Elon Musk $41B offer for Twitter

It isn't Twitters policy. It's Musks

He is interacting with white nationalist users and reinstating white nationalist figureheads

Against the backdrop of his particular brand of racism... As I said join the dots

It is easy to get caught up in the ‘platform’ stuff that seems to make facebook or twitter seem other worldly.

In effect a bloke has a website and allows multiple authors to post on it.

If you or I run a blog and let nutters, nazis or trolls post on it I imagine it would reflect badly on us.

It is worth keeping some perspective.

If interacting with and signal boosting white supremacists, whilst reinstating white supremacist figureheads and also constantly promoting the great replacement theory and promoting lies about immigrants isn't enough to clear your bar for what is a racist well... I dunno what to say.

Just can't help himself pushing disinformation

Twitter has reinstated the accounts of Stop the Steal organiser Ali Alexander and right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos.

Alexander's account was banned days after the Jan 6 Capitol riot, before being reinstated and then suspended again in 2023.
Yiannopoulos was banned in 2016.

Free speech provided they push the lies Musk wants to push?

I know that this is a dump on Musk thread, but hey, why not....

Well, Reuters have doubled down on their reporting around the firing of the Supercharger team. It was rumored before, but now there are confirmations of it. The head of the Supercharger division was told to make cuts, so she did. Musk demanded more, she pushed back and said that it would impact the plans. Musk then retaliated and fired her and the complete team. Nice, what a reasonable, respectful and honest individual.....

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportat...

And remember that 'a Cybertruck is faster in the 1/4 mile than a Porsche 911, while towing a 911' statement? Yeah, bunch of people called it out and said that it wasnt accurate, but Tesla and Musk being what / who the are, doubled down and continued to push this. When there was proof that they didnt actually make the 1/4 mile, but actually did the 1/8th, Tesla still continued with this. Jason Fenski did a great video debunking it with maths.

Anyway, Motortrend have replicated the test and even weighted it in favor of the Cybertruck and it still didnt match the results that Tesla faked. Ok, so it was able to show that what the Cybertruck is capable of is impressive, it still wasnt able to beat the 911:

https://youtu.be/K0AJmLvKjxw

To be fair, the Cybertruck did manage to win one out of three to the 1/8th but lost all 3 to the 1/4 mile. So yeah, usual stuff from Tesla again. Why does anyone ever trust anything that this man says?

There is a bit more context (which I posted on a different thread a couple of weeks ago, so all this all known information long before Reuters wrote their article).

Musk is putting in huge investment into solving FSD. But the current decline in EV sales, which is affecting many companies, could force Tesla to raise money going into next year if they don't make big cuts to their other areas of spend urgently.

Musk therefore decided he wanted to dramatically increase his number of direct reports in Tesla so he could get more visibility of what was happening. That is when Rebecca Tinucci, who was the head of the supercharging, became a direct report to Musk at that point.

He told Tinucci it was imperative she needed to make further big cuts to her team. Apparently it was 'known' the Supercharging team had the most excess capacity of any department in the company, and with declining sales, there was no need to accelerate as quickly with the build out of new chargers.

However, she pushed back, making all the obvious, logical arguments about the importance of their charging network to EV adoption rates etc etc. But Musk knows all of that - that's the reason they have the supercharging network in the first place.

I suspect she wasn't that used to 'managing upwards' and so didn't read the room. If Musk is telling you, there is a cash burn problem, and you must cut costs urgently, your next task is to start figuring out how to achieve that in the best possible way. You don't start 'pushing back' and resisting it. It's also suggested she threatened to hand in her resignation if Musk insisted on pushing through with his plans (talk about being delusional?). So, in a fit of pique, he sacked her. And said he was sacking the whole of her team, to make the point, on this issue, they don't have time for a debate, it just needs to get done.

I said at the time, I didn't think the whole of the charging team would actually end up being sacked. And that is also proving to be true. And whilst it created lurid headlines, and no doubt was not handled well, I suspect sacrificing Tinucci so brutally will have ensured that other senior managers don't procrastinate when it comes to saving money urgently.

But it’s the employees own fault for working for him. At least recognise if you get paid while you’re there all good, but don’t expect loyalty.

I've driven a Tesla and watched a falcon 9 land. I still think he's a person starting with c and ending with unt.

They will already know. But it seems he also pays good money, which would be a mitigating factor for many people. There was a video here from a factory supervisor being paid $100k IIRC taking into account stock options. And one of their senior team, Drew Baglino, who 'resigned' a few weeks ago just sold $180 million worth of Tesla shares, and I doubt that was all of his holdings. That's substantial compensation - I would even work for him for that money!