Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter): Just Use Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon Instead

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Insider Intelligence - After a short run, Twitter ‘coins’ and tipping appear to be ending

Zoe Schiffer, Platformer: "Elon Musk has not sent Twitter employees the 'very significant' compensation awards he promised would be delivered today. People are not happy, to say the least."

He's taking a page out of Trump’s playback- never pay your bills until you absolutely have to.

 

[Iceman]

Not according to his fanboys:

Really? One of the best comebacks ever?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Grimes says she's changed her and Elon Musk's daughter's name
Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes said her daughter is now known as "Why?" or just "?", although the government won't recognize the symbol.

Grimes and Musk are no strangers to controversy over their children's names. Their first son, born in 2020, was initially named X Æ A-12, but this was later tweaked to X Æ A-Xii. California law forbids the use of numbers in a legal name

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Business Insider - Grimes says she's changed her and Elon Musk's daughter's name
Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes said her daughter is now known as "Why?" or just "?", although the government won't recognize the symbol.

Lame.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NY Times - Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months.

Techdirt - Which Sucker Companies Are Going To Pay Elon Musk $1,000/Month To Get An Ugly Gold Badge?

 

[Teelie]

And he's still over-valuing it.

 

[Lily Adler]

If this is the number he wanted out in the public, just imagine how terrible they are internally.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

You knew it was coming: Melon just announced that for you recommendations and Twitter polls will be restricted to paying users only.

He’s still mad he lost that straw poll to remain CEO of Twitter.

 

[Lily Adler]

You knew it was coming: Melon just announced that for you recommendations and Twitter polls will be restricted to paying users only.

He’s still mad he lost that straw poll to remain CEO of Twitter.

Wasn't this his plan long ago to put all the main features behind a pay wall?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wasn't this his plan long ago to put all the main features behind a pay wall?

I do not remember if it was Business Insider or some other source that reported that he wanted to do all that at once and that his underlings think it's a bad idea.

Instead we've been seeing the 'how you boil a live frog' approach to moving more and more of the site gradually behind the paywall until the majority/all of it is. Then they can move on to sending bills to SHH for access to the embeds.

 

[Sithborg]

You would have to go through the text messages of his lawsuit to not buy twitter to find it, but yeah, he had a lot of stupid ideas like that.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Melon has also announced that bots are okay so long as they are paying Twitter with a subscription and not impersonating people. Yes, really.


Melon is obsessed with Ocasio-Cortez and sends lots of harassment her way.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Tesla Under Investigation After Complaints About Loose Seatbelts

 

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Gizmodo - Tesla Under Investigation After Complaints About Loose Seatbelts

No loose seat belts in that Tesla that went over the cliff. They all walked away from that one.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Verge - Tweet replies no longer show who users are replying to
This definitely won’t make Twitter even more confusing.

Twitter’s latest baffling change makes replies a lot more difficult to sift through. Now, when you’re looking at replies, tweets don’t actually show who the user is replying to, making them look like a confusing string of out-of-context missives.

The change muddies up the ever-worsening Twitter experience in a bunch of small ways. If you click on a tweet with replies, you’ll see those listed under the tweet as you used to, but they don’t have as obvious of a connection to the parent tweet. Replies to your tweets will still show up in your Notifications tab, but they just look like random tweets that might not be there intentionally.

Basically, as my colleague Tristan Cooper put it, “I love how every reply now looks like a vague subtweet on the timeline.”

 

[Boom]

Looks like I'll go back to using Twitter for news only. Not even gonna bother tweeting and engaging in conversation anymore.

Musk is either self-sabotaging Twitter in the most transparent way possible, or he is a colossal ****ing idiot. He's effectively trying to force people into purchasing Verified accounts. It might as well be extortion.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Iceman]

The Verge - Tweet replies no longer show who users are replying to
This definitely won’t make Twitter even more confusing.

What exactly is the point of this?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Verge - Elon Musk reportedly tried and failed to take over OpenAI in 2018
Musk tried to take charge of the company in 2018, Semafor reports. The Tesla CEO was rejected and reneged on promised funding. OpenAI then changed its business model to embrace corporate backers — a momentous shift.

Gizmodo - 500 Top Technologists and Elon Musk Demand Immediate Pause of Advanced AI Systems
Steve Wozniak and Stuart Russell were among the signatories of an open letter warning advanced models pose “profound risks to society and humanity."

A wide-ranging coalition of more than 500 technologists, engineers, and AI ethicists have signed an open letter calling on AI labs to immediately pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s recently released GPT-4 for at least six months. The signatories, which include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and “based AI” developer Elon Musk, warn these advanced new AI models could pose “profound risks to society and humanity,” if allowed to advance without sufficient safeguards. If companies refuse to pause development, the letter says governments should whip out the big guns and institute a mandatory moratorium.

 

[Iceman]

The Verge - Elon Musk reportedly tried and failed to take over OpenAI in 2018
Musk tried to take charge of the company in 2018, Semafor reports. The Tesla CEO was rejected and reneged on promised funding. OpenAI then changed its business model to embrace corporate backers — a momentous shift.

Ahhh, that explains all the rubbish he was coming out with about OpenAI recently. Always a personal story with that one.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

In the tradition of our unfortunate yet great thread title:

Daily Kos - Twitter isn't dying. Elon Musk is murdering it

Techcrunch - Twitter is dying

 

[squeekness]

In the tradition of our unfortunate yet great thread title:

Daily Kos - Twitter isn't dying. Elon Musk is murdering it

Techcrunch - Twitter is dying

Elon has to know he's killing it, right? Nobody should be this stupid.

 

[Sithborg]

Elon has to know he's killing it, right? Nobody should be this stupid.

Despite him being terminally addicted to Twitter, Elon know jack **** about running a company like twitter. He operates like he assumes everyone is as addicted as him.