Enough Musk Spam

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For those that have had enough of the Elon Musk worship online.

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I'd been predicting this would happen a few months ago with friends and old colleagues (you can have a smart AI or a conservative AI but not both), but it's so much funnier than I thought it would be when it finally arrived.

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The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.

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Elon Musk's luck has finally run out (www.businessinsider.com)
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This is why using Tesla stock to source cash all the time gets hairy. If Tesla shares fall below a certain level, the banks can call in those personal loans — leaving Musk on the hook. And the quickest way for Tesla's stock to drop off a cliff is for investors to get wind of a big Musk sale. And of course, he needs to make sure that he still holds on to all the Tesla stock he's pledged as collateral to the banks. Unfortunately, though, the easiest way for Musk to fill the gaping hole in Twitter's balance sheet is to sell Tesla shares. You see how this could be a problem.

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Oh musky boy...

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Someone looks desperate.

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The billionaire had last year tried to back out of his $44 billion offer to buy what was then Twitter, but financed the deal by borrowing $13 billion from a consortium of banks. (...)

Musk may be looking to reduce those payments by ensuring X isn't worth very much, Bloomberg commentator Matt Levine posited in January.

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Elmo's grandstanding to Putler didn't work boo hoo...

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In lawsuit, Musk says ads next to antisemitic posts are Media Matters' fault.

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It released almost a ton of CO~2~.

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Disney and Warner Bros Discovery have suspended advertising on Twitter/X too.

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The non-profit organisation analysed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later.

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Elon Musk wasn't always the influential billionaire he is today. To begin our dive into the myth of Musk, we need to go back to his origins — to find out where he came from, what inspired him, and how he became the man he is today. Those details set the foundation for the three episodes to come. This is episode 1 of Elon Musk Unmasked, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.

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PepsiCo employee says the Tesla Semi is a "disaster" & does 400 miles "at best" with round-the-clock servicing by Tesla engineers

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Haven't heard about them since they were announced. Have they done any groundbreaking advancements or anything?

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