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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79SJATmZt4

Elon Musk being contradicted by engineers on a Twitter call

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Thread by @sarah_edo on Thread Reader App

@sarah_edo: Most of us who work on heavily used systems at scale saw this one coming, and that they would propose a rewrite as they just have, and we also don’t think this is the answer. This...

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.

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
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.

Trust? Safety? Humanization?

Chopping block'd

“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.

lol
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
excellent work all around here
tell me about your instagram likes and follows without saying it
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 ...

The Information
he sounded like fun
it's back! kinda!

he recognized that the tool in question was getting in way of his goal of maximizing trans kid suicides

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-orders-removal-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature-sources-say-2022-12-23/

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.

Reuters
He's like a kid who downloads Tweak UI for the first time
Musk isn't even a bottom-tier poster, he's not even a fishmech

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/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post
real big surprise this fuckwit is a covid truther
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

merry christmas elon
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/

Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter

Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter on his own. From Qatar to Jack Dorsey and Binance, meet the people who helped fund the acquisition.

The Washington Post
ah yes, the fourth reich, and elon as texico's president

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:

https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/Z_aqE2d4z/twitter-death-watch-basic-overview?orgId=4&from=1671609600000&to=1671955199000

Grafana

Glass Onion
Interesting morning

"The men in Musk’s phone also appear wildly confident in their own abilities and those of their peers. Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of the media conglomerate Axel Springer, infamously texted Musk his bullet-pointed plan for Twitter, which began with the line item “1.),, Solve Free Speech.”"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-texts-twitter-purchase-exhibit-h/672595/

Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything

A disastrous year for the tech industry, captured for eternity in a billionaire’s private exchanges

The Atlantic
elon shouldn’t have fired radium
WORKSFORME WONTFIX
Twitter in data-protection probe after '400 million' user details up for sale

Politicians and celebrities are said to be affected but the scale of the data breach is unverified.

BBC News
People dunked on him so hard for overusing the crying-laughing emoji that he's swapped it out for "haha" and "hehehe"
They're literally in the middle of shuttering the substack-clone newsletter service they acquired and integrated pre-Musk
jason still thinks that let that sink in is a cool catchphrase…..
musk in science understander buzzword mode spreading conspiracy theories over the holidays

twitter fucking loves science! bazinga!

lmao he doesn’t know what science is

much like fsd he has no self-awareness so he can't see the irony there, of course

having a normal one

the divorced losers are congregating

we're going to get some sort of divorce singularity, causing never before seen cope levels

watching this clownshow at twitter and thinking, these people want my credit card information. so they can make monthly charges. lmao

man who painted himself into a corner: "wow how did all this paint get here?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlOhSt_qW0

it's my first day

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Wasn't this what the FTC consent decree was about?
speaking of things that are legal and cool,
@cspam elon trying to be greta.. and absolutely fails
@cspam If you are cold, the sink is cold. Let that sink in!
@cspam Surely buying more things will fix this.

@cspam

I've been receiving WARNINGS from #Lifelock and the company my credit union uses since skum took over

I was permanently suspended before I could delete my info which isn't right

If suspended, we should still be able to delete our info

It's as if he owns the users which feels skeazy to me

@cspam "You paid the most ever to be the biggest internet troll… and you're still shit at it"
@cspam I thoroughly enjoyed it. And yes, very #musk lite.
@cspam With Alpha this, and Alpha that, certainly seemed more Zuck, rockets and cards more Musk, but buying a news channel seemed more Gates. Had a Jobs polo neck at one stage. Good hybrid.
@cspam motherfucker doesn’t even know the process of how Northern Ireland could separate from the UK