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Lex: "It just feels like we are in the same room. This is really the most incredible thing I've ever seen".

This change of attention is also affecting movie studios like Disney

After a year see which group has the safest record. Simple.

> If advertisers were getting results from their X ads, or possibly If you posted data that showed that ads on this platform were effective and produced results, you would be in an entirely different position.

> If your ads produce results, businesses would tell you they understand how difficult it is to completely eliminate hate on the platform.

> If they don't produce results, there is no reason for a big company to fuck around and find out that their ads showed up next to a hateful post.

> I can't tell you how many times I get Cheech ,(or is it Chong?) ads for CBD gummies. Shit I would never buy. ..

> On other platforms ads sometimes are eerily relevant to my interests.

> That never occurs on this platform

When asked if he ever advertised on X:

> Multiple of my portfolio companies have. And I always ask them to check. Without exception, all have said it doesn't give the same returns as other platforms

https://x.com/mcuban/status/1727400271364669756

Step 2: Announce a credible space mission to mine a gold asteroid

Step 3: After the price of gold tanks, sell the put options

Step 4: Cancel the space mission

Step 5: Profit!

How long until this business plan works and millions of people’s life savings are wiped out?

Waymo cars are safer, cleaner and cheaper than Uber, which has never made an operating profit and has abandoned its self-driving development.

Uber is stalled on the railway tracks while the freight train of self-driving tech hurtles towards it. How is it still worth $76 billion?

Two weeks? That’s a pretty slow response to an existential threat

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not so sure.

For millennia people tried and failed to fly through the air like birds. In the late nineteenth century so many people had tried and failed, it seemed like a law of nature that humans were destined to remain earth-bound. Then suddenly, miraculously, we figured it out.

I think it will be the same with the 'usual human lifespan limit' of 120 years. At some point we will figure it out, and a group of humans will have a longevity distribution whose right tail extends to 150 years. Bryan Johnson may already be in that group.

So 2 single people sharing a 2-bedroom apartment in Manhattan are not earning a "living wage"?

[0] https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061

Advertisers will come back and Twitter will be hugely profitable.

Think about that: For 16 years Twitter management was so sclerotic that they were unable to perform basic improvements on targeting ads. Instead their focus was on trendy but money-losing projects like hexagonal profile pics for NFT users.

This is indicative of deep structural problems at Twitter, and won't be accepted by Elon

1. When I go on vacation I see ads in a language I don't understand

2. When I sign up for a service like Disney Plus I still see ads for that service

3. When I sign into a real estate website and mark some houses as 'favourite', that website doesn't show me ads on Twitter for similar houses

4. When I put an item in an online shopping cart and leave it there for a few days, I don't see any Twitter ads suggesting I complete the purchase

5. I live in an inner-city area, but for some reason Twitter shows me ads for combine harvesters and Starlink