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[-] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 359 points 3 months ago

Do it. I dare ya. Keep digging. It's fun watching the hole get deeper while you disappear into the darkness.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 199 points 3 months ago

So how does this man being an executive officer not immediately send a company's stocks into the shitter at this point?

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago

Everyone's too deep to escape.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Isn't the Tesla board made up of his buddies?

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 34 points 3 months ago

The CEO is chosen by the board, which is chosen by the shareholders. The shareholders have the ultimate power, if they can unite on a goal/decision. Overwhelmingly, the only thing they can agree on is that they want to make the most money. They often can't even agree on how to go about that.

So, the board won't fire him because the shareholders won't force it. The shareholders won't force it because they want the most money, and musk as CEO seems to be the best path, or at least not a problematic one.

As for how that can be, it gets into how absurd Tesla stock is in the first place. There was a period where Tesla's market cap (total value of all shares) was higher than the entire rest of the auto industry combined. This was despite having no feasible path towards that level of production, and even growth in general wasn't looking too hot.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

I don't know if this explains the entire price but we have all seen his securities fraud on Twitter.

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's money to be made when you know a company is going to tank. In fact there are people who specialize in bankrupting companies. When rich people commit fraud they don't get in trouble

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[-] ulkesh@lemmy.world 172 points 3 months ago

He's a hypocrite, and a piece of shit. Stop listening to him. Stop reading his tweets. Stop giving him any attention at all. He's dirt under our boots and deserves nothing more.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 106 points 3 months ago

Gonna find out real quick that Apple is more important to people than Twitter.

[-] laurelraven 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!

Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago

Me: Hates musk.

Also me: dislikes Apple.

Still me: See's this story as Musk doing another stupid thing to kill more business on both ends.

Finally me: Yessss......this news pleases me.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 69 points 3 months ago

What does he think, Apple is going to release a keynote tomorrow with Tim Cook saying “ah, my bad, Elon doesn’t like it so we’re rolling it back”. And if he blocks Apple devices from Viewing Xitter, they’ll finally move on to other platforms which will potentially cut his user base in half.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Can we make a global Lemmy compact to stop calling it Xitter and instead call it Shitter?

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

They're the same word.

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[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Please stop posting about every fart that asshole makes ...

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[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

Do it. I dare you

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

This one is tricky, because Lemmy hates both Musk and AI.

[-] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Let them fight lol

[-] tankplanker@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Musk banning Apple devices with how popular iPhones are to use twitter would hurt Musk more than it would hurt either Apple or OpenAI so it just sounds like a win win.

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[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 months ago

Ah, they guy who tried to get Paypal to switch to running on Windows strikes again.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 43 points 3 months ago

paypal deserves to run on windows

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[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

Do it. Do a flip!

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 months ago

Pigeon CEO. Flies in, shits on everything, then flies out.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

Musk has tantrum. Just another day ending in y.

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[-] J891319@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 months ago

He's pissing his pants because nobody will want to use Grok

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Wait so will he ban Android because they have Gemini?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 61 points 3 months ago

He has a vendetta against OpenAI as he tried to take it over and they wanted no part of that if I recall correctly

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

He was technically a founding member, but left the company. Literally all of this is because he's jealous he can't pull a Tesla and claim all the credit for another tech company.

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[-] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Do it you man baby!

[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago

I ordered a ton of popcorn. Please don't let me down Elon.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

He already removed Disney+ from the screens on Tesla's because they pulled advertising from Twitter.

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[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

Who cares about X. Mastodon and other Fediverse services are better.

Also we all know nothing is going to happen.

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[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Musk raised $6 billion in a recent funding round for his would-be OpenAI competitor, xAI, whose first product, Grok, is meant to serve as a politically incorrect answer to ChatGPT. In addition to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, Musk is founder of brain interface startup Neuralink and tunneling venture Boring Company.

In case anybody is wondering why he's making a big deal out of it.

As to why emoji feels the need to make his own "anti-woke" AI, it's because he thinks that, at some point in the future, our AI overlords will decide to cull white people to meet "forced diversity quotas." I'm not kidding.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, his legendary anti-woke ai

I love how he can't even bigot right.

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[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

560 BC - Oracle of Delphi: Croesus, if you make war on the Persians, you will destroy a mighty empire.

2024 AD - Oracle of Delphi: Elon, if you make war on Apple, you will destroy a mighty empire.

Me: Yes, Elon, do it. Do it now!

[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Please do. Keep making headlines for self-destruction.

[-] littlewonder@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

My go-to comment for every Musk headline never fails:

k.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

He's just butthurt that he can't get xAI off the ground.

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

“Tim didn’t even ask me about Grok”

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a theory that this guy tried his own implant tech which terribly failed and left permanent brain damage. it’s one way to explain the sudden and progressing unhingedness

[-] Gsus4@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago

When do you think that might have happened? Because he's been a documented dick for a long, long, longer time than most media give him credit for.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah, this notion that Musk suddenly went off the rails is pure face saving fantasy.

Like, no, Musk didn't suddenly become an idiot. He's always been an idiot. We just bought his hype, and the healthy thing to do is admit it and learn a lesson.

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Alternatively, and more realistically: drugs.

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[-] cupcakezealot 19 points 3 months ago
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[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Imagine doing an antitrust violation when you don't even have the market clout for a payoff in the first place.

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[-] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Watching people struggle to choose between the tesla t and the apple apple would be so satisfying for me.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago
[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

What are they going to use instead? Windows, which also has an OpenAI partnership? Android, which had Gemini and probably even worse privacy?

Or is the whole company switching to Linux and Linux mobile

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't think it's about privacy. It's about that he wants money from openai because he tried to buy them out or something, or was involved a long time ago, or tried to get involved, or whatever, but he thinks he should have a big payday from it now that its stock is up.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

And what about Gemini and Copilot?

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