It's pure Calvinball.

Katie ran the Space last night where journalists gathered and where Musk showed up and tried (badly) to defend the journalism bans.

Now Katie has been banned from using Spaces.

@mmasnick The Space made Elon mad and exposed a flaw in Twitter suspensions. So clearly she must be silenced as punishment!
@mmasnick She'll be allowed back into spaces once the IRS finishes their routine audit. Should be any day now.
@mmasnick do spaces even exist in the app?
@Lingonomics @mmasnick you're disgracing the noble sport of Calvinball with that analogy.
@mmasnick Don't sully the pure goodness of Calvinball for Musk's tantrum.
@mmasnick haha. Calvinball. That’s exactly what it is.

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Just because its and error that only seems to effect those that were in the space last night is no reason to think its because Emo is mad...

(The meds are working, I didn't burst out laughing once saying that)

@mmasnick dude is absolutely 🍌🍌🍌🍌 right now.
@mmasnick Pretty sure Elon deleted spaces entirely after that debacle.
@mmasnick So he would rather have journalists gather elsewhere to discuss such events - that he wouldn't be aware of or able to disrupt? That seems to be the message, no?
@sannl @mmasnick it does seem to be the message: Get on the first train out of town. Or rather let’s see how long I can toy with you until you begin leaving. Then I’ll invite you back and of course you will come back just like grimes. Anyway if you don’t come back I’ll just release some Non Fungibles of me as Incredible Hulk and date my secretary. No worries.
@mmasnick outside chance BirdSiteAdmins used a hacky way to nuke the space, and left all users tied to it in a limbo state?
@mmasnick Wait. I thought journalists violating rules led to Elon banning your account. What's up?
@mmasnick please don't disrepute the elegant and classy game of Calvinball with whatever nonsense that the entitled man-child is doing!
@mmasnick Violated rule #1 embarrassing the naked emperor
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Hmmmm nothing to do with making Elon look bad I'm sure
@mmasnick I think the thing that’s so shocking is how bad he is at coming up with a fake pretense.
@mmasnick @bkm : The rule she broke was “Thou shalt not annoy the Muskrat.”
@mmasnick Elon's words are not worth a plugged nickel. What a sad little boy he is
@mmasnick So, he’s running Twitter like an autocracy rather than a public square.
@mmasnick Elon is very vindictive. Feels like an early 2000's forum mod on a power trip everytime he does anything.

@mmasnick Almost makes me wonder if they've got the classic totalitarian dynamic going on over there --where the underlings are so eager to please the boss (or so scared of running afoul of him) that they're taking the purge to even crazier lengths than he's ordered.

"Working toward the Führer"

@mmasnick I'm happy to see your reference to calvinball. But I'm also kind of sad you used it in reference to that guy. What would Tracer Bullet say?
@mmasnick Calvinball is an apt description, but without the endearing qualities.