Is Elon Musk in Trouble?

[Kulindahr]

He's the only person whose level of petty has me envious.

It is rather impressive in a grotesque sort of way.

Not that his groupies (can we call them Muskrats?) will ever see him as anything other than the messiah. If Trump can shoot somebody at Times Square and get away with it, Musk could livestream himself drowning a puppy. Not that he's privileged or anything, children of apartheid emerald mine tycoons are just like you and me if we got insanely rich exploiting African slave labor.

A fair portion of his fans would get pissed at him if he live-streamed himself drowning a puppy -- not that they care about the puppy, but because it wouldn't be contributing to his (allegedly grand) vision of the future. Their vision of him as a Messiah demands that he devote all his time and energy to Messiah stuff.

 

[Kulindahr]

A lot of rich people were liberal democrats before they got rich. Once they became rich they became conservative Republicans for obvious reasons.

Make that "reactionary Republicans"; actual conservative Republicans still believe that paying debts is a virtue, including government debts.

 

[rareboy]

It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1590480221257359361

This was from a Twitter user who figured out how to get around Twitter trying to leave the verification to other parties like Apple.

Another user notes that you could have 7 'verified' accounts for the same person and Twitter will have no way of telling who the real one might be. So will have to ban them all.
Its like they didn't take time to think this through....

 

[rareboy]

A good look at why Elon Musk will likely fail.

the reason Musk was able to buy Twitter in the first place is that while some people — most certainly Musk — think Twitter is very important, advertisers don’t. It’s a subscale digital ad platform, which is why it’s worth a fraction of Google and Meta — two really important platforms advertisers have to use.

Elon Musk desperately needs advertisers. They don’t need him.

Uh oh.

www.vox.com

I don't think that Musk has ever really understood what he was buying. Even with Farcebook, most of the advertising that I see in my feed is not by any big or even mostly mid-market brands. With twitter, I mostly only saw ads for computer games or crypto or on-line betting. Or for Google.

 

[TX-Beau]

Surprise, surprise: Elon Musk attacks journalists instead of owning up to sharing fake news

Did Elon Musk just reference himself spreading fake news? He certainly referencing how to handle it on Twitter moving forward.

wegotthiscovered.com

In a Twitter space session hosted by Elon Musk today, the new man in charge of the platform addressed his concerns over journalism, seemingly referencing the fake news story he recently shared.

Apparently, these days is not the lies one tells that are reprehensible, it's the people who point out the lies one tells that are reprehensible.

 

[Kulindahr]

This was from a Twitter user who figured out how to get around Twitter trying to leave the verification to other parties like Apple.

Another user notes that you could have 7 'verified' accounts for the same person and Twitter will have no way of telling who the real one might be. So will have to ban them all.
Its like they didn't take time to think this through....

Not surprising. I watched a demonstration once where a guy hacked three accounts in under an hour to demonstrate the uselessness of most canned "security questions" from major online companies including banks, questions such as mother's maiden name, what elementary school was attended, favorite pet's name, town where you grew up, favorite musician, favorite movie, all very common questions for which the answers can usually be found on social media. He concluded that most security questions are useless and praised sites which allow the user to write his or her own questions and recommended that users never give correct answers to the usual questions. Unfortunately the latter recommendation is rarely followed because people use the correct answers because they're easy to remember. But when you can write your own security questions you can use things from your own life that aren't recorded anywhere, such as "What word was the punch line to Uncle Terry's joke that Thanksgiving when Aunt Mabel was late?" or "What was cousin Abel doing the day he had that flat tire?" -- or as is popular among D&D and other tabletop fantasy role-playing gamers, "Who stabbed Erol at the goblin gate?" or "Who is the heir to the Broken Throne?" or other questions that no one outside your small group of players will even have a clue what is being asked about.

Just BTW, I was thrilled when barely a month later one of my financial institutions added the option to write my own security questions. My leading one is "Who built the first structure across the river at Jim's Bridge?" -- the answer is not only totally obscure but the answer is sixteen characters long and... well, I shouldn't reveal more; I'll just say that those million monkeys on typewriters aren't likely to come up with it in less than a century (and they'd never even know they'd done so.

Additionally it's not just Twitter where multiple accounts or even imposter accounts are possible; I know a guy with four different Facebook accounts, and one evening a friend of his showed how he'd managed to set up an account using the name of the local police chief!

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

Tumblr is trolling Twitter. They changed their logo to a blue check mark

 

[Kulindahr]

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The top assertion isn't even close. Lots of engineering types like Musk, not necessarily as a person but definitely for his vision.

Well, until the Twitter business... some are thinking he's off his rocker.

 

[Alistair]

The top assertion isn't even close. Lots of engineering types like Musk, not necessarily as a person but definitely for his vision.

Well, until the Twitter business... some are thinking he's off his rocker.

I think it’s pretty spot on

 

[Alistair]

I know some of his "groupies" who regard him as awesomely visionary, but joke about what a jerk he is as a person.

I also know some who are totally pissed at him about the whole Twitter thing because to them that indicates he's gone off track -- Twitter has nothing to do with a grand vision of the future while Tesla and SpaceX do.

If he had a grand vision of the future he would have used the $44 billion to help solve world hunger, climate change or clean water.

 

[gsdx]

^ There's no profit in that. Twitter is going to make him a millionaire!!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

The top assertion isn't even close. Lots of engineering types like Musk, not necessarily as a person but definitely for his vision.

Well, until the Twitter business... some are thinking he's off his rocker.

Lets be honest, his grand vision is a 500 ft tall gold statue of himself at the center of every major city.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

If he had a grand vision of the future he would have used the $44 billion to help solve world hunger, climate change or clean water.

Am I being paranoid or does everthing about an apartheid emerald mine heir having a "grand vision" reek of world domination?

 

[cityboy-stl]

Am I being paranoid or does everthing about an apartheid emerald mine heir having a "grand vision" reek of world domination?

I think you may have identified the antichrist.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

They. Are. Getting. D.R.A.G.G.E.D. Barely any meat left on the bones.

 

[cabinfever]

Am I being paranoid or does everthing about an apartheid emerald mine heir having a "grand vision" reek of world domination?

Yeah - I have had the same thought for awhile now.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Yeah - I have had the same thought for awhile now.

My tip-off was "I'm going to feed the homeless" and then "nvm."