Twitter Death CultTwitter will do great under the scam tunnels guy
https://www.platformer.news/p/in-latest-round-of-twitter-cuts-some
I'm so glad Elon is looking into this
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outages-elon-musk.html
apparently the rev share system is actually live, at least for some users?
initial results are not promising though lol
Broken Again
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/03/01/twitter-down-timeline-not-working/11372680002/
Me, owning you: "I wasn't even SHOWN anything that would go against the narrative that Elon Musk wants me to push!"
Lmfao, that’s not the slam dunk taibbi thinks it is.
“Uh sir they didn’t show me the files that made trump look worse”
How did Rupert Murdoch get secret information from the Saudis that could potentially have a major effect on the US economy in a negative way? Mystery of the century there.
it amazes me Musk thinks birdsite can threaten a company that's part of FAANG. fucking get out
Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat
Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. As recently as last month, Twitter sales and marketing staff were told by their colleagues that Amazon had ...
can't share revenue if there isn't any
ofc even if he was making money elom would use accounting tricks to keep from paying out any of this shit
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623927/twitter-blue-ad-revenue-one-month-missing
long tweets are getting even longer lol
Fuck yes, make it long enough to galtse people
Sacking the kiddie porn team is a special kind of evil
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007
"Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times."
"He believes this lack of trust is betrayed by the level of security Mr Musk surrounds himself with.
"Wherever he goes in the office, there are at least two bodyguards - very bulky, tall, Hollywood movie-[style] bodyguards. Even when [he goes] to the restroom," he tells me.
He thinks for Mr Musk it's about money. He says cleaning and catering staff were all sacked - and that Mr Musk even tried to sell the office plants to employees."
lmfao
Article: elon musk has made Twitter a safe haven for pedophiles and other sex abusers
Elon: sorry not sorry 🤣🤣
"Anyone who can best the CEO in hand-to-hand combat" may seem barbaric and harsh, but the Delaware Chancery Court has operated under these traditions since time immemorial
"'you have been found guilty by the court of musk, based on the compelling evidence of 'my friend said so'. the sentence is death."
A group of gaggling paid for blue check mark idiots cheering on Elon Musk suspending the creator of a video because they didn’t want some clout chasing account using it without permission is really a perfect encapsulation of how art is treated in general in America. How fucking dire
yeah I totally remember all those times that Twitter shit itself to death on a monthly basis before Musk bought it, thinking back to all those times that jack shrugged and complained about his company's brittle coding stack, definitely a thing that happened all the time back in 2021 and before
also lol when has a complete code refactor ever successfully solved these sort of structural problems? You can't program around having fired all your competent coders.
If there was ever a phrase that is a dead giveaway that you no longer have a functional testing environment and push all your code changes directly to the live site, it's definitely "a small API change had massive ramifications"
little baby bitch boy musk afraid of his own employees lol
Kinda wondering if Elon is just suffering from amphetamine paranoia or if he's actually worried about getting bonesawed by the Saudis who he owes all that money to.
Probably both.
Twitter is only one website therefore it only needs one site reliability engineer
https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down
gonna post all my content on the site that won't take DMCA requests seriously, fuck yeah
and surely the guy that won't pay rent will pay me for my content
Who would have thought that Elon would rush to the defense of people who copy/paste other people's stuff and pass it off as their own?
i'm sure the replies are full of empathetic folks offering words of support, now to scroll down...
this guy was iceland's person of the year in 2022, has done more productive work and more good for humanity than elon by a wide margin
and is currently getting mocked by the richest man in the world and his hooting apes as though he's an Engineer-1 who's trying to bluster through a code review (which would still be incredibly assholish behavior by elon and co)
Does elon delete these tweets when he realizes he's cry-laughing at a person with muscular dystrophy who has won national awards both for his design work and also his material contributions to equality and disability causes? Nope.
This is an incredible level of shitty behavior and being an abhorrent human being, even for Elon. Holding his contract hostage after taking his company and making him grovel in public to determine if he gets paid what his contract owes is some next level psychopathy.
This guy took a salary for the sale of his company so he’d pay the maximum tax in Iceland vs a lump sum, so he’s probably owed a lot of money.
I’m sure with the way courts have ruled in Elon’s favor this guy will get what he’s owed.
Elon has just made an enemy of the entire nation of Iceland.
"After my website completely shat the bed for 2 hours today, I decided to pick a fight and publicly humiliate a disabled former employee, who is also a well known and highly esteemed philanthropist, for the crime of asking why no-one in HR had even replied to his email asking if he was fired.
Just another day as a gigachad CEO"
peep the replies if you wanna see some seriously depraved bullshit from the musk stans
huh, apparently Elon just hates iceland?
https://grapevine.is/news/2021/05/10/elon-musk-mocks-iceland-in-snl-sketch/
"Sir, do you even know what a Figma is?"
"No, what's a Figma with you? Rolling laughing emoji with tears streaming down it's face."
"Sir, did you just--"
"You're fired. You fucking moron."
Love saving my company $500k and sucking on the pudgy toes of my favorite CEO in exchange for a grand slam breakfast
Not at all surprised by musk's treatment of Halli as it seems very typical of his personality. I find it a lot harder to read all the musk sycophants jumping in to insult him. just so fucking gross
Holy fucking shit if that isn't clear cut discrimination and fucking hate crimes against someone disabled.
Like dude just daily somehow keeps digging fucking deeper into the bedrock and keeps fucking finding new lows.
Just fuck you Elon, fuck you.
He is genuinely the biggest piece of shit in the world, jesus christ.
I get why that kid pushed him down a flight of stairs and put him in the hospital in elementary school now.
Here's some background on Hali's alleged deal with Twitter, taken from ResetEra's Musk thread:
Sounds like he's owed a rather large amount of money over time as compensation for pre-Musk Twitter acquiring his company, and Musk is trying to stiff him
This information matches what's been reported in this BBC article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183
I sincerely hope that the dude has a contract like resetera states and it then gets a goddamn country to sue Twitter for breaking contract and drags him over the coals. Dude deserves way better then how's he's being treated
The guy didn't even insult Elon or slight him at all, and Elon just openly, in front of God, the Meme Community, and everyone viciously shit talked this dude for daring to speak to him.
This is a new nadir, even for Elon. Proper Twilight Zone shit seeing that all play out in public. Of all the things that have happened this in particular has left me reeling, like it’s too surreal to have actually happened in our reality.
Dude trying to find out if he’s still employed because no one will answer him and he’s basically treated like a cat toy by Musk and his stans. He wasn't badmouthing Elon or attacking Twitter, continually said that Elon had every right to lay him off, etc. The reaction of Musk and his fans is insane and so defensive. Right to victim mode, the poor helpless billionaire being bullied by the mean disabled former employee.
What is a poor Elon to do but make a complete ass of himself in public instead of just sorting this internally, like a normal company would?
Why Apple and co would continue to advertise on this platform is beyond me. There comes a point where the public antics of the very ingratiated figurehead reflect on you if you’re putting money in their/his pocket.
Oh hey look, it gets worse. The guy posts a picture of himself, in a wheelchair because...well he's in a wheelchair, and the Elon fans' response is about as level headed and friendly as you would expect
I did an instant follow on the Icelandic dude and he is slamming Elon into the ground
His lawyer must've given him the go-ahead to drag Elon through the mud
Get his ass
remember how he made a joke about the automated new manager training notification he got after buying twitter? maybe he should have taken it
then again they probably wouldn't put in "Don't fire someone and then in a public forum say you did it because you think they're faking a disability" because no one thought it needed to be said
Just fake news all around, spread by a nazi, then boosted by Musk
-the woman in the video he's replying to is a Dutch far-right provocateur
-the farmer she's talking about isn't a farmer and doesn't live in the province he claims to live in
-he stole the story from facebook where it was posted by another guy, an actual farmer who was also lying
-No farmers have been forced to stop, and certainly not for the reason she claims (Dutch Debunk: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633057193535631361.html )
Truly inscrutable politics~
Being the CEO means stoking J6 conspiracies and mocking disabled people
"I sleep at Twitter, do you?"
"No I sleep in my house, with my wife."
“I have 2 kids. I see them every day. I recommend that.”
just because you're in a wheelchair doesn't mean you can't dunk
"You see the problem with this world is that corporations don't have enough freedom to fire and public humiliate workers"
Arguments about disability and what work he has done aside, it seems pretty clear that he is being paid for the sale of his company. He is pretty much collecting paychecks as an installment plan, so any work he accomplishes at all is gravy, frankly. I hope they have to pay the guy an exorbitant amount for breaking contract.
The case with the Iceland guy might go a bit different than other cases it seems:
https://nitter.net/anotherglassbox/status/1633128682641293317
Dan Seljak (@anotherglassbox)
wow. the guy, Halli, that Elon Musk has been mocking is not only a class act, but was literally on a list of "do not fire" VIPs because of how expensive his exit package was (likely because, if what Halli's other tweets say are true, Twitter acquired his company for a good price)
Further down in the quoted thread, they link to a part of the article that says Halli elected to receive the buyout payment for Ueno as a salary, rather than as a lump-sum buyout, because the latter would be taxed as capital gains (less) and Halli was fine with paying salary income taxes (more) because he'd benefitted from the Icelandic social system and wanted to give back at that level instead.
https://nitter.net/_ElizabethMay/status/1633127286680563712#m
Which explains why Elon thinks he was doing nothing (he's just sitting there collecting a paycheck!!!) and also makes this all the more hilarious, since they literally can't stop paying him until the buyout amount is met. I'm sure that's why Halli keeps saying "are you going to pay me as agreed in the contract," I'm sure the contract was basically written up to say they pay him a salary at least until the buyout amount is met
(which was probably an 8 figure amount in USD, based on estimates of what the company was worth at the acquisition), or there was some early payout with a penalty. Ueno was purchased in January 2021, how much of his share of the buyout could he have received as salary in the last two years?
I have no idea what the outcome of this will be but I hope the very nice Icelandic guy continues to infuriate Musk for a while.
even the dogecoin guy was telling him it's not a good look and he still doubled down... now its deleted
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633147320056557569?cxt=HHwWgsDR3ba1jaotAAAA
lol if one of the lawyers tackled him and wrestled his phone away
"Read between the lines, the guy baited Elon big time and Elon fell for it like the gigantic stupid asshole that he is"
Work being lines of code, I assume
The big payout being the one that he’s contractually owed lol
Yeah love getting to know Elon through questions like “hey can you have HR call me it looks like I’m fired but no one will talk to me” and getting such insightful insights into Elon as “likes to make an idiot out of himself”
The article that that is from seems to have been taken down. luckily its still up on the internet archive
Trump’s usage of Twitter gave me a constant headache but he at least just wanted to use it to projectile diarrhea his stream of consciousness all over the place. Elmo tries to do the same thing but then also tries to mix it up like a 2006 forums poster everyone hates. Can’t summon up the willpower to disengage and tries to roll with the punches.
good summary here:
you have to be a psychopath to get as much money as Elon has. any decent person will drop out to do whateverthefuck makes them happy long before hitting the multi-billion mark. Halli looks to be a fantastic example of someone doing exactly that.
a "normal" person would be absolutely wrecked by being personally responsible for a mass layoff and all the pain that brings to the people affected. you have to enjoy hurting people to choose being a CEO when you have enough money for several lifetimes
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎@cspam so many guys who got metoo'ed ... excuse me, WHAT THE FCK
how can this man keep getting worse so relentlessly
Roo_44
Fuck Elon 
Holy shit!
Francisca Sinn@cspam That interview with his father is wild. This says so much: “ He said that even as a pre-schooler, Elon had set his sights on becoming the wealthiest man alive, crediting that uber-macho "South African boy" upbringing with driving his ambition.
"It's part of the way we lived, the way I lived. We strove to be the best we could," he told AFP in an interview…”
Joanna Czechowska@fsinn It probably helped that his dad owned a emerald mine.
@JoCzechowska Taught that “best” means “richest”. How very sad.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@cspam Anybody note Edgelord is describing himself in great detail here?
Lunatech@cspam Agreeing with an idiot, shows there are two. Especially if neither knows all the facts.
Steve@cspam stone cold murder, love it
@cspam haha elon just apologised, guess someone asked the lawyers
Charles Johnson@cspam Yep. Who couldn’t see this one coming? He’s doing everything possible to promote far right propaganda, at the worst possible time.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@cspam Musk turns out to be a quite despicable fellow traveler. Well have I ever, who'd have thunk! 🙄
Lars Fosdal@cspam I guess he didn't attend it.
PPN@cspam When Musk stated that he asked for the green light of lawyers I am starting to believe he either lied or they did not expect him to tweet himself into a case of publicly discriminating a disabled employee 😅
Sean C.@cspam @chancerydaily Elon’s too stupid to see this is a trap and he will fall right into it
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
shyduroff@cspam … +++ …
skua@cspam
Elon lives in mortal fear of
Dwarf Ninja Ukifune Jinnai’s Toilet Assassination Of Uesugi Kenshin - Ancient Pages
Being small-sized does occasionally have advantages, especially if you are a Ninja who has been sent on a deadly mission. Sometimes referred to as the Dwarf toilet Ninja, Ukifune Jinnai did not let his height prevent him from achieving his goals. As a matter of fact, he succeeded where others had failed.
ML2@cspam What the heck is wrong with these people?
If these were all Twitter Blue subscribers I could write these people off as just random sycophants. But they’re not. Every one of these people is “legacy verified”.
Richard Cooke, who arguably is the most nakedly awful person in those images aside from Musk, is from what I can tell an author featured in such outlets as The New Republic. You’d expect him of all of these people to at least be able to do a little research and figure out that who Haraldur is and why Musk is lying through this teeth, but I guess he just preferred to reveal his true colors instead.
Looking at Boghossian, I thought I recognized the name. Turns out I did: he was part of the trio behind the “Sokal Squared” hoax. At the time that came out I thought the fact they were able to get blatantly nonsensical articles published in journals for certain very specific fields carried some weight as indicating a possible lack of rigor in said fields [1]. However, it seems every one of those three people has fallen off into fatuous (or worse) territory since then. It’s really disappointing seeing Boghossian sucking up to Musk, especially like this.
I have no idea who Nick Flor is IRL, but I remember seeing him and I remember him being a jerk as well, so him being one isn’t surprising.
[1]: Please note that I absolutely do not support the “culture wars” or the right’s authoritarian crusade against “woke-ism”. Assuming the Sokal Squared hoax is valid, it is so only as a criticism of a lack of rigor in those specific fields at the time, as was the original Sokal hoax with sociology around 2000. Since the original Sokal hoax, sociology has massively improved in rigor; I would be surprised if that hasn’t also happened in the fields Sokal Squared affected. Moreover, lack of rigor in a field is a problem that should be addressed by dialogue in the academic community, not by political action; indeed, government attempts to legislate the bounds of academic discourse, especially for partisan or ideological reasons, should always be viewed with extreme skepticism. Finally, there are a lot more important things people should be worrying about; indeed, lack of rigor in obscure fields of the humanities is probably the least concerning thing affecting academia at the moment — and right-wing attacks on education and research probably the most concerning.
Christmas Tree@cspam “As I read it, I kept asking: ‘What code was he writing at Twitter?’ Zero. He ‘lead efforts’”
This dude is literally describing Elon
DGiant@cspam Read the whole thing. Musk is such an asshole
Jack Ivers@cspam Is Halli on masto?
PhDog 🇮🇪Elon's gonna need a rocket just get out the crater this guy is putting him in.
Zeke@cspam what a prick
Robert Carr@cspam MODS!!!
Elon thinks he’s dismissing some random visa having engineer and not like a person the entire Icelandic government will get behind since they’re seen as a national hero when it comes to a lawsuit. Keep going Elon! Stick that dick deeper in that pencil sharpener. Maybe say how you just don’t like disabled people and don’t hire them for this reason next to really get your lawyers drinking
Martin Vermeer FCD@cspam The money is one point, and a valid one. But why aren't they mortified at being seen in the same context as this monster? Heck, I am mortified at living on the same planet and sharing 99%-plus of DNA with him...