Twitter Death Cultwhoever called the "he's a very special boy, top of his class, and you're not respecting HOW SPECIAL he is" come claim your prize
"you want me to work with others?!? what the fuck is wrong with you, you should just be keeping them out of my way!!!"
So when boywonder says "political" he means organizational. Y'know. "Who has the capacity and familiarity to get shifted to the new task? Do we bring in new folks?"
This dude's a dipshit.
it's almost like people who can't work with others have a vested interest in perpetuating the "brilliant jerk" myth
when geohotz says twitter was political he's mad because they put the login wall back up after he removed it because all their metrics are based on daily average users and they need you to login to count. musk claims they're going to move to 'unregretted user minutes' as the primary metric but i have zero idea how they are going to measure that
you also can't really show ads (profitably) to users who aren't logged in (especially on mobile) which is another reason geohotz is an idiot who doesn't understand the business
he's also mad they don't want to move all their ml inference stuff from tfserving to his shitty home grown thing
apparently twitter is blocking GV from SMS now lol
i'm sure nobody was using it
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-google-voice-2fa-authentication-sms-195145660.html
According to musk in the full-length Spaces chat Twitter was getting "scammed" something like $13MM/yr from Telcos with SMS fees for 2FA for bogus accounts. He said once he found out about this he told his staff, "any Telco that has higher than a 10% scam rate, cut them off." He said that this resulted in something like 389 Telcos being shuttered from service with Twitter because they were all scamming Twitter. I guess GV was one of these lol
He said he told his staff to strong arm the Telcos into lowering their fees on SMS. No doubt a Trumpian move, break shit and threaten to leave until they give you what you want.
losing 300 mil a month and making an unannounced feature change to save 1 is some boy genius shit
they also cut off fucking Vodafone but didn’t disable SMS-based 2FA for affected accounts, so those users can’t even log in
iirc users with token-based 2FA who registered Vodafone numbers also can’t log in because they disabled all 2FA prompting, not just SMS sending
lol that the new status icons don't pass basic WCAG. i bet the aria-label still has the same text for all of them, too, like when lonny first added the $8 blue boys
lol at the idea of musk getting someone else to be CEO and then hanging around fucking everything up by being "head of engineering" or whatever it was.
just imagine how bad a job it would be having to deal with his bullshit all the time as you desperately try to pull the company out of a stall
and it's really geohot and Musk telling on themselves that they've never actually developed anything more complex than could be run as a monolith or a group of services on a single box.
Don't forget that Musk had to be kicked out of PayPal before he could rollover everything from Linux to Windows, and his dev skills seemingly haven't modernized one bit from there. The idea that there'd be so many different services doing different roles that it's not reasonable to build and run it all on a single machine is alien to them both; neither of them have likely ever written any code in an environment with that level of complexity.
Oh, and Musk fired everyone who could explain it to them, assuming either of them would even listen to and then retain anything those devs told them.
he really is the Idea Guy that downloads GameMaker and starts looking for the MMO checkbox
that court transcript has a nice bit of total bullshit where he lays out exactly how he wants to be seen
"Q. In fact, when you became the CEO of Tesla many years before, were you already the CEO of any other companies?
A. Yes. I was running SpaceX. I should say the CEO role at SpaceX and also at Tesla, it’s less about the CEO but, rather, that I am the one driving the technology."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23465042/elon-musk-tesla-ceo-compensation-trial-full-transcript
So at SpaceX, it’s really that I am responsible for the engineering of the rockets; and at Tesla, for the technology, you know, in the car that makes it successful. So CEO is often viewed as somewhat of a business-focused role, but in reality, my role is much more that of an engineer developing technology and just making sure that we develop breakthrough technologies and that we have a team of incredible engineers who can achieve those goals.
And it is my experience that great engineers will only work for a great engineer, and so I — that is what I — that is my first duty, not that of CEO."
He's so in charge that middle management has to give him stuff to look at to keep him from firing critical personnel.
musk comes in and writes on a whiteboard "IDEA: rocket should go UP", underlines the last word 4 times as his inner circle all nods and fawns over how brilliant that idea is, then goes back to arguing with nobody on twitter
He's said before that to learn anything you just need to read a book. And that's what he did with rocket science. He just read a book on rockets, and then knew everything about rocket science. Pretty sure that's almost an exact quote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-learned-rocket-science-for-spacex-2014-10
this sounds positively delightful to database engineers, but i'm also looking forward to see how deranged people get after this
"It's sooo alive! Don't let the loss of revenue and layoffs and code fails and fly-by-wire policy making fool you. The VIEWS will prove this is a stable company."
yeah sure keep firing the people who tell you when something you want to do is illegal
Textbook example of the "he's a dumb guy's idea of what a smart guy is". What makes it funnier is that Elon also truly believes that himself, he's his own biggest fanboy and anyone who tries to counter him is an enemy just trying to bring him down. He's not open to learning anything new, or taking an expert's word on something, because as far as he knows he already has all the knowledge of every subject contained in his massive brain. Everyone else is wrong
Elon Musk being contradicted by engineers on a Twitter call
Good thread on why Elon is dumb
Surely Elon unbanning more neo-Nazis and spouting QAnon conspiracy theories will just bring advertisers running back in droves
just thinkin about this guy running 5 companies while fathering a dozen kids, fat rolling around with two shields equipped
Pretty good substack article on Elon and other idiot kings
https://ez.substack.com/p/moving-fast-and-breaking-things
"They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have a backup plan, because they have always prided themselves on “being good when the going gets tough.”
Moving Fast and Breaking Things
When someone is suppressed, restrained or otherwise pushed into a corner, the aggressor tends to assume unlimited power. The feeling of isolation and power imbalance gives the oppressor a form of momentum - as long as they can control the rules of the system, they are unstoppable, able to bend and crack someone to their will, even as onlookers attempt to intervene.
Yet they will always be deeply vulnerable to their own failures. They will always make mistakes, because they don’t believe they’ve ever made one. And when they start losing, they lack the capability to stop the world from falling down around them, because that starts at a point of introspection they’ve never had to reach."
So this poll counts, but the one telling him to fuck off with a magnitude more voters is bullshit, huh?
I can't believe Elonk would let AssasinationCoordinates.com advertise on his assassination coordinates-free website
getting advertisements for Blue now and I really can’t see how this is appealing to anyone
lmao “quality conversations” ok
These are the sorts of "quality conversations" twitter blue subscribers are providing
looks like Parler
Love that there's still so many people who are convinced he's going to use space travel and electric vehicles to help save humanity, when meanwhile he genuinely believes that the biggest threats out there are that not enough white babies are being born and that folks like thirdreichfan88 can't freely tweet out racial slurs whenever they want.
“likes are more important than retweets” might be the most fucked up understanding of Twitter musk has demonstrated yet
the move fast and break things transformation to Facebook is now in motion
Of course he's madder than he's ever been. This is the first time anybody has ever told musk he's wrong in his life
The mask has driven into the back of a fire truck
grimes banging chelsea utterly destroyed elon's brain jesus christ
"i don't hate them, i just will defend to the death my own right to say how much i hate them and how they should all be rounded up into camps and killed"
And again, he did recently follow Rowling on Twitter, so let there be no confusion as to the motive there.
he tweeted this and got a search ban within 20 minutes. his name doesn't even appear in the search listings if you type his username. he has 1.2 million followers
I can’t tell if he’s talking about the like count or the page that lets us see which nazis elon is liking recently. either one is lol
accessibility support is exactly the kind of thing that “hardcore” “hackers” who like to bro down and crush code would see as stupid woke garbage but is actually super important and makes your product better overall
elon and his heritage really bringing "dutch-built" as a synonym for shoddy work back to the fore
what is the boring company doing that requires that guy to live at work
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-may-have-found-a-hardcore-leader-for-twitter
Musk May Have Found a Hardcore Leader for Twitter
Like many new dads, The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis spent the first few weeks of fatherhood sleeping near his partner and newborn. Unlike other new fathers, Davis and his family were sleeping in an office—a makeshift bedroom at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, where Davis has spent the ...
he recognized that the tool in question was getting in way of his goal of maximizing trans kid suicides
Exclusive: Twitter removes suicide prevention feature, says it's under revamp
Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk.
looks like privacy and data protection laws are just a few of the ones musk doesn't think will be enforced meaningfully
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/
Yes, that screen cap is real. Totally normal CEO thing to talk about unplugging random servers at 4am on Xmas Eve morning, on a Saturday.
lol he's literally muntzing a giant multinational machine
if there was any question as to whether Musk was kicked out of PayPal for wanting to move everything to Windows, let this be effective confirmation. He was never good at any of this, he just had some good PR for a bit.
lol he spent the whole holiday being bitter and vindictive about his ex and also his kid that hates him
a christmas carol but visited by jeff epstein, somebody who burned to death in a model 3, and lowtax
This is how we know that twitter is still in the fast lane to bankruptcy
"twitter is fine, even when i unplug shit it just works"
It just hit me that he really turned around mid-fight to go to Sacramento to personally shut down one of Twitter's three remaining data centers on fucking Christmas Eve, and I burst out laughing.
I feel bad for the H1bs left to deal with the fallout though.
Apparently, Sacramento and Atlanta are supposed to be about 1 to 1 in function, designed for consensus and mirroring, with Portland being roughly half capable of that. So theoretically, you can hard shut off Sacramento and it all fails over to ATL and PDX seamlessly, but the "Looney Tunes character sawing off the tree branch they're standing on"-analogy is very accurate at this point
lol this is what happens if you select text in a tweet on android twitter
great job guys
if you're a repressive regime it’s easier and faster to just buy access to Twitter’s internal tools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
So someone made a grafana dashboard with various Twitter metrics, first amongst them latency measurements of Sacramento and Atlanta, and guess what happened right around Elon's "Twitter is Rube Goldberg, doesn't break when unplugging essential things" tweets:
¡a!n@cspam motherfucker doesn’t even know the process of how Northern Ireland could separate from the UK
LAUREN@cspam
Bingo. He bought a weapon, not an investment. People focused on his financial losses are looking at the wrong hand. I think the Saudis will own twitter, when all is said and done, simply by paying off the creditors. In the meantime, Elon is cleaning house for them and parting out the wreck.
Bingo. He bought a weapon, not an investment. People focused on his financial losses are looking at the wrong hand. I think the Saudis will own twitter, when all is said and done, simply by paying off the creditors. In the meantime, Elon is cleaning house for them and parting out the wreck.
Nat Gertler@cspam His driving away users and advertisers was a 4D chess move to let him save money by closing down data centers. Soon he shall drive them all away, and boy won't Twitter be profitable then!
Matt@cspam Seems grinchy to turn off blinky lights on Christmas Eve.
ML2@cspam
When is this vid from?
When is this vid from?
Jacosketching@cspam you have got to be jo-this is beyond parody. How is the onion supposed to compete?
Abandoned America@cspam this is pretty hilarious. From the web on my mobile phone, the counter bar is just cut off. Can't scroll it over to what I'm guessing is the likes counter, can't see any more than what's on the screenshot. Just... cut off numbers
you fart 16 tons
outta your jet
another day older and deeper in debt
st. thiel don't you call me cause i can't go
i owe my soul to the saudi chateau
outta your jet
another day older and deeper in debt
st. thiel don't you call me cause i can't go
i owe my soul to the saudi chateau