Seth Pecksniff posted:

As we all called it, Elon's backing out of buying Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/business/status/1545519558810914816

Durzel posted:

I kinda feel like it's all very well courts telling normal people they are bound by XYZ and are ordered to do ABC, but billionaires? Billionaires who are more than happy to weaponise ~100M of followers?

thin blue whine posted:

Hahah Dave Chapelle is such a loving loser holy gently caress.

fishing with the fam posted:

Basic respect and human decency is a "ritual" now I guess.

Data Graham posted:

Most piece-of-poo poo CEOs have the "decency" to hide in their offices or yachts and not concern themselves with preaching their nazi poo poo to the masses directly. Now we get to see what happens when someone specifically and purposefully ascends the pulpit because he cannot and will not log off

spunkshui posted:

They keep getting bigger because they want to sell products the customers will buy.

Apple made an iPhone small recently and no one wanted it.

“The ‌iPhone 13‌ mini had the smallest share of sales of all the ‌iPhone 13‌ models, and it made up just three percent of total ‌iPhone‌ sales during the quarter. Comparatively, the other ‌iPhone 13‌ models were much more popular, and had the largest share of U.S. sales in several years.”

Noxville posted:

https://twitter.com/whatapityonyou/status/1683596449022627840?s=46&t=lz1DjwUk2vgFTdWPPaLwfA

Mr Interweb posted:

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1707402778006499439

mandatory fees AND a cumbersome and potentially very unsafe verification process??!

well i just have one thing to say to that!

did somebody mention SPORTS?

lurkeskywalker posted:

Why?

Ror posted:

I thought Elon wanted the population to go up?

shyduck posted:

So it's like twitch but with none of the features

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

he's publicly said all his kids were IVF. he hasn't admitted it's so he can select only the male sex embryos but that part is implied by the results

Asproigerosis posted:

This no headline article thing has to be some form of someone hosed up the code, right? Nobody could possibly think yes just a no context image will suffice for relaying text articles to others.

thathonkey posted:

they cant stop also they dont care to

Quote-Unquote posted:

Elon is now banning people for making fun of the new missing headlines feature. What a loving pissbitch.

https://twitter.com/RayyvanaTTV/status/1710318537045139645

ComfyPants posted:

I put more effort into lovely Photoshop gags for SA than that, did the computer genius just discover Windows Movie Maker?

DRINK ME posted:

We’re at the paid celebrity endorsement stage of “please use my site”. I’m too old to know but isn’t Paris Hilton kind of a has-been? Like she was a thing 20 years ago but mostly people either wanted to be her or made fun of her, then found her kind of endearing, then forgot her.

Escape Goat posted:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/elon-musk-talks-tesla-we-dug-our-own-grave-with-the-cybertruck/

Load-bearing "we"

yook posted:

The language in that article makes me think they were planning to re-sell the debt to someone else before things went to poo poo, but they kept it too long or things went to poo poo too fast and now they’re stuck holding the bag.

Subprime mortgage Elon-backed securities!

holtemon posted:

First #sports now #calls?? What are they gonna think of next?

redshirt posted:

Surely at some point, the insanity Musk is displaying on a daily basis on Twitter will have ramification with his other businesses, yes? Has it already happened?
I'm thinking specifically of SpaceX, because it's just not another company, but also has important national security functions. And this insane idiot is in charge?

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

$1 billion worth of crypto scams and nazi memes

Halisnacks posted:

“Terf” feels a bit like “boomer” to me.

People who identified as either didn’t mind being called those words until they realised huge swathes of people dislike terfs and boomers, specifically for their terfy or boomerish worldviews.

On this note, I wonder why there isn’t a pejorative for Gen X yet, given Musk is the most prominent of that generation.

Songbearer posted:

You could've stopped boomers

Why didn't you stop boomers

chadbear posted:

OK boomer

kazil posted:

Yeah. Same with X. Just brand names that are unpleasant to actually say. Musk doesn't ever need focus testing, just the first thing that ever pops into his dumb head.

Aramis posted:

"gros con" is closer to "colossal idiot", which is conveniently even funnier.

Unfortunately, this is a massive stretch. I can't think of a single french accent out there where grok would be pronounced in a way that sounds anything like "gros con". Partly because the phonemes are different (think "grog"), but also because the pause between the two words is not really negotiable.

Aramis posted:

That's interesting. I am french as well and my perspective is completely different. Saying "grok" in french, to me, sounds a lot like "Froc", "Grog", "Rock" (as in Rock n' Roll), "Grotte", etc... where the O is pushed much closer to an A, and jumping from that to "gros" just does not work at all to my ears.

Is there a piece of regional slang where "gros con" contracts to "Groc" with the O mushed into an A? I'm genuinely curious.

crispix posted:

"NPC theory" is just what we would have called psychopathic thinking, back in the day, isn't it?

Abongination posted:

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Dominion's lawyers right now

Aramis posted:

Yet his politics remain unknowable.

thin blue whine posted:

has that racist prick slipped into a ketamine coma yet and if not why not

steinrokkan posted:

Anti-white racism is tragic, but the most despicable form of bigotry is anti-rich-man racism. Sadly Elon is a victim of both

R.L. Stine posted:

the future of art is beautiful..

dr_rat posted:

Well he got a three movie autobiography made about him. Did you, huh?

Macichne Leainig posted:

Elon is both a great visionary and all powerful, and simultaneously 100% owned by a transgender liberal

mannerup posted:

I think Seth is making a stretch there and reading the wrong angle. Elon Musk has long held a personal grudge with Sam Altman due to their time at OpenAI where Altman convinced the other founders to decline Elon's offer to take control of the company, causing Musk to leave the company and rescind donations he promised. He also posted a letter critical of Altman from OpenAI during the period of time he was briefly ousted from the company.

Elon is gonna tweet some more antisemitic poo poo soon enough anyway

Convex posted:

Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

EA is a libertarian affirming philosophy but it's also turned into a boogieman amongst the crypto crowd precisely because SBF used it to launder his reputation and SBF is soy and woke and EA is by extension also soy and woke.

Samovar posted:

So, with all these dolts talking about a Woke Mind Virus, if someone stated they had a vaccine for it, would they accept it or reject it?