Elon Musk May Have Just Signed X’s Death Warrant

They're referring to the "halo effect" of Apple accepting the claim of antisemitism.
Truthful or not, Apple is sort of an "influencer" when it comes to ethics, with one of the few openly gay CEOs in big tech and a history of doing, or at least claiming to do, the right thing when any negative labor practices are revealed.
I think there is a sense that if Apple is willing to walk away, it's a signal to other companies that the problem is real.
- I think there is a sense that if Apple is willing to walk away, it's a signal to other companies that the problem is real.
  I agree that Apple may be the canary in the coal mine but I propose a motive beyond ethics.
  It may be that Apple has seen a reduction in traffic from ads on Twitter recently and this latest move by Musk, coupled with everything else, gave them leverage to get out of any contracted ad buys. They pull ineffective ads, help their brand and ethics image, and save money doing it.
  The cynic in me says whatever the motivation the largest driver is financial.
- You are talking like Apple isn't still pumping elons garbage through their devices for a 30% cut.
  They'd pull the app if they really cared.
- It's sad that anyone would associate Apple with ethics. They clearly haven't looked into their China factories.
- I didn’t know Tim Cook was gay today I learned

why did it take IBM and Apple so long to figure out which song was playing on the juke box here

- “Our AI data science projections state we won’t lose money until musk really gets into white supremacy, so let’s keep those ads pumping until that happens.”
Apple still has no problem pumping this to hundreds of millions of people through their app store for a 30% cut.
Do they really care?
Pull the app.

every fucking post on this website is about this guy I don't give a shit holy fuck stop posting him

I have a filter against his name on mobile, really wished I could do the same on desktop
- How do you set this filter? Need it for Linux
Preach!

Again? Is it gonna stick this time? You promise?

X is as finished as Trump!
- Oh no

Time to create that Mastodon account you have been meaning to, the dual post for a while until your network is established and then delete X.

Some people seem to bounce off Mastodon, saying that it doesn't have the content that they were looking for. I'd suggest that it probably does have the content that you are looking for, but you can't expect instantly see everything you are looking for from a fresh account.
People have spent years building up their twitter feeds; finding the people they like to follow, and browsing for new things, getting recommendations, and removing they stuff they don't like. You can't expect to match that level of content 10 mins after signing up on Mastodon. You will have to look around and tell it what you want to see before it will be what you want it to be.

What, did he buy it again?

So they always say... and then keep reading and posting tweets all day every day.

On Wednesday, Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic post by user @breakingbaht alleging that “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” In response, Musk posted, “You have spoken the actual truth.”

The original post seemed to echo the beliefs of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which is popular among white supremacists and right-wing extremists.

And yet, all my Jewish friends are white.
Schrodinger’s whiteness…
- Jewish people tend to not be considered white even though they are oftentimes fair skinned, blue eyes, etc.
  In the US, Italian and Irish immigrants also used to not be considered white either. It’s a label applied to groups when it’s most convenient. Doesn’t necessarily have a lot of logic behind it beyond racism.
- Schrodinger’s whiteness…
  It always is.

X I don't care about.

Not seeing this shit in my feed constantly, now that would be nice.

You can always just add his name as a filtering keyword. Tools are available to help you.
- Imagine filtering "musk", "Biden", "trump", and "communism and socialism are good and moral and it has always worked every time we tried it" from Lemmy.
  "There's nothing here. Please refresh."
- Starship launch tomorrow though, wouldn't want to miss out on hype because of something titled "Elon Musk's Starship Rocket" etc... I'm a big space nerd and while Elon is a dork this rocket will be a massive leap for everything space related if it works out.
  Fuck X/Twitter though, sick of hearing about it for sure. I've heard rumours that SpaceX only does as well as they do because they have Shotwell running the show and they have Elon wranglers to keep him away from anything important...
I recently blocked /c/enoughmuskspam, which, ironically, was only musk spam

Is that beard to make him look younger? Because it looks like that beard you sometimes see on young guys figuring out that they can't really grow a decent beard...

He probably tries to copy the look of the Chad meme, as many other right wing extremists do, but he doesn't have the hair growth necessary.

How many times does he have to sign the warrant before it actually dies tho?

3 times, but he has to do it in front of a mirror. When he was about to do the third time he renamed it, thus resetting the counter.

Again?

What is IBM advertising there?

International BMs
- Bowel movements or business machines?
- The worst of manners from all across the world.
Any one of the large brands they own, I assume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_IBM
Census machines.
Probably thinkpads or some enterprise stuff.
- Thinkpads were sold off to Lenovo 18 years ago.

Very Stable Genius v. 2.0

Wasn't that the other idiot?

are the last horses just finishing the realization race? this was always his endgame

Oops I destroyed the nerve center of American journalism, totally just an accident I swear bro.
- plausible is the only kind of legal deniability he needs
Elon needs those horses to bribe his sexual assault victims

Yeah yeah, promises, promises.

He’s never depended on advertisers to pay the bills before.

We can only hope. 👍

I really wish X would sign Musks death warrant.

You think Saudi Arabia is just going to let their toy collapse? They shit the money it takes to run that site every day.

I'm of the opinion they want it dead. Twitter was used to organize protestors during The Arab Spring. The House of Saud hasn't forgotten that. 40 billion is a small price to pay to keep the peasants in their place. They gave Musk the money knowing he would drive it into the ground, intentionally or not.
Great. Let them continue to waste their money as they sink into irrelevance in a petrochemicals less dependent world.
They should put that money into r&d and education instead. They won't, though. They will build vanity projects.

I'm betting no,