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The Stable Woke Genius
According to Elon Musk's own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion.
- neverscared0
The Story Behind Elon Musk’s Tweet Restriction Fiasco
Last summer, Elon Musk began rate-limiting the number of tweets users could see on Twitter. Here's the real reason why.While the finer points of running a social media business can be debated, one basic truth is that they all run on attention. Tech leaders are incentivized to grow their user bases so there are more people looking at more ads for more time. It’s just good business.
As the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk presumably shared that goal. But he claimed he hadn’t bought Twitter to make money. This freed him up to focus on other passions: stopping rival tech companies from scraping Twit­ter’s data without permission—even if it meant losing eyeballs on ads.
Data-scraping was a known problem at Twitter. “Scraping was the open secret of Twitter data access. We knew about it. It was fine,” Yoel Roth wrote on the Twitter ­alternative Bluesky. AI firms in particular were no­torious for gobbling up huge swaths of text to train large language models. Now that those firms were worth a lot of money, the situation was far from fine, in Musk’s opinion.
- utopian5
Elon Musk is speaking out against and continuously cries government subsidies.
Here's a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received.
1. SpaceX lands a $2.89 billion contract with NASA in April 2021
2. SpaceX signs a $653 million contract with the US Air Force in 2020
3. Tesla accepts "certain payroll benefits" from the federal government's $600 billion 2020 pandemic stimulus
4. New York State put $750 million toward a SolarCity plant in Buffalo in 2016
5. SolarCity receives $497.5 million in grants, in addition to tax credits, by 2015
6. As of 2015, Tesla had sold $517 million in environmental credits to competitors per a federal mandate. Tax credits for consumers also helped them sell more cars.
7. Nevada provides $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives for a new Tesla "Gigafactory" in 2014
8. SpaceX receives $15 million from the state of Texas in 2014
9. The Energy Department loans Tesla $465 million in 2010
- yuekit2
Flashback to almost exactly a year ago...
Elon Musk rips Democrats' billionaire-tax plan that could slap him with a $10 billion annual bill
https://www.businessinsider.com/…
Elon Musk to Congress: Drop the billionaire tax. It will only mess with ‘my plan to get humanity to Mars’
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Taiwan military will not buy any more Tesla cars after Musk comments
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en…
- sted2
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm