Friday, April 29, 2022
Elon Musk: Fragile White Male
I am for a wealth tax.
Elon Musk does not even own a house. He does not want to own a house. But let's be generous and give him a housing allowance of 10 million dollars. You can get a mansion for that kind of money in Texas. Texas is no Park Avenue. For food, and clothes, 10 and 10. Ticket to Mars, another 10. Miscellaneous, since my imagination fails me, 60, for a total of 100 million. And another 900 million so he may launch a foundation at some point.
Who needs more than a billion dollars to live on?
I understand you need voting rights. You don't want to end up in Jack Dorsey's position where Board members bully you around. But that is what forking is for. As soon as your net worth goes north of a billion, there is a hard fork. The stock splits into two. We The People get all the money, you keep all the voting power. That's what I am talking about.
I would like a better Twitter. Who doesn't? But I have this nagging feeling we could have taken clean drinking water to every human soul with a few billion donated to Charity: Water. Or a piece of legislation funded by the wealth tax. We could have ended homelessness for the full check. Too many veterans are homeless.
I can't believe Elon Musk spent 44 billion dollars just to be able to bring Donald Trump back on the platform. Where are your priorities, Elon?
If Elon Musk brings Donald Trump onto Twitter, Tesla shareholders should revolt!
That man Trump belongs in jail. Democracy gives you many rights, but it does not give you the right to engage in violent insurrection to bring down that very democracy. That is a no no. People go to war for liberty. Enforcing laws is a small thing to ask.
I think Elon Musk is very smart, very hardworking, very innovative, but also very white male. His being a white dude is not at all irrelevant to his success. I think that might be 90% of the mixture. He thinks it is more like 19%. That is why he spent about 19% of his big fortune to take over a platform to let the crazies out, to borrow a phrase from John McCain, the last of the Mohicans, or decent Republicans.
Musk Reveals His Political Leanings, And It's Dangerous
Women and people of color are busy smashing the glass walls and ceilings. That is not far left. That is fair share.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 29, 2022
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
Nice drawing, but I think I'm going to instead believe the actual data visualizations looking at polarization trends. pic.twitter.com/rp6V4MtpB5
— Scott Santens (@scottsantens) April 29, 2022
For that community love, go offline Elon. Twitter is not it.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 29, 2022
Free Speech And Just Society
Should Elon Musk Be Owning All Of Twitter?
Marc Andreessen Is A Dud When It Comes To Politics
The Masses, Not Mars
One of NASA's robots on Mars measured an "earthquake" that lasted for 94 minutes and peaked at a magnitude 4.1 on the Richter Scale: https://t.co/nVvX1AAs10
— AccuWeather Astronomy (@AccuAstronomy) April 28, 2022
-The largest earthquake ever recorded took place on Mars, lasting 94 minutes.
— UKR REPORT (@UKR_Report) April 26, 2022
The planet is also involved in the team’s efforts, producing massive earthquakes on the other side. The largest Martian earthquake ever recorded shakes the far side of Mars, find out the truth https://t.co/pEH6AohJb2
— ExBulletin (@bulletin_ex) April 27, 2022
2 giant marsquakes rock the far side of Mars https://t.co/HvwHvZjxC5
— Wendy Sparrow (@WendySparrow) April 28, 2022
(Things you never considered... earthquakes only occur on Earth.)
Musk Reveals His Political Leanings, And It's Dangerous https://t.co/KnlDvqKyG9 #hatespeech #racism #sexism #homophobia #democracy #fascism
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 29, 2022
Musk Reveals His Political Leanings, And It's Dangerous https://t.co/KnlDvqKyG9 #hatespeech #racism #sexism #homophobia #democracy #fascism
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 29, 2022
That is in fact what has happened. Since the 90s the right has moved a little further right, but the left has moved a lot further left. pic.twitter.com/ZzsiCpFguM
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 29, 2022
Maybe I am misreading this chart, but the chart labels seem to imply this data shows increasing ~tribalism~ of views, but not necessarily the extremism of those views. Could be correlated or implied of course.
— jordan fish (@jordanfish) April 29, 2022
Reading the source is helpful. Also, the fact that those behind this source have also publicly rebutted this interpretation Graham is pushing tells us a lot.
— Skyrim is my happy place (@niccimomagic) April 29, 2022
To be helpful, I’ve included tweets that illustrate both. https://t.co/65aaGDLzb3 pic.twitter.com/J2xbo5ajcH
Here is real data instead of a meme to plot who moved where. https://t.co/N89pS9L4K8
— AJ (@ajhopenow) April 29, 2022
People earning minimum wage did… Literally most of the work to support him creating those companies. You think Elon can run a line or fuel up a jet. Or drive the pilot to the rocket? He is nothing without them. But yet allows everyone to live in poverty. Not hard to understand
— Jeruth (@Jeruth) April 29, 2022
Same
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022
explain this in NBA terms
— juju 💰 (@ihyjuju) April 28, 2022
From the support of gays to many other social issues, the right is moving more to the left.
— Pope of Muskanity (@RationalEtienne) April 28, 2022
And that's okay too and something I like.
So Elon himself confirmed that he is centre of right. That's it, that seals the deal for me. It'll be an insult to my PhD in 'subtle variations among dances of African tribes' degree if I stay on this toxic platform any longer. Leaving right now. Will be back tomorrow morning.
— THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) April 28, 2022
2012
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) April 28, 2022
Minimum wage: $7.25/hr
Elon’s net worth: $2 billion
2021
Minimum wage: $7.25/hr
Elon’s net worth: $277 billion
Sounds like Elon may have formed a company that is wildly successful at making electric cars, another that takes people into space and another that brings the Internet to people. And the people making minimum wage did, what?
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) April 28, 2022
This is the most accurate tweet in world history 🌎
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 28, 2022
https://t.co/H3MO0uvgWb pic.twitter.com/lWPhFQiR0n
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 28, 2022
For the love of God, man, there's an entire academic subfield devoted to this subject and finds the exact opposite to be true.
— Seth Masket (@smotus) April 28, 2022
I’d say the right is more inclusive now than it was 20 years ago. For instance, nobody on the right I know of has a problem with lgbtq rights
— Alena (@rainy826) April 28, 2022
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen on this website, and that says something. Good first few days!
— Stephen Cohen (@scohenATH) April 29, 2022
Hi, can you pls buy @instagram and disable zukerbergs account then make him do kyc for activation then disable the account again ?
— Aditya Singh (@CryptooAdy) April 28, 2022
Really? One of the largest? #impressive
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 29, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Musk's Twitter
LOL
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
This is what @elonmusk has in mind.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
Sita: A Novel About Women Spanning Five Generations And Two Geographies #crowdfund https://t.co/Ibusw7YuC4 Pitch in, please! @fredwilson @albertwenger @thegothamgal @aweissman @bfeld @msuster @dens @naveen @chelsa @nihalmehta @Hadley @reshmasaujani
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
LOL
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
This is what @elonmusk has in mind.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
Sita: A Novel About Women Spanning Five Generations And Two Geographies #crowdfund https://t.co/Ibusw7YuC4 Pitch in, please! @fredwilson @albertwenger @thegothamgal @aweissman @bfeld @msuster @dens @naveen @chelsa @nihalmehta @Hadley @reshmasaujani
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
Elon Musk Got Twitter Because He Gets Twitter The man loves Twitter.
He tweets as if he had been raised by the blue bird and the fail whale.
.......... Musk, Time’s 2021 person of the year ........ So what is Twitter built to do? It’s built to gamify conversation. ........ it does that “by offering immediate, vivid and quantified evaluations of one’s conversational success. ........ these gamelike features are responsible for much of Twitter’s psychological wallop. Twitter is addictive, in part, because it feels so good to watch those numbers go up and up.” ........ games are pleasurable in part because they simplify the complexity of life. They render the rules clear, the score visible. ........ Twitter takes the rich, numerous and subtle values that we bring to communication and quantifies our success through follower counts, likes and retweets. Slowly, what Twitter rewards becomes what we do. ........ We become what the game wants us to be, or we lose. And that’s what’s happening to some of the most important people and industries and conversations on the planet right now. ........ Many of Twitter’s power users are political, media, entertainment and technology elites. They — we! — are particularly susceptible to a gamified discourse on the topics we obsess over. It’s hard to make political change. It’s hard to create great journalism. It’s hard to fill the ever-yawning need for validation. It’s hard to dent the arc of technological progress. Twitter offers the instant, constant simulation of doing exactly that. The feedback is immediate. The opportunities are infinite. ........ Twitter is a power drill, or at least it feels like one. ......... To log off is to miss much that matters, in industries where knowing what matters is essential. ......... It shapes real life by shaping what the media covers. ........ Attention is currency, and Twitter is the most important market for attention that there is. ......... There is a reason that Donald Trump, with his preternatural gift for making people look at him, was Twitter’s most natural and successful user. And he shows how the platform can shape the lives of those who never use it. From 2017 to 2021, the White House was occupied by what was, in effect, a Twitter account with a cardiovascular system, and the whole world bore the consequences. ........... He co-founded OpenAI, the most public-spirited of the big artificial intelligence shops. ....... Much of this has been built on the back of public subsidies, government contracts, loan guarantees and tax credits ....... He’s the best argument in the modern era that the government and the private sector can do together what neither can achieve apart. ........ A platform that heaps rewards on those who behave cruelly, or even just recklessly, is a dangerous thing. ......... Twitter rewards decent people for acting indecently. ......... “Bill Gates = boner killer” is a viral hit. The easiest way to rack up points is to worsen the discourse. ....... He’s proposed an edit button, an open-source algorithm, cracking down on bots and doing … something … to secure free speech. ....... Musk “will strive to keep Twitter the same level of bad, and in the same kinds of ways, as it always has been, because, to Musk, Twitter is not actually bad at all.” ......... Musk reveals what he wants Twitter to be by how he acts on it. You shall know him by his tweets. He wants it to be what it is, or even more anarchic than that. ......... What will it be like to work at Twitter when the boss is using his account to go to war with the Securities and Exchange Commission or fight a tax bill he dislikes? Unless Musk changes his behavior radically, and implausibly, I suspect his ownership will heighten Twitter’s contradictions to an unbearable level. What would follow isn’t the collapse of the platform but the right-sizing of its influence. ........... Musk is already Twitter’s ultimate player. Now he’s buying the arcade. Everything people love or hate about it will become his fault. Everything he does that people love or hate will be held against the platform. He will be Twitter. He will have won the game. And nothing loses its luster quite like a game that has been beaten. .Musk’s Twitter: Weed Memes. Editable Tweets. And the Return of Trump. The honest answer when it comes to Musk — superhero to some, supervillain to others — is, “Who knows?” ....... Editable tweets? Very likely. Fewer spam bots? Maybe. Twitter’s comely San Francisco headquarters building as a homeless shelter? Doubtful. An end of 4/20 weed jokes? Hard no. The man just negotiated a complex financial transaction that began with a built-in marijuana wisecrack. ........... The soon-to-be social media honcho is inclined to lift the permanent tweeting ban imposed last year on Donald Trump. ....... He’d already made clear that he is sympathetic to the notion, long before this deal. ........ When Twitter finally did toss Trump off the platform in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol for inciting violence (after many years of Twitter turning the other cheek to a bevy of lesser violations), Musk took issue with the decision. ......... Make no mistake about how valuable Trump has been to Twitter, or how dependent the former president was on the platform to reach his base. It was the central font for his repeated lies, but also a testing ground for his thinking about matters of global significance, musings that other presidents have conducted in private. It’s hard to imagine Trumpism, as it’s understood today, without Twitter or Twitter without Trumpism, ban or no. ......... In a twist, Trump told Fox News on Monday that he would not return to Twitter, even if allowed. “I am going to stay in Truth,” he said, referring to the moribund Truth Social site he pushed out. It’s
a sad violin of a site
, with technologists fleeing the premises as fast as the app drops on the download charts. A business even less impressive than Trump Steaks or Trump water, or Trump University — now that’s really saying something. .......... a free speech-touting Twitter will probably run Truth Social and the others out of business. ........ and did I mention how much the kids love TikTok? ...... My suggestion is to make a strong ally of Twitter co-founder and recently departed C.E.O. Jack Dorsey, who was sidelined by activist investors. .@karaswisher Your take: https://t.co/i1wl09nUs1 My take: https://t.co/6mqUNbw7fF @elonmusk @hadley
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution Twitter has a disinformation problem — fake news about Covid vaccines, climate and more running buck wild across the platform. Mr. Musk has shown himself to be a highly capable peddler of dubious claims, whether putting out misleading financial information or calling the British diver who helped rescue trapped schoolboys in Thailand a “pedo guy.” ......... Twitter has a racism problem. Time and again, it has failed to consequentially answer the pleas of users of color to address the bigotry and harassment that are endemic for them. ........ The agency recently described one of Tesla’s plants as “a racially segregated workplace” rife with slurs as well as discrimination “in job assignments, discipline, pay and promotion.” ........ Twitter has a bullying and harassment problem, and the subtler but related challenge of bringing out the worst, not the best, in all of us. ......... Though you might think that having more than $250 billion, according to Forbes, and wanting to solve the problems of Earth and space would fully occupy someone, he seems to have a compulsive need to belittle people and burp out his least-considered impulses and stoke bullying by his legions of admirers in a way that both reflects and shapes how Twitter is. .........
The arsonists routinely cosplay as firefighters.
........ Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (né Facebook) was as responsible as any American for letting hate speech and disinformation run amok on his platforms in the run-up to the 2020 elections, only to donate — with his wife, Priscilla Chan — $300 million to help secure that election from the forces he had helped unleash. Google, having helped shred local news gathering around the country with its massive market power in online advertising, turned around and promised to donate $15 million to the Support Local News campaign. ......... and engaging in the troll baiting that can be a powerful means of making journalists and other interrogators and critics fear the mob pile-ons that could result from writing critically about his interests. ........ In his vision, what we may, with help from the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, call negative freedom of speech, the freedom to speak without restraint by powerful authorities, is the only freedom of speech. And so freeing Nazis to Nazi, misogynists to bully and harass and doxx and brigade women, even former president Donald Trump to possibly get his Twitter account back — this cutting of restraints becomes the whole of the project. ........ there is also what we may call positive freedom of speech: affirmative steps to create conditions that allow all people to feel and be free to say what they think. ........ Legally speaking, all American women or people of color or both who were ever talked over in a meeting or denied a book contract or not hired to give their opinion on television enjoy the protections of the First Amendment. The constitutional protection of speech does not, on its own, engender a society in which the chance to be heard is truly abundant and free and equitably distributed. ......... When it comes to speech, what has often kept a great many people from speaking isn’t censorship but the lack of a platform. ........ when it became a cesspit of hate and harassment for women and people of color in particular, it began to offer a miserable bargain: You can be free to say what you wish, but your life can be made unrelentingly painful if you so dare. ......... The “censorship” that Mr. Musk performatively deplores consists of efforts to rectify these very real problems of harassment and abuse. Twitter has taken modest but wildly inadequate steps to improve safety on the platform. ....... positive freedom of speech — the creation of a safe and non-life-ruining environment for the airing of thoughts. ........ in a moment of proto-fascism on the political right, his priority seems to be to undam the flood of bile and bigotry and bullying and disinformation. ....... The country already faces the very real prospect, starting at noon on Jan. 20, 2025, of a descent toward racist authoritarianism and a protracted slide away from liberal democracy. If your idea of what the country needs in this moment is less clamping down on hate and lies and more rightists gone wild, whew. ......... The plutocrats have already rigged the economy. That’s just the first step. Then you take some of the spoils and reinvest it in buying even more political influence, so that political inequality can help keep economic inequality yawning. You buy up media or social media platforms and thus can help rig the discourse in your favor, taking control of the tools used by regular people to fight back. You venture, as Mr. Musk did, to a TED conference and, without much pushback, brand yourself as a kind of public intellectual, a thought leader, a visionary, and thereby in many people’s minds you became a sage, not a robber baron. ......... We’re going to have to legislate real guardrails — perhaps like those created by the European Union’s Digital Services Act — on social media platforms that are too big to entrust democracy to. We’re going to have to build nonprofit alternatives to the platforms and see if they can become meaningful venues. ......... a society that outsources the tending of its social interactions to people who behave like sociopaths is a society asking not for freedom but for tyranny. .@AnandWrites Your take: https://t.co/gDTA58BGIy My take: https://t.co/ZvZbZUABUW
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 28, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Tesla Takeover Twitter
Should Elon Musk Be Owning All Of Twitter? https://t.co/6mqUNbw7fF@elonmusk @jack @raypaxful @fredwilson @dunkhippo33 @ljin18 @balajis @justingordon212 @kai_global @ev @biz @washingtonpost @nytimestech
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2022
#TwitterTakeover #twitter #ElonMuskBuyTwitter #ElonMusk #ElonMuskBuysTwitter
Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important. https://t.co/5iNTtJoEHf
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 25, 2022
I made an offer https://t.co/VvreuPMeLu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2022
Musk's offer price of $54.20 per share represents a 38% premium to the closing price of Twitter's stock on April 1, the last trading day before the Tesla CEO's over 9% investment in the company was publicly announced https://t.co/V2M8gfqj1p $TWTR pic.twitter.com/QSswRJX2eE
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 14, 2022
Doesn't anyone see a problem with the richest man in the world wanting to buy one of the most powerful social media platforms in the world? I don't know what his intentions are, but that's a lot of power for one man to hold. @Twitter
— Ŋō Ċʊɩʈ 45 🌊❄️ (@Vic_Covfefe) April 14, 2022
So he pumps the price, Twitter say no, he sells his stock and makes a killing
— 🌻 JamusMcscramus (@James__1) April 14, 2022
Hasn't this guy got enough on his plate already?
— Nigel Purchase (@Nigel_Purchase) April 15, 2022
* Tesla (sub $25K mini, Cybertruck, Semi, batteries, 6 gigafactories, full self-driving)
* Tesla robot
* SpaceX (Starship/Mars)
* Starlink
* Neuralink
* The Boring Company
OMG!!! It will be the end of Twitter... Certainly for me! 😢
— Bia Botana ✨🐦✨ (@BiaBotana) April 14, 2022
Just imagine what $44 billion dollars could do for the food banks, soup kitchens and homeless people across our country
— Mickey Van Deren (@LtGovMickey) April 26, 2022
Just a friendly reminder, the following is true & has never changed:
— ChudoNow (@TimeToSayGood15) April 26, 2022
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Meaning that whenever a person has power over other people or things, it makes him/her corrupt.
It morally destroys their nature & fills them with destructive pride
Please do not let this happen. Musk already manipulated crypto for his own gain. Having full control of Twitter would be dangerous. 😞
— Diana (@PaintSewGlueChe) April 14, 2022
Nice job Elon, congrats! Next stop Face Book then Netflix.
— Butler876@outlook.com (@Butler876outlo1) April 26, 2022
Omg! I am ecstatic! Elon Musk the new freedom fighter!
— cwallace (@cindywa69598988) April 26, 2022
Well good bye to a pretty good platform that was a lot of fun. Part of the fun of Twitter was breaking your thoughts down to their essence.
— grl4hire (@grl4hire) April 26, 2022
Hopefully a new platform will surface.
Celebrating the second coming of Cristopher Columbus.
— William Tremewan (@tremewanbill) April 26, 2022
Ok, now everyone SCATTER!
— Brian Kemery (@bkpaladin) April 26, 2022
“Oh no, people might have free speech again!!”
— Nebraska (@nebraskafann) April 14, 2022
There are 764 million Twitter shares in circulation and 400 million Twitter users. At say $55 a share, we only need to buy roughly two shares each for $110 and we could turn it into a members' cooperative!
— 〰Stefan Gigacz (@cnresearch) April 15, 2022
— Neeners777 INFLATION IS GLOBAL, NOT BIDEN'S FAULT (@marygribbin809) April 25, 2022
— Coopmike48 (@coopmike48) April 26, 2022
— Donald Wiggins Jr (@DWigginsJ3) April 14, 2022
Good maybe he can add an edit button. It’s 2022 and no edit button.
— Matty (@mrMatty01) April 14, 2022
I'm against edit button, unless it removes all likes and retweets of it when edited.
— GenericEric 🇺🇸 (@GenericEric4) April 26, 2022
I'm not paying him to use Twitter. Won't happen.
— J (@simplyj_6) April 14, 2022
Elon still managed to get 420 into the price🤣🤣
— Stee (@jaystee99) April 14, 2022
If Elon buys Twitter I'm off Twitter.
— Shannon aka Boo kitty (@Boo93001) April 15, 2022
And Twitter becomes…. pic.twitter.com/LBgw80FgQf
— Carrie🌻 (@Carrie11018) April 14, 2022
Becomes? It always was
— Joe Mamma (@LookAnAilien) April 26, 2022
This may be remembered as the moment that Elon Musk and $TSLA jumped the shark... when CEO's get distracted their other main businesses, their original business often suffers.
— John - Standing with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇿🇲🍁🇨🇦 (@johnathamilton) April 14, 2022
Not really. Tesla is thriving with 2 new gigafactories launched within the last 30 days. SpaceX’s Starlink has more demand than supply.
— NityaStriker🧢 (@NityaStriker) April 14, 2022
Free speech specifically refers to the government not being able filter or stop you from expressing opinions.
— Lisa Quilty Hill (@HillQuilty) April 16, 2022
It does not apply to private companies enforcing a terms of service the user agreed to when opening an account, like twitter.
Wait, I thought he was going to solve world hunger? I guess that vision faded.
— Shawn Fink | Brave Biz Coach 🚢 🌳 ✍ (@Shawn_BraveYes) April 14, 2022
I think daily twitter users should all chip in 1$ and we will buy twitter for $150bn and FO Musk.
— Nom de plume #IstandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@ecobard) April 14, 2022
Bro sorry but no !
— ilovebts(: (@bella_sac) April 26, 2022
Break up company!!
— Sherndds (@sherndds) April 25, 2022
Laughing at all the people applauding this move thinking its for their benefit, how naive can you be. He doesn't care about you "the peasants" this is his way of being able to leverage what you see/when you see it.
— Natasha | Commissions Open (@designsirens) April 25, 2022
When he releases the alg code, we will look at it and see.
— GenericEric 🇺🇸 (@GenericEric4) April 26, 2022
Growing odour of fascism around social media
— BSturdy (@JusticeStrength) April 26, 2022
It looks a little hitler-esque.
— 1-65 Court Record (@DaleTanner18) April 14, 2022
— Polski Polak w 🇬🇧 (@polak_na) April 15, 2022
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022
Explaining The Blockchain https://t.co/wtkNydfb1i @raypaxful @ArturPaxful @cz_binance @binance @coinbase @brian_armstrong @smtgpt @VitalikButerin @BitcoinMagazine @Bitcoin @BTCTN @BTC_Archive #Bitcoin #BitcoinButton @fredwilson @albertwenger
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2022
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Not a response to the idea of free speech. People are concerned that you, a billionaire, are somehow qualified to set a standard of free speech.
— Michelle Greer (@michellegreer) April 26, 2022
Every country has their own interpretation of free speech, and these interpretations change all the time.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Monday, April 18, 2022
News: April 18
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
Is there a keyboard shortcut I don't know about that moves the sender to bcc and the cc up to the primary recipient. Would really give me many hours of my life back.
— Matthew Cynamon (@mattcynamon) April 11, 2022
where have you been? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
they need to be converted to vertical farms.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
Let me break this down for you:
— Tank (@TankTDS) April 11, 2022
Elon became largest shareholder for Free Speech
Elon was told to play nice and not speak freely @elonmusk #Twitter #ElonMusk
He already has a Twitter handle, why does he need a Bored seat!?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
Seriously, do right-wingers who were obsessed with Hunter Biden’s corruption not care about the Saudis giving Jared Kushner $2 billion? Their own experts say he didn’t deserve it at all. It’s the most obvious case of corruption. Do conservatives have any principles left at all?
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) April 11, 2022
I had to scroll down to see what you were talking about. But of course.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
We met in Harlem in 07. I have a photo to prove it. :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
I don't have a photo with the other O. I met him too, twice. I did not bother. I already got the O, I thought.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 11, 2022
Today an investment broker cold emailed me a pitch - an opportunity to acquire a gold mine.
— Elizabeth Yin (@dunkhippo33) April 14, 2022
Literally a gold mine.
Sometimes I wonder if all these “brokers” just make up business ideas?
My pitch to you never saw the light of day. https://t.co/ADxzpQtmHl Not even a tweet. :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 14, 2022
Twitter employee reactions on Blind pic.twitter.com/TIOQDpBwCP
— Chris Frantz (@frantzfries) April 14, 2022
I applied but never received a response.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 14, 2022
Start with 100K. Harvest 100M in 10 years. #notbad
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 14, 2022
Zottt
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 14, 2022
Plunk 100K now. And then you will have a first say in putting 1M in a few months based on milestones from now to then. Harvest 1.1B in about 10 years. Enough for the entire fund. In about five years raise 1B based on this ONE investment.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 14, 2022
@ArturPaxful handle ArturPaxfui has been impersonating you and making scam attempts through DMs. I reported.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 15, 2022
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 15, 2022
Our Great National Parks, narrated by President Barack Obama, invites viewers to experience nature in the world's most iconic national parks. Watch now, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/liwiVJNOYE
— Netflix (@netflix) April 14, 2022
Change your Twitter profile picture. This should be your Twitter profile picture.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022
I thinkkk I understand what an NFT is but perplexed what it is about the technology that necessitates monthly conferences around the world
— Ankur Nagpal 🔥🔥 (@ankurnagpal) April 18, 2022
What exactly do people discuss there
going to new york next week but not in a t*ch bro “who should i meet” web3 brooklyn way but in a coming of age good for the plot “emma chamberlain alone in new york” way
— Bo Lau (@bolau_) April 18, 2022
Most successful startup founders are far from geniuses.
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) April 18, 2022
They just refuse to give up and learn as they go.
So, America kinda just doesn't care about Covid anymore, right?
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) April 18, 2022
True, looks similar to some crypto exchanges lobby against Binance, lol...
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) April 18, 2022
Last week at my Web2 job 👀🫣
— portergeer.eth (💫,💫) (@portergeer) April 18, 2022
For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit He reflects on logistics, economics and lessons from building ‘the largest transportation system ever put on the planet.’
#WorldHeritageDay gives us a unique opportunity to reflect & re-energize our commitment to preserving historical heritage & intensifying our efforts to bring back stolen art. This is a passion of mine. pic.twitter.com/rWRnxxjkp0
— Ambassador Randy Berry (@USAmbNepal) April 18, 2022
https://t.co/iHbF4UVLWN Turn Twitter into a Trilion.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022
@raypaxful Thanks for the like. You and @ArturPaxful should angel invest in mine.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022
I think my clothes are too big for me
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2022
Instead of that, you should say, I could not have done it without my team. (Tip from Bono: "I do it for my bandmates!") Calling himself the top band in the world.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022
Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter…
— Michael Quinn Sullivan🇺🇸 (@MQSullivan) April 16, 2022
Media meltdown! 🤯
Mark Zuckerberg buys off election officials…
Media silence. 😴
Blackrock buying up the homes and Bill Gates buying up the farm land in the US should be far more concerning than Elon Musk buying Twitter.
— Jessica (@jessicahodlr) April 17, 2022
China purchasing your homes, resources, businesses, land and politicians, should concern you much more than Elon Musk buying Twitter.
— Herb Powell - 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇩🇪 (@Humanlty1o1) April 16, 2022
Elon Musk can’t buy Twitter but Bill Gates can own all of our Global Health?
— Maria 🇺🇸 (@MariaJames_) April 16, 2022
The Twitter Board, excluding Jack Dorsey, only owns 0.12% of Twitter. They have not only, behind closed doors, rejected @elonmusk's offer to purchase the company 20% above market value. They have threatened to dilute their shareholder's stake in the company. Criminal negligence?
— Chairman (@WSBChairman) April 16, 2022
Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2022
Shouldn't over 1,000 scientists risking arrest to save the planet be a bigger news story than Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter?
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 14, 2022
I am very worried about Elon Musk owning Twitter. We must keep Twitter in the hands of people we can trust. People like Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, and the Saudi royal family. At least we know that they always have our best interests at heart.
— Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 15, 2022
Whether Elon Musk ultimately buys Twitter, he’s done the world an invaluable service by forcing leftists to admit that Twitter & other social media outlets are biased & censorious, & that there's nothing that terrifies the left more than people having freedom of speech.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 18, 2022
Elon Musk can’t own Twitter but Pfizer can own Congress?
— DJ Santana (@DJSantanaComedy) April 18, 2022
If Jeff Bezos can own the Washington Post, Elon Musk can own Twitter.
— Senator Michael Rulli (@michaelrulli) April 14, 2022
If Elon Musk is not allowed to buy Twitter, the game is 100% rigged.
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) April 16, 2022
Hi @elonmusk, have you considered that Twitter is blocking your offer because they are afraid you’d obtain documents proving they shadow ban and censor, which would contradict sworn testimony made before Congress?
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 15, 2022
This could be an Enron type scenario you’ve uncovered.
The fact that everyone on the Left is going absolutely nuts about Elon Musk demonstrates three things:
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 15, 2022
1. Twitter is a Left-wing site;
2. The Left is filled with censorious jackasses;
3. They like oligarchy when they're the oligarchs.
Elon Musk: *tweets*
— Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) April 18, 2022
Twitter’s board: pic.twitter.com/IZZHROVo5m
Without hate speech there is no free speech. Free speech has no limitations. Let the haters hate! Let the lovers love! And let @elonmusk take over Twitter!
— Randy Quaid (@RandyRRQuaid) April 18, 2022
Elon Musk has successfully taken over Twitter as every single tweet is now about him
— John W. Rich (Fake Tech Exec) (@Cokedupoptions) April 17, 2022
Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2022
Between Elon Musk attempting to takeover twitter and the federal transportation mask mandate being overturned Libs are having a bad bad last few days. Don’t worry it’ll be worse for y’all in November. This is an appetizer.
— District AI (@districtai) April 18, 2022
I’ve rarely seen a company founder rip his own hand-selected board as being dysfunctional. Speaks volumes about $twtr board. Good for @jack. https://t.co/AJO4ClCk2x
— Gary Black (@garyblack00) April 18, 2022
CrowdFund
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022
Jack Dorsey rips Twitter board over ‘dysfunction’ in Elon Musk battle Dorsey criticized the board in response to a post in which a user quipped that the company’s “early beginning” was “mired in plots and coups” among its founding executives. ..... “It’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company,” Dorsey said. ...........
“Good boards don’t create good companies, but a bad board will kill a company every time.”
......... Musk owns approximately 9% of Twitter shares, while Dorsey owns just over 2.2% ....... It’s unclear how Musk will proceed if Twitter rejects his offer, though he said last week that he has a “plan B” in mind – which may include a tender offer directly to shareholders.it’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
big facts
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
I’m really happy Elon is joining the Twitter board! He cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it.
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 5, 2022
Parag and Elon both lead with their hearts, and they will be an incredible team. https://t.co/T4rWEJFAes
Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2022
If you cut 10% of $TWTR headcount of 7,500, assuming $100K comp & benefits per position cut, TWTR would save another $75M/year. That puts 2022 Adj Ebitda at $1.5B, which levered at 6-7x, equates to $10B debt financing.
— Gary Black (@garyblack00) April 18, 2022
And more free speech won't cost a penny, either.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) April 18, 2022
Elon Musk should buy the New York Times and make it a newspaper.
— Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 (@jason_meister) April 17, 2022
They claim- “81 million votes for Biden”, and there still isn’t one yard sign, flag, bumper sticker, t-shirt or hat anywhere to be found across this entire Country. 😂🙄
— Kristy Swanson (@KristySwansonXO) April 18, 2022
Elon Musk pays too much in taxes.
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) April 17, 2022
Remember when Saint George Floyd died and everyone decided it was time to “have a conversation” about racism in America but the only conversation they wanted to have was blaming the cops and now America’s major cities are all hellholes? https://t.co/Q0IArIlPdi
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 17, 2022
I’m not just running on lower taxes. I’m running on abolishing the whole damn IRS. #TaxDay
— Vernon Jones For Congress (@VernonForGA) April 18, 2022
@VitalizeVC Invest 1M, harvest 1B in 10 years. Will also take five investors at 200K each. https://t.co/ADxzpQtmHl @justingordon212 @carolinecasson_ @galeforceVC
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 18, 2022