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Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
relatedly, https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-dead-x-elon-musk/

quote:

Twitter Is Finally Dead

Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed into X.com.

Various elements of Twitter had already embraced the rebranding, and the company has been using X.com links since early April. But now the domain has flipped over entirely, marking the end of a tumultuous transition period—and erasing the last vestiges of the bird app.

“We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same,” reads a message at the bottom of the X login and home pages.

The switchover has been a long time coming. X owner Elon Musk announced the shift from Twitter to X last July, a few months after he officially acquired the company. But the billionaire has for decades harbored a dream of creating an “everything app” by that name, and Twitter is his vessel.

“The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth—like birds tweeting—but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video,” Musk wrote on the newly redubbed X last summer. “In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.”

Twitter under Musk has indeed added video and voice calls to its roster of features. It has also replatformed conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, fostered a welcoming environment for porn spam accounts, made an absolute hash out of verification, introduced a monetization system that encourages rampant engagement farming, gutted its trust and safety team, allowed a surge in hate speech on the platform, designated NPR as “US state-affiliated media,” removed news headlines entirely and then reintroduced them in a weird spot, kneecapped a bunch of fun bots and third-party apps by introducing wildly expensive API changes while giving blue-check verification to AI-generated chum, pivoted to video, introduced an AI model that will help you do crimes, and overseen a decline in usage of more than 20 percent in the US, according to app analytics firm SensorTower.

The “entire financial world” part remains a work in progress.

A sentimentalist may bemoan the death of Twitter, which for all its faults always had a capacity to delight and surprise. But remember that this transformation was inevitable. Musk first owned X.com in 1999, when he cofounded an online bank by that name; it would eventually merge with a competitor and become PayPal. He bought X.com back from PayPal in 2017, tweeting that it had “great sentimental value.” And he has seen Twitter as an opportunity to create X on Earth since before the acquisition was even completed, according to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson.

“In the days leading up to his takeover of Twitter at the end of October 2022, Musk’s moods fluctuated wildly,” Isaacson wrote in Elon Musk. “He said that he would turn it into the combination of financial platform and social network he had envisioned 24 years earlier for X.com, and he added that he planned to rebrand it with that name, which he loved.”

To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.

While X may never become the everything app of Musk’s dreams, it’s undeniably and indelibly a different place than the one he bought. Which in some ways makes this final transition all the more palatable. Whatever Elon Musk’s platform has become, it’s certainly not Twitter.

Call it whatever you want.

e: !whoops! accidentally chopped off half of a sentence lol

Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 18, 2024

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

im going to guess as seriously as SV tech lords treat it with their customers

good point

I keep starting to wonder if or how any of this is connected to the sf porn castle being redeveloped into offices or condos or whatever but then immediately think I would prefer to not know anything at all about this

raminasi
Jan 25, 2005

a last drink with no ice

hobbesmaster posted:

well, the amount of hosed up that is depends on how seriously the first c is taken

ok this is like the social psychology version of a car crash to me and i find the idea baffling so i poked around and lo and behold that EA piece of work who created the diagram that spawned those "came in fluffer" jokes wrote up how she does them. in retrospect, of course she'd be intimately involved with this poo poo.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

raminasi posted:

ok this is like the social psychology version of a car crash to me and i find the idea baffling so i poked around and lo and behold that EA piece of work who created the diagram that spawned those "came in fluffer" jokes wrote up how she does them. in retrospect, of course she'd be intimately involved with this poo poo.

lmao that's just loving deranged

like yeah vetting and having application forms to make sure they know what they're getting into is great and all, but

a. i imagine people read and understood those just as well as they read and understand most forms/contracts (i.e. barely to not at all), and b. once you throw some goddamn LSD into the mix i don't think many people, especially if they were inexperienced with it, would be capable of consenting anyway. i personally know someone that was raped while tripping on LSD for the first time (when she was ~17), and it tbh hosed her up pretty bad, as you might imagine

e: oh cool she also has a post titled "how to be good at sex: starve her brain". that part of the article is paywalled but i am sure it's incredibly hosed up

Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 18, 2024

shackleford
Sep 4, 2006

kliras posted:

the memory of eric schmidt's soundproofed penthouse apartment is still fresh in my memory

quote:

It was featured in the movie Wall Street II: The Legend of Gordon’s Gold.

:discourse:

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

i'm shooting from the hip here, but in my mind it ends up being the it's always sunny boat party.

everyone involved is free to not do it. but they won't not do it, y'know because of the implication

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Eeyo posted:

i'm shooting from the hip here, but in my mind it ends up being the it's always sunny boat party.

everyone involved is free to not do it. but they won't not do it, y'know because of the implication

there's no implication. basically by showing up there they're saying you're consenting to be raped, even if you vehemently object that's just part of the "roleplay"

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Beeftweeter posted:

there's no implication. basically by showing up there they're saying you're consenting to be raped, even if you vehemently object that's just part of the "roleplay"

that does seem to be a fundamental issue with the whole idea. yeah okay sure safewords or whatever other interrupts are a thing but lol if you think some horned up tech lord tripping balls with his dick out is going to remember that hearing "ukulele" means he's supposed to stop.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Beeftweeter posted:

relatedly, https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-dead-x-elon-musk/

e: !whoops! accidentally chopped off half of a sentence lol

it forced me over to x.com the first time i hit the site yesterday and i just put twitter.com back into the URL field and it let me go back to twitter.com without forcing me to x.com a second time which was really funny

Dijkstracula
Mar 18, 2003

You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!


There's something oddly hilarious about this person's wikipedia page

quote:

In 2023, Aella appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast.[7] She also plays the accordion.[8] Aella has stated she has "libertarian-leaning" political views.[6]

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

Shame Boy posted:

it forced me over to x.com the first time i hit the site yesterday and i just put twitter.com back into the URL field and it let me go back to twitter.com without forcing me to x.com a second time which was really funny

It just doesn’t work for me. I click the link, get an X.com error message. No VPNs or adblockers, doesn’t matter if it’s Firefox focus or safari.

It seems like something that would be impacting more people. Oh well. Makes the baseball thread much harder to follow.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

raminasi posted:

ok this is like the social psychology version of a car crash to me and i find the idea baffling so i poked around and lo and behold that EA piece of work who created the diagram that spawned those "came in fluffer" jokes wrote up how she does them. in retrospect, of course she'd be intimately involved with this poo poo.

i'm not going to read that because my mental image of a bunch of nerds having a giant orgy-fight where the winner gets to be the top is much funnier than the reality.

like i'm guessing it's implied that the men are the ones doing the loving but like, why's that gotta be true? get those weak pasty dorks in a headlock and bring your strapon

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple on pizzadog derangement syndrome

raminasi posted:

ok this is like the social psychology version of a car crash to me and i find the idea baffling so i poked around and lo and behold that EA piece of work who created the diagram that spawned those "came in fluffer" jokes wrote up how she does them. in retrospect, of course she'd be intimately involved with this poo poo.

this feels like what an orgy would be like if Gary Gygax (pbuh) was put in charge of organizing it

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

rotor posted:

this feels like what an orgy would be like if Gary Gygax (pbuh) was put in charge of organizing it

it’s Silicon Valley, of course it is

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.
I learned from the idiots on social media thread that the Aella person who wrote that article is one of those "my body's natural microbiome is healthy" people and she only showers once every two weeks.

So, you know, add that to your mental image of these SV geek orgies

Destroyenator
Dec 27, 2004

Don't ask me lady, I live in beer

Internet Janitor posted:

i'm not saying they're using it just to fill empty space, they're using it as a justification to continue expanding capacity while more conventional workloads taper off; they didn't initiate the hype wave, but they're using their clout to amplify it and help manufacture demand for very profitable cloud compute
my feeling js there’s a “can’t be the one to miss the boat” the same as there was with the alexa/siri/ok-google poo poo. someone could theoretically come up with a killer application and to have a chance you can’t let the others win the space.

there are the cloud business units who’re happy to take on as much business as possible, and the investor storytime startups that’re doing what they do. that makes it seem bigger and more coordinated but i’d guess there no real control but some vps claiming credit and self congratulating in some powerpoints.

this time we’re burning bitcoin levels of energy instead of producing mountains of consumer e-waste, so who’s to say?

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Sagebrush posted:

I learned from the idiots on social media thread that the Aella person who wrote that article is one of those "my body's natural microbiome is healthy" people and she only showers once every two weeks.

So, you know, add that to your mental image of these SV geek orgies

https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1589873634578792448

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

one day we will conquer the tyranny of the shower for good

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Wayne Knight posted:

It just doesn’t work for me. I click the link, get an X.com error message. No VPNs or adblockers, doesn’t matter if it’s Firefox focus or safari.

It seems like something that would be impacting more people. Oh well. Makes the baseball thread much harder to follow.

maybe it's your dns? i'm using adguard's right now and it works fine

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

:barf:

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Midjack posted:

that does seem to be a fundamental issue with the whole idea. yeah okay sure safewords or whatever other interrupts are a thing but lol if you think some horned up tech lord tripping balls with his dick out is going to remember that hearing "ukulele" means he's supposed to stop.

she says they also have people sign NDAs, so apparently the worst thing that might happen to someone that goes too far (if that's even possible at such an event) is that they simply won't be allowed to go to the next stinky drugged out rape party

Dijkstracula
Mar 18, 2003

You can't spell 'vector field' without me, Professor!


big props to these californians for doing their part to conserve water

tk
Dec 10, 2003

Nap Ghost
Maybe they’ve never used a shower with reasonable pressure.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Beeftweeter posted:

she says they also have people sign NDAs, so apparently the worst thing that might happen to someone that goes too far (if that's even possible at such an event) is that they simply won't be allowed to go to the next stinky drugged out rape party

ndas generally don't shield violent crimes but the cops, judges, and/or local da are probably all in the pocket of an attendee with an interest in not being prosecuted for or called as a witness in a sexual assault trial.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Sagebrush posted:

I learned from the idiots on social media thread that the Aella person who wrote that article is one of those "my body's natural microbiome is healthy" people and she only showers once every two weeks.

So, you know, add that to your mental image of these SV geek orgies

She's also said that she spent the whole time suppressing her internal screaming but that's fine because she spends her whole life internally screaming and you just have to push past that to make money

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

Beeftweeter posted:

she says they also have people sign NDAs, so apparently the worst thing that might happen to someone that goes too far (if that's even possible at such an event) is that they simply won't be allowed to go to the next stinky drugged out rape party

jfc you have to be kidding

yes sign an nda for your rape party

literally sounds like something a weinstein like character would do. keep the abuse secret, can’t have the bad actors be held accountable

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Tunicate posted:

She's also said that she spent the whole time suppressing her internal screaming but that's fine because she spends her whole life internally screaming and you just have to push past that to make money

work it into your personal brand! name it lil' screamy and give it its own twitter account

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

jfc i wish these people’s dads came in fluffer

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Eeyo posted:

jfc you have to be kidding

yes sign an nda for your rape party

literally sounds like something a weinstein like character would do. keep the abuse secret, can’t have the bad actors be held accountable

i can also totally see it from the angle of sheltered idiot with at least some newfound public presence, who thinks the worst possible thing that could happen at the rape party is someone talking about how much the girl who doesn't shower smells bad to the media, and every problem can be solved by Rules

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Midjack posted:

ndas generally don't shield violent crimes but the cops, judges, and/or local da are probably all in the pocket of an attendee with an interest in not being prosecuted for or called as a witness in a sexual assault trial.

sure, but assuming you do report it to the cops, they're somehow not crooked, and it goes to trial: how are you going to prove you were raped at a "non-consensual consensual" rape party? and not only that, one where every single possible witness is on hallucinogenic drugs, and therefore not reliable in the eyes of any court?

she says it's ostensibly to protect people's privacy by not exposing their kinks, and i can understand that. but its real effect is the above

Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 19, 2024

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

like it's a certain kind of banal evil that comes out of a particular way of thinking that these kinda people are very susceptible to and it pops up all the time at all kinds of different scales and it sucks

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Beeftweeter posted:

sure, but assuming you do report it to the cops, they're somehow not crooked, and it goes to trial: how are you going to prove you were raped at a "non-consentual consentual" rape party? and not only that, one where every single possible witness is on hallucinogenic drugs, and therefore not reliable in the eyes of any court?

she says it's ostensibly to protect people's privacy by not exposing their kinks, and i can understand that. but its real effect is the above

yeah like i said i fully believe she thinks she's doing all these things to be responsible but the particular way she views the world and approaches problems means she's actually just building epstein island from first principles entirely by accident

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Shame Boy posted:

yeah like i said i fully believe she thinks she's doing all these things to be responsible but the particular way she views the world and approaches problems means she's actually just building epstein island from first principles entirely by accident

yeah i was typing that as you were posting so it wasn't really in response lol but i get your point

i don't totally disagree, i'm just not so sure it's an accident

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.
i think this is the key takeaway sentence

quote:

After I recently attended a vanilla orgy where I sat around forlornly wishing someone would just come over and take me despite my complete lack of enthusiasm,

please get therapy

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

i think this is the key takeaway sentence

please get therapy

that whole thing is a hell of a read but yeah that's the standout.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Sagebrush posted:

i think this is the key takeaway sentence

please get therapy

ahahahah

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


the last two pages are the threads ick pit

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

The Fool posted:

the last two pages are the threads ick pit

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

not because of the weird sex stuff, though. it’s because Twitter no longer shows any tweets to logged out users at all and everybody is confessing that they use twitter

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
uh, no they definitely still do.

i don't even own a twitter and i saw that weird poo poo

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