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
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!"
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.
lmao it just keeps getting dumber and dumber
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
Just a normal day on Twitter-X-Stormfront spaces
Republicans who hated big tech suddenly go...."Huuummmm maybe big tech Ain't so bad......"
Banning accounts that report on Nazis now
https://splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/07/27/neo-nazi-ex-marine-buys-land-rural-maine-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.
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
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
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."
The giant X strobe light is even worse than you could imagine
https://nitter.net/realchrisjbeale/status/1685353135236403200
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.
tim apple caved and let elon give the shitter app a single-character name
looks legit
He's such a fucking loser lmao
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html
Already deleted, but mirrored forever
https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1686101153589698561
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
*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
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
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 🍿🍿🍿
Ai Weiwei is good again
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.
There's something grossly and genuinely wrong about watching a grown man with far too much wealth and power to ever get a genuine comeuppance, delivering a bragging replay of his own childish behavior to his online friends with the sweaty, obvious dishonesty of a nasty little boy of 11 or 12 relaying to the other boys how he totally owned some rival in the playground.
Cringe is too small a word.
Is it just me or is there a 100% chance Trump talked to his advisors about sensitive stuff via DM?
https://politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410
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