IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why “Hitler was right”
I was getting excited about getting a new vehicle, and was looking at a Tesla.
But, Nope! I’ll ride a tricycle before Elon gets a penny from me.
Lucid has entered the chat
Twice as expensive and a tiny charging network in the United States. No thanks.
Elon sucks. In case that wasn’t clear.
Twice as expensive as what? A Lucid Air sure isn’t competing against a Model 3 if that’s what you’re saying. It’s priced almost identically to the Model S, so not really twice as expensive. Also, in case you missed it, the Supercharger network is opening to all brands, so that selling point is not a thing for much longer.
There’s literally no reason to pick a Tesla over another brand, unless you really enjoy paying $12k to beta test absolutely terrifying ADAS software.
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If you are still on Twitter, you are making a statement whether you like it or not.
Up until this morning, I used it to keep up to date in gamedev circles but I also made a Threads and bsky account in addition to Mastodon. I’ll be deleting it later this weekend.
If everyone did this…even maintaining X over a treansition period, we could all really send a message to big money.
When IBM, the guys that developed the computer system to schedule and track the holocaust itself, go “OY, cool your rhetoric Elon”, you know you’re well off the deep end.
Don’t worry, he still has their costume designer.
Could you take a screenshot when you post this stuff? I really don’t want to touch that pile of shit in any way.
I don’t think there will be much damage. It’s not as though this were some huge surprise. The only people left on X agree with him or don’t care enough to mildly adjust their habits. I saw that IBM “paused” their ads, but I’d bet a nickel they will resume them once this blows over. They know what Xitter is. All the corporations know and don’t care. This very article on the NYT website has a button to share it on Twitter.
Not true. Lots of are still there because lots are still there. You see they tried to move to Mastadon, but obviously were confused. They leave like three accounts on three different instances with a few posts about being confused or not getting on with Mastadon.
They aren’t nazies, they just don’t feel they can move.
“If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 nazi, there are 11 nazis at the table.”
That’s just a rubbish oneliner to make people think they’re smart. It’s the first time I stumble upon it, but its up there with “Live Laugh Love”, “never say never” and “you only live once”…
Nah, it’s a really useful tool for identifying assholes and bigots.
I’d have a civilised discussion with everyone, especially irl, even if they’d killed my brother, and not reject them before a conversation just based on their beliefs or actions… I may well reject them for not being able to discuss or argue, but dialogue is always the way to approach a dispute
Linda Yaccarino accepting that position… talk about a poisoned chalice.
She seems to be fully on board with the program.
