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

[HenryJames 66,038]

 

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

So somebody posts child porn and Musk's response is to delete the porn and reinstate the account.

This is exactly what advertisers want to hear!

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

I have to give another shout-out to Musk.

After months and months of irrelevant ads, I went to look at a tweet/video of somebody possibly having a stroke during a press conference, and just 2-3 replies down, there was an ad for Cheech and Chong's CBD Gummies.  CBD has been (possibly) known to help people who have strokes.

I know it was completely accidental because 50% of the ads I've seen lately were for C&C's gummies, but the ad actually matched the topic for once. 

Edit: I bet Cheech and Chong are paying hardly anything for their advertising, as are the other advertisers I see, because none of these are big-ticket items.  I'm guessing the advertising is keeping the lights on and not much else.

Edited July 26, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[wildcat09 29,348]

Even for Elon, that's supremely fucked up behavior.

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Even for Elon, that's supremely fucked up behavior.

Especially when his CEO is, in theory, somebody who is supposedly an expert at working with advertisers.  Because that is extremely bad if you are a big-name advertiser, because he's sending a message that posting illegal shit will just get the post deleted, which means the incels will probably push the boundaries even more.

He has no filter and nobody telling him "no" at this point.  I can't see her still being there even three months from now.

[royiv 9,277]

56 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

Wow. Just wow.

[Brisketexan 105,088]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

I have to give another shout-out to Musk.

After months and months of irrelevant ads, I went to look at a tweet/video of somebody possibly having a stroke during a press conference, and just 2-3 replies down, there was an ad for Cheech and Chong's CBD Gummies.  CBD has been (possibly) known to help people who have strokes.

I know it was completely accidental because 50% of the ads I've seen lately were for C&C's gummies, but the ad actually matched the topic for once. 

Edit: I bet Cheech and Chong are paying hardly anything for their advertising, as are the other advertisers I see, because none of these are big-ticket items.  I'm guessing the advertising is keeping the lights on and not much else.

Wait....there are ads on there OTHER than Cheech and Chong gummies?  Because FFS, that's the one I see EVERY goddamned time someone posts a link to Twitter and I check out the post.  Wait....there's also some ad about identifying plants.

And yeah.....these ads are the equivalent of the ads that run on the local network affiliate after 12:30, when they re-run the evening news or some shit.  You know they cost like $11 for a 30 second slot.  I'm guessing Cheech and Chong paid $5k, and that gives them the top slot on Twitter for an entire month or some shit.

[Rimbo 25,916]

 

[Chad Fuck 17,664]

I can't judge. I grew up thinking these guys were the height of manliness:

So... yeah.

I mean, they did fuck.

[Rimbo 25,916]

7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

I mean, they did fuck.

They got more pussy than the Istanbul Humane Society.

[Celery Man 20,933]

Pulled more tail than a daycare at a petting zoo

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

2 hours ago, royiv said:

Wow. Just wow.

Six months from now:

Elon: now that we’ve tied shopping, banking, and payment functionality to TwitterX, you will see that TwitterX is a trillion dollar company!

*2 days later*

Media: John69xxx69bro easily hacked and stole the account information for a bunch of TwitterX users and emptied their bank accounts and used the money to buy bitcoin and send thousands of dollars worth of adult toys to Mark Zuckerberg. Do you have a comment?

Elon: interesting

Media: Are you going to compensate them?

Elon: Why? I didn’t do it and I didn’t send him Zuckerberg’s address when he contacted me an hour after he did it. I did temporarily suspend his account   

Media: Wait nobody accused you of sending him Zuckerberg’s address.  John69xxx69bro contacted you?

Elon: We are looking into it 

Media: Are…are you going to compensate those TwitterX users who lost their money through your services?  The government says they may open an investigation.  

Elon:  If we can somehow get the money back for the toys, minus the shipping and handling, we will try and get it back to them.  As for the Teslas he bought, we can turn on self driving and have them drive over to the  people who were affected as compensation.  Of course they’ll have to pay $15,000 each because full self driving was enabled on the cars.  

Media: Law enforcement didn’t say anything about him buying Teslas or bitcoin   

Elon: Curious. As for the bitcoin, we can’t help anybody there   That’s the beauty of bitcoin   

Media:  Wait, let’s back up   You only temporarily suspended his account?

Elon: Well just while we try to get some money back for the users that were affected by this glitch that he took advantage of.  After that we will reinstate his account.  

Edited July 27, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[wildcat09 29,348]

Just an FYI in case people don’t understand, Elon just gave the green light to all of the worst people in the world to post child porn and child abuse material on Twitter. I wouldn’t keep hanging around on that platform. It’s about to get really horrible.

[Brisketexan 105,088]

Just an FYI in case people don’t understand, Elon just gave the green light to all of the worst people in the world to post child porn and child abuse material on Twitter. I wouldn’t keep hanging around on that platform. It’s about to get really horrible.

Well, so long as the person posting it is a right wing troll. Who feeds Elon’s ego. That’s important.

[MrBig 5,392]

5 hours ago, Rimbo said:

I can't judge. I grew up thinking these guys were the height of manliness:

So... yeah.

 

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

I mean, they did fuck.

Simon Le Bon is married to a fucking smoke show 

[Rimbo 25,916]

1 hour ago, MrBig said:

 

Simon Le Bon is married to a fucking smoke show 

Oh, they've all done really well for themselves.

Nick Rhodes:

[Edit: I have no idea what happened to this image... he's not THAT short]

[Edit 2: if you click on it, it looks correct 🤷‍♂️]

John Taylor:

Roger Taylor (#2):

Andy Taylor: (And still married, 41 years on!)

Hey, even Warren Cucurrul... Cuccurull... however you spell it has done very very nicely of late:

And I did pretty damn well for myself, because I'm hot as hell

Edited July 27, 2023 by Rimbo

[Biff Tannen 45,670]

I don’t know who any of those people are. 

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

39 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I don’t know who any of those people are. 

[flatdawgs 1,278]

7 hours ago, Celery Man said:

#thesoundoffreedom

Denaturalize. Deport.

Fuck that guy.

[atomheartbevo 89,632]

38 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

You know, actually I never liked wrestling and I don't know who any of these people are.

Same here, never understood the attraction for it.

I do know who Hulk Hogan is, he's apparently one of those wrestlers, but I know him because he banged Bubba The Love Sponge Clem's wife.

Oh and I remember Sgt. Slaughter because he was in G I Joe.

[F250 28,766]

2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

Yeah, that's why I always rooted for Shawn Michaels instead! 

 

 

Wait, I mean I liked the Ultimate Warrior because of his big, masculine body, looking all muscular and veiny

 

You know, actually I never liked wrestling and I don't know who any of these people are.

 

[choripan 790]

[NoName 16,351]

ALL BLACK IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY. HOW ELSE DO YOU KNOW IT IS EDGY?

 

[Parliament 14,249]

9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I don’t know who any of those people are. 

[Goredho 17,397]

15 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

Where the fuck is Jim Caviezel when you need him?

[Goredho 17,397]

42 minutes ago, NoName said:

ALL BLACK IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY. HOW ELSE DO YOU KNOW IT IS EDGY?

 

Oh, shit.  Only dark mode is going to have some serious backlash.

[texasdago 7,570]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Same here, never understood the attraction for it.

I do know who Hulk Hogan is, he's apparently one of those wrestlers, but I know him because he banged Bubba The Love Sponge Clem's wife.

Oh and I remember Sgt. Slaughter because he was in G I Joe.

You need better wrestling heroes...

 

[SydneyCarton 48,069]

1 hour ago, NoName said:

ALL BLACK IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY. HOW ELSE DO YOU KNOW IT IS EDGY?

 

Nothing finding another way to alienate your users. Black mode can get fucked and stay fucked. Why would you ever remove an option?

[Celery Man 20,933]

the logo looks like the favorite brand of cologne for men who exclusively wear black dress shirts, so it tracks

[Chopper 17,230]

This seems ingenuous bad.

 

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“We’re looking at the range, and you literally see the number decrease in front of your eyes,” he said of his dashboard range meter.

Ponsin contacted Tesla and booked a service appointment in California. He later received two text messages, telling him that “remote diagnostics” had determined his battery was fine, and then: “We would like to cancel your visit.”

What Ponsin didn’t know was that Tesla employees had been instructed to thwart any customers complaining about poor driving range from bringing their vehicles in for service. Last summer, the company quietly created a “Diversion Team” in Las Vegas to cancel as many range-related appointments as possible.

The Austin, Texas-based electric carmaker deployed the team because its service centers were inundated with appointments from owners who had expected better performance based on the company’s advertised estimates and the projections displayed by the in-dash range meters of the cars themselves, according to several people familiar with the matter.

 

 

 

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Inside the Nevada team’s office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on desks. The team often closed hundreds of cases a week and staffers were tracked on their average number of diverted appointments per day.

Managers told the employees that they were saving Tesla about $1,000 for every canceled appointment, the people said. Another goal was to ease the pressure on service centers, some of which had long waits for appointments.

In most cases, the complaining customers’ cars likely did not need repair, according to the people familiar with the matter. Rather, Tesla created the groundswell of complaints another way – by hyping the range of its futuristic electric vehicles, or EVs, raising consumer expectations beyond what the cars can deliver. Teslas often fail to achieve their advertised range estimates and the projections provided by the cars’ own equipment, according to Reuters interviews with three automotive experts who have tested or studied the company’s vehicles.

Neither Tesla nor Chief Executive Elon Musk responded to detailed questions from Reuters for this story.

 

 

 

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The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, this person said.

“Elon wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged,” the person said, adding: “When you buy a car off the lot seeing 350-mile, 400-mile range, it makes you feel good.”

 

 

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Advisers would normally run remote diagnostics on customers’ cars and try to call them, the people said. They were trained to tell customers that the EPA-approved range estimates were just a prediction, not an actual measurement, and that batteries degrade over time, which can reduce range. Advisors would offer tips on extending range by changing driving habits.

If the remote diagnostics found anything else wrong with the vehicle that was not related to driving range, advisors were instructed not to tell the customer, one of the sources said. Managers told them to close the cases.

Tesla also updated its phone app so that any customer who complained about range could no longer book service appointments, one of the sources said. Instead, they could request that someone from Tesla contact them. It often took several days before owners were contacted because of the large backlog of range complaints, the source said.

 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range

Thank you for reading this on surly. Reading it here guarantees that your eyesight will improve 20% annually and that your cholesterol will decrease by 10% annually. 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Chopper

[Neonmoon 38,129]

Don't worry, Fanboys will continue to pump the stock up

[C-Man 27,201]

11 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Oh, they've all done really well for themselves.

Nick Rhodes:

[Edit: I have no idea what happened to this image... he's not THAT short]

[Edit 2: if you click on it, it looks correct 🤷‍♂️]

John Taylor:

Roger Taylor (#2):

Andy Taylor: (And still married, 41 years on!)

Hey, even Warren Cucurrul... Cuccurull... however you spell it has done very very nicely of late:

And I did pretty damn well for myself, because I'm hot as hell

Good looking rock stars pull hot women?

[kevwun 15,772]

51 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Nothing finding another way to alienate your users. Black mode can get fucked and stay fucked. Why would you ever remove an option?

Seriously, everyone else has light mode and dark mode.  Those companies probably make money though.

[texasdago 7,570]

7 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Good looking rock stars pull hot women?

FIFY

[Captain Ron 12,872]

40 minutes ago, Chopper said:

This seems ingenuous bad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range

Thank you for reading this on surly. Reading it here guarantees that your eyesight will improve 20% annually and that your cholesterol will decrease by 10% annually. 

 

 

So you're telling me that a guy that hates advertising was using false advertising?

[Brian Fantana 6,683]

Elon is right about dark mode. I hate admitting that he's right about anything, but it's undeniable.

[G650 14,246]

14 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Elon is right about dark mode. I hate admitting that he's right about anything, but it's undeniable.

Wat

[kevwun 15,772]

Dark mode is useful when you have to stare at a screen in the dark.  Like when you're perusing the internet in your mother's basement.

[Celery Man 20,933]

i stare at screens all fucking day - dark mode everywhere that it is an option. Of course, it is incredibly stupid to disable all other modes on a social media application with millions of users, but then again Elon is working very hard to turn "X" into not that. I don't know what the general guidance around accessibility stuff is when it comes to light and dark mode but it's probably ableist (is that still the term?) as well.

Edited July 27, 2023 by Celery Man

[CooterBrown 18,005]

I like bright white backgrounds. Fuck electricity!

 

[Chooky 13,307]

When elon says "dark mode" he's saying all his employees will have to be in blackface.

[C-Man 27,201]

FIFY

Further proves my point. Even ugly rock stars can land swimsuit models.

[texasdago 7,570]

On a side note, my Tesla driving neighbor had to bring in his less than 4 month old Tesla in for some steering wheel recall and because his headlight kept popping out.

[Rimbo 25,916]

1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

Elon is right about dark mode. I hate admitting that he's right about anything, but it's undeniable.

Nope. Ask any decent eye doctor.

[texasdago 7,570]

9 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Nope. Ask any decent eye doctor.

Dark mode has its time and place.  Sometimes its great, sometimes I hate it with a burning passion.

[totallynotabuttpirate 5,395]

Yea, it gives me a guaranteed headache. I think you have to grow up with it or something. I use night mode all the time and keep the backlight low so there's not a lot of contrast. 

[Captain Ron 12,872]

2 hours ago, kevwun said:

Dark mode is useful when you have to stare at a screen.

FIFY. It's really a great mode for when you stare at a screen a lot - developers love it. 

[Brian Fantana 6,683]

42 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

FIFY. It's really a great mode for when you stare at a screen a lot - developers love it. 

Pretty much this. I stare at screens a lot and dark mode is way easier on my eyes.

[Beau Vine 54,209]

[NoName 16,351]

https://mashable.com/article/xai-twitter-handle-elon-musk-x

so he took one account (xAI) and changed that OP's name to xAI_ then changed the existing xAI_ to xAI__1

at least with twitter it was for a twitter rebrand, now he's just taking accounts that relate to companies he owns.

this has to do so much for trust in the platform. if i don't own my business twitter account (example @DallsCowboys don't own @Cowboys, which is an account from 2015 with 0 tweets, 0 followers) - i am for sure going to demand that as part of my ad purchase. or what happens when someone demands that he take down the account of a critic of theirs?

so fucking dumb. so fucking elon.

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Musk's company also took the handle @xai from the Japanese user who originally registered the handle back in 2010. On July 12, Musk would go on to officially announce his new artificial intelligence company, xAI. That same day, xAI also launched a Twitter account using the handle @xai.

"My account was changed without permission," reads an English-language translation of the post that the Japanese user published on X on Wednesday. "It seems that Elon Musk robbed me."

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The Japanese user who originally had the @xai username tells Mashable that he was offered no such thing. In fact, according to the user, they didn't even receive an email. They logged in to Twitter on Wednesday and noticed that their username had suddenly been changed to @xai_ or "xai" with an underscore at the end of it.

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Furthermore, it appears the company made another bizarre move in changing the Japanese user's handle from @xai to @xai_. It seems they also changed another user's handle, the user who originally had @xai_, who is now found at the handle @xai__1. (Note the two underscores in that second user's new handle.)

Not just @x: Elon Musk also took @xAI from its original user for his AI company

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Elon Musk's Twitter is now X. The rebrand, which was made official on Monday, has made headlines all week. Along with the destruction of the globally recognized Twitter brand and its iconic blue bird logo, the rebranding has also had an extremely messy rollout. For example, large swaths of the website are still branded as Twitter. 

Then, of course, there was the switch of the official @Twitter handle to @x, a username that had already been registered by an active user. Many were shocked that Musk and company would just repossess an active user's handle without any negotiation or form of financial compensation. 

It turns out this isn't the first time in the past month that Elon Musk has taken another user's handle on the platform now formerly known as Twitter.

Musk's company also took the handle @xai from the Japanese user who originally registered the handle back in 2010. On July 12, Musk would go on to officially announce his new artificial intelligence company, xAI. That same day, xAI also launched a Twitter account using the handle @xai.

"My account was changed without permission," reads an English-language translation of the post that the Japanese user published on X on Wednesday. "It seems that Elon Musk robbed me."

When Mashable spoke to Gene X. Hwang, the U.S.-based founder of an event photography company who originally registered the @x handle more than 16 years ago, Hwang explained that he found out his rare one-letter username was taken after receiving an email from the company after they had already taken it. In the email, the company also offered Hwang some merchandise and a meeting with the X team.

The Japanese user who originally had the @xai username tells Mashable that he was offered no such thing. In fact, according to the user, they didn't even receive an email. They logged in to Twitter on Wednesday and noticed that their username had suddenly been changed to @xai_ or "xai" with an underscore at the end of it.

"I received a [DM] message from a kind person on July 13th, saying, 'Elon has taken my account,'" the user told Mashable regarding the first notice they received about their handle being taken.

The user went on to post a screenshot of a tweet from their account from when they still had the @xai handle as proof to any users who doubted their claim. 

Mashable can independently confirm the user originally had the @xai handle as well. Old replies found in their mentions show other users referring to them as @xai. Travis Brown, an independent researcher who analyzes Twitter data, also confirmed to Mashable that the user was previously posting from the @xai handle.

While xAI went live on July 12, the @xai handle could have potentially been transferred to Musk's company in late June, according to Brown's analysis. The @xai handle was transferred to an account newly registered in May without any prior posting history that appears to have been setup specifically for that purpose.

Musk's companies appear to be cherry-picking longtime Twitter handles

Unlike the case with the @x handle, the @xai username was not taken for the X platform. Musk's AI company, xAI, is a separate entity from Musk's social media platform. It even says so on the homepage of the company's website, x.ai.

"We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission," it reads.

Of course, X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is well within its right to take over any handle on its platform. But it remains odd that, according to the Japanese user, the company never even reached out.

A second Twitter handle was affected when @xAI changed hands

Furthermore, it appears the company made another bizarre move in changing the Japanese user's handle from @xai to @xai_. It seems they also changed another user's handle, the user who originally had @xai_, who is now found at the handle @xai__1. (Note the two underscores in that second user's new handle.)

Mashable confirmed that @xai__1 was previously @xai_ through Brown's Twitter data as well as through a link listed in @xai__1's bio which states that the user's Twitter account can be found at @xai_. The user appears to have not used Twitter since 2015.

So, to make things a bit more clear: It appears that Musk and company wanted @xai. So, the company changed the original @xai to @xai_. However, there was already a user with the @xai_ handle so they changed the original @xai_ to @xai__1 and then gave @xai_ to the original @xai.

Earlier this year, Platformer reported that shortly after Musk's Twitter takeover, he requested that the company transfer the single-letter @e handle to him. Combine that story with what we now know about @x and @xai and it's becoming clear that X users with rare, short usernames shouldn't become too attached to their handles on the platform formerly known as Twitter.