#Elon musk

[theconcealedweapon]

How is Facebook censoring? I regularly see conservative content in my news feed from pages that I don't follow.

#censorship #elon musk #free speech

[odinsblog]

A punchline on wheels

Crucially for Tesla's future, we may have reached a tipping point: The Cybertruck has become a punchline in a way that its owners cannot get out from under. The joke is that they are dupes who paid through the nose for an extremely expensive vehicle that looks like it was designed by a child and does not actually perform many of the functions we expect from a truck, and that they'll put up with any design flaw whatsoever.

Every CyberTruck owner is like, “I paid $80k for this and it almost killed my entire family. Small issue. Love the car!'”

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#cybertruck #elon musk #cyberturd #tesla ​death trap #tesla #elon musk fanboys #a punchline on wheels

[allthegeopolitics]

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla. The company laid off more than 10% of its workforce on Monday, and lost two of its highest-ranking executives. A few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to re-vote on CEO Elon Musk’s massive compensation package that was struck down by a judge earlier this year.

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#Tesla #elon musk #cybertruck #Recalls #world news #us news

[texas-gothic]

So I finally saw a Cybertruck in person, today. It was kinda astonishing, honestly. I was walking through the parking lot, and there, right in front of the store, was this massive, hideous thing. It looked like it was from a N64 game. Banjo and Kazooie were fixing to rev up the engine and vehicular manslaughter Gruntilda with it, or at least they would if they weren't immediately turned into paste by the impact. The Tesla Cybertruck really is just a deeply unattractive machine. It both looks and is, mechanically, stupid. Of course the guy who owned it only came in to hassle us for allocated bourbon. Walked up and the first word out of his mouth was "Blanton's." Fucking typical. Hope he enjoys his $122k death trap and his $90 gasoline.

#cybertruck #tesla #elon musk

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Elon Musk Is Trying to Break Another Democracy

X’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right extremism.

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who is barred from seeking public office until 2030, held a grievance-laden rally Sunday in Rio de Janeiro. Against the alluring backdrop of Copacabana Beach, and before thousands of supporters clad in the national colors of yellow and green, he decried his opponents while celebrating one man in particular: 

Now they accuse the richest man in the world, a man who was born in South Africa, who was naturalized as an American, who owns a platform whose aim is to make the whole world free, which is X, our old Twitter. A man who really seeks to preserve liberty for all of us, a man who had the courage to show, with some evidence, more will surely follow, where our democracy is headed, how much freedom we’ve already lost. I now respectfully ask for a round of applause for Elon Musk. 

Almost overnight, Musk, the graceless tech overlord and self-proclaimed free speech absolutist (who is anything but), has become a heroic figure among the reactionary right of Latin America’s largest nation. One rally-goer told The Guardian that Musk “is supporting Brazil against this shameless bloody dictatorship that we have in this country,” and another insisted that “Elon Musk has been an essential guy for us. God has used this man to expose the dictatorship that has taken hold in Brazil to the whole word. He is a crucial tool.” A bolsonarista member of Congress told the crowd that “Elon Musk is definitely watching what is happening here right now.”

There’s no doubt about that, as Musk’s X timeline shows—but he’s doing much more than simply watching. After years of overtures from the Brazilian right, Musk earlier this month finally plunged headlong into the country’s raging politics in a way that may sound familiar to Americans: Portraying himself as politically agnostic, and interested only in defending free speech, he is in fact taking the side of authoritarian, antidemocratic forces whose claims about government-sponsored censorship are a disingenuous rhetorical cover for attacking the rule of law.

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#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #elon musk #twitter #supreme federal court #alexandre de moraes #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[emxritus]

Tumblr users will so loudly hate Elon and scream to not support him (as they fucken SHOULD! Never support Musk or ANY of his companies or inventions) , but when their comfort rich ceo who runs Watcher, owns a fucking TELSA and thus supports Elon, suddenly they turn around and cry and moan that you're "mean" and "hateful" if you say those things alone are a fucking valid enough reason to hate him and say he's one of the rich who needs to be eaten lol. Go fucking figure. Practice what you preach. Do only your favorite comfort ceos get to support the nightmarish, genocidal transphobe that is Elon, or? Which is it?

#my last post on this shit #leftist site my ass #yall are as bad as fucken tech bro right wingers #steven lim #watcher #uwu you cannot be mean to my comfort rich ceo uwu he has feelings too uwu #elon musk #anti tech bro #anti telsa #buzzfeed unsolved #ryan and shane #shane madej

[nando161mando]

Elon Musk — dead at 52 — RIP.

#Elon Musk — dead at 52 — RIP. #elon musk #anti elon musk #fuck elon #rest in piss #rot in piss #misinformation laws #law #morals #ethics #science #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #misinformation #information #world news #breaking news #celebrity news #dog news #news #social media #disinformation

[geek-ramblings]

His apps and own website dunking on him all day is hilarious lol.

#Elon Musk #Twitter

[etakeh]

#humans #population #Robert Evans #I am not a ZPG person necessarily #but I do like the idea of taking care of the people we have before we worry about adding more #but rich people have other priorities #Elon musk

[featheredpheonix]

idk if elon will kill his new chatbot grok when he finds out its woke, but he'll definitely kill it once he discovers it's funnier than him

#twitter #elon musk #grok

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Musk vs. Brazil Supreme Court: five things to know

X owner Elon Musk is under investigation in Brazil after he accused a Supreme Court judge of censoring social networks, calling him a "dictator" and vowing to disobey rulings blocking users found to be spreading disinformation.

Musk went on the attack at the weekend against Moraes, who has waged a crusade against disinformation -- especially attempts by far-right supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to discredit the electoral system ahead of Brazil's 2022 elections.

Moraes has "betrayed the constitution" and "should resign or be impeached," the Tesla and SpaceX boss wrote on X, the former Twitter, threatening to defy court orders blocking users.

The flare-up came after US journalist and activist Michael Shellenberger last week accused Moraes of a "sweeping crackdown on free speech," in a report based on the "Twitter Files," a cache of internal documents Musk released in 2022 after buying the company.

Shellenberger said the files showed Moraes "sought to censor... sitting members of Brazil's Congress" and "weaponize Twitter's content moderation policies against supporters of then-president @jairbolsonaro."

Bolsonaro narrowly lost the 2022 elections to veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #elon musk #twitter #supreme federal court #alexandre de moraes #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#Tesla #cybertruck #elon musk #death trap #crumple zone #cars

[the-alpine-glow]

fuck elon and fuck x, formerly twitter

#196 #r196 #rule #/r/196 #r/196 #shitpost #shitposting #twitter #fuck elon musk #elon musk

[mysharona1987]

#elon musk #trans woman #don lemon #politics #democrats #republicans

[animentality]

#twitter #cybertruck #elon musk #tesla

[ralfmaximus]

A Tesla driver has brought his wife's Model 3 in for servicing because the power steering ceased operating after the car went over a normal speed bump. The service manager (note that Tesla, unlike other car manufacturers, owns and operates all of its dealerships, so the workers there are Tesla employees) identifies the culprit: A system component has become corroded—probably, he says, because the car went through a car wash. The repairs will cost $4,400. The driver observes, reasonably, that he has never heard of a car's wiring being damaged by simply taking it through a car wash.

Reuters did a huge receipts-padded article on the grifting operation that is Tesla, that they have been knowingly selling shoddy, defective, dangerous cars. Then, when those shitty cars break within the first few hundred miles, Tesla blames the owner for "abuse" and won't honor the warranty.

#tesla #elon musk