IBM, Lionsgate, the European Union, and, reportedly, Apple, have all pulled advertising from X following Elon Musk’s apparent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Experts say it could soon get much worse.
  • nutsack@lemmy.world
    9910·
    1 year ago

    every fucking post on this website is about this guy I don’t give a shit holy fuck stop posting him

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    891·
    1 year ago

    why did it take IBM and Apple so long to figure out which song was playing on the juke box here

    • Vant@lemm.ee
      691·
      1 year ago

      They’ve known all along they just didn’t care until it threatened their own reputations. Musk really shit the bed this time.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        352·
        1 year ago

        “Our AI data science projections state we won’t lose money until musk really gets into white supremacy, so let’s keep those ads pumping until that happens.”

          • evranch@lemmy.ca
            14·
            1 year ago

            Blockchain is yesterday’s buzzword, it would just take up space where you could mention AI again. AI, the future of business! Powered by AI!

            • kautau@lemmy.world
              5·
              1 year ago

              The scary part though is blockchain is actually a buzzword when it comes to profiting within a business. Having an impermeable ledger that’s computationally expensive really doesn’t further profits outside of being a shitty product that can be offered.

              Having an AI that can do in 5 seconds what took a set of PhD data scientists with no morals to do in 5 weeks is more frightening. (Yes I know the data scientists are the ones now training and using the AI)

              Immediate pricing model to determine maximum profit every few seconds based on aggregate sales, market conditions, and demographic targeting? Check

              Determining minimum viable wages and benefits to keep employee retention while continuing to grow profits? Check

              Figuring out every tax and legal loophole to avoid paying taxes by going through trillions of transactions? Check

              Determining “maximum cost of human life” or “maximum environmental impact” that won’t be detrimental to profits? Check

              Planning product launches specifically around planned obsolescence? Check

              Sabotaging competitors through social media and other means? Check

              The list goes on and on, but AI is by no means a buzzword in business circles. It is a way to hyper-accelerate capitalism.

              The big investors in AI don’t give a shit whether or not it makes for a good chatbot. They want a drop-in CEO that can accelerate quarterly profits per compute cycle.

    • s_s@lemmy.one
      9·
      1 year ago

      Apple still has no problem pumping this to hundreds of millions of people through their app store for a 30% cut.

      Do they really care?

      Pull the app.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
    823·
    1 year ago

    Time to create that Mastodon account you have been meaning to, the dual post for a while until your network is established and then delete X.

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      523·
      1 year ago

      Some people seem to bounce off Mastodon, saying that it doesn’t have the content that they were looking for. I’d suggest that it probably does have the content that you are looking for, but you can’t expect instantly see everything you are looking for from a fresh account.

      People have spent years building up their twitter feeds; finding the people they like to follow, and browsing for new things, getting recommendations, and removing they stuff they don’t like. You can’t expect to match that level of content 10 mins after signing up on Mastodon. You will have to look around and tell it what you want to see before it will be what you want it to be.

  • donuts@kbin.social
    601·
    1 year ago

    So they always say… and then keep reading and posting tweets all day every day.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    45·
    1 year ago

    On Wednesday, Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic post by user @breakingbaht alleging that “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” In response, Musk posted, “You have spoken the actual truth.”

    The original post seemed to echo the beliefs of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which is popular among white supremacists and right-wing extremists.

      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
        193·
        1 year ago

        Jewish people tend to not be considered white even though they are oftentimes fair skinned, blue eyes, etc.

        In the US, Italian and Irish immigrants also used to not be considered white either. It’s a label applied to groups when it’s most convenient. Doesn’t necessarily have a lot of logic behind it beyond racism.

        • rambaroo@lemmy.world
          51·
          1 year ago

          The only people who consider white-passing Jewish people as non-white are actual white supremacists and Neo-Nazis.

          Normal people just assume if you look white, you are white, because they aren’t obsessed with breaking down ethnicities into a hierarchy.

        • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          1 year ago

          Anyone who wasn’t an Anglo Saxon Protestant was a second class citizen in America for a loooooooooong time.

          • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
            41·
            1 year ago

            This is the answer. Being “white” in the US didn’t have much to do with your skin tone. It was more closely linked to ancestry, religion, and class.

            The Irish or Polish weren’t “white” but that didn’t mean that anyone thought they were Black. My understanding of the Indian caste system is incomplete, but it seems like a closer model to the racist hierarchy in the US than anything else I’ve seen.

            1. WASP and have the receipts (DAR membership, for example)
            2. WASP and no one can say otherwise (named Smith or Jones)
            3. WASP adjacent (Protestants from Germany, Scandinavia, etc.)
            4. Catholics and Orthodox Christians
            5. Jews
            6. POC. Depending on location, your mileage will vary but you’re still at the bottom
  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    4811·
    1 year ago

    X I don’t care about.

    Not seeing this shit in my feed constantly, now that would be nice.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
      223·
      1 year ago

      You can always just add his name as a filtering keyword. Tools are available to help you.

      • FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world
        227·
        1 year ago

        Imagine filtering “musk”, “Biden”, “trump”, and “communism and socialism are good and moral and it has always worked every time we tried it” from Lemmy.

        “There’s nothing here. Please refresh.”

      • evranch@lemmy.ca
        124·
        1 year ago

        Starship launch tomorrow though, wouldn’t want to miss out on hype because of something titled “Elon Musk’s Starship Rocket” etc… I’m a big space nerd and while Elon is a dork this rocket will be a massive leap for everything space related if it works out.

        Fuck X/Twitter though, sick of hearing about it for sure. I’ve heard rumours that SpaceX only does as well as they do because they have Shotwell running the show and they have Elon wranglers to keep him away from anything important…

        • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
          74·
          1 year ago

          Thanks for sharing. Feel free to blame Musk. He’s the one who renamed it to X, which is impossible to filter out.

          • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
            81·
            1 year ago

            You could filter out Twitter and realistically filter out a large chunk of them. Shit’s usually referred to “X, formerly known as Twitter…” in most posts I see.

            • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
              41·
              1 year ago

              Could just make a lemmy-wide rule to always deadname it in post titles. But good luck with that since people still won’t put it all in enoughmuskspam.

              • evranch@lemmy.ca
                11·
                1 year ago

                I got the exact same reply from someone last week, not exactly a discussion starter. So I was curious and sure enough it’s the same guy!

                However you did edit in some context here and indeed that’s the problem with trying to filter out a single letter keyword… Though I doubt Elon had the sense to do it intentionally.

                • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  I also quote Bartles & Jaymes on occasion.

                  edit: the funny part here is that I haven’t said “Thanks for sharing” that much, it’s fairly new. And I don’t remember usernames, so the fact you’ve gotten it twice already is special.

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
    29·
    1 year ago

    Is that beard to make him look younger? Because it looks like that beard you sometimes see on young guys figuring out that they can’t really grow a decent beard…

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      3 times, but he has to do it in front of a mirror. When he was about to do the third time he renamed it, thus resetting the counter.