Musk: maybe he's born with it, maybe it's ketamine

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Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

rotor posted:

dont forget to jump on a grande for your pal elon

they're both so goddamn dumb lol

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Lead out in cuffs: Sep 18, 2012; "That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."

Beeftweeter posted:

also i'm not sure

lol

let me see if i have this right.

reduce headcount to increase revenue

(partially) eliminate wfh to further reduce headcount

This part is even dumber. It's literally "reduce headcount by 70% without affecting revenue in any way, so the revenue per head is in line with Google.

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:27

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Lead out in cuffs posted:

This part is even dumber. It's literally "reduce headcount by 70% without affecting revenue in any way, so the revenue per head is in line with Google.

i feel like i should note youtube has like 2 billion active users vs something like 200 million for twitter

you know, completely ignoring the other parts of their business

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:32

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

the only reason we hear so much about twitter and not about youtube is that journalists are on twitter

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:34

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

journalists are, by and large, the worst

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:41

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

bump_fn posted:

the only reason we hear so much about twitter and not about youtube is that journalists are on twitter

well i mean its also much easier to copy a bunch of text with an intentionally limited character count

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:42

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple on pizzadog derangement syndrome

Sagebrush posted:

journalists are, by and large, the worst

professional journalists were fine. The problem is that journalism has become a field dominated by hobbyists because theres so little money in it now.

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:42

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

rotor posted:

professional journalists were fine. The problem is that journalism has become a field dominated by hobbyists because theres so little money in it now.

point stands. seems like all the good journalists are old as balls or deaed

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:44

The Glumslinger: Sep 24, 2008; Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?; Hair Elf

Beeftweeter posted:

well i mean its also much easier to copy a bunch of text with an intentionally limited character count

Nah, Facebook totally says videos get 50x the impressions

Definitely real numbers that won't devastate an entire industry

# ? Nov 11, 2022 08:46

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Cat Face Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1590810660887461888

all i can think of... idk, introducing the new, hardcore CEO of twitter

honestly he'd do a better job

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Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1590854705642864640

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:05

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Beeftweeter posted:

https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1590854705642864640

lmao

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:15

Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

Cat Face Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1590810660887461888

dope, when does twitter release permadeath mode

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:23

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

dope, when does twitter release permadeath mode

heres ur posting helmet

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:23

abigserve: Sep 13, 2009; this is a better avatar than what I had before

Beeftweeter posted:

https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1590854705642864640

*Me, menacingly* I'm about to dig these libs a grave

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:25

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Beeftweeter posted:

https://twitter.com/Ron4California/status/1590854705642864640

holy loly

# ? Nov 11, 2022 09:58

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

I don't know Elon... this doesn't sound like what actually want to be saying about privacy at your other companies

https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1590992955028176896?s=20&t=Ks6oete3j_ysqHtKMgm1jw

# ? Nov 11, 2022 10:20

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

"also guys we're a bank now" - smart man

https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1590974046971523073?s=20&t=zMqpNkGLOT_mNcm9PpfOjA

# ? Nov 11, 2022 10:22

Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

absolutely delusional

# ? Nov 11, 2022 10:51

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

refleks posted:

"also guys we're a bank now" - smart man

https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1590974046971523073?s=20&t=zMqpNkGLOT_mNcm9PpfOjA

i hope the people�s liberation army takes control of the people�s financial institution of twitter in the name of the people

# ? Nov 11, 2022 10:55

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

refleks posted:

I don't know Elon... this doesn't sound like what actually want to be saying about privacy at your other companies

https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1590992955028176896?s=20&t=Ks6oete3j_ysqHtKMgm1jw

what about the first mile :thunk:

# ? Nov 11, 2022 11:15

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

Matt Levine sighs: "I picked the wrong day to quit drinking"

# ? Nov 11, 2022 11:51

lousy hat: Jul 17, 2004; bone appetit; Clapping Larry

Lead out in cuffs posted:

This part is even dumber. It's literally "reduce headcount by 70% without affecting revenue in any way, so the revenue per head is in line with Google.

of all the dumb things this is what got me most. I know he mostly got lucky in the first dotcom boom, but I would have thought that 20+ years in VC stuff would make anyone realize that headcount might actually be linked to revenue and that morale is a thing. �just reduce the denominator and boom free money�

at least we got the mahalo pint-of-bourbon-old-fashioned out of him being an idiot

# ? Nov 11, 2022 12:21

EricBauman: Nov 30, 2005; DOLF IS RECHTVAARDIG

i will simply open two twitter accounts. borrow at the low low rate on the first one, then put the money on the other to earn interest at the highest interest rate in the world as promised by elon

# ? Nov 11, 2022 12:29

SixFigureSandwich: Oct 30, 2004; Exciting Lemon

bump_fn posted:

reemember when the 140 limit was because that was the max that coudl fit in an SMS or something

Instead of 140 chars, Musk will limit people to the 14 words

# ? Nov 11, 2022 13:20

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

EricBauman posted:

i will simply open two twitter accounts. borrow at the low low rate on the first one, then put the money on the other to earn interest at the highest interest rate in the world as promised by elon

I think he means "lower than competitors" so like, lower than the api on a credit card

but of course much like his paypal idiocy, this will end up with huge amounts of loan delinquency, not to mention kyc and financial crime issues that he is literally too dumb to have thought of

# ? Nov 11, 2022 13:24

Banzai 3: May 8, 2007; I'm only here for the weekly 24 bitchfest.; Pillbug

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# ? Nov 11, 2022 13:31

toiletbrush: May 17, 2010

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I think he means "lower than competitors" so like, lower than the api on a credit card

but of course much like his paypal idiocy, this will end up with huge amounts of loan delinquency, not to mention kyc and financial crime issues that he is literally too dumb to have thought of

it reads like that games console Kickstarter video that dude did years ago where he's like "and it will have the best graphics and 10 GPUs that will be 50x faster than everything else and you type in what you want to play and the game console will generate the game for u oh yeah and it will only cost like $99"

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Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

rotor posted:

oh my loving god

# ? Nov 11, 2022 14:06

dioxazine: Oct 14, 2004

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I think he means "lower than competitors" so like, lower than the api on a credit card

but of course much like his paypal idiocy, this will end up with huge amounts of loan delinquency, not to mention kyc and financial crime issues that he is literally too dumb to have thought of

the past two weeks seems demonstrative of, "does he think at all?"

if he didn't externalise all of his destructive tendencies with lots of blood emeralds, he would simply be a sad, old man trying to be popular on the internet

# ? Nov 11, 2022 14:17

refleks: Nov 21, 2006

Just quoting myself less than 24 hours ago

refleks posted:

something is going to explode within 24 hours. it has been for-seen by Matt Levine and him taking a day off:

quote:
Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Monday. I realize I say that a lot, but I�m saying it again.

# ? Nov 11, 2022 14:23