Elon's Twitter

[elengil]

Seems like as good an explanation as any:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

... I noticed how not one option was "maybe we shouldn't do this at all"??

[Frelga]

That's humans for you.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

[RoseMorninStar]

That's humans for you.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Sadly, so true.

[elengil]

"Don't eat the fruit of that tree"

excitedly: "oooh, what tree, where!?"

[elengil]

Might be too early to cheer but...

Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement

[Inanna]

Seems like as good an explanation as any:
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

... I noticed how not one option was "maybe we shouldn't do this at all"??

Excuse me? Did you not see the fact that just before the problem zone, we get robots dealing with laundry?? Laundry! What could be better?

[Dave_LF]

It'll be a sweet 15 minutes, that's for sure

[Frelga]

This is a very good point.

@RachelBitecofer
The day @elonmusk declared war on "wokeness" business idea because that is @Tesla's entire consumer base."

I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong

[RoseMorninStar]

This is a very good point.

@RachelBitecofer
The day @elonmusk declared war on "wokeness" business idea because that is @Tesla's entire consumer base."

I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong

I found him paling around with Kutchner & the Saudi's to be a bit of a head scratcher too.

[Inanna]

This is a very good point.

@RachelBitecofer
The day @elonmusk declared war on "wokeness" business idea because that is @Tesla's entire consumer base."

I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong

I know that it has completely killed R and my positive inclinations towards a Tesla. I hope someone else comes up with a nice electric car soon. Nissan needs to launch an Infiniti-like version of the Leaf. R & I are big Nissan lovers. (He from his time of working with that firm’s robotics team donkey years ago. Me from the trusty second hand Nissan I drove back & forth nyc to penn state)

[Alatar]

Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6 are both lovely Electrics.





And a comparison...

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Thanks, Al!

[Frelga]

My current potential midlife crisis car is the electric Mustang. But the Nissan is probably more practical.

My co-worker gave me a ride in her tesla this spring, and she was preening a bit. Not surprising, when gas was $6/gallon. The other week at the holiday webinar,T when we had a highlight of the year slide show, she felt the need to apologize for the Tesla in her vacation photos. "Yeah, we bought it before Elon went crazy." And I don't even think she's a very online person.

[RoseMorninStar]

Ordered by Elon: Exclusive-Twitter removes suicide prevention feature, says it's under revamp

He claims that it was removed, in part, because self-harm is down since he took over. Also, after this story came out he claims the feature is being revamped but there have been reports that no such thing is underway (70% of Twitter workforce is gone, including the department which would have handled such things). Talk about a god-complex.

[River]

There's lots of good buzz about the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Inanna.

I am currently hoping Tesla just boots Musk as the CEO. I'm sure it will be a very messy process but the rest of Tesla's shareholders can't be happy with Musk using the car company to fund his social media addiction.

[RoseMorninStar]

I am currently hoping Tesla just boots Musk as the CEO. I'm sure it will be a very messy process but the rest of Tesla's shareholders can't be happy with Musk using the car company to fund his social media addiction.

I can certainly speak for one of them, and they are livid.

[N.E. Brigand]

Marcy Wheeler notes here that while the curators of the "Twitter files" fail to grasp the import, the most recent series in their project of releasing some of that company's internal communications reveal that in 2020, Twitter declined to provide the United States' National Security Agency with confidential data the NSA requested that, per this article published two days ago in the Washington Post, Elon Musk is obligated to provide to his Saudi and Qatari investors: by virtue of their having invested more than $250 million each in Musk's purchase of the company, they are entitled to "confidential company information" -- something the Biden administration has flagged as worrisome.

[Frelga]

That Dima Medvedev (currently deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia) got drunk again and went on a tweeting spree is predictable. What's Musk's excuse?

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[RoseMorninStar]

F'ing train wreck.

[River]

I'd say Medvedev paired his vodka with some LSD if he thinks Texas is going to return to Mexico...