Twitter and Musk

I'm not sure how much truth is in this as it comes from the apparent ever deceptive Murdoch Fox News who love Musk....


Mark Zuckerberg ‘Twitter killer’ Threads enrages users over mass data collection: 'Near zero privacy'
The new app from Meta collects info related to a user's credit score, religious affiliation and sexual orientation

By Nikolas Lanum | Fox News
FOX Business correspondent Kelly O'Grady has the latest on Zuckerberg's attempted blows at Elon Musk on 'Special Report.'

Meta’s Twitter rival "Threads" has already enraged social media after it was discovered that the new "sharing with text" platform asks users to hand over even more data than its competitor, including financial and health information.

Reporter Michael Shellenberger warned that the new creation from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has "near zero privacy" and said Congress must either break up Meta or mandate transparency as a condition of the company’s Section 230 protections.

"Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not thinking about monetization of users on his Twitter clone, Threads, but that’s a lie. His business model is selling our data to advertisers," he tweeted Thursday.......

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-...threads-enrages-users-data-collection-privacy
 
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themickey said:
I'm not sure how much truth is in this as it comes from the ever lying Murdoch Fox News who love Musk....


Mark Zuckerberg ‘Twitter killer’ Threads enrages users over mass data collection: 'Near zero privacy'
The new app from Meta collects info related to a user's credit score, religious affiliation and sexual orientation

By Nikolas Lanum | Fox News
FOX Business correspondent Kelly O'Grady has the latest on Zuckerberg's attempted blows at Elon Musk on 'Special Report.'

Meta’s Twitter rival "Threads" has already enraged social media after it was discovered that the new "sharing with text" platform asks users to hand over even more data than its competitor, including financial and health information.

Reporter Michael Shellenberger warned that the new creation from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has "near zero privacy" and said Congress must either break up Meta or mandate transparency as a condition of the company’s Section 230 protections.

"Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not thinking about monetization of users on his Twitter clone, Threads, but that’s a lie. His business model is selling our data to advertisers," he tweeted Thursday.......

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Well only if the user enter their credit score, religious affiliation and/or sexual orientation in their Meta profile information or post about these items.
 
Elon Musk Pledges That Tesla Will Uphold ‘Core Socialist Values’ in China
OH THE IRONY
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-...la-will-uphold-core-socialist-values-in-china

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised the company will uphold “core socialist values” in China following a price war in the country’s electric vehicle market, the Financial Times reported.

Tesla was the only foreign carmaker to sign the joint letter pledge with 16 manufacturers at an auto industry conference in Shanghai on Thursday. “Failing to comply with ‘core socialist values’ has been frequently used by authorities to punish speeches that are critical of the Chinese government,” a senior China researcher with Human Rights Watch told the Times.

Musk’s own social media platform, Twitter, is banned in the country, and he has been criticized for refraining from tweeting while visiting China. The seemingly at-odds commitment came after Tesla cut Model 3 and Model Y prices to compete with the growing domestic EV industry. In 2018, Musk revealed he was “actually a socialist” in a tweet, writing “true socialism seeks greatest good for all.” Tesla declined to comment to the Times on the pledge in China.

Read it at Financial Times
 
gwb-trading said:
Elon Musk Pledges That Tesla Will Uphold ‘Core Socialist Values’ in China
OH THE IRONY
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-...la-will-uphold-core-socialist-values-in-china

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised the company will uphold “core socialist values” in China following a price war in the country’s electric vehicle market, the Financial Times reported.

Tesla was the only foreign carmaker to sign the joint letter pledge with 16 manufacturers at an auto industry conference in Shanghai on Thursday. “Failing to comply with ‘core socialist values’ has been frequently used by authorities to punish speeches that are critical of the Chinese government,” a senior China researcher with Human Rights Watch told the Times.

Musk’s own social media platform, Twitter, is banned in the country, and he has been criticized for refraining from tweeting while visiting China. The seemingly at-odds commitment came after Tesla cut Model 3 and Model Y prices to compete with the growing domestic EV industry. In 2018, Musk revealed he was “actually a socialist” in a tweet, writing “true socialism seeks greatest good for all.” Tesla declined to comment to the Times on the pledge in China.

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This is your reminder that Tesla is shrinking, not expanding. I wonder how shoving people out on the street align with the "core socialist values" Elon is committed to.

Tesla is laying off a bunch of its Shanghai Gigafactory workers, weeks after Elon Musk visited and praised their hard work
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-lays-off-shanghai-workers-weeks-after-praise-2023-7
 
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Yep... Musk is a druggie who takes all sorts of psychedelics and other drugs. Go figure -- on the other hand this probably does not surprise anyone.

Elon Musk ‘takes ketamine to manage depression’
Tycoon has previously called for psychedelic drugs to be promoted as alternative to antidepressants
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/27/musk-takes-ketamine-to-manage-depression/

Elon Musk has told friends that he takes the drug ketamine to manage depression, according to a report.

The world’s richest person also takes doses of the psychedelic-like substance at parties, witnesses told the Wall Street Journal.

Mr Musk has previously called for psychedelics and ketamine to be promoted as an alternative to prescribed antidepressants, alongside many Silicon Valley supporters of the drug.

Ketamine is a controlled substance in the US and can only be legally administered by injection at a doctor’s office or clinic, largely as an anaesthetic.

Mr Musk has previously faced scrutiny after smoking marijuana on a podcast in 2018. The drug is legally sold in California, but federally illegal, raising questions about his rocket company SpaceX’s contracts with Nasa.

Mr Musk and SpaceX employees were subjected to regular drug tests after the incident, he has said.

Ketamine, widely known as a party drug, has exploded in use in recent years and more people are using the substance to treat depression, with clinics springing up around US cities.

Mr Musk has told people he “microdoses” the substance, according to the report. Microdosing – taking small amounts of a substance such as ketamine or LSD – is regularly promoted in Silicon Valley as a way to improve productivity or creativity or treat depression and anxiety.

Steve Jobs was open about his use of LSD, while Justin Zhu, the co-founder of marketing start-up Iterable, was fired as chief executive in 2021 for microdosing at work.

Mr Musk has espoused the benefits of ketamine in the past. Last year, he tweeted: “I’ve talked to many more people who were helped by psychedelics & ketamine than SSRIs and amphetamines,” he tweeted last year.

He has also said that “people should be open to psychedelics” and a longtime friend, David Marglin, has said that he has been on “mild exploratory journeys” with the billionaire.

On Tuesday, Mr Musk tweeted: “Zombifying people with SSRIs for sure happens way too much. From what I’ve seen with friends, ketamine taken occasionally is a better option.” Mr Musk did not respond directly to the Wall Street Journal report or to a request for comment.

There is a growing clinical interest in using ketamine to treat depression, with several private providers in the UK offering it, although it cannot be prescribed on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which approves drugs for use in the NHS, rejected a ketamine nasal spray last year.
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A report that Elon Musk uses ketamine could put his security clearance at risk — again
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ketamine-use-security-clearance-2023-7
 
I propose a literal dick measuring contest
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As much as Trump and Musk have a similar penchant for stupidity, Trump would never propose a dick contest.

".....Trump’s bodyguard invites Stormy Daniels to dinner, which turns out to be an invitation to Trump’s penthouse, she writes, in a description of alleged events that Daniels has disclosed previously but which in the book are rendered with new and lurid detail. She describes Trump’s penis as “smaller than average” but “not freakishly small”.

“He knows he has an unusual penis,” Daniels writes. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool …

“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart ......"
 
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