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Introductory video for the Munro cyber truck tear down (15 minutes):

https://youtu.be/UwahPIbCW5E?si=89C3KdZ1PSyDA85Z

Some audio/video issues, but followable & sets the scene for the actual tear down.

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1 hour & 12 minutes of Munro talking Cyber truck. Interesting back ground for enthusiasts:

https://youtu.be/m_vJnyBT8EA?si=yEp1tBp3BFx52sHH

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Hyundai & Kia recall 170k after software problems:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 024-03-14/

Last year they recalled millions of vehicles after advising owners to park outside due to fire risk:

https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-kia- ... 2e6c22a458

Interesting how so many competitors to Tesla are having quality issues.

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FSD version 12.3 is very impressive (20 mins 54 seconds):

https://youtu.be/5wxUomvV9Dw?si=pStLl5dfxlDX48s7

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23 minutes of Marques living with the dual motor cyber truck:

https://youtu.be/hcioIka_ByE?si=f1om1Y_tuGfbFPXQ

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Tesla cars 3 & y now selling below the average price of a new car:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/177109423 ... DCpgdbFBxg

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Organic traffic for March already up over 5%:

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1770930853 ... DCpgdbFBxg

Rumours of Twitters death seem exaggerated.

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Interesting tear down, not by Munro) of a cyber truck, showing some production issues, some aspects of the steer by wire, castings etc (25:26):

https://youtu.be/khPMITqp91I?si=X9tZx-IVBcZ8G8qw

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Inspirational interview with the first neuralink patient (41:51):

https://youtu.be/79VvxBStbWY?si=s5sFmAngUogZkLT2

Remarkable how this surgery & implant has improved this young man’s life.

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Ad returns various media:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/177176827 ... DCpgdbFBxg

The death of X seems exaggerated.

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odysseus2000 wrote:Organic traffic for March already up over 5%:

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1770930853 ... DCpgdbFBxg

Rumours of Twitters death seem exaggerated.

You're basing this on a random Tweet? And yoy is far more informative than month-on-month. So for instance :
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... rcna144115

In February, X had 27 million daily active users of its mobile app in the U.S., down 18% from a year earlier, according to Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm based in San Francisco. The U.S. user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022, the first full month of Musk’s owning the app, and in total it’s down 23% since then, Sensor Tower said....

The numbers were nearly as bad worldwide, as daily active users on the mobile app fell to 174 million in February, down 15% from a year earlier, the firm said.....Other social media apps experienced modest increases in their worldwide user bases during the same period, according to the research, with Snapchat growing 8.8%, Instagram 5.3%, Facebook 1.5% and TikTok 0.5%....

X said in a post Monday that the worldwide number is higher than what Sensor Tower data shows, with 250 million people using X every day globally. That would still be a decrease from when Musk bought the app. Musk said in 2022 that, at about the time he completed the purchase in late October, Twitter had about 258 million “monetizable daily active users,” the company’s metric at the time....

Sensor Tower defines a daily active user as someone who “registered a session of at least two seconds in length, once in that day.” It says its data comes from a panel of consumers....

Advertisers have also left X, Sensor Tower said, with 75 out of the top 100 U.S. advertisers on X from October 2022 having ceased ad spending on it. The exodus spiked toward the end of last year, after Musk publicly embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and told advertisers at a conference in New York, “Go f--- yourself.”

Hallucigenia wrote:

odysseus2000 wrote:Organic traffic for March already up over 5%:

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1770930853 ... DCpgdbFBxg

Rumours of Twitters death seem exaggerated.

You're basing this on a random Tweet? And yoy is far more informative than month-on-month. So for instance :
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... rcna144115

In February, X had 27 million daily active users of its mobile app in the U.S., down 18% from a year earlier, according to Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm based in San Francisco. The U.S. user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022, the first full month of Musk’s owning the app, and in total it’s down 23% since then, Sensor Tower said....

The numbers were nearly as bad worldwide, as daily active users on the mobile app fell to 174 million in February, down 15% from a year earlier, the firm said.....Other social media apps experienced modest increases in their worldwide user bases during the same period, according to the research, with Snapchat growing 8.8%, Instagram 5.3%, Facebook 1.5% and TikTok 0.5%....

X said in a post Monday that the worldwide number is higher than what Sensor Tower data shows, with 250 million people using X every day globally. That would still be a decrease from when Musk bought the app. Musk said in 2022 that, at about the time he completed the purchase in late October, Twitter had about 258 million “monetizable daily active users,” the company’s metric at the time....

Sensor Tower defines a daily active user as someone who “registered a session of at least two seconds in length, once in that day.” It says its data comes from a panel of consumers....

Advertisers have also left X, Sensor Tower said, with 75 out of the top 100 U.S. advertisers on X from October 2022 having ceased ad spending on it. The exodus spiked toward the end of last year, after Musk publicly embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory and told advertisers at a conference in New York, “Go f--- yourself.”

Who knows who is correct here?

Since X is private they can say what ever they want with out needing to publish accounts & Sensor Tower can’t have the inside numbers so are making deductions.

For now one has to either believe one or the other, both can’t be right.

If X are doing as bad as Sensor Tower suggest then X will have to change or die, but Sensor Tower would simply find other things to opine upon.

The history of Musk companies is one of relentless attacks & certainty by hostile organisations that the business would not survive due to countless reasons, especially competitors.

I clearly don’t have internal numbers, but I see far more twitter stuff for real time news than other platforms, whereas for social interactions Facebook has many more users, Tik Tok seems to lead for short video, but I rarely use either & don’t have time even if I wanted to.

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Wall Street Journal looks to be in trouble:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/177198930 ... DCpgdbFBxg

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odysseus2000 wrote:Wall Street Journal looks to be in trouble:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/177198930 ... DCpgdbFBxg

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Again - selective use of data to fool the gullible, of course their web traffic spiked during Covid. What do the pre-2020 numbers look like?

Hallucigenia wrote:

odysseus2000 wrote:Wall Street Journal looks to be in trouble:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/177198930 ... DCpgdbFBxg

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Again - selective use of data to fool the gullible, of course their web traffic spiked during Covid. What do the pre-2020 numbers look like?

Do you have a link showing it?

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Pew research also specify declining visits to web sites of major US news papers:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads ... %202021%2C

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odysseus2000 wrote:

Hallucigenia wrote:
Again - selective use of data to fool the gullible, of course their web traffic spiked during Covid. What do the pre-2020 numbers look like?

Do you have a link showing it?

Would I be asking if I did? But intuitively, I always get *really* suspicious when people do something like that, starting a graph at what should be a natural peak or trough. It just makes me assume they're trying to hide something.

Certainly the FT has been doing OK, even if it is more of a digital product than physical newspaper these days :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/green ... -milestone

Hallucigenia wrote:

odysseus2000 wrote:
Do you have a link showing it?

Would I be asking if I did? But intuitively, I always get *really* suspicious when people do something like that, starting a graph at what should be a natural peak or trough. It just makes me assume they're trying to hide something.

Certainly the FT has been doing OK, even if it is more of a digital product than physical newspaper these days :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/green ... -milestone

That FT article is 8 years old.

All the major news papers, including the WSJ, are predominantly accessed on line which is why the information on declining web site visits is important regarding the health of the business.

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For anyone interested in the underlying motor technology of electric cars this 29 minute video by Munro group covers the basics of induction & permanent magnet motors & why it is useful to have both types of motors in an electric car:

https://youtu.be/FHufjrP0xDI?si=NSG1Gejbacz9rwX7

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Rolls Royce do battery electric & how (14:39):

https://youtu.be/WadEyilW5CI?si=XGclUQAF5hgX2mAT

Marques Brownlee does the Spectre!

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