Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> It turns out that "freedom of speech" depends on your point of
> view. Who knew? Our big "freedom of speech" advocate is fighting
> against it.
>
> "More Advertisers Halt Spending on X in Growing Backlash Against
> Musk Warner Bros. and Sony have joined other companies in pausing
> spending on X, formerly Twitter, over Elon Musk’s endorsement of
> an antisemitic post."
>
> "In a post on Friday night, Mr. Musk said, “The split second
> court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear
> lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this
> fraudulent attack on our company.”
>
> X said that the research strategy used by Media Matters to discover
> the advertisements that ran along antisemitic content was not
> representative of how regular people use its platform. The
> organization followed accounts that posted the content, then
> refreshed the X timeline until ads appeared, X said in a blog post.
> Only one of the nine posts highlighted by Media Matters violated
> its content moderation rules, X added.
>
> In a statement, Joe Benarroch, the head of business operations at
> X, said, “50 impressions served against the content in the
> article, out of 5.5 billion served the whole day, points to the
> fact of how efficiently our model avoids content for
> advertisers.” He added, “Data wins over allegations.”
>
> Media Matters said that it would defend itself from litigation by
> X. “Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a
> bully threatening a meritless lawsuit in an attempt to silence
> reporting that he even confirmed is accurate,” said Angelo
> Carusone, the president of Media Matters. “Musk admitted the ads
> at issue ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified. This is
> like getting mad at a mirror because you don’t like the
> reflection. If he does sue us, we will win.”"
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html
>
> I'm starting to wonder where the bottom is? How far down can he
> drive the stocks in the companies he's involved with and is he
> deliberately trying to drive down the prices so he can pick up some
> bargains?

If I told Ellie once, I told him X number of times - get your mind and
mouth off that social media barrel of shitsoup and put it back on
rockets, cars, batteries, and tunnels. I want to see humans on the
Moon again before I kick the bucket.

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

On 11/18/2023 3:48 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
> On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 2:40:05 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
>> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>>
>>> It turns out that "freedom of speech" depends on your point of
>>> view. Who knew? Our big "freedom of speech" advocate is fighting
>>> against it.
>>>
>>> "More Advertisers Halt Spending on X in Growing Backlash Against
>>> Musk Warner Bros. and Sony have joined other companies in pausing
>>> spending on X, formerly Twitter, over Elon Musk’s endorsement of
>>> an antisemitic post."
>>>
>>> "In a post on Friday night, Mr. Musk said, “The split second
>>> court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear
>>> lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this
>>> fraudulent attack on our company.â€
>>>
>>> X said that the research strategy used by Media Matters to discover
>>> the advertisements that ran along antisemitic content was not
>>> representative of how regular people use its platform. The
>>> organization followed accounts that posted the content, then
>>> refreshed the X timeline until ads appeared, X said in a blog post.
>>> Only one of the nine posts highlighted by Media Matters violated
>>> its content moderation rules, X added.
>>>
>>> In a statement, Joe Benarroch, the head of business operations at
>>> X, said, “50 impressions served against the content in the
>>> article, out of 5.5 billion served the whole day, points to the
>>> fact of how efficiently our model avoids content for
>>> advertisers.†He added, “Data wins over allegations.â€
>>>
>>> Media Matters said that it would defend itself from litigation by
>>> X. “Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a
>>> bully threatening a meritless lawsuit in an attempt to silence
>>> reporting that he even confirmed is accurate,†said Angelo
>>> Carusone, the president of Media Matters. “Musk admitted the ads
>>> at issue ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified. This is
>>> like getting mad at a mirror because you don’t like the
>>> reflection. If he does sue us, we will win.†"
>>>
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html
>>>
>>> I'm starting to wonder where the bottom is? How far down can he
>>> drive the stocks in the companies he's involved with and is he
>>> deliberately trying to drive down the prices so he can pick up some
>>> bargains?
>> If I told Ellie once, I told him X number of times - get your mind and
>> mouth off that social media barrel of shitsoup and put it back on
>> rockets, cars, batteries, and tunnels. I want to see humans on the
>> Moon again before I kick the bucket.
>>
>> --
>> bill
>> Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
>
> Probably the biggest reason for Elon's success is that he is very good at trolling. What troll wouldn't want to control his own personal troll pit? The Boring Company is really just another troll. He's a car salesman who hates public transportation. He's looking for more places to put cars. Or, at least, pretending to look.
>
> "Elon Musk’s tunnels to nowhere
> The billionaire dug himself into a hole with the Boring Company.
>
> By Avishay Artsy Dec 8, 2022, 7:00am EST"
>
> "In late 2016, billionaire Elon Musk was sitting in traffic on West Los Angeles’s notoriously clogged 405 freeway while shuttling between one of his Bel Air mansions and SpaceX’s headquarters in nearby Hawthorne. Fed up with “soul-destroying traffic,” he initially suggested adding another layer to the 405 before tweeting out an even more far-fetched idea: a 3D network of tunnels.
>
> The idea is even more complicated than it sounds: Teslas would drive from the street onto elevator platforms called car “skates,” be lowered to tunnels below ground, and be propelled autonomously at 120 to 150 miles per hour to their destinations, while their passengers relaxed. Thus was launched the Boring Company.
>
> Musk’s new company bought a machine and started boring a tunnel under Hawthorne. An opening party for the test tunnel in late 2018 received mixed reviews. The path was bumpy; the cars did not drive themselves, and they never went faster than 40 miles an hour.
>
> In the years since, the company built a 1.7-mile-long tunnel under the Las Vegas convention center, in which passengers are ferried back and forth in human-driven Teslas. Proposed projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Baltimore were scrapped. But that hasn’t stopped cities large and small, in California, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere, from expressing interest in building tunnels for cars. But as Curbed’s Alissa Walker explains on Today, Explained, the company is continually ghosting these cities once they bump into permitting issues or other infrastructural complexities."
>
> https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/8/23498861/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-finished
>
> "The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure, tunnel construction services, and equipment company founded by Elon Musk. TBC was founded as a subsidiary of SpaceX in 2017, before being spun off as a separate corporation in 2018. TBC has completed one tunneling project that is open to the public, as well as a test tunnel.
>
> In 2021, TBC completed the Las Vegas Convention Center, LVCC Loop, which is a three-station transportation system consisting of 1.7 miles (2.7 km) of tunnels. As of July 2023, a segment to Resorts World is also open, and tunnels to Encore and Westgate resorts are being finalized. The system is planned to expand to a total of 68 miles of tunnels in Las Vegas. TBC also completed one tunnel for testing in Los Angeles County, California. Many other TBC projects in cities across the United States have been announced and subsequently cancelled or become inactive due to a lack of activity from the company.[4]"
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
>
> TB
>

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