The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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C Kent said:
Without the governmental control, it'll happen eventually
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PATRIOT act buddy. Also not like GCHQ gives a **** about boundaries.

Even if this wasn't true nothing whatsoever is stopping Musk continuing to sell this data or merely giving it away on request to people he's scared of.... a situation that was barely tenable when it was at least free to access and use, paying for it is unfathomable to me.
 
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StriderX said:
PATRIOT act buddy. Also not like GCHQ gives a **** about boundaries.

Even if this wasn't true nothing whatsoever is stopping Musk continuing to sell this data or merely giving it away on request to people he's scared of.... a situation that was barely tenable when it was at least free to access and use, paying for it is unfathomable to me.
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Musk stikes me as the type of person that outs people that anger him.
 
Tony Edwards said:
Musk stikes me as the type of person that outs people that anger him.
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That's a bit strong.

Mildly irks seems more likely to be enough to get him to out people/release their data, let alone the financial incentives and personal safety ones that come from some of his financers.

Certainly I wouldn't trust Musk or any company he was running largely on his own with my personal information if I could avoid it. I can see his payment app as being like the early days of paypal, but much worse as at least back then there were people who understood the business and managed to stop him bankrupting it with his "lets let anyone get credit with us, no need to check to see if they can afford it" idea.
 
StriderX said:
PATRIOT act buddy. Also not like GCHQ gives a **** about boundaries.
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That's true of any government is it not, you just have to look fbi and their recent shenanigans or the canadian government and banks over the recent trucker mess.
StriderX said:
Even if this wasn't true nothing whatsoever is stopping Musk continuing to sell this data or merely giving it away on request to people he's scared of.... a situation that was barely tenable when it was at least free to access and use, and rheirpaying for it is unfathomable to me.
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Continuing? Oh you mean twitter getting fined for flogging personal data in May last year?
 
'OK Google, show me a tweet that aged like milk in the sun.'

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Narrator: 'Most power users were not willing to pay anything at all.'
 
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it's a bit close to voodoo hex.

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Tesla has started notifying owners that they can transfer the Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature they purchased to a new vehicle, as long as they take delivery within the next three months. During the automaker's Q2 2023 investor call, Elon Musk announced a "one-time amnesty" that will allow owners to transfer their FSD.
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In a surprise announcement during Tesla's Q2 2023 investor call, company head Elon Musk revealed that Tesla plans to license its Full Self-Driving system to other automakers and OEMs. "We are very open to licensing our FSD software and hardware to other car companies,"
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FSDusion will be ready when society needs it
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
There is some justification in it.
But there are also competing sayings such as "aim for the impossible and be certain to fail"

The key if aiming high is to set it at the just possible limit. So everyone recognises that its possible but OMG hard.
Like when the US set to get to the moon in the 60s.
Massive challenge but not impossible, and as we saw they made it. Everyone was motivated to try

Musk regularly does the "we can go to Mars week after next" levels of stretch and hence why generally he partially/primarily fails.
Whether he would have more success with lower but feasible goals, who knows.

The first thing you generally have to do when managing a project is to engage with the senior stakeholders to realign their expectations with reality.
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Ok bro

 
cheesyboy said:
Never really paid him any attention pre-Twitter, but I always assumed Musk must be some sort of Jobs-style superbrain.

But he isn't, is he? He's literally saying nothing at all here. Something is wrong with our whole business ecosystem when morons like this can hold so much wealth.

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IF done right, like checking nobody owns trademarks to things related to X before branding to X, so he paid double for Twitter and it's likely Meta will make him pay for their X trademark they own for social media related stuff
 
Minusorange said:
IF done right, like checking nobody owns trademarks to things related to X before branding to X, so he paid double for Twitter and it's likely Meta will make him pay for their X trademark they own for social media related stuff
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The letter X is literally used in so many things you can't just say no one is allowed to use the letter X as part of a brand. I could sit here and reel off dozens of games, books, tech related products, media and software that use the letter "X".

www.reuters.com

Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name

Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.
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