No one left at Twitter knows how to change a handle

Elon's sycophants getting pretty tinfoily once again. These morons will never be satisfied lol

Strangely, banks sometimes refuse to deal with people because of things they said, too. Like "I hate paying my bills on time" is a good example.

Elon figured out how to get rid of Community Notes on his own posts
Apparently some Nazi posted CP, elon wrote a post about how it’s too difficult to appeal bans, and reinstated his account sans CP. he is now posting deepfake nudes of AOC, which Elon is surely jacking to

is it back or is this just another case of the twitter backend struggling for eventual consistency?

who knows!

even the backend people at twitter might not. could be an issue with something no one left at the company knows about, or it could be elon making changes to prod directly without telling anyone. they'll know when he tweets about it, same as everyone else

this man is the biggest idiot there is. here's a little story.

we are all pretty sure that the spark that lit the fuse here was the @elonjet account. the world's richest man was furious that some teenager was using publicly available data to report publicly on the movements of his publicly registered airplane through public airspace (this reaction was caused by amphetamine-induced paranoia).

first he tried to give the kid a tesla, an offer which was sensibly declined.

then he tried to pay him off for reportedly some amount under $10,000, which was also declined. after this rejection elon had a poopants hissy fit and started buying up twitter stock through third parties, accumulating nearly 10% of the company and failing to disclose same in the legally required way. presumably he was planning to gain some amount of leverage with the company and force them to disable the account.

a few months later, it became apparent that elon was doing this.

the twitter board, sensibly not wanting to let musk start dictating terms, agreed on a plan. they would invite elon to join the board, but simultaneously implement measures that would prevent him from owning more than 15% of the company.

when elon heard what the board had in mind, he shit right through the seat of his pants, got blasted on adderall and ketamine, and ordered his lawyers to make an offer to buy the company outright. we all know how it proceeded from there.

but that instigating event, the elonjet account. how he was so mad that anyone could track his jet and see where he was going?

the FAA already has a program to let aircraft owners obfuscate transponder IDs. you apply for the program and after some back and forth you can have an alternate id that is not registered to you in the civil aircraft registry.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

elon musk actually did enroll in this program, but the incompetent yes-men who work for him bungled the job and didn't program the alternate id into the plane correctly, letting the @elonjet account continue to track him.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kx8wa/emails-show-spacex-bungled-elon-musks-private-jet-privacy

a month after elon discovered this fuckup, he started buying twitter stock.

the end

Emails Show SpaceX Bungled Elon Musk's Private Jet Privacy

FOIA docs reveal that SpaceX enrolled Elon Musk's jet in a federal program to prevent tracking, failed to implement it properly, then asked for help during the @ElonJet meltdown.

big ol' lol, but you know, not. because he did that, and he's done it to others, and he keeps doing it, and no one is going to stop him

and no one is ever going to try to sue him for defamation again after what happened to vernon unsworth

Everyone asking what kind of person would still work at Twitter, now you know.

"Hunt Hunt the woke bird. Skin em alive and eat them bones!!! I do this act for Elon!"

https://fortune.com/2023/07/26/passionate-elon-musk-employees-are-coating-the-twitter-offices-in-black-paint-and-boasting-about-hunting-and-eradicating-remnants-of-the-twitter-bird/

Passionate Elon Musk employees are coating the Twitter offices in black paint, and boasting about ‘hunting’ and eradicating remnants of the Twitter Bird

While some longtime users decried the demise of the Twitter brand, a group of zealous X employees swept through the San Francisco headquarters on mission to purge remnants of the old brand.

Fortune

lmao it just keeps getting dumber and dumber

https://mashable.com/article/xai-twitter-handle-elon-musk-x

Not just @x: Elon Musk also took @xAI from its original user

A pattern is emerging.

Mashable
I think mentioning "variants" added the COVID info blurb. You can't pay for that kind of marketing.
I know at this point I should really not be surprised or shocked by anything but there’s something about right wingers openly sharing tips on how to post CSAM on Twitter that really hits different

the whole article is a good read, really covers just how much of a dipshit musk is, and why his stupid 𝕏 app is going to crash and burn like one of his rockets

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-rot-king

The Rot King

Elon Musk is symbolic of the economic nihilism of the business world

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Getting more Dude Wipes brand vibes from this by the day
any bets he didn't get a permit or building permission for this also?

Just a normal day on Twitter-X-Stormfront spaces

Republicans who hated big tech suddenly go...."Huuummmm maybe big tech Ain't so bad......"

Neo-Nazi Ex-Marine Buys Up Land in Rural Maine for 'Blood Tribe'

Since the beginning of 2023, neo-Nazi and ex-Marine Christopher Alan Pohlhaus has ramped up his efforts to create a white supremacist enclave in Maine by accumulating rural property, soliciting cryptocurrency donations on Telegram and embarking on a cross-country recruiting trip, according to messages Pohlhaus posted to Telegram.

Southern Poverty Law Center
android app logo updated and yeah, whoever said "this looks like the logo of a club in eastern europe that hides a sex trafficking ring" was right

Very well thought out rebranding

its funny because certain their project manager types, probably the first to get let go, did shit like preventing this and every other rookie thing elon does to the website, idiot proofing what bosses want to implement

Wow that is about as obnoxious as it's possible to be

https://nitter.net/itsmefrenchy123/status/1685177000913502209

Video mirror in case it gets taken down

Gee I wonder why

we've found the shithead big enough to make everyone root for the landlord

weird how elon and david sacks keep hosting weirdo fringe republicans

inscrutable politics

They're still called "retweets" when you open a tweet though

lol that it's taking them so goddamn long to change these things

linda yaxx sounds like an actress whose film I would have seen in a Times Square basement theatre in 1977

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/28/business/starlink.html

"On March 17, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the leader of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, dialed into a call to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the secure line, the two military leaders conferred on air defense systems, real-time battlefield assessments and shared intelligence on Russia’s military losses.

They also talked about Elon Musk."

With Starlink, Elon Musk’s Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms

The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.

The New York Times

The giant X strobe light is even worse than you could imagine

https://nitter.net/realchrisjbeale/status/1685353135236403200

Video mirror 1 in case it gets taken down
Video mirror 2 in case it gets taken down

Musk is threatening to *not* leave san francisco and making fun of his landlord for crying over his ~amazing sign~

He's just fucking with people now for fun. He is a legit psychopath.

saw a guy driving a model 3 a few weeks ago with an "elon musk sucks" bumper sticker next to his plate, great news for the brand!!
hey, guess what, he's shining the sign directly into the SF city attorney's office
If the tenant can straight up deny your entry more than once for a dangerous structure being erected illegally, your laws are kind of shit IMO.
meanwhile things on the site are going great
Pretty sure I read this William Gibson novel
lol of course she didn't put a burner on her old handle
watching this guy pander to right wing freaks that will forever hate him is funny, but also the comments are just full of unmoderated paid blue check white nationalist racism. safe to assume if someone has a blue check they’re a raging racist or Nazi. good job X the everything app.

tim apple caved and let elon give the shitter app a single-character name

looks legit

Twitter Threatens to Sue Center for Countering Digital Hate Over Research

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

The New York Times
Lol muskie is a bitch who folds at the slightest actual pushback
Tweet / Twitter

Twitter
Rip anyone hired to be head of Brand Safety at X corp
What I honestly hate about him more then anything else including many more deserving reasons is how fucking unfunny he is. like all his humor is fucking dumbshit bad surface level sex jokes or references to the worst jokes on a show. its not even channer humor because at least some of that can be twistedly funny sometimes, this shit's just "hurr i 69nd myself into a pickle, i am pickle rick". like fuck man watch other shit.

The insane amount of plastic surgery, and constantly being on uppers since he was forced to buy Twitter is all hitting at once and we’re watching him decompose in real time

my favorite part is how he's had so much jaw filler injected his smile is permanently upside down

also lol at his nasty beard graying out

Pretty sure it's been well established that you can't wait for people to get X on their own and X must deliver it to them

*X taking legal action against the Centre for Countering Digital Hate- a non-profit*

“Reporting negatively on us is equivalent to suppression of free speech”, says organization in full control of everything that is posted on their own platform.

I feel like filing a lawsuit against an organization named the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" is one of those things that should make a sane person stop and have an "Are we the baddies?" moment. But, well, Elmo.

Here's the org's reply

https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-to-A.-Spiro-from-R.-Kaplan-re-CCDH.pdf

ElonX literally took people's handles away from them.

What the fuck freedom of speech do you have if you don’t even get to keep your own goddamn name?

Even the people that pay eight dollars a month aren’t buying Elon's shit in the comments lol

Roberta Kaplan is representing them. she's the one who fought pro-bono for gay marriage to be recognized in the us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor (yes I know that Obergefell v Hodges forced its legality but recognition was an important first step)

also the person who bankrupted the people behind the unite the right nazi rally in charlottesville

United States v. Windsor - Wikipedia

and most recently won the defamation suit against trump for raping e jean carroll (and yes, the judge specifically ruled that while the legal term was sexual battery, he cannot counter-sue for defamation if someone calls it rape https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T )

so she has a history of taking on pieces of shit and winning, even if they were as powerful as the former president of the us

Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, not just sexual abuse: judge

The jury didn't find Trump "raped" Carroll only because of a quirk in New York state law, according to the judge who oversaw the trial.

Business Insider

his entire plan is to just use discovery to find out who the secret cabal of leftists planning his and x's destruction are

this will be fun 🍿🍿🍿

CCDH did threaten in their letter to Elon's lawyers that if Elon insists on pressing forward and filing a lawsuit, they'd be using their powers of discovery to get all of Twitter's internal information about how they identify and categorize and measure hate speech, their metrics on hate speech; and additionally information about their advertising income (which are all directly relevant to the complaint).
This filing is just performative by Elon, to try to create a chilling effect to discourage anyone else from writing articles that make him sad. As soon as he's being required by discovery to turn over information detailing the fact that Twitter has basically no real measurements of hate speech, and the sad state his advertising revenue is in, he'll drop the suit because he won't want to turn any of that over.
It's like wearing long sleeves over your swastika tattoo
gone away is the blue bird, here to stay is the n word
The new EU regulations against hate speech and misinformation are coming into effect by the end of august. Musk said he'd abide by them (lmao)
Well that 10% covers the wage of their remaining 2-3 developers. Clearly a business genius.

It's like he's screaming continuously to try to drown out his own thoughts telling him he's a cowardly loser, and also all of the other people telling him that.

Zuck should challenge him on top of a staircase. Because it seems the first time didn’t take.

@cspam Good thing he spent BILLIONS of other people's money on destabilizing a social media network.
Bringing in revenue like that, I'm sure they're going to be VERY reasonable about him paying his bills...
sifu hotman (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image new twitter logo is a bit on the nose

Kibitz Cloud
@cspam imagine creating a feature that people pay for and are so proud of or gives you a certain appearance that you have to provide the ability for those people to hide it. Genius 4d chess
@cspam the features not useable if hidden is a weird line in the sand for Elmo
@cspam one of my biggest Not A Lawyer realizations in the last few years is the reason these blowhard lawsuit threats by crooks like Trump and Xelon almost never materialize is because they can't stand the scrutiny of discovery. That clarified a lot for me

@cspam

One need only look at going through with buying Twitter in order to avoid a deposition.

All the street fighting lawyers are useless if the client folds that easily.

#tslaq

@cspam This seems to be the very definition of a SLAPP.
@cspam +1. This is hilarious, in a hysterical, one-step-over-the-precipice sort of way.

@cspam @davidallengreen This legal response is very much in your wheelhouse ---^

(Just in case you've not seen it.)

@cspam OMG that second paragraph on page 3- where they literally warn Leon Mush that a lawsuit will trigger discovery; THAT IS GOLDEN
@Ornwen @cspam yes, we need some X-files from the crumbling sandcastle Elon bought
@cspam @toriver No one should be surprised that Leon Mush himself made exposing “X” as a hate site possible.
@cspam
Ha! The X can never be turned around to make up the Logo for your "Death Cult" so Elon MuXXX's evil master plan did work out after all!
@cspam
I mean, weird hill to die on, pandering to people who hate them. But go ahead, Elon, go ahead
@cspam over half a billion users? When did twitter have those numbers?
@loke counting all the bots I guess
@cspam But first, it needed to rock. Missed that crucial step
@cspam he looks like a fuxkin meth addict
@cspam damn, he looks like wish.com james hetfield
@cspam It's like he has two Nazi mustaches where his eyebrows should be
@cspam for someone so transphobic, he’s had an astonishing amount of gender affirming surgery.
@cspam He's 52. Traditional age for a midlife crisis.
@cspam Yeah, his 2006 memecore "personality" is one thing that drives me crazy about him.
@cspam
Do you know how hard it is to make South Africans ashamed of one of our countryfolk? The country that literally invented apartheid is looking at this dude and going, "this is fucked up."
@cspam He is awkward at best and downright disgusting and offensive at worst.
@cspam he’s a 16-year-old boy, stuck in the mid-nineties. “Blaze your glory!”
@cspam I was just telling my wife this. I realize there are so many important things that he is destroying. But like you, how obnoxiously unfunny he is, drives me insane, more than all the rest of it.
@cspam I know just the guy
@cspam brand safety? pretty sure that war is already lost.
@cspam that was the title of the person whose job it was to shout "Watch Out!" if/when the logo fell off the building. They've had to reconsider the role's responsibilities in the last few hours.
Airplane Movie Counter Point clip

YouTube
@cspam ...Target for practice ! X MARKS THE SPOT!!!
@cspam you’re already being sued for unpaid rent, further antagonizing your landlord is a stupid move, so of course he did it
@cspam look you post a lot of good content but can you stop with the gendered insults and ableist slurs?
@cspam Elmo is such a champion of free speech! 🙄
@cspam And look how many people are "following" this dick-tator-wanna imbecile.
@cspam "Blaze your glory!"? Is that seriously the apps slogan?