Twitter Death CultI 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?
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
"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
If nothing else, the sheer level of right-wing American stooges that Putin has cultivated is astonishing
"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/
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
"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"
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
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.
"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
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/
lol he is such a bitter little boer
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai
"..Musk proposed a possible solution: He would take control of OpenAI and run it himself.
Altman and OpenAI’s other founders rejected Musk’s proposal. Musk, in turn, walked away from the company — and reneged on a massive planned donation. The fallout from that conflict, culminating in the announcement of Musk’s departure on Feb 20, 2018.
..An OpenAI announcement said Musk would continue to fund the organization, but Musk did not.."
he desperately wants to be seen as a pioneer pushing the field of AI forward
I'm sure he's extremely bitter that chatgpt is way more popular than his firetruck-hunters
Timothy Wolodzko
Shoq 🌿
LAURENI know of two people who signed up to pay and twitter stopped debiting their accounts at year end and they still have the blue check.
Troy
RevK 
Paul Evans
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 accountJames 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
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
Mike Stevens 
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 
JohnJWyatt
Marty Party
gemstar 
ML2That'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
Iain Harper
podkaynelives
John [He, Him, His] 🌈👨🏼🔬🧬🧫🧪💻