SMH. These manchildren technocrats running the world is just unreal.
@timnitGebru this is exactly why no one should be using Bluesky. Jack Dorsey is no different than Elon
@nathans He said that "Elon is the singular person I trust to extend the light of consciousness" before handing twitter to him 🤮

@timnitGebru @nathans

Exactly.

They are in this together.
As I've been saying, when #Twitter, now #X folds, the right-(wing-)minded people that were filtered from the mixed old Twitter crowd are to be transferred en bloque to #Bluesky. The Democratic/progressive crowd was to be sent in a diaspora. The single global communication platform for would-be insurgents/government-opposition in authoritarian countries (#ArabSpring) destroyed.
It worked.
That was the ROI for them + their investors.

@HistoPol @timnitGebru @nathans Sorry, Musk and Dorsey are just not that intelligent. This is little more than privileged stumblefuckery--any explanation that involves actual strategy is giving these numb-nuts far too much credit

@liquor_american
Lol, congrats, I was waiting for someone to raise this point.

Yes, you are right.

They are *not* the brightest tech kids on the block. There are quite some more.
One of the more strategic luminaries is *#PeterThiel*, #Elmo's old #PayPal.

#PsyOps and the hugely successful #spyware, #Palantir: https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109468496999674966

#Bio:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110021993291888143

#PizzaGate, #QAnon:
https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109469232244842653

#AIGeneral:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110323739545391429

@timnitGebru @nathans

Jim Stewartson :toad: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In the 1990s Peter Thiel worked in Manhattan and got involved with the Manhattan Institute, which has been creating and executing anti-democratic #psyops against Americans since the 1970s. The Manhattan Institute was founded by Reagan CIA Director William Casey, who was himself a Catholic extremist and a member of the Knights of Malta, as is Leonard Leo, and Erik Prince. Recently, #PFT set up shop in Malta. 5/ https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/thiel-says-he-wants-to-be-maltese

toad.social
@HistoPol @timnitGebru @nathans Thiel is something else entirely. Also, is playing virtually zero role in the downfall of Shitter to my knowledge..?

@liquor_american

As I was banned shortly after the takeover, I am not as much up to date as I used to.
I have not read anything to thus respect. I do remember an article that their fall-out during #PayPal times did not have lasting effects.
And even though #Elmo is not the brainchild he needs even over 40% make-believe followers for to continue living in his pipe dream, he is very well capable of doing that by himself.--He also had the global connections to acquire the..
@timnitGebru @nathans

@liquor_american @timnitGebru @nathans

...autocrats' funding (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China.)

His ego is big enough to habe jumped at the idea of dominating that former "global marketplace of ideas," but if he designed the strategy of making it "the right-wing SM platform," I doubt that.
#Thiel fits the #psyops picture perfectly, see one of the links I just provided.

Just a guess: After #TFG failed to make it a right-wing #Twitter rival, I think the costly takeover of the #Birdsite became...

@liquor_american @timnitGebru @nathans

...essential.

I am almost positive that the #BorgSite is to be abused to carry out right-wing #psyops against the electorates of democratic countries in the style of the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal and the 2016 US presidential elections.

The second most important domino stones they need to fall are Germany and France, where they almost succeeded last year.

Shutting down #X, at least in the #EU, is probably the single most important issue for...

@liquor_american @timnitGebru @nathans

...democracies in the West nowadays.

(And no, I haven't forgotten about #FB and the #ProjectAnalyticaSummit and #TikTok.)