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  • Go Musk Yourself

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 1 03:45:43 2023
    Hilarious interview with Elon Musk, who tells the advertisers who left
    Xitter to go f*ck themselves. Yep, that will help sales.

    Will not miss that site, or that dude. Or his ugly-*ss truck.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Fri Dec 1 04:46:44 2023
    On Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:45:43 GMT, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Hilarious interview with Elon Musk, who tells the
    advertisers who left Xitter to go f*ck themselves.

    But when he goes to China, he kisses their butts.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Fri Dec 1 11:49:06 2023
    On Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:45:43 GMT, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Will not miss that site, or that dude

    On another note,

    The end of Elon

    Standing on the rear bed of his greatest boondoggle, his face obscured
    in shadow, the billionaire who built a rabid fanbase through seemingly
    inhuman feats of engineering and willpower cut a greatly reduced
    figure: Elon Musk was presiding over the first customer deliveries of
    a Tesla truck that, like most things Musk touched, was drastically
    over budget and far beyond its original shipping timeline. Plus, just
    a couple days earlier Musk had essentially sealed the dismal fate of
    another of his companies by publicly telling advertising partners to
    "go fuck [themselves]."

    To say he was looking diminished is putting it mildly.
    ...
    ...
    Musk didn't address his crumbling social media product or how his
    frequent, inflammatory comments and amplification of false and
    dangerous conspiracy theories have made it impossible to see a path
    forward for X that doesn't end badly. He didn't talk about how his
    range of distractions, including a repeatedly exploding spacecraft
    he's periodically launching from south Texas, are giving Tesla
    investors some serious misgivings. Mostly, he talked about the
    Cybertruck's potential benefits to owners in case of the end of modern civilization. And again: about how cool they'll look.

    No longer the confident, if controversial, prognosticator and big
    swing solutions engineer, Musk has instead become a mad-eyed, rambling
    and raving advocate of far-right nonsense and vacillating convictions.
    Even his seemingly existential objection to OpenAI's fast-paced
    development of AI ended up being little more than petty jealousy, as
    evidenced by the harried introduction of Grok, his own, far more
    puerile and muddy-minded equivalent.

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/01/the-end-of-elon/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Dec 1 18:53:22 2023
    On 2023-12-01, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    On Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:45:43 GMT, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    Will not miss that site, or that dude

    On another note,

    The end of Elon

    Standing on the rear bed of his greatest boondoggle, his face obscured
    in shadow, the billionaire who built a rabid fanbase through seemingly inhuman feats of engineering and willpower cut a greatly reduced

    This was a great read. Very well written, very insightful.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 2 20:22:00 2023
    Advertisers said they did not plan to return to X, the platform
    formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk criticized them with
    expletives at The New York Times's DealBook Summit. X is at risk of
    losing up to $75 million this quarter as brands back away.

    https://www.threads.net/@nytimes/post/C0STNKQPxxl

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 2 20:34:05 2023
    The X eXodus continues: Walmart joins the growing list of big
    companies pulling their ads from Elon Musk's X after his endorsement
    of an antisemitic post

    https://fortune.com/2023/12/01/walmart-stops-advertising-ads-x-elon-musk-antisemitic-twitter/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Wed Dec 20 01:45:33 2023
    On 2023-12-01, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    The end of Elon

    Standing on the rear bed of his greatest boondoggle, his face
    obscured in shadow, the billionaire who built a rabid fanbase through
    seemingly inhuman feats of engineering and willpower cut a greatly
    reduced

    This was a great read. Very well written, very insightful.

    Oh hey, speaking of "go F yourself," looks like someone just did go F
    himself, with his big F'ing mouth. Nice work, dipshit.


    Feed: SoylentNews
    Title: Elon Musk's X Ad Revenue Reportedly Fell $1.5B This Year Amid
    Boycotts
    Author: mrpg
    Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:30:00 -0500
    Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/12/17/2340253&from=rss

    Freeman[1] writes:

    Elon Musk's X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid
    boycotts[2]

    It's hard to know exactly how dire the financial situation is at Elon
    Musk's X (formerly Twitter). However, insider sources recently
    revealed to Bloomberg[3] that the social media platform expects to
    end 2023 with "roughly" $2.5 billion in advertising revenue.

    That's "a significant slump from prior years," sources said. It's
    also about half a billion short of the $3 billion that X executives
    expected to make in ad sales in 2023, one source said.

    Last year, Twitter raked in more than $1 billion in ad revenue per
    quarter, sources said. But in each of the first three quarters of
    2023, X only managed to generate "a little more than $600 million" in
    ad revenue.

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