The system previously known as FSD, now known as "just kidding FSD" is being adjusted down to $8k. In 2022 it was sold for $15k.

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly said that as FSD becomes more capable, it should also go up in price to reflect its greater value. Previously, FSD price increases were largely associated with software updates that added new capability to the system."

Winning!

https://electrek.co/2024/04/21/tesla-lowers-price-of-full-self-driving-to-8000-down-from-12000/

#Tesla #ElonMusk #Twitter #X

Tesla lowers price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ to $8,000, down from $12,000

The software, which CEO Elon Musk said would only get more expensive as it gets more capable, once cost as much as $15k.

^{Jameson Dow (Electrek)}

#Evolution #ExtinctionLevelEvents #ELE|s #Philosophie

(2/2)

...was a species on earth less worthy of becoming a "#MultiplanetarySpecies," as #ElonMusk and the other acolytes of #Longtermism (#TESCREAL) aspire to become, it is the human race.

s/:In fact, if #ecocide were a crime punishable by the death penalty, homo sapiens deserves an extinction-level events.

R.I.P. homo sapiens./s

//

🤔🤨🧐 How did a carwash kill a #Cybertruck‽

Why is #Tesla not honoring the warranty‽

Does #ElonMusk realize how weak this makes Cybertruck look‽

👉🏾 Cybertruck Turns Into Large Metal Brick After Going Through Car Wash https://futurism.com/cybertruck-brick-car-wash

Cybertruck Turns Into Large Metal Brick After Going Through Car Wash

As one recent Tesla Cybertruck owner found out, even a car wash was able to defeat the 6,600-pound pickup.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

Elon Musk declared he wouldn’t comply with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban far-right accounts involved in an attempted coup.

It shows how Musk uses Twitter to amplify fascism, but also why many countries are increasingly fed up with unaccountable US tech firms.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-already-losing-his-battle-with-brazil/

#tech #elonmusk #brazil #brasil #twitter #socialmedia

Elon Musk is using Twitter to defend Brazil’s fascists

The fight shows countries will no longer put up with the drawbacks of unregulated social media

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

I am not a fan of #ElonMusk, but I do not like seeing this happen to #Tesla, as it will have a ripple effect on the Electric Vehicle market.

#Layoffs will affect about 14,000 people.

👉🏾 Tesla to Cut Over 10% of Its Global Workforce, Electrek Reports https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-15/tesla-to-cut-over-10-of-its-global-workforce-electrek-reports

Tesla (TSLA) to Cut Over 10% of Its Global Workforce, Electrek Reports

Tesla Inc. will slash global headcount by more than 10%, Elon Musk wrote in an email to staff, as the carmaker grapples with a slowdown in electric vehicle demand.

^{Edward Ludlow (Bloomberg)}

"Norska Pensionsfonden KLP kan komma att lägga fram ett aktieägarförslag på Teslas årsstämma om att adressera Elon Musks ovilja att delta i förhandlingar om kollektivavtal. Det skriver Reuters.

Strejken i Sverige har i flera månader stört biltillverkarens verksamhet och väckt oro hos flera nordiska institutionella investerare. På måndagen sa Musk att strejken är överspelad. "

#tesla #ElonMusk

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-investor-may-table-collective-bargaining-motion-agm-2024-04-11/

Tesla has settled a lawsuit over the fatal Model X crash, which killed Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang in 2019.

The company confirmed Autopilot was turned on, but had always insisted driver error was to blame. However, as @engadget reports, Tesla settled out of court on the day that the trial's jury selection was due to take place.

https://flip.it/S8wngF

#Tesla #ElonMusk #Tech

Brazil has opened an investigation into Elon Musk, after he reactivated accounts on X that courts had ordered the social network to block.

It has caused Brazil's attorney general to call for an “urgent” focus on social media regulation, reports @theverge

https://flip.it/jnJWbE

#SocialMedia #ElonMusk #Tech

Elon Musk and Brazil are beefing over X

Brazil has opened a new investigation into Elon Musk over potential obstruction of justice after X defied an order to block certain accounts in the country.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

Elon Musk threatens to disobey court order over banned profiles

#brazil #elonmusk

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2015360

Elon Musk threatens to disobey court order over banned profiles

Brazil threatens to regulate social media owned by "billionaires domiciled abroad."

^{Ars Technica}

This week saw major media organizations once again publishing embarrassing stories that either didn’t mention Elon Musk’s far-right politics or both-sides’d it. It needs to stop.

I discuss that along with the usual recommend reads and more in the Roundup!

https://disconnect.blog/roundup-how-is-the-media-still-doing-this/

#tech #elonmusk #media #journalism

Roundup: How is the media still doing this?

Read to the end for an update on the road safety crisis in the US

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Elon Musk uses sci-fi dreams like colonizing Mars to distract us his real business goals and how SpaceX has trampled workers’ rights and the environment to achieve them.

If we ever hope to build a better future, we need to stop falling for false futures.

https://disconnect.blog/what-if-we-never-live-on-mars/

#tech #space #mars #spacex #elonmusk

What if we never live on Mars?

Tech billionaires sell us the dream of realizing sci-fi fantasies, but that distracts us from building a better society on Earth

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Lmao

#Meme #ElonMusk #Musk

People are selling chunks of SpaceX's exploded Starship on eBay.

Futurism reports that recovered ceramic heat shield tiles are being offered for thousands of dollars.

https://flip.it/19rdMR

#SpaceX #Starship #Space #ElonMusk #eBay

People Are Selling Chunks of SpaceX's Exploded Starship on eBay

Recovered ceramic heat shield tiles that once belonged to SpaceX Starship prototpyes, are selling for thousands of dollars on eBay.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

Ukrainian front-line troops say they are experiencing connection problems with the vital Starlink internet service, owned by Elon Musk and used to run Kyiv’s fleet of attack drones, while also reporting an increase in Russian use of the devices, despite this being prohibited by US sanctions.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/25/europe/ukraine-starlink-drones-russia-intl-cmd/index.html

#Ukraine #Russia #Starlink #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #US

NEW: Despite Elon Musk's criticism of gov surveillance...

X has been selling data for government surveillance.

By Sam Biddle, LINK: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

#surveillance #infosec #twitter #X #elonmusk #Musk #espionage #Twitter #police #protest

"A federal judge has dismissed X owner Elon Musk's lawsuit against a research group that documented an uptick in hate speech on the social media site, saying the organization's reports on the platform formerly known as Twitter were protected by the First Amendment."

NPR reports: "One of the group's findings, published in June, detailed how 'racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content' from paid users went unmoderated on the site."

https://flip.it/4dZCt_

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#ElonMusk #Twitter #X #Birdsite #SocialMedia #FreeSpeech #Tech