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Bill Nye, the Sellout Guy (greenwashing) + What's going on with Elon Musk & Twitter?

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Kornee Offline
(Apr 22, 2022 03:41 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: And I would go with a blockchain. There’s no centralized authority. Users on these networks have more privacy. As a result, freedom of speech is preserved.
Decentralized yes but blockchain no:
https://safenetwork.org/
Tried emailing Elon Musk (Tesla address) and hinted it would be great if that dedicated team of severely underresourced idealists could have their underresourcing taken care of.
No reply but that was no surprise.
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#12
C C Offline
Quote:Trump says he probably won’t tweet again even if Musk buys Twitter and reinstates his account
https://www.ntd.com/trump-says-he-probab...66578.html

Trump's "Truth Social" platform was deemed a disaster before it's legit debut
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-12131-...l#pid50379


Twitter reverses course, now in talks to sell to Elon Musk
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitte...1650830958
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Trump’s Truth Social SPAC Down More Than 9% Following Reports Twitter Is Nearing A Deal With Musk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehal...with-musk/

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), the special purpose acquisition company that said it plans to take former President Donald Trump’s social media site Truth Social public, dropped more than 9% late Monday morning after reports emerged that Twitter was poised to accept an acquisition offer from billionaire Elon Musk.
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Donald Trump’s Newest Problem: Elon Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/busin...-musk.html

Truth Social is slow and clunky. Its audience participation remains low. Two top executives have left. And the merger that could bring $1.3 billion in desperately needed cash to former President Donald J. Trump’s social media project seems far from completion.

And now Truth Social’s very reason for being appears under threat. Elon Musk’s plan for a potential hostile takeover of Twitter is the latest challenge for Trump Media & Technology Group’s flagship Truth Social app, which Mr. Trump has positioned as Twitter’s freewheeling conservative counterpart.
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(Apr 26, 2022 02:27 AM)Yazata Wrote: Twitter has agreed to be sold to Elon!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...32245.html

https://www.investors.com/news/technolog...with-musk/

Predictably, the usual suspects are having a collective meltdown. Selling Twitter to Elon is a fundamental threat to democracy etc.


Leftangelicals absolutely lose their minds about Musk’s Twitter takeover
https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/25/elon-...h-twitter/

Like... zowie. You'd have to go back to some Communist Party USA rally back in the 1920s to 1940s to find this kind of paranoid, raving, foaming at the mouth wild imagination and ideological fixation. Or the "Reign of Terror" phase of the French Revolution.

At least the QAnon loons are on the fringe, whereas these nutjobs are literally running academia. The open-ended insanity of "systemic oppression conspiracy" witch-hunts blazing right there in the heart of the mainstream and the policy-making administrations of research departments.
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Kornee Offline
Hoping this move works out well for true freedom of expression. But the forces arrayed against such are extremely well heeled and politically and ideologically entrenched at all levels.
Truly miraculous if it actually turns out to be in the vanguard of overthrowing our anything but traditional 'Western' power structure. Good luck Elon.
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Jeff Bezos just took a shot at Elon Musk on Twitter. It did not go well
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbus...ar-AAWBzSc

INTRO: Taking shots is pretty common among competitors. The thing is, it doesn't always work out the way you expect. Sometimes it doesn't go well at all, which can lead to a pretty painful lesson.

On Monday, after it was announced that Twitter had accepted Musk's offer to take the company private, Bezos retweeted a reporter for The New York Times, asking whether Musk's acquisition of Twitter meant that China would be gaining more influence over what he called "the town square."

The insinuation was that Musk was, at least in part, beholden to China because of Tesla's business there. Which, to be fair, isn't an entirely unreasonable point. China is extremely important to Tesla, with the company building one of its Gigafactories in Shanghai. It's also the source of many of the important components Tesla needs to build its vehicles.

The problem is that it's not really a point people care to hear from Bezos. Almost immediately, the tweet was met with replies pointing out the influence China has over Amazon.

I scrolled through a lot of the more than 9,000 replies to Bezos's tweet. The overwhelming majority were similar to that one--pointing out that Amazon's own record on China doesn't exactly give Bezos the high ground.

Take the products you can buy on Amazon, for example. I have no idea what percentage of products made on Amazon.com are made in China, but a quick search for "iPhone charger" revealed page after page of results... (MORE - details)
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Yazata Offline
(Apr 26, 2022 07:02 AM)Kornee Wrote: Hoping this move works out well for true freedom of expression. But the forces arrayed against such are extremely well heeled and politically and ideologically entrenched at all levels.

Yes. It's amazing how Elon has gone from being a folk-hero, perhaps the most admired man in the United States, to being a hated super-villain in just a matter of days. All because he's challenging the media establishment's ability to control our information and consequently our thoughts.

The establishment will be striking back, I'm sure of it. I expect a succession of SEC, DOJ and IRS investigations of Tesla, SpaceX and everything else Elon is involved in. There will be front-page headlines every day in the New York Times and the Washington Post, all based on high-ranking administration "sources" they won't name, pushing fanciful conspiracy theories about the supposed evils of Elon in hopes of poisoning his reputation with the public. (Like they did with Trump.) Elon is going to be hauled before Congress and accused of enabling "hate speech" and "misinformation" (which means ideas democrats don't like). The harassment will be vicious, non-stop and frequently over-the-top.

If I was SpaceX I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an FAA launch license for a Starship orbital attempt either. It isn't likely to come for years with the Biden administration in power.

The complicating factor with SpaceX is that both NASA and the Space Force need it, so Elon will have inside-the-establishment allies on that one. And if the Republicans get control of Congress in November, that will take some of the heat off too. But no doubt about it, Elon's in for a bumpy ride.
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