General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread

[ADevilYouKhow]

Elon Musk Is Now Dipping His Toe Into Pizzagate

Elon Musk responded to a post suggesting Media Matters founder David Brock may be connected to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

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This should end well

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Maybe they should have focused more on the basics of a truck instead of features that protect you from bow and arrow attacks from
Joe Hoegan.

I lost track of the article but I guess they were trying to drive it in water and claim it floats

 

[MushroomX]

Elon Musk Is Now Dipping His Toe Into Pizzagate

Elon Musk responded to a post suggesting Media Matters founder David Brock may be connected to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

www.rollingstone.com

This should end well

Musk couldn't avoid the NOID?

 

[Hood Critic]

I'd love to know who the person was who convinced Elmo that he had the power and ability to balance out what is perceived as a more left leaning/liberal society. This is a grand experiment of rightwing amplification under the guise of "free speech" that is going to ultimately ruin him personally and professionally.

He's such a true narcissist that I'm sure it's going to plunge him into a state of depression.

The documentary in 10-15 years is going to be lit.

 

[MushroomX]

I'd love to know who the person was who convinced Elmo that he had the power and ability to balance out what is perceived as a more left leaning/liberal society. This is a grand experiment of rightwing amplification under the guise of "free speech" that is going to ultimately ruin him personally and professionally.

He's such a true narcissist that I'm sure it's going to plunge him into a state of depression.

The documentary in 10-15 years is going to be lit.

Don't worry, the ghost pet of the new Argentine President, Conan the Dog, will always be there to be his friend.

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[bnew]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/paris-hilton-x-ads/index.html

Business / Tech

Paris Hilton’s media company suspends ads on X, one month after agreeing to touted partnership with the platform​

By Liam Reilly and Clare Duffy, CNN

2 minute read

Updated 6:42 PM EST, Tue November 21, 2023

Paris Hilton attends 2023 GQ Men of the Year at Bar Marmont on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

CNN —

Paris Hilton’s entertainment company 11:11 Media has pulled an advertising campaign from Elon Musk’s X just one month after announcing an exclusive partnership with the platform, becoming the latest brand to halt ad spending on the site formerly known as Twitter over concerns about antisemitism and pro-Nazi content on the site.

“11:11 Media made the decision to immediately pull the campaign from the platform,” Bruce Gersh, 11:11 Media’s president and chief operating officer, told CNN on Tuesday.

The decision by Hilton’s company to pull its advertising is a blow to X and the platform’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, who announced a major promotional partnership with Hilton just last month. The deal, which was touted by Yaccarino as a long-term, “official partnership” between Hilton, 11:11 Media, and X, aimed to create “a launchpad for new initiatives in video and live video, live commerce, Spaces, and so much more.” The deal also established a revenue-sharing agreement between the parties.

Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal advertising chief who has been tasked with wooing wary advertisers back to X despite Musk’s tumultuous leadership, declared Hilton the “queen of pop culture” and described the partnership as “a new era” that would reside exclusively on X.

A spokesperson for Hilton declined to comment on whether the suspension of 11:11’s ad campaign also meant the end of Hilton’s partnership with X. A spokesperson for X also did not immediately respond.

Hilton remains active on the platform via her personal account, @ParisHilton, where she has amassed 16.6 million followers.

The decision by 11:11 Media to pull its advertising campaign from X comes after at least half a dozen brands also paused their ad spending on X last week over concerns about pro-Nazi content and Musk’s embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the platform.

IBM halted its ad spend on X on Thursday after a report from progressive media watchdog Media Matters showed its ad had run alongside pro-Nazi content on X. Other major brands, including Disney and Paramount, followed suit on Friday, but did not specify their reasoning for pulling their ad spending from X.

 

[Conz]

a month ago Linda Hackarino was acting like partnering with Paris Hilton was huge for the platform. "We got the girl who got famous for getting fukked in the early 2000s."
"Oh shyt, you got Kim?!"
"... no, the one who isn't really famous anymore."

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Tesla factory workers reportedly say they're getting in shouting matches — and sometimes even fights break out

Elon Musk has been known to push workers through "production hell." Now, Tesla is ramping up its gigafactory for the Cybertruck.

www.businessinsider.com

Investigation Reveals Sleep Deprivation, Drug Use Amid Harsh Working Conditions at SpaceX

Workers would allegedly fall asleep in the bathrooms.

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[Professor Emeritus]

 

[Professor Emeritus]

New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill - Autoblog

One video showed a 1946 Jeep CJ-2A successfully navigating the same hill that the Cybertruck struggled to summit.

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"Is it even on?" a woman in the video can be heard asking while watching the Cybertruck. The Instagram post's caption said that three Cybertrucks were being tested at Hollister Hills, a vehicular recreation area in California, and that the onlookers "had to show them how it's done" with an off-roading Jeep. A different video from the same user shows a 1946 Jeep CJ-2A successfully navigate the same hill without stopping or struggling.





Elon's revolutionary truck getting outmaneuvered by 80-year-old technology.

 

[bnew]

Twitter / X will bring back link headline previews, says Elon Musk

They never should have been removed in the first place.

mashable.com

Twitter / X will bring back link headline previews, says Elon Musk​

They never should have been removed in the first place.
By Amanda Yeo on November 23, 2023

Credit: Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Twitter / X owner Elon Musk has announced the platform will reinstate headlines to link previews for articles. Musk removed automatic article headlines and their subheader text last month because he didn't like how they looked.

"In an upcoming release, X will overlay title in the upper potion [sic] of the image of a URL card," Musk posted to his Twitter / X account on Wednesday.



The announcement came less than two hours after Musk himself inadvertently demonstrated how the removal of Twitter / X's headline previews has severely reduced the platform's functionality. Sharing a Reuters article about OpenAI, the beleaguered billionaire simply stated that it was "Extremely concerning!" — a statement rendered nonsensical without the link's context.

It's unclear whether this or Musk's other such unintelligible link posts are related to his decision to bring back article headlines. Considering his history of changing things at Twitter / X on a whim, it can't be entirely ruled out.

SEE ALSO: Twitter / X confirms Nazi content was shown alongside Apple ads. So why is it suing?
Twitter / X users immediately began roasting Musk for returning a feature many felt he never should have arbitrarily removed in the first place.





In response, Musk was quick to insist that his headline previews will be different from the previous headline previews, as they will appear on the article's image rather than below it.

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• Elon Musk strips headlines Twitter/X links because he didn't like how they looked
• Twitter/X's removal of link headlines slashes site accessibility even further
• Apple pauses ads on X / Twitter after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy
• Not even Paris Hilton wants to advertise on Twitter / X
• X advertisers that have reportedly pulled ads recently: See the list, including Disney and Apple.

"[T]he title will be in the image overlaid at the top, with URL overlaid at the bottom, as it is now – no extra vertical pixels used," wrote Musk. "I hate those giant, ugly URL cards."



Of course, one might argue that if Musk had wanted to redesign Twitter / X's headline previews, it would have made a lot more sense to just do so in the first place rather than completely eliminate them first. The initial removal of link headlines had a severe negative impact on Twitter / X's accessibility, making the platform much more difficult to navigate for users of assistive technology.

 

[bnew]

people were clowning him about this and creating mischief since the day he changed it. he keeps making these unforced errors

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727478198823198970

 

[bnew]

Flipboard is ditching X

The platform cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on X and plans to devote its time to Mastodon.

www.theverge.com

Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon​

The platform says it will hold on to its accounts and retweet from time to time, but it plans to focus on Mastodon and other social platforms instead.​

By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade.

Nov 21, 2023, 4:22 PM EST|16 Comments / 16 New

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Flipboard

Flipboard is the latest company to end its presence on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a Medium post published Tuesday, the company said it would no longer be “actively monitoring or posting updates on X,” save for the occasional retweet. Instead, Flipboard will be refocusing its efforts on Mastodon and other open social platforms.

The reasons for Flipboard’s departure from X appear to be two-fold: X’s more lax moderation policies under Elon Musk’s leadership, which has led to a sharp spike in hate speech and misinformation; and Flipboard’s goal of working with federated social media services. Over the past several months, Flipboard has joined a growing list of companies, including Mozilla, Tumblr, and Medium, that are using the ActivityPub protocol to integrate with federated platforms.

“As widely reported, Twitter/X’s rollback of moderation policies has led to a rise in harmful rhetoric and hate speech and its platform decisions have advanced false narratives and disinformation. These changes run contrary to our values and so we’ve decided to invest in other, healthier environments,” Flipboard wrote in a message posted to Medium.

Flipboard and X’s ties began to fray in April, when X shut off its free API, breaking the sharing function that Flipboard used to publish content. Instead, X has urged companies to join its paid API tier — for which an Enterprise plan was reported by Platformer to cost as much as $42,000 a month.

The company also launched its own podcast about the open social web, Dot Social, which will be hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. The first episode, published today, features Techdirt founder Mike Masnick.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

The biggest own goal in the history of mankind. What a narcissistic dumbass.