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.

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.

twitter's lawyers, explaining to the court that they have no one left who can write a SQL query
the government's lawyers, explaining to the court that you just hit Control F

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

Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show

Judge Beryl Howell lit into Twitter for taking steps to give Donald Trump advance notice about the search warrant.

POLITICO
hell of a ratio goin on here for ms libs of tiktok

An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 1

https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/23sc31%20Attachment%20A%20-%20Documents%20unsealed%20with%20redactions.pdf

An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 2 - How obvious Elon's simping for Trump was and just how much Twitter is a dead company walking with no real institutional knowledge left

Note: Fleets were basically Instagram/Snapchat stories

https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/23sc31%20Attachment%20A%20-%20Documents%20unsealed%20with%20redactions.pdf

Hmm, let me think. Conservative politicians for not doing anything about climate change. Fuckers who constantly fly around in private jets. Self-immolating cars...

It's absolutely wild that Musk is just consistently going "I'M A NAZI! !! AT THIS WHITE KID BEING BULLIED BY EVIL MINORITIES! I'M A NAZI! HELLO HELLO NAZI HERE!"

Meanwhile the media is like "Damn what are his politics? A true enigma worthy of the Riddler!"

How long until Musk makes all new accounts follow him by default, ala Myspace Tom (except MySpace Tom is cool, and my friend)
Coincidentally, the Apple App Store requires apps to implement blocking they want to even sniff being available in the store
it's about Realism in apps

Turns out he's fine with blocking people from viewing the concert they paid for

Extreme “going to your ex girlfriend’s wedding” levels of sad

Of course

Block also makes it so they cant see your posts or interact with them in anyway (no QTs) obviously they can just log out or if you are locked into "followers only" mode, make another account to look at your content but it does make it harder to harass someone.

It is funny seeing him reap the consequences of making the site even shittier. People will use the block more when its filled with nazis, scammers, bots, and weird guys who post CP to own the libs.

LOL Elon had them make a bunch of fake accounts to boost his follower count

They changed the setup so that you are required to follow at least one account when you're signing up and Elon is always the first suggested account so every bot on the platform is following him

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data

Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

Mashable
X: the everything drug

Elon continues to make genius moves with Twitter

Think how much space those links took up!

Elon's on a bender again

Holy shit what an incredibly thin skinned baby

He actually managed to piss off the chuds, amazing

Elon right now

Lol at Musk unblocking a guy 3 years later just to make a snarky comment.

Tons of people (correctly) talk absolute shit to Musk on Twitter and he ignores most of it. This is a guy he blocked for being annoying and three years later remembered him and unblocked him just so he could reply to their 3 year old tweet.

Community notes ftw
"We are the last light in the darkness" yep things are good, going super well at Exxe dot con

The article doesn't contain the original tweet (and honestly why would you want to see it based on the described contents?) But yeah, holocaust denial. Terrific. Very healthy for a platform.

"According to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the "available information" the platform had decided no rules had been broken."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66570203

X removes Holocaust denying post after Auschwitz Museum criticism

The Auschwitz Museum reported the post but was initially told by X it did not break safety rules.

BBC News

Ronan Farrow published a long profile on Musk:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

"Tesla for a time included in its vehicles the ability to replace the humming noises that electric cars must emit—since their engines make little sound—with goat bleats, farting, or a sound of the owner’s choice. “We’re, like, ‘No, that’s not compliant with the regulations, don’t be stupid,’ ” Cliff told me. Tesla argued with regulators for more than a year, according to an N.H.T.S.A. safety report."

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

Ronan Farrow reports on how the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

The New Yorker

How does he keep coming up with these genius ideas????

https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/

"According to a source with knowledge of the matter, the change is being pushed directly by X owner Elon Musk. The primary objective appears to be to reduce the height of tweets, thus allowing more posts to fit within the portion of the timeline that appears on screen."

Seems like a good way to get news agencies to completely stop posting to your platform.

Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X

Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

Fortune

I love how much Musk begs people to post on X. Just a massive stink of desperation.

He has no idea why people are so unenthused about posting directly on the platform where said idiot owner is destroying a major feature every 2 weeks.

"please post on this platform where i could pay you $200 if i wake up from a ket trip and happen to see your account on my phone, and if it doesn't make me mad or sad, which could be anything (unless it's child exploitation which makes me very happy indeed!!)"

so this past week he's proposed removing blocks, then after a sideshow of blocking everyone who pointed out that's a stupid fucking idea he's now proposing removing link embeds

just insane that at the same time fb is stepping into their own shit by moving away from news on the feed, musk is making yet another huge unforced error that will drive away the people who actually attract users to twitter

"its where i get my news" is literally the only good thing people have to say about twitter

it's weird how all his plans to "improve" twitter revolve around taking away basic QoL features that were massively important to the platform's perception as the social media platform of choice, verified users was removed, tweet length limits removed, banning of nazis who share child porn removed, block button for stalkers and harassers to be removed, link embeds to be removed

soon opening twitter will just redirect to AI spambot generated timecube

he is becoming increasingly isolated

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-odd-behavior-may-be-due-to-increasing-drug-use-associates-tell-ronan-farrow

“His life just sucks,” one colleague told The New Yorker. “It’s so stressful. He’s just so dedicated to these companies. He goes to sleep and wakes up answering e-mails. Ninety-nine per cent of people will never know someone that obsessed, and with that high a tolerance for sacrifice in their personal life.”

Elon Musk’s Odd Behavior May Be Due to Increasing Drug Use, Associates Tell Ronan Farrow

Musk has long touted ketamine as an alternative to antidepressants.

The Daily Beast
Sounds about right for Elon
Elon Musk's SpaceX Explosion Left Major Debris After Starship Rocket Launch

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.

Bloomberg

There's only two options: He's tweeting as his mother, or he is having his mother defend him on his own platform at 52.

I'd take the Lowtax way out for either of those.

Say what you will about Lowtax, he never publicly came out as a racist
It's hilarious how obvious it is that every single respectable advertiser has left Twitter. Elon can't deny it because all you have to do is use the site for a few minutes. Literally half the ads you see are for bluechew dick pills featuring big titty onlyfans models. And then you get served up shit like that

Speaking of nazis...

You can be called any time by any number of people you can't fucking block!

None of this will go wrong or be useful for stalkers!

X, the everything app

Yacc’s inner monologue is just the hampster dance on loop

Reading this was physically painful

I guess it's now doing the thing where it doesn't show the URL anymore

(if you'd like to read it, and you should: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/39371 )

Money Stuff: SBF Was Reckless From the Start | NewsletterHunt

RSS-like feeds for all of your favorite newsletters

Money Stuff: SBF Was Reckless From the Start | NewsletterHunt

Oh and it looks like Musk giving Raichik special status has now gained her a body count

not the first, won't be the last, and people have been screaming about this for years

it's infuriating

https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos-videos-secret/

😬

do not read if you want to be happy afterwards

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

WIRED

More Musk loving nazi pieces of shit

I think the Swiss court might have actually done it for the incitement of discriminatory hatred, particularly given Alain Soral is better known for repeatedly denying the Holocaust so much he was jailed in France for said denialism (a reminder denial of the events of the Holocaust are jailable crimes in France and Germany, hence why Twitter had the is_nazi tag).

soral is a dangerous piece of shit

Of course Elon is baffled by the concept of testing to ensure reliability
Elon is now banning people for making fun of the new missing headlines feature. What a fucking pissbitch.
@cspam Computer systems, how do they work?
@cspam jesus he is like twenties old edgelord truly.

@cspam
Yep, Elon's projects advance through instances like the total destruction on landing of his StarShip and launch facility, autopilot cars killing pedestrians, his children taking legal action to sever all ties with him, and the flogging of Twitter into it being, and smelling like, a dead horse.

If the test had caused airplanes to plummet THEN he'd understand and see it as unremarkable.

@cspam elon is stunned at the idea that end-to-end test suites exist
@cspam For Musk, reliablility is that one optional sidequest
@cspam Yeah, context is kind of important. When I call Elon Musk a "fat mama's boy" that's rude, but on the other hand I don't have an established reputation for trying to get fat mamas' boys injured or killed.
@cspam That was an interesting article, thanks.
@cspam We need to save the world “from” the melon husks of the world.
@cspam has this been confirmed as his "alt" yet?
@cspam i could probably code that myself if it wasnt for the fact i would never touch the new twitter logo with a pole spanning the width of the observable universe

@cspam

Section 230 protects platform moderation decisions as long as they are made in good faith. It seems that Elon is testing that limit.

@cspam "woke social media" companies is so funny to me too because all the facebook ones + youtube are all fascist as hell? lmao
@cspam so they just said terms of agreement now including collecting biometric data, followed up by adding a video call feature, which um, yeah.
@cspam @strangetikigod Except…. Apple. For SOME reason. Unless they’ve quietly left recently but I’ve seen no evidence of that.
@gedeonm they’re pulling customer support off all social networks, I wonder if that may be a first step at least… but yeah, I agree, their continued presence on Xitter is untenable.
@strangetikigod I still see ads for Apple TV shows there all the time. They may be building up to having an excuse to leave but I doubt it. Can’t wait for an AppleTV ad to be shown right next to a recruitment ad for The Proud Boys. cc
@gedeonm Or the 14 words ad that’s running currently…
@cspam “Wait the CEO is gone? Was she fired?” (more hilarity over calling your company X)

@cspam Frankly Maye Musk should be in prison with Elon.

At least Rupert Murdoch's mom acknowledged she raised a soulless monster.

@cspam I'm gonna take, "fucking idiot" for $1000
@cspam science has yet to make a small enough violin
@cspam It happened in our local Green Bee Group: Bothell Facebook group. I had one of the moderators blocked due to her anti-mask posts and other conspiracy theories and I was told to unblock her or leave. I left.
@cspam but he's getting rid of block so why does he care?
@cspam He's just so dedicated and self-sacrificing, said an anonymous source who is definitely not Elon Musk.
@cspam And this, kids, is why you don’t take drugs.
@cspam "sacrifice?" For companies from which he personally profits? 
@cspam one would think if he were working that hard, that his companies would not always be begging for cash from the government or their users
@cspam his life sucks because he sucks. Give up running four or five big companies at the same time. Stop being a total prick. Stop being a terrible family member. Good riddance to that loser. Just done get us all killed as you go down.
@cspam people with borderline personality disorder don't have personal lives to sacrifice.
@cspam Good. This wankstain needs to feel the same pain he made others feel.
@cspam cry me a f****** river. No member of his family line will ever have to actually work for the next 350 generations.
@cspam Looking forward to the inevitable analogous rollback of features in his cars!

@cspam It was obviously too liberal and soft and coddling. The real world is harsh and unsympathetic and will suck the marrow from your bones, so Twitter needed to follow suit.

/sarcasm

@cspam

Just look at the clothes he’s wearing in the “Elon’s McLaren is delivered” interview video.

Him trying to run a social media site is the same as him trying to put together that outfit.

@cspam I have not closed my Twitter account. I have visited Twitter about once a week for the past six weeks. I have "liked" a few posts, but I have posted anything, including replies. I am gradually weaning myself away. With each successive change Musk makes, I become more determined to just abandon Twitter for good. I regret being forced to leave, but it is no longer of much use to me, and I derive no joy from either that fact, or from Twitter itself.

@cspam

When did he get rid of the view count on Tweets?

@cspam it’s more of a cesspool than a platform.