Elon Musk buys Twitter

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Vichy France rises again!

Closet Nazis everywhere ?

 

[How bad boy]

Corey Quinn (@quinnypig.com)

I trust X for payments about as far as I can comfortably spit a rat. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bsky.app

Apparently it'll only accept stolen gold as collateral.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852126581872881711

 

[How bad boy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852126581872881711

Free speech, unless you disagree. In which case, you have 10 days to report dissent to the authorities

MSN

www.msn.com

"Federal employees on Wednesday were put on notice by President Donald Trump’s administration that “adverse consequences” would follow if they failed to report coworkers who refused to sweep out diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their department.

The threat was sent out to tens of thousands of government workers across federal agencies, warning that the White House would not allow any efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” The New York Times reported.

Workers were given a 10-day deadline to turn in their colleagues via a “special email address” if they believed they were not complying with the new order"



War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

 

[an liathroid beag]

Free speech, unless you disagree. In which case, you have 10 days to report dissent to the authorities

MSN

www.msn.com

"Federal employees on Wednesday were put on notice by President Donald Trump’s administration that “adverse consequences” would follow if they failed to report coworkers who refused to sweep out diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their department.

The threat was sent out to tens of thousands of government workers across federal agencies, warning that the White House would not allow any efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” The New York Times reported.

Workers were given a 10-day deadline to turn in their colleagues via a “special email address” if they believed they were not complying with the new order"



War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Cultivating the informer straight from the Stazi rule book

 

[How bad boy]

Cultivating the informer straight from the Stazi rule book

Exactly, surprised there aren't quotas for denouncements, that you have to inform on at least 3 people to be considered MAGA enough for your job. That at least would have been a properly data driven approach

 

[Dinger]

Bluesky saying it now has 30m users. Not entirely sure if that's impressive or not without some context.

 

[How bad boy]

Bluesky saying it now has 30m users. Not entirely sure if that's impressive or not without some context.

It was 3 million this time last year, 15 million in November so growing pretty quickly.

The political content there is now good, not quite up to the level of twitter at its peak but you can follow political events on there, something you couldn't do 4 months ago.

Tech is ok-ish, the majority of main tech accounts I tend to follow have now permanently departed Twitter for bluesky, the breadth of content isn't there yet.

Same with sports posts, lots of the main journalists on there but sometimes there's little commentary. 4 months ago there'd have been almost none, I'm sure it'll build.

It's definitely now a viable alternative with content that's still a bit odd twitter used to have but without the shit show. Going the right way.

They have not actually started monetising yet, so it'll be interesting when that happens.

 

[How bad boy]

That is entirely down to the fact that while Tesla sales declined by 1%, Audi's fell by 12% in 2024:

Tesla Overtakes Audi in Global Car Sales for the First Time

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uk.finance.yahoo.com

VW probably sold around 9 million cars in 2024, over 4.5x that of Tesla, with group revenues around €300bn and operating profit of ~€3bn.

Tesla is on track for revenues of $100bn and profits of $8 billion.


VW's market capitalisation is €50bn at a p/e of about 4 and a 9% dividend.
Tesla's market capitalisation is €1.3tn at a p/e of 110. Tesla doesn't do dividends.



Sure, that makes sense. Totally sensible ratio of valuations.

Tesla reported Q4 results, automotive revenue down 8%, their automotive revenue hasn't grown since 2022 (was $21bn Q4 2022, $19.8bn in Q4 24). Profits are pretty flat, massive unusual spike in Q4 23 but at $2.32 billion (which was the highest quarter this year), they're at exactly the same level as Q4 21.

Basically Tesla has stopped growing.

Tesla is still worth $1.25 Trillion dollars on the stock market. That's utterly insane.

 

[Dinger]

Tesla reported Q4 results, automotive revenue down 8%, their automotive revenue hasn't grown since 2022 (was $21bn Q4 2022, $19.8bn in Q4 24). Profits are pretty flat, massive unusual spike in Q4 23 but at $2.32 billion (which was the highest quarter this year), they're at exactly the same level as Q4 21.

Basically Tesla has stopped growing.

Tesla is still worth $1.25 Trillion dollars on the stock market. That's utterly insane.

As I understand it, their Q4 profits were boosted to the tune of $600m by a change in the rules for accounting for crypto currencies.

Would probably have reported a drop in profits otherwise.