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Kit Bashir Jun 17, 2023

Your periodic reminder that VC-funded CEOs are in a situation that they have bet both their kidneys on being able to deliver a 100x return to the bone-saw wielding loan sharks who funded them.

Your “community” is worthless to them unless it delivers Kidney Money.

They cannot just “decide” to not enshittify the community you mistakenly believed was yours. No appeal to justice or fairness will work, unless accompanied by a donor kidney or two.

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Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 18, 2023

@Unixbigot @cstross

Let's not forget that the muskrat is in a totally different situation, however. He has PLENTY o' money to pay off the loansharks. He's enshittifying the birdsite just for funsies.

I still argue that it's performance art: he's providing an object lesson to people about why you shouldn't let important things get purchased and run by billionaires and he spent $44B to show how much he meant it.

And a bunch of people *still* haven't gotten the point.

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GrayGooGlitch

Jun 18, 2023

@stevendbrewer
@Unixbigot @cstross
He's using his absurd wealth in a personal vendetta against trans people. All of this started when Grimes left him for a trans women (Chelsea Manning), right around the same time that his trans kid told him to fuck off forever via the court system. He's mad and this is how he hurts his perceived enemies, all while pretending he's some invulnerable, feelingless memelord.

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Charlie Stross Jun 18, 2023

@GrayGooGirl @stevendbrewer @Unixbigot Yup. There's transphobia layered on top of white supremacism in the mix. (I speculate it's been gathering pace ever since he realized that no matter how hard he pushes SpaceX to build him a city on Mars, he's going to be too old by the time it's ready to go with them to his white settler paradise on the Red Planet. So he's stuck here in the mud and flames of climate change and doomed to eventually die like the rest of us. Lolsob.)

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GrayGooGlitch

@cstross
@stevendbrewer @Unixbigot
I just get tired of the framing that the transphobia is a byproduct of the right-wing politics, when it's pretty clearly at the forefront of Musk's motivation. Twitter had one of the largest and most active trans communities on the internet, and his policies (the ones he personally insisted upon) have made it nearly impossible for us to be there without a sustained deluge of hate. The only major change to moderation policy was levied at trans people.