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John Gruber$44 billion to run the site like a 7th grader would.
Nick Heer@gruber I’m an idiot for questioning whether that was a real screenshot.
NullNoMore
@NullNoMore Oh, yeah, I checked right away.
@nickheer -- I still can't quite believe it smdh
Chris Shaddock@NullNoMore @nickheer @gruber dig a little dealer and you will learn that most media/news in Canada had taken money from the Gov as part of a bailout program including the Toronto Star.
Bert JW Regeer 🏳️🌈@gruber ruining value one day at a time.
Pär Björklund@bertjwregeer @gruber and then you have tesla investors calling for Elon to stop playing with Twitter and focus on tesla 😂
Carlos Sierra 🌹@gruber What an unbearable asshole. I really hope Twitter finally crashes a burns so #SpaceKaren shuts up (at least for a little while).
Phil Rees@CarlosSierraOz @gruber I'm 71% sure he'll use generative AI to fake users and engagements on the platform to attract advertisers and skew political discourse.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/15/elon-musk-chatgpt-ai-rival-openai
@phrees I believe you, Musk has proven time and time again that he’s unethical and a liar. I don’t really understand the cult of Elon beyond the cultural stances he takes, he’s shown to be a shady and unprofessional asshole.
Anthony Finucane 🏳️🌈@gruber He’s such a fucking tool.
joe•iuculano 
@gruber Please, don't insult 7th graders
Edwin G.@gruber This is insulting for 7th graders. They already know their percentage equations 😅
Of note, CBC/Radio-Canada have paused their Twitter posts: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cbc-says-it-is-pausing-its-use-of-twitter-after-government-funded-media-label-applied-1.6359113
Simon 🪗
Casey Liss@gruber Can you imagine being the engineer tasked to implement this?
::: record scratch :::
You may wonder how I ended up here…
herid@caseyliss @gruber no sympathy for said engineer. you work for Musk at this point you know exactly what you’ve signed up for.
Nate Vack 🍴
Bee O'Problem 
@herid @caseyliss @gruber rumor is they're mostly H1Bs now whose visas are tied to working specifically at Twitter. I've read posts that said being fired can mean being deported. Not sure how accurate that is though since I've not done the research.
Of course if you willingly chose to work for Twitter *after* the buyout you really have no excuse.
Kyle Bradbury@caseyliss @gruber I wonder what the breakdown is of employees who are memelords vs “I literally can’t find another job right now”
kinyutakaTwitter employees updating their CVs to say that they worked for MySpace instead of Twitter:
@kinyutaka @kyle @caseyliss @gruber odds that Tom would willingly be a reference for folks trying that 😂
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@caseyliss @gruber you bet this stuff is just becoming a list of stupid hard-coded strings somewhere. It’s going to be a nightmare to maintain.
Doctacosa
Dave@gruber news organizations and journalists with even the slightest ounce of integrity have to leave. He’s a spoiled man child and an asshole. Who would put up with that shit?
Robert Brodrecht@gruber nobody taught him the difference between good attention and bad attention
Christopher Griffiths@gruber And there’s going to be nothing stopping him from saying to NPR or CBC—use it or lose it. You want to pause your account? I’m opening it up to anyone to use and throw a check mark on it. All legitimate media should be dumping that platform.
json t@gruber Bill & Ted redeemed themselves in the end. I don’t have the same hope for #SpaceKaren.
SgtMoredread🇨🇦@gruber fuck you Elon
LindaNYC2VT Ⓥ 🌊🐖🐄🐓🦃🐬🐝🦋🦇@gruber @tchambers The perfect case for fixing tax laws and ending the billionaire Federal tax exemption. #TaxTheRich
Marcos Huerta@gruber Definitely not worth $44B now...
Paul Koenig@gruber Tesla is facing growing challenges, SpaceX has a major launch attempt scheduled, and this is how he spends his time.
Tim Chambers@gruber Had to check twice that it was real. Crazy.
Jonathan Lupien-Gougeon@gruber and just like that, I deleted the app from my home screen. Being a Canadian, I find that insulting, and I am so glad that I decided not to get a Tesla for my next car
nhan@johnlupien @gruber It's quite amazing he doesn't care (or aware?) that the demographic who care about journalism is a significant chunk of those who are environmentally conscious and will adopt EV early.
Tesla investors are worried about the collateral damage of Musk's Twitter on Tesla and rightfully so. Tesla car sales might still go up in near term because of the first-to-market advantage but long-term impact will be clear.
Francisca Sinn@gruber One good side of this is it’s going to cost Poilievre and the CPC votes, and they can’t afford to lose any. Canadians, by a wide margin, support the CBC, support maintaining or increasing funding for the CBC, and think it’s important for their Member of Parliament to support the CBC.
https://nanos.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-1386-FCB-Populated-Report-with-Tabs.pdf
See pages 33-48 -
https://nanos.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-1386-FCB-Populated-Report-with-Tabs.pdf
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Fahri Reza 🍉
Hisham@gruber Does SpaceX's Twitter also have a "government-funded business" label attached to it? 😉
Kellygiz@hisham_hm @gruber Or Tesla, for that matter…
Essem 
@gruber i've seen plenty of fedi admins like this as well but the difference between them and elon is that the fedi admins are actually funny
Anthony Piscitelli@gruber I hope this inspires the CBC to start a Mastodon server. #cbc #twittermigration
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10/CBC-Should-Start-Own-Mastodon-Server/
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/10/CBC-Should-Start-Own-Mastodon-Server/
Gerald Leppert, PhD 
In fact, it's time for #CBC to consider starting an own #Mastodon / #Fediverse instance.
After #Twitter labeled CBC as "Government-funded Media", #CBC and #ICI.Radio-Canada decided to pull out of #Twitter. The only logical consequence would be to create a #Mastodon account or an own instance.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media-1.6812591
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1972182/reax-trudeau-poilievre-twitter-cbc-radio-canada
CBC pauses Twitter activity after being labelled 'government-funded media' | CBC News
CBC/Radio-Canada has paused activities on its corporate and news Twitter accounts, after the social media platform put a "government-funded media" label on its @CBC account, in its latest move to stamp public broadcasters with designations.
Ellie Harvie@gerald_leppert @Anthony @gruber so ridiculous to suggest "government funded" is bad. We live is a damn democracy! Better we can vote out fools that be beholden to rich fools who hold the purse strings and are responsible to NO ONE!! How are those news channel labelled on Twitter?? They should be labelled "stinking rich, old, white guy funded."
@eharvie I think the problem for CBC is the significant difference between "Publicly-funded media" and "Government-funded media" whereas the latter implies government involvement over editorial content, as found in authoritarian states.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/government-media-labels
@gerald_leppert @Anthony @gruber government funded IS publicly funded - in a democracy anyway. In the same way that the Canadian medical system is publicly funded - it's not "government" funded. Schools, arts organizations, universities - publicly funded. Not "government" funded. They would be funded regardless as to which "government" is elected.
Tito Ciuro@gruber can we agree that dump hole should be called Tshitter?
Asbjørn Ulsberg@titociuro @gruber I prefer “The Fowl Place”.
Vote to Save Us All@gruber @tchambers It’s surprising only if you’ve still avoided the realization that Elon Musk is a pathetic, Nepo-Baby menace, bent on enabling fascist ascendancy in the US to avoid paying taxes on his own government-subsidized businesses.
He came onto the world's biggest platform and announced to the world that he is actually kind of an idiot.
@gruber I fail to see the relevance of this label. It’s not a government organization by any stretch.
Mike@gruber the sad thing is he probably paid someone to make that joke up for him.
BruningsM@gruber Leon Skum 🙄. One of the symptoms of a failed state.
Nicole ParsonsTwitter is being run precisely as its Saudi investors desire.
The semblance of a capricious and volatile child just provides plausible deniability.