Twitter Death Cult"UNCONSTITUTIONAL WITCH HUNT"
"PHONY RINO"
jesus christ his tweets are indistinguishable from trump now, just more boring
*musk looks out his window and sees a growing crowd of drooling disability litigation lawyers like a walking dead scene*
Disability stuff isn't anything you want to fuck with if you make it very obvious you fired someone with money for disability reasons. And Musk was dumb enough to comment exactly on this on twitter and is preserved forever.
Told by who exactly? The voices in his head?
"Why didn't anyone tell me the dumb shit I was making up to attack my posting enemies wasn't true?!"
Also "upon learning I have committed many crimes and he has done nothing wrong I would like to say it was all just a silly misunderstanding"
Holy shit.
I can’t believe any of this is real. I’m super, super glad for Iceland dude because honestly I think there’s a good chance Elon found a way to fuck him/wait him out and dwindle his finances.
But like just holy shit on the level of advertising your gross incompetence as an executive of any kind for the entire world to see. It’s Elon’s bi-polar coaster.
What a just insane, unhinged blowout lol.
This guy roasted musk for being a shitty father and inheriting his wealth from an apartheid emerald mine and musk immediately caved and is now begging for him to come back because apparently the product he sent 44 billion dollars on is less reliable for communicating than a fucking telephone.
What a guy this Elon Musk is. Has zero issue attacking people who are rescuing children from a cave or are building accessibility ramps all across their home country. Meanwhile, as soon as PatriotFart1488 has an issue with the number of views they're getting, you better believe he'll bend over backwards.
I like how the best, pro musk spin he could put on it is that the man he committed open libel against is "considering" staying at twitter. That choice of wording stuck out to me.
That dude must of had a hell of a contract, huh?
Lol does anyone except Taibbi still do these? Is he the only one gullible enough to still think he’s doing ‘journalism’?
haha our ads can't properly target people hahah please advertise with us!
You publicly mock ONE beloved icelandic hero with muscular dystrophy and all of a sudden the entire media world is against you
Just a constant stream of ex Twitter employees goading Musk into admitting he broke the law
i want to ask the person who writes the tweets for DUDEwipes how their day is goin
I get that he's a drugged-out dolt who thought it was "le epic" to pull this sort of shit, but even short-term it makes zero sense and will lead to organizational collapse
https://inews.co.uk/news/pressure-cooker-elon-musk-twitter-2196309
"Whether the platform will even stay online is in part out of Twitter’s hands: it is reportedly in $70m of debt to Amazon for cloud hosting services it has not yet paid. Amazon so far has used its own advertising spend on Twitter as a bargaining chip designed to make sure the company pays its bills. But that could change."
"One former worker receives chasing messages from American Express, which provided their Twitter corporate credit card, for unpaid debt totalling thousands of dollars, through the credit card provider’s phone app.
The worker, like many, has raised it with remaining Twitter staff, who are unable to approve the outstanding amount for payment because it requires the approval of the former employee’s manager.
That person also no longer works for Twitter"
Lmao Taibbi sold his credibility for access to something nobody gives a solitary fuck about
Also lol at the absolute squirming, couldn’t have gone worse for taibbi and Gym Jordan. Amateur clowns all around
"journalist"
Taibbi has never questioned the idea that he may be receiving cherrypicked info from Musk and Twitter lol
https://nitter.net/atrupar/status/1633885759408095232
https://nitter.net/matthewstoller/status/1633881037833895964
I am sure that this 1-5 scale will be totally objective and not a piece of shit that will be constantly tweaked in favor of all the rightwing shithead's whose adoration Musk is so weirdly desperate for
If nothing else, the sheer level of right-wing American stooges that Putin has cultivated is astonishing
I like the guy in the replies who's twitter sub ran out in early february but still has the checkmark lol
"It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts."
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
Silicon Valley has been its own cultish little bubble for a while now, and it's no surprise that the bubble seems to finally be bursting/deflating. From Zuck and the "Metaverse" to Musk to crypto, the mystique of the "genius" techbro seems to be evaporating. It's long overdue because big tech companies have way too much power over our lives and our data.
Yeah, sure Elon. Just scratch up another $200 billion and convince federal regulators that you're the best pair of hands to place it in.
According to Elon and his fash buddies encouraging people to vote is cheating
Strong “worst person you know makes excellent point” vibes.
Musk for a while has had extreme deference towards China, to the point of even suggesting Taiwan should Hong Kong themselves and become a special administrative zone.
Trump’s assessment of Musk being a bootlicker for anyone who can give him handouts is still accurate.
https://nitter.net/RonFilipkowski/status/1634586282713141248
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski)
Bannon says when Musk was cut off from govt subsidies “he went begging the CCP, that’s why they have the joint venture. This guy lives on govt contracts and taxpayer subsidies. You’re not even an American, all you are is a globalist. You would take a check from Adolph Hitler.”
Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk’s Twitter
"Prominent members of Mexican drug cartels are using Twitter to recruit new members, send warnings to rival gangs, post gory images and videos, and glorify the narco lifestyle. Some of these accounts were banned by Twitter’s safety team between 2012 and 2015, but they have been reinstated since Elon Musk bought the company last year."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/mexican-drug-cartels-twitter-elon-musk-report
twitter dying due to no one being left to resolve certificate issues is the best and most hilarious possible death
"Just wait until he starts to do the baby fren talk, that's when Twitter is through the Black Hole looking glass, people."
goddamn that was prophetic posting
reminder that "fren" was originally one of the baby talk words people posting as their pets would use on instagram/reddit/Facebook/etc (the "heckin pupper does a frighten" kind of thing) then the nazis got the grand idea of using it all over their memes about how "all the non-frens run Hollywood"
Basically the nazi groups had a what they thought was a smart moment where they made “fren world” and they thought they were clever by talking in baby talk and replacing their talking points with thinly valid baby talk. Of course everyone saw what they were doing because it was obvious so they got made fun of for talking like babies and it kind of died out. This was a couple years ago and Musk's dumb ass just stumbled on it, because he's a terminally online nazi but remains years behind on memes
"I'm not part of the MAGA movement, I just believe everything they say without question"
Weird, first the q-anon shaman and now this asshole
Weird, wonder what Elon’s views are still
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1360816/download
It's important to note how they cannot accept that a young person can have any personal agency whatsoever. No, they must have been groomed into acting the way they are. Anything that prevents transphobes from treating their children like chattel is seen as a huge threat. It's a similar playbook used in anti abortion and anti gay rhetoric as well.
This comes from a watchdog agency without enforcement authority, but lol
elon just strikes me as a sciencey racist guy. the kinda guy that's really into IQ and phrenology and would say "i'm not racist, i just dislike all the minorities that are bad and dirty and stupid because of their inferior genetics" type of guy. those guys love to be racist without thinking they're racist and they think they're too good to say n words and such.
probably uses antique racist terms nobody else uses anymore. like “octoroon”.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/inside-elon-musks-cost-cutting-drive-at-twitter/
"From a secretive “war room” at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters last month, Elon Musk’s trusted lieutenants pored over a list of employees, showing how much they cost the social media company.
The billionaire owner’s “transition team,” headed by Steve Davis, who leads the Musk-owned Boring Company, then began to phone staffers. Some were asked to justify their role; others to recommend which colleagues to retain."
lol musk totally fired haraldur based on pay
Good thing you fired everyone that did understand the code, and have fun re-writing all the issues that were already there but with fun new bugs.
Actually, who am I kidding, the code's just gonna make the For You page explicitly just Elon and his replies.
"The algorithm" is really just a boogeyman. I'm reading The Chaos Machine right now and according to people who designed these recommendation engines even they don't understand them anymore. They are machine learning that is trained by gigs and gigs of data that basically operate autonomously anymore. The guy who designed youtube's says you don't tell it how to recommend stuff you tell it what metrics you want it to reach and it does the rest.
"snailbrook" looks and sounds like a richard scarry re-imagining of a dickensian prison
What if the tent factory was just the place you lived?
the absolute paucity of vision on display here is just pathetic
imagine having effectively unlimited funds, the best drugs on earth, access to real estate, two artists and the world's richest man, no one to tell you no, and this is the shit you come up with.
like, at minimum, i would expect some fucking alejandro jodorowsky shit, burning man as a town, or something. instead we get some boring ass texas suburb with a concentration camp sign over the entrance
Every day this man loves using the stupid site he overpaid for by billions of dollars to show off his incredible lack of critical thinking. No reflection, just immediate acceptance of what gets tweeted at him.
If anything, it's illustrative as to how there can be people who think that real life 'NPCs' are a thing - they have no critical understanding of anything. They're as thick as pigshit and twice as repellent.
https://deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media
Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The script, which parrots…
twitter's press strategy is already paying dividends
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64989720
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akzaw/antisemitism-doubled-on-twitter-after-elon-musk
Elon fiddling with the beads on the Slur Abacus to find the perfectly mathematically optimal slur intermix ratio
Search function has been broken for about 24 hours at this point meaning that the one thing Twitter was still good for, searching for news, is currently dead
Zitron’s newsletter rocks if you want to get riled up about morons running tech etc. some real infuriating stuff and he writes real good.
Lol what? Just shut off his subsidies and tax credits and he'll be a bankrupt nobody in like a year lol
so hold on
people pay for a status symbol, which causes them to get bullied so hard they want to hide it.
why not just... not pay?
I can't wait to see how excited advertisers are about having their verified checkmarks taken away and needing to pay one thousand US dollars every month to get them back
I for one don't foresee any problems with trying to charge your hypothetical advertising clients $12k/year for a gif, under threat of not having any way to disambiguate them from imposters after you've nuked your support and trust & safety
1.3 million people signed up at $8/ month? oh wait, that’s over three months. so just under a half million people paying for it.
musk really overestimated his ability to make people pay him money for no reason. I means, that’s still an insane number of people paying $8 for literally nothing but it’s naught a drop in the bucket against how much it cost by scaring away advertising
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/24/twitter-blue-subscriptions-spendings-mobile-users/
Troy@cspam I dunno. Last time they pulled this we got insulin down to 35 bucks.
RevK 
Paul Evans@cspam If I wanted to intentionally destroy Twitter and I happened to have $44bn spare, I can't think of a much better way to do it than the way Muskyboy is currently actually doing it
The Implausible Girl
Roo_44It’s the reason I’m going to buy a Tesla but keep it in storage.
Martin Johnstone
James Harris - Find my bridged Bluesky account@cspam I’ve been on about this for awhile now. He’s burning down Twitter on purpose https://mstdn.ca/@jbwharris/109985746053230086
James Harris (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I keep saying this lately, but I think Musk is being propped up by bad actors with the intent of neutering the most powerful social network to oppressive regimes. He isn’t losing $44b to tank Twitter, he’s been fronted money to gut the whole operation.
BenderIsGreat34@jbwharris @cspam I think you attribute too much sophistication to the man child. He’s just stupid. Standing on the shoulders of others, backstabbing everyone in his way, he amassed his fortune. The rest of it was through pure luck, grift and fraud.
@andymoose @cspam he is pretty dumb, and why I think this is rather likely is because he basically compromised himself. He was going to get his balls nailed to the wall by the Twitter board for reneging on his offer. He then went quiet for awhile and gathered investors to fund the purchase. I don’t think it was his smarts or savvy, it’s those investors who are driving the bus, not Elon.
Half Cocked Law@cspam He's so untouchable that he is...vulnerable to foreign manipulation.
It's nice when the editors don't read the pieces they write the headlines for.
Jeroen Baert@cspam Can confirm, Ed Zitron rocks
Mike Stevens 
@cspam he can't be that rad if he's not on Mastodon...
Clifton RoystonI think you'll enjoy this email I got after I refused to turn off 2 factor and the new Twitter management shut it off anyway. I guess some of the old systems are still running.
Maddler 
@cspam so, basically, longer useless content but perfectly formatted.
JohnJWyatt@cspam He should have started a blog. Guess he never heard of them.
Marty Party@cspam Well the term "yoo hoos and flippy flops" will be living rent free in my head for a while I think.
gemstar 
@cspam “reach of hate speech is lower”… “because they defined hate speech more narrowly.” Um, yeah. If you define what constitutes hate speech more narrowly, you will find less of it. Whoever wrote that tweet on the safety team is spinning that data really hard.
@cspam Arbeit macht frei
ML2@cspam
That's an insult to Richard Scarry 😛
Jokes aside, this and your follow-up tweet were my exact reaction to the depressing absence of creativity that is Musk's "city".
That's an insult to Richard Scarry 😛
Jokes aside, this and your follow-up tweet were my exact reaction to the depressing absence of creativity that is Musk's "city".
Briala@cspam That sounds like a book I'd enjoy. I know how to build things that can scale past their original design and metrics based recommendation engines sound like that.
Iain Harper@cspam This whole open sourcing thing is confusing me. Complexity notwithstanding, doesn’t it just make it easier for people to figure out how to game the system, and likely those people do not correlate with those you might actually want to see?
podkaynelives@cspam Hmmm.... March 31st, the day before April Fool's Day? 
John [He, Him, His] 🌈👨🏼🔬🧬🧫🧪💻@cspam he’s just trying to get free rewrites of the crap code he’s stuck with.
BeeksAdolf42069 (13 followers, Twitter Blue subscription): "Look, I'm a moderate who supports equality, but why do only blacks smoke crack? Must be genetic inferiority and Democrats are racist for denying it."
Elon Musk in reply: "Democrats just hate white people."
Keef86
Sawyer@cspam Are there people who don’t actually know why he downranked HHS?