Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"
Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."
The Story of a Car Manufacturer Who Bought a Newspaper, and How That Worked Out
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Seriously tho, they're gonna boot so many accounts, and such a large fraction of them are not going to return, it's gonna put rocket fuel under all the other platforms.
Other than actually pulling the plug on the servers, I'm not sure I could come up with a faster way for Twitter to end itself than annihilating the content creators' ability to use that platform and link out to any other sites.
And to do it all in one go! lmaooooo
“Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business — he's used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into a profitable company. It's one that will take the social-media company down in flames.”
Elon’s Stale Playbook, by Linette Lopez (yep, you guessed it, Musk banned her from twitter too) https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12
This is the ostensible “reason” Lorenz was suspended.
Independent of what one thinks of the events described (I don’t have an opinion) it’s important to note:
1. It happened *over two years ago*
2. He’s being goaded by Andressen, fellow wealthy mad hatter
3. These bans are universally done in line with the political views/rage of a very specific demographic
Ugly stuff. He’s simply turning into the Red Queen very, very publicly.
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