Enough Musk Spam

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200725040621/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286866843307737088

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/27005941

Difference in registration between January 2024 and January 2025.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28140949

Any other members of the enoughmuskspam subreddit getting bans? just got a permaban for a couple of random past comments. Very strange.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27791056

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday.

The European Commission determined last year that Elon Musk's social network violated the Digital Services Act. Regulators are now in the process of determining what punishment to impose.

"The penalties are set to include a fine and demands for product changes," the NYT report said, attributing the information to "four people with knowledge of the plans." The penalty is expected to be issued this summer and would be the first one under the new EU law.

"European authorities have been weighing how large a fine to issue X as they consider the risks of further antagonizing [President] Trump amid wider trans-Atlantic disputes over trade, tariffs and the war in Ukraine," the NYT report said. "The fine could surpass $1 billion, one person said, as regulators seek to make an example of X to deter other companies from violating the law, the Digital Services Act."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-age-of-donald-trump-jr.html

Before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump that precipitated Elon Musk’s MAGA conversion in the summer of 2024, there was at least one prominent member of Trumpworld who had been courting Musk in public for years. In May 2020, Musk posted, “Take the red pill,” with a rose emoji, to his 34 million followers on what was then known as Twitter. In a quote tweet, Donald Trump Jr. responded, “Welcome.”

Six days after the January 6 insurrection, Don Jr. posted a video to his Facebook page to ask, “Why doesn’t Elon Musk create a social-media platform?” Twitter had just permanently suspended his father for using the service to incite violence, and Junior was mad. “Elon, why don’t you do that?” he demanded. “Get out there and come up with a concept … I think you are literally the guy to save free speech in America.” A year later, after Musk’s successful takeover of Twitter, Don Jr. posted a screenshot of a Musk post that read, “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.” Junior captioned it: “This times 1000.”

He was the first major political figure to suggest that Musk take on government inefficiency, the crusade that has since turned Washington upside down. The day after Musk hosted a forum with Trump on Twitter, now rebranded as X, Junior posted, “Who else loves the idea of Elon Musk heading up a government efficiency committee to eliminate the likely trillions of dollars of waste we have in our bloated bureaucracy? I can’t imagine a better person for the task.

https://archive.is/2025.04.02-051604/https://www.ft.com/content/2c3fda08-90eb-4aa0-bd81-a5cdda2046e5

https://archive.is/oeBUY

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/1997571

TL;DR: Self-Driving Teslas Rear-End Motorcyclists, Killing at Least 5

Brevity is the spirit of wit, and I am just not that witty. This is a long article, here is the gist of it:

• The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of.
• This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities with the NHTSA in the same time frame.
• The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

Read our full analysis as we go case-by-case and connect the heavily redacted government data to news reports and police documents.

Oh, and read our thoughts about what this means for the robotaxi launch that is slated for Austin in less than 60 days.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27614550

https://archive.is/2025.03.30-194435/https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-nasa-mars-space-travel-d3978a7b

I was bored at work. I found something to amuse myself.

Just because you paid 33 billion does not make it worth that, just like when you paid 44 billion and it wasn't worth THAT....

That was what I took away from Elon Musk’s 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focused on the billionaire’s efforts to eliminate government programs and fire thousands of federal workers. Those efforts have spurred thousands of people to protest at Tesla locations across the US. Waving signs and chanting slogans, the so-called Tesla Takedown protesters have become a symbol of opposition to Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Can you imagine 38 minutes of this dumbass talking? Pass me a gun so I can take myself out.