Musky

focuszing723 · April 2023

Briantrumpet

Is still using twitter.

briantrumpet · April 2023

focuszing723 said:
Briantrumpet

Is still using twitter.

As explained above. I also read the Daily Telegraph, despite thinking that most of it is reactionary codswallop. There's no hypocrisy involved, not least as it's an interesting study into how something can so quickly go wrong. I'm not going to make a call as to whether it's going to fail completely, though I think as long as he carries on behaving as he is, the likelihood is that it will, as fewer and fewer organisations and people who (still) make it useful are willing to be associated with the nutters he seems to want to attract.

I suggest that if you can't cope with justified criticism of Musk, this isn't a good place to be.

focuszing723 · April 2023

briantrumpet said:

focuszing723 said:
Briantrumpet

Is still using twitter.

As explained above. I also read the Daily Telegraph, despite thinking that most of it is reactionary codswallop. There's no hypocrisy involved, not least as it's an interesting study into how something can so quickly go wrong. I'm not going to make a call as to whether it's going to fail completely, though I think as long as he carries on behaving as he is, the likelihood is that it will, as fewer and fewer organisations and people who (still) make it useful are willing to be associated with the nutters he seems to want to attract.

I suggest that if you can't cope with justified criticism of Musk, this isn't a good place to be.

Forget Musk ((any media is good media (advertising)).

What elements of twitter aren't working for you?

Isn't it in Twitters/your interest that it becomes profitable/viable for it's evolution/survival?

I bet you in six months, you will be onto the next thing.

briantrumpet · April 2023

focuszing723 said:

briantrumpet said:

focuszing723 said:
Briantrumpet

Is still using twitter.

As explained above. I also read the Daily Telegraph, despite thinking that most of it is reactionary codswallop. There's no hypocrisy involved, not least as it's an interesting study into how something can so quickly go wrong. I'm not going to make a call as to whether it's going to fail completely, though I think as long as he carries on behaving as he is, the likelihood is that it will, as fewer and fewer organisations and people who (still) make it useful are willing to be associated with the nutters he seems to want to attract.

I suggest that if you can't cope with justified criticism of Musk, this isn't a good place to be.
Forget Musk ((any media is good media (advertising)).

What elements of twitter aren't working for you?

Isn't it in Twitters/your interest that it becomes profitable/viable for it's evolution/survival?

I bet you in six months, you will be onto the next thing.

Twitter currently works for me, but I use it selectively. Driving away trusted & interesting content providers might or might not make it profitable (all the indications I've seen, e.g. advertising income, at the moment seem to be heading in the wrong direction). If he makes it profitable by turning it into a truth-denying machine (à la Fox 'News') pandering to polarised extremes, I'll not be hanging around to see what garbage is pumped out.

focuszing723 · April 2023

briantrumpet said:

focuszing723 said:

briantrumpet said:

focuszing723 said:
Briantrumpet

Is still using twitter.

As explained above. I also read the Daily Telegraph, despite thinking that most of it is reactionary codswallop. There's no hypocrisy involved, not least as it's an interesting study into how something can so quickly go wrong. I'm not going to make a call as to whether it's going to fail completely, though I think as long as he carries on behaving as he is, the likelihood is that it will, as fewer and fewer organisations and people who (still) make it useful are willing to be associated with the nutters he seems to want to attract.

I suggest that if you can't cope with justified criticism of Musk, this isn't a good place to be.
Forget Musk ((any media is good media (advertising)).

What elements of twitter aren't working for you?

Isn't it in Twitters/your interest that it becomes profitable/viable for it's evolution/survival?

I bet you in six months, you will be onto the next thing.

Twitter currently works for me, but I use it selectively. Driving away trusted & interesting content providers might or might not make it profitable (all the indications I've seen, e.g. advertising income, at the moment seem to be heading in the wrong direction). If he makes it profitable by turning it into a truth-denying machine (à la Fox 'News') pandering to polarised extremes, I'll not be hanging around to see what garbage is pumped out.

Cheers, that's all I wanted to know.

focuszing723 · April 2023

Elon Musk has confirmed that his companies Tesla and Twitter were buying tons of GPUs when asked to confirm whether he was building up Twitters compute prowess to develop a generative artificial intelligence project. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports(opens in new tab) that Musk's AI venture will be a separate entity from his other companies, but it could use Twitter content for training.

Elon Musk's AI project, which he began exploring earlier this year, is reportedly separate from his other companies, but could potentially use Twitter content as data to train its language model and tap into Tesla's computing resources, according to Financial Times. This somewhat contradicts the earlier report which claimed that the AI project would be a part of Twitter.

To build up the new project, Musk is recruiting engineers from top AI companies, including DeepMind, and has already brought on Igor Babuschkin from DeepMind and approximately half a dozen of other AI specialists.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/more-details-about-elon-musk-ai-project-emerge
Blimey, tag on another plate.

surrey_commuter · April 2023

biggest rocket ever launched is due at 14:00 BST

or it could be one of the biggest bangs ever heard

To give it some perspective it would be the 12th tallest UK building outside of London

focuszing723 · April 2023

Such a good thread this. Orbit or firework it will be data for the next iteration.

Jezyboy · April 2023

Tricky stuff this rocket engineering

focuszing723 · April 2023

Jezyboy said:
Tricky stuff this rocket engineering

Yeah, it ain't rocket science that it's rocket science.

kingstongraham · April 2023

surrey_commuter said:

To give it some perspective it would be the 12th tallest UK building outside of London

That gives me no perspective at all.

focuszing723 · April 2023

kingstongraham · April 2023

What's it for?

kingstongraham · April 2023

Other than giving musk the chance to wear this jacket.

focuszing723 · April 2023

kingstongraham said:
What's it for?

Sending stuff to space.

pblakeney · April 2023

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.

kingstongraham · April 2023

pblakeney said:

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.

I'm surprised they got permission to move it from New York, to be honest.

orraloon · April 2023

What's that aerosol can doing there on the right hand end?

surrey_commuter · April 2023

pblakeney said:

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.

I imagine they felt the same as the plinth it stands on is the same height again

Pross · April 2023

kingstongraham said:

pblakeney said:

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.
I'm surprised they got permission to move it from New York, to be honest.

It doesn't look very aerodynamic so I'm not convinced it will get into orbit. They should have tried putting a skin on the Eiffel Tower instead.

I pity the person who uses the Ann Summers product on the right though!

Pross · April 2023

surrey_commuter said:

pblakeney said:

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.
I imagine they felt the same as the plinth it stands on is the same height again

It felt a bit like the Spinal Tap version of Stonhenge when I finally got to see it (it was closed due to hurricane damage the first time we went to NYC).

Pross · April 2023

kingstongraham said:
What's it for?

Compensating. I'm suprise it isn't called something like Max Thruster.

focuszing723 · April 2023

Can someone ask ChatGPT to write song called "You lot can fvck right off". It needs to have "greatness" in there too.

Cheers.

kingstongraham · April 2023

focuszing723 said:
Can someone ask ChatGPT to write song called "You lot can fvck right off". It needs to have "greatness" in there too.

Cheers.

I mean, fair play to you for this idea.

(Verse 1)
I'm a visionary, a man with a plan,
Aiming for greatness, like no one else can,
Building rockets to the sky, electric cars so sleek,
But there's haters and doubters, who call me a freak.

(Pre-Chorus)
They say I'm crazy, they say I'm strange,
But I'm just chasing dreams that they can't rearrange,
I've got big ideas, I've got big goals,
But their negativity, it takes its toll.

(Chorus)
So you lot can fvck right off,
With your doubts and your scoffs,
I'll keep reaching for the stars,
No matter how high the bars,
I'll show the world what I can do,
And prove that greatness can come from you.

(Verse 2)
I dream of Mars, a planet to explore,
Colonizing space, like never before,
Revolutionizing travel, with Hyperloop speed,
But some say it's impossible, just a crazy greed.

(Pre-Chorus)
They try to bring me down, they try to dissuade,
But I won't back down, I'll keep pushing ahead,
I'll keep innovating, I'll keep taking risks,
Because I know that greatness, it often comes with tricks.

(Chorus)
So you lot can fvck right off,
With your doubts and your scoffs,
I'll keep reaching for the stars,
No matter how high the bars,
I'll show the world what I can do,
And prove that greatness can come from you.

(Bridge)
I'll work day and night, with passion and drive,
Believing in my vision, keeping my dreams alive,
I'll build a better future, for all to see,
And leave a legacy, that will forever be.

(Chorus)
So you lot can fvck right off,
With your doubts and your scoffs,
I'll keep reaching for the stars,
No matter how high the bars,
I'll show the world what I can do,
And prove that greatness can come from you.

(Outro)
I'm Elon Musk, I'm on a mission so grand,
I won't let negativity, deter my plan,
I'll keep pushing forward, no matter the cost,
Because I believe in greatness, and that's not lost.

kingstongraham · April 2023

It's pretty bad, but I did ask for it "as if written by Elon Musk".

focuszing723 · April 2023

Cheers.

Well I think we can all unanimously say Humanity is doomed. A bit of Bowie melody and that's a track right there.

pblakeney · April 2023

Pross said:

surrey_commuter said:

pblakeney said:

focuszing723 said:

I was quite surprised at how small the Statue of Liberty is.
I imagine they felt the same as the plinth it stands on is the same height again
It felt a bit like the Spinal Tap version of Stonhenge when I finally got to see it (it was closed due to hurricane damage the first time we went to NYC).

Yeah, for clarity the Statue of Liberty was much smaller than I expected when I saw it IRL, not the graphic above.

andrew_s-2 · April 2023

Pross said:

I pity the person who uses the Ann Summers product on the right though!

That's the Blue Origin New Shepard - tourist hops to the edge of space for the rich, which is as far as Jeff Bezos has got with his bid to conquer space.