Simon StålenhagNov 15, 2022
Leaving twitter isn't easy, but the reason for me wanting to do so happened long before musk. As someone who has struggled with ocd anxiety my whole life, the non stop deluge of ai-art, nfts and fascists in my daily experience was just raw sewage for my mental hygiene. However - I think it is important to remember how important twitter has been for large groups of people and I think this article captures something important: https://www.garbageday.email/p/one-giant-slow-motion-fail-whale
One giant slow-motion fail whale

Read to the end for a pic of the person who ran next to your car when you were a child

Garbage Day
Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

@simonstalenhag Honestly I think it's much simpler than that.

He absolutely hates it when people aren't sycophantic to him.

His ego drove him to buy twitter because he couldn't tolerate any of the rightfully-earned ridicule he was receiving, in some narcissistically misguided belief that he could somehow "do it better" than the existing leadership when it comes to what he believed to be harassment.

And now, here we are.

Nov 15, 2022 at 12:49pmWeb
Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiNov 15, 2022

@simonstalenhag When you look at it from the perspective that apartheid brat literally has ABSOLUTELY NO ONE in ANY of the ventures he claims to've been the genius of, he is surrounded at the very top by sycophants that do whatever he tells them to do, and NO ONE stands up to him.

His ex-wife and now estranged child saying enough's enough drove him over the edge and his hissy fit that not everyone loves him is now affecting all of us.

Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻Nov 15, 2022
@dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag I'm not sure it was a reflexive movement. At this point I think he just doesn't make that kind of moves. I think it was more a -If I can do this why not- kind of moment.
Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiNov 15, 2022

@Ailantd @simonstalenhag And yet the very first thing he demanded Twitter's engineers do was to "fix" the verification system in order to "fix the harassment and spam problem" that Twitter had. His demand got monkeypawed.

Harassment is indeed real, there, but the nature of the problem is imagined solely by him and people like him, because people having the gall to stand up to them and say "No, you actually kinda suck." is harassment and bullying to them.

Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻Nov 15, 2022

@dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag He said it was to combat bots, which doesn't make sense, and actually made it worse, as many people told him.

I think he realized what a bad idea buying twitter was, and he indeed tried to stop it, but he was forced to comply. Now he has a real cash problem and he needs to make twitter profitable as soon as possible, hence the layoffs, the verification paywall and more of this to come. As simple as that I think.

Show threadKing Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiNov 15, 2022

@Ailantd @simonstalenhag Pretty much, yeah.

Apartheid brat and people like him (like Tangerine Turnip) really don't need nor deserve such high level analysis of their actions and thought process.

They're too narcissistic to be deserving of such deep thought about them.

They're incompetent, and their actions can be succinctly analyzed through the lens of thinking selfishly.

Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻Nov 15, 2022
@dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag hear hear!
Show threadKatharinaNov 15, 2022
@Ailantd @dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag yes I agree with this assessment.