You know that face you get when you taste something sour, or you suck on a lemon, or you’re Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent and are minutes away from turning into a dragon with incredible cheekbones? That puckered, sharp face is desired end result from the internet’s current viral plastic surgery procedure: …
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Elon Musk is summoning the masses to decide: Should he stay or should he go? On Sunday, the controversial Twitter CEO conducted a poll posing this question: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” By early Monday morning, more than …
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After Twitter owner Elon Musk spent the last few days suspending — and then unsuspending —journalists tasked with covering him, the social media site on Sunday unveiled a policy banning the free promotion of certain other sites. Not only are free links to Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, Truth Social, Tribel, Post …
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Twitter has reinstated the accounts of the prominent journalists who were suspended Thursday after billionaire and self-avowed free speech enthusiast Elon Musk silenced several of his high-profile critics. New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, Mashable’s Matt Binder, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, …
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The first sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar was supposed to hit theaters in 2014. Then it got pushed to 2015, then 2016, and 2017. Eventually, it was slated for release in December 2021 — but COVID-19 pushed it another year. At long last, the film debuts this …
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Elon Musk’s flagship company Tesla’s stock hit a new two-year low of $150.04 on Friday morning, prompting renewed concerns that the billionaire’s recent acquisition and chaotic management of Twitter is crumbling the bedrock of his financial empire. The stock dive took place the morning after Musk booted several prominent journalists …
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Elon Musk has turned on the reporter he hand picked to “expose” Twitter’s content moderation decisions after she … criticized his content moderation decisions. Writer Bari Weiss was hand-selected by Musk as one of the conduits for a multi-part expose, dubbed “The Twitter Files,” that purported to unveil a grand …
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Just a day after jet tracker Jack Sweeney made the jump to Mastodon post-Twitter ban, Mastodon’s official Twitter account has been suspended. Twitter also appears to be blocking tweets linking to many major Mastodon servers; tweets to many Mastodon links result in an error message stating, “We can’t complete this …
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Elon Musk sold around $3.6 billion worth of shares of his flagship company Tesla this week, despite reassuring investors in April that he had “no further TSLA sales planned” after he secured the funds to acquire Twitter in a $44 billion deal. The sale was revealed in an SEC filing …
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Programmer Jack Sweeney originally created the Twitter bot “@ElonJet” because he was a fan of Elon Musk. The success of @ElonJet prompted him to begin tracking other celebrity aircraft through the use of publicly available, open-source aviation data. Drake, Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Taylor Swift, and Russian oligarchs all got …
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