Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Chewbacca 7829]

8 hours ago, 'stache said:

I still struggle to believe that cybertruck is real, and from an otherwise successful ev company (at least by outward appearance). There can’t be a market for it, even from the most loyal Elon bros. It just can’t be possible that anyone anywhere sees that and thinks “that looks awesome and I want one” especially at the price it’ll probably go for. It’s way beyond simulation absurdity, it just can’t be real. It’s like living a real time Mandela effect, where in ten years we’ll all remember it distinctly, but it was never really a thing, just our collective imaginations, on acid.

Especially since the F150 Lightning and Rivian R1T beat them to market.  

[Shaddie 1684]

On 7/18/2023 at 4:47 PM, conVINCEd said:

Or you can punch the accelerator, lose control of the car, and be upside down when it finally comes to rest.  17 year old me learned that lesson the hard way.

 

Sophomore year a buddy got a brand new Camaro. We were in it 48 hours later and he wraps it around a metal line got pole. Good times. 

Just now, Shaddie said:

Sophomore year a buddy got a brand new Camaro. We were in it 48 hours later and he wraps it around a metal light pole. Good times. 

 

[Shaddie 1684]

Ok. SW upgrade for site needs to happen to let my dumbass not double post. 

[NoName 17148]

17 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

Especially since the F150 Lightning and Rivian R1T beat them to market.  

F150 Lightning was announced and shipped in ~12 months. It was Ford's first BEV truck.

Rivian R1T was announced and shipped in ~41 months, and was the first vehicle Rivian produced and was Rivian's first BEV truck

IF they are able to ship one by the end of CY2023, the Tesla Cybertruck will have been announced and shipped in ~49 months. it will be Tesla's first BEV truck.

 

TSLA with everyone coming up in their rearview mirror:

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13626]

 "Everyone" = Tesla in FSD mode

[Chewbacca 7829]

2 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

 "Everyone" = Tesla in FSD mode

Don't worry, it shut off right before impact so the car wasn't self driving when it had an accident.

[Francisco 2.0 32586]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23802115/i-cant-believe-were-all-just-letting-this-cybertruck-wiper-photo-slide

 

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I can’t believe we’re all just letting this Cybertruck wiper photo slide.

The ratio of wiper size to effectiveness here is so low as to be almost zero.

 

 

[Rudiger 1181]

Joke’s on you guys.
 

You can’t get it wet because it will rust, so you don’t actually NEED the windshield wiper. 

[MrBig 5626]

I can see Elon gifting the Cybertruck to Joe Rogan to drive around Austin. Just like he foisted those blue checks onto Stephen King and Lebron James.

[MrBig 5626]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23802115/i-cant-believe-were-all-just-letting-this-cybertruck-wiper-photo-slide

 

 

 

This pic looks like the cybertruck crashed head first into a huge burnt out bush and got stuck in a hidden mud pit

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13626]

It looks like it's on border patrol. Someone needs to Photoshop a dozen Mexicans coming over the wall. Maybe a spiral slide for the kids. 

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More than 99% of content users and advertisers see on Twitter is healthy. And the reach of hate speech on Twitter continues to represent an extremely small fraction of the overall conversation.

This past March, Twitter partnered with Sprinklr to understand, measure and reduce hate speech using its AI-based model and to further our commitment to create a brand-safe environment for our agencies and advertisers. Today we’re sharing an update that includes all of April and May 2023.

Sprinklr’s independent model continues to show the reach of daily English-language hate speech impressions is even lower than Twitter’s own model estimates. Sprinklr estimates the average daily number to be 0.003% compared to Twitter’s estimate of 0.012% for the period of January 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023.

Additionally, we estimate hate speech impressions are 30 percent lower on average vs. pre-acquisition. In June we significantly expanded our Freedom of Speech, Not Reach policy enforcement, which dramatically reduces impressions on harmful content.

And all indicators for June and July show sustained progress. Our work is ongoing and we’re proud of the progress we’re making in maintaining a healthy global town square that is open for everyone to be themselves.

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We recently partnered with @Sprinklr for an independent assessment of hate speech on Twitter, which we’ve been sharing data on publicly for several months. Sprinklr’s AI-powered model found that the reach of hate speech on Twitter is even lower than our own model quantified

 

[Genco 3055]

So total incidents of hate speech have increased but overall hate speech impressions are down 30% from pre-acquisition? And the 30% decrease is completely unverifiable?

I guess I'll just have to take Elon's word for it.

[Celery Man 21095]

10 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23802115/i-cant-believe-were-all-just-letting-this-cybertruck-wiper-photo-slide

 

 

 

Didn’t some bmw’s have a single super blade that pivoted at the base and covered a huge part of the window, in the early 2000s?

5 hours ago, Genco said:

So total incidents of hate speech have increased but overall hate speech impressions are down 30% from pre-acquisition? And the 30% decrease is completely unverifiable?

I guess I'll just have to take Elon's word for it.

Fewer people?

[locodos 5591]

On 7/19/2023 at 10:39 AM, Fudge Nuggets said:

It's going to be known as the "Incel Mobile".  

So it comes with a Glock sticker?

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This is what Twitter sent out to advertisers a few days ago after the big Bloomberg report.  Somehow I keep seeing plenty of ads next to horrible shit.

To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful content viewed on Twitter has gone up over the past six months. This is an absolutely false assertion. 99.99% of Tweet impressions are healthy. Which means only a tiny amount of content requires enforcement. But we’ll keep doing whatever we can to make this platform as safe and healthy as possible.

Bloomberg created this article using outdated research that contains incorrect or misleading metrics. The article does not properly provide the right context or new updates to the remediations we have made since the third party research was conducted. Here’s more information:

Incorrect Metrics:

• The third party researchers consistently discuss "tweets authored’ rather than the "volume of the tweets" that are actually seen. That is a very important distinction.
• Twitter's move to Freedom of Speech, Not Reach (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/freedom-of-speech-not-reach-an-update-on-our-enforcement-philosophy) has dramatically reduced the reach of ‘lawful and awful’ Tweets by an average of 81% compared to healthy Tweets.
• Twitter's work is not done, but we’re encouraged by the progress in driving hate speech impressions 30% lower on average compared to pre-acquisition.

Outdated and Old Data:

• Much of the data within the report is from the period of time immediately after the acquisition.
• Which have already been reviewed or actioned accordingly through automated and manual enforcement.
• Since acquisition, Twitter has shipped products that have led to significant improvements not limited to, the aforementioned work, and brand safety and suitability tools that validate (<insert link>) that our efforts are more than 99% effective in placing ads adjacent to safe content

Zero Tolerance:

• Twitter has zero tolerance (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/violent-speech) for content that incites violence, threatens people violence, or wishes harm on people.
• Under our Abuse & Harassment policy ( ), Twitter restricts sharing of abusive content, engaging in the targeted harassment of someone, or inciting other people to do so.
• This includes behavior that is repeated, unreciprocated, and intended to humiliate or degrade an individual(s) with abuse or hate.

Furthermore, Twitter has strong brand safety and suitability controls in place that are effective in keeping your ads safe. Our brand safety engineering team is also actively building more suitability capabilities focused on inventory filtering and pre-bidding that will be available in two weeks.

Current Brand Safety Capabilities:

• Brands can choose which surfaces (timelines, replies, search results, immersive video) their content will appear on
• Twitter offers first party Adjacency Controls that enable customers to create a negative keyword and account handle list that will prevent their ads from appearing adjacent one spot above or below tweet content they have signaled is unsuitable in Twitter’s Home Timeline, where the majority of all consumption occurs
• Twitter currently partners with industry leaders Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify (DV) to power “post-buy” measurement for Brand Safety & Suitability.

Brand Suitability Capabilities:

• Twitter is actively building inventory filtering capabilities that will allow even more control over content adjacencies.
• Twitter is exploring new pre-bidding control options with third parties. Topline Points
• 99.99% of Tweet impressions are healthy.
• 5X increase in account suspensions for Child Sexual Exploitation vs. a year ago
• 95% of suspensions are proactive–before we get a user report — up from 75% a year ago Advertising Related Data
• As observed by our third party partners, 99%+ of measured ad impressions appeared adjacent to content that was deemed safe in accordance with the GARM brand safety floor.
• For advertisers leveraging Adjacency Controls, we’ve observed a 99% efficacy rate in avoiding terms and authors brands deem inappropriate.
• More than 1,800 customers are now using adjacency controls.

In summary, we’re committed to providing you with a safe and suitable environment where you can connect with your customers. We’ll continue to enhance our suite of brand safety solutions to allow for even greater transparency and control. And we’ll continue to demonstrate through data that our platform is safe and is getting safer every day.

[Fudge Nuggets 19453]

2 hours ago, locodos said:

So it comes with a Glock sticker?

Punisher and AR 15 stickers. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19453]

32 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is what Twitter sent out to advertisers a few days ago after the big Bloomberg report.  Somehow I keep seeing plenty of ads next to horrible shit.

To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful content viewed on Twitter has gone up over the past six months. This is an absolutely false assertion. 99.99% of Tweet impressions are healthy. Which means only a tiny amount of content requires enforcement. But we’ll keep doing whatever we can to make this platform as safe and healthy as possible.

Bloomberg created this article using outdated research that contains incorrect or misleading metrics. The article does not properly provide the right context or new updates to the remediations we have made since the third party research was conducted. Here’s more information:

Incorrect Metrics:

• The third party researchers consistently discuss "tweets authored’ rather than the "volume of the tweets" that are actually seen. That is a very important distinction.
• Twitter's move to Freedom of Speech, Not Reach (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/freedom-of-speech-not-reach-an-update-on-our-enforcement-philosophy) has dramatically reduced the reach of ‘lawful and awful’ Tweets by an average of 81% compared to healthy Tweets.
• Twitter's work is not done, but we’re encouraged by the progress in driving hate speech impressions 30% lower on average compared to pre-acquisition.

Outdated and Old Data:

• Much of the data within the report is from the period of time immediately after the acquisition.
• Which have already been reviewed or actioned accordingly through automated and manual enforcement.
• Since acquisition, Twitter has shipped products that have led to significant improvements not limited to, the aforementioned work, and brand safety and suitability tools that validate (<insert link>) that our efforts are more than 99% effective in placing ads adjacent to safe content

Zero Tolerance:

• Twitter has zero tolerance (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/violent-speech) for content that incites violence, threatens people violence, or wishes harm on people.
• Under our Abuse & Harassment policy ( ), Twitter restricts sharing of abusive content, engaging in the targeted harassment of someone, or inciting other people to do so.
• This includes behavior that is repeated, unreciprocated, and intended to humiliate or degrade an individual(s) with abuse or hate.

Furthermore, Twitter has strong brand safety and suitability controls in place that are effective in keeping your ads safe. Our brand safety engineering team is also actively building more suitability capabilities focused on inventory filtering and pre-bidding that will be available in two weeks.

Current Brand Safety Capabilities:

• Brands can choose which surfaces (timelines, replies, search results, immersive video) their content will appear on
• Twitter offers first party Adjacency Controls that enable customers to create a negative keyword and account handle list that will prevent their ads from appearing adjacent one spot above or below tweet content they have signaled is unsuitable in Twitter’s Home Timeline, where the majority of all consumption occurs
• Twitter currently partners with industry leaders Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify (DV) to power “post-buy” measurement for Brand Safety & Suitability.

Brand Suitability Capabilities:

• Twitter is actively building inventory filtering capabilities that will allow even more control over content adjacencies.
• Twitter is exploring new pre-bidding control options with third parties. Topline Points
• 99.99% of Tweet impressions are healthy.
• 5X increase in account suspensions for Child Sexual Exploitation vs. a year ago
• 95% of suspensions are proactive–before we get a user report — up from 75% a year ago Advertising Related Data
• As observed by our third party partners, 99%+ of measured ad impressions appeared adjacent to content that was deemed safe in accordance with the GARM brand safety floor.
• For advertisers leveraging Adjacency Controls, we’ve observed a 99% efficacy rate in avoiding terms and authors brands deem inappropriate.
• More than 1,800 customers are now using adjacency controls.

In summary, we’re committed to providing you with a safe and suitable environment where you can connect with your customers. We’ll continue to enhance our suite of brand safety solutions to allow for even greater transparency and control. And we’ll continue to demonstrate through data that our platform is safe and is getting safer every day.

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[Sawbonz 28217]

Hey advertisers who you going to believe Elon or your lyin eyes?

[MrBig 5626]

On 7/18/2023 at 7:27 PM, chainsaw said:

[Neonmoon 38130]

Let’s continue to limit its use. Smart 

[South Austin 53222]

4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Let’s continue to limit its use. Smart 

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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Let’s continue to limit its use. Smart 

So they are finally starting to go all-in on trying to force people to pay the $8 a month.

A little too late, and the piecemeal way they are going about it just makes them seem all that more incompetent.

They continue to give Threads an opening.

[Celery Man 21095]

[Neonmoon 38130]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

So they are finally starting to go all-in on trying to force people to pay the $8 a month.

A little too late, and the piecemeal way they are going about it just makes them seem all that more incompetent.

They continue to give Threads an opening.

Elon is making Twitter a subscription based 4 chan

Threads is a chronological feed away from making Twitter irrelevant

 

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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Threads is a chronological feed away from making Twitter irrelevant

This could just be my browser/browsing setup, but if I'm not logged in, and I go to a specific tweet, it'll let me, but when I click on the profile to see other tweets, I get a disjointed mess of old tweets, and not a chronological list with current tweets.

 

[Schulz2.0 29280]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This could just be my browser/browsing setup, but if I'm not logged in, and I go to a specific tweet, it'll let me, but when I click on the profile to see other tweets, I get a disjointed mess of old tweets, and not a chronological list with current tweets.

 

Same here

[atomheartbevo 90641]

Wonder if the twitter devs still left around feel like VisiCalc developers when Lotus 1-2-3 came out, or Lotus 1-2-3 when Microsoft Excel came out.

Or dBase IV developers when FoxPro 1.0 came out.

Or Lotus Notes in the mid/late 90s when Exchange got traction.

 

[F250 29199]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Wonder if the twitter devs still left around feel like VisiCalc developers when Lotus 1-2-3 came out, or Lotus 1-2-3 when Microsoft Excel came out.

Or dBase IV developers when FoxPro 1.0 came out.

Or Lotus Notes in the mid/late 90s when Exchange got traction.

 

[Celery Man 21095]

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

So brilliant. 

 

[Bama Chick 28596]

Ooooooh

An “X” imposed on a stock Adobe After Effects clip.

Fancy.

[Neonmoon 38130]

 

[atomheartbevo 90641]

Not only replacing a huge brand, but now you sound like you’re on one of those escort/porn sites.  
Just imagine if he sunk $44 billion into X.com.  

Spoiler

Oh wait, he did

This comment sums it up:

Elon singing “This is the End” in a towel with rouge smeared all over his face at his penthouse and going crazy at the parents part.

Edited July 23, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[Captainant 28529]

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

 

It really is crazy how Elon is looking more and more like a luckier Russ Hanneman (from Silicon Valley). He's gotten lucky with a few ventures when he's far away from its operations, but he can't help but put his dick into every project that piques his interest

[atomheartbevo 90641]

5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It really is crazy how Elon is looking more and more like a luckier Russ Hanneman (from Silicon Valley).

Yeah but Russ Hanneman fucks.  

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13626]

I like turtles.

[Nivek 17408]

He really has no ideas. Zuckerman did the stupid name change, and so Elon had to follow.

Because the name is the problem….

[HenryJames 67330]

 

[Parliament 14593]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Wonder if the twitter devs still left around feel like VisiCalc developers when Lotus 1-2-3 came out, or Lotus 1-2-3 when Microsoft Excel came out.

Or dBase IV developers when FoxPro 1.0 came out.

Or Lotus Notes in the mid/late 90s when Exchange got traction.

 

Or how Internet Explorer (RIP) developers felt when Chrome came out.

[Celery Man 21095]

It’s like he bought a busy night club so that people would come to his birthday party. But he’s turning the night club into his birthday party and he’s going to wind up back at square one.

[The Dog 44854]

https://www.threads.net/t/CvDGUC6LUHC/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
 

[Firemans4Horn 18528]

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9953]

 

[cactusflinthead 27627]

 

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[MrBig 5626]

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

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Business school professors are going to print this tweet out and frame it, and start writing a new chapter or five for their textbooks (or entirely new textbooks)

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Coke: We’re going to change our name to Fizz because we’re really smart