Elon Musk makes offer to buy Twitter

[bots]

Twitter's rebranding of its San Francisco headquarters has been left hanging after police were called.

The Elon Musk-owned platform is changing its name to X, and attempted to remove the outgoing company name from the offices on Monday.

Five letters had been taken down from the office's large vertical sign before work was interrupted.

It now simply reads "er", mirroring the reaction of some commentators to the firm's abrupt corporate makeover.

Justin Sullivan, who took photos of the sign removal for Getty Images, said San Francisco police put a stop to the sign removal "shortly after it began".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66300107

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:joker:

[user104658]

In a hilarious twist, it seems that Microsoft might actually have a legal claim to the "X" branding when it comes to digital communication platforms, due to patents filed back in 2003 (which makes me think they copyrighted a lot of this stuff in relation to the original XBOX).

Part of me wonders, knowing Musk, if he actually already knew this and this whole thing is yet another troll.

[arista]

In a hilarious twist, it seems that Microsoft might actually have a legal claim to the "X" branding when it comes to digital communication platforms, due to patents filed back in 2003 (which makes me think they copyrighted a lot of this stuff in relation to the original XBOX).

Part of me wonders, knowing Musk, if he actually already knew this and this whole thing is yet another troll.


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1685211486669484032

[arista]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1686058966705487875

[arista]

https://twitter.com/ElonMuskAOC/status/1686423781085208576

[Oliver_W]

Twitter's rebranding of its San Francisco headquarters has been left hanging after police were called.

The Elon Musk-owned platform is changing its name to X, and attempted to remove the outgoing company name from the offices on Monday.

Five letters had been taken down from the office's large vertical sign before work was interrupted.

It now simply reads "er", mirroring the reaction of some commentators to the firm's abrupt corporate makeover.

Justin Sullivan, who took photos of the sign removal for Getty Images, said San Francisco police put a stop to the sign removal "shortly after it began".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66300107

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:joker:

The city should be more concerned with what's on the streets rather than above them.

Or maybe Musk should have made the sign from needles, excrement, hookers, and drug dealers; that way, SanFran would protect it at all costs!!!11

[arista]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698828606598734225

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5Vmvr_XoAA7pKW?format=jpg&name=900x900

[user104658]

AI is not meaningfully intelligent and still isn't even close. I don't know what the motivation for the lies is but... They are lies.

Current AI is programming, statistics and mimicry. It doesn't think, it doesn't have motivation, it doesn't do anything at all without input.

[arista]

Some Years ago


https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1710095492334420442

[arista]

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1710027120754209057

[arista]

[Elon Musk could be made to testify in Twitter
sale investigation

The investigation - part of a long-running feud
between the SEC and Elon Musk - revolves around
whether the billionaire broke federal securities laws
when he bought stock in Twitter.]



[Elon Musk's $44bn (£36bn) takeover
of Twitter is under investigation by the
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and
he could be compelled to testify.]


https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-could-be-made-to-testify-in-twitter-sale-investigation-12977915

[arista]

[Elon Musk has said his social media platform X,
formerly known as Twitter,
will launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions.
"One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads,
and the other is more expensive, but has no ads,"
the billionaire said in a post on X.

It comes as the firm started charging
new users $1 in New Zealand and the Philippines
for accessing the platform.

Mr Musk did not provide more details on the plans.

New users who opt out of subscribing will
only be able to take "read only" actions,
such as reading posts, watching videos,
and following accounts, the company said in its website.

It is not clear if there will be any free options.

Mr Musk has long said that his solution for getting
rid of bots and fake accounts on the
social media platform is charging for the service.

Since taking over the firm in October last year he has
looked to incentivise users to pay for an enhanced service,
which is now called X Premium.
Some users now opt to pay $8 per month for
the blue check subscription service.

Its "Not A Bot" subscription method aims
to reduce spam, manipulation of the
platform and bot activity.

He has also tried to woo advertisers back
to X with offers of discounts.

Mr Musk's rapid changes,
including mass layoffs and disbanding content
moderation teams,
has led to advertisers halting ads
on the service.

He acknowledged that the platform
has taken a hit on revenue and blamed
activists for pressuring advertisers.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67167804

[Oliver_W]

AI is not meaningfully intelligent and still isn't even close. I don't know what the motivation for the lies is but... They are lies.

Current AI is programming, statistics and mimicry. It doesn't think, it doesn't have motivation, it doesn't do anything at all without input.

Not to go all "tin foil hat" but that certainly applies to consumer level AI, but who knows what governments and tech moguls have access to.

[arista]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764055996136046613

[Crimson Dynamo]

Going forward, all 𝕏 accounts with over 2500 verified subscriber followers will
get Premium features for free and accounts with over 5000 will get Premium+
for free

[arista]

https://x.com/elonmuskTN/status/1792590003299570175

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOCPGXFXoAErUZX?format=jpg&name=small

[I have $42,000,000,000 to spend.

What company should I buy next?]

[Cherie]

https://x.com/elonmuskTN/status/1792590003299570175

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOCPGXFXoAErUZX?format=jpg&name=small

[I have $42,000,000,000 to spend.

What company should I buy next?]

TiBB?

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://x.com/elonmuskTN/status/1792590003299570175

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOCPGXFXoAErUZX?format=jpg&name=small

[I have $42,000,000,000 to spend.

What company should I buy next?]

Rangers FC

:fc:

[Mystic Mock]

Rangers FC

:fc:

Contact him to do it.

Anything to stop Celtic.:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPkfbG4aEAAl21g?format=jpg&name=small

[arista]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812673141090726366

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSifwV9bQAAeEaG?format=jpg&name=small


His latest tweet


https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812874506438140090

[Mystic Mock]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSifwV9bQAAeEaG?format=jpg&name=small


His latest tweet


https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812874506438140090

Is he getting ready to become Batman.:amazed:

[Maru]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSifwV9bQAAeEaG?format=jpg&name=small


His latest tweet


https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1812874506438140090

They have a small fleet of them parked out front of Tesla where we pass by. One is parked in a field where it's prone to mud :laugh: Just looks odd.

[arista]

1815187468691316946

[James]

What is this advert / live on the Twitter homepage lol?

[arista]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

[Kate!]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

Oh that's lovely

[user104658]

SCREAMING :skull: :skull: :skull:.

Disney Pixar's Elon Musk 2.0 :joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

LOVELY PICTURE

[bots]

How much did he pay them to pose?

[user104658]

How much did he pay them to pose?

Nowt, look at his face, the picture is AI generated.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZKx5JwXkAAGpf5?format=jpg&name=small

[arista]

Nowt, look at his face, the picture is AI generated.



It could be a few years back

[Jordan.]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

Photo credit: Kate Middleton

[user104658]

No
it is a few years back

If you can't see that that isn't a real picture of Elon Musk you need new glasses Arista. Looks like he's been burgled from Madame Tussauds.

[James]

https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images says 99% certain it is AI.

A lot of AI generated images have a painted look to them.

[arista]

https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images says 99% certain it is AI.

A lot of AI generated images have a painted look to them.


Fair enough.

[Alf]

1843590897465995535

[Maru]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

Super fake. It's AI but meant to mimic traditional oils. Like 100s of hours of glazing and scumbling. It's possible to make portraits like this that look very photorealistic. You can tell because a real camera would have a focus/focal point that is uniformly from one plane in the foreground to the background and that sharp<->softer look would be consistent with the physical characteristics of the lens, whereas with oils, people would mimic that hard to soft edge look to give it a sense of realism than a realistic depth, if that makes sense. The softened edges around all their facial features are artistic and too soft in foreground areas to be legitimate.

[Mystic Mock]

Today a nice photo
he posted, with his family.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZHy2feXsAE1wJg?format=jpg&name=small

Is that his Wife?

She's prettier than I was expecting.:laugh:

[Zizu]

Is that his Wife?

She's prettier than I was expecting.:laugh:


£££€€€$$$


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Mystic Mock]

£££€€€$$$


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I don't blame her if that's her reason tbf.:laugh:

[Glenn.]

1842713600785317891?s=46&t=jGjsPOhSduCbgISdXHWlrQ

[Crimson Dynamo]

1842713600785317891?s=46&t=jGjsPOhSduCbgISdXHWlrQ

he obviously has never watched Harris being interviewed

:umm2:

[user104658]

Is that his Wife?

She's prettier than I was expecting.:laugh:

I don't know who it's meant to be - he has 10+ kids and no current/long term partner that he co-parents with.

I don't think these can even be any of his actual kids.

I think it's simply a fabrication.

His most recent baby was this year with a woman called Shivon Zilis.

...and that ain't her in the picture. Weird stuff.

[user104658]

he obviously has never watched Harris being interviewed

:umm2:

You only think that because women's voices give you a trauma-based anxiety response.

[Glenn.]

he obviously has never watched Harris being interviewed

:umm2:

lol

Every interview I’ve seen of hers has been great!

She actually answers questions like an actual human being. She understands the questions like an intelligent human being.

By all means show me an interview with Trump where he answers a question he’s asked and the answer actually correlates to the question he’s asked.

[Crimson Dynamo]

lol

Every interview I’ve seen of hers has been great!

She actually answers questions like an actual human being. She understands the questions like an intelligent human being.

By all means show me an interview with Trump where he answers a question he’s asked and the answer actually correlates to the question he’s asked.

Then may I suggest, with respect, you are a terrible judge of character

[Glenn.]

Then may I suggest, with respect, you are a terrible judge of character

Yeah that’s what I thought.

Instead of actually trying to prove your point you resort to making it personal. Very Trump

[Glenn.]

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[Glenn.]

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[Glenn.]

Never heard of a Cat 5 hurricane. The moron lives in Florida

[user104658]

lol

Every interview I’ve seen of hers has been great!

She actually answers questions like an actual human being. She understands the questions like an intelligent human being.

By all means show me an interview with Trump where he answers a question he’s asked and the answer actually correlates to the question he’s asked.

Indeed. I think she has her moments of coming across a little awkwardly but her responses at the very least demonstrate that she's aware/informed and giving her answers intelligent thought. Some people just prefer a puffed-up showman like Trump... and will willfully ignore that his ability to even do that has declined year-on-year.

[Mystic Mock]

I don't know who it's meant to be - he has 10+ kids and no current/long term partner that he co-parents with.

I don't think these can even be any of his actual kids.

I think it's simply a fabrication.

His most recent baby was this year with a woman called Shivon Zilis.

...and that ain't her in the picture. Weird stuff.

This is definitely weird.

[Crimson Dynamo]

X welcomes the decision of the Australian eSafety Commissioner to concede that it should not have ordered X to block the video footage of the tragic attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.

After the attack, a number of X users posted video footage of the event. The Bishop himself thought the public should be allowed to see the footage. However, the eSafety Commissioner ordered X to block Australians from seeing the footage on X - even though it was available on some other platforms.

X objected but complied within Australia borders, pending a legal challenge by X. Unsatisfied, the eSafety Commissioner demanded that social media platforms censor the footage worldwide. While other social media companies did so, X fought in the Australian federal court. The court ruled in favour of X and rejected the eSafety Commissioner's global censorship demand.

Meanwhile, X filed a legal challenge arguing that the video footage should not be blocked even in Australia. Six months later, the eSafety Commissioner has conceded that X was correct all along and Australians have a right to see the footage.

It is regrettable the Commissioner used significant taxpayer resources for this legal battle when communities need more than ever to be allowed to see, decide and discuss what is true and important to them.

Whether in Australia or around the world, X will fight for your right to free speech.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Douglas-Murray-Getty.jpg

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to see a poll showing that the most admired man in the UK was Richard Branson. You may not love all his publicity stunts, or have liked the sandwich selection on Virgin trains, but that poll suggested the British public still liked entrepreneurialism and achievement.

It seems mainly to affect people who have really never done very much with their lives

I slightly dread a rerun of such a poll today, because I suspect that among the youth vote in particular the winner would be the person with the most perceived disadvantages in life. Having succumbed to the American woke mind virus, much of the generation coming up in Britain seems to be under the impression that we should only really admire people based on their position in the oppression hierarchy. Meaning that what we ought to think most highly of is an ethnically diverse woman with as many physical and mental disabilities as possible. The fact that entrepreneurialism is not the most appreciated quality can be seen from what one might call ‘anti-Elonism’.

Ever since Elon Musk became more vocal about his views, and then went all-in with his support of Donald Trump, the Tesla boss has faced an unrelenting campaign against him by the left-wing media and others. Rather than merely disagreeing with him, these people wish to cast Musk as not just an eccentric but as some kind of loser. A magazine of the American left called the New Republic went so far recently as to say that he is a ‘small man who is simply not very good at anything’. 😁 Lest anyone failed to notice, last week Musk and his SpaceX force successfully parallel-parked a 250-ton space rocket booster on their first try. It was probably one of the greatest engineering achievements in history.

But not as far as Britain is concerned, it seems. There was a kerfuffle last week when the UK government tried to organise an International Investment summit. One of the people they pointedly did not invite was the world’s richest man. Our colossus of a Business Secretary, one Jonathan Reynolds, stonewalled questions about why Musk hadn’t been invited, but it wasn’t hard to guess. After the riots that broke out in the wake of the Southport stabbings (remember them?) Musk observed that Britain appeared to be on the brink of civil war. He also issued a number of sharp tweets about what he thought of the UK authorities deciding that any disorder it does not approve of is by its nature ‘far right’.

One British commentator who used to be tied up with the left-wing hate-group ‘Hope Not Hate’ proudly opined: ‘A few weeks ago Elon Musk was telling the world civil war in the UK was “inevitable”. The idea the British government should be rolling out the red carpet for him at an investment summit is bonkers.’ So it seems that the rules of the game are now meant to be that unless the world’s richest man agrees that all is well in the UK and there are really no unaddressed societal problems that have put the nation into a state of constant social peril, then he is not welcome here. Or perhaps he is allowed to disagree but just should not say it? After all, you can’t hurt the feelings of a certain number of people in the ostrich position and then be allowed to do business on their patch, can you?

The fact that these could be the rules of the game is of course made easier by the fact that there is not a single person in the current Labour cabinet who has spent their career in business. All of them are either career politicians, lawyers, public-sector workers or union workers. None of them has ever grown a business. All have simply spent their lives to various extents sucking off the teat of the public purse.

Ignoring this specific snub (and the government and its media mouthpieces are denying that it is any such a thing), I find anti-Elonism to be a fascinating trend. Because it seems mainly to affect people who have really never done anything very much with their lives. It is a wonderful thing to sit behind a keyboard and bash out theories about how the world ought to be and how the country ought to be run. I sense that some of the people who do this get the occasional chill of a feeling that they aren’t using their lives optimally. Firing off a column about what Bridget Phillipson might be thinking this week may not be tough work but it is also pretty unnecessary work. Whereas creating the most successful electric car company in the world, running the world’s no. 1 social media platform and trying to make ours an interplanetary species in your spare time feel to me like pretty impressive things to put on any CV. You might think that this is the sort of person you would want to be close to.

And I suppose that brings me back to the Branson point. If a country is going to do well, it will not be by government diktat. In fact it is most likely to be in spite of such a thing. It will happen because remarkable people are created who are then encouraged and inspired to do even more remarkable things with their lives. The reason why clusters of such people – from tech entrepreneurs to composers – so often come up in the same place at the same time is that brilliant people help other brilliant people become more brilliant still. It is one manifestation of what René Girard was on to with his theory of mimetics: that we desire what other people put desire into and that makes us desire it more.

I’m sure that we could hobble along perfectly boringly as a country for a few more years while looking to Angela Rayner and Jonathan Reynolds for inspiration. But I’d take Musk any day. He’ll do fine without us. Are we sure we’ll do fine without him?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-rise-of-anti-elonism/

[arista]

Elon getting in his Driverless Tesla



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[Crimson Dynamo]

WEAPONIZATION: Biden publicly ordered 11 federal agencies to 'look' into Elon
Musk. All 11 opened investigations. Then all 11 funneled a total of $300M to
Reuters who then who won a Pulitzer Prize for their relentless attack pieces
against the billionaire.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GfBF3SvWkAAIReQ?format=jpg&name=small

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869071514043318534

[bots]

bollox

[Crimson Dynamo]

bollox

Yep, absolutely scandalous

[Glenn.]

I got brain rot reading that. Are the reporters still in school

[James]

bollox

Yeah.

1869090817551601856

From https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=4ad427e268777faee2f88a763c53c162

Reuters might be biased against Elon because of his politics but there's no evidence they are getting paid by the government for it.

[Gusto Brunt]

And guess who I think is behind these Jersey drones over America...

I'd lay 2p on it being Musk behind this.

https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-116233071,width-400,resizemode-4/116233071.jpg

[Crimson Dynamo]

Loads of lefties ranto join this platform and now they have this problem....:think:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GfJIZfDXMAAjGRQ?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GfJIZfFXEAAj7mQ?format=jpg&name=360x360

https://decrypt.co/293717/bluesky-see-surge-in-users-and-child-pornography

[user104658]

Loads of lefties ranto join this platform and now they have this problem....:think:


Obviously this is a problem that every social media platform has and that needs to be tackled, but you do realise that this (paedophiles, beastiality, the most fkd up porn on the internet) is absolutely RIFE on X ... surely? I'm not even saying that as a "dig at Musk"... it predates him buying Twitter it's always been a huge problem, on Facebook... and beyond... christ, let's not even dare to remember tumblr. And it was all over "MySpace" 20+ years ago. For the Scots among us who remember "Bebo" (bizarrely huge in Scotland?)... Bebo was fkn FULL of nonces trying to groom teenagers.

I believe Musk in fact promised to get it under control when he bought Twitter.

He was not able to.

Because it's on a scale that's impossible to manage.

Not really the fault of the platforms, humans are just often repulsive creatures, so if you've got a platform with millions of humans posting, it's going to have repulsive stuff on it.

[Crimson Dynamo]

🚨 JOE ROGAN: X: IS THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE BECAUSE IT ISN’T MESSED WITH

“X is the number one news source on earth.

It’s the most trusted because it’s the only one that’s not *******ed with.

So even if someone is incorrect, the community notes will correct them.”

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1870532350981161266

[bots]

i will make a prediction. Either Musk or Trump or both will be taken out before the end of the summer next year. Musk has to be favourite as he doesnt have the protection trump has

[Crimson Dynamo]

i will make a prediction. Either musk or trump or both will be taken out before the end of the summer next year. Musk has to be favourite as he doesnt have the protection trump has

how very festive of you

[bots]

how very festive of you

it's just a reality of the way the world is

[user104658]

�� JOE ROGAN: X: IS THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE BECAUSE IT ISN’T MESSED WITH

“X is the number one news source on earth.

It’s the most trusted because it’s the only one that’s not *******ed with.

So even if someone is incorrect, the community notes will correct them.”

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1870532350981161266

And here I was thinking X was a collapsing sht-hole full of gullible twats being manipulated by a billionaire into believing whatever he wants them to believe... but I stand corrected if Joe Rogan says otherwise. When did you become a parody account LT :joker:.

[user104658]

i will make a prediction. Either Musk or Trump or both will be taken out before the end of the summer next year. Musk has to be favourite as he doesnt have the protection trump has

He does BOTS have you not seen him wearing his children as a helmet :hehe:.

[Glenn.]

Yeah. Was gonna say, he very much has protection.

Imagine actually using your child like that. Despicable man

[user104658]

Yeah. Was gonna say, he very much has protection.

Imagine actually using your child like that. Despicable man

Funniest part is;

1) The losers tickling his metaphorical bollocks these days had absolutely no interest in the man before he started aligning himself with Trump, but...

2) Being increasingly aligned with Musk is actually not good for Trump, and Trump knows that... he'll boot Musk to the side of the road as soon as he (and X) stops being useful. Which they will.

[Livia]

Wow look at the ease with which people discuss someone they don't like being assassinated. You people scare me.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GfV85EIa0AAnhqz?format=jpg&name=small

[user104658]

Wow look at the ease with which people discuss someone they don't like being assassinated. You people scare me.

Ever the comedian Livia, LARPing as the concerned citizen is a new one.

[bots]

3 attempts on Trumps life within the last 6 months, indicates to me that assassination is a perfectly reasonable topic. Musk is now the de facto unelected president of the USA so he will be on the hit list.

Since when was it a crime to discuss possible outcomes during the coming year? It's a crazy old world

[Crimson Dynamo]

Musk is now the de facto unelected president of the USA



:joker:

The spoonfed MSM comment of the day

All over far left x accounts

[user104658]

Musk! X! Woke! Feck! MSM!