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

[NoName 16,271]

12 hours ago, The Dog said:

 

Apple doesn't allow one letter app store names. If they waive that today it will be the first time in the history of the app store that they do that

...they ain't waiving it.

This is the worst rollout ever.

[NoName 16,271]

3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Look at how fucked that X is already. And no way that's attached enough to the roof or to enough weights.

So he's not a computer engineer or an actual engineer who knows shit about anything else we see.

 

[Chopper 17,126]

Back for a moment to elmo's appreciation for child pornograpy when it's carried out by the extreme right wing, and his reinstatement of an account that was suspended for posting an image of a child being tortured. WaPo has an article.

Elmo claimed the photo was only seen by twitter's child sexual exploitation staff. In fact, it had drawn 3 million views and 8,000 retweets.

The person whose Twitter account posted the image, Dominick McGee ("Dom Lucre"), said he’d done so to "draw attention to child sex trafficking." However the image he tweeted was from one of the most notorious child abuse videos in the world, made by an Australian sentenced in 2022 to life in prison plus 129 years for rape, human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children as young as 18 months.

McGee is popular among adherents of the QAnon web of baseless conspiracy theories.

Twitter’s “zero-tolerance” policy, last updated in 2020, says that “viewing, sharing, or linking to child sexual exploitation material contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted children” and is one of the platform’s “most serious violations.”

 

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Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse

It’s only the latest incident of banned imagery making its way onto the site since Musk bought it

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter came under renewed fire Thursday over its handling of child sex abuse imagery after it reinstated the account of a right-wing influencer who had tweeted an image of a toddler being tortured.

After some of the account’s more than 500,000 followers complained that the account had been suspended for its political messaging, Twitter owner Elon Musk responded Wednesday by saying that it was because of the image.

“Only people on our CSE team have seen those pictures,” Musk tweeted, referring to the company’s child sexual exploitation staff. “For now, we will delete those posts and reinstate the account.”

In fact, the image in question had drawn more than 3 million views and 8,000 retweets, according to Twitter statistics on a cached version of the tweet from Tuesday.

Experts said that even photos that are partially obscured, such as the image shared by the influencer, typically qualify as illegal child sex abuse material, or CSAM.

“Generally speaking, even if it is redacted, if it’s clear it’s a child, it’s still CSAM,” said Gavin Portnoy, vice president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the congressionally chartered nonprofit that is the nation’s clearinghouse for battling child victimization.

Musk and Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.

The person whose Twitter account posted the image, Dominick McGee, said he’d done so to draw attention to child sex trafficking. The image was taken from one of the most notorious child abuse videos in the world, made by Peter Gerard Scully, an Australian sentenced in 2022 to life in prison plus 129 years for rape, human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children as young as 18 months.

McGee is popular among adherents of the QAnon web of baseless conspiracy theories, including the belief that child predators include or influence high-level government officials, especially Democrats. Musk reinstated banned QAnon accounts after buying Twitter in October. He is rebranding the company as X and hopes to add commerce and payment services to the site’s discussion and messaging functions.

Asked whether he regretted sharing the image, McGee said he believed he was suspended for posting about former president Barack Obama. “That excuse was a scapegoat,” he said by direct message.

Twitter’s “zero-tolerance” policy, last updated in 2020, says that “viewing, sharing, or linking to child sexual exploitation material contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted children” and is one of the platform’s “most serious violations.”

The policy says that the consequence for violation “in the majority of cases … is immediate and permanent suspension.” It also says that, in a “limited number of situations, where we haven’t identified any malicious intent,” the content will be removed and the user will be temporarily locked out of their account.

Musk has said that stopping the spread of CSAM on Twitter is one of his highest priorities, and has suggested that the company’s prior management was too busy censoring conservatives to root out exploiters.

Yet he has slashed trust and safety staffing, and even die-hard Musk fans have said problems continue. A self-styled victims advocate who uses the name Eliza Bleu and who last year hosted Musk on a podcast where she described him as leading the industry in fighting CSAM, tweeted in June that some videos of child exploitation have remained on the site for more than a month after being reported.

Last month, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center reported that Twitter had been letting through known CSAM that should have been caught with PhotoDNA, which identifies previously detected images and shares them with internet companies for blocking.

“It appeared that PhotoDNA, at least for some portion of material, was completely off, and no one noticed it. It lasted for weeks and let tons of known CSAM through,” said David Thiel, chief technologist at the Stanford Internet Observatory.

“It seems like they’ve been stumbling quite a bit, between detection mechanisms breaking and not having a content enforcement team that can rapidly address this particular issue,” he told The Washington Post Thursday.

In cases not involving child abuse, Musk’s Twitter has been quick to suspend or ban accounts. The company has suspended the accounts of a college student who tracked his private jet, journalists who reported on those suspensions and the founder of an online court-filing database who was critical of Musk.

In contrast, some prominent far-right accounts on Twitter were recently rewarded with direct payouts said to represent shares of advertising revenue. McGee has tweeted that he was also paid.

Musk has also reinstated accounts that were suspended before his takeover, including that of former president Donald Trump, who has yet to tweet, and Andrew Anglin, the founder of a neo-Nazi website who has since been re-suspended.

Such controversies could undermine Twitter’s ability to win back advertisers who have fled the social network due to concerns over Musk’s leadership and content moderation views. Earlier this month, Musk tweeted that the company’s advertising revenue had suffered a “50% drop.”

McGee disputed that he had shared a child sexual exploitation image and said Musk was “weird for allowing these Democrats to push a narrative that I shared child porn.”

Musk’s tweets helped bring attention to McGee, who tweets under the handle “Dom Lucre” and is known for sharing news items and conspiracy theories about child sex trafficking. Many of his past tweets have alluded to QAnon or Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that alleged top Democrats were running a child sex-trafficking ring out of a Northwest Washington pizza parlor.

On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine last year, he tweeted that Putin was “fighting the deep state in Ukraine, their election was stolen.”

McGee’s Twitter account received more than 27,000 new followers on Thursday, compared with about 1,000 last Thursday, according to data from the social media analytics firm Social Blade.

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

McGee also shared the same child rape and torture post on Instagram. The Instagram post, which had roughly 600 likes, was deleted Thursday. A spokeswoman for Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said the image violated its policies against child sexual exploitation.

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52,321]

I don’t know how many of you remember the villain Egghead from the old batman series, who always worked in phrases that had an “ex” but changed them to egg and then overemphasized that syllable (EGGcitement etc).

I’m getting the impression that Elon does that same thing with the regular ex sound. Goes out of his way to use words with it and overemphasizes it. 
And also is a 60s batman tv show villain. 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[NoName 16,271]

I thought the X looked bad from the front. Look at this install! Sand bags! Scissor lift on roof? No way that sunbelt allowed that shit. NO safety equipment? 

 

Edit: It's a light show too? How can this possibly be legal?

Video from a dudes Apt lol it's actually comical

 

Edited July 29, 2023 by NoName

[Pato del Muerto 52,321]

Doesn’t look like there’s any kind of attempt at traffic manipulation around the cherry picker working on the Twitter corner sign either.  I don’t see a single cone, barrel, or hazard triangle in the shot. Certainly City approved. 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[South Austin 52,037]

On 7/28/2023 at 9:08 AM, Serak The Preparer said:

Man, Waddle is going to be great when he enters the portal and becomes a Longhorn.

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55 minutes ago, NoName said:

 

Video from a dudes Apt lol it's actually comical

 

[Chopper 17,126]

In case you've been wondering what an elmo fanboi does for wheels when he graduates from an electric scooter but but can't afford a tesla...

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Those must be Tesla engineers installing it.

Elmo is doubling down and letting everybody know he’s proud of it

 

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At least he’s open about spreading misinformation and no longer pretends he’s not.

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,290]

[Pato del Muerto 52,321]

Guy called it tweeter in his write up lol. Good job, inspector Hernandez. 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[Schulz2.0 28,752]

Did lol

 

[Clintonaldo 2,570]

I really hope he knows something we don’t even though it’s obvious he doesn’t. This has become the cringiest shit I’ve ever seen. 

[Herpa Derpa 6,105]

12 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I really hope he knows something we don’t even though it’s obvious he doesn’t. This has become the cringiest shit I’ve ever seen. 

He knows nothing.

[Underdog 28,437]

Hopefully someone hangs him over the side of HQ. 

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30 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I really hope he knows something we don’t even though it’s obvious he doesn’t. This has become the cringiest shit I’ve ever seen. 

It’s the mind of a 13 year-old in the body of a 50 year-old.  He thinks “titter” is funny and “X” is extreme and k-rad.

[Clintonaldo 2,570]

It’s the mind of a 13 year-old in the body of a 50 year-old.  He thinks “titter” is funny and “X” is extreme and k-rad.

When someone like Elon and Jeremy Pruitt are millionaires it’s easy to see how we collapse as a society.

[Pods 7,522]

18 minutes ago, Herpa Derpa said:

He knows nothing.

He's a narcissistic moron who would refuse to listen to good advice, even if one of his employees gave it to him, which they won't, because he'll fire them immediately. 

[Pato del Muerto 52,321]

What happens when someone who thinks that every idea they have is great and that person has the ability to enact the ideas basically the moment he thinks them up. 

[Clintonaldo 2,570]

1 hour ago, Clintonaldo said:

When someone like Elon and Jeremy Pruitt are millionaires it’s easy to see how we collapse as a society.

KeEp FoOtBaLl OfF oF tHe BuSiNeSs BoArD

[Fudge Nuggets 19,118]

13 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

LOL that most of the Twitter sign is still up. “But they really did have a permit!!”

 

That doesn’t prove they didn’t have a permit. Elmo could have stiffed the work crew per usual.

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3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

What happens when someone who thinks that every idea they have is great and that person has the ability to enact the ideas basically the moment he thinks them up. 

The company that he paid $44 billion for becomes worth $15 billion.

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It’s the mind of a 13 year-old in the body of a 50 year-old.  He thinks “titter” is funny and “X” is extreme and k-rad.

It’s not any more complicated than that. occam’s dipshittery.

[WBT 20,397]

8 hours ago, NoName said:

I thought the X looked bad from the front. Look at this install! Sand bags! Scissor lift on roof? No way that sunbelt allowed that shit. NO safety equipment? 

 

No harness/fall restraints to be found.  That's pretty fucked up.

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23 minutes ago, WBT said:

No harness/fall restraints to be found.  That's pretty fucked up.

If that green scissor lift had been blown over the wrong way, it wouldn't have mattered. Dude would have splatted, with the lift then burying him.

Also, that looks like a light bulb just leaning up against the back of the sign.

How Elon had that sign built tells me everything I need to know about how he's going to build his X.com app.

[conVINCEd 21,468]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s the mind of a 13 year-old in the body of a 50 year-old.  He thinks “titter” is funny and “X” is extreme and k-rad.

 

except for the fact that we can leave our juvenile shit here and put on our big boy pants at work.

Edited July 30, 2023 by conVINCEd

[cactusflinthead 27,593]

 

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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/28/spacex-is-testing-a-flame-deflector-for-starship-without-permits.html

Apologies if already posted. I'm sure we'll able to count on him doing the right thing with regards to the Colorado River as well.

[NoName 16,271]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The company that he paid $44 billion for becomes worth $15 billion.

Quick reminder that the 14.7 billion valuation was before he actually officially announced the new name, deleted things like tweet and RT and had this terrible roll out.

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I wonder how much he would sell the twitter name and URL for.

[Chopper 17,126]

Interesting!

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19,118]

A WNBA championship license plate bracket holder?  Good lord.

[Chopper 17,126]

check the roster for a girl named Evie

Edited July 30, 2023 by Chopper

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[Longhornstampede 3,173]

One building sign coming right up!

 

[Degenerate Gardner 4,081]

18 hours ago, Chopper said:

In case you've been wondering what an elmo fanboi does for wheels when he graduates from an electric scooter but but can't afford a tesla...

That’s the sorta genius who wears a Female Body Inspector shirt and feels clever.

[South Austin 52,037]

4 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

That’s the sorta genius who wears a Female Body Inspector shirt and feels clever.

Oh come on, I get high-fives for that shirt all the time!

[Chopper 17,126]

One of country's most notorious racists has been allowed back on musk's social media platform. Looking forward to hearing through the grapevine how Yacc the supposed marketing wiz CEO-in-title-only will spin this.

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Kanye West’s account on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has been reinstated almost eight months after he tweeted an image of a swastika blended with a star of David.

 

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[Neonmoon 38,127]

Not surprised Musk is siding with Russia

fuck that piece of shit 

[NoName 16,271]

totally normal behavior for an app

Mine shows as the blue bird in the folder but the black x when I open the folder.

I can't imagine apple is ok with them showing one app name in the app store (Twitter) but another one on the home screen (X)

What's to stop me from opening a Facebook knockoff called book face but the app on the phone shows Facebook logo and name?

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https://www.kxan.com/technology/inside-elon-musks-twitter-rebrand/
 

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RYAN: So an everything app is kind of been the holy grail among, you know, Silicon Valley tech companies for years. It’s the idea to have an app that literally could do everything. It can be your social media site, it can be your chatting function, it can order you a taxi, it can, you know, order groceries. You know, in the US, we have apps that do those things individually, but it’s the idea that there’s one thing, one place, you would go to to do all those things, and that is something that Elon Musk is now pitching.

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So I mean, the most obvious example of that would be WeChat, which is this, you know, all-inclusive app, it started as a kind of a messaging service but expanded to do everything from payments, to identity verification, to shopping, taxi hailing, all within this one app. And, you know, there’s a lot of reasons for this. Cultural differences, regulatory differences. One of the main reasons is, you know, the internet in the US has always been kind of a splintered place, people have been used to going to different sites to do different things. In Asia, you know, people started on their phones accessing the internet, and that became kind of a mobile-first experience. And so, you know, people were used to this kind of app experience.

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RYAN: I think what needs to be stressed here is that this is very much a vision. It’s a, you know, his goal for transforming Twitter into X, you know, this thing hasn’t come to fruition yet. But it’s his vision down the line. X, as he has stated, he hasn’t said very much publicly, but it’s going to revolve around payments. You know, this idea that you can pay online through this app. Obviously, we can do various other apps, but he wants to centralize a lot of financial services on X, as well as keep, you know, the same Twitter functionality. So he’s kind of merging, you know, your social life online with your financial life.

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RYAN: You know, I think that’s hard to say, you know, what is the value of this over say, using, you know, your credit card or Venmo? Or, you know, however many apps we have to send payments of money online. It’s not entirely clear why this is, you know, going to be a better use case, and I think it’s down to Elon Musk and to X to explain that to people.

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JENNIFER: Do we know a projected timeline when it comes to this?

RYAN: Unfortunately, no, and with a lot of things, Elon Musk-related, you know, it can take a little longer than even what he says. So I think it largely remains to be seen. There’s a lot of question marks around this thing. And I guess we’ll just have to wait. You know, the company has started to apply for these money transmitter licenses in different states. It’s a very fragmented process you have to go to go state by state. There’s a lot of hoops you have to jump through. So it’s very slow

YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

[wildcat09 29,187]

8 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

We should deport his ass to Ukraine and let them have some fun with him.

[Pods 7,522]

58 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

We should deport his ass to Ukraine and let them have some fun with him.

We should nationalize Space X and Starlink. It's crystal clear at this point that Elon owning them is a national security threat. 

[Pasken 1,309]

36 minutes ago, Pods said:

We should nationalize Space X and Starlink. It's crystal clear at this point that Elon owning them is a national security threat. 

Isn’t it more likely the space force would just deploy their own network? 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

https://www.kxan.com/technology/inside-elon-musks-twitter-rebrand/
 

YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

1980s college athletes had better interview skills.

[Francisco 2.0 32,290]

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Access to the building denied to inspectors two days in a row?  Seems there is no permit (duh!).  Claims the installation is temporary for an "event".  Elmo remains a master businessman.

 

 

[Mach 1 1,676]

Saw this yesterday, seems to be a trend. Hey dumbass,  just change your plate instead of continuing to call attention to your bad decisions.