Elon Musk: Smartest Guy in The World or Complete Clown?

[dunfree]

Dudes partner (Grimes) left him in March 2022 to date Chelsea Manning, April 14 he makes his no due diligence offer.

Let’s just say that Musk has made some interesting comments regarding his feelings towards pronouns and Twitters policies.

that Canadian couldn’t figure out if you start above the falls floating down the Mississippi has problems, which is probably she had two chillins with apartheid Clyde

[SumJongGuy]

So today I went to Twattface to ask Elon if it was OK for me to work from home since my employer has mandated it until mid January due to an office remodel. It's not letting me tag him. Does that mean I'm blocked? I can't even find him on the search box.. Fucking pussy!

[grinch]

Deactivated my twitter. That place is spiraling. Talk of elon selling data and people getting hacked. Its nice to keep up. Jack should buy it back for pennies on the dollar

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[mcski]

This could be a real stick in his spokes
https://apple.news/A34VdhMBwSHqA7l1SND5Zqg

[4matic]

This could be a real stick in his spokes
https://apple.news/A34VdhMBwSHqA7l1SND5Zqg

That has zero chance. B team lawyer in his spare time will handle.

[Mustonen]

Do you understand what that takes to do in real time? I'm not disagreeing, but I'm also realistic. Think about the amount of shit posted every second. 1.9 billion people using just FB alone daily. So words and phrases can be tracked I assume pretty quick. Video more difficult and still pics and gifs even more difficult possibly. I don't know shit, but just logically it's an enormous task.

Certainly Trumptard has zero clue about that or anything aside from lying his ass off about everything.

If it weren’t their exact business to understand content and deliver responsive advertising in real time, you might have a point
The only difference would be changing the type of response to be moderation

He’s a good technical leader with knowledge to front deep engineering businesses. A lot more nuance to a social business. The tech is not as critical.

Like Dara fronting Uber for example.

Social media are not tech businesses. Microsoft and Apple are tech businesses. Twitter is no more a tech business than any other business that uses computers, which is every business with the exception of independent mow and blow landscapers. When a business like Twitter calls itself a tech company it's to intimidate older politicians and regulators who fear being exposed as not tech savvy, so they get a pass on any meaningful controls on things like libel, privacy etc.

This line of discussion is interesting to me. While the technology isn’t the direct product, the product is only any good if they can manage the content. All the problems twitter faces are massive technical challenges. It’s a lot different than “using computers,” and outside of scaling up workforce to match users and content creation (which creates its own challenges that are just as insurmountable) the only way to solve it is through increasingly sophisticated use of things like AI. It’s a massive opportunity for a team who can at least address these challenges. As platforms like Mastodon are finding, scaling is a bitch.

None of that is novel, of course. The world in general continues to shudder at the explosion of content and connection made possible by the Information Age.

[paulster2626]

Good god some of these are hilarious.

[old goat]

It's obvious that a business like Twitter or Facebook can't fact check the way the NYT for example does. The only way their business model can exist is to let anyone post anything they want for free and once in a while take down something particularly egregious, after the damage has been done. The question is, should such a business model be allowed to exist. We have slander, fraud and libel laws for a reason. If I lie to a bunch of my friends that the owner of a pizza place is a pedophile and the pizza place goes out of business I can be sued and lose. Why should I be able to do it anonymously on SM and neither I nor the site can be held accountable? You're right--making social media responsible for their content would require hiring massive numbers of moderators or somehow managing to do the job with AI. But why you think that's an acceptable reason to give SM a pass on spreading lies and hate I don't understand.

[jackstraw]

^right. I agree, but why do people believe everything they read on the internet!! That's truly the problem, but that problem is insurmountable. So yeah, accountability needs to happen, but man that's a difficult one for a dentist like me to wrap my head around

[Mustonen]

You're right--making social media responsible for their content would require hiring massive numbers of moderators or somehow managing to do the job with AI. But why you think that's an acceptable reason to give SM a pass on spreading lies and hate I don't understand.

I don’t think that. Where did I say that? Why would you put those words in my mouth? That’s super perplexing. Or were you addressing that to somebody else?

And whether or not social media is responsible for the content, the content is their product and they have to be able to manage it. The current chaos on display is a ready and obvious example. It’s no damn good if they can’t manage it effectively.

[MultiVerse]

The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained. --- Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources

[HappyCamper]

This could be a real stick in his spokes
https://apple.news/A34VdhMBwSHqA7l1SND5Zqg

Elon Musk braces for $56 billion battle with heavy metal drummer


Whoever wrote that headline has to be a Wilco fan.

[huckbucket]

Billions in market cap gone

[J. Barron DeJong]

Billions in market cap gone

TBF, their value is still holding up much better than Twitter’s.

[J. Barron DeJong]

[neckdeep]

Billions in market cap gone

Class action lawsuit being filed in 3, 2, 1......

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[SumJongGuy]

If I owned a Tesla I'd be seriously concerned about who's going to honor my warranty two years from now. Aftermarket parts companies gonna make a killin tho LOL!

[jackstraw]

^that is a complete shitshow! Wow!

[CarlMega]

^that is a complete shitshow! Wow!

I thought the Greewald one was my fav until Mr. Bean. Slayed it.

[evdog]

There's gotta be killer parody accounts out there for some of the other maga nut jobs

[simple]

See this I love. So sick of the right and left wing memes that just are not funny they are mean and pretty violent at times. This is just straight up parody from some funny people!

[J. Barron DeJong]