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Thanks, but I did not ask your advise on what to buy, nor do I care what you or anyone else buys.
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Elon & Twitter
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Thanks, but I did not ask your advise on what to buy, nor do I care what you or anyone else buys.
And so he may draw in the other half of the country? Let me know when AOC sells her car and I might get concerned.
TheTalkingMule
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Why does this thread need to be in the investors forum? It's purely an OT political thread.
JRP3
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Why do you need to comment in a thread if you aren't interested in it? Plus the fact that what Elon does outside of Tesla can and often does affect the company. It's entirely relevant.
When you post a takedown of Tesla cars on a Tesla forum, your gonna get some ”advice”. Enjoy your Mercedes. And please, think of me when you look at those “pretty” plastic vents that try to look like turbines.
EVNow
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Well, when Tesla is so intertwined with Musk and Musk is now taking partisan positions on Twitter .... its going to affect TSLA, whether we like it or not.
EVNow
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Here is an interesting take by former head of engineering at Twitter.
www.cnbc.com
Esp. this .... I wonder whether Musk has fallen victim to yet another conspiracy theory that somehow Twitter suppresses Republican tweets. Basically the "algorithm" is more like a neural net trained to figure out whether a particular tweet will be liked by the person they are showing the tweet to and whether they can monetize it.
Here’s what a former Twitter engineering head thinks about Elon Musk’s plan
Alex Roetter, Twitter's former head of engineering, joined Alex Kantrowitz's Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss Musk's proposals.
www.cnbc.com
Esp. this .... I wonder whether Musk has fallen victim to yet another conspiracy theory that somehow Twitter suppresses Republican tweets. Basically the "algorithm" is more like a neural net trained to figure out whether a particular tweet will be liked by the person they are showing the tweet to and whether they can monetize it.
mspohr
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Free speech on a plane. Looking to Elon for rescue.
If you don’t realize why “this is ****ing outrageous,” this snowbird connects the dots for you: “You guys, we’re gonna turn into China.” You get it? It’s going to be bad. Not white communism bad, Chinese communism bad. That’s like double-bad for a racist. From there she continues the slow realization that she isn’t winning jack *sugar* in this nonexistent case for her special First Amendment right to make everybody, passengers and crew, feel frustrated and miserable about her current state. “Oh I love Elon Musk, he is the best. Elon!” which elicits some giggles from passengers as it is a truly new level of incoherence.
‘Because we’re Trump supporters!’: Slur-spewing couple refuses to get off flight
A middle-aged couple have gotten their 15 minutes of fame after being so obnoxious they were kicked off of a flight shortly after boarding in West Palm Beach, Florida. The flight, which was reportedly headed to Newark, New Jersey, was forced to deplane...
m.dailykos.com
If you don’t realize why “this is ****ing outrageous,” this snowbird connects the dots for you: “You guys, we’re gonna turn into China.” You get it? It’s going to be bad. Not white communism bad, Chinese communism bad. That’s like double-bad for a racist. From there she continues the slow realization that she isn’t winning jack *sugar* in this nonexistent case for her special First Amendment right to make everybody, passengers and crew, feel frustrated and miserable about her current state. “Oh I love Elon Musk, he is the best. Elon!” which elicits some giggles from passengers as it is a truly new level of incoherence.
JRP3
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UPDATE 3-U.S. House Republican says Musk/Twitter records must be preserved by FTC
Representative Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, asked the chair of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to preserve its records related to Elon Musk's pending acquisition of Twitter Inc. The request indicates that Jordan may...
Interesting read. Thank you for posting. Too bad the journalist didn't ask how/why a newspaper article from a major US daily was blocked? What makes the neural net do that? The paper has thousands of paid subscribers so presumably they 'like' their paper.....Here is an interesting take by former head of engineering at Twitter.
Here’s what a former Twitter engineering head thinks about Elon Musk’s plan
Alex Roetter, Twitter's former head of engineering, joined Alex Kantrowitz's Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss Musk's proposals.
Esp. this .... I wonder whether Musk has fallen victim to yet another conspiracy theory that somehow Twitter suppresses Republican tweets. Basically the "algorithm" is more like a neural net trained to figure out whether a particular tweet will be liked by the person they are showing the tweet to and whether they can monetize it.
EVNow
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That's moderation. Not algorithmic.
Elon wants to make any human moderation / judgement public - but we already knew that in this case.
ps : How is Elon going to handle all the false positives when it comes to bots ? Welcome to "phantom braking" on Twitter
Twitter admitted that a “software bug” suppressed 2018 Republican midterm candidates. It was strange that they couldn’t explain why a “software bug” could only affect Republican candidates though.
Maybe the neural net is partisan lol?
It’s not the algorithms that are the problem but the employees actively suppressing the content. Several have been caught on camera stating they do just that. Hopefully Elon cleans that mess up.
Maybe the neural net is partisan lol?
It’s not the algorithms that are the problem but the employees actively suppressing the content. Several have been caught on camera stating they do just that. Hopefully Elon cleans that mess up.
jabloomf1230
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Not free speech. Snakes.Free speech on a plane. Looking to Elon for rescue.
‘Because we’re Trump supporters!’: Slur-spewing couple refuses to get off flight
A middle-aged couple have gotten their 15 minutes of fame after being so obnoxious they were kicked off of a flight shortly after boarding in West Palm Beach, Florida. The flight, which was reportedly headed to Newark, New Jersey, was forced to deplane...m.dailykos.com
If you don’t realize why “this is ****ing outrageous,” this snowbird connects the dots for you: “You guys, we’re gonna turn into China.” You get it? It’s going to be bad. Not white communism bad, Chinese communism bad. That’s like double-bad for a racist. From there she continues the slow realization that she isn’t winning jack *sugar* in this nonexistent case for her special First Amendment right to make everybody, passengers and crew, feel frustrated and miserable about her current state. “Oh I love Elon Musk, he is the best. Elon!” which elicits some giggles from passengers as it is a truly new level of incoherence.
TheTalkingMule
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Uh, the Hunter Biden laptop story was/is a real event, not a conspiracy, and was overtly suppressed and gas lighted by the media, including twitter. Probably was an important part of the election outcome. For the record, I am very happy Trump lost, but this does not change the fact that Hunter is a criminal piece of trash, and (as most fathers would) the president is supporting him - and probably broke laws in this support.
Suppressing the laptop affair (just like suppressing the discussion of the possibility that the covid virus is an accidental leak from a Chinese lab) should never have happened in a free society.
Such suppression creates a (justified) feeling of being manipulated, and decreases trust in the authorities. Such a situation is very dangerous and can escalate into difficult to control events. The only way to avoid it is to have a media that you can trust will present the truth, from all sides, even if you do not agree with it. Elon is trying to achieve that with twitter - and this is not a distraction from his mission - it is in fact central to his mission. For without media you can trust in the long term you will not have freedom, progress, and the support to, for example, go to Mars and beyond.
JRP3
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Again...why do you keep reading and posting in a thread you don't like?
What's the story? Hunter Biden dropped a laptop off at a repair shop and never picked it back up? Is this supposed to be a crime?
mspohr
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EVNow
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Its funny how some "free speech" people want to ban threads .... or for that matter ban math text books.
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