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NPR temporarily stopped it's twitter accounts in a "state-media" beef with Elon Musk

TheBigA said:
I'm going to sue Musk because he doesn't advertise on my station. That's how crazy this is.
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This is the issue here with Elon Musk we keep running into lawsuit threats this time coming from Twitter.

www.reuters.com

Elon Musk says he will launch rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls "TruthGPT" to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google .
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

me.pcmag.com

Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft After it Drops Twitter From Ad Platform

Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants to charge clients at least $42,000 for enterprise API access.
me.pcmag.com me.pcmag.com

Some of this is tied to ad platforms. This is tied to lawsuits. Also this is very Trump like at this point about Musk. He has not specified what specific defamation allegation the Media has on him though. First of all the media is not supposed to be his propaganda outlet though if that's what he wanted. And two which lawsuits does Elon Musk not want his fans and investors to know about specifically is not proven directly though.
 
TheBigA said:
I'm going to sue Musk because he doesn't advertise on my station. That's how crazy this is.
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I'm going to sue Musk because I don't like him! And then I'll sue myself for suing Musk because I don't like myself not liking him!!

I totally agree! This is pure craziness!

Now he's not only one of the richest man in the world, but he's also one of the world's litigious!

I thoroughly expect that, at some point, Musk will issue an announcement that he will be merging what's left of Twitter with Trump's Truth Social platform, and thus complete his dramatic transformation from eccentric Silicon Valley genius to off-the-scale far right, anti-Media MAGA zealot.

Next you know, someone somewhere will leverage some kind of loophole or cook up some sort of plan to enable him to be installed as President (for example, while he can't properly run for President because he's a South African immigrant, he can run for Congress, where he could install himself as the Speaker of the House of Representatives (third in the presidential line of succession), somehow bully the duly elected president and vice president into resigning, then declare himself King of The Universe (seriously, he has a case of megalomania so severe that he makes even Trump seem selfless)).

The world is doomed if anything like that ever happens....

c
 
cc333 said:
I'm going to sue Musk because I don't like him! And then I'll sue myself for suing Musk because I don't like myself not liking him!!

I totally agree! This is pure craziness!

Now he's not only one of the richest man in the world, but he's also one of the world's litigious!

I thoroughly expect that, at some point, Musk will issue an announcement that he will be merging what's left of Twitter with Trump's Truth Social platform, and thus complete his dramatic transformation from eccentric Silicon Valley genius to off-the-scale far right, anti-Media MAGA zealot.

Next you know, someone somewhere will leverage some kind of loophole or cook up some sort of plan to enable him to be installed as President (for example, while he can't properly run for President because he's a South African immigrant, he can run for Congress, where he could install himself as the Speaker of the House of Representatives (third in the presidential line of succession), somehow bully the duly elected president and vice president into resigning, then declare himself King of The Universe (seriously, he has a case of megalomania so severe that he makes even Trump seem selfless)).

The world is doomed if anything like that ever happens....

c
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Also the way Elon Musk went after NPR, PBS, CBC and their affiliates is crazy.

His playbook is like how Mike Lindell rants about Smartmatic and Dominion but in this case Musk is going after Public Media Outlets for some reason and the media outlets that are really covering Elon Musk extensively is AP and Reuters.

So far we seen Elon Musk's companies Tesla, Dogecoin, and Twitter getting sued for reasons surrounding Musk directly but no proof that Reuters, AP, NPR, PBS, CBC and their affiliates committed defamation directly.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Also the way Elon Musk went after NPR, PBS, CBC and their affiliates is crazy.

His playbook is like how Mike Lindell rants about Smartmatic and Dominion but in this case Musk is going after Public Media Outlets for some reason and the media outlets that are really covering Elon Musk extensively is AP and Reuters.

So far we seen Elon Musk's companies Tesla, Dogecoin, and Twitter getting sued for reasons surrounding Musk directly but no proof that Reuters, AP, NPR, PBS, CBC and their affiliates committed defamation directly.
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Like someone else said, he’s a bully and has bullied media groups off of his platform.
 
cc333 said:
I'm going to sue Musk because I don't like him! And then I'll sue myself for suing Musk because I don't like myself not liking him!!

I totally agree! This is pure craziness!

Now he's not only one of the richest man in the world, but he's also one of the world's litigious!

I thoroughly expect that, at some point, Musk will issue an announcement that he will be merging what's left of Twitter with Trump's Truth Social platform, and thus complete his dramatic transformation from eccentric Silicon Valley genius to off-the-scale far right, anti-Media MAGA zealot.

Next you know, someone somewhere will leverage some kind of loophole or cook up some sort of plan to enable him to be installed as President (for example, while he can't properly run for President because he's a South African immigrant, he can run for Congress, where he could install himself as the Speaker of the House of Representatives (third in the presidential line of succession), somehow bully the duly elected president and vice president into resigning, then declare himself King of The Universe (seriously, he has a case of megalomania so severe that he makes even Trump seem selfless)).

The world is doomed if anything like that ever happens....

c
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Wow, talk about conspiracy theories. This one's on steroids!
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
www.reuters.com

Elon Musk's Starship explodes minutes after first test flight's liftoff

SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk's development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

A disaster hits SpaceX another Elon Musk connected company.
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Not a disaster.

Rapid unscheduled disassembly. Rockets are inherently difficult to do.
 

Now the Blue Check is being removed.
Elon Musk’s Twitter on Thursday began a purge of blue verification check marks from users who have not signed up for its subscription service, with the checks disappearing from the accounts of journalists, academics and celebrities.

The blue checks even disappeared from the accounts of some of the most well-known and widely followed people on the social network, including Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, Bill Gates, Pope Francis, former president Donald Trump and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

Some government agencies — including the official account for US Citizenship and Immigration Services and accounts for some state Customs and Border Patrol offices — also lost their blue checks, which weren’t immediately replaced by the gray checks Twitter has designated for government accounts.

The initial rollout of the change appeared to be fairly glitchy, as blue checks disappeared and reappeared on some accounts. Some other high-profile legacy verified accounts also didn’t seem to lose their checks, at least at first.
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TheBigA said:
BTW the blue checks still exist at Facebook.
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Except one must now pay $8/month to have one. It sort of defeats the purpose, since anyone can presumably pay to get one for any account for almost any reason.

Thus, for reasons unknown, the supposed "anti impersonation" rules will most likely be enforced inconsistently, if at all (one sure case where they will be enforced is if someone tries to impersonate Musk, because it would somehow hurt his grossly oversized ego), so expect much more chaos in the coming days and weeks.

c
 
With almost 400 million daily users worldwide, Twitter isn't going anywhere. When it drops to under 50 million, then it's time to assign it some sort of 'former website' status. Although 50 million daily users would be maybe 17 to 8 times the number of people who watch the most popular news show on cable or OTA network TV.

If Sweden's national network is leaving Twitter, I doubt it will hurt Twitter much. Most Swedish users of Sveriges Radio probably use the app anyway. No Twitter necessary. Same thing with other national networks.
 
kwthom said:
Not a disaster.

Rapid unscheduled disassembly. Rockets are inherently difficult to do.
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They had no choice but to activate the Flight Termination System (shaped charge-explosives), when the second stage wouldn't decouple from the first (booster) stage. When studying the slow motion footage; it appeared that around :30 into the launch, one of the outer rim booster engines had a catastrophic failure (RUD), which likely damaged the vehicle hydraulics system. With no hydraulics to disconnect the coupling clamps between the first and second stage, and the booster engines shutting down as scheduled, the entire ship started to tumble. SpaceX had no choice but to terminate the flight, first by triggering the FTS on the booster, then shortly after, the second stage FTS was initiated.
The good news is: They collected a ton of data, the ship left the pad with no damage to the launch facility (Stage 0), and structurally the ship held up through "MaxQ".
 
gr8oldies said:
Also the upstart Twitter competitor Spoutible, which allowed blue-check migration from Twitter
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Plus T2 which is doing the same.
 
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