Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

Safe-Keeper said:
Yet the Elonia cult will keep praising him for bringing FrEeDoM oF sPeEcH to Twitter.
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You know, our usual megaphones parroting that line have all seem to have disappeared. There is no logical way to even pretend that Musk cares about free speech or anything even close to it. I mean sure you'll get the few stragglers that just like to argue for the sake of arguing, but anyone claiming Musk gives a ◊◊◊◊ about free speech is lying. There's no other way around it.

The one thing that truly confuses me is how Musk has the time to dabble in individual accounts while "running" multiple other businesses. I have a regular 8-5 and I don't have the time for ◊◊◊◊ like that.
 
plague311 said:
You know, our usual megaphones parroting that line have all seem to have disappeared. There is no logical way to even pretend that Musk cares about free speech or anything even close to it. I mean sure you'll get the few stragglers that just like to argue for the sake of arguing, but anyone claiming Musk gives a ◊◊◊◊ about free speech is lying. There's no other way around it.

The one thing that truly confuses me is how Musk has the time to dabble in individual accounts while "running" multiple other businesses. I have a regular 8-5 and I don't have the time for ◊◊◊◊ like that.
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speaking of musk lying, he says he runs a bunch of businesses
 
and in addition to the guys that have abandoned this thread instead of manning up and admitting you were wrong, there’s a lesson you need to learn here. because you probably fell for it twice already. someone being a total scumbag piece of ◊◊◊◊ but you don’t mind because they’re rich or you like their policies isn’t good enough. and if you haven’t realized that by now, just wait. it’s going to get worse. undeniably so.
 
Shrinker said:
Update:

“We broke up with him first. We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi,” says singer Ken Casey. “Then someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account, so we filed a legal complaint to put a stop to that—which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended. Look, we pulled our account because we didn’t want to be part of that guy’s empire. But if we were still on there, I’m sure he would have suspended us by now.”
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A friend of mine deactivated their Twitter account a couple of months ago. It now shows as "suspended".

Muck doesn't want people to know how many people are leaving.
 
dirtywick said:
and in addition to the guys that have abandoned this thread instead of manning up and admitting you were wrong, there’s a lesson you need to learn here. because you probably fell for it twice already. someone being a total scumbag piece of ◊◊◊◊ but you don’t mind because they’re rich or you like their policies isn’t good enough. and if you haven’t realized that by now, just wait. it’s going to get worse. undeniably so.
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This.
 
abcnews.go.com

Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire announced on Friday
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musk’s xai buys twitter from musk for $33b in an all stock purchase that doesn’t stink of some kind of financial fraud scheme as musk’s doge starts to dismantle the sec in what is not a hilariously sad conflict of interest

think twitter is bad now wait until his lame ai is inserting itself into everything. he might end up tanking two companies both simultaneously chasing approval and satisfying his public humiliation fetish on social media
 
dirtywick said:
abcnews.go.com

Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire announced on Friday
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

musk’s xai buys twitter from musk for $33b in an all stock purchase that doesn’t stink of some kind of financial fraud scheme as musk’s doge starts to dismantle the sec in what is not a hilariously sad conflict of interest

think twitter is bad now wait until his lame ai is inserting itself into everything. he might end up tanking two companies both simultaneously chasing approval and satisfying his public humiliation fetish on social media
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I'm reminded more and more of that episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia when Dennis and Mac attempt to create "a circular economy" to enrich their bar by giving out coupons for free beer.
 
dirtywick said:
abcnews.go.com

Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire announced on Friday
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

musk’s xai buys twitter from musk for $33b in an all stock purchase that doesn’t stink of some kind of financial fraud scheme as musk’s doge starts to dismantle the sec in what is not a hilariously sad conflict of interest

think twitter is bad now wait until his lame ai is inserting itself into everything. he might end up tanking two companies both simultaneously chasing approval and satisfying his public humiliation fetish on social media
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We've seen this shell game play out before. It was called Enron last time.
 
I find it difficult to believe that xAI is really worth $80 billion, or rather: was worth $80 billion before it got saddled with $13 billion of debt from Twitter.
 
How much did he pay to buy Twitter?

He's jumped on the band wagon of the AI bubble and persuaded his investors that he alone can make it it with his AI offering. He's actually got less of a chance than the other big players who are at least trying to leverage their AI investments into something that can produce sizeable revenue. I presume he's also been saying to his investors how he will take out OpenAI from the commercial arena now he can manipulate the USA government to do his bidding.
 
The owners of xAI must have thought it was a good deal, otherwise it wouldn't have made any sense for them to buy X from Musk. Perhaps they'll have a more even-handed notion of free speech. Let's give them a chance. :rolleyes:
 
The worrying thing is using Twitter as training data for AIs, that really is asking for Skynet, sorry Starlinknet.
 
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