Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior
One reason why Musk bought Twitter this week is because he had little choice. The world’s richest man spent months trying to back out of the $44 billion purchase agreement he originally signed in April. But the uncertainty was so disruptive to Twitter’s business that it sued him in the Delaware Court of Chancery to force the deal’s completion, and a judge gave a Friday deadline to complete the deal or face a November trial that Musk was likely to lose.
This is all bullshit. Self-aggrandizing lies to give the appearance that this massive failure was all in the plan. The guy was trying to play games with stocks and got caught. He’s a dumbass with no idea how the business he didn’t want to own but was forced to buy in the end works. It’s not deeper than that.
I’m sure his daughter hating him is very upsetting but it’s not why he set 40 billion dollars on fire.
Why not both? Because you’re absolutely right that he got fucked on a bad gamble and then tried to save face, but I can also easily see him trying to buy stuff just to stick it to the left. (But in all reality again you’re probably pretty solely right lol)
I question if he actually got fucked on a gamble or if he was just inept and all of his decisions were largely a whim rather than based on some true data and research.
Maybe a bit of an extreme comparison, but it reminds me of when Donald Trump, also in the US, actually got elected president there. I remember thinking he looked quite wan in those early news clips. Like he was shocked to have actually won, and was rapidly having to adjust his expectations of the future.
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This “technology” community is quickly becoming just as bad as the one on reddit.
The insane ravings and personal drama of a lunatic billionaire isn’t news about technology.
Even news about Twitter itself isn’t technology news. Twitter is a business that sells services. They don’t make or contribute to any types of technology.
The only thing that Twitter technology related is that their business operates on the internet. That’s it. Chewy.com or NYTimes.com is just as much “technology” as Twitter is.
They don’t make or contribute to any types of technology.
That part isn’t completely true. When they created the bootstrap framework it changed how many people built websites. They can and have contributed to technology. However, your point is valid that news about Twitter is business news.
Yeah this is just the new Society Pages of the rich and famous (ie people whose job is managing your attention).
Even my beloved Paris Marx, of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast (recommended), can’t help themself from constantly crowing about Musk’s latest tort against humanity.
This is revisionist, that sequence of events was what caused him to start to play footsie with the idea of buying Twitter, the SEC saying that’s a big no-no is what made him actually make the offer to buy it and then he was forced by a court to finish the deal after a long legal battle to not buy it
Don’t forget the part where Dorsey literally conned him by playing to his ego. Jack cashed out almost a billion in cash to himself even though Twitter was close to bankruptcy. It was brilliant.
What cracks me up the most is that Jack already had a Twitter clone in the works, ready to be released once Musk burns down the old plattform and people wish for Twitter but without Musk back.
Bluesky isn’t exactly a twitter clone, it’s what Jack wanted Twitter to pivot to, but the board of directors refused to play ball.
So Jack spun up a separate entity and explicitly made it its own thing outside of twitter.
Bluesky is pretty dope, but the moment I see ads, I’m nuking my account.
Genuine question: given that running a platform like that costs money, and that money must come from somewhere, what would you actually do if you were in charge of running it? You either take money from advertisers, or you charge users directly, and I’d hazard to guess that if you’d nuke your account upon seeing ads, you probably wouldn’t pay actual money to use it.
So what do you do?
Not the person you were speaking to, but get nationalised or run on donations as a non-profit.
But I do pay more than my share for most fediverse instances that I use (which reminds me, I use this one enough - should probably make my donation regular)
Honestly, I would love to see a Wikipedia-style social media platform take off, but I really don’t know if the finances could work out. Wikipedia already struggles, and it’s obscenely useful. I don’t think nationalization is really feasible for social media - at least in an American context - because it would be subject to the government’s legal limitations on regulating free speech, which are extremely minimal. A federally run platform would not be able to remove literal unironic Nazism, which is probably going to be a bit of a turn-off to normal people.
Probably not the last time this trick works on ol’ blockhead.
oh man that’s my new insult for blockchain pushers
I missed that part. Where can I read more about this con?
They always tell on themselves.
Elon your daughter thinks the rich are evil because of knowing you personally
This.
Its sad the amount of people that cant make this logical baby step.
This.
That is true.
You’re sure proving her wrong, right Elon? …Right?
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
Anyone whose net worth is in the billions is evil, because pretty much the only feasible way to gather that much wealth is to be a psychopath.
I could be generous and say they are not evil, but the system that allows them to become billionaires in the first place is evil.
But as soon as you say “Twitter made my daughter hate rich people, so to prove her wrong I bought it and ran it into the ground so people can’t exchange ideas there anymore”…yeah, you’re not making the case you think you are.
Wrong! You see, all billionaires worked really really hard to exploit others! It really is all about hard work!
Yeah everyone just has to pick themselves up by the bootstrap.css!
Based Jenna
Based on what?
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The guy gets his life force from being talked about. If we ignore him completely and show his daughter the support he never gave her, it will ruin him.
Is she the one he named Yoda or Chewbacca or something like that?
Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.
To me this suggests that he first thought it would seem hip and contrarian to support his trans daughter, then he realized that actually the people he considers hip and contrarian are all about hating on trans kids now, and so swiftly pivoted to doing that. (I don’t imagine he had any strong feelings about his daughter as a person either way - it’s not like he was around for her childhood changing diapers or whatever)
Formally known as
British newsrag and deadnaming, name a more iconic duo
Wtf is it with this guy and the letter X
jfc
A lifelong obsession.
Everything in the 90s was Xtreme. He’s 52 which means he was in his 20s that decade. He got way into the X-Games, ate nothing but warheads extreme candies and Taco Bell extreme nachos, drank the 7-11 Xtreme Gulp, and watched the Extreme Ghostbusters.
She sounds pretty based ngl
“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.
“If you want
to just be a niche playeran iconic name, PayPal is a better name, But if you wantto take over the world’s financial systemit to be impossible to reliably websearch and talk about outside a very specific context, then X is the better name.”Fixed that for you.
There’s a reason why people still call it Twitter, you know.
He said in April: “Twitter could become what X.com should have been, and we can help save free speech in the process.”
And a potato could become a bell pepper to save my gulasch. Sadly it won’t because reality doesn’t magically revolve around my belly button, and it wouldn’t even if I were rich. So instead I’m making some curry.
Musk should learn to cook.
Mr Musk suggested charging people to be verified to eliminate bots, bring in cash and help transform it into a payments platform - fulfilling his “original vision” for X.com
Ignorance on the nature of his own platform. Even if you demanded a single cent out of it, saner people won’t put their credit card info there, simply because they want to reduce the amount of data that you can vulture out of them.
In other words he flushed the baby alongside the dirty bathtub water.
Mr Agrawal had tried to resign. // “But we beat him,” said Mr Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro.
TIL Musk behaves like an internet shitposter.
And a potato could become a bell pepper to save my gulasch. Sadly it won’t because reality doesn’t magically revolve around my belly button …
I love you.
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Quite a language choice there for someone riddled with cryptofascist brainworms