I notice none of them has anything to say about the rampant racism in that factory
They’re only anti-elon because they got laid off. They probably were his biggest fan before that
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I notice none of them has anything to say about the rampant racism in that factory
They’re only anti-elon because they got laid off. They probably were his biggest fan before that
All money ain’t good money. I feel for these people, but they were working for Elon Musk. Like Maya Angelou said, when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time. I bet you Elon got pissed off he got bumped as world’s richest man and just did this to free up enough capital to get the vote to get more billions thrown at him from his board of sycophantic directors.
The layoffs weren’t even well thought out just like you’d expect from Elon, probably literally a random drawing so that the word woulnd’t get out to the media or employees who could take action.
He literally did the same thing with the twitter employees but it wasn’t fukk elon then. Now they want to record themselves crying white tears.
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They were most likely getting in on theI notice none of them has anything to say about the rampant racism in that factory
They’re only anti-elon because they got laid off. They probably were his biggest fan before that
The only thing we know for certain is these people were treated badly by Elon Must. We don’t even know if they had knowledge discrimination was taking place and even if they did know, what are factory line workers supposed to do anyway?
And even if you don’t care about these two because they are white, you don’t think the same thing happened to black workers?
And even if you don’t care about these two because they are white, you don’t think the same thing happened to black workers?
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The Cybertruck's Battery Pack Is Half Empty, a Teardown Found
During a Cybertruck teardown, car critic Sandy Munro and his team discovered that the vehicle's massive battery pack is half empty.
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Uhh
Mans has 150 billion on paper. He has enough money to have any experience he chooses every single day, but he cant stop obsessing over black people. Pathetic.
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Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal
The “Cyberstuck” defect will be fixed at no additional cost to customers.
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Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal
The “Cyberstuck” defect will be fixed at no additional cost to customers.
Not even 4K are out the door.theres Spoutible
dude might be trying to goad elon into action against him to drum up publicity.Search spouts, pods, news, & people...
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Remember when you first heard about Black twitter and thought it was actually a separate website? Was that just me?blacktwitter.io
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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Mastodon and Bluesky are still standing.
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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
The publisher-focused platform is going away after less than two years.
By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.Apr 19, 2024, 2:55 PM EDT
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Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”
The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, but now it’s set to shutter “within the next few weeks.” It serves as a social platform that also offers users ad-free access to paywalled content from publishers such as Fortune, Business Insider, Wired, The Boston Globe, and others. All users have to do is pay a “few cents” per article instead of signing up for a subscription to each publication.
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Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge
After lifting its waitlist in early 2023, Bardin told TechCrunch that around 430,000 people signed up. The platform eventually rolled out a mobile app and later launched a real-time notification system, with plans for more features in the future. However, the cost of keeping the platform running seems to have outweighed user activity.
“We built a toxicity-free community, a platform where Publishers engage, and an app that validated many theories around Micropayments and consumers’ willingness to purchase individual articles,” Bardin writes. “A consumer business, at its core, needs to show rapid consumer adoption and we have not managed to find the right product combination to make it happen.”
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Post News will let users download their posts on the platform starting next week. Users can also withdraw the cash balance used for article payments and creator tips until May 31st. Post News isn’t the only Twitter alternative that struggled to find an audience, as another potential rival, Pebble, shut down in November 2023.
But several Twitter alternatives are still standing — and all of them are part of the fediverse, which means they’re open to sharing their content with other social platforms. The decentralized platforms Mastodon and Bluesky are still going strong, while Meta’s Threads launched its fediverse beta in March and added Taylor Swift to its user base.
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Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups
Bluesky really is open to all, now.
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Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups
Has anyone told Joe Biden?
By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.Apr 13, 2024, 1:17 PM EDT
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Bluesky is apparently ready for a bigger challenge. It says it’s allowing heads of state to sign up now, a little over two months after it opened for general signups. In May last year, the site asked its users not to give invitation codes to “recent/prominent heads of state,” stating that it was its policy not to accommodate them.
When Bluesky instituted its heads-of-state policy, the site was still in its showing-everyone’s-ass phase, and its moderation approach wasn’t in place, yet. So instead of the varying degrees of controlled chaos that social networks are, Bluesky was filled with, well, lots of unsettlingly sexy pictures of the cat-eating alien puppet star of the 1980s sitcom Alf, which The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto pointed out last year. It didn’t seem ready to manage world leaders along with the likes of infamous shytposters like Dril.
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Come one, come all. Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
Things are different now, and the platform offers moderation, in its own unique way. Bluesky lets users handle moderation themselves by building out their own filters based on its open-sourced Ozone tool. It also does feeds differently than most social networks. Instead of foisting a one-size-fits-all algorithm on everyone like the default Threads For You feed, it offers people the ability to apply user-created options in addition to the Discover and Popular With Friends tabs.
The site also introduced other features this week, including hashtags in profile bios and the ability to long-press a link to share them.
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- Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
As Bluesky updates its policy, world leaders are already on other platforms, including, sort of, Mastodon. US President Joseph Robinette Biden’s account started using Threads’ limited fediverse integration earlier this month, for instance. At the moment, it doesn’t look like Biden has joined up, so there’s no Commander-in- Skeets quite yet.
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
Biden’s Threads posts can show up in Mastodon clients.
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President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’
By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.Apr 2, 2024, 5:13 PM EDT
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The president’s account can now be found on platforms like Mastodon. Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden, has begun using Meta’s ActivityPub integration, making Biden the first sitting US president to post on the decentralized networking protocol. If you want to follow the President’s posts, but don’t want to leave Mastodon, you can follow @potus@threads.net.
The account turning on fediverse posting comes only a couple of weeks after Threads rolled out its beta ActivityPub integration for users in the US, Canada, and Japan.
Here’s the account as viewed from the official Mastodon client:
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The Presidential Threads account, as viewed on Mastodon. Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
Biden may not be able to see replies and follows as they pour in from the fediverse — and with some servers blocking connections to Meta, not everyone there will be able to see his posts — as those features weren’t part of Threads’ integration when it opened up beta testing last month. But his posts are available, and he’ll see likes coming in from there. Or whoever is running the Presidential Threads account will, anyway.
So far, only Biden’s official POTUS account appears to have toggled Threads’ fediverse integration on. Neither Dr. Jill Biden’s nor Vice President Kamala Harris’ accounts showed up in a search. And none of them appear to have joined Bluesky yet, a competing decentralized social network running on its own AT protocol that recently opened general signups.
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The last thing Elon Musk wants right now is barrelling toward Tesla
Friday's victory at Volkswagen in Tennessee represents a turning point for the United Auto Workers union as they gain strength to take on Tesla.
www.businessinsider.com
Tesla lost over $700 billion in value since November 2021 and Elon Musk wants $45 billion for his performance as CEO
The board is asking shareholders to approve Musk’s compensation package after it was struck down by a Delaware judge.
At least 5 companies under Elon Musk’s control billed each other around $9 million in expenses
For a company of Tesla’s size, the number of transactions involving companies associated with CEO Elon Musk is unusual.
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com