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This Is What $44 Billion Buys You
Elon Musk has turned X into a political weapon.
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Elon Only Started Buying Up Twitter Shares After Twitter Refused To Ban Plane Tracking Account
Far from being the free-speech advocate he claims to be, Elon’s purchase of twitter suggests that from the very start a major motivation in the purchase, was to silence accounts he disliked.
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The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
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Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with our most sensitive radio telescopes
Starlink satellites emit bright, unintended and unexpected signals that interfere with radio telescopes.
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Elon Fires Half Of ExTwitter’s Election Integrity Team, Because A Manager Liked A Tweet Calling Him A Fucking Dipshit
Aaron Rodericks, co-lead of the department, was targeted in a right-wing harassment campaign after trying to hire new employees to combat political misinformation
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A special treat for Elon: 2,200 cases for not paying severance
X is not, in fact, gonna give it to ya.
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Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of Twitter
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Tesla reported 466,140 deliveries for the second quarter, and production of 479,700 vehicles
Tesla just posted its second-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2023.
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SpaceX aims to launch Starship again in 6 to 8 weeks, Elon Musk says
SpaceX's huge Starship rocket could fly again before the summer is out. A fully stacked Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, launched for the first time ever on April 20.
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Twitter Decides To Stop Paying Google, Despite Relying On It For Multiple Tools
Musk is still struggling to get the company to break even. This is kind of incredible, given that pre-Musk, Twitter was profitable in 16 of the previous 20 quarters.
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Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford.
Tesla Motors scored higher in the trajectory and vision categories, but lower in character, trust, and citizenship on the 2023 Axios Harris Poll.
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Elon Musk says he's getting rid of rare Earth magnets in Tesla EVs
In a major move, Tesla is looking to rid its electric vehicles of rare Earth minerals, potentially eliminating the biggest environmental concern over the increasing number of EVs on the road. The surprise announcement came during Tesla's Master Plan 3 Investor event where the company outlined its business strategy for the next few years.
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FAA grounds SpaceX Starship after explosion
Musk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris
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Elon Seems To Think The Cruelest Thing He Can Do To People… Is To Pretend They Want To Associate With Him
Let’s start this post out by noting that a key reason Elon Musk said he was getting rid of the legacy Twitter verification system was that it was arbitrary and unfair and created a “lords and peasa…
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SpaceX celebrated Starship's 1st launch. Some locals called it 'truly terrifying'
The world's largest, most powerful rocket caused some serious mayhem during its first launch. SpaceX's massive fully-integrated Starship launch vehicle lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase test facility in Boca Chica, Texas on April 20 at 9:33 a.m. EDT (1333 GMT; 8:33 a.m. local Texas time). Starship then flew for just over four minutes on its first orbital test flight — complete with somersaults — before automated systems initiated a destructive abort procedure and caused the rocket to explode.
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The Pentagon Is Increasingly Relying on Billionaires’ Rockets. And It’s OK with That.
The U.S. Space Force is not concerned about relying on mercurial billionaires to provide space capabilities, according to top service leaders. The service’s ability to put large satellites in space rests primarily on the shoulders of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX test-flew a new heavy-lift rocket for the first time on Thursday, and Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin is slated to deliver engines to United Launch Alliance.
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Twitter advertisers told: Come back, but don't make demands
Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to serve ads, while also warning the biz won't bow to pressure from advertisers who want to dictate its behavior.
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Elon Musk plans 'TruthGPT' A.I. to rival OpenAI, DeepMind
Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk called for regulation of AI during a taped interview that aired Monday on Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla get far more government money than NPR
This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets that shade into propaganda. Later, the label was changed to “government-funded media.” NPR, which maintains that its editorial content is independent and has a history of running stories critical of the US government, decided to leave the platform rather than accept either new label.
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Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports. That's despite the billionaire CEO repeatedly voicing concerns over AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and even signing an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing AIs more advanced than OpenAI's GPT-4.
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