darkpoole
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆could have spent a full year spitballing how musk was going to kill Twitter and couldn’t have come up with anything close to the unbelievable dipshittery of “users can only read 600 tweets a day” like, what do they put in billionaire cocaine anyway
emmatonkin@JuliusGoat ketamine. Wsj had a video on it a few days ago. The CEO class are doing psychedelic drugs these days apparently.
Phlawless@emmatonkin @JuliusGoat Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary _assured_ me that ketamine simulated the experience of supreme enlightenment, so how could corporate supervillains be using it?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Rising
@daphlawless @JuliusGoat
Maybe he's creating a new reality in which he questions the authority of HTTPS, transcends the brutality of bandwidth and embraces the freedom of arguing with his own personal headTwitter. That would explain why it ceased to bother him that it's not accessible to anyone else?
Maybe he's creating a new reality in which he questions the authority of HTTPS, transcends the brutality of bandwidth and embraces the freedom of arguing with his own personal headTwitter. That would explain why it ceased to bother him that it's not accessible to anyone else?
nik0 
@emmatonkin @JuliusGoat Usually psychedelic drugs have some positive come out of it, not this shit.
illdietrying@ashiisbest @emmatonkin @JuliusGoat for real all that introspection and he still burns everything he touches.
@illdietrying @emmatonkin @JuliusGoat I remember when he was so praised by lé reddit. Tho i would kinda be nervous if he showed up on here for "the memes"
@emmatonkin @JuliusGoat ketamine is a deliriant
petrocketteA ketemine and mushroom cocktail with sociopath narcissist bitters
Ron DeSantis's BDE@JuliusGoat
Musk is creative with his loserness.
Side note: been reading your blog. Fucking great stuff, man. Well done.
Supermouse The Rodent@JuliusGoat We all collect our year bingo cards in January and then reality says naaaaaaah.
Fred Williams@JuliusGoat it blows my mind how a guy who could have anything is incapable of knowing how anything works
Deborah Apthorp@JuliusGoat @TotesSteve but this is exactly how it goes. Every time.
Litzz11@JuliusGoat Yes, those of us who suggested killing Twitter was the point are looking like geniuses today.
Renée@Litzz11 Sadly I think tho killing Twitter was not the original point (control of the medium was)... it is an acceptable outcome.
@reneestephen @JuliusGoat That makes sense.
Julie SqveakarooApplied directly to the forehead.
Oh. Sorry.
I misread that as "Where do they put the cocaine into the Billionaires"... not "what".
My bad.
BrianReally an epic fail
just spent an hour screen shooting who I followed. Deactivated and gone.
mhairiforrest 🏴@JuliusGoat Anyone know if the paid accounts are throttled too? I would find it pretty funny if they are.
James EndicottBefore I lost access, one of the last posts that I saw was Hank Green commenting that he wasn't experiencing limits and theorizing that legacy blue checks might be immune to the limit because they need someone to produce content to serve ads on.
Karl Magnacca@o76923 @mhairiforrest @JuliusGoat Using old versions of the app avoids throttling. Also Tweetdeck, until last night when it also broke (I think you can still scroll as much as you want but notifications and clicking on tweets doesn't work).
Whee...
Zeera@mhairiforrest
They are, they've just got 10 times the limit, which...is still pretty much nothing, lol
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They are, they've just got 10 times the limit, which...is still pretty much nothing, lol
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Kee Hinckley
John CuttingI'm sure the advertisers (well, those that remain) are thrilled about that
Cat West@nazgul @JuliusGoat Literally limiting the number of views a post can get? Brilliant! LOL
Queen Of Disaster@JuliusGoat
I can imagine an employee patiently trying to explain what a two-sided network is and why this idea fundamentally destroys the whole point of the platform until Musk fires him for questioning his brilliant idea
I can imagine an employee patiently trying to explain what a two-sided network is and why this idea fundamentally destroys the whole point of the platform until Musk fires him for questioning his brilliant idea
C.J.H.3 💀🪿🥚🐐@JuliusGoat The Saudis bought it...to kill it. Elon is doing his job perfectly.
Evelyn@JuliusGoat @the_Effekt Okay, this is a Truman Show-type thing reality where you win if you can f*ck up the most stuff the most badly in the shortest amount of time, right?
*apparently, Elon’s in fierce competition against himself.
**the prize is $10,000! And a dinette set by Broyhill!
Kiss.My.Grits 🇺🇲 + 🧀 + ⚽@JuliusGoat I was going to say Krokodil, but Ketamine seems about right.
smells of bikes@JuliusGoat Hey he tried the idea out with a focus group composed of three H1B visa employees of his who are afraid to say anything at all for fear they'll get deported.
Brian Brennon@JuliusGoat well what I usually sell them is cut pretty heavily with- wait, are you a cop?
kikebenlloch@JuliusGoat He really is the stupidest ass one could never come up with.
Warren Terra@JuliusGoat
He's since announced he's increasing that limit, TWICE (to 800 and to 1000) but also the problems people are having are not the result of exceeding whatever limit he's supposedly set, the site just is not working.
He's since announced he's increasing that limit, TWICE (to 800 and to 1000) but also the problems people are having are not the result of exceeding whatever limit he's supposedly set, the site just is not working.
sorrykb@warren__terra @JuliusGoat yep. I got the “rate limit exceeded” first thing this morning. Tried again a little while ago. It worked for a few minutes, then I got the message again.
@warren__terra @JuliusGoat apparently the limits are making it worse. Because the app just keeps going “I haven’t got new tweets in a while” and requests more but the server says “no you’ve had enough” and the app just responds by requesting again in an infinite loop, bogging down the server.
@mpriester @JuliusGoat
There seem to be SO MANY theories about the things going wrong here:
1) Twitter used web services from Google on a contract that expired on 30 June. Twitter reportedly had been stiffing Google on the contract, until the new CEO settled the tab, but also wanted to renegotiate new terms and who knows how that went.
2) Same as (1) but AWS not Google.
3) Twitter was trying to rework systems so they wouldn't need Google's services (or AWS) and might have broken somethin.
Ctd!
@mpriester @JuliusGoat
4) Also there's the whole business about banning use of Twitter without logging in as a user. It's easy to imagine all sorts of unintended consequences of this; I've seen assertions that every embedded tweet in every webpage out there qualifies as this, and so every one of them was failing and each time it failed it sent a new request to Twitter, many times a second. And who knows what internal systems might resemble Twitter use without logging in?
4) Also there's the whole business about banning use of Twitter without logging in as a user. It's easy to imagine all sorts of unintended consequences of this; I've seen assertions that every embedded tweet in every webpage out there qualifies as this, and so every one of them was failing and each time it failed it sent a new request to Twitter, many times a second. And who knows what internal systems might resemble Twitter use without logging in?
@mpriester @JuliusGoat
5) And the above don't even include the limits they supposedly decided to impose! It's unclear if the limits were even real, but it's obvious many people were getting "rate limited" within seconds; if they even exist, the limits might be an attempt to compensate for or to cover for other capacity problems Twitter is having.
It's truly remarkable that no one can even tell which problem is breaking Twitter - or indeed how many of them are doing it simultaneously.
Pamela Ehn@warren__terra @mpriester @JuliusGoat the rate limiting was because he failed to migrate his data away from Google (probably because he fired those who could make that happen) and didn’t pay his Google bill. Then in a desperate attempt to keep Twitter from crashing, he imposed rate limits that not only did not solve the problem, but made things WORSE, causing self-created denial of service attacks. And now he wants people to pay for something that doesn’t work. This shows he’s neither an engineer nor a businessman.
Comrade Weez@JuliusGoat He is singling out particular accounts for other abuses by flagging them as spammers. He is involuntarily unfollowing certain accounts for users. https://mastodon.au/@weezmgk/110641739282868579
Comrade Weez (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images I can't tweet from @weezmgk , can't ♥, can't reply, can't DM. Twitter has unfollowed @SenFettermanPA , @LakotaMan1 and probably others for the acct. I can't re-follow them. I get these errors. Muck is going after his political enemies. Get ready for a big influx to Mastodon.
@JuliusGoat I believe the drug mixture of the day for High End Users like Elon Musk’s usage of Cocaine is the drug of the Millennial Generation namely Fentanyl. Drug does extremely weird things to Cocaine Users like restricting the number of tweets you can read per day thus causing extremely high profitability rates to occur in his portfolio of businesses. Coke and Fentanyl dealers see this, raise their drug prices and laugh all the way to the bank knowing this never stops !
Marc Jacobs@JuliusGoat Someone needs a cocaine version of the alcohol sugars joke about the four stages of drunkenness
1. Jocose
2. Morose
3. Bellicose
4. Comatose
I mean, Musk starts in stage 3 and never leaves.
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱Millionaire adrenal glands.
Claudio Cicali@JuliusGoat Right now what's currently in his (very great, such wow) mind is pretty much "The platform I bought and that I am currently destroying is falling apart as we speak and I am going to blame the users and making fun of them"
Jeff Craig@JuliusGoat I love how Elon just can't imagine that everyone else isn't just as addicted to Twitter as he is. He is just so confident that this will increase Twitter Blue subscriptions instead of driving most people completely off the platform.
Don Hawkins - W7DAH@JuliusGoat I think that new rule will solve itself shortly.
Wm Slothrop@JuliusGoat “Buckle up, gang, here is an incredible true story about exceeding the rate limit: [1/601]”
jprestonian@JuliusGoat
First LOL of 7/2/23
First LOL of 7/2/23
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@JuliusGoat
Probably more brain damage from sniffing all that private-jet remote work fuel after post-multiple bouts of #SARS2 brain damage?
Probably more brain damage from sniffing all that private-jet remote work fuel after post-multiple bouts of #SARS2 brain damage?
Jim Snowden@JuliusGoat Go to Mars, Elon. Just go. If you get there, stand outside without a helmet and wait for instructions.
@snowdenwriter @JuliusGoat The man will never ride his own rockets. He knows how dangerous they are.
MissConstrue@JuliusGoat @mmasnick Not only that. I haven't logged in in forever, so I went to go see if I could export contacts before it burned to the ground, and apparently there's now subscriptions to see tweets:
Squiggy@JuliusGoat think he’s on ketamine honestly.
moons@JuliusGoat glad there are people with sense over here
Marty@JuliusGoat Whatever they put in it, they should up the dose about 100x and see how things go. 😎
@JuliusGoat Yes, I think he is full of surprises! There is more to come I am sure…
Malcolm Tucker@JuliusGoat Ketamine