Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

[KMFJD]

A key component of authoritarian cults is to convince followers that Dear Leader is always in danger.

Edit: gotta add that I think it's awesome that Elon was instigating doxxing and mob violence against Yoel Roth just a few days ago, but now is worried about that kind of thing, because it's him.

He's more than happy to protect libs of tiktok and allow them to doxx others as well...

 

[Vic]

i'd say tesla's biggest advantage is battery tech, and it needs to learn to make a better car.

its competitors have been perfecting cars for 100 years, and are very quickly gaining ground on the battery tech.

tesla is losing its competitive advantage very quickly

Matt Farrah did a video a while back comparing the Tesla Model S to a Porsche Taycan and explained how the Tesla drove like a smartphone video game while the Porsche drove like a car that was built by people who love cars and know how to build them.

 

[manly]

i'd say tesla's biggest advantage is battery tech, and it needs to learn to make a better car.

its competitors have been perfecting cars for 100 years, and are very quickly gaining ground on the battery tech.

tesla is losing its competitive advantage very quickly

It's not the battery tech itself that's vastly superior, it's their ability to create enough packs to ship over 1M BEVs annually. Other manufacturers are playing catch-up and have even limited sales due to an inability to procure enough battery packs. Tesla's "famous" supply constraint is due to a limited number of auto assembly plants (to date), which will be resolved in 2023. They will no longer be constrained by how many cars the 4 Giga factories can assemble, so the backlog should shrink to zero.

As far as making a better car, many reviewers still put Teslas near top of BEV class. A 2022 Model 3 is gonna (on average) be better than a 2018 product. One can argue they aren't improving their QC fast enough, but professional reviewers still review Tesla favorable (aside from quality issues). I would say the main gripe with Tesla is they're selling a mostly mainstream vehicle (with some notable deficiencies) at luxury car prices. But with the die cast, many other automakers have adopted the same strategy. Good luck with that when a recession hits!

The Reno Giga factory is (was?) a joint venture with Panasonic. IIRC Panasonic wasn't making much money on the arrangement, so they haven't been all that interested in scaling up. I don't know what type of financial arrangements exist between the two firms or what Tesla pays (if anything) to assemble battery packs at its auto assembly plants.

 

[Saylick]

Location tracking for thee, but not for me!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602832095511920640

 

[MrSquished]

Musk is becoming more and more a trump-like person daily.

It's fascinating to see these Trumpian narcissists operate.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Location tracking for thee, but not for me!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1602832095511920640

I’d say it’s about time to delete my account

edit: requesting an archive of my data then will “deactivate“ my account.

just removed my phone number

 

[K1052]

Elon appears to be banning any journalists who cover him. Big accounts and people at major outlets.

He did promise more transparency lol.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Now he bans the "JoinMastodon" account. Wonder what flimsy justification was used:

Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account

Oh, Elon. Following on yesterday’s nonsense in banning the ElonJet account that robotically posted the public information regarding Elon’s private plane flights, and then trying to just…

www.techdirt.com

 

[Pens1566]

Yeah, once that location thing goes live there will be a huge exodus.

And I suspect some rather painful FTC intervention. Of the "tres comas" variety.

 

[Pens1566]

Eh, might be sooner than I thought based on this thread:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603549117883371520

Lots of journos on the Elmo beat are being suspended. What a fucking snowflake.

 

[Brainonska511]

Elon appears to be banning any journalists who cover him. Big accounts and people at major outlets.

He did promise more transparency lol.

It's just the classic "free speech" warrior nonsense - they really just want to quash criticism.

 

[Pens1566]

More here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603551884748460034

 

[MrSquished]

Elon is a psycho. He is a danger to society and decency. Which means right wingers will love him, because they are the same.

 

[Vic]

It's just the classic "free speech" warrior nonsense - they really just want to quash criticism.

"Free speech for me not for thee."

 

[Roger Wilco]

Yeah wtf is going on.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603558155878703106

 

[Pens1566]

His daughter (and Grimes) tried to warn us ...

 

[Vic]

Yeah wtf is going on.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603558155878703106

Guys, I'm starting to worry that Musk wasn't being sincere when he said he was a free speech absolutist.

 

[Pens1566]

Just saw someone called it #Incelnacht

 

[eelw]

His excuse, any account that mentions the jet account

 

[Roger Wilco]

He’s not done yet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603576447654055937

 

[Vic]

His excuse, any account that mentions the jet account

Funny how free speech absolutism suddenly comes with so many caveats!

We need some kind of Darth Musk meme with the caption "Pray I don't alter free speech any further!"

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Someone please get to work on an Elon jet tracking app because he’d be forced to buy google and apple and arguably Samsung.

 

[K1052]

Everyone I follow is bolting for Post. Seems to be the actual end.

 

[Vic]

I think I preferred the way myspace died.

 

[ivwshane]

I think I preferred the way myspace died.

Quietly?