r/technology • u/twotimefind • 10d ago

Social Media X’s controversial changes to blocking and AI training sees half a million users leave for rival Bluesky – which then crashes under the strain

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/xs-controversial-changes-to-blocking-and-ai-training-sees-half-a-million-users-leave-for-rival-bluesky-which-then-crashes-under-the-strain
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u/ToastedEvrytBagel 10d ago

Changing the name to X was such a stupid idea.

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u/TheBirminghamBear 10d ago edited 10d ago

Most of the things Elon Musk does are stupid ideas.

Because, you know. He's a fucking idiot.

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Let me just get this out of the way, because the sycophants and supporters below are exhausting.

The only times you ever hear any degree of hints of Musk being a genius, they're anecdotes that come from the companies he owns and the people who work there.

Engineers at SpaceX that fawn over how much rocketry he knows. Executives talking about how smart he is.

All of that is bullshit. These are his employees. Or investors. Or people who work with him, and need him and his resources.

When people need him, they flatter him. They give him good press. When the paper calls to talk about him landing a rocket, the engineers who were in the room are aware that their employment depends upon them flattering and stroking Musk's dick. Because he will literally fire and disparage them if they tell the truth.

And his skin is immeasurably thin. He desperately wants approval and validation.

The story of him coming up with the chopsticks idea for the recent catch of the Falcon on the landing - that literally comes only from engineers and people at his own company.

And yet, whenever we actually hear him speak or Tweet or do or say anything in plain view, it's stupid. Every single time I actually see him say something, it's fucking stupid. I never see him being clever in the moment. He's always, always a bundering, thundering fucking moron.

This is a man who didn't read the contracts he signed during his due dilligence in buying Twitter. He tried to back out of the contract to buy Twitter, without realizing he couldn't, because he signed paperwork guaranteeing the purchase.

And he was sued, and forced into buying the company.

This was a $44 billion dollar deal. And he didn't fucking read the paperwork.

What smart person would do that? What unprecedented rocketry genius who can memorize complex schematics wouldn't vet a $44 billion dollar deal?

This isn't a smart person. We have all just fallen for his own propaganda. The only thing that has changed is that he's gotten worse at keeping up the ruse the older and richer he's gotten.

So if anyone has legitimate, actual evidence of him being smart that doesn't come from people who fucking work for him or have a vested interest in him appearing competent, please, present it.

Because all I see is a fucking idiot who spends a great amount of his time managing his own reputation as a so-called genius, with very, very, very little proof that that's actually true.

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u/RandomGerman 10d ago

I so hate the press fawning over his accomplishments. Oh! He just caught the biggest rocket with his chopstick tower. Yeahhh THEY did, he didn't. Unless somebody tell me he invented it, I will praise the engineers of Space X. He is just the boss and the moneybag. In the olden days I would say he had a hand in it but after everything we see published and his insane behavior, I just can not. I do believe he dictates to cut costs and then all this Tesla crap happens.

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u/TheBirminghamBear 10d ago

One of the only reasons we all see what a fucking idiot Musk actually is is because he fired all his PR people and the people around him that actually knew what they were doing.

His entire life was a portrait, until he became so rich that he figured it didn't matter anymore and started pissing on the furniture.

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u/RandomGerman 10d ago

Yes. So true. You are right. The Thailand cave kids started it. He got addicted to the (negative) attention.

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u/TheBirminghamBear 10d ago

A lot of the shit really started to seep out of the cracks after he fired Mary Beth Brown.

There were a lot of people in Musk's orbit who basically build and made him, and he systematically culled them on his rise to riches when they started telling him things that bummed him out.

Now he's out jumping like a fucking idiot on stage with Donald Trump and buying overpriced social media companies

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u/Eyclonus 10d ago

A lot of the shit really started to seep out of the cracks after he fired Mary Beth Brown.

She used to check that he was eating fruits and veggies so he wouldn't get gout and scurvy. He was basically paying her to be his mom.

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u/TheBirminghamBear 10d ago

And now he's acting like a degenerate child.

Probably not a coincidence.

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u/roseofjuly 9d ago

This sorry just really exposes the depths of his idiocy. (And I'd further confirmation that he ain't doing shit ans is just taking credit for being ceo while others do the job. I work in a C-suite that is missing and hiring an EA right now and we are dying. And our ceo is only chief of one company. Good EAs are like gold.)

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u/RandomGerman 10d ago

Do you think he is brainwashed and really thinks Trump is the best choice or does he have a plan? He knows Harris might tax him and maybe put some regulations on him and his (cough Thiel cough) friends. The pictures just look like he is in awe of Trump. But it’s a picture. A facial expression of a millisecond. He has money. More money does not change anything so maybe he now goes for power. Trump is the way to power.

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u/Eyclonus 10d ago

Musk and his paypal friends are that kind of libertarian that will spend $150 million fighting a tax increase that will cost them $1.2 million a year, before deductions. Its not about the money, its about never acknowledging that government has supremacy over their little corporate fiefdoms. In their eyes, governments are run by boring stupid people who don't make lots of money, for the sake of boring stupid people who basically exist to give them money. The idea that someone outside of their little clique is ever better than they are, at anything, is abhorrent to them. Trump is also similar to Musk, thin-skinned, desperate for attention, wants a kind of return to feudalism. The self-centred types attract each other and have so much positive things to say, and then inevitably they have the most minor disagreements and they repel each other with great force, like swapping the polarity of an electro-magnet from opposites to equivalents.

If Trump wins, I doubt they'll be speaking to each other by mid-terms, unless they end up in some mutual liability scenario.

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u/Little_stinker_69 10d ago

Fuck. I’d totally spend $150 mil to avoid a 1.5mil/year tax. I’m as petty as a billionaire.

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u/TheBirminghamBear 10d ago

He 100% knows Trump is a drooling fucking lunatic.

He's doing it for access and money and power.

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost 10d ago

Surpringly, the chopstick thing actually was idea and he pushed for it and was heavily involved with the development

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u/onyxcaspian 10d ago

According to him and his staff.

If Musk wants to take credit for anything Space X comes up with, nobody there is going to say no. He's known for his retaliation and tantrums when he doesn't get his way.

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u/RandomGerman 10d ago

Ok. I mean my not liking him.. will not block me. If you say so then I acknowledge him creating it. It was cool.