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Miss Movin On || My Ex is a Footballer CL16 Edition
links [masterlist] [my ex series masterlist] [series update with more footballers]
summary your ex is engaged and you haven't moved on, or have you?
pairings ex!federico chiesa x reader, charles leclerc x reader faceclaim benedetta porcaroli
warnings cursing, mentions of austria 24
notes lol this is kinda short but my head has been hurting for the past few days so I haven't been able to do much. Fernando Alonso's my ex is the next one I'm working on.
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opheliamillaiss ti amo ynnie! i love you ynnie ↳ ynusername sei bellessima you are beautiful
username1 i HAVE seen two pretty best friends
username7 she's trying to distract us from her story ↳ username8 yn, babe, who was the man??
username2 why is arthur leclerc lurking in the likes? ↳ username3 was it him in the story? ↳ username2 no i don't think so ↳ username3 your're right, looked more like charles
username4 girl it's time to move on ↳ username5 she posts about her friend and you guys are mentioning chiesa! can't make anyone happy here
username6 thoughts on the euros? ↳ ynusername :(((
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"unofficial official drivers group chat"
charlie now accepting caption ideas for my post about yn
ynnie charles no
max emilian charles yes
ynnie max no
danny ric max yes
landotd max no
ynnie lol not the norstappen breakup drama
landotd you made this my name didn't you
ynnie well... yes you did say it was better than the actual trophy 🤷♀️
landotd you make me want to say max yes
ynnie lmao telling the f1 girlies that I'm the reason yall are getting back together
charlie and none of you are helping me with the caption
frenchie pie shhh cha, we're watching the girls fighting messaged haha'd by 11
princess george "imagine getting knocked out of the euros and losing yn, couldn't be me"
albono aww, george that's a good one
carmen 🩵 that's because it's my idea
lily 🏌️🏻♀️💙 I knew it babe
aussie son fumbled the bag and the girl or winning isn't for everyone, but it is for me 👎🏻 by ynnie
lily 🧡 how about monagasque men do it better 👎🏻 by ynnie
carmen 🩵 damn lils!
frenchie pie "you broke her heart, I breaka da spaghetti" 👎🏻 by ynnie
logie bear "formula 1 > soccer"
lewlew make that football and you got a good one
kmags why are we coming up with captions?
hulk 💚 because yn's ex man is messaging her being a dick and so charles has decided to hard launch
kmags ohhh wait, how do you know this nico?
hulk 💚 I stay in the know 💪🏼
ynnie gotta keep my grid dad up to date
nando why the fuck is he your grid dad??
lewlew yeah wtf?
ynnie uhm, cause my grid dad can't be my boyfriends grid dad or my son's dad's boyfriend???
charlie still getting off topic
frenchie pie don't worry chiesa, she's moved on to someone better
kika!! 💘 pierre, he is not saying that!
ynnie thank you!! someone actually on my side
kika!! 💘 say 'don't worry, she's moved on'
ynnie how about none of those
charlie i don't see you coming up with anything, mon cherie
ynnie meet my love, yn?? my beautiful girlfriend, yn?? something normal please
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charles_leclerc don't worry bud, she's moved on
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username11 calling chiesa bud is insane
username12 two different tifosi coming together to NOT maximize their joint slay ↳ username11 charles really declaring war on juve fans ↳ username12 who will win? ferrari or juve?
ynusername sha, this is not what we agreed on. ↳ charles_leclerc but this is funnier, no? ↳ ynusername I blame pierregasly for this ↳ pierregasly that's okay, MY bestie is iconic ↳ francisca.cgomes are you calling me not iconic ↳ ynusername hahaha, let's all laugh at pierre now ♥️ by estebanocon ↳ username13 not estie bestie liking that comment
username14 THE HAND ON HER THROAT IN THE SECOND PICTURE??? YN HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? ↳ username15 BITCH WHO CARES ABOUT THAT HAND!! LOOK AT THE FIRST PICTURE! ↳ username14 charles marking his spot like a dog
lewishamilton look at you two! ↳ ynusername hi future teammate!
logansargeant i liked my suggestion :( ↳ charles_leclerc me too ↳ oscarpiastri personally my options were better ↳ username16 now I want to know what you all suggested ↳ logansargeant formula 1 > soccer
username17 someone should edit that picture of jorginho getting the spaghetti dumped on him to chiesa, but it's actually formula 1 cars ↳ username18 winning isn't for everyone, but it is for Charles ↳ oscarpiastri that's what I said! ↳ username18 omg twins!
username19 chiesa really fumbled the bag ↳ oscarpiastri I said that one too! ↳ username19 oscar just twinning with everyone!
#charles leclerc x reader#charles leclerc smau#charles leclerc imagine#charles leclerc x fem!reader#charles leclerc#formula 1 imagine#formula 1 smau#read#danielle writes#federico chiesa x ex!reader
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not really a drawing request but id love to know more about your ocs??? from what you’ve posted they look amazing??
Thank you VERY much!!! i forgot how much i love to talk about them
(sorry for the old art or picrews, i am too excited to not talk about them and simultaneously not patient enough to redraw them)
All picrew links: Kit + Kevín + Lilly Annalise Piper + Cecily Mikael + Claire Princeton
here's a general overview of everything that exists:
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part 1: em groups
you should at least be vaguely familiar with my em. every single au and whatever hetalia character i feel like grabbing for that day goes in there. interesting little tidbit that somehow hasn't come up so far is that in more human AUs of mine he's part irish! ~20% of icelandic males and 60% of females actually have irish/keltic ancestry!!! ireland being his mom hc is going WILD in me. he's also very magic because that headcanon singlehandedly started the ice obsession in me. how well in tune he is with it and how exactly it looks like depends on the au . i also make him closer friends with swe and fin because i can👍
(excerpt from my em content dedicated whatsapp group with just my (non-hetalia) best friend and me: )
le is there a lot because i love him so so much. incredibly phoenix coded man
there's also monaco, gwendolyn or gwenny to me. she's a permanent resident because i support women's rights (slaying) and wrongs (gambling addictions)
a notable not fully formed character is faroe islands! petra sometimes, emma other times. i genuinely don't know where those names come from. i heard the faroe islands and iceland being referred to as "kind of like twins" and as each othere's "best friends" *somewhere* and i am VERY normal about that too. oh SO normal
part 2: mikael's world
a fusion of 2 groups put into one world, connected by one flimsy tie. it's mostly analogous to real life but no homophobia👍
Group A: Pentagon
Mikael started out as a swedish micronation oc but we don't talk about that. he has a chicken called omelette because of inside jokes during... my wattpad era... shudders. i project onto him a lot and lots of his design is just wish fullfillment. while i love my ocs suffering and angst, because i put so much of myself in him, ultimately, his story is one of healing. major point of difference between us though is that his parents abandoned him and mine... didn't.do.that. 💀👍
Claire and Piper both actually started out as minecraft skins i made for fun!! and then i made them kith:3
Cecily and Kit were added becaue i felt like something was missing to complete the friendgroup!
Group B: menace club
Kevín and Lilly are my ACNL and ACNH side accounts...... and Annalise was some pretty trans woman i drew one day there's nothing much to this
Part 3: D&D
so.. confession: i haven't actually played d&d yet! but my friends love it a lot, i love a couple ttrpg podcasts so.. yeah i have a couple concepts!
The Leighlar Pilayden, or blueberry bitchfuck as i like to call him, Half Elf sorcerer who was abandoned as a babg and raised in a cult which, in a world with multiple deities, somehow ended up believing in the *one* that doesn't exist! he's a sorcerer but they all think his powers a blessing from their god
MY BABY MY SOBBING WET CAT SON! PRINCETON INTEKONA!!!
TIEFLING BARD I might get to play as him soon... negative strength, the only reason he has such a high charisma stat is because everyone pitties him... he accidentally ended up in a criminal gang... he plays the pan flute and bagpipes... pathetic baby
Part 4: Miscellaneous
All the Characters that are alone in their worlds!
(^aesthetic wise but he definitely kins larry)
Brian is the brain cell a friend and i are sharing and also the last one we have. he's a SOO overworked office worker. he has to handle EVERYTHING he's so exhausted please give him a break. he recently got a boyfriend. good for my him
Recently re-named Ailbhe used to be Avery and is a genderless, fully white skinned(as in colour not the skin colour we associate with the word. imagine porcelaine!) and neon yellow haired fallen angel/ex-demi-god!! not much lore but... lots of potential!!
Firenze is... idk he just happened in one history lesson in 2018 and now he's here. bunny boy with lots of responsibilities around the palace!!!
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and ... phew. i THINK that's it? mostly? oh my god. if. there's anyone you wanna know more about... tell ME
#how in the actual fresh hell do i tag this?#trick question#i won't tag this!#except for this#of course
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Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, with its heavy drapery and distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings with officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. A senior defense official told me that Kahl was surprised by whom he was about to contact: “He was, like, ‘Why am I calling Elon Musk?’ ”
The reason soon became apparent. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,” Kahl told me. SpaceX, Musk’s space-exploration company, had for months been providing Internet access across Ukraine, allowing the country’s forces to plan attacks and to defend themselves. But, in recent days, the forces had found their connectivity severed as they entered territory contested by Russia. More alarmingly, SpaceX had recently given the Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access. “We started to get a little panicked,” the senior defense official, one of four who described the standoff to me, recalled. Musk “could turn it off at any given moment. And that would have real operational impact for the Ukrainians.”
Musk had become involved in the war in Ukraine soon after Russia invaded, in February, 2022. Along with conventional assaults, the Kremlin was conducting cyberattacks against Ukraine’s digital infrastructure. Ukrainian officials and a loose coalition of expatriates in the tech sector, brainstorming in group chats on WhatsApp and Signal, found a potential solution: SpaceX, which manufactures a line of mobile Internet terminals called Starlink. The tripod-mounted dishes, each about the size of a computer display and clad in white plastic reminiscent of the sleek design sensibility of Musk’s Tesla electric cars, connect with a network of satellites. The units have limited range, but in this situation that was an advantage: although a nationwide network of dishes was required, it would be difficult for Russia to completely dismantle Ukrainian connectivity. Of course, Musk could do so. Three people involved in bringing Starlink to Ukraine, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they worried that Musk, if upset, could withdraw his services, told me that they originally overlooked the significance of his personal control. “Nobody thought about it back then,” one of them, a Ukrainian tech executive, told me. “It was all about ‘Let’s fucking go, people are dying.’ ”
In the ensuing months, fund-raising in Silicon Valley’s Ukrainian community, contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development and with European governments, and pro-bono contributions from SpaceX facilitated the transfer of thousands of Starlink units to Ukraine. A soldier in Ukraine’s signal corps who was responsible for maintaining Starlink access on the front lines, and who asked to be identified only by his first name, Mykola, told me, “It’s the essential backbone of communication on the battlefield.”
Initially, Musk showed unreserved support for the Ukrainian cause, responding encouragingly as Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian minister for digital transformation, tweeted pictures of equipment in the field. But, as the war ground on, SpaceX began to balk at the cost. “We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales told the Pentagon in a letter, last September. (CNBC recently valued SpaceX at nearly a hundred and fifty billion dollars. Forbes estimated Musk’s personal net worth at two hundred and twenty billion dollars, making him the world’s richest man.)
Musk was also growing increasingly uneasy with the fact that his technology was being used for warfare. That month, at a conference in Aspen attended by business and political figures, Musk even appeared to express support for Vladimir Putin. “He was onstage, and he said, ‘We should be negotiating. Putin wants peace—we should be negotiating peace with Putin,’ ” Reid Hoffman, who helped start PayPal with Musk, recalled. Musk seemed, he said, to have “bought what Putin was selling, hook, line, and sinker.” A week later, Musk tweeted a proposal for his own peace plan, which called for new referendums to redraw the borders of Ukraine, and granted Russia control of Crimea, the semi-autonomous peninsula recognized by most nations, including the United States, as Ukrainian territory. In later tweets, Musk portrayed as inevitable an outcome favoring Russia and attached maps highlighting eastern Ukrainian territories, some of which, he argued, “prefer Russia.” Musk also polled his Twitter followers about the plan. Millions responded, with about sixty per cent rejecting the proposal. (Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s President, tweeted his own poll, asking users whether they preferred the Elon Musk who supported Ukraine or the one who now seemed to back Russia. The former won, though Zelensky’s poll had a smaller turnout: Musk has more than twenty times as many followers.)
By then, Musk’s sympathies appeared to be manifesting on the battlefield. One day, Ukrainian forces advancing into contested areas in the south found themselves suddenly unable to communicate. “We were very close to the front line,” Mykola, the signal-corps soldier, told me. “We crossed this border and the Starlink stopped working.” The consequences were immediate. “Communications became dead, units were isolated. When you’re on offense, especially for commanders, you need a constant stream of information from battalions. Commanders had to drive to the battlefield to be in radio range, risking themselves,” Mykola said. “It was chaos.” Ukrainian expats who had raised funds for the Starlink units began receiving frantic calls. The tech executive recalls a Ukrainian military official telling him, “We need Elon now.” “How now?” he replied. “Like fucking now,” the official said. “People are dying.” Another Ukrainian involved told me that he was “awoken by a dozen calls saying they’d lost connectivity and had to retreat.” The Financial Times reported that outages affected units in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk. American and Ukrainian officials told me they believed that SpaceX had cut the connectivity via geofencing, cordoning off areas of access.
The senior defense official said, “We had a whole series of meetings internal to the department to try to figure out what we could do about this.” Musk’s singular role presented unfamiliar challenges, as did the government’s role as intermediary. “It wasn’t like we could hold him in breach of contract or something,” the official continued. The Pentagon would need to reach a contractual arrangement with SpaceX so that, at the very least, Musk “couldn’t wake up one morning and just decide, like, he didn’t want to do this anymore.” Kahl added, “It was kind of a way for us to lock in services across Ukraine. It could at least prevent Musk from turning off the switch altogether.”
Typically, such a negotiation would be handled by the Pentagon’s acquisitions department. But Musk had become more than just a vender like Boeing, Lockheed, or other defense-industry behemoths. On the phone with Musk from Paris, Kahl was deferential. According to unclassified talking points for the call, he thanked Musk for his efforts in Ukraine, acknowledged the steep costs he’d incurred, and pleaded for even a few weeks to devise a contract. “If you cut this off, it doesn’t end the war,” Kahl recalled telling Musk.
Musk wasn’t immediately convinced. “My inference was that he was getting nervous that Starlink’s involvement was increasingly seen in Russia as enabling the Ukrainian war effort, and was looking for a way to placate Russian concerns,” Kahl told me. To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally. Another individual told me that Musk had made the same assertion in the weeks before he tweeted his pro-Russia peace plan, and had said that his consultations with the Kremlin were regular. (Musk later denied having spoken with Putin about Ukraine.) On the phone, Musk said that he was looking at his laptop and could see “the entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. “This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’ ” the senior defense official told me. “And we were, like, ‘Oh, dear, this is not good.’ ” Musk told Kahl that the vivid illustration of how technology he had designed for peaceful ends was being used to wage war gave him pause.
After a fifteen-minute call, Musk agreed to give the Pentagon more time. He also, after public blowback and with evident annoyance, walked back his threats to cut off service. “The hell with it,” he tweeted. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.” This June, the Department of Defense announced that it had reached a deal with SpaceX.
The meddling of oligarchs and other monied interests in the fate of nations is not new. During the First World War, J. P. Morgan lent vast sums to the Allied powers; afterward, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., poured money into the fledgling League of Nations. The investor George Soros’s Open Society Foundations underwrote civil-society reform in post-Soviet Europe, and the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson funded right-wing media in Israel, as part of his support of Benjamin Netanyahu.
But Musk’s influence is more brazen and expansive. There is little precedent for a civilian’s becoming the arbiter of a war between nations in such a granular way, or for the degree of dependency that the U.S. now has on Musk in a variety of fields, from the future of energy and transportation to the exploration of space. SpaceX is currently the sole means by which NASA transports crew from U.S. soil into space, a situation that will persist for at least another year. The government’s plan to move the auto industry toward electric cars requires increasing access to charging stations along America’s highways. But this rests on the actions of another Musk enterprise, Tesla. The automaker has seeded so much of the country with its proprietary charging stations that the Biden Administration relaxed an early push for a universal charging standard disliked by Musk. His stations are eligible for billions of dollars in subsidies, so long as Tesla makes them compatible with the other charging standard.
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”
Musk’s power continues to grow. His takeover of Twitter, which he has rebranded “X,” gives him a critical forum for political discourse ahead of the next Presidential election. He recently launched an artificial-intelligence company, a move that follows years of involvement in the technology. Musk has become a hyper-exposed pop-culture figure, and his sharp turns from altruistic to vainglorious, strategic to impulsive, have been the subject of innumerable articles and at least seven major books, including a forthcoming biography by Walter Isaacson. But the nature and the scope of his power are less widely understood.
More than thirty of Musk’s current and former colleagues in various industries and a dozen individuals in his personal life spoke to me about their experiences with him. Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, with whom Musk has both worked and sparred, told me, “Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it.”
The terms of the Starlink deal have not been made public. Ukrainian officials say that they have not faced further service interruptions. But Musk has continued to express ambivalence about how the technology is being used, and where it can be deployed. In February, he tweeted, “We will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.” He said, as he had told Kahl, that he was sincerely attempting to navigate the moral dilemmas of his role: “We’re trying hard to do the right thing, where the ‘right thing’ is an extremely difficult moral question.”
Musk’s hesitation aligns with his pragmatic interests. A facility in Shanghai produces half of all Tesla cars, and Musk depends on the good will of officials in China, which has lent support to Russia in the conflict. Musk recently acknowledged to the Financial Times that Beijing disapproves of his decision to provide Internet service to Ukraine and has sought assurances that he would not deploy similar technology in China. In the same interview, he responded to questions about China’s efforts to assert control over Taiwan by floating another peace plan. Taiwan, he suggested, could become a jointly controlled administrative zone, an outcome that Taiwanese leaders see as ending the country’s independence. During a trip to Beijing this spring, Musk was welcomed with what Reuters summarized as “flattery and feasts.” He met with senior officials, including China’s foreign minister, and posed for the kinds of awkwardly smiling formal photos that are more typical of world leaders.
National-security officials I spoke with had a range of views on the government’s balance of power with Musk. He maintains good relationships with some of them, including General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Since the two men met, several years ago, when Milley was the chief of staff of the Army, they have discussed “technology applications to warfare—artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and autonomous machines,” Milley told me. “He has insight that helped shape my thoughts on the fundamental change in the character of war and the modernization of the U.S. military.” During the Starlink controversy, Musk called him for advice. But other officials expressed profound misgivings. “Living in the world we live in, in which Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control, we are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official told me. “That sucks.”
One summer evening in the mid-nineteen-eighties, Musk and his friend Theo Taoushiani took Taoushiani’s father’s car for an illicit drive. Musk and Taoushiani were both in their mid-teens, and lived about a mile apart in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Neither had a driver’s license, or permission from Taoushiani’s father. But they were passionate Dungeons & Dragons fans, and a new module—a fresh scenario in the game—had just been released. Taoushiani took the wheel for the twenty-minute drive to the Sandton City mall. “Elon was my co-pilot,” Taoushiani told me. “We went under the cover of darkness.” At the mall, they found that they didn’t have enough money. But Musk promised a salesperson that they would return the next day with the rest, and dropped the name of a well-known Greek restaurant owned by Taoushiani’s family. “Elon had the gift of the gab,” Taoushiani said. “He’s very persuasive, and he’s quite dogged in his determination.” The two went home with the module.
Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital, and he and his younger brother, Kimbal, and his younger sister, Tosca, grew up under apartheid. Musk’s mother, Maye, a Canadian model and dietitian, and his father, Errol, an engineer, divorced when he was young, and the children initially stayed with Maye. She has said that Errol was physically abusive toward her. “He would hit me when the kids were around,” she wrote in her memoir. “I remember that Tosca and Kimbal, who were two and four, respectively, would cry in the corner, and Elon, who was five, would hit him on the backs of his knees to try to stop him.” By the mid-eighties, Musk had moved in with his father—a decision that he has said was motivated by concern for his father’s loneliness, and which he came to regret. Musk, usually impassive in interviews, cried openly when he told Rolling Stone about the years that followed, in which, he said, his father psychologically tortured him, in ways that he declined to specify. “You have no idea about how bad,” he said. “Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.” Taoushiani recalled witnessing Errol “chastise Elon a lot. Maybe belittle him.” (Errol Musk has denied allegations that he was abusive to Maye or to his children.) Musk has also said that he was violently bullied at school. Though he is now six feet one, with a broad-shouldered build, he was “much, much smaller back in school,” Taoushiani told me. “He wasn’t very social.”
Musk has said that he has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of what is now known as autism-spectrum disorder, which is characterized by difficulty with social interactions. As a child, he would sometimes fall into trancelike states of deep thought, during which he was so unresponsive that his mother eventually took him to a doctor to check his hearing. Musk’s quiet side persists—in my own interactions with him, I have found him to be thoughtful and measured. (Musk declined to answer questions for this story.) He can also be, as he joked during a stilted “Saturday Night Live” monologue, “pretty good at running human, in emulation mode.”
Musk escaped into science fiction and video games. “One of the reasons I got into technology, maybe the reason, was video games,” he said at a gaming-industry convention several years ago. In his early teens, Musk coded an eight-bit shooter game in the style of Space Invaders called Blastar, whose title screen, in a novelistic flourish, credits him as “E. R. Musk.” The premise was basic: “MISSION: DESTROY ALIEN FREIGHTER CARRYING DEADLY HYDROGEN BOMBS AND STATUS BEAM MACHINES.” But it won recognition from a South African trade magazine, which published the game’s hundred and sixty-seven lines of code and paid Musk a small sum.
Musk often talks about his science-fiction influences. Some have manifested in straightforward ways: he has connected his love of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” novels, whose characters grapple with a mathematically precise prediction of their civilization’s collapse, to his obsession with insuring human survival beyond Earth. But some of Musk’s touchstones present ironies. He has said that his hero is Douglas Adams, the writer who skewered both the hyper-rich and the progress-at-any-cost ethos that Musk has come to embody. In the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” novels and radio plays, the latter of which were broadcast in South Africa during Musk’s childhood, a narcissistic playboy becomes the president of the galaxy, and Earth is demolished to make way for a space transit route. Musk is also an avowed fan of Deus Ex, a role-playing first-person-shooter video game that he has brought up when discussing his company Neuralink, which aspires to invent ability-enhancing body modifications like those featured in the game. During the pandemic, Musk seemed to embrace Covid denialism, and for a while he changed his Twitter profile picture to an image of the protagonist of the game, which turns on a manufactured plague designed to control the masses. But Deus Ex, like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” is a fundamentally anti-capitalist text, in which the plague is the culmination of unrestrained corporate power, and the villain is the world’s richest man, a media-darling tech entrepreneur with global aspirations and political leaders under his control.
In 1999, Musk stood outside his Bay Area home to accept the delivery of a million-dollar McLaren F1 sports car. He was in his late twenties, and wearing an oversized brown blazer. “Some could interpret purchasing this car as behavior characteristic of an imperialist brat,” he told a CNN news crew. Then he beamed, saying that there were only about sixty such cars in the world. “My values may have changed,” he added, “but I’m not consciously aware of my values having changed.” Musk’s fiancée, a Canadian writer named Justine Wilson, seemed more aware. “It’s a million-dollar car. It’s decadent,” she said. “My fear is that we become spoiled brats. That we lose a sense of appreciation and perspective.” The McLaren, she observed, was “the perfect car for Silicon Valley.”
Musk had moved to Canada when he was in his late teens, and met Wilson when they both attended Queen’s University, in Ontario. He later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with degrees in economics and physics. In 1995, the early days of the World Wide Web, he and Kimbal founded a company that came to be called Zip2, an online city directory that they sold to newspapers. Musk has often described the company’s humble origins, saying that he and his brother lived and worked in a small studio apartment, showering at a nearby Y.M.C.A. and eating at Jack in the Box. (Errol at one point gave his sons twenty-eight thousand dollars. Musk, who has a tendency to fuss over questions of credit, has stated that his father’s contribution came “much later,” in a round of funding that “would’ve happened anyway.”) At Zip2, Musk developed what he describes as his “hard-core” work style; even after he had his own apartment, he often slept on a beanbag at the office. But, in the end, the company’s investors stripped him of his leadership role and installed a more experienced chief executive. Musk believed that the startup should have been targeting not just newspapers but consumers. Investors pursued a more modest vision instead. In 1999, Zip2 was sold to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars, earning Musk more than twenty million dollars.
Justine and Musk married the following year. After their first child died at ten weeks, from sudden infant death syndrome, the couple dealt with the tragedy in very different ways. Justine, by her account, grieved openly; Musk later told one of his biographers, Ashlee Vance, that “wallowing in sadness does no good for anyone around you.” After pursuing I.V.F. treatment, the couple had twins, then triplets. (Musk now has at least nine children with three different women, and has said that he is doing his part to address one of his pet issues, the risk of population collapse; demographers are skeptical about the matter.) Justine wrote in an essay for Marie Claire that their relationship eventually buckled under the weight of Musk’s obsession with work and his controlling tendencies, which began with him insisting, as they danced at their wedding, “I am the alpha in this relationship.” A messy divorce ensued, leading to a legal dispute over their postnuptial financial agreement, which was settled years later. “He had grown up in the male-dominated culture of South Africa,” Justine wrote. “The will to compete and dominate that made him so successful in business did not magically shut off when he came home.” (Musk wrote a response to Justine’s account in Business Insider, discussing the financial dispute, but he did not address Justine’s characterizations of his behavior.)
After Musk left Zip2, he poured some twelve million dollars, a majority of his wealth, into another startup, an online bank called X.com. It was the first instance of his obsession with the letter “X,” which has now appeared in the names of his companies, his products, and his son with the artist Grimes: X Æ A-12. The bank also marked the beginning of a long and so far unfulfilled quest—recently revived in his effort to reinvent Twitter—to create an “everything app,” incorporating a payment system. In 2000, X.com merged with a competing online-payments startup, Confinity, co-founded by the entrepreneur Peter Thiel. In events that have since become Silicon Valley lore, Musk and Thiel battled for control of the company. Various accounts apportion blame differently. Hoffman told me, citing the story as an example of Musk’s disingenuousness, that Musk had pushed for the merger by highlighting the leadership of his company’s seasoned executive, only to force out the executive and place himself in the top role. “A merger like this, you’re doing a marriage,” Hoffman said. “And it’s, like, ‘I was lying to you intensely while we were dating. Now that we’re married, let me tell you about the herpes.’ ” People who have worked with Musk often describe him as controlling. One said, “In the areas he wants to compete in, he has a very hard time sharing the spotlight, or not being the center of attention.” In the fall of 2000, another coup, executed while Musk was on a long-delayed honeymoon with Justine, overthrew Musk and installed Thiel as the company’s head. Two years later, eBay acquired the company, by then called PayPal, for $1.5 billion, making Musk, who remained the largest shareholder, fabulously wealthy.
Perhaps the most revealing moment in the PayPal saga happened at its outset. In March, 2000, as the merger was under way, Musk was driving his new McLaren, with Thiel in the passenger seat. The two were on Sand Hill Road, an artery that cuts through Silicon Valley. Thiel asked Musk, “So what can this do?” Musk replied, “Watch this,” then floored the gas pedal, hit an embankment, and sent the car airborne and spinning before it slammed back onto the pavement, blowing out its suspension and its windows. “This isn’t insured,” Musk told Thiel. Musk’s critics have used the story to illustrate his reckless showboating, but it also underscores how often Musk has been rewarded for that behavior: he repaired the McLaren, drove it for several more years, then reportedly sold it at a profit. Musk delights in telling the story, lingering on the risk to his life. In one interview, asked whether there were parallels with his approach to building companies, Musk said, “I hope not.” Appearing to consider the idea, he added, “Watch this. Yeah, that could be awkward with a rocket launch.”
Of all Musk’s enterprises, SpaceX may be the one that most fundamentally reflects his appetite for risk. Staff at SpaceX’s Starship facility, in Boca Chica, Texas, spent December of 2020 preparing for the launch of a rocket known as SN8, then the newest prototype in the company’s Starship program, which it hopes will eventually transport humans to orbit, to the moon, and, in the mission Musk speaks about with the most passion, to Mars. The F.A.A. had approved an initial launch date for the rocket. But an engine issue forced SpaceX to delay by a day. By then, the weather had shifted. On the new day, the F.A.A. told SpaceX that, according to its model of the wind’s speed and direction, if the rocket exploded it could create a blast wave that risked damaging the windows of nearby houses. A series of tense meetings followed, with SpaceX presenting its own modelling to establish that the launch was safe, and the F.A.A. refusing to grant permission. Wayne Monteith, then the head of the agency’s space division, was leaving an event at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station when he received a frustrated call from Musk. “Look, you cannot launch,” Monteith told him. “You’re not cleared to launch.” Musk acknowledged the order.
Musk was on site in Boca Chica when SpaceX launched anyway. The rocket achieved liftoff and successfully performed several maneuvers intended to rehearse those of an eventual manned Starship. But, on landing, the SN8 came in too fast, and exploded on impact. (No windows were damaged.) The next day, Musk visited the crash site. In a picture taken that day, Musk stands next to the twisted steel of the rocket, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, looking determined, his arms crossed and his eyes narrowed. His tweets about the explosion were celebratory, not apologetic. “He has a long history of launching and blowing up rockets. And then he puts out videos of all the rockets that he’s blown up. And like half of America thinks it’s really cool,” the former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine told me. “He has a different set of rules.”
Hans Koenigsmann, then SpaceX’s vice-president for flight reliability, started working on a customary report to the F.A.A. about the launch. Koenigsmann told me that he felt pressure to minimize focus on the launch process and Musk’s role in it. “I sensed that he wanted it taken out,” Koenigsmann said. “I disagreed, and in the end we wound up with a very different version from what was originally intended.” Eventually, Koenigsmann was told not to write a report at all, and a letter was sent to the F.A.A. instead. The agency, meanwhile, opened its own investigation. Monteith told me that he agreed with Musk that the F.A.A. had been conservative about a situation that presented little statistical risk of casualties, but he was nevertheless troubled. “We had safety folks who were very upset about it,” Monteith recalled. In a series of letters to SpaceX, Monteith accused the company of relying on data “hastily developed to meet a launch window,” launching “based on ‘impressions’ and ‘assumptions,’ ” and exhibiting “a concerning lack of operational control and process discipline that is inconsistent with a strong safety culture.” In its responses, SpaceX proposed various safety reforms, but also pushed back, complaining that the F.A.A.’s weather model was unreliable and suggesting that the agency had been resistant to discussions about improving it. (SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.)
The following March, Steve Dickson, then the F.A.A.’s administrator, called Musk. The two men spoke for thirty minutes. Like Kahl, Dickson was deferential, thanking Musk for his role in transforming the commercial space sector and acknowledging that SpaceX was taking steps to make its launches less risky. But Dickson, an F.A.A. spokesperson said in a statement, “made it clear that the FAA expects SpaceX to develop and foster a robust safety culture that stresses adherence to FAA rules.” Dickson had navigated such conversations before, including with Boeing after two 737 max aircraft crashed. But this situation presented a thornier challenge. “It’s not every day that the F.A.A. administrator releases a statement about a phone call that they have with the C.E.O. or the head of an aerospace company,” an official at the agency told me. “That kind of gets into the soft pressure, public pressure that you don’t do unless you are trying to change the incentive structure.”
The F.A.A. issued no fine, though it grounded SpaceX for two months. “I didn’t see that a fine would make any difference,” Monteith told me. “He could pull that out of his pocket. However, not allowing launches, that would get the attention of a company that prides itself on being able to iterate and go fast.” Musk has continued to complain about the agency. After it postponed another launch, he tweeted, “The FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure.” He added, “Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.”
Musk has been fixated on space since his childhood. The idea for SpaceX came about after his exile from PayPal. “I went to the NASA website so I could see the schedule of when we’re supposed to go” to Mars, Musk told Wired, in 2012. “At first I thought, jeez, maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place! Why was there no plan, no schedule? There was nothing.” In 2001, he connected with space-exploration enthusiasts, and even travelled to Russia in an unsuccessful bid to buy missiles to use as rockets. The next year, he moved to Los Angeles, closer to California’s aerospace industry, and ultimately he pulled together a team of engineers and entrepreneurs and founded SpaceX, to make his own rockets. Private rocket launches date back to the eighties, but no one had attempted anything on the scale that Musk envisioned, and it proved to be more difficult and expensive than he had anticipated. Musk has said that, by 2008, the company was nearly bankrupt, and that, after putting much of his wealth into SpaceX and Tesla, he wasn’t far behind. “That was definitely the worst year of my life,” he said in an interview on “60 Minutes.” SpaceX’s first three launches had failed, and there was no budget for another. “I had no more money left,” Musk told Bridenstine, the NASA administrator, years later. “We managed to put together enough spare parts to do a fourth launch.” Had that failed, he added, “SpaceX would have died.” The launch was successful, and NASA soon awarded SpaceX a $1.6-billion contract to resupply the International Space Station. In 2020, the company flew its first manned mission there—ending nearly a decade of American reliance on Russian craft for the task. SpaceX now launches more satellites than any other private company, with four thousand five hundred and nineteen in orbit as of July, occupying many of Earth’s orbital routes. “Once the carrying capacity of an orbit is maxed out, you’ve basically blocked everyone from trying to compete in that market,” Bridenstine told me.
There are competitors in the field, including Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, but none yet rival SpaceX. The new space race has the potential to shape the global balance of power. Satellites enable the navigation of drones and missiles and generate imagery used for intelligence, and they are mostly under the control of private companies. “The U.S. government is in massive catch-up to build a more resilient space architecture,” Kahl, the former Pentagon Under-Secretary, told me. “And that only works if you can leverage the explosion of commercial space.” Several officials told me that they were alarmed by NASA’s reliance on SpaceX for essential services. “There is only one thing worse than a government monopoly. And that is a private monopoly that the government is dependent on,” Bridenstine said. “I do worry that we have put all of our eggs into one basket, and it’s the SpaceX basket.”
Even Musk’s critics concede that his tendency to push against constraints has helped catalyze SpaceX’s success. A number of officials suggested to me that, despite the tensions related to the company, it has made government bureaucracies nimbler. “When SpaceX and NASA work together, we work closer to optimal speed,” Kenneth Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, told me. Still, some figures in the aerospace world, even ones who think that Musk’s rockets are basically safe, fear that concentrating so much power in private companies, with so few restraints, invites tragedy. “At some point, with new competitors emerging, progress will be thwarted when there’s an accident, and people won’t be confident in the capabilities commercial companies have,” Bridenstine said. “I mean, we just saw this submersible going down to visit the Titanic implode. I think we have to think about the non-regulatory environment as sometimes hurting the industry more than the regulatory environment.”
In early 2022, Steven Cliff, then the deputy administrator of the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, learned that potentially tens of thousands of Tesla vehicles had a feature that he found concerning. For years, Tesla has been working to create a totally self-driving car, a long-standing ambition of Musk’s. Now Cliff was told that a version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software, an experimental feature that lets the cars navigate with little intervention from a driver, permitted cars to roll through stop signs, at up to about six miles an hour. This was clearly illegal. Cliff’s enforcement team contacted Tesla, and, in several meetings, a surprising conversation about safety and artificial intelligence played out. Representatives for Tesla seemed confused. Their response, as Cliff recalled, was “That’s what humans do all the time. Show us the data, why it’s unsafe.” N.H.T.S.A. officials told Tesla that, regardless of human compliance, “you should not be able to program a computer to break the law for you.” They demanded that Tesla update all the affected cars, removing the feature—a recall, in industry terms, albeit a digital one. “There was a lot of back-and-forth,” Cliff told me. “Like, at midnight on the very last day, they blinked and ended up recalling the rolling-stop feature.” (Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.)
Musk joined Tesla as an investor in 2004, a year after it was incorporated. (He has spent years defending the formative nature of his role and was eventually, in a legal settlement, one of several people granted permission to use the term “co-founder.”) Musk was again entering a market bound by entrenched private interests and stringent regulation, which opened him up to more clashes with regulators. Some of the skirmishes were trivial. Tesla for a time included in its vehicles the ability to replace the humming noises that electric cars must emit—since their engines make little sound—with goat bleats, farting, or a sound of the owner’s choice. “We’re, like, ‘No, that’s not compliant with the regulations, don’t be stupid,’ ” Cliff told me. Tesla argued with regulators for more than a year, according to an N.H.T.S.A. safety report. Nine days after the rolling-stop recall, the company pulled the noises, too. On Twitter, Musk wrote, “The fun police made us do it (sigh).”
“It’s a little like Mom and Dad and children. Like, How far can I push Mom and Dad until they push back?” Cliff said. “And that’s not a recipe for a strong safety culture.”
The fart debate had low stakes; the over-all safety of the cars is a far greater matter. Tesla has repeatedly said that Autopilot, a more limited technology than Full Self-Driving, is safer than a human driver. Last year, Musk added that he would be “shocked” if Full Self-Driving didn’t become safer than human drivers by the end of the year. But he has never made public the data needed to fully corroborate those claims. In recent months, new crash numbers from the N.H.T.S.A., which were first reported by the Washington Post, have shown an uptick in accidents—and fatalities—involving Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Tesla has been secretive about the specifics. A person at the N.H.T.S.A. told me that the company instructed the agency to redact specifics about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes. (By law, regulators must abide by such requests for confidentiality, unless they decide to contest them in court.) Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, recently said that there were “concerns” about the marketing of Autopilot. Cliff told me he had seen data that showed Teslas were involved in “a disproportionate number of crashes involving emergency vehicles,” though he said that the agency had not yet determined whether the technology or the human drivers was the cause. In a statement, a spokesperson for the agency said, “Multiple investigations remain open.”
Officials who have worked at OSHA and at an equivalent California agency told me that Musk’s influence, and his attitude about regulation, had made their jobs difficult. The Biden Administration, which is urgently trying to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, has concluded that it needs to work with Musk, because of his dominant position in the electric-car market. And Musk’s personal wealth dwarfs the entire budget of OSHA, which is tasked with monitoring the conditions in his workplaces. “You add on the fact that he considers himself to be a master of the universe and these rules just don’t apply to people like him,” Jordan Barab, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor at OSHA, told me. “There’s a lot of underreporting in industry in general. And Elon Musk kind of seems to raise that to an art form.” Garrett Brown, a former field-compliance inspector at California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, added, “We have a bad health-and-safety situation throughout the country. And it’s worse in companies run by people like Elon Musk, who was ideologically opposed to the idea of government enforcement of public-health regulations.”
In March, 2020, as pandemic lockdowns began, Musk e-mailed Tesla employees, telling them that he intended to violate orders and show up at work, and downplaying the significance of COVID-19. Soon after, he lost an initial fight to keep a factory in Alameda County—Tesla’s most productive in the U.S.—open. That April, after county officials extended shelter-in-place orders, Musk was on a conference call with outside financial analysts. His rhetoric became nakedly political, to an extent that would have been uncharacteristic just a few years earlier. “I would call it forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all of their constitutional rights,” he told the analysts, speaking of the lockdowns. “What the fuck?” he added. “It’s an outrage. An outrage. . . . This is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddam freedom.” The pandemic seems to have sparked a pronounced shift in Musk. The lockdowns represented an example of what Hoffman told me Musk considered to be a cardinal sin: “getting in the way of the mission.”
The following month, Musk sent a series of vitriolic tweets, threatening to file suit against Alameda County, to move Tesla’s headquarters, and to flout the rules and reopen his factory, all of which he eventually did. The county essentially rubber-stamped the reopening soon afterward—a far cry from what Musk had invited. “I will be on the line with everyone else,” he had tweeted, at the height of his frustration. “If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.”
Musk has, for much of his public life, presented himself as a centrist. “I’m socially very liberal,” he told the technology reporter Kara Swisher in 2020. “And then economically right of center, maybe, or center.” He has said that he donated to Hillary Clinton, and voted for both her and Joe Biden. But, in recent years, the more radical perspective that characterized his diatribes about Covid has come to the fore. In March, 2022, Twitter restricted the account of the satirical Web site the Babylon Bee, after the site misgendered a government official. The next day, in texts later disclosed during the Twitter-acquisition process, Musk’s contact “TJ” (identified by Bloomberg as his ex-wife Talulah Riley) expressed frustration with the development and urged him to purchase Twitter to “fight woke-ism.” The following week, Musk polled his followers about whether Twitter respected free speech and, in a phone call to the Babylon Bee’s C.E.O., joked about buying the platform. Finally, in April, 2022, he offered forty-four billion dollars for the company. Almost immediately, he tried to back out of the deal, prompting Twitter to sue. After months of legal proceedings, Musk resumed the acquisition process, and in October he assumed control of the company.
“Given unprovoked attacks by leading Democrats against me & a very cold shoulder to Tesla & SpaceX, I intend to vote Republican in November,” he tweeted last year. By the time he bought Twitter, he was urging his followers to vote along similar lines, and appearing to back Ron DeSantis, whose candidacy he helped launch in a technically disastrous Twitter live event. Although Musk’s teen-age daughter, Vivian, has come out as trans, he has embraced anti-trans sentiment, saying that he would lobby to criminalize “irreversible” gender-affirming care for children. (Vivian recently changed her last name, saying in a legal filing, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”) Musk started spreading misinformation on the platform: he shared theories that the physical attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the former Speaker of the House, had followed a meeting with a male prostitute, and retweeted suggestions that reports accurately identifying a mass shooter as a white supremacist were a “psyop.” Some people who know Musk well still struggle to make sense of his political shift. “There was nothing political about him ever,” a close associate told me. “I’ve been around him for a long time, and had lots of deep conversations with the man, at all hours of the day—never heard a fucking word about this.”
When Musk arrived at Twitter, he immediately gutted the company’s staff, reducing the number of employees by about fifty per cent. One person who kept his job was Yoel Roth, the company’s head of trust and safety. Roth, who is in his mid-thirties, is gay, Jewish, and liberal. His department was responsible for determining Twitter’s rules; during the Trump Administration, he became embroiled in the culture wars. After the company began rolling out a new fact-checking policy that labelled two of Trump’s tweets as misinformation, Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s aide, went on “Fox & Friends” and read out Roth’s full name and spelled his username, adding, “He’s about to get more followers.” Trump then held up a New York Post cover mocking Roth, and Twitter users began recirculating tweets that Roth had written criticizing conservative candidates.
But when Musk took over he resisted calls to fire Roth. “We’ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel,” he tweeted in October, 2022. “My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs.” That evening, Roth messaged Musk on Signal, thanking him. Musk responded, “You have my full support,” and, the next day, he followed up with a screenshot of a tweet from Roth that described Mitch McConnell as “a bag of farts.” Musk added, “Haha, I totally agree.”
But the cuts that Musk had instituted quickly took a toll on the company. Employees had been informed of their termination via brusque, impersonal e-mails—Musk is now being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars by employees who say that they are owed additional severance pay—and the remaining staffers were abruptly ordered to return to work in person. Twitter’s business model was also in question, since Musk had alienated advertisers and invited a flood of fake accounts by reinventing the platform’s verification process. On November 10th, Roth sent a brief resignation e-mail. When his departure became public, Musk texted, asking to talk. “I[t] would mean a lot if you would consider remaining at Twitter,” he wrote. The two spoke that night, and Roth declined to return. Days later, he published an Op-Ed in the Times, questioning the future of user safety on the platform. (Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.)
Soon afterward, Musk replied to a Twitter user surfacing a 2010 tweet from Roth, in which he’d shared a link to a Salon article about a teacher’s being charged with having sex with an eighteen-year-old student and asked, “Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?”
“That explains a lot,” Musk tweeted in reply. Minutes later, he posted an image showing a portion of Roth’s doctoral dissertation, which focussed on the gay-hookup app Grindr and its user data. In the excerpt, Roth argued that such platforms will inevitably be used by people under eighteen, so they should do more to keep those individuals safe. “Looks like Yoel is in favor of children being able to access adult internet services,” Musk wrote.
The attack fit a pattern: Musk’s trolling has increasingly taken on the vernacular of hard-right social media, in which grooming, pedophilia, and human trafficking are associated with liberalism. In 2018, when a Thai youth soccer team was trapped in a cave, Musk travelled to Thailand to offer a custom-made miniature submarine to rescuers. The head of the rescue operation declined, and Musk lashed out on Twitter, questioning the expertise of the rescuers. After one of them, Vernon Unsworth, referred to the offer as a “P.R. stunt,” Musk called him a “pedo guy.” (Unsworth sued Musk for defamation, characterizing the harassment he received from Musk’s followers as “a life sentence without parole.” A judge ruled in favor of Musk, who argued that he hadn’t been accusing Unsworth of actual pedophilia, just trying to insult him.)
Musk’s tweet about Roth got nearly seventeen thousand quote tweets and retweets. “The moment that it went from being a moderation conversation to being a Pizzagate conversation, the risk level changed,” Roth told me. “I spent my career looking at the absolute worst things that the Internet could do to people. Certainly, worse things have happened to people. But this is probably up there.” Roth and his husband were forced to flee their house, a two-bedroom in El Cerrito, California, that they’d purchased just two years earlier. “And then as we are, like, packing our stuff and leaving and getting the dog loaded into the car and whatever, like, the Daily Mail publishes an article that gives people more or less a map to my house,” Roth said. “At that point, we’re, like, ‘Oh, we’re leaving this house potentially for the last time.’ ”
This summer, Twitter’s cheerful blue bird logo came down from the roof of the company’s headquarters, in San Francisco, and was replaced with a strobing “X.” The new entity is a marriage between two parts of Musk. There’s his career-long quest to create an everything app—integrating services ranging from communication to banking and shopping, and emulating products, like WeChat, that are popular in Asia. Sitting alongside that pragmatic goal is a newer, more confusing side of Musk, embodied by his desire to take back the town square from what he sees as woke discourse. Twitter has become a private company, so it’s difficult to assess its finances, but numerous prominent advertisers have departed, and Meta recently launched Threads, a competitor that shamelessly emulates the old Twitter, and broke records for downloads. Musk threatened to sue, then challenged Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and C.E.O., to a cage match, pledging to live-stream it and donate the proceeds to charity. (Zuckerberg has accepted. Musk has delayed committing to a date, citing a back injury.) The illuminated sign atop X’s headquarters, after complaints to the Department of Building Inspection, came down as quickly as it had gone up.
Some of Musk’s associates connected his erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate. Musk, who says he now spends much of his time in a modest house in the wetlands of South Texas, near a SpaceX facility, confessed, in an interview last year, “I feel quite lonely.” He has said that his career consists of “great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress.” One close colleague told me, “His life just sucks. It’s so stressful. He’s just so dedicated to these companies. He goes to sleep and wakes up answering e-mails. Ninety-nine per cent of people will never know someone that obsessed, and with that high a tolerance for sacrifice in their personal life.”
In 2018, the Times reported that members of the Tesla board had grown concerned about Musk’s use of the prescription sleep aid Ambien, which can cause hallucinations. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that he uses ketamine, which has gained popularity both as a depression treatment and as a party drug, and several people familiar with his habits have confirmed this. Musk, who smoked pot on Joe Rogan’s podcast, prompting a NASA safety review of SpaceX, has, perhaps understandably, declined to comment on the reporting that he uses ketamine, but he has not disputed it. “Zombifying people with SSRIs for sure happens way too much,” he tweeted, referring to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, another category of depression treatment. “From what I’ve seen with friends, ketamine taken occasionally is a better option.” Associates suggested that Musk’s use has escalated in recent years, and that the drug, alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions. Amit Anand, a leading ketamine researcher, told me that it can contribute to unpredictable behavior. “A little bit of ketamine has an effect similar to alcohol. It can cause disinhibition, where you do and say things you otherwise would not,” he said. “At higher doses, it has another effect, which is dissociation: you feel detached from your body and surroundings.” He added, “You can feel grandiose and like you have special powers or special talents. People do impulsive things, they could do inadvisable things at work. The impact depends on the kind of work. For a librarian, there’s less risk. If you’re a pilot, it can cause big problems.”
On July 12th, Musk announced xAI, his entry into a field that promises to alter much about life as we know it. He tweeted an image of the new company’s Web site, featuring a characteristically theatrical mission statement: the firm’s goal, he said, was “to understand the true nature of the universe.” In the image, Musk highlighted the date and explained its significance. “7 + 12 + 23 = 42,” the text read. “42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” It was a reference to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” In the series, an immensely complex artificial intelligence is asked to answer that question and, after computing for millions of years, answers with Adams’s most famous punch line: 42. “I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is,” the computer says. Earth itself, and all the organisms on it, are ultimately revealed to be a still larger computer, built to clarify the question. Adams does not portray this satirical vision as positive. Musk’s announcement suggested more optimism: “Once you know the right question to ask, the answer is often the easy part.”
Musk has been involved in artificial intelligence for years. In 2015, he was one of a handful of tech leaders, including Hoffman and Thiel, who funded OpenAI, then a nonprofit initiative. (It now has a for-profit subsidiary.) OpenAI had a less grandiose and more cautious mission statement than xAI’s: to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity.” In the first few years of OpenAI, Musk grew unhappy with the company. He said that his efforts at Tesla to incorporate A.I. created a conflict of interest, and several people involved told me that this was true. However, they also said that Musk was frustrated by his lack of control and, as Semafor reported earlier this year, that he had attempted to take over OpenAI. Musk still defends his centrality to the company’s origins, stressing his financial contributions in its fledgling days. (The exact figures are unclear: Musk has given estimates that range from fifty million to a hundred million dollars.) Throughout his involvement, Musk seemed preoccupied with control, credit, and rivalries. He made incendiary remarks about Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind A.I. initiative, and, later, about Microsoft’s competing effort. He thought that OpenAI wasn’t sufficiently competitive, at one point telling colleagues that it had a “0%” chance of “being relevant.” Musk left the company in 2018, reneging on a commitment to further fund OpenAI, one of the individuals involved told me. “Basically, he goes, ‘You’re all a bunch of jackasses,’ and he leaves,” Hoffman said. The withdrawal was devastating. “It was very tough,” Altman, the head of OpenAI, said. “I had to reorient a lot of my life and time to make sure we had enough funding.” OpenAI went on to become a leader in the field, introducing ChatGPT last year. Musk has made a habit of trashing the company, wondering repeatedly, in public interviews, why he hasn’t received a return on his investment, given the company’s for-profit arm. “If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?” he tweeted recently.
It is difficult to say whether Musk’s interest in A.I. is driven by scientific wonder and altruism or by a desire to dominate a new and potentially powerful industry. Several entrepreneurs who have co-founded businesses with Musk suggested that the arrival of Google and Microsoft in the field had made it a new brass ring, as space and electric vehicles had been earlier. Musk has maintained that he is motivated by his fear of the technology’s destructive potential. In a podcast earlier this year, Ari Emanuel, the head of the Hollywood agency W.M.E., recalled Musk joking about an A.I.-dominated future. “Ari, do you have dogs?” Musk asked him. “Well, here’s what A.I. is to you. You’re the dog.” In March, Musk, along with dozens of tech leaders, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause in the development of advanced A.I. technology. “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?” the letter said. “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?”
Yet in the period during which Musk endorsed a pause, he was working to build xAI, recruiting from major competitors, including OpenAI, and even, according to someone with knowledge of the conversation, contacting leadership at Nvidia, the dominant maker of chips used in A.I. The month the letter was distributed, Musk completed the registrations for xAI. He has said little about how the company will differ from preëxisting A.I. initiatives, but generally has framed it in terms of competition. “I will create a third option, although starting very late in the game of course,” he told the Washington Post. “That third option hopefully does more good than harm.” Through A.I. research and development already under way at Tesla, and the trove of data he now commands through Twitter (which he recently barred OpenAI from scraping in order to train its chatbots), he may have some advantage, as he applies his sensibilities and his world view to that race. Hoffman told me, “His whole approach to A.I. is: A.I. can only be saved if I deliver, if I build it.” As humanity creates A.I. in its own image, Hoffman argued, the principles and priorities of the leaders in the field will matter: “We want the construction of this to be not people with Messiah complexes.”
At one point in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide,” Adams introduces the architects of the Earth supercomputer. They’re powerful beings who have been living among us, disguised as mice. At first, they were motivated by simple curiosity. But seeking the question made them famous, and they began considering talk-show and lecture deals. In the end, Earth is demolished in the name of commerce, and their path to existential clarity along with it. The mice greet this with a shrug, mouth vague platitudes, and go on the talk-show circuit anyway. Musk isn’t peddling pabulum. His initiatives have real substance. But he also wants to be on the show—or, better yet, to be the show himself.
In the open letter, alongside questions about the apocalyptic potential of artificial intelligence was one that reflects on the sectors of government and industry that Musk has come to shape. “Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” he and his fellow-entrepreneurs wrote. “Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.” Published in the print edition of the August 28, 2023, issue.
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Social media apps
Introduction:-
Because of social media's simple-to-use features, it has become a more common medium today. Moreover, People use social media apps to keep in touch with social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others platforms. Also, social media offers fast global connectivity with just a few clicks. In particular, the younger generation has been the most active social media users.
What is Social Media?
Social media includes a variety of websites that allow the sharing of content among people—however, Some of the most widely used social media applications. In addition, it Includes Wikipedia, chat rooms, social bookmarking, social creation, microblogging, and social networking. To clear up
Social Media's Plan
Users of social media platforms first create a profile, usually by entering their email address and name. In addition, Users create and share content after creating a profile. For example, a new Instagram user can take a photo and post it to their profile with a caption.
A Few Social Media Apps
Google Plus 2. Myspace
Myspace 4. Linkedin
Bebo 6. YouTube
Facebook 8. Feedly
Yelp 10. Xing
Types of Social Media
Social news
Users can add news links to other papers on social news websites. Also, Reddit is one of the most popular examples of this social media site.
Social network users
may speak with people with similar interests and backgrounds on social networking sites. As a result, the most popular social networking site is Facebook.
Types of Social Media Content
Sharing of Media
Users can share and exchange any type of media on websites that allow it, including movies and photos. Also, YouTube is the most popular media-sharing website on earth.
bookmarking websites
Users can group and save links to other websites and information on these websites. Moreover, the most popular bookmarking website in the world is StumbleUpon.
7 functions of social media?
Identity
Sharing
Presence
Relations
Status
Teams
Does using social media help or hurt students?
Schoolchildren need the maturity and mental development to distinguish between good and wrong. They can be easily influenced and confused. It might also lead to unjust outcomes and impact people's perceptions about topics or individuals they don't know a lot about.
Benefits
Content that is both likable and relevant will draw in new clients and raise brand awareness. You can become caught in our field and quickly react to industry trends. Comparing it, with traditional terms of promotion and advertising, it can be far cheaper.
Disadvantages of Social Media apps.
Moreover, Decrease in Communication skills. Fake news.
Social media can cause sleeplessness.
Cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent in today's world.
Lack of Confidence.
Also, Fear of missing out (FOMO).
What is the client population for social media?
The number of active social media users overall as of January 2023 is 4.76 billion, nearly 49 percent of the world's total population. Comparing this, data to the previous year, there was a 3% increase. In 2023, the following six social media sites came in the first place, based on Monthly Active Users (MAUs): Facebook viewers: 2.96 billion. In addition, 2.2 billion MAUs on YouTube. MAUs for WhatsApp: 2 billion Also, MAUs on Instagram: 2 billion 1.26 billion MAUs on WeChat
Conclusion
Social media has a wide range of complex impacts on different people. Moreover, Our results showed that a large number of people either personally experience negative impacts or see them in people. However, given the short time we had to complete the research, we were not able to identify a direct and clear reason. With more time and research we hope to be able to draw stronger results.
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Brazil’s failed coup is the poison flower of the Trump-Bolsonaro symbiosis
The striking similarities between events at the Capitol and Brasília stem from links fostered by the former presidents and their families
In the days following the 6 January 2021 storming of the US Capitol, a Brazilian professor and expert on disinformation, David Nemer, gave an interview predicting the same thing would happen in Brazil two years later.
Sunday’s insurrection in Brasília came just two days after the second anniversary of the Capitol attack. Nemer said his prediction was not the work of a seer, but was based on analysis of the close and growing symbiosis of the hard right in the US and Brazil – a bond that was built up around the Trump and Bolsonaro families and their entourages.
“The reason why I was saying that was because the same sort of narrative that was flowing around social media in the US, it was also flowing in WhatsApp and Telegram groups that I’d monitor and that I researched [in Brazil],” said Nemer, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. For example, Bolsonaro and his supporters started planting the idea that Brazilian voting machines were rigged two years before Brazil’s presidential election.
The bonds have been maintained by family members. Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro have provided unstinting mutual political support, which each has used to rebuff accusations of being isolated on the world stage. Even before leaving office, Bolsonaro decamped to Florida and is now in Kissimmee, Orlando, close to Trump’s bastion at Mar-a-Lago. The former Brazilian president makes frequent appearances outside his temporary base, the holiday home of a retired Brazilian martial arts fighter, to greet adoring supporters in a mix of Brazil soccer jerseys, which Bolsonaristas adopted as their own, and pro-Trump Maga gear.
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Blue WhatsApp
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Winzie: The SW Guardians' social network
Winzie is a social network that guardians use to communicate, both within WingsView and outside of it.
Curiosities about your systems
Winzie is a mixture of several well-known social networks such as: YouTube, Facebook, Whatsapp and others.
It has the system of groups like in Whatsapp, it has an administrator who can add or remove new members and the groups are private, only members can see them.
It has the same video system as YouTube, subscriptions and channels are the same.
The photos are published with on Instagram and Facebook, you can like, dislike or comment.
There is a system of Reblogs (Tumblr) and Retweet (Twitter), However, this only works with photos and text
It has the short video system like TikTok or Kwaii.
It has a private chat system similar to Whatsapp, being able to send audio, photo, video, link, etc.)
His followers are called Winzers
There are Channel Names (Ex Leonie Art) and User Names (@leoniereal).
How do guardians use WinzieWinzie?
Each Guardian has their Winzie.
Some Super Wings have Winzie accounts
If a Super Wing doesn't have an account, that's no reason why your Guardian doesn't have one
Some Guardians have more than 1M Winzers and just like on YouTube, there are cards of 50K, 100K, 500K and 1M.
Luna (Luna Star TV /@lunastarofc), Leonie (Leonie Art./@leoniereal), Liah (Liah Tube/@liahspeed) and Lightie (Lightie Music / @lightiemusic) are the biggest influencers on Winzie with more than 10M Winzers on their respective channels.
I'll put the user names and channel names of each Guardian and the Super Wings in the next posts
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Top 10 Effective Ways to Use WhatsApp for Business in 2022
WhatsApp is popular. With more than 1.5 billion monthly users scattered over 180 countries, it is undoubtedly the most popular messaging service worldwide. It makes sense that businesses are making every effort to reach this sizable user base. Since WhatsApp doesn’t offer adverts and has an end-to-end encrypted communications system, targeting would be very constrained. Furthermore, WhatsApp Business users must pay a fee to send messages unless customers get in touch with them first.
But today, clever companies are using WhatsApp to connect with customers novelly, demonstrating the app’s value for marketing campaigns, one-on-one conversations, and customer support. Let’s explore the opportunities given by WhatsApp for Business.
What Do You Understand About WhatsApp For Business?
With the small business owner in mind, WhatsApp for Business is a free app that one can download on Android and iPhone. WhatsApp Business offers capabilities to automate, sort, and swiftly respond to messages, which makes communicating with customers simple.
Additionally, it’s designed to function and feel exactly like WhatsApp Messenger. Everything you’re used to doing, like messaging and sharing images, can be done with it. And its extraordinary features make it better than the normal messenger.
What Makes Whatsapp Business Crucial?
WhatsApp has millions of users, making it difficult to ignore the service. WhatsApp will have 2 billion users in 2020, up from 1.5 billion in 2017. It is a remarkable accomplishment considering that by 2020, it will likely surpass Facebook’s user base of 2.7 billion.
Approximately 65 billion messages are sent daily on WhatsApp, or about 750,000 messages every second. Compared to traditional methods of communicating with clients via email, a significant portion of messages sent via WhatsApp is delivered and seen within minutes.
In addition to the large user base, engagement is important. WhatsApp Business messages are viewed 98% of the time. Currently, WhatsApp for Business has approximately 5 million members, and more users are listed with an API account.
Reasons For A Company Selecting A WhatsApp Business Account
As was already mentioned, there are two different kinds of WhatsApp Business accounts. Each has a unique set of advantages. Making sure small businesses thrive is the goal of the Business App account. A firm must choose a WhatsApp Business App account for various reasons.
It supports WhatsApp payment and catalog,
It includes broadcasting to 256 contacts, and any content is allowed,
Business WhatsApp has no time restrictions on texting, allowing businesses to contact any contact at any time, and
It offers an easy implementation process because one must buy a new SIM card and download the app.
Also Read: Don’t Know Where to Get Started With Online Business? This One’s For You!
Top 10 Effective Ways To Use WhatsApp for Business For Business Growth In 2022
1. Create A Business Profile
Installing the WhatsApp Business App on your smartphone is the first step in using WhatsApp to grow your business. Create your business profile and provide all relevant information, including your company’s name, address, website link, category, and small business description.
Visitors will see all of the information about your company when they view your profile. It makes it simple for potential customers to contact or engage with you to convert. Also, it will not require any website or other place to give your company details.
2. Effectively Create Broadcasts & Groups
It might be helpful to create broadcasts and groups depending on criteria like interests, gender, etc. For instance, if you run an online clothing company, you might have broadcast lists for men and women. It is a time-saving method that enables contacting many clients simultaneously.
The audience may find it appealing to use it to distribute product links according to the group. It also makes your work faster and easier. Hence, you can devote more time to promoting your products on the spot.
3. Includes An Online Store
Utilizing WhatsApp is quite simple. Making it easier for customers to contact you via WhatsApp for questions or to share products with friends and family directly from your business can enhance the customer experience and increase traffic.
Visitors can be encouraged to WhatsApp things to their loved ones. As opposed to businesses, people are more likely to trust their friends and relatives. Utilize solutions like the Magento 2 WhatsApp Share extension to let customers quickly share products on WhatsApp!
4. Customer Service
The availability of a WhatsApp contact option for the store owner encourages client interaction. It allows the business owner to persuade customers to make purchases and promptly address their concerns on a user-friendly platform.
To aid customers in making purchases, you can build a WhatsApp chatbot for your website. You can use a Magento 2 WhatsApp Chat extension that lets clients contact you directly if you are a business owner using Magento 2.
5. Try Attractive Giveaways
Increase consumer involvement by providing something free with a transaction. Your business can grow significantly by sending a giveaway message or publishing a story status. Companies also use WhatsApp Stories for marketing purposes.
Recall the Target-specific groups and Broadcast List from prior discussions. You can host giveaways about your goods or services and generate a tonne of contact with your current and potential consumers.
6. Create Useful Content
A faithful consumer base can be facilitated by producing valuable, instructional, and informational content. WhatsApp may be a place to promote any relevant content and benefit your clients! Additionally, spread the word about the content to all e-commerce store owners!
The increased use of WhatsApp and its incredibly simple user interface contribute to the increased consumption of content on WhatsApp. You can share any informative or recreational content to grab your users’ attention.
7. Showcase Your Product On Stories
From 15 to 60 years old, practically everyone uses WhatsApp these days. WhatsApp stories are useful for showing off product demos. Additionally, creating a YouTube movie and sharing a link to it might be a better choice for providing a thorough demonstration.
8. Send A Welcome Message
It is always excellent to provide a cordial welcome to customers. When a user sends you a message for the first time or after 14 days of inactivity, WhatsApp offers a function that sends a welcome message. It will keep your users feeling connected.
9. Coupon Codes To Share
Share any news of new discounts based on coupon codes with all of your WhatsApp business connections. Customers are constantly interested in discounts, and when they learn about coupon codes, offers, and reductions, their purchase likelihood increases significantly.
10. Individual Touch
With WhatsApp, creating a relationship with clients is simple but effective. Small businesses should talk with clients about their needs and how their products might bring value. Use WhatsApp to establish long-lasting relationships with customers instead of phone calls.
Conclusion
The market has expanded thanks to WhatsApp. Thus, using it for business makes perfect sense. Depending on the app type, Businesses must now use WhatsApp to reach their clients in the countries where it is widely used. Use these strategies to expand your business quickly.
It is a smart business move if you’re using WhatsApp as your platform. It would entice the users to try your goods or services at least once. It is a really wise course of action to follow. What do you think of these WhatsApp business advice tips? Please provide your feedback.
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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has directed the closure of schools in the Nnewi zone amid heightened tensions ahead of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah's burial. The decision follows recent unrest in Nnewi, where gunmen attacked the area on Wednesday night, killing several individuals and setting a vehicle ablaze. The incident, which occurred around 7:30 p.m., caused panic, with many residents fleeing the area. School Closure Circular In a circular issued Thursday via WhatsApp, the state government instructed all principals in the Nnewi zone to close schools until Tuesday next week. Parents were also advised to keep day students at home for safety reasons. Read Also: FG Announces Line of Action as Court Orders Seizure of $25M Nigerian Properties to Chinese Firm The circular stated: Good morning Parents, please the above information is from the Commissioner of Education, day students should not come to school till Tuesday next week. Good evening Noble Principals! I am directed to inform you to close all schools in Nnewi Zone on Thursday 21/11/2024 and Friday 22/11/2024. Please circulate this information on your school WhatsApp groups and inform parents of your students. Try your best to find proper channels of reaching these students so that they would not be found wandering on the streets with their school uniforms. Remain blessed and stay safe!!!” Police Deny Link Between Nnewi Attack and Burial The Anambra State Police Command has refuted claims that the Nnewi killings are connected to the upcoming burial. Superintendent Tochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer, clarified that the attack was unrelated to the burial but stemmed from a confrontation between security operatives and a suspect. Catholic Church Rejects $40,000 Donation from Kenya’s President Ruto Ikenga explained: “Preliminary investigations reveal that the security operatives were trailing a suspect when the gun duel ensued at a security checkpoint. Unfortunately, bullets hit the fuel tank of a Toyota Venza Sedan carrying the police personnel, causing it to catch fire. Two innocent bystanders were injured in the crossfire and are currently receiving medical attention.” The command emphasized that the incident was not an attempt to disrupt the burial and assured residents that the Joint Security Forces (JSF) had been deployed to maintain peace during the ceremonies. Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s Burial The burial of the late Senator is scheduled for Friday in Umuanuka village, Otolo Nnewi. The state government and security agencies have called for calm and assured the public of safety as investigations into the attack continue.
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In today’s connected world, WhatsApp groups have become an essential part of online communication. Whether it's for casual chats, academic support, or professional networking, these groups offer a fantastic way to connect with others. One particular segment that's gained a lot of attention is WhatsApp groups for girls, especially in India. If you're searching for WhatsApp group link girl India, you're likely looking to join or discover groups that cater specifically to female users in India. These groups provide a safe space for women to interact, share experiences, and build networks.
If you're new to this concept, don’t worry! In this article, we’ll guide you on how to join these groups, the types of groups available, and how to maintain privacy and security online.
What is a WhatsApp Group Link?
A WhatsApp group link is a URL that allows users to join a WhatsApp group directly by clicking on it. These links make it easy to share groups with others, whether you're inviting friends or sharing public group links on social platforms. By clicking on a WhatsApp group link, you’ll be instantly added to the group, given that the link is still active and the group allows new members to join.
These links are particularly useful for communities or niche groups, like WhatsApp group link girl India, where members can join specific groups that align with their interests, needs, or demographics.
Why Join WhatsApp Groups for Girls in India?
There are several reasons why joining WhatsApp groups for girls in India is a great idea. Let's explore a few key benefits:
Social Connection: These groups create a space for girls to connect with others who share similar interests or experiences. Whether you’re looking for friendship, advice, or entertainment, there’s a group for you.
Networking Opportunities: Girls' WhatsApp groups often provide a chance to network with others, whether for personal, academic, or professional growth. You can connect with like-minded individuals who may offer new perspectives or opportunities.
Support and Advice: Many girls' groups are centered around mutual support. Whether it’s advice on career, education, relationships, or health, these groups can offer valuable insights.
Safety and Privacy: Girls’ WhatsApp groups tend to be safer spaces where members can discuss topics without the fear of harassment or unwanted attention.
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Popular Types of WhatsApp Groups for Girls in India
Girls in India are joining a wide variety of WhatsApp groups. Some of the most popular types include:
Social Groups: These groups are for fun, chatting, and making new friends. Members share memes, personal stories, and casual conversations.
Study Groups: Girls who are studying can join groups that help with academic support. These groups focus on sharing notes, discussing academic topics, and preparing for exams.
Career Groups: These are designed for girls who want to explore professional opportunities, share job openings, or discuss career development tips.
Hobby and Interest Groups: If you're passionate about something—be it cooking, photography, or literature—you can find groups that cater to your specific interests.
How to Join a WhatsApp Group Using a Link
Joining a WhatsApp group via a link is simple. Here's how:
Click on the Group Link: When you find a group link that interests you, simply click on it.
Open WhatsApp: The link will automatically redirect you to WhatsApp. If you’re not signed in, it’ll prompt you to log in.
Join the Group: You’ll see a "Join Group" button. Click it, and you’ll be added to the group instantly.
However, be cautious about public links as they can lead to unwanted messages. Make sure to only join groups that are moderated and maintain a good community atmosphere.
Top Features to Look for in Girls' WhatsApp Groups
When you’re considering joining a girls' WhatsApp group, it’s important to pay attention to certain features:
Moderation and Rules: A well-moderated group is key to maintaining a positive atmosphere. Look for groups that have clear rules about behavior and respect.
Engagement: A good group will have active members who regularly contribute to discussions, share information, and stay engaged with each other.
Appropriate Content: The group should focus on the themes it promises, whether that’s professional discussions, hobbies, or socializing. Avoid groups that have irrelevant or inappropriate content.
Maintaining Privacy and Security in WhatsApp Groups
When joining any WhatsApp group, privacy and security should be top priorities. Here are some tips to protect yourself:
Profile Privacy: Set your WhatsApp profile to private so only trusted people can see your information.
Group Settings: Control who can add you to groups by adjusting your privacy settings in WhatsApp.
Be Cautious About Sharing Personal Information: While it’s great to connect with others, avoid sharing sensitive personal details unless you trust the group members completely.
Do’s and Don’ts for WhatsApp Groups
Do: Be respectful of others, follow the group rules, and contribute positively.
Don’t: Spam the group with unnecessary messages or share inappropriate content.
Creating Your Own WhatsApp Group for Girls in India
If you can’t find a group that fits your needs, consider creating your own! Here's how:
Open WhatsApp and tap on “New Group.”
Add members from your contacts or share the invite link on other platforms.
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Joining WhatsApp groups specifically for girls offers numerous benefits:
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Top Features to Include in Your WhatsApp Clone App Using Source Code
Creating a WhatsApp clone app with the use of source code is a famous way to enter the messaging app market. As demand for messaging apps grows, incorporating particular capabilities that mimic or decorate the WhatsApp revel turns into vital. With a WhatsApp clone Android supply code, builders can lay out a relatively customizable app for both non-public and commercial enterprise verbal exchange. Let's discover the top features so that it will set your app aside.
Essential Features of a WhatsApp Clone App Using Source Code
User Registration and Authentication
The foundation of any messaging app is stable consumer registration and authentication. This preliminary level of user interaction is crucial, as it verifies every person’s identification and guarantees a safe platform. Most messaging apps, which include a WhatsApp clone app, use OTP (one-time password) authentication, e-mail verification, or even biometrics for safety.
WhatsApp Clone Source Code: User Authentication Essentials
A powerful person registration device can prevent unauthorized access, preserve information privacy, and construct consideration together with your customers. With a sturdy WhatsApp clone supply code, integrating reliable authentication methods will provide an unbroken experience for astronomers from the start.
One-on-One and Group Messaging
Messaging paperwork is the core of any app like WhatsApp. Therefore, it’s important to provide easy, real-time, and reliable one-on-one and group messaging options. Users must be capable of having interaction in non-public conversations or creating businesses for discussions with multiple users.
Key Messaging Features in WhatsApp Clone Android Source Code
In an aggressive market, imparting functions like study receipts, typing indicators, and shipping notifications is essential to help users feel linked in real-time. Using WhatsApp clone Android supply code, you can effortlessly implement those features to construct a dependable messaging platform.
Voice and Video Calling
As extra humans search for bendy communique methods, voice and video calls have emerged as indispensable. In fact, the inclusion of video calling can drastically enhance the app's attraction, especially for users who need visual communique for non-public or professional reasons.
Whether one-on-one or in a set, awesome voice and video calls can make your app a top choice. Using WhatsApp clone supply code, you may permit this option and regulate its functionalities primarily based on user preferences or your app’s target audience.
Advanced Features to Add with WhatsApp Clone Source Code
Multimedia Sharing
Today’s customers want more than simply text conversations. The potential to proportion multimedia content—inclusive of photos, motion pictures, GIFs, and files—continues to engage customers. With WhatsApp clone source code, you can put into effect multimedia sharing abilities to provide a richer conversation experience.
WhatsApp Clone Source Code: Multimedia Sharing Capabilities
Adding multimedia-sharing options also allows us users to quickly alternate content material. With an effective WhatsApp clone Android source code, developers can incorporate file-sharing restrictions for safety and hold clean app overall performance despite huge documents.
Real-Time Location Sharing
In many eventualities, real-time place sharing will become an important feature, especially while assembling with pals or ensuring family contributors' safety. This capability is straightforward to combine inside WhatsApp clone Android source code and gives massive prices to customers.
Location sharing allows customers to percentage their current vicinity temporarily or even allow stay tracking, making it a sought-after function. The integration of this selection for your WhatsApp clone app using a supply code can entice more customers who prioritize safety.
Status Updates and Stories
The idea of repute updates has emerged as famous in current years, allowing users to share quick messages, images, or films that disappear after 24 hours. Integrating popularity updates and tale features to your WhatsApp clone source code will keep users engaged with the app, even beyond trendy messaging.
Integrating Status Features in WhatsApp Clone Source Code
Story capabilities are broadly famous on social structures and provide a unique manner for users to specify themselves or proportion day-by-day updates. Using the WhatsApp clone Android supply code, developers can implement this feature to bring user engagement.
Security Features to Enhance User Trust
End-to-End Encryption
Privacy has ended up being a prime concern for customers, making end-to-end encryption a critical characteristic of messaging apps. This encryption ensures that only the sender and receiver can access the messages, offering an extra layer of protection.
Ensuring Privacy with WhatsApp Clone Source Code
With robust stop-to-cease encryption for your WhatsApp clone source code, you may guarantee that each one of your conversations continues to be non-public and stable. This is a crucial characteristic of a successful messaging app, as users are more likely to agree with and use an app that prioritizes their privacy.
Two-Factor Authentication
Two-issue authentication (2FA) is a further layer of protection that prevents unauthorized access. By implementing 2FA within your WhatsApp clone supply code, customers can verify their identity with a secondary verification step, together with an OTP or email affirmation.
Data Backup and Restore
For personal convenience, information backup and repair options permit users to save chat histories and critical data. This may have without problems brought the usage of WhatsApp clone Android source code, ensuring users don’t lose essential records in the event that they transfer gadgets.
Customization and User Experience (UX)
Customizable UI/UX Design
Customization is a key factor that keeps users engaged. With alternatives to exchange subject matters, colors, or font sizes, customers can customize their app. By using WhatsApp clone Android supply code, developers can integrate customizable capabilities, enhancing the overall consumer experience.
Enhancing UX with Customizable Features in WhatsApp Clone Android Source Code
A nicely designed and customizable UI keeps users satisfied and encourages them to apply the app frequently, in the long run increasing consumer retention costs.
Push Notifications
Push notifications are a critical feature to keep customers knowledgeable about new messages, overlooked calls, and different updates. This feature may be tailored to the use of a WhatsApp clone supply code to ship actual-time notifications based totally on the user's possibilities.
Dark Mode
Many customers opt for dark mode, in particular for middle-of-the-night utilization, as it’s less complicated for the eyes. Offering a dark mode choice can enhance the general usability of your WhatsApp clone app through the usage of a supply code.
Admin Panel and Analytics
Admin Control Panel
An admin manipulate panel is vital for any app to make sure easy functionality and manage consumer problems. With a control panel, admins can oversee app operations, manipulate user records, and cope with technical issues.
Admin Features in WhatsApp Clone Source Code
The WhatsApp clone supply code can offer the important shape for a practical admin panel, giving the admin control over various factors of the app’s operation.
Analytics and Reporting
Analytics permit builders to monitor app overall performance, track user conduct, and examine characteristic usage. This fact enables making knowledgeable updates to improve user satisfaction and app performance.
Conclusion
Incorporating those functions into your WhatsApp clone app using a supply code can significantly decorate the app’s enchantment to users. By implementing strong safety features, multimedia sharing, voice and video calls, and an intuitive UI, your app can stand out in a competitive marketplace. To get started with a top-great WhatsApp clone Android supply code, do not forget to reach out to AIS Technolabs for great solutions in messaging app improvement. Contact us nowadays to convert your app thoughts into facts!
FAQs
1. What is a WhatsApp clone app?A WhatsApp clone app is messaging software that replicates the capabilities of WhatsApp, allowing customers to talk via textual content, voice, and video. It is constructed using WhatsApp clone source code for quick deployment.
2. Why use WhatsApp clone Android source code?Using WhatsApp clone Android source code affords a customizable foundation for building a feature-rich messaging app. It reduces improvement time and enables developers to recognize particular functions.
3. How does stop-to-quit encryption work in a WhatsApp clone?End-to-cease encryption secures messages in order that the sender and receiver can view them, ensuring most privacy and protecting the third-birthday celebration right of entry.
4. Can I personalize the UI in a WhatsApp clone?Yes, many WhatsApp clone supply code solutions permit UI customization. Users can often trade issues, hues, and font sizes to customize their revel in.
5. How can I upload video calling to my WhatsApp clone app?Video calls may be delivered through the use of WhatsApp clone Android supply code by implementing relevant APIs and making sure your app infrastructure helps actual-time verbal exchange functions.
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[ad_1] In a striking revelation, Sanjay Kumar Verma, India’s recently recalled envoy to Canada, has accused a faction of hard-line Khalistani supporters in Canada of engaging in serious criminal activities, including human trafficking and arms smuggling. Verma asserted that these individuals are exploiting gurdwaras to fund their illicit operations. Verma described the hard-line Khalistani community in Canada as a minority of about 10,000 people who have transformed the Khalistan movement into a lucrative business. “They are a small group, but they are the loudest and most influential,” he stated in an interview with PTI. Verma did not hold back in criticizing the Canadian government, labeling its approach to diplomatic relations with India as “unprofessional” and deeply problematic. “This is the pits,” he remarked. The diplomat’s comments come against a backdrop of escalating tensions between India and Canada, following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claims of Indian involvement in the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Verma alleged that while India had shared names of individuals like Goldie Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi with Canada, there seemed to be a lack of action on the Canadian side, with Brar’s name inexplicably vanishing from the wanted list. “We have never done anything covert, Canada has not shared a shred of evidence,” Verma said. When asked about Trudeau’s alleged promotion of extremism, Verma articulated his views on the matter. He suggested that inaction against known criminals and extremists could be seen as tacit encouragement. “If one takes no action against them, so that is akin to an encouragement. So, that encouragement is seen a lot there, either it is for domestic vote-bank or other political reasons,” he noted. Earlier, Verma had condemned the lack of evidence presented by the Canadian government regarding the allegations against India. He criticized the perceived hypocrisy of Western nations, asserting that the days of developed countries dictating terms to developing nations are over. Click here for Latest Fact Checked News On NewsMobile WhatsApp Channel For viral videos and Latest trends subscribe to NewsMobile YouTube Channel and Follow us on Instagram [ad_2] Source link
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Why WhatsApp Web is the Go-To Platform for Digital Communication
More than ever, effective communication is essential in the fast-paced digital world of today. There are several messaging apps available, but WhatsApp Web stands out for its usability, ease, and popularity. With its many capabilities, Web WhatsApp is perfect for both personal and professional use, making it an essential tool for contemporary communication. Let's look at ten reasons why your communication demands require this web-based chat tool.
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One of the best justifications for using WhatsApp Web is its seamless connection with the WhatsApp mobile client. With real-time synchronisation of all your communications, switching between your phone and PC is effortless. Whether you're quickly replying to a friend while on the internet or draughting a long message and require the ease of a full keyboard, Web WhatsApp offers simple, efficient communication.
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IT Refund payment failed| How to apply for IT Refund reissue| Know the reason for IT Refund failure @cadeveshthakur #refund #incometax #cadeveshthakur Dear Viewers, How to handle an Income Tax (IT) refund reissue when the refund payment fails due to non-validation of the bank account: Income Tax Refund Reissue Process When an Income Tax refund payment fails due to non-validation of the bank account, taxpayers can request a reissue of the refund. This situation typically arises when the bank account details provided are incorrect or not pre-validated. Here’s a step-by-step guide to address this issue: 1. Reasons for Refund Failure Refunds can fail for several reasons, including: Incorrect bank account details (e.g., account number, IFSC code, MICR code). Name mismatch between the bank account and the PAN. KYC (Know Your Customer) pending for the bank account. The account provided is not a savings or current account. 2. Pre-Validation of Bank Account Before requesting a refund reissue, ensure that your bank account is pre-validated on the Income Tax e-filing portal. Follow these steps: Login to the e-Filing Portal: Go to www.incometax.gov.in and log in using your credentials. Navigate to ‘My Profile’: Under the ‘Profile Settings’ section, select ‘My Profile’. Add Bank Account: Click on ‘Add Bank Account’ and enter the required details. Pre-Validate: Submit the details for pre-validation. The status of the validation request will be sent to your registered mobile number and email ID. 3. Requesting Refund Reissue Once your bank account is pre-validated, you can request a refund reissue: Login to the e-Filing Portal: Use your credentials to log in. Go to ‘Services’: Select ‘Refund Reissue’ from the ‘Services’ menu. Create Refund Reissue Request: Click on ‘Create Refund Reissue Request’. Select the Record: Choose the record for which you want the refund to be reissued. Select Bank Account: Choose the pre-validated bank account where you want to receive the refund. Submit Request: Confirm and submit your request. 4. Monitoring the Status You can monitor the status of your refund reissue request on the e-Filing portal: Login to the e-Filing Portal: Use your credentials to log in. Navigate to ‘My Account’: Select ‘Refund/Demand Status’ under ‘My Account’. Check Status: View the status of your refund reissue request. 5. Common Issues and Solutions Validation Failure: If the bank account validation fails, check the reason (e.g., PAN not linked, name mismatch) and rectify it by contacting your bank. Multiple Accounts: You can pre-validate multiple bank accounts but can nominate only one for the refund. Index 00:00 to 02:00 IT Refund failed 02:01 to 04:00 IT Refund reissue 04:01 to 08:14 IT Refund reissue process 🎥 Hello, lovely viewers! Welcome back to the @cadeveshthakur channel! 🎉 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cadeveshthakur TDS ki कक्षा: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1RqxMactdpX3oUU2bSw8-_R E-commerce sellers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1ShUNXkAbYrAYj2Pile1Rim GST Knowledge Bank: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1RjdRrG4ZKXeJNed6ekhjoR Goods & Services Tax: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1SlBw2kSpZ9ay1jnEOkbDYN TDS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1RXi2GaEckeXGmJy_FYOj9q Shorts for Accountants, Professionals, Finance, Students: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1TqoRTWoA1_l0kmtsbyNEB5 Accounting concept, Entries, Final Accounts preparation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1T4GSjBPboXxBgFgkVZmDbQ Direct Taxation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1o9nc8dxF1S7BBNeuL3fzV_fDl9V88C2 🎥 Hello, lovely viewers! Welcome back to the @cadeveshthakur channel! 🎉 I’m thrilled to have you here, and I want to connect with you beyond YouTube. Let’s take our journey together to the next level! 😊 Whatsapp Group: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6GOVE9MF92Ylmo7e0L #cadeveshthakur https://cadeveshthakur.com/ Disclaimer: The content shared on this channel is purely for educational purposes. As a Chartered Accountant, I strive to provide accurate and insightful information related to GST, income tax, accounting, and tax planning. However, please note that the content should not be considered as professional advice or a substitute for personalized consultation. income tax refund payment failed,it refund payment failed,how to apply for it refund reissue,income tax refund reissue,reason for it refund failure,reason for income tax refund failure,cadeveshthakur,income tax refund not received,income tax refund status,income tax refund status kaise check kare,income tax refund not processed,income tax refund still processing,income tax refund processing time,it refund,itr refund status check,itr refund IT Refund payment failed| How to apply for IT Refund reissue| Know the reason for IT Refund failure
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