Twitter Death CultI 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
gemstar 