Twitter Death Cult
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
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