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Post by lolly on Apr 27, 2022 5:02:32 GMT -5
45 billion.. for an app.. which essentially has no inherent value Such vanity! I think his final cost will end up being much much higher Think metadata. Remember, the tech oligarchs are all transhumanists (aka "we are data"). In a digital economy, data is the new gold. In that sense, social media apps are literal goldmines. So I'm pretty sure he has done the math and it will pay off if he really manages to make twitter great again. OH, Twitter is having a melt down over the Musk acquisition. Tesla shares are taking a hit as well because people think Musk will liquidate some of his Tesla shares to fund buying Twitter. I think Musk will transform Twitter and no doubt spend another 40 Bil on new features and whatnot over the coming years. He is serious about this and will take a good chunk of advertising market share from competitor platforms. To me it marks a whole cultural shift of the zoomers. The 'snowflake era' is just starting to fade.
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 27, 2022 9:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by lolly on Apr 28, 2022 22:48:27 GMT -5
Musk declares he is buying Coca Cola and putting the cocaine back in.
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 29, 2022 5:54:52 GMT -5
Interesting evolving thought processes by Elon. And some say he's supposed to be really smart? He sits atop a far taller tree than many of us arm chair warriors do. Perhaps he sees something in the grander scheme of things that the rest of us have yet to see.
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Post by Reefs on Apr 29, 2022 9:04:46 GMT -5
Think metadata. Remember, the tech oligarchs are all transhumanists (aka "we are data"). In a digital economy, data is the new gold. In that sense, social media apps are literal goldmines. So I'm pretty sure he has done the math and it will pay off if he really manages to make twitter great again. He has a big mouth and sucks the air out of a room. I'm already bored with him and it's only been a couple of days.. personally I wish he'd stayed in his lane Yeah, I'm not buying into the hype either. Nevertheless, I think he's an interesting character, especially from a LOA/business perspective. Just look at how much he got done in so little time with his playful attitude. That's textbook A-H stuff! On the other hand, he is a firm believer in the 'brain in a vat' theory and convinced that we are living in a simulation. I saw an earlier interview with him where he explained his conclusions and I have to say that his argumentation was shockingly naive, to put it mildly. In essence, he made it clear that he has never seen beyond the intellect and can't imagine anything beyond the intellect.
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Post by Reefs on Apr 29, 2022 9:06:50 GMT -5
Musk declares he is buying Coca Cola and putting the cocaine back in.
troll level: expert
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 29, 2022 10:10:40 GMT -5
Interesting evolving thought processes by Elon. And some say he's supposed to be really smart? He sits atop a far taller tree than many of us arm chair warriors do. Perhaps he sees something in the grander scheme of things that the rest of us have yet to see. Short background (not directly relevant, but how I got to Musk-relevant). When Russia invaded Ukraine I thought to investigate if Nostradamus had anything to say on this. I had heard of Dolores Cannon previously, seen some of her book titles, but had never investigated her or her books. Eventually I learned of her 3 books on Nostradamus and that she felt she had directly connected with Nostradamus, in his time, through a couple of people who were used to channel. It seemed interesting enough to buy her books. Still investigating Russia-Ukraine I chanced upon a man Nostradamus called a genius. I didn't read very far when it seemed very very likely this genius was Elon Musk. Before I get to that another key factor. Nostradamus communicated to Cannon (through the channel) that his predictions were not set in stone, that the future is always malleable depending on choices people made. Now, this book was published in 1989, so Musk would have been 17 at the time, so there is no way Cannon could have imagined Musk was the genius talked about by Nostradamus. Some quotes: "He says in the future there will be this man, who will be one of the highest, most developed geniuses ever to appear in our present history of man. He says this gentle man will make the decision to help rather than to hurt mankind, so he is always inventing and envisioning things that will help man. ...One of the things he envisions to help alleviate the miseries of mankind on earth is self-contained, self-supporting space stations. They will be like space colonies and will be large enough to be seen from earth as small moons. ...to help relieve the poverty, crowding and things of that nature that could be alleviated if there were more space and cheap energy resources available for mankind in general. ...Because of this man's genius he will speed up the process immensely in developing things that seem fantastic to us now. It was very easy to spot this man along the nexus of time paths because he creates such a large ultimate effect. He's at a nexus of time lines, but anything he does will affect the various futures the Earth could travel along. So he was a prominent light--that's the way he's describing it--he was a prominent light along the landscape of time. He says he's a very knowledgeable person, and he decided to apply his remarkability through science rather than through philosophy, so he could help mankind materially rather than just mentally. ...The "moon drawing near led by its angel" (Century 1-56) is the space colonies developed by this genius. The way its computers are organized and developed into organic computers are guided by him and led by him, the inventor of this and the head of the research in this. ...The phrase "he will expose the false topography" means he will show that the way things are looked upon, they have a false appearance. That the philosophies and sciences have been built upon mistake premises, thereby building a mistaken picture of the universe. ...This has to do with the establishment of L-5 colonies of space stations. Space stations for the attempt of manufacturing things in space for durability and particularly for the possible establishment of a scientific base, perhaps on Mars". ...The solar power is sent first to the space stations. Their major reason for existing will be to collect solar power and solar energy and transmit it to the Earth as a form of clean, practically free energy that people can use to live and grow without doing atrocious things to the earth in the process". pages 286-297 Conversations With Nostradamus Volume 1 by Dolores Cannon, 1989 revised 1992, 1997 Now...Nostradamus does say in answer to a question that the Genius will appear about the middle of the 21st Century. But these quotes seem a particularly good fit for Elon Musk, so I wanted to share. When I first read these over a month ago they kind of blew my mind. BTW, I watched all the video linked above. Another interview appeared, I think it was 1 hour 8 minutes, I will eventually watch it also. What stuck in my mind was his saying, he was pathological about truth...
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 29, 2022 10:50:16 GMT -5
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 29, 2022 17:44:02 GMT -5
He sits atop a far taller tree than many of us arm chair warriors do. Perhaps he sees something in the grander scheme of things that the rest of us have yet to see. Short background (not directly relevant, but how I got to Musk-relevant). When Russia invaded Ukraine I thought to investigate if Nostradamus had anything to say on this. I had heard of Dolores Cannon previously, seen some of her book titles, but had never investigated her or her books. Eventually I learned of her 3 books on Nostradamus and that she felt she had directly connected with Nostradamus, in his time, through a couple of people who were used to channel. It seemed interesting enough to buy her books. Still investigating Russia-Ukraine I chanced upon a man Nostradamus called a genius. I didn't read very far when it seemed very very likely this genius was Elon Musk. Before I get to that another key factor. Nostradamus communicated to Cannon (through the channel) that his predictions were not set in stone, that the future is always malleable depending on choices people made. Now, this book was published in 1989, so Musk would have been 17 at the time, so there is no way Cannon could have imagined Musk was the genius talked about by Nostradamus. Some quotes: "He says in the future there will be this man, who will be one of the highest, most developed geniuses ever to appear in our present history of man. He says this gentle man will make the decision to help rather than to hurt mankind, so he is always inventing and envisioning things that will help man. ...One of the things he envisions to help alleviate the miseries of mankind on earth is self-contained, self-supporting space stations. They will be like space colonies and will be large enough to be seen from earth as small moons. ...to help relieve the poverty, crowding and things of that nature that could be alleviated if there were more space and cheap energy resources available for mankind in general. ...Because of this man's genius he will speed up the process immensely in developing things that seem fantastic to us now. It was very easy to spot this man along the nexus of time paths because he creates such a large ultimate effect. He's at a nexus of time lines, but anything he does will affect the various futures the Earth could travel along. So he was a prominent light--that's the way he's describing it--he was a prominent light along the landscape of time. He says he's a very knowledgeable person, and he decided to apply his remarkability through science rather than through philosophy, so he could help mankind materially rather than just mentally. ...The "moon drawing near led by its angel" (Century 1-56) is the space colonies developed by this genius. The way its computers are organized and developed into organic computers are guided by him and led by him, the inventor of this and the head of the research in this. ...The phrase "he will expose the false topography" means he will show that the way things are looked upon, they have a false appearance. That the philosophies and sciences have been built upon mistake premises, thereby building a mistaken picture of the universe. ...This has to do with the establishment of L-5 colonies of space stations. Space stations for the attempt of manufacturing things in space for durability and particularly for the possible establishment of a scientific base, perhaps on Mars". ...The solar power is sent first to the space stations. Their major reason for existing will be to collect solar power and solar energy and transmit it to the Earth as a form of clean, practically free energy that people can use to live and grow without doing atrocious things to the earth in the process". pages 286-297 Conversations With Nostradamus Volume 1 by Dolores Cannon, 1989 revised 1992, 1997 Now...Nostradamus does say in answer to a question that the Genius will appear about the middle of the 21st Century. But these quotes seem a particularly good fit for Elon Musk, so I wanted to share. When I first read these over a month ago they kind of blew my mind. BTW, I watched all the video linked above. Another interview appeared, I think it was 1 hour 8 minutes, I will eventually watch it also. What stuck in my mind was his saying, he was pathological about truth... I don't know anything about Nostradamus and all that, but EM is definitely one to keep an eye on.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 29, 2022 20:46:25 GMT -5
Short background (not directly relevant, but how I got to Musk-relevant). When Russia invaded Ukraine I thought to investigate if Nostradamus had anything to say on this. I had heard of Dolores Cannon previously, seen some of her book titles, but had never investigated her or her books. Eventually I learned of her 3 books on Nostradamus and that she felt she had directly connected with Nostradamus, in his time, through a couple of people who were used to channel. It seemed interesting enough to buy her books. Still investigating Russia-Ukraine I chanced upon a man Nostradamus called a genius. I didn't read very far when it seemed very very likely this genius was Elon Musk. Before I get to that another key factor. Nostradamus communicated to Cannon (through the channel) that his predictions were not set in stone, that the future is always malleable depending on choices people made. Now, this book was published in 1989, so Musk would have been 17 at the time, so there is no way Cannon could have imagined Musk was the genius talked about by Nostradamus. Some quotes: "He says in the future there will be this man, who will be one of the highest, most developed geniuses ever to appear in our present history of man. He says this gentle man will make the decision to help rather than to hurt mankind, so he is always inventing and envisioning things that will help man. ...One of the things he envisions to help alleviate the miseries of mankind on earth is self-contained, self-supporting space stations. They will be like space colonies and will be large enough to be seen from earth as small moons. ...to help relieve the poverty, crowding and things of that nature that could be alleviated if there were more space and cheap energy resources available for mankind in general. ...Because of this man's genius he will speed up the process immensely in developing things that seem fantastic to us now. It was very easy to spot this man along the nexus of time paths because he creates such a large ultimate effect. He's at a nexus of time lines, but anything he does will affect the various futures the Earth could travel along. So he was a prominent light--that's the way he's describing it--he was a prominent light along the landscape of time. He says he's a very knowledgeable person, and he decided to apply his remarkability through science rather than through philosophy, so he could help mankind materially rather than just mentally. ...The "moon drawing near led by its angel" (Century 1-56) is the space colonies developed by this genius. The way its computers are organized and developed into organic computers are guided by him and led by him, the inventor of this and the head of the research in this. ...The phrase "he will expose the false topography" means he will show that the way things are looked upon, they have a false appearance. That the philosophies and sciences have been built upon mistake premises, thereby building a mistaken picture of the universe. ...This has to do with the establishment of L-5 colonies of space stations. Space stations for the attempt of manufacturing things in space for durability and particularly for the possible establishment of a scientific base, perhaps on Mars". ...The solar power is sent first to the space stations. Their major reason for existing will be to collect solar power and solar energy and transmit it to the Earth as a form of clean, practically free energy that people can use to live and grow without doing atrocious things to the earth in the process". pages 286-297 Conversations With Nostradamus Volume 1 by Dolores Cannon, 1989 revised 1992, 1997 Now...Nostradamus does say in answer to a question that the Genius will appear about the middle of the 21st Century. But these quotes seem a particularly good fit for Elon Musk, so I wanted to share. When I first read these over a month ago they kind of blew my mind. BTW, I watched all the video linked above. Another interview appeared, I think it was 1 hour 8 minutes, I will eventually watch it also. What stuck in my mind was his saying, he was pathological about truth... I don't know anything about Nostradamus and all that, but EM is definitely one to keep an eye on. This (the quotes from the Dolores Cannon book) is not how we traditionally know of Nostradamus, he lived a few hundred years ago, wrote prophecies in quatrains. She (she's now dead) claimed to have contacted and channeled Nostradamus (who wrote the quatrains) as he was living in his own time (not herself as channel, but some people she worked with over some years). I was short on time this morning, but I gave a hint in the quotes above about another significant hint that this man "Nostradamus" talked about is Elon Musk. I know Elon is interested in consciousness and AI, I don't know if he is working on organic computers. But here are some other quotes: "As a corollary to this development (the space colonies), another thing he envisions (the Genius) is a way of transplanting some of his genius and knowledge into a type of organic computer so it will still be there to serve mankind after his body has aged and died. He develops it to the highest point possible to transfer his genius, or rather duplicate his genius and his knowledge, so he still has it but it's also in this organic computer. ...the way this is developed through this man's genius, it is self-renewing like the cells of your body. ...there won't be any loss of knowledge because it will be continually self-renewing. ...it could totally alter the technology of mankind". pages 286, 287 Conversations With Nostradamus Vol 1 by Dolores Cannon. I bring this up mostly because of the interest in Seth/Jane Roberts here.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Apr 29, 2022 21:03:21 GMT -5
MSM, CNN and MSNBC are freaking out about Elon Musk-Twitter because they don't know a damn thing about what Musk is trying to accomplish and how Twitter will operate (for instance, just what's in the linked video. Minimally, that Twitter will obey the laws of the country). They are saying stuff just out of fear.
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 30, 2022 9:56:32 GMT -5
Yesterday Indian minister Modi congratulates Emmanuel Macron for becoming a new French President.
Such an important app it is, a world famous one now. He is taking the control over it and wanted to give the freedom of speech.
But I'm free to say whatever the x I want already (however external forces will enforce their limits.. ie. see x above.. that's not what I wrote) Try saying something like the vaccines are poison on YouTube or Facebook and see how free you are to express your opinion.
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Post by justlikeyou on Apr 30, 2022 9:58:08 GMT -5
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Post by laughter on Apr 30, 2022 10:10:29 GMT -5
MSM, CNN and MSNBC are freaking out about Elon Musk-Twitter because they don't know a darn thing about what Musk is trying to accomplish and how Twitter will operate (for instance, just what's in the linked video. Minimally, that Twitter will obey the laws of the country). They are saying stuff just out of fear. Freaking out? Maybe the twitter workforce or investors, but the msm? Think I'd need to see a quote. Nothing has even happened yet.. except twitters board accepted his bid and its off to the shareholders for a vote. but Jack Dorsey has publically endorsed Elon's takeover bid, seems strange to me, but whatever. and Twitter is only a web address after all.. there are plenty of them to choose from, with new ones popping up as opportunities arise.. Twitter is perhaps best described as the online version of the "Associated Press". Needless to say that this is one example of the great "internet disruption": online entities shifted what were previously pre-internet businesses online, offered the same, similar or related services for "free" or greatly reduced cost, and opened-up and dis intermediated the flow of commerce. Specifically, in the past, the AP feed was only available for journalists to both contribute to and use and disseminate. Now, anyone can post content to twitter from their cell phone. What you can notice is that for viral vids there are often explicit and public requests from tv stations or news publications to those content providers for permission to re-use. My guess is that by the nature of this particular business there is only going to be one central clearing house. People who shoot vids are going to first post them to the places where they'll get the most eyeballs. By comparison, you might see Facebook's % of social media share decrease over time from those competitors you mention - and younger people already laugh on instagram and snapchat etc how FB is for "old people". Twitter is a different animal from that: FB's advantage was that it attracted the largest initial user base, so if you wanted to build a big social network you'd go to where there are the most potential connections. Twitter's advantage might seem similar, but for as long as it remained completely open there was less of a reason for people to go elsewhere, unlike with FB, where there are lots of reasons to go elsewhere, for example to sites with more specialized interests such as Linkedin or to avoid the invasion of privacy or to break from what was designed to be an addictive application.
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Post by laughter on Apr 30, 2022 10:20:27 GMT -5
Yesterday Indian minister Modi congratulates Emmanuel Macron for becoming a new French President.
Such an important app it is, a world famous one now. He is taking the control over it and wanted to give the freedom of speech.
But I'm free to say whatever the x I want already (however external forces will enforce their limits.. ie. see x above.. that's not what I wrote) That's 'cause noone who's listening has an interest in shutting you up.
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