re: Twitter Purge continues, Offices Locked Down Until Monday?

If that's fake, it's a great example of how everything has turned so venomous against Elon simply for buying their beloved Twitter. If this becomes a case study in anything, it's going to be how toxic employees can tank a M/A scenario.

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If that's fake, it's a great example of how everything has turned so venomous against Elon simply for buying their beloved Twitter. If this becomes a case study in anything, it's going to be how toxic employees can tank a M/A scenario.

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With Tesla alone he was a liberal tree hugger hero.

Now he's an a-hole.

It's probably too early to suggest this is a case study in anything at the moment. I still think the central conundrum of social media is that it is a advertising space that also serves to aggregate news. Monetizing that to any degree through charging users is going to be difficult, because unlike newspapers, which similarly served as advertising spaces with news, the people producing the content are also the end-users. The space is already democratized, and thus monetizing it outside of advertising is something no social media platform has been able to solve.

seems like he never got a degree and the degree he says he got doesn't even exist there.
https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307641870225411


So let’s walk through the evidence on his degrees carefully: 1) evidence from lawsuits (subpoenas and depositions), 2) Elon’s coursework, 3) statements from Penn, 4) false statements to his biographer. 19/

1 - Lawsuits. Here’s the story of how we have Elon’s diplomas. In 1995, Elon interviewed at a startup, then ghosted them, started Global Link instead. The owner sued, alleging Elon swiped his business plan. The case hinged on deception, since borrowing ideas is legal. 20/

To get the interview, Elon said he was a Stanford PhD student, with degrees in Computational Physics & Finance. The plaintiff called that fraud & subpoenaed Penn. It seems Elon was indeed given two diplomas, but only in 1997, and the 2nd one has no department. 21/

Note that pulling strings at Penn’s Wharton School is not that big a scandal. Credentialing unstudious elites is part of Wharton’s game: Trump & Trump Jr are grads too. But Penn Physics is small, just a handful of graduates, and holding their reputation requires standards. 22/

Elon had to sit for a deposition as part of the 2007 lawsuit. He was grilled about saying “Computational Physics”, which doesn’t exist at Penn. When asked about the blank diploma, he evaded. Elon’s been talking his way out of situations for a long time. He won the suit. 23/

In 2009, ousted Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard also sued, & again attacked Elon’s Physics degree claim. Eberhard reused material from the earlier suit, and added lies found in official SEC filings. This time it seems it was successful, since Elon settled out of court. 24/

2 - Coursework. We know Elon did try Physics, but was academically behind. That’s clear from homework he posted: he’s a 3rd-year in 2nd-year Mechanics. It’s a red flag for someone who skips a lot of class. Some prodigies can ace tests without classes - but they aren’t behind. 25/

3 - Penn statements: Penn’s Wharton School regularly claims Elon, world’s richest man, as an alumnus, but the Physics Dept. seems never to have done so. In their congrats to 1997 graduates, there’s no Elon. 26/

Penn Arts & Sciences (which includes Physics), HAS called Elon a Physics alum, in one context: a bio for the “Elon Musk Public Lecture, made possible through a generous endowment gifted to the Center for Particle Cosmology in 2009”. Gifted the year of Elon’s deposition. 27/

3 - False statements to his biographer. In 2015, Ashlee Vance put out a gushing bio of Elon. At some point he noticed that Elon’s degrees came 2 years late and asked about it, but then just accepted Elon’s strange answers, & shoved them in an appendix. They don’t hold up. 28/



Elon explained his delayed diplomas by saying he had a minor problem at Penn: he hadn’t fulfilled his Language and History requirements, and when those were later dropped he got the degrees. But Penn has not dropped its Language and History requirements. 29/

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it's going to be how toxic employees can tank a M/A scenario.

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And this only involves one company. Imagine being elected President and almost every federal agency is full of toxic employees who have it in for you. That includes the intel community and law enforcement.

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The space is already democratized, and thus monetizing it outside of advertising is something no social media platform has been able to solve.

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No Facebook and Google figured out how to turn user data into dollars, but (a) that plays into the advertising angle and (b) EVERYONE has their own app now to get user data directly. Nobody is buying it anymore like they were.

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No Facebook and Google figured out how to turn user data into dollars, but (a) that plays into the advertising angle and (b) EVERYONE has their own app now to get user data directly. Nobody is buying it anymore like they were.

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Well, Apple fricked Facebook in the ear back in February with the privacy change. That said, Apple is building their own DSP, so if anyone thinks Apple was being consumer-centric with the move is wrong.

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What was your alter while you were banned?

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BamaCuck

Apple is collecting tons of data, they will share it when it benefits them.