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‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws
The domain X.com had previously been used by sites running afoul of the country’s rules on “negative” content.
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General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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@ADevilYouKhow @Aveda
Tesla workers played xylophone to celebrate canceling appointments
Tesla created a "Diversion Team" to cancel service appointments after it was overloaded with complaints related to driving range, Reuters reported.
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Vid in link.
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Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video Of Full Self-Driving Running A Red Light
A former Tesla employee who was fired for showing the limits of FSD on social media says he's speaking to the feds about the incident.
By Erin MarquisPublished Yesterday
Fired Tesla Employee Posts New Video Of Full Self-Driving Running A Red Light
A former Tesla employee who was fired for showing the limits of FSD on social media says he's speaking to the feds about the incident.
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Tesla was always a “luxury” novelty. The Germans and Japanese have already eclipsed them in tech and standards and Musk has tanked whatever brand rep they had over the last year or so
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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Say what you want about @NerdNash but he drives engagement so I can see why twitter was sending that big check out to him ... too bad twitter doesn't exist anymore
I didn't realize the coli still did parody accounts
I'm in tears right now
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Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford)
Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got...nitter.lacontrevoie.fr
I don't know why I listened to this whole thing, but I hate this woman. I think we've all worked with someone like this before.
"I forced my team to do some horseshyt that surely crossed many of their boundaries, that an employer shouldn't even be allowed to ask of their employees, to appease a megalomaniac billionaire moron. So you see, I had to join them! That's why I was sleeping on the floor of a conference room! Silly leftists."
No wonder people are calling you a bootlicker and a fukking dope who prioritized work over family. "It was intense but also fun... I wanted to be there and I have no regrets." Do you think everyone on your team you asked to sleep on the fukking floor next to you felt the same?
This is what the bullshyt, hustler-grindset, hyper capitalist culture does to your brain.
Cant be a karen thread without your white mother calling the police
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Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as more than half of users leave app
Meta executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
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Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as more than half of users leave app
By Katie Paul and Sheila DangJuly 28, 20237:00 AM EDTUpdated 4 hours ago
NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday.
Retention of users on the text-based app was better than executives had expected, though it was "not perfect," said Zuckerberg, speaking at an internal company town hall, the audio of which was heard by Reuters.
"Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We're not there yet," he said.
Zuckerberg said he considered the drop-off "normal" and expected retention to grow as the company adds more features to the app, including a desktop version and search functionality.
Meta is looking at adding more "retention-driving hooks" to entice users to return to the app, like "making sure people who are on the Instagram app can see important Threads," said Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.
A company spokesperson declined to comment on the meeting.
The executives' comments came a day after Meta wowed investors with a rosy revenue growth forecast, a sign of a comeback for a company that faced deep skepticism over its hefty spending on the metaverse last year as ad sales plummeted.
The disclosure sent Meta's shares surging 8% on Thursday.
Zuckerberg told employees on the call that he believed the company's work on the augmented and virtual reality technology that would power the metaverse was "not massively ahead of schedule, but on track."
Meta, he added, needed to get started investing in that work ahead of rivals such as Apple (AAPL.O), Google and Microsoft (MSFT.O), given their years of experience building operating systems for existing products.
"That way, we have all the tools ready for when this is ready for prime time," he said, predicting that mass adoption of metaverse technologies would take place in the 2030s.
Zuckerberg and Cox also highlighted the company's release of an artificial intelligence model called Llama 2 this month, which it made freely available for commercial use to any developer whose services had fewer than 700 million users.
The model has received more than 150,000 download requests in the week since its release, Cox said.
Responding to a question on the proposed "cage match" against Elon Musk, Zuckerberg said he was "not sure if it's going to come together."
Reporting by Katie Paul in New York and Sheila Dang in Austin; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman
Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.
