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15 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

Good. Now let’s find out how many American journalists are willing to do the same thing. 

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

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On 11/30/2024 at 4:08 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker? 

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15 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

I would not expect all of them to leave, but any journalist staying on there is aiding a narcissistic megalomaniac in making more money. A long time ago a coach told me you either take a crap or get off the toilet. I will not feel bad for those journalists that stay, whether I like them or not, and wind up covered in feces.

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30 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

I would not expect all of them to leave, but any journalist staying on there is aiding a narcissistic megalomaniac in making more money. A long time ago a coach told me you either take a crap or get off the toilet. I will not feel bad for those journalists that stay, whether I like them or not, and wind up covered in feces.

Agree. I think they can let their news desk be on it in a read only, no posting method. But get the fuck off it as individuals.


 

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3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Good. Now let’s find out how many American journalists are willing to do the same thing. 

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

A lot have jumped, but I've heard more than a few say they really can't due to needing to follow people that are on there. It's easier for EU based journalist to eject as their world leaders aren't using it as a primary platform for announcing stuff. 

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Agree. I think they can let their news desk be on it in a read only, no posting method. But get the fuck off it as individuals.

Now that Leon publicly admitted to throttling anybody posting links to outside sources, we are seeing a large wave of American journalists, bloggers, etc. bail or at least treat Twitter as read-only.  Musk link-throttling them hurts them big time, because they are all trying to drive traffic back to their blogs.

Its actually a huge fucking mistake for Twitter to throttle links in an effort to keep people browsing Twitter because it’s one more huge thing that will drive companies away.

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I forget who was arguing with me that the judge would not be able to overturn the shareholder vote regarding Elonia's stock grant. Probably just another sock, long forgotten. 

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31 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

When I see a cybertruck driving in uptown Dallas I assume there’s a 20% chance my death is a result of one of those pieces of shit running me over. 

The funniest thing to me is that I see them wrapped all the time.  The base version is so awful that the first thing people do is go put some clothes on their car.

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1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

The funniest thing to me is that I see them wrapped all the time.  The base version is so awful that the first thing people do is go put some clothes on their car.

Normally when people wrap an automobile it's for advertising reasons, but people are trying to disguise the things.

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I can't wait until the first wraps start getting replaced in any sort of numbers as they change ownership only to reveal that the wraps somehow didn't protect them and they're actually corroded under them because Elmo insisted on only the shittiest alloy. 

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Elon Musk's Neuralink expands offices in Austin area

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Elon Musk’s footprint in Central Texas continues to grow. His brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, will expand in the area with more space and job openings. This comes after Musk already moved several of his headquarters to the region. According to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, construction on the $14.7 billion building started this July.

Filings showed it will be a 112,000 square foot facility on 37 acres of land in the east Austin suburb of Del Valle. It will include a three-story building with offices, a machine shop and manufacturing space.

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Neuralink posted multiple job openings on its website in the Austin-area for positions like engineers, software specialists and manufacturing technicians.

According to state filings, the project is expected to be completed in May 2025.

"You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to work at Neuralink."

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Apply | Neuralink - Animal Care Intern in California.

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"So I just found a major flaw in the Cybertruck’s design. Let me show you,”  “The headlights are actually hidden down below and can you guess what the issue might be in the wintertime?”

“These headlights are amazing. They’re extremely bright. However, I found that the snow is building up right in front of the headlights. So that can be a major problem when you’re driving in the wintertime because if snow builds up right here, the headlights are going to be completely blocked,”

Look Joe, when I designed this thing as a 10 year old back in the 80s, there wasn't much snow where I lived so why the fuck would I have been worried about it?

Sorry that somebody found my sketchbook and decided to put it into production, and if I had it to do over, I would have connected some wires to the metal near the lights to make it hot so the snow would melt.

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Can anyone do a wellness check on Pronghorn?

https://www.devx.com/daily-news/fbi-disrupts-russian-ai-bot-farm-spreading-ukraine-disinformation/

The FBI, in collaboration with international partners, has seized control of a Russian-owned artificial intelligence-driven social media bot farm that spread propaganda on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). The bot farm was developed by Russia’s state-run RT News Network and operated by Moscow’s Federal Security Service using AI. The Russian state-sponsored actors used the covert Meliorator software to benefit Moscow’s agenda.

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Can anyone do a wellness check on Pronghorn?

https://www.devx.com/daily-news/fbi-disrupts-russian-ai-bot-farm-spreading-ukraine-disinformation/

The FBI, in collaboration with international partners, has seized control of a Russian-owned artificial intelligence-driven social media bot farm that spread propaganda on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). The bot farm was developed by Russia’s state-run RT News Network and operated by Moscow’s Federal Security Service using AI. The Russian state-sponsored actors used the covert Meliorator software to benefit Moscow’s agenda.

That’s huge, but at the same time, does it matter? Musk was utilizing all of his Twitter resources to influence the election and was doing it openly.

It’s hilarious that with everything he’s done, he still didn’t get the big payout he was hoping for.  I wonder what that would have done for Tesla’s stock if he had won that case.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Claims DOGE Will 'Scrutinize' Federal Loans to Tesla's Enemies

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On Monday, the Biden administration announced a $7.5 billion federal loan to a company called StarPlus Energy LLC, which has been contracted to build two electric vehicle battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana. Those plants will be utilized as part of a joint venture between EV maker Stellantis and car battery maker Samsung SDI. ABC reports that, at full capacity, the plants could produce enough batteries to power approximately 670,000 cars annually. You’d think that, in the eyes of the ostensibly nativist Trump administration, homegrown manufacturing jobs would be a good thing. There’s a problem, however: Stellantis is notably a rival of Tesla.

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Characterizing it as a last-minute “spending spree” by the outgoing Biden administration, Ramaswamy vowed to investigate the loan to the electric car maker. “Biden’s midnight spending spree is illegitimate & should be rescinded,” Ramaswamy wrote on X, a platform also owned by Musk. “The Department of Energy just announced a staggering $7.5BN loan to StarPlus, a JV that includes Stellantis (whose CEO resigned just yesterday).”

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In the same post, Ramaswamy also took aim at Rivian, another electric car company that rivals Tesla. “This $7.5BN splurge to StarPlus comes less than a week after the Energy Department shamefully announced a $6.6BN “loan” to a failing Rivian plant in Georgia, and just weeks after Americans voted decisively to end the wasteful spending of the Biden-Harris administration,” he posted.

Investigating your rivals/trying to stop loans to them (all the while Tesla receives a shitload of money from EV tax credits, carbon credits, etc....

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2 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

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as noted on the Bluesky post I got this from - this is a galaxy Brian idiot move for a platform that you want to disseminate real time information on. 

It's almost like he's using it as a disinformation platform, or something 

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On 12/3/2024 at 12:39 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Look Joe, when I designed this thing as a 10 year old back in the 80s, there wasn't much snow where I lived so why the fuck would I have been worried about it?

Sorry that somebody found my sketchbook and decided to put it into production, and if I had it to do over, I would have connected some wires to the metal near the lights to make it hot so the snow would melt.

The caption is gold:  "I can't believe Tesla didn't think of this..."

Yeah, us too

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On 12/2/2024 at 2:51 PM, atomheartbevo said:

 Musk link-throttling them hurts them big time, because they are all trying to drive traffic back to their blogs.

Just to be clear they were always bad about it and folks had posted for years about limited click through rates from Twitter but throttling it even more is dumb.

Twitter has been a poor way to reach actual people vs any other social media and has been that way for a long time. Way before Elon.

He just somehow made it an even worse proposition so people instead of throwing a small % of budget on twitter ads now just spend it entirely anywhere else

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5 minutes ago, royiv said:

I’m honestly surprised by this data. I thought one of Tesla’s selling points in the EV space was superior range to the newer entrants.

It was in 2014, less so in 2024

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The Texas Observer has unmasked four Neo-Nazis on Twitter/X, robbing them of their anonymity. I'm pretty surprised that a vice president at JP Morgan Chase would be a Neo Nazi.  Also, if you're not supporting The Texas Observer, financially, you're doing it wrong. 

They are:  "Cyan Cruz, a 40-year-old marketing professional who appears to have lived in Austin and Amarillo and operates the X account TheOfficial1984; Michael Gramer, a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire, operates the X account 9mm_SMG, and has claimed to have a house in Galveston and to be spending time in Dallas; Robert “Bobby” Thorne, a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano, who operates the account Noble1945 and previously operated the account Noble_x_x_; and John Anthony Provenzano, a 30-year-old who appears to live in Virginia, operates the account utism_ (formerly known as JohnnyBullzeye), and, according to a tip and a records request response from the U.S. Navy, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland—where the Navy manufactures explosive ordnance."


https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/

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In response to a request for comment from the Observer, Michaela Ross, vice president of media relations and executive communications with JP Morgan Chase, responded via email: “The employee in question is on leave while we complete our investigation. We do not tolerate hate speech of any kind.”

 

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1 hour ago, royiv said:

I’m honestly surprised by this data. I thought one of Tesla’s selling points in the EV space was superior range to the newer entrants.

It is if you factor in the price. The Model 3 LR and Y LR are much cheaper than just abut every car on that list except for the Hyundai (which is even uglier than the Tesla). I don't feel like looking at MSRPs with options, but most of those cars are 1.5-2x as much. 

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35 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Man, a LOT of shit would just go away if we just got rid of anonymity on the internet. 

Dumbasses like these Neo-Nazis do a decent job of eventually unmasking themselves or leaving enough of a trail to be caught.

No general anonymity = wide scale oppression/suppression.  You’d have unhinged sports fans stalking other sports fans, just using Surly as an example.  Dating sites would cease to exist, it would be hard as fuck to scam people online when you’re masquerading as Johnny Depp, etc.

 

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Imagine being so filled with so much irrational hatred of a group of people that you risk your high-paying job at JP Morgan for it.  Not only that, but what's his resume going to look like now?  How does he tell prospective future employers that he was fired because he's a neo-Nazi? 

 

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10 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Imagine being so filled with so much irrational hatred of a group of people that you risk your high-paying job at JP Morgan for it.  Not only that, but what's his resume going to look like now?  How does he tell prospective future employers that he was fired because he's a neo-Nazi? 

 

He’ll have a cabinet position in the Trump administration.

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17 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Imagine being so filled with so much irrational hatred of a group of people that you risk your high-paying job at JP Morgan for it.  Not only that, but what's his resume going to look like now?  How does he tell prospective future employers that he was fired because he's a neo-Nazi? 

He doesn't tell prospective future employers he was fired.

 

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Michael Gramer, a 42-year-old retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire

I mean, boo for being a Nazi piece of shit and all....but nice.

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41 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He doesn't tell prospective future employers he was fired.

 


So ... what? He just omits the whole J.P. Morgan part of his resume then hopes they don't do a Google search for Robert/Bobby/Rob Thorne and find the Texas Observer article or all of the Twitter references or these posts on Surly? 

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