Dare ObasanjoJul 1, 2023

I have a friend who’s joked that the movie about Elon Musk’s time running Twitter could never work as a piece of fiction because no one would believe such a successful businessman would have so many bad ideas about running a company.

Every decision being bad would be too unrealistic. Yet here we are.

Michael BehrJul 1, 2023
Show threadDare Obasanjo
Every decision isn’t just bad but also worst than the last one. It’s actually an incredible skill.
Jul 1, 2023 at 6:29pmWeb
Show threadWarner CrockerJul 1, 2023
@carnage4life It is an awesome thing to behold. Someone so skilled at making bad decisions. Repeatedly.
Show threadMans RJul 1, 2023

@WarnerCrocker @carnage4life Someone should send him one of these t-shirts.

https://topatoco.com/collections/jeph-jacques/products/qc-decisions

Clearly I Have Made Some Bad Decisions Shirt

Show threadJeff AtwoodJul 1, 2023
@carnage4life what I find hilarious is that posting should be rate limited, not reading. It's totally backwards
Show threadMateusz OlechJul 1, 2023
@codinghorror @carnage4life the best part is that if you reach your limit, you cannot even see your own tweets in your profile.
it's perfect
Show threadBartek OgryczakJul 2, 2023
@codinghorror @carnage4life@mas if the rumors about how shoddy the whole thing is, I don't think they have a caching CDN in front of read-only APis.
Show threadCarl KarcherJul 1, 2023

@carnage4life

Coincidence that Google cloud was gonna shut him off on June 30 due to non-payment? Nahhhhh

Show threadWolleysegapJul 1, 2023
@carnage4life And yet he is still very wealthy. That's the part I don't get. He would be bankrupt on the third roll in a game of Monopoly. Born on third base, thinks he hit a triple
Show threadJon RuttenbergJul 1, 2023

@carnage4life

It's a Fibonacci sequence of stupidity.

Show threadMacerJul 1, 2023
@carnage4life @ruttenberg 🤣🤣🤣
Show threadRev. GothAliceJul 1, 2023

@carnage4life Ironically ties into one of my favourite Russian phrases:

"Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you hear knocking from below."

It's a skill, but not one anyone wants. Even to be associated with. We really ought to send him a cake in the shape of a Mastodon in thanks for driving user adoption. Like how Microsoft sent a cake to Mozilla to congratulate them on a new release.

Edit 'cause I just realized: we'd need to find a working physical address given non-payment… :cough:

Show threadRenéeJul 1, 2023

@carnage4life truly, such incredibly consistent inverse performance is something that sports and organizational psychologists should be studying for its real-world applications. He's not just wrong but getting *wronger.*

It's marvellously entertaining, but also, these are the same dudes who are going to crash economies and are destroying the environment.

Sobering.

Show threadSimon FrankauJul 1, 2023

@carnage4life I love how they chain together due to failing to predict the obvious responses.

Lock API -> Scraped -> Block open access -> Scraped by logged in users -> Break regular users

This with the overall arc of "I will fix the bots!" -> "I can't distinguish real users from scrapers." Almost competes with the "Free Speech" -> "I am unilaterally declaring some words to be slurs" arc.

The real winning quality is they're not *just* dumb decisions, they're short-sighted and inconsistent. 👍

Show threadEpiphanic SynchronicityJul 1, 2023
@carnage4life The bookies must be taking bets on how bad the decisions will get before the whole thing caves in on itself.
Show threadDawn AhukannaJul 2, 2023
@carnage4life … so human confabulation machine?