Maggiemerc

A few weeks ago he had his AI company, xAI, acquire X, his social media platform. That’s because xAI has a huge valuation because he went out and hired a lot of the AI competition from other companies and now xAI’s model is pretty great. X is how he plans to maintain a steady stream of content to train that AI on which instantly makes it even more valuable while wiping out a bunch of the debt he made to buy X.

So basically as Tesla flops he’ll move his best brains to xAI and take it public where he can restart the grift all over again.

Meanwhile SpaceX continues to have the US over a barrel in the telecommunications and space business and while it will never go public or fully be run by Musk it will continue to be his primary source of power to manipulate world leaders

Make Amazon hurt don't order anything.

so actually you want to order, because then there aren’t people to fill all the orders on time unless Amazon gives in to demands.

Now I happen to also run a fairly popular Substack (about gay vampires). One whose readers are almost entirely Tumblr users. And Tumblr clicks have just never shown up in my stats, I’m used to it. Naturally I had to comment:

It’s not just Substack’s tracking that doesn’t work on here. NO tracking works on here. Tumblr is just one of the last platforms left that completely obscures its users’ data!

A big part of this is because Tumblr users are very savvy. They know how costly a click is and they’d rather stay on the page! That’s really good for Tumblr itself, and great for users and it’s one of the reasons I’m still on the site. Its users just wholesale refuse to engage with the economics of the internet and while that’s how I and many others make a living god damn do I appreciate it.

But because of that the investment you put in, be it posts to encourage visits to your news site or ad campaigns for your product, nets a much much much smaller gain on Tumblr.

Like maybe Tumblr has recently axed all analytics so it’s harder to track—that could be true and would make it much easier to comply with the GDPR. But if that’s true it’s only because there was years and years of evidence that Tumblr is not worth it for advertisers or content creators on other ad platforms.

I WANT TO BE GREAT.

I WANT TO BE GREAT.