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   Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

   I guess securities laws don't apply to this guy because "freedom of speech" even though his speech is garbage.

   https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-asking-supreme-court-to-get-rid-twitter-sitter-2023-12

   https://web.archive.org/web/20231209172500/https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-asking-supreme-court-to-get-rid-twitter-sitter-2023-12

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Here is the revenue of the company he agreed to pay 44 billion for.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Lots of interesting stuff. In short, he's a miserable human being.

     https://nitter.net/P_Kallioniemi/status/1672940669978001410

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Cavorts with garbage accounts.

     Right hand washes left hand washes right hand.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     [just moving old posts from Twitter and deleting them.]

     Discussion of how much Twitter owes in interest (1.2 billion a year) and revenue slump of 40 percent after being bought.

     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/22/elon-musk-twitter-debt

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     When Musk tried to back out of his takeover bid, the board, led by then-CEO Parag Agrawal took Musk to court, which resulted in a legal battle that forced Musk to uphold the terms of his offer. ...

     Reflecting on the situation, Musk commented, “Essentially, they had me cornered, saying, ‘No, you have to acquire us!'”

     "cornered" 😆 🤡

     https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/elon-musk-accepts-mistake-in-firing-twitter-employees-en-masse-will-rehire-some-people/ar-AA1blmrH

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     "Online, those things have included:

     Claiming in March 2020 that people worried about coronavirus were “dumb”

     Saying on March 19, 2020, that the US was going to have “close to zero new cases” by end April

     Questioning safety of the COVID-19 vaccines, and baselessly asserting “quite a few negative reactions” to a second shot

     Saying the US government shouldn‘t provide subsidies after receiving billions in subsidies from the US government

     https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done

     https://web.archive.org/web/20220426174504/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Thread about how his commitment to free speech is just saying he is committed to free speech.

     Of course. Because he's a racist, misogynist, idiot.

     https://nitter.net/JuddLegum/status/1518929551300173824

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Tesla autopilot slamming into a a car stopped on the freeway, which had its blinkers on.

     video from https://nitter.net/Factschaser/status/1608914128017719296

     Feb 2023: recall

     https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/regulators-force-tesla-to-recall-363000-full-self-driving-vehicles

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     *Musk complained Thursday on Twitter, which he now owns, that calling an over-the-air software update a recall is “anachronistic and just flat wrong!”

     Oh.

     Complains the guy who advertises his cars as "full self-driving" and using the word "autopilot".

     This guy's just your run of the mill spoiled rich idiot.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Space Exploration Company (SpaceX) receiving undisclosed sized grants from Texas because of course it is.

     All while Elon complains about others receiving subsidies. 🤡

     https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?company_op=starts&company=space+exploration+

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Haha.

     "At press time, numerous products manufactured by Musk’s companies were exploding."

     Also, the AI actually did roast him so the Beaverton called it.

     https://thebeaverton.com/2023/04/elon-musk-building-an-ai-that-can-explain-to-him-why-no-one-likes-him/

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     https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-files-whistleblower-death-threats_n_657a21ffe4b061b3c92dea1e

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-crash-1234930544/

     "At least until 2021, according to the new recall notice, when NHTSA opened an investigation into no fewer than 11 Autopilot-involved crashes into emergency responder vehicles. By this time Musk had MCed numerous stock price-spiking hype events around the technology, and had been collecting deposits from customers since late 2016 for a “Full Self-Driving” version of the technology. ...

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     "...Despite the reported deaths and clear evidence that the only video of a driverless Tesla was heavily staged, even Musk admits that his hype around self-driving technology has been the central factor in the recent growth of his wealth to titanic proportions."

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     --- Elon appearing at far-right events telling people to have more babies so their cultures don't get destroyed by immigration. Sunak appeared.h

     "The annual Atreju event, which has been running since 1998, was organized by Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy.

     Speaking after Musk was British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Previous years have seen Steve Bannon and Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán feature as guests."

     https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/elon-musk-tells-italians-to-have-more-children-during-an-appearance-at-a-political-conference-in-rome-make-more-italians/ar-AA1lD1Xv

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     Tesla should be worried that Elon will try to get some of his money from this Twitter disaster out of that company.

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

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     Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 16:53:09 JST Jonathan

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     At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars

     https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

     https://web.archive.org/web/20231110111757/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/