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To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/๐Ÿงต #history #technology

In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe
The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe

We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine

The Guardian

Looking forward to see how it's going to work when the reason is "we know you are under criminal investigation cause we've had to provide your statements to the cops" or "you've had too many suspicious transactions which we've filed SARS on".

"Dear customer, the reason we want to close your account are we are legally prevented from disclosing to you."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66258137

Nigel Farage gets apology from banking boss in Coutts row

The move comes as plans are announced to make it more difficult for banks to close banking accounts.

BBC News
@peteriskrisjanis @davidallengreen 'Ministers will ask the independent regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to limit numbers on courses that do not have "good outcomes".'
@tommorris Yeah, I can see it when I've just opened it on standard Chrome. Was just looking to see if it's app only or is it desktop browser accessible.
@tommorris So that's why I see a blank page. I just thought they haven't lanuched a website yet. ๐Ÿ˜†
@JohnDal @simon_brooke @davidallengreen And the councillor being interviewed about it specifically talked about how he feels "failed dreadfully" by both the UK and the Scottish government. So maybe don't try and blame everything on Westminster...

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

@Catrathustra @tonyvisualizes @warmapper There were that weird bug last few days your account is limited for 3 days cause of violations of the spam policy that seemed mainly happened to accounts that is blocking loads of blue checks or advertising accounts. Maybe it was just another bug, who knows these days.