Twitter Death Cultit’s Musk, so the next tier will be $69,000
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"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/
This is why this is so funny. Musk seriously thought it was some elitist title and then ended up making it so.
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
congratulations to the twitter employees now holding the hottest ticket in town: twitter stock
whats the inverse of "start up" 🤔
What's funny to me is that Elon saw the respect that blue check people got and came to exactly the wrong conclusion.
He thought those people were well respected because they had a blue check mark. That the "cathedral" of Twitter had minted them into the cool kids.
In reality, the correlation between the blue check and their popularity was because they had already established themselves as an important resource worthy of respect.
The check was a result of their importance. It didn't make them important.
Elon thought that his new plaything of a company was a kingmaker, and that by giving everyone a blue check he could make everyone important. But if everyone is special then no one is special, and the cache of the check was instantly lost.
He's got the same brain problem as Trump where recognition is success unto itself, with no ability to comprehend why things were popular or appreciated in the first place
reminds of the TJ Miller Musk story:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley
“Some Valley big shots have no idea how to react to the show,” Miller told me. “They can’t decide whether to be offended or flattered. And they’re mystified by the fact that actors have a kind of celebrity that they will never have—there’s no rhyme or reason to it, but that’s the way it is, and it kills them.”
Miller met Musk at the after-party in Redwood City.
“I think he was thrown by the fact that I wasn’t being sycophantic — which I couldn’t be, because I didn’t realize who he was at the time. He said, ‘I have some advice for your show,’ and I went, ‘No thanks, we don’t need any advice,’ which threw him even more. And then, while we’re talking, some woman comes up and says ‘Can I have a picture?’ and he starts to pose — it was kinda sad, honestly — and instead she hands the camera to him and starts to pose with me.
It was, like, Sorry, dude, I know you’re a big deal — and, in his case, he actually is a big deal — but I’m the guy from ‘Yogi Bear 3-D,’ and apparently that’s who she wants a picture with.”
Yes TJ Miller is a sex predator and abuser, and that's just one more thing Elon is jealous of him for
Even Ian is dumping on Elon's changes to Twitter lol
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-rights-new-viral-video-fixation
Apparently this is working. One of my friends who was permabanned from Twitter like 3 years ago for telling a nazi to kill themselves just got his account unbanned that way lol
This is lower than the stock ever got when he announced he was pulling out of the deal. Lol
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-offers-new-equity-grants-to-staff-938ee7f8
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-puts-20-billion-value-on-twitter
Twitter algos open sourced and way ahead of schedule! lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html
And of course by "news" we mean "all the disinfo and misinfo amplification you could possibly want"
Also lmao that elon is supposed to be the handsome bearded chad meme face, but even his most slobbering bootlickers realize that it is impossible to produce anything that is both aesthetically pleasant and recognizably elon musk
"hello i am a free speech absolutionist"
https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/
Yeah, that's his thing now. Weaponize community notes and then pretend it's unbiased.
He's also still really mad that Biden's Super Bowl tweet did better lol
Lol that's so obviously fake and satire. It shows Trump running ffs.
Better hope they don't see this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E
It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending
lol this rules
he shifted the focus of his destructive efforts back on the userbase.
great idea sir. very good business brain. social media has been around for 20 years, and until now no one was smart enough to paywall it.
hopefully he learns from lowtax's lessons.
especially that final one
lol reading between the lines here he's planning to store entire credit card numbers in their database. when he does and they get breached visa and mc are going to take a chunk out of him
Lmao that @Catturd2 is literally on the same level of "high public interest" account promotion as the owner of Twitter, the President of the United States, and Lebron James.
I'd wager this is part of a devops sanity check and not just a VIP list. The mix of accounts is too weird to be ideological boosting. These accounts are probably part of a test suite used to show the idiot king that the changes he wants are mind breakingly stupid.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
The Cleric@cspam Elon: Wait, what's PCI compliance?
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@cspam Apart from which, credit card info is completely unnecessary to that problem. Just limit the number of accounts against a phone number. Last I looked, phones cost considerably more than $8. Obvious.
creckling@cspam there’s probably at least 10 other ways to verify a human behind an account. Oh, but they took away that pesky 2FA via your phone option.
Mac Knowles
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PhDog 🇮🇪The Cabal™️ is trying to undermine confidence in Trump's carry potential:
US PRESIDENTS play Overwatch 2 (Trump, Biden, Obama)
SpicewallaI gotta side with ol' Leon Skunk here. There is no such thing as "non-extreme maga" its just maga. The entire party is made up of extremists.
The Ds are trying to split the party against itself by drawing that artificial distinction, but its a waste of time and it confuses other voters into believing that some magars are reasonable. Which makes it easier to split the ballot and vote for them in the smaller races where their crazy might not be so public.
Tito Ciuro@cspam Elmo is so f*#%ing condescending…
bazpoint@cspam
lol still bitter about those (extremely profitable) Tesla short positions 🤣
lol still bitter about those (extremely profitable) Tesla short positions 🤣
Half Cocked Law@cspam This is the guy who ordered people to print out snippets of their code, right?
Marc Jacobs@cspam I cannot answer that, but the lack of self-awareness is worsened by a monoculture of CEOs, VCs & investment bankers.
When your friends’ cars vary from Ferrari to Porsche to Lamborghini, you might be out of touch with your worker who has a 15 year old Honda.
@cspam Anoxic brain injury from consuming their own farts
Stephen Tatton@cspam @halfcocked best answer
The Doctor@cspam It's not their being idiots. Words don't mean things anymore. They're just a formality.
Matt L@cspam This fucking dope was never a billionaire.
He's a lifelong dotcom fail douche who kept crashing and flopping then getting bailed out by 'investments' from his friends.
His entire current (supposed) net worth is from having made a lucky bet one time on Uber.
Check out this hilarious profile
Oh cool..Netscape...HOWS THAT DOING? Oh and Mahalo Search..HOW'S THAT GOING?
Cool Jason. COOL.
Beeks@cspam of fucking course Elon replied to this idiocy in the affirmative.
Brain rot is real.
Brain rot is real.
Barry Parr@cspam the company was probably worth $20 billion when he finally bought it
He’d have a hard time selling it for $10 billion now
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud@cspam Meh. Lose a few billion here. Lose a few billion there. Pretty soon your talking real money.
I love this, so I
Liam 
@jpm @cspam @franksting after a review, my account will not be restored. @mnurkic can rest so much easier
Frank’s Old Thing
BlueDotAZ
LAUREN@cspam
I was informed by someone on Twitter that their close relative who was permabanned several years ago for threatening a senator has had their account restored. Elon is absolutely intentionally destroying twitter.
I was informed by someone on Twitter that their close relative who was permabanned several years ago for threatening a senator has had their account restored. Elon is absolutely intentionally destroying twitter.
@cspam just tried it, shock of shocks, it's 100% bullshit. Who could have predicted?
TazorI did the same. I've been banned for months and several appeals have been turned down, but today I wrote that I was cancelled due to my right-wing views (I voted for the Danish socialist party at our last election) and my account was unbanned 😂
Renalia - #1 pizza downloader@cspam also technically not an untrue statement! you could argue that your belief that right-wingers, especially nazis, need more punching, is a belief ABOUT the right-wing. :3
Paddy Duke@cspam Right wingers desperately trying to slow down Twitter’s demise as they realise they have much reduced reach and influence on the platforms people are moving to.
That fuck ought to know garbage...
Sandhu@cspam Ian trying to keep the clown competition down. When almost everyone who still remains on the platform is a clown, there’s no way for these mainstream huckster clowns to stand out and pedal their own misinformation/outrage.
Goodie@cspam Holy fuck that burn
Keef86@cspam of course he thought it was a “buy your way to prestige” thing, that’s all he’s ever done his whole professional life.
Steve@cspam a smoking crater
Nando Rossi@cspam one of the extremely rare occasions I’m glad Elon is running his mouth. OpenAI is quickly turning into the next basic tech of our society and they could do SO much damage with zero accountability.