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

[Celery Man 20882]

I saw that graph but I don't understand well enough what it is actually measuring - can anyone explain for the normies in the back of the fediverse?

[Neonmoon 38127]

18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

There's plenty of non-seasonal traffic that's available - the war in Ukraine for instance is a massive driver, even if Elmo tries to bury it.  People like Taylor Swift are out on tour, we have some huge TV shows that are coming back in the next 3-4 weeks, there are some huge CR-related events that keep popping up.

Prior to Musk, I would get daily email notifications from twitter for my various accounts that were relevant and would lead me to click them. Over the past few months, even on a personal account that just strictly follows Ukraine stuff and has blocked a shit-ton of people, I'll get an email with a half-dozen recommendations, and only 2-3 will be relevant, and that's being generous.  I frequently get shit like catturd2, donald trump junior, etc. that I've blocked on all of my accounts.  This is the case for all of my accounts, and the same with people I know.  Occasionally I'll get an email with nothing but actual relevant/interesting recommendations, but it's rare - way too many shit recommendations mixed in.  And the catturd, Trump, etc., stuff, they are blocked, and I'm not clicking on the email links, but I'm still getting sent recommendations.

random blue checks promoting Russian talking points about Ukraine, and constant ads for weird Jim Cavielzal qAnon movie. 

[Lurch 5921]

I saw that graph but I don't understand well enough what it is actually measuring - can anyone explain for the normies in the back of the fediverse?

Cloudflare’s services sit between most consumer and host traffic on the web and as a result have deep visibility into utilization. One of their public reports is which domains are most popular.

Twitter is currently #37th, having been #32nd just 6 months ago

https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains

I’m not sure it’s all that compelling of a datapoint without understanding what’s happening with the other domains on the list in its orbit.

But, it’s a nice graph for dunking, so carry on

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15 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I saw that graph but I don't understand well enough what it is actually measuring - can anyone explain for the normies in the back of the fediverse?

CloudFlare is a major player in various internet-related services/infrastructure.  They can see actual internet traffic (not just guesstimates, browser cookies, etc., but the actual connections being made too various sites).  They are seeing a steep decline in Twitter traffic, part of which coincides with the launch of Threads.

That is the CloudFlare CEO posting that.  I’m sure Elmo will have a pithy response to him.

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5 minutes ago, Lurch said:

Twitter is currently #37th, having been #32nd just 6 months ago

And at that level of traffic, it’s hard to move down that fast. You’re in the finding out phase.

[Celery Man 20882]

ah, and it looks like it looks because it is ranking

[Neonmoon 38127]

Don’t count out Twitter yet 

 

[Chooky 13302]

The Taliban. Interesting. 

[NoName 16290]

8 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Don’t count out Twitter yet 

 

all press is good press per Elon.

the biggest shock is that the Taliban isn't a gold check org!

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Anas Haqqani is a leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban movement and was also a member of the Taliban's negotiation team in its political office in Doha, Qatar.

 

[Celery Man 20882]

to be fair, NPR has an active account on Threads. 1 right, 1 left, same.

[MrBig 5283]

59 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Over the past few months, even on a personal account that just strictly follows Ukraine stuff and has blocked a shit-ton of people, I'll get an email with a half-dozen recommendations, and only 2-3 will be relevant, and that's being generous.  I frequently get shit like catturd2, donald trump junior, etc. that I've blocked on all of my accounts.  This is the case for all of my accounts, and the same with people I know.

This kind of shit happened on my regular Twitter slowly, but I noticed it changed very quickly on my porn-only Twitter. I had all my likes very carefully selected over time and would get great suggestions from Twitter for similar content. Then all of a sudden my suggestions changed from big tits to trump jr, catturd, elon and cybertruck.

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2 minutes ago, MrBig said:

elon and cybertruck

He’s bragging about driving it around Austin, but on my morning jogs/bike rides, I see more Ford Lightnings (1) and Rivian trucks (2) every day than I see Cybertucks.  

[NoName 16290]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

He’s bragging about driving it around Austin, but on my morning jogs/bike rides, I see more Ford Lightnings (1) and Rivian trucks (2) every day than I see Cybertucks.  

that guy never left the Gigafactory parking lot. technically, he drove it around a place in the city of Austin. but he absolutely wasn't out on the roads. if he was we would have seen anything about it posted somewhere else, with video or photos by now.

[Biff Tannen 45491]

1 hour ago, MrBig said:

but I noticed it changed very quickly on my porn-only Twitter

[Pods 7526]

1 hour ago, Chooky said:

The Taliban. Interesting. 

Let me know when the Taliban starts driving Cybertrucks instead of Hiluxes. 

[Sawbonz 27398]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

That is the CloudFlare CEO posting that.  I’m sure Elmo will have a pithy response to him.

💩

[Francisco 2.0 32318]

Speaking of Cybertruck, meet Cybervan:

 

 

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52338]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

that guy never left the Gigafactory parking lot. technically, he drove it around a place in the city of Austin. but he absolutely wasn't out on the roads. if he was we would have seen anything about it posted somewhere else, with video or photos by now.

Austin, or Del Valle?

[Pato del Muerto 52338]

3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

random blue checks promoting Russian talking points about Ukraine, and constant ads for weird Jim Cavielzal qAnon movie. 

Was Jim caviezel always looney and playing Jesus just got him awareness by all the othe loonies?  Or did playing Jesus fuck him up?

[BrickHorn 18186]

11 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Was Jim caviezel always looney and playing Jesus just got him awareness by all the othe loonies?  Or did playing Jesus fuck him up?

I highly recommend the QAnon Anonyous podcast episode “Enter the Cavortex.”

[Neonmoon 38127]

13 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Was Jim caviezel always looney and playing Jesus just got him awareness by all the othe loonies?  Or did playing Jesus fuck him up?

I don’t know but he’s gone 

 

[SydneyCarton 47846]

7 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

This can’t be true, 52-80 said twitter traffic is basically an immutable monolith. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

36 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

I don’t know but he’s gone 

 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand

[SydneyCarton 47846]

39 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

I don’t know but he’s gone 

 

This blows. Person of Interest was a great show I’ll now never be able to rewatch. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

Supposed to have embedded in previous post-

 

[Ted Lange 16041]

 

[mchookem 16194]

see?? Ana was right! 

 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Don’t count out Twitter yet 

 

"Freedom of speech" identified as a "privilege" and not a right on the Free Speech Absolutist platform. 

On brand. 

[MrBig 5283]

4 hours ago, NoName said:

that guy never left the Gigafactory parking lot. technically, he drove it around a place in the city of Austin. but he absolutely wasn't out on the roads. if he was we would have seen anything about it posted somewhere else, with video or photos by now.

Fuckhead probably drives that thing up and down SH 130 from the Gigafactory to the Executive Airport and does it for free because it has no tags on it

[Blotto 23427]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Speaking of Cybertruck, meet Cybervan:

 

 

 

 

Why the fuck does that thing need a steering wheel when FSD will be here this year. If they cant get FSD to work flawlessly on a closed loop that never changes layout, I'm beginning to suspect elmo's real world FSD prediction may fall flat. Again. For the tenth year running. 

[Neonmoon 38127]

You know what else carries more passengers in an underground tunnel at a fraction of the cost? 

[atomheartbevo 89407]

10 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Why the fuck does that thing need a steering wheel when FSD will be here this year. If they cant get FSD to work flawlessly on a closed loop that never changes layout, I'm beginning to suspect elmo's real world FSD prediction may fall flat. Again. For the tenth year running. 

Meanwhile, autonomous/driverless cars are stopping traffic here in Austin when they get confused.  City can't do anything about them because the state regulates it.  

Notice they have actual radars, and they stopped when they became confused.

Elmo's radar-less Tesla's will be a hoot if he ever lets them loose on Austin streets.

 

[atomheartbevo 89407]

Just now, Neonmoon said:

You know what else carries more passengers in an underground tunnel at a fraction of the cost? 

CapMetro's proposed underground gondola system?

[Biff Tannen 45491]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

CapMetro's proposed underground gondola system?

#teamgondola

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

 

25 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Fuckhead probably drives that thing up and down SH 130 from the Gigafactory to the Executive Airport and does it for free because it has no tags on it

Was the video of him bopping alone at the rave in Austin? If not, I can't think of a single pic or video of Elon just being a normal Austinite in Austin, or even waving "hi" to a Chronicle photographer at some random event.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

10 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Meanwhile, autonomous/driverless cars are stopping traffic here in Austin when they get confused.  City can't do anything about them because the state regulates it.  

Notice they have actual radars, and they stopped when they became confused.

Elmo's radar-less Tesla's will be a hoot if he ever lets them loose on Austin streets.

 

Still better than plowing thru a 4 way then bursting into flames. 

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

8 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Still better than plowing thru a 4 way then bursting into flames. 

That's how my first orgy went too

[F250 28679]

14 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

That's how my first orgy went too

 

[atomheartbevo 89407]

https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/tesla-starts-to-layoff-some-battery-workers-at-its-china-factory

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-lays-off-battery-workers-at-chinese-plant-1850621719

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Tesla is reportedly laying off an undisclosed number of electric-vehicle battery workers at its plant in Shanghai. According to Bloomberg, the impacted employees were notified early last week. Some of the employees have reportedly been given the option to transfer to another department at the factory, such as stamping, painting or general assembly.

The outlet says that while Tesla uses batteries made by LG Energy Solutions and Contemporary Amperex Technology, the automaker still needs to build these materials into battery modules and packs before they can be installed in a Tesla. This is where the automaker’s battery workshop comes in.

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Bloomberg reports there are about 20,000 staff employees at the Shanghai factory, and it has the capacity to push out about 1 million EVs per year. It’s apparently the source of over half of the Austin, Texas-based company’s global output.

Despite the fact that deliveries from Shanghai rose nearly 20 percent year-over-year in June, Tesla’s operating margin shrank to just 11.4 percent in the first quarter of 2023. That works out — according to Bloomberg — to a two-year low following the company deciding to discount its vehicles in January and again in March.

 

[Biff Tannen 45491]

40 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

That's how my first orgy went too

That’s gold Jerry!  Gold!

[Blotto 23427]

1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

 

Was the video of him bopping alone at the rave in Austin? If not, I can't think of a single pic or video of Elon just being a normal Austinite in Austin, or even waving "hi" to a Chronicle photographer at some random event.

But he's not a normal Austinite. He's Austin royalty. And he needs to enjoy all of the trappings of that esteemed circle...

Spoiler

If she was good enough for Lance Armstrong and Romeo Rose, she's good enough for elmo. Just gotta figure out how to get him to the WaterTank and let the sultry vixen do her thing. We still have a month of offseason to get through.

 

[atomheartbevo 89407]

28 minutes ago, Blotto said:

If she was good enough for Lance Armstrong and Romeo Rose, she's good enough for elmo. Just gotta figure out how to get him to the WaterTank and let the sultry vixen do her thing. We still have a month of offseason to get through.

 

We have to make this happen.  She has to go 3-for-3 with Lance, Romeo, and Elmo.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

19 minutes ago, Blotto said:

But he's not a normal Austinite. He's Austin royalty. And he needs to enjoy all of the trappings of that esteemed circle...

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If she was good enough for Lance Armstrong and Romeo Rose, she's good enough for elmo. Just gotta figure out how to get him to the WaterTank and let the sultry vixen do her thing. We still have a month of offseason to get through.

 

Willie and Stevie are Austin royalty. Elon isn't and will probably never be newbie level Austinite cuz he shits all over the ethos of Slackerville where life existed other than to serve an employer for the ratcheted up to the nth degree of working ULTRA SUPER HEAVY HARDCORE in the monotonous country that works ULTRA SUPER HEAVY HARD CORE which is why he bobs sadly alone on a dancefloor in the ULTRA SUPER HEAVY HARD CORE competition of life. 

[atomheartbevo 89407]

SIAP but when is he going to ban Zuckerberg for mocking him

[atomheartbevo 89407]

Change the metrics of how you measure twitter activity.  Nice.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13546]

Rock on, Wonder Peen!

[SydneyCarton 47846]

It’s almost like twitter might have been busy last week as people logged in to watch it burn and tell people to move to threads. 

 

[NoName 16290]

12 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Austin, or Del Valle?

the gigafactory is TECHNICALLY in Austin.

so he is...

i think everything south of the Colorado River here is Del Valle?

[wildcat09 29224]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

It’s almost like twitter might have been busy last week as people logged in to watch it burn and tell people to move to threads. 

 

I think a simpler explanation is that he’s just lying. You know, that thing he does all the time.

[Francisco 2.0 32318]

The Greatest Platform for Free Speech The World Has Ever Known, example #8721:

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23790834/twitter-search-for-threads-urls-broken-zero-results

 

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Twitter users trying to find links to Meta’s microblogging rival Threads are finding that the Elon Musk-owned social media network appears to be limiting results. That’s despite Twitter currently being filled with links to Threads content, which you’d expect to be able to find via search. We spotted the behavior via a Threads post from Andy Baio, but the behavior is also being widely reported by Twitter users.

 

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The issue was first noticed when using the “url:” search operator, which is normally used to search for links to a specific URL. For example, searching “url:theverge.com” on Twitter brings up every single tweet that links to any page on The Verge, regardless of whether the URL has been shortened. But searching for “url:threads.net” returns zero results, despite there being plenty of tweets that link to the domain.

 

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Likewise, searching for “threads.net” without the “url:” operator turns up dozens of irrelevant results from users with their Threads account in their display name, or who are talking about the service without linking to it — it doesn’t surface any linked Threads posts.

It’s still possible to find links to Threads posts on Twitter, but you’ll have to get creative. Searching for “url:“threads net”” with a space between “threads” and “net” is the best workaround we’ve seen, and you can also still search for specific Thread post URLs (like this). But the apparent restriction adds friction to the process, making it harder to easily find a broad array of Threads links on Twitter.

 

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It’s unclear how intentional this behavior is, and an enquiry sent to Twitter’s press line returned the customary poop emoji auto-reply. But Twitter owner Elon Musk has been intensely critical of Threads and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Competition is fine, cheating is not,” Musk tweeted on July 6th. “Zuck is a cuck,” was his less measured response three days later. Twitter has also threatened to sue Meta over Threads, claiming Meta has engaged in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”

If it is intentional, however, it wouldn’t be the first time Twitter has limited the visibility of other services on its platform. In early April Twitter limited how users could engage with posts containing links to Substack on the eve of the newsletter service’s launch of its Notes microblogging service. Users were unable to like, reply to, or retweet tweets containing Substack URLs, and Twitter then started marking Substack links as unsafe. Twitter also redirected searches for “Substack” to the much more general “newsletter.” 

Elon Musk attempted to justify the limitations placed on Substack links by saying the service “was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone.” But his concerns appeared to be short-lived: a day later Substack said “the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter” appeared to be over.