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Angry Tesla Shanghai workers take to social media over bonus cuts

Workers at Tesla’s Shanghai factory take to social media in an attempt to appeal to Musk after their supervisors informed them of upcoming cuts to their performance bonuses. The posts are appearing on Twitter as well as forums like Baidu Tieba, with some even containing appeals to Musk’s mother, Maye Musk. Two workers at the […]

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Musk: Starship launch ‘may not be successful’

Musk says expectations should remain low for the Starship system, and that his team is mainly looking to gather data about how the vehicle ascends to space and returns back to Earth. I guess I would just like to set expectations… low…Success is not what should be expected. It’s just a very fundamentally difficult thing. […]

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Taibbi quits Twitter citing Substack restrictions

Taibbi says he will no longer use Twitter, after the company decided to heavily restrict all links and tweets about Substack following that company’s announcement it would be launching Substack Notes, a short form social network and potential competitor to Twitter. The restrictions require Substack writers to sign a pledge not to criticize Musk or […]

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Chinese military wants 13,000 satellites to rival Starlink

Following the success of Musk’s SpaceX Starlink in the Ukraine War, Chinese military researchers want to deploy a national mega-constellation of almost 13,000 low-orbit satellites to emulate Starlink, while military scientists are pursuing research on how to “suppress” or even damage Starlink satellites in wartime scenarios. Chinese reaserchers in an opaque state-backed project — referred […]

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Musk reacts to Cash App founder’s murder

Musk offers his condolences, following the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, who was found stabbed to death in his San Francisco apartment in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023. Musk also calls for stronger action regarding repeat violent offenders in SF. Very sorry to hear that. Many people I know have […]

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Musk, Wozniak, join thousands calling for AI slowdown

More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers and backers, including Musk and Wozniak, sign an open letter calling for an immediate pause on the creation of ‘giant’ AIs for at least six months, so the capabilities and dangers of systems such as GPT-4 can be properly studied and mitigated. Recent months have seen AI labs […]

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Musk values Twitter at $20 billion

A person familiar with an email Musk sent to Twitter staff says Musk has offered Twitter employees stock grants that value the company at $20 billion. The reported valuation is less than half of the $44 billion that Musk paid to acquire the social media platform.

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Musk: Silicon Valley Bank collapse reminiscent of 1929

While not getting into specifics, Musk says the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10th bears some similarity to the 1929 Wall Street crisis, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 23% in two days and ushered in the Great Depression. Along with Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital also imploded. In response […]

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Lineker contacts Musk after Twitter user sends abusive message to son

Lineker tweets a screenshot of a private message sent by a Twitter user describing his eldest son, George, as a “mug” who needed to be “burned at the stake” for defending his father. Is this acceptable @Twitter @elonmusk? And I don’t mean the grammar. Musk does not respond. Is this acceptable @Twitter @elonmusk? And I […]

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Musk ‘open’ to buying Silicon Valley Bank

Responding to a Twitter user who suggested that the social media platform “buy SVB and become a digital bank,” Musk tweets that he’s “open to the idea.” (In 2022, he purchased Twitter, which was also struggling.) I’m open to the idea — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2023

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Musk ‘not saying’ Starship will get to orbit

SpaceX will debut its Starship vehicle in a month or so, but the chances of its first-ever orbital mission being a success are apparently only about 50%. I’m not saying it will get to orbit, but I am guaranteeing excitement. So, won’t be boring!…So I think we’ve got, hopefully, about an 80% chance of reaching […]

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Musk supports Adams, says ‘The media is racist’

In support of Adams, Musk tweets that the media is racist. The media is racist. For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians. Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist. For a *very* […]

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Musk to step down as Twitter CEO once replacement found

Following the poll where Twitter users said they wanted him to step down as CEO, Musk says he will leave the position once a replacement has been found. I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers […]

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Musk rejects Twitter HQ bed complaint

Musk criticises San Francisco Mayor Breed over an investigation by the city’s Department of Building Inspections into offices turned into bedrooms at Twitter’s headquarters, which officials say potentially violate the building code. Musk says that, instead of attacking him, the city should prioritise protecting children from the consequences of opioid drug misuse. So city of […]

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Musk: ‘I wanted to punch Kanye’

When the host of a live Q&A on Twitter Spaces about the “Twitter Files” asks about how Musk balances suspending West on Twitter with freedom of expression, Musk responds: I personally wanted to punch Kanye, so that was definitely inciting me to violence. That’s not cool…I think it’s important that people know that was my […]

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Musk to Trump: ‘The Constitution is greater than any President’

After Trump posts that Musk’s revelations about how Twitter staff withheld information about Hunter Biden’s laptop should result in ‘the termination’ of The Constitution: So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results […]

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West: Musk is a ‘half-Chinese’ clone engineered ‘like Obama’

On Instagram, West writes: Am I the only one who thinks Elon could be half Chinese? Have you ever seen his pics as a child? Take a Chinese genius and mate them with a South African supermodel and we have an Elon West also compared Musk to Barack Obama, referring to the conspiracy theory that […]

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The Twitter Files 1: How and why Twitter blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story

Musk releases The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story, though journalist Matt Taibbi. In a 30-plus post thread, Taibbi relates how Twitter executives blocked the New York Post’s October 14, 2020, Hunter Biden laptop story, using the excuse that it was ‘hacked’, despite having received no notification […]

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Roth: Musk running Twitter ‘like a dictator’

Speaking at an event hosted by the Knight Foundation, Roth, the former head of Trust and Saftey at Twitter, says the social networking site had started to stray from adhering to publicly available policies towards decisions made by Musk alone. One of my limits was if Twitter starts being ruled by dictatorial edict rather than […]