#elon-musk-twitter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #elon-musk-twitter, aggregated by home.social.
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ChatGPT’s Creator OpenAI to Launch Social App to Rival Elon Musk’s X - OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, is building a new social media platform to compete... - https://coingape.com/chatgpts-creator-openai-to-launch-social-app-to-rival-elon-musks-x/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #openai
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Elon Musk Secures Victory Against US SEC As Court Rejects Sanction Request - The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has secured victory in a legal battle with the US Sec... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-secures-victory-against-us-sec-as-court-rejects-sanction-request/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #regulationnews #elonmusknews #ussec
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Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile
I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.
11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag
The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.
11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit
My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.
11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit
My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.
11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag
I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.
11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag
I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.
#AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit
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Bluesky’s blockbuster week
Something remarkable has happened in social media over the last seven days: A non-trivial number of people hit a personal breaking point with X, Threads or both and either set up Bluesky accounts or started using ones there that they’d left dormant for months.
Since last weekend, the decentralized short-form social platform launched in 2019 as a Twitter research project and that required an invite code to use only nine months ago has seen its user totals climb by about a million people a day above previously modest numbers–from more than 15 million users on Wednesday to above 18 million users per a real-time count Saturday night. As I write this, Bluesky sits atop the chart of free Android apps and is ranked second after Netflix in the iOS free-apps chart.
My own follower total has about tripled over the past week, which looks like table-stakes growth compared to what other people have reported.
But the stats barely tell the tale. So many of the people whom I used to regard as my reward for putting up with the noise of Twitter even after Elon Musk’s conquest of the platform have pivoted to posting mainly or only on Bluesky. Some examples: the avgeek community (but not yet airlines), a recently-growing slice of Election Twitter, even some of my local elected representatives and such local appointed political types as Metro’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke.
(Disclosure: I sent a constituent e-mail last Friday to the youngest member of the Arlington County Board, Maureen Coffey, asking her to try meeting her constituents on Bluesky and suggesting two Arlington-related starter packs of people to follow. Coffey has since become an active user, not that I necessarily had anything to do with that.)
Many of these new Bluesky arrivals appear to have reacted to Musk putting his billionaire foot on the scale to support Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House by outright deleting their Twitter/X accounts, then sharing a screenshot or a GIF on Bluesky of their “X-it.”
(I’m keeping my Xitter account public and not deleting my past tweets—I’ve linked to them too many times, and sometimes find that the easiest way to find an old link is to search for a tweet that shared it. I also continue to read X, although that’s become increasingly unnecessary over just the past week.)
Other recent Bluesky converts have pointed to Meta downranking political and news discussions on Threads in favor of… whatever Meta’s inscrutable algorithm shoves into the “for your” timeline that I can’t opt out of on the platform that still gets far more traffic than Bluesky. As former Republican campaign strategist turned never-Trump activist Rick Wilson wrote Monday on Bluesky: “I’d hoped threads would be at least somewhat flexible about political content, but here we are.”
Everybody can bring their own reason for making this decision. Mine starts with business logic–why should I bother sharing my work on X when that site downranks posts with links?–but cannot be separated from Musk’s moves to turn that platform into his own right-wing propaganda playground. Especially when that playground has welcomed back such loathsome liars as disgraced conspiracy “theorist” Alex Jones.
Meanwhile, I can’t look at the Threads app icon on my phone without thinking of how Meta has consistently shown how little it values my profession. Or how the day-to-day experience of algorithmically-pushed slop on Facebook makes me wonder what Threads will look like once it starts welcoming advertisers.
For several months, I thought that Mastodon might be the short-form-social escape pod I needed, but Bluesky has delivered a simpler setup experience and, more importantly, is built on an open-source protocol that allows for a complete export of your account to another server. That option exists more in theory than in practice to date, but it’s not possible at X and consists only of a sort of settings portability at Mastodon. Bluesky is now the better bet.
So that’s how I am refusing to stay with a platform owned by somebody who considers people in my line of work an obsolete obstacle–or to switch to another platform owned by somebody else who seems to sees little more value in my profession. I may not stop either of those services from ending up with the most eyeballs, but that doesn’t require me to lend my own eyeballs, much less my own typing fingers, to their causes.
#ATProto #Bluesky #bsky #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #fediverse #Mastodon #skeets #socialMedia #tweets #X #XOdus #Xit
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PNUT Price Soars 200% As Elon Musk Shilling Peanut the Squirrel - PNUT, a meme coin inspired by Peanut the Squirrel, surged 200% after Elon Musk lat... - https://coingape.com/pnut-price-soars-200-as-elon-musk-shilling-peanut-the-squirrel/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #solanamemecoin #altcoinnews #memecoin
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Nearing a year since I swore off propping up the former Twitter with free writing as my response to Elon Musk inviting loathsome conspiracy liar Alex Jones back on that service, I do not miss posting on X one bit. And as more of the people I enjoyed seeing on that platform have begun popping up on Bluesky (most recently, much of the avgeek community), I also find I need to read X less and less–and I can do so with a quick check of the lists that I compiled years ago.
But there’s one stubborn exception to that pattern that’s become even harder to back away from over the past few weeks: the Election Twitter list I created too many years ago for me to remember.
The pollsters, vote counters, campaign strategists, journalists and analysts on that list generally know what they’re talking about (although the Nate Silver of 2024 is clearly not the guy we knew in 2008), and as the 2024 election season hurtles to a close I find myself returning to this list annoyingly often.
I can’t attest that this constant refreshing is making me that much more informed about the state of the Harris and Trump campaigns. After 2016, I can’t put too much stock in polls–certainly not when the New York Times’ Nate Cohn feels compelled to answer the question “So, Can We Trust The Polls?” by reminding readers that they are not a precision instrument and may be even less precise from attempts by pollsters to avoid repeats of past misses of Trump voters.
On-the-ground reports about how many people are voting and where their support might lie can be more informative (and as a poll worker, I like to see high turnout), but they, too, cannot dispel much uncertainty in advance.
Because I can’t take the hint and stick to reading reported pieces about the state of the race (for example, Dana Milbank’s examination in the Washington Post of the Harris field operation, or Tim Alberta’s feature in the Atlantic looking into the chaotic inside of the Trump campaign), I’ve tried to recreate this list on Bluesky. But my ElectionSky list remains only a faint echo of the one part of X where I still find some utility. I have to blame that on the nearly complete lack of interest in see in X alternatives among these election tweeps, even as Musk continues to try to turn their hangout into a Truth Social knockoff.
I still think that will change–nothing I see in Musk’s mismanagement of this platform makes me think it will get better, while Bluesky’s leadership continues to take smart if sometimes small steps to build out that decentralized platform. But the social-media shift that I hope to see clearly isn’t happening between now and Tuesday.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/11/02/ex-twitters-last-lock-on-my-attention-is-at-its-worst-right-now/
#2024Election #Bluesky #campaign #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #groundGame #polling #polls #X #Xitter
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WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.
Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.
10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag
Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.
10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag
The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.
10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag
Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.
It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/
#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms
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Twitter X, le réseau d'Elon Musk, va supprimer la fonction de blocage pour les comptes publics. Les fafs et autres oiseaux de malheur vont pouvoir s'en donner à coeur joie...
#Politique #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter #Twitter #SOS #SocialMedia #ExtremeDroite
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This week treated me to the very Washington experience of going to two different tech-policy events in the same room in the same large facility–the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, one of my more frequent conference settings in the District.
Patreon subscribers got an extra post on Friday: more than a thousand words’ worth of outtakes from my early-August conversation with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl at Mojave Air & Space Port.
9/24/2024: Internet Providers, Wi-Fi Router Vendors Can Now Ship Cloudflare’s DNS for Free, PCMag
I have been writing about broadband outages caused by failures at an Internet provider’s domain-name-system servers for a very long time, so the relevance of Cloudflare’s pitch was immediately relevant to me.
9/25/2024: White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn’t a prerequisite, Light Reading
The first of two stories that I wrote for my telecom trade-pub client from the 6G Symposium in Washington covered a panel in which experts spoke at length about the risks of China steering the development of 6G while saying the word “China” much less often than I would have expected.
9/26/2024: Could open RAN in orbit jumpstart the market for D2D services?, Light Reading
I needed a little more time to write up this longer and more in-the-weeds panel about the state of satellite-hosted connectivity for phones and other devices.
9/26/2024: NYC Mayor Adams’ Indictment Offers a Few Lessons in Smartphone Security, PCMag
Before I could finish laughing at the fanboy-esque devotion to Turkish Airlines recounted in the indictment of Eric Adams, I also had to laugh at its depiction of the mayor’s fortuitous forgetfulness of of the smartphone passcode he had just changed from four to six digits.
9/27/2024: X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author, PCMag
One angle to this story that I should have noted: This purported research report on the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate that journalist Ken Klippenstein shared on his newsletter in unredacted form Thursday (before posting a redacted version on Friday in what he later described as a test of X’s rules) does not even mention Vance’s house in Alexandria, much less include its street address. That does not speak well of the effort put into this document, if it really was a product of the Trump campaign and not something forged by Iranian hackers.
#5G #6G #8888 #Cloudflare #DNS #ElonMuskTwitter #EricAdams #JDVanceDossier #KenKlippenstein #satelliteToPhone #TurkishAirlines
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Elon Musk’s X Seeks Second Chance In Brazil, Will Supreme Court Agree? - Elon Musk’s X is reportedly seeking a second chance to resume its services in Brazil, spa... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-x-seeks-second-chance-in-brazil-will-supreme-court-agree/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #elonmusknews #x(twitter)
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Elon Musk’s X Dodges EU Regulatory Crackdown: Report - Elon Musk’s social media platform X is likely to escape a regulatory crackdown by the Eur... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-x-dodges-eu-regulatory-crackdown-report/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #europeanunion #elonmusknews #x(twitter)
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Breaking: Elon Musk’s X Sees Big Win Despite Latest Legal Setback - Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has obtained a ruling requirin... - https://coingape.com/breaking-elon-musks-x-sees-big-win-despite-latest-legal-setback/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter #blockchainnews #elonmusknews
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Elon Musk Says “I Can’t Wait” to Audit US Federal Agencies Under Donald Trump - Elon Musk has recently shown eagerness to audit the U.S. Federal Agencies as Donald Trump... - https://coingape.com/elon-musk-audit-us-federal-agencies-under-donald-trump/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #donaldtrumpcrypto #elonmusktwitter #elonmusknews #kamalaharris #donaldtrump
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https://sailing-dulce.nl/home/article-8615 #snoekensnoek #autoschade #ultrafastfashion #X #ElonMuskTwitter #bluesky Maandag 02-09-2024 Gisteravond hadden we een werkelijk zalige avond bij Restaurant Snoek & Snoek ('Pasta en Wijn') op Achter De Kerk. Een gouden avond, een tafeltje op het terras waar een lauw windje de rook van sigaren en sigaretten op het terras van de kroeg ernaast verdreef. We zaten direct naast het Gasthuispoortje, dat dateert uit 1391, eeuwen geleden de toegang tot een gasthuis annex hospi..
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After two weeks at home–which included a highly entertaining baseball game Wednesday in which a hilarious lack of basepath situational awareness led the Nationals to run into a phone number of a double play and yet beat the Yankees anyway–I’m headed across the Atlantic tonight to cover the IFA tech trade show in Berlin. As before, the organizers are covering most of my travel costs and those of an invited group of U.S. journalists and analysts.
Beyond the work below, I also wrote a post Friday for Patreon subscribers detailing the settings I changed on my mother-in-law’s new LG TV to make it easier for her start watching TV and have the set itself be less of a marketing mechanism.
8/26/2024: 3 Lessons From a Hacker Conference That Can Keep You Safe Online, AARP
I thought of this idea too late after covering Black Hat last year to have any hope of pitching it, much less writing it in between a schedule stuffed with both personal and work travel. This year, I remembered to pitch it in advance, got a prompt thumbs-up from my editor, and filed it the week after the conference.
8/29/2024: Cable Providers Top Telecom Rivals for Internet Reliability, PCMag
After Opensignal offered an embargoed copy of this study, I had some questions about its findings that the research firm couldn’t answer until Tuesday evening, resulting in my filing it too late for my editor to get to it until after the embargo had passed. Which nobody at PCMag blinked about, to their credit.
8/29/2024: Brazil’s Supreme Court to Elon Musk: Name a Legal Rep or X Is Banned, PCMag
I wrote a new top for this post Friday after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court made good on its threat–and not only banned X but directed Apple and Google to block its app from their app stores and imposed a fine of about $8,900 a day for people who used “technological subterfuges” (as in, VPNs) to evade this restriction. Judge Alexandre de Moraes since seems to have relented slightly on those last two measures, but even compared to the impending commercial ban on TikTok they seem extreme in a democracy–not that Elon Musk deserves sympathy for his descent into conspiracy lies about the 2022 election that President Lula da Silva won.
#AARP #Berlin #BlackHat #Brasil #Brazil #broadbandReliability #burnerPhones #cableInternetReliability #ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #IFA #OpenSignal #X
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Is anyone wondering why Elon Musk, after initially supporting Ukraine in its fight against russia suddenly flipped sides?
Well, here is the so far most compelling reason: after Twitter recently having been forced to reveal publicly who its investors are it turns out that some of them are... exactly!
More details on Twitter's russian connections well explained here. 👇
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A comedic bit so true it's practically a documentary....
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This week took me to one place I know far too well, Las Vegas, and one I’d never visited before, Mojave Air and Space Port. I’m not done writing about what I learned at the first destination during my fifth time covering the Black Hat information-security conference, and I haven’t started the story I owe from my second stop checking up on Boom Supersonic.
8/7/2024: The Biden administration has been trying to improve the U.S.’s cybersecurity—no thanks to Congress, Fast Company
The idea for this piece started at Black Hat last year, when I was struck by the level of detail in the advice government officials offered in talks at this event. I quizzed a handful of security experts for their thoughts about how the Biden administration had fared in its efforts to strengthen the nation’s information-security defenses–then after President Biden dropped out of the presidential campaign to pass the torch to Vice President Harris, I had to circle back to most of them to get their perspective about how she might continue that effort.
8/7/2024: X Sues Advertising Group Over Boycotts: ‘Now, It Is War,’ Musk Says, PCMag
Since the legal complaint didn’t recap all the things that the former Twitter has done under Elon Musk’s chaotic misrule to make itself repulsive to name-brand advertisers, I used this post to remind readers of that recent history.
8/9/2024: Feds Make a Pitch for Election Work: Here’s What I’ve Learned as a Poll Worker, PCMag
The panel that opened Black Hat Wednesday morning featured Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly inviting people curious about election security to talk to the people who run their elections–and asking attendees to serve as poll workers themselves. Since I have been doing that since early 2020, I thought this was a good opportunity to share some of my own experiences.
8/9/2024: Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped, PCMag
The first part of Signal developer Moxie Marlinspike’s Thursday-morning appearance at Black Hat was a philosophical and somewhat meandering talk that didn’t look to me like grist for a post. But then his conversation onstage with Black Hat founder Jeff Moss surfaced some good insights about the intersections of security and usability.
8/9/2024: The Only Real Problem With Black Hat’s Wi-Fi Was the People Using It, PCMag
Since I first covered Black Hat in 2018, the panel in which the people who run the event’s WiFi recount the poor life choices made by attendees on the network has been a reliable source of enlightenment as well as amusement.
#BidenExecutiveOrderCybersercurity #BlackHat #BoomSupersonic #CISA #cybersecurity #electionSecurity #ElonMuskTwitter #encryption #informationSecurity #infosec #LasVegas #pollWorker #Signal #Vegas
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Breaking: Elon Musk To Move X Headquarters To Texas - Billionaire investor and X owner Elon Musk has just uncovered plans to move the headquart... - https://coingape.com/breaking-elon-musk-to-move-x-headquarters-to-texas/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #elonmusktwitter
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Crypto Community Stunned As Elon Musk Shuns X Censorship Immunity Deal - According to a recent report, Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), tu... - https://coingape.com/crypto-community-stunned-as-elon-musk-shuns-x-censorship-immunity-deal/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #europeanregulators #elonmusktwitter #regulationnews
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#twitter #x #elonmusk #elonmusktwitter
„Als Protest gegen zunehmende Hassrede auf X (Twitter) verlassen 47 Organisationen aus den Bereichen Umwelt, Menschenrechte, Soziales, Gesundheit und Landwirtschaft gemeinsam die Social-Media-Plattform.“
https://byebyeelon.de/
