⛔️🇺🇸Musk and American Starlink CEO’s begins overt sanctions violation aid to Russian military by increasingly providing access to DOD funded Starlink terminals on battlefield
(More) https://kyivindependent.com/media-russian-military-actively-using-starlink-terminals-on-battlefield/ #Ukraine #USA #UnitedStates #Musk #ElonMusk #Mastodon #Tesla #X #Starlink #SpaceX #TheBoringCompany #Antisemitic #SouthAfrican #ElonMuskIsARussianSpy #ArrestStarlinkCEO #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #AxisOfEvil
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⛔️🇺🇸Musk gets around US Sanctions by turning his back to third parties in UAE who sell in bulk to Russia, bypassing sanctions and allowing Pentagon funded military tech into Russian hands to commit genocide (more)
https://kyivindependent.com/musk-denies-starlink-sales-to-russia/ #Ukraine #USA #Press #UnitedStates #News #UAE #Dubai #Musk #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #Starlink #SpaceX #Mastodon #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk
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Three out of four visits were from bots.
“Advertisers typically pay social media companies based on impressions and/or clicks on their advertisements. And based on this traffic data, advertisers could potentially be paying Musk and company for visits from an audience consisting mostly of bots.”
#elonmusk
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
“It’s extremely concerning that X has rolled out a new feature that has serious implications for users privacy and security quietly, without making users aware of the changes.
Profit is the motivating factor over user safety and security.”
🗣️ ORG's Abby Burke on the new audio and video calling feature that can reveal users' IP addresses.
Introduced to all users and automatically enabled, it shows a reckless disregard for safety.
#privacy #X #Twitter #Musk #ElonMusk
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/x-feature-leak-location-2938704
Hey, speaking of rich people and complicit corporate media, did you know two of the three richest men on Earth (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos) and the family that own's Trader Joes, are currently trying to get American courts to declare the core functions of the National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional, and the mainstream media is literally barely reporting it?
Although this story seems complex, the essential point here is that these rich maggots who have both a vested interest in stopping unions, and own companies with a documented history of unionbusting, want to stop the board that rules on NLRA cases, from hearing cases in their administrative courts. This matters because these courts allow in particular, workers who've been fired for organizing unions by big corporations like Amazon, Tesla, and Trader Joe's to quickly get a ruling that stops those companies from union busting by simply axing the organizers. The rich guys, using essentially the same arguments that were refuted by SCOTUS almost 90 years ago, would prefer those cases be heard in federal court, because it would *guarantee* "that by the time they reach the bench, those organizing campaigns will have become a dim memory." Furthermore, it's entirely possible that the richest folks in the oligarch class won't stop there, and might even ask a very anti-union SCOTUS to literally toss the NLRA altogether, leaving workers entirely exposed to whatever predations these rich maggots want to enact upon them.
In other words, and to quote the author of this article:
"in a time of stratospheric economic inequality and overwhelming public support for unions, they want the courts to strike down workers’ right to collective bargaining? One of the fundamental landmarks of the New Deal? Shall we negate all of America’s mid-20th-century social progress? All of Roosevelt’s legacy? How about we revisit World War II and surrender to the Nazis and Japan?"
Naturally, you would assume this might be bigger news than it has been. But the truth is, corporate media in America has a vested class interest in keeping this one on the downlow because they too are owned by rich (mostly) American oligarchs; in the case of a paper like the Washington post, their boss, Jeff Bezos, is literally one of the oligarchs bringing the case before the courts through his EvilCorpTM, the American multinational corporation and technology company Amazon. When the same guys busting the unions, own the papers, it's clearly possible to gut the right to collectively bargain with barely a whisper leaking out into the mainstream discourse. In the immortal words of Frank Zappa, "they just takes care of number one, an' number one ain't you; you ain't even number two..."
#NLRA #Unions #ElonMusk #Amazon #TraderJoes #UnionBusting #Neofeudalism
Ukrainian front-line troops say they are experiencing connection problems with the vital Starlink internet service, owned by Elon Musk and used to run Kyiv’s fleet of attack drones, while also reporting an increase in Russian use of the devices, despite this being prohibited by US sanctions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/25/europe/ukraine-starlink-drones-russia-intl-cmd/index.html
People are selling chunks of SpaceX's exploded Starship on eBay.
Futurism reports that recovered ceramic heat shield tiles are being offered for thousands of dollars.
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over the fatal Model X crash, which killed Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang in 2019.
The company confirmed Autopilot was turned on, but had always insisted driver error was to blame. However, as @engadget reports, Tesla settled out of court on the day that the trial's jury selection was due to take place.
Brazil has opened an investigation into Elon Musk, after he reactivated accounts on X that courts had ordered the social network to block.
It has caused Brazil's attorney general to call for an “urgent” focus on social media regulation, reports @theverge
Remember when conservatives used to repeat "Go woke, go broke"? In fact, it's the opposite:
Tesla: 🔽 Down 36% in six months
Trump Media & Technology Group: 🔽 Down 31% in one month
Twitter valuation: 🔽 Down 71% since #ElonMusk took over
Go right, financial blight!
Elon Musk declared he wouldn’t comply with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban far-right accounts involved in an attempted coup.
It shows how Musk uses Twitter to amplify fascism, but also why many countries are increasingly fed up with unaccountable US tech firms.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-already-losing-his-battle-with-brazil/
#Tesla’s Profit Fell 55%, Adding to Concerns About Its Strategy
The first-quarter results will very likely fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a #market dealing with slowing #ElectricCar sales.
#ElonMusk #Musk #finance #investing #StockMarket #business #egomaniac #EV
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/business/tesla-earnings-first-quarter-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Tesla revenue drops 9% from a year earlier in company’s biggest decline since 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/23/tesla-tsla-earnings-report-cybertruck #Electric,hybridandlow-emissioncars #Quarterlyresults #Technology #ElonMusk #Tesla
This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.
Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk
When people ask why I waste my time with this account, it is because of this. He is freaking dangerous.
I know I will not change anything by myself, but ... he is freaking dangerous.
I just wonder why in the world a publication that publishes this still has a link to Twitter, but not to their Threads account, or an account on Mastodon. Thoughts? @motherjonesmag
With more than 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. and over 50,000 worldwide, Tesla’s Supercharger network is the undisputed king of EV fast charging. But with the recent layoffs, CEO Elon Musk “cast a cloud over the private infrastructure project.” Read more from TechCrunch: https://flip.it/KJAelX
#Tech #Technology #Tesla #ElonMusk
Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci cut 15-20% of her team after Musk demanded it.
She felt that would justify a major Supercharger network expansion, but when she met with Musk he wanted more layoffs. When she pushed back, he fired the whole team.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html
#ElonMusk Ramps Up Anti-Biden Posts
The #billionaire has increasingly been using his #SocialMedia platform to criticize #POTUS #Biden.
“He is just a tragic front for a far left political machine,” #Musk wrote. It was the 29th time this year that he had posted about the president….
#power #influence #TaxCutsForTheWealthy #CorporateTaxCuts #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/elon-musk-x-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.
Imagine the CEO of your company shifting vital resources away from the company and towards his own private company as the stock declines 30% in five months. (1/3)
Personally, I don't understand how people like #elonmusk can avoid accountability so effectively.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/leaked-emails-elon-musk-ai-resources-tesla
Were are living in a world where numbers in a data center push inequality to levels never seen before. There are guys on this planet who get richer by a million every day without even paying attention while others starve to death. Such a world is not fit to tackle the existential problems it faces.
#ElonMusk #US