America & the World V: DOGE Business

[Neon Ignition]

Macron says France needs return to authority ‘at every level’ after unrest | France | The Guardian
Macron continues to show what a ***** he is by saying that the recent riots in France weren't because a teenager was shot dead but because of poor parenting

Elon Musk hits X rebrand hiccup as police stop Twitter sign removal | Twitter | The Guardian
Musk fails to inform the police he's having an office debranded. He also renames the meeting rooms to be called names like s3xy and eXposure which seems to suggest a lot more about the way his mind works.


TikTok introduces text-only posts as Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X | TikTok | The Guardian
And smelling that the fatal blood is now in the water for Twitter, TikTok has introduced text posting

[Yakumo]

TikTok introduces text-only posts as Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X | TikTok | The Guardian
And smelling that the fatal blood is now in the water for Twitter, TikTok has introduced text posting

well that won't work will it. TikTok users can't write

[Neon Ignition]

DeSantis in car crash while heading to event in Tennessee but is uninjured: Campaign (msn.com)

[briareos_kerensky]

And now it’s everywhere: https://www.reuters.com/technology/p...me-2023-07-25/

They cannot trademark "X Japan" in japan because it's already owned by the famous rock band, and are probably going for "X Nippon".
Why do I get the idea that everyone was against this rebranding while Musk waved off any concerns and just went ahead with it?

[Lebowski]

And now it’s everywhere: https://www.reuters.com/technology/p...me-2023-07-25/

Saw a really good post from a tech person talking about how if this is how Elon Musk Runs all his business then you should stay the hell away from his cars, With every new model or every year his cars get older theirs potential for a Musk type gremlin hiding under the bonnet.

Where seeing history unfolding here i imagine we will see books written about this, business schools will hold entire semesters worth of lessons on how musk took a 45 billion dollar company and destroyed it one stupid decision at a time.

[fishbowlhead]

Saw a really good post from a tech person talking about how if this is how Elon Musk Runs all his business then you should stay the hell away from his cars, With every new model or every year his cars get older theirs potential for a Musk type gremlin hiding under the bonnet.

Where seeing history unfolding here i imagine we will see books written about this, business schools will hold entire semesters worth of lessons on how musk took a 45 billion dollar company and destroyed it one stupid decision at a time.

It wasn’t worth 45b in the first place so I wouldn’t worry too much.

[Dogg Thang]

Saw a really good post from a tech person talking about how if this is how Elon Musk Runs all his business then you should stay the hell away from his cars, With every new model or every year his cars get older theirs potential for a Musk type gremlin hiding under the bonnet.

Yes, I’ve seen similar points made and they’re right. We kind of assume successful people know what they are doing and I certainly don’t know anything about cars or rockets so have to just take it for granted that Musk must know his stuff there. I don’t know coding or anything under the hood of social media either but Twitter is full of people who do, including many who actually work(ed) for Twitter and so, when they tell me how much of a ****show it is, I have to wonder about the cars and rockets and so on.

[MartyG]

We've already seen problems with the cars - there was an issue a while back around the eMMC that were used in the cars between 2012-2018, too many writes to them (eMMC chips are notoriously short-lived) and Tesla was writing a lot of logs files to them eating up all those write cycles.

It caused the cars to fail.

It has since been fixed, but I don't really see this much differently than the safety recalls that other vehicles have.

If Musk was writing the code himself, I'd worry.

[Dogg Thang]

He’s not writing the code for Twitter either, Marty. He is making some godawful decisions that affect the results of those who do.

[MartyG]

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to work at any of the Musk companies, but there is a difference between Twitter (or whatever silly name it's been changed to by now) and SpaceX/Tesla in that Musk isn't as restricted due to not having a board of executives and shareholders to answer to.

[Neon Ignition]

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1683933880515194881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1683936964675006464%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=

Musk has disabled Twitters Community Notes function because it corrected one of his false claims about the COVID vaccine

[CMcK]

Best thing to do with Musk is stop giving him and his associated businesses so much coverage. Like Trump it’s what he craves.

[Asura]

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status...5Es2_&ref_url=
Musk has disabled Twitters Community Notes function because it corrected one of his false claims about the COVID vaccine

This was definitely going to get turned off. I saw last week a load of notes along with paid adverts - "This is a dropshipper, this item can be bought from AliExpress at this URL for 50p instead of the £14 they're charging" - literally linked and paired up with the advert.

Not that I was complaining. I loved it but I knew then that this was gonna go.

[Neon Ignition]

‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools | Unesco | The Guardian

[Yakumo]

‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools | Unesco | The Guardian

You know, I agree with this.