the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe
Reminder that twitter is now an informal, unregulated (i.e. warrantless) information source for Trump administration use.
In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.
Hey so seems like right now would be a really good time for any and all artists and writers still on this site to get the hell out.
It sucks to migrate sites if you’ve been in one place for years - I know; I’ve done it a couple times now when places went down over the years. But this is really scummy.
I'll probably be deactivating my twitter once this is live...
twitter was always a dogshit platform for hosting art anyway. motherfucker sizing down and badly cropping images. the fact that art wouldnt get eyes on it if it wasnt posted that day. the lack of meaningful commentary critique or even just educated praise for artwork. im sorry to say but tumblr just has the right format for art and no one else does LOL
Seconding @xaveria here u_u
If anyone likes the twitter format, tho, Bleusky's pretty good
Elon Musk did not build a reputation for himself as a Genius, world-bettering technologist by being savvy; he did it by having a midlife crisis in his 40s over the fact that he was Super-Rich and yet no one knew who the fuck he was, divorcing his first wife, and hiring at least one media firm to increase his public profile, which they did by throwing lots and lots of his money around to get him on the lecture circuit, the interview circuit and in, or mentioned in, movies and tv shows.
That's It. He was rich, he wanted to be famous, so he spent allot of money to get famous. They're nothing mysterious or impressive here; there's just Marketing.
I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes
What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮
you ever feel like you're watching someone's worldview change in real time
What is it with trust-fund-kids-turned-tech-moguls and unwittingly confessing to felony tax evasion while trying to own some rando on the Internet? First Musk, now Mullenweg – like, do these guys see a cute tax filing trick and just automatically assume that they're the first person in the world ever to think of it, without bothering to check whether it's, you know, a federal crime?
I love how Musk has given trolls a financial incentive to post the dumbest shit imaginable
excuse me?? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion chin??
Is it Woke to have a chin, guys?? Asking for a friend.(Also p sure that's not even a vidja, but a statuette).
I still think the single funniest thing about the cybertruck is that it has all those security cameras built in that are set to activate if anyone gets too close to the vehicle...and those cameras need electricity to run, and the cybertruck is a piece of shit that has way less battery life than you'd think, so you can legit just fuck over the owner by just standing near it and doing nothing else.
Like goddamn Elongated Muskrat found a way to let us siphon gas out of a car without even touching it. Fucking incredible.
#cybertruck #surely some of these are made up #a vehicle canNOT be this poorly designed #on the other hand elon musk IS a raving moron (tags via @words-writ-in-starlight)
Oh no my dude, it's all true and WORSE.
This IS the vehicle that bursts into flames if you get the engine components wet.
The acceleration petal frequently comes apart AND gets stuck in down position.
This is a car you cannot exit if the battery has no charge or the electric components are even slightly glitchy, and all the systems are interconnected btw, so if one goes the rest do to.
There have been several deaths already thanks to people not being able to get out of these deathtraps when they've burst into flames or reverse accelerated into bodies of water.
This is a vehicle where if you slam the doors teenager-in-a-snit style they jam shut and pulling them open again rips the interior panel of the door off.
This is the vehicle with ZERO crumple zones, that starts rusting if you get the exterior wet.
This is the vehicle that looks so much like a dumpster RACCOONS are legitimately mistaking them for one and trying to break into it.
This vehicle is very literally uninsurable in most places, because all the car insurance companies have refused.
... you can literally "I'm not touching you" a cybertruck into failure?
Like, this car is prone to failure from the kind of shit that my siblings and I pulled on each other during drives across the Midwest in the 80s?? This car has less durability than a fucking ten year old on hour seven of listening to his younger sibling sing "levis are drying in the dryer with a denim shirt and a pair of socks that belong to you" to the chorus of "these eyes" by the guess who over and over and over again???
Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.
Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.
"EV sales are in a slump" is actually a statistical error. Rolling Deathtrap Georg, who lives in South Africa and spends billions of dollars a day trying to convince people he's cool, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
I have stock market stuff, that I wholeheartedly don't understand. A lot of people that have 401ks and general stock market stuff, they're not investing in a specific stock, they're investing in like a block of stocks that are a big combination of things. And most people don't know wtf is happening there, you let some company figure that shit out and hope you have retirement money at the end.
When he took over twitter, I actually stared at my stock shit like "...i better not be giving money to this shit head"
It turned out I was! I contacted the people who manage my account and said "I saw that some of my stuff says Tesla. That man is an idiot. I don't want any Tesla ever."
And they were like "uhhhh" because i think i was asking something weird, like that would take some work to do and was an unusual request. But I also got the sense that they were getting that request A LOT all of a sudden. Like I said, Tesla is part of a bigger block of a bunch of other companies' stocks. So I think a lot of normal ass people who have stock market stuff (anyone with a 401k etc) and who don't understand it, (most people, that's why investment firms exist) sat up and went "hold on a fucking second" and pulled out.
It's important to note this is SALES, not stock. I'm glad to hear ppl are asking their brokers to pull them out of Tesla(it's a bad company run badly and will inevitably fail), but it's important to understand the extent to which institutional investors are SUBSIDIZING Musk, intentionally and as a political act, despite his losses over the last decade or so.
And it's important to understand THAT to understand how the stock-market is NOT rational, how brokers and wealthy individuals are NOT all the times "maximizing their profit" as the homo economicus ideologues will tell you, but often ALSO acts as a way for the owner-class to subsidize and support each other. Back in June Tesla's major stockholders voted Musk a $44.9 Billion, with a B, Pay Package over the objections of a Delaware judge(all this stuff is done in Delaware for tax and legal reasons), and in the face of his even-grosser-than-usual mismanagement last year.
The stockmarket is not going to save us from Musk's idiocy and fecklessness; the stockmarket is dominated by rich assholes who are there in large part to help out other rich assholes. Having said that, retail investors ABSOLUTELY should be asking their brokers to get them the fuck away from any company he's involved with.
The funniest thing about this situation is that Elon Musk is so pissed off at not getting to do something illegal and get away with it by being a billionaire for once in his life that he has been -and I’m 100% serious here- making photo edits of our Supreme Court minister dressed as fucking Voldemort. Literal little kid taping a picture of someone they don’t like to a dartboard kind of behavior.
Brazilian Supreme Court: Hey, uh. Just letting you know that what you’re doing is a crass violation of Brazilian law and if you don’t remedy it on the next 24h we’ll shut your website down in Brazil.
Elon Musk:
Sorry, I just looked it up and it turns out I got it slightly wrong: Elon Musk didn't photoshop a picture of Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court minister into Voldemort. Pretty silly of me to think someone like him would put in the effort to actually edit a picture himself.
What ACTUALLY happened was that Elon Musk first compared Alexandre de Moraes to Voldemort, then posted an Al generated image of him behind bars and told him to "mark his words because it'll happen for real someday", then posted another Al generated picture of him as a roll of toilet paper and then, finally, posted a picture of him photoshopped into a Sith Lord that he claimed had been generated by that shitty Grok Al thing they came up with, just to eventually admit that it was actually some random edit someone else had made he took from Google Images because "Al made him look too badass". In this order.
Well, it’s a little bit of a convoluted story, but remember the US capitol invasion by Trump Supporters in January 2021? Brazil was being governed by our own far-right asshole back then as well, Jair Bolsonaro. When he was running for president, his political party orchestrated a large misinformation campaign, speeding fear mongering rumors about the left through social media and instant messaging apps to try and sway people into voting for them. A bunch of these rumors were, unsurprisingly, about how “the left is teaching your kids to be gay in school.” Even after he Bolsonaro was elected, there still were lots of people and communities in these platforms dedicated to spreading rumors in his favor.
Bolsonaro, however, did such a shitty job handling the COVID pandemic and was responsible for (and very indifferent about) so many people losing their lives that it irreversibly soured his popularity. As a result, he wasn’t reelected in 2022 and lost to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist party candidate. So, in January 2023, two days after the anniversary of the US capitol invasion, Bolsonaro’s remaining supporters were called to arms through these misinformation spreading platforms to storm Brazil’s Supreme Court building, the congress building and the presidential palace to try and stage a coup and reinstate Bolsonaro as president. They weren’t successful, thankfully, but they caused a lot of damage to the buildings and hurt people in the process.
Ever since this happened, the Brazilian supreme court has been trying to properly identify and bring every person responsible for this attack to justice, including the people who were behind the scenes spreading rumors and organizing the whole thing. So it was ruled that the social media and messaging apps that were used to spread misinformation and organize this attempted coup should hand the information they had about these people over so they could be properly investigated and prosecuted, and ban them from using their services. Not doing so was, by very definition, obstruction of Brazilian justice and therefore a criminal act. Twitter, at the time not ran by a conservative dipshit, was cooperative at first.
Enter Elon Musk, known conservative dipshit, who takes over Twitter, changes it to X and refuses to cooperate with the investigation, saying that it is a “violation of the free speech of the accused”. Upon being told by our Supreme Court minister, Alexandre de Moraes, that he was breaking Brazilian law, he got all pissy, ordered all of the X offices in Brazil to be closed down, accused Alexandre de Moraes of “just wanting his political opponents to be silenced”, threatening to unban everyone involved who had been previously banned before he took over X and calling him “not even a real minister because he wasn’t elected” Yeah, no shit, dumbass. Ministers get appointed by the president over here.
Anyway, due to being a dumbass, Musk didn’t realize that closing down X’s offices in Brazil wouldn’t really change the fact that he was still breaking Brazilian law and, in fact, was just more obstruction of justice. So, Alexandre de Moraes gave him until the 31st to send or appoint a new legal representative for X in Brazil to handle the court proceedings or X would be shut down in all of Brazil until he did. That’s when Musk started the Voldemort shit and made it clear he would NOT do that and saying that Alexandre de Moraes should be the one sent to jail for… I don’t even know. Wanting people who committed crimes to face the consequences of it?
To sum it up… X is almost definitely going to close down indefinitely in Brazil because Elon Musk can’t stop himself from acting like a petulant toddler whenever he’s told to do something he doesn’t want, is dying on the hill of “protecting the of free speech” of far-right criminals and the social media website he was forced to buy in order to not be charged of market manipulation that he has been steadily fucking to shit ever since is going to lose around 21 million users overnight. Masterful gambit, sir!
hey what the fuck is happening in Brasil with twitter
it's banned for not taking down accounts that our country justice system requested (most of those were nazis)
do you guys have any other options?
we can use any other platform besides twitter, most of us are going to Bluesky or threads (tumblr, ofc, is safe, but no one is coming here lol).
I want to add: The demand was to take down accounts that spread fake news during covid and far-right accounts who were using the platform to call to arms the right wings to attempt a violent coup after the 2021 election that ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE [x] (and, luckily, failed). Twitter was also owning us 3.6 Million dollars in fines over a different issue.
Instead of complying, twitter shut down it's Brazilian headquarters, firing ever single worker without notice. Any company providing a service in Brazil must have a brazilian representative to make sure it complies with our law, and twitter no longer does.
Not only that, but Musk himself started to spread fake news about our elections, literally and explicitly accusing our minister of justice of election fraud. The narrativer he is trying to build is that Brazil is in some sort of dictatorship and is against free speech when, again, the issue is people doing online crimes.
He also tagged him and threatening him with jail using an AI picture of him and compared him to Voldemort and Darth Vader in multiple occasions. Musk is, in fact, that pathetic.
Not so friendly reminder that musk specifically came up with, and pushed, for hyperloop knowing that it would never be made, as an effort to stop the development of highspeed rail in America and shift all political discussions of it because "something better is around the corner":
As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it. Several years ago, Musk said that public transit was “a pain in the ass” where you were surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers, to justify his opposition.
Also: 2024 update, the total length of China's high-speed rail tracks has now reached well over 45,000 km, or 28,000 miles, by the end of 2023.
They are additionally five years ahead of schedule and expect to double the total number within ten years. And, before someone inevitably complains about "how expensive it is", they are turning over a net-profit of over $600M USD a year.
twitter implemented a new image ai and people are using it to generate lifelike photos of elon musk acting like a dog
Elon’s being weird again. Threatening everyone on twitter for calling his weird friends weird.
I love this new direction on the Musk free speech platform