Local public radio stations (not NPR) get government grants to pay for basic expenses and keep the transmitter running so people in Unclefuckers Corner, IA have one station that isn't right wing talk or christian evangelical. This drives chuds crazy and they're convinced that they get their propaganda marching orders from Brandon himself.
Which is ridiculous because they get their propaganda talking points from corporate neolib think-tanks just like the NYT and WaPo do.
Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Free Speech Absolutist Musk bends over for fascists
"And with that looming threat of verification removal gone at least for the time being, Twitter only saw around 67 of those legacy verified accounts subscribe to Twitter Blue in the days after April 1. If Musk's moves were meant to result in a big uptick of legacy verified Twitter Blue subscribers, it just didn't work."
lmao he got less than 3% to subscribe
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-legacy-verified-account-twitter-blue-subscribers
"By receipt of this agreement, you hereby agree to publicly affirm that Elon is the bestest boy with the freshest memes"
Good luck upholding that with no legal team.
He literally put a plastic bag over the sign 🙄
Still, it's highly appropriate, I guess. Edong hasn't had a W since he bought Twitter so it's only right he was forced to remove it from the company name too.
lmao twitter blue costing more in customer support man hours than what it brings in if they have to manually verify, tag and untag people
The end of API Access means the end of Twitter accessibility
Concerning. Looking into it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-far-right-activist/672436/
"If I just close my office in germany then I don't have to follow german laws, and I can promote nazis all I want!"
"What do you mean the EU exists?"
ol' musky's lawyer - "fuck this, im out of here"
He's going to pull lawyers from Tesla
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7046879153458999296/
I'm old enough to remember when musky was putting out a public call for people to join teslas totally hardcore legal team
useful idiot stage 2:
Substack is taibbi's main income. with tens of thousands of subscribers, he probably makes more there than he did in real journalism, and substack themselves probably paid him a fair bit to get him there
MW Elon is way too cheap to be paying him for this Twitter Files shit, and "Twitter as a payments platform" is a fantasy
trying to force Taibbi to choose between the two was a hilariously short-sighted idea. no matter how much he sucked up to Musk, it was only to drive viewers to his substack
You can (or could) post Substack links but replying/retweeting/liking tweets with them gives an error saying "Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter." and rejects it
lol holy fuck if someone @S Substack's account you can't interact with the tweet
he is so mad
He's banned links before, and he's doing it again
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/07/dc-circuit-upholds-18-usc-1512c2-sort-of/
In a Florence Pan opinion that Justin Walker largely joined, the DC Circuit rejected an interpretation of 18 USC 1512(c)(2) that Carl Nichols had singularly adopted on January 6 cases. But even where Walker and Pan differ, both would uphold the majority of obstruction cases currently or potentially charged.
musk doesn't give a shit about chuds and their grift beyond how to leverage it for attention.
and anyway at this point he thinks he's got them locked in, and now is fully into the enshittification of Twitter 2.0:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
"surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit."
Twitter first got the chudiverse audience online again by being the place they can be assholes at minorities without getting banned. then they got all the chud "creators" in by charging $8 per month to get their shit shoved in front of everyone. now it is time to milk everyone for maximum returns* by preventing them from redirecting to other platforms.
*not enough to pay the interest on the loans lol.
lol @ "violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm"
nobody has ever been more of a baby-backed bitch than elon
Wait...is this suggesting that Elon lied? I find that hard to believe
Elon's claims:
1. I didn't ban substack
2. they were trying to download our entire database so I banned them
3. Matt Taibbi is a sleeper agent for substack
he's just making shit up completely.
he doesn't know, no one has told him anything even remotely like this, he is just typing words that sound like they make sense in his head. these words are only tangentially related to the subject, and have nothing at all to do with what actually happened, is happening, or why.
he’s learned well from trump. the excuse doesn’t need to be true or even make sense, it just has to exist
lmao searching for "from:mtaibbi" now returns no results
watch their already radium-ass codebase end up with load-bearing bans like SA
Let him have his fun and dick around with the office sign! The future is looking bright!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/elon-musk-twitter-germany-hate-speech-takedowns/
Advertisers are coming back!
"Colgate-Palmolive’s vice president and general manager of consumer experience and growth, Diana Haussling, wrote to the group that she was “both excited for the success of the conference while also mindful of the harmful and often racist rhetoric of Elon Musk."
Good luck Elon!
Twitter Blue subscribers might want to check their financials
lol if you let your bank info get anywhere near twitter
We know this isn't true because a dog could run Twitter a lot better than Musk ever could
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/elon-musk-twitter/
"Fuck you, pay me if you want to save lives"
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-exemptions-nws-public-service-safety-weather-accounts
1/3 of the web is WordPress lol
https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
if Microsoft drops then more will follow
https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-advertisers-paid-verification-check-marks-1235590844/
Speaking of Musk's adventures in AI...
Police in northern California last month arrested Igor Babuschkin, Elon Musk’s first known hire for a new company that aims to compete with artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, for domestic battery, public records show.A representative for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office, ...
lol when wired stops posting on twitter
it owns that elons father is just the worst person and hates everyone
https://the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-emerald-business/
ELON Musk’s dad Errol claims he bankrolled his billionaire son’s escape from South Africa to America with emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia. The Tesla CEO, 51, last week offered a m…
mods giving out avatars is a crime
elon's making his llm alright
it's funny because the api was already killed
so this is just being extra petty
https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril
removing the screenshots but not the offending posts, big priorities
christ his feed is dire recently. they are really desperate to make that guy seem like hes not a nazi for some reason
anyway there are occasional smartest ceo in the universe comments
pro tip: if elon had a gun to his head, he could just tell his engineers to update the app so that it sends twitter back a copy of your private keys. by virtue of controlling the client, they can circumvent any security.
also they could easily man-in-the-middle attack any key exchange if they wanted to or if the government forces them to do so.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66791.html
"This has now launched for a subset of Twitter users. The code that existed to notify users that device identities had changed does not appear to have been enabled - as a result, in its current form, Twitter can absolutely MITM conversations and read your messages"
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-encrypted-dm-signal-whatsapp/
holy fuck, his brain is complete mush
that 10+ seconds of him staring silently into space, eyes darting back and forth as he frantically tries to scrape together enough thoughts to respond to the question, are gonna live rent-free in my head for, like, an hour
https://nitter.net/EoinHiggins_/status/1658608559242768385#m
Starting to think Musk's obsession with "X" ("X app", SpaceX, "X.com" the online bank he started that merged with PayPal) is because he knows he couldn't get away with "Swastika"
Twitter Death Cult
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