Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.
"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."
Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.
People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?
Huh, I've been busy the past few weeks, and have been off social media & not paying much attention to news either. Then I noticed links to #Twitter weren't working the past few days in media links. Checked the news about it, and am unsurprised that #ElonMusk continues to destroy Twitter as fast as he can. Now #Elon has apparently got so many problems with the wheels falling off that he can't handle people looking at his website without another #TwitterDown event 😂 https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-login-requirement-temporary
Elon's "extremely hardcore" toxic work culture means people are forced to take Adderall without a prescription to meet their workload. Just ask SpaceX employees.
"Some SpaceX workers resorted to taking Adderall to keep up with the pace of work at the company's launch facility, and others found themselves falling asleep in the bathroom during long workweeks, a recent Reuters investigation found.
"Travis Carson, a former SpaceX worker at the company's facility in Brownsville, Texas, told Reuters some workers took Adderall — a stimulant designed to help people with ADHD improve their focus and concentration levels — without a prescription to keep up with the pace of work."
Watching #Elon and now #Reddit CEO Huffman run the same play, it makes me think that Matt Muellenweg may be the only tech CEO left that I can think of has any credibility on the #OpenWeb. #WordPress#Automattic
Vielleicht ist es nur einfach grundsätzlich keine so gute Idee, dass die Plattformen und Medien, auf und durch die der öffentliche, gesellschaftliche Diskurs stattfinden soll, im Privatbesitz einiger wenigen Individuen ist? #Elon#Musk#Bluesky#Himmel
Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
Looks like even more brands are going to vanish from Twitter soon.
One of Twitter's big advantages over Mastodon for brands and advertisers was that it was supported by a range of social media and ad management tools.
Not anymore!
Via Mashable:
"Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company.
"Users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account through its Digital Marketing Center's social media management tool, according to Microsoft. Users will also no longer be able to schedule, create, or manage tweets or tweet drafts. In addition, users won't be able to view their past tweets and engagement on the Microsoft Advertising platform."
Nie wiem, kiedy załoga @ftdl będzie miała wolny weekend.
Jak nie zarząd #reddit i intensywne prace nad kbin.social, to #elon i ogarnianie zwiększonego ruchu #ExiTT.
W końcu awaria macierzy raid 5 i kolejne nieprzespane noce :/
Przytul czasem swojego admina @piotrsikora, zasłużył :)
if spacex is anything like #tesla with bugs in the programming, his cars always being recalled for one reason or another and safety standards, what is his spacecraft going to be like
How many people has #Elon#musk killed with his "auto pilot" marketing claim. It's not "auto pilot", it is irresponsible and misleading to call it "auto pilot". But he'll call it "auto pilot" anyway so people buy his high tech cars and ignore his dangerous high tech bugs. Calling it "auto test pilot" would be more fitting.
The state of the internet 2023
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Elon's entire thought process when deciding to rename Twitter to 'X.'
From /r/scifi but it's hilarious: "So I heard someone refer to Elon Musk as "real-life Tony Stark." (preview.redd.it)
I don't know if they were joking or not, but it got me thinking about more accurate fictional analogues. I present: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Musk.