#screw lone skum

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Police investigate Musk salute projected on Tesla factory – DW – January 24, 2025

The British campaign group "Led By Donkeys" has claimed responsibility for the stunt that authorities say may have breached German laws on the use of symbols linked to illegal organizations.

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I'm damn glad I never joined facebook nor twitter. The only actual social media acc't I ever had was myspace, when it was a thing and dinosaurs walked the Earth. myspace was hell - so many obscene msgs from men. Needless to say, I didn't stick around.

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Is Musk tweeting while Twitter burns? According to a report by the New York Times,

“To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said. Twitter has also refused to pay a $197,725 bill for private charter flights made the week of Mr. Musk’s takeover, according to a copy of a lawsuit filed in New Hampshire District Court and obtained by The New York Times.

Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover, two people familiar with the talks said. And Mr. Musk has threatened employees with lawsuits if they talk to the media and “act in a manner contrary to the company’s interest,” according to an internal email sent last Friday.”

Not paying rent, refusing to pay bills, stiffing ex-employees? That sounds like the business strategy of a stable genius. And if those comparisons with Trump are not enough, then consider that, as the Times also reports,

“Mr. Musk appears to be gearing up for legal battles at Twitter, which he purchased in October for $44 billion, according to seven people familiar with internal conversations. He and his team have revamped Twitter’s legal department and pushed out one of his closest advisers in the process. They have also instructed employees to not pay vendors in anticipation of potential litigation, the people said.”  

Musk’s impetuosity is also affecting his other companies. He had decimated Twitter’s legal department by firing the company’s chief legal officer and its general counsel as soon as he finalized his acquisition of the social media site.  ...

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This New York Times article seems to suggest that Twitter is insolvent and choosing not to pay all sorts of bills, many of which will expose them to genuine legal jeopardy. We've previously reported on their auctioning off all sorts of assets, and Twitter's looming wrongful termination and discrimination lawsuits, so when the NYT stacks it all up in one article, the strategy seems to be bankruptcy.

With interest on his loans totaling over $150m/month and a company grossing $5B before screwing it all up and chasing the advertisers out, Twitter's reluctant purchaser Elon Musk seems to be running out of options.

NYT:

...   The aggressive moves signal that Mr. Musk is still slashing expenditures and is bending or breaking Twitter's previous agreements to make his mark. His reign has been characterized by chaos, a series of resignations and layoffs, reversals of the platform's previous suspensions and rules, and capricious decisions that have driven away advertisers.   ...