Monsoon moisture will be increasing over the next couple days across southern AZ. As a result, expect to see some isolated storms over the high terrain east & southeast of the Phoenix area starting today. Best chances look to be on Tuesday, but chances in Phoenix are 5-10%. #azwx
Sunday, July 09, 2023
"A Foul-Mouthed tweet" Today: ‘Zuck is a cuck’ |NY Post
Elon Musk snipes ‘Zuck is a cuck’ about Meta boss Zuckerberg after rival Twitter app launch
Elon Musk upped the ante in his escalating war of words with Mark Zuckerberg — calling the rival billionaire a “cuck” in a foul-mouthed tweet Sunday.
In the four days since Zuckerberg launched Threads — a direct app rival to Musk’s Twitter — the pair have been sparring with jibing posts on social media, threats of lawsuit, promises to duel in hand-to-hand combat, and now, with a personal insult.
“Zuck is a cuck,” Musk tweeted, responding to a Threads post from the official account of fast-food chain Wendy’s.
The burger joint had joked Zuckerberg “should go to space just to really make him mad lol” in a reference to Musk’s company SpaceX — to which the Facebook founder responded with a laughing emoji.
When a Twitter user reposted the exchange, Musk took notice and lashed out at Zuckerberg with the unseemly comment.
Commenters had mixed reactions: Some were appalled by Musk’s tweet, others said they initially thought it had come from a parody account — and many applauded the outrageous post.
Threads snagged more than 30 million users within a day of its launch Wednesday, an ominous sign for the stumbling Twitter.
Since Musk acquired Twitter in October, the social media platform has been cast into disarray as staffers are fired en masse, long-standing features like blue-check verification are reworked in ways that many say undermine its purpose, and the billionaire publicly changes company policies.
Zuckerberg launched Threads to work in conjunction with Instagram, and has already set about hoovering up users who’ve jumped ship in the wake of Twitter’s chaotic transition.
Musk immediately went into damage control mode, threatening to sue Threads’ parent company, Meta Platforms, a day after the launch.
In a letter sent to Zuckerberg, Musk’s Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of intentionally creating a copycat platform, according to Semafore.
Spire wrote that Meta intentionally hired former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” he wrote.
“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” a Meta spokesperson responded in a post on Threads.
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“Competition is fine, cheating is not,” Musk tweeted later.
The rivalry began simmering in the days before Threads launched. In late June, Musk prodded Zuckerberg by challenging him to a “cage match.” A day later, Zuckerberg responded, saying “send me the location.”
American drone strike kills ISIS leader: US Central Command
“The Russian side once again expresses concern about the systematic violations of deconfliction protocols related to the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition,” the deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, Rear Adm. Oleg Gurinov, said...
Russian military responds to US ‘drone harassment’ complaints
The Pentagon was told to keep its UAVs away from closed Syrian airspace
"The Russian Air Force is conducting joint exercises with its Syrian counterparts, so part of the country’s airspace remains off-limits to the US-led forces, the Defense Ministry reiterated after the Pentagon accused Russia of “harassing” American drones for the third time this week.
“The Russian side once again expresses concern about the systematic violations of deconfliction protocols related to the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition,” the deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, Rear Adm. Oleg Gurinov, said in a statement on Saturday.
On Friday, the commander of US Air Forces Central, Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, claimed that “three MQ-9 drones were once again harassed by Russian fighter aircraft while flying over Syria,” for the third day in a row. He shared no footage of the encounters this time, but accused Russian pilots of making “18 unprofessional close passes that caused the MQ-9s to react to avoid unsafe situations.”
Drill in The Middle East
READ MORE: Russia kick-starts aiOOn Wednesday, Moscow and Damascus kicked off joint air defense drills, which are scheduled to last until the middle of this month. Electronic warfare units are also involved in the exercise, preparing for joint action to counter enemy airstrikes.
Asked whether the US drones could have indeed flown into a restricted area, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder insisted at a press briefing on Thursday that it would be preposterous to suggest Washington was to blame.“You... did you see the video?... So to suggest that somehow, you know, this is our fault, it’s ridiculous. So, okay?” he told journalists.
Ryder went on to say that US forces “have very successfully deconflicted with the Russians over many years,” but refused to say whether the US was following deconfliction protocols this time.
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