
Elon Musk crowdsourced the the new logo for Twitter CREDIT: GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS
Elon Musk has taken over the @x Twitter account without paying its owner as part of the social network’s ongoing rebrand.
Gene X Hwang, a photographer in San Francisco, was behind the social network’s “@x” handle until Tuesday night when it was changed to the official account for X, Mr Musk’s new name for Twitter.
Mr Hwang had said he had been willing to entertain a sale of the @x account, which was registered in 2007, but that he simply received an email on Tuesday saying that it was being taken over by the company.
He told The Telegraph: “They just took it essentially – kinda what I thought might happen.”
Mr Hwang said he had been offered some X merchandise and a meeting with the company’s management, but was not offered any financial incentive.
He said in an email: “They did send an email saying it is the property of ‘x’ essentially.”
Before and after: the X twitter account
Twitter users have no legal rights over their usernames but the company’s terms of service says it will only remove people’s accounts in cases of trademark infringement.
It is unclear what trademarks Mr Musk’s X owns, although he does own the x.com domain name, which now directs to twitter.com.
The company has moved Mr Hwang’s account to a new handle.
Mr Hwang, tweeting from his new handle “@x12345678998765” on Wednesday morning, wrote: “All’s well that ends well.”
Mr Hwang said he had been offered some X merchandise in exchange for his Twitter handle
Before it was transferred, Mr Hwang said he would be willing to sell it at the right price.
He said: “I would sell if approached I think. Guess it depends on the offer.”
Single letter Twitter accounts – mostly created in the site’s early months before most people had heard of the social network – are seen as the service’s most valuable.
In the past, single letter accounts are believed to have changed hands for tens of thousands of dollars. One user, @n, has said they were offered $50,000 (£39,000) for their account.
“Bro gonna be a millionaire,” one Twitter user had posted about @x earlier this week, after Mr Musk changed Twitter’s logo and branding to X.
While it was run by Mr Hwang, the @x account had close to 30,000 followers and was set to private, meaning users could not see its tweets or follow the account without permission.
Many single letter accounts are suspended, possibly due to multiple attempts to hijack them.
Despite Twitter’s corporate rebrand, the company’s official account still has the handle @Twitter.
Mr Musk is seeking to make X into a “super app” that features not only Twitter’s existing social networking and messaging features, but also payments and banking as well as video.
His commitment to changing the company’s logo has included seeking to remove the Twitter sign from the company’s San Francisco headquarters, although his efforts were thwarted by police on Monday.
Elon Musk Mocks ‘Barbie’ as Hit Movie Gets Conservative Backlash
While the Margot Robbie starrer smashes box office records, conservative ideologues accuse the film of being left-wing propaganda.
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Elon Musk Mocks ‘Barbie’ as Hit Movie Gets Conservative Backlash
While the Margot Robbie starrer smashes box office records, conservative ideologues accuse the film of being left-wing propaganda.BY JAMES HIBBERD
JULY 25, 2023 8:19AM
Introducing Culture War Barbie?
Elon Musk has entered the Barbie chat by mocking the summer’s biggest box office hit on Twitter (or X, or whatever he’s calling it this week).
The billionaire wrote: “If you take a shot every time Barbie says the word ‘Patriarchy,’ you will pass out before the movie ends.”
Musk was responding to a Barbenheimer meme that compared Twitter to Barbie and his new X name for his social network to Oppenheimer.
He’s the latest to accuse Barbie — from filmmaker Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie — of being left-wing propaganda in the wake of the movie earning the biggest opening weekend of the year, racking up $162 million domestically. Barbie follows “Stereotypical Barbie” (Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they leave Barbieland and journey into the real world following an existential crisis.
Mattel executives have tried to keep the film from being viewed as political. Robbie Brenner, Mattel Films’ executive producer, said the film was “not a feminist movie.” In an interview with Time, Robbie seemed surprised by that claim. “Who said that?” she reportedly asked. “It’s not that it is, or it isn’t. It’s a movie. It’s a movie that’s got so much in it.”
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro went viral over the weekend after breathlessly ripping the film for 43 minutes on YouTube in a clip that’s been viewed 1.6 million times. “The basic sort of premise of the film, politically speaking, is that men and women are on two sides and they hate each other. And literally, the only way you can have a happy world is if the women ignore the men and the men ignore the women,” he fumed. He predicted, “[Barbie is] absolutely going to fall off a cliff [at the box office] … repeat business is going to be nonexistent.” Shapiro also set fire to Barbie dolls on a BBQ in protest. His review generated plenty of online mocking of its own (“They finally make a movie for people who are 12 inches tall with no genitals and those people don’t even like it,” tweeted comedy writer Jesse McLaren).
Writing for the New York Post, Piers Morgan opined: “If I made a movie mocking women as useless dunderheads, constantly attacking the matriarchy, and depicting all things feminist as toxic bulls–t, I wouldn’t just be canceled, I’d be executed … the movie achieves exactly what it wanted to achieve and that is to establish the matriarchy as the perfect antidote to the patriarchy when in fact it’s just the same concept that they asked us all to detest in the first place.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz accused the movie of “kiss[ing] up to the Chinese communist party because they want to make money selling the movie in China” for its alleged inclusion of the “nine-dash line” on a map that favors China’s territorial claims to the South China Sea (yet he admits he didn’t see the film).
Podcaster Matt Walsh, who made the anti-trans documentary What Is a Woman?, dubbed Barbie “the most aggressively anti-man, feminist propaganda fest ever put to film.”
Ginger Gaetz, the wife of Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, called for a Barbie boycott criticizing Gosling’s Ken’s “disappointingly low T” and “beta energy.”
Yet the vast, vast majority of Barbie viewers don’t seem to agree.
Barbie not only has a 90 percent positive critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, but an equal 90 percent positive audience score, resulting in a rare critical and viewer blockbuster for a title that isn’t a superhero film or an extension of a preexisting cinema franchise. While Barbie towered over Oppenheimer, the three-hour Christopher Nolan historical epic also had a strong performance this weekend, delivering $82 million (and also, oddly enough, had a Rotten Tomatoes number — 94 percent — with the critic score exactly equal to its audience score).
Leading up to Barbie’s release, the creative team and cast spoke about the more than decade-long journey of getting the iconic doll on the big screen, and their vision around the Gerwig movie (which she co-wrote with partner Noah Baumbach) being both a feminist and inclusive take on the toy brand.
Issa Rae, who plays President Barbie, told Time that the point of the movie is to portray a world where there isn’t a singular ideal: “My worry was that it was going to feel too white feminist-y, but I think that it’s self-aware. Barbie Land is perfect, right? It represents perfection. So if perfection is just a bunch of white Barbies, I don’t know that anybody can get on board with that.”
CEO of Morgan Industries
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The hurt that Republicans feel over not having influence over Hollywood/entertainment/what's socially popular is significant. Right-wingers on social media wish they had a tenth of the popularity of Black Twitter, conservatives are hurt that a woman made a popular Barbie movie that centered a few basic feminist principles.
It's not 1950 anymore, no one wants that Leave it to Beaver shyt on their screens.
It's not 1950 anymore, no one wants that Leave it to Beaver shyt on their screens.
You can tell by how thirsty they are when they latch on to any celebrity that disagrees with the left.
But the arts agave never been on the right in society.