Well, if it isn’t the consequences of his actions. Ever since taking over Twitter, CEO Elon Musk has made an absolute mess of the platform. And now the billionaire’s new verification system, which gives anyone a blue verification checkmark if they’re willing to pony up $8 a month for Twitter Blue, is backfiring spectacularly —… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Checkmarks Backfire Spectacularly When They’re Immediately Used to Impersonate People
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Big Tech Announced More Than 45,000 Layoffs in Recent Months
Remember when tech was on top of the world? Getting Laid (Off) The tech industry appears to be bearing a disproportionate toll from 2022’s economic downturn, with recent and planned layoffs at companies including Twitter, Meta-formerly-Facebook, and Intel bringing the total number of sacked tech workers to more than 45,000. Per an analysis of the… Continue reading Big Tech Announced More Than 45,000 Layoffs in Recent Months
Elon Musk Is Suddenly Selling Tesla Stock Like Crazy
He promised he was done selling in August. Another Selloff Months after claiming he was done selling Tesla stock, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has unloaded another $3.95 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings. That means the billionaire CEO has sold around $36 billion worth of Tesla stock in the last twelve months,… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Suddenly Selling Tesla Stock Like Crazy
This Graph of New Mastodon Users Per Day Will Flip Your Silly Little Wig
“We can’t keep up with those requests, so we just opened the floodgates.” Twexodus SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s messy takeover of Twitter has triggered an exodus of users looking for a better alternative. Within just 24 hours, more than 135,000 users had joined Mastodon, an open-source microblogging platform with many similarities to Twitter,… Continue reading This Graph of New Mastodon Users Per Day Will Flip Your Silly Little Wig
Facebook Is Laying Off 11 THOUSAND Employees
“I got this wrong,” Zuckerberg said, “and I take responsibility for that.” Letting Go It’s not a great day over at Meta-formerly-Facebook, where 11,000 people — that’s approximately the population of the island nation of Tuvalu — just learned that they’re out of a job as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces mass layoffs. “I’ve decided to… Continue reading Facebook Is Laying Off 11 THOUSAND Employees
MSN Ran a Story About Grimes and Elon Musk That’s Completely Fake
This is a terrible look. Actual Fake News If you caught that MSN story alleging that Grimes took to Twitter on Oct 31 to publicly ask ex-boyfriend Elon Musk to pay child support, uncatch it. It may have waded its way to the top of the Google Newscharts, but it’s complete and total BS. The article,… Continue reading MSN Ran a Story About Grimes and Elon Musk That’s Completely Fake
Crypto Billionaire Loses 94 Percent of His Wealth in One Day
This appears to be the biggest wealth collapse in history. Billionaire Wipe Out FTX CEO and name-brand crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has lost a stunning 94 percent of his net worth in a single day, Bloomberg reports — a decline so precipitous that he’s barely hanging onto the “billionaire” title at all. In total, Bankman-Fried’s net… Continue reading Crypto Billionaire Loses 94 Percent of His Wealth in One Day
Elon Musk Is Faving Posts on Twitter That Are Making Our Skin Crawl With Embarrassment
Confidence is good. Confidence is great! But a scroll through new Twitter owner Elon Musk’s “favorite” posts on the app is like having a front row seat to someone who may well have too much. In between a few sparse Twitter-unrelated memes and the occasional not-quite-porn-but-porn-adjacent fantasy art, Musk’s favs are pretty much all self-validating… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Faving Posts on Twitter That Are Making Our Skin Crawl With Embarrassment
New Details Emerge About Aaron Carter’s Tragic Death
Image by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images Former child star and late 90s pop singer Aaron Carter was only 34 when he passed away last weekend. Now, newly-released details may shed light on his final hours. As TMZ reports, police who arrived at the scene of Carter’s Lancaster, California home said they found bottles of prescription pills… Continue reading New Details Emerge About Aaron Carter’s Tragic Death
Blockchain Guy Sets Priceless Drawing on Fire to Mint 10,000 NFTs, Only Sells Four
“I think this man should be put in jail.” Up In Flames We all know that NFT enthusiasts can get caught up in some questionable stunts. But one blockchain businessman has incurred the ire of the art world — and Mexican authorities — after hosting a gaudy event where he burned what he claimed was… Continue reading Blockchain Guy Sets Priceless Drawing on Fire to Mint 10,000 NFTs, Only Sells Four