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lightpole posted:A good part is his money and everything is so stupid Tesla stock is getting crushed, which he will have to sell if he wants Twitter to continue as a going concern, further driving down the price. Theres no genius here, only completely loving stupid. He bought at 54.20 and that 4.20 alone cost him hundreds of millions for a stupid meme. Again you're presuming his money works like yours and mine when the motherfucker has billions. He literally loses no sleep over the money figures, because he doesn't plan on making the money in the first place. Dude made his billions off of investing in moving money digitally, including cryptocurrency which is actively financing Russias invasion of Ukraine. That's not weird at all, especially if say, all that Tesla green tax credit money was being siphoned off as he established market dominance by being first and shutting down domestic competition. CommieGIR posted:Gee, I wonder how the Saudis, who just voted in favor of OPEC cutbacks that favor Putin, feel about Twitter, that they helped fund the purchase of... Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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And if you don't think Elon musk is intentionally misstepping, consider how "he just wanted to" was enough to exonerate Tom Barrack (who can't be tried for the same crime again now). https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jury-finds-trump-friend-tom-barrack-not-guilty-foreign-lobbying-lying-rcna55257 quote:Barrack, who served as the chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee, was charged with acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Justice Department, a violation that carries up to 10 years in prison. In addition, he was charged with obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI about his UAE contacts during a 2019 interview with federal agents.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Big Nytimes article dropped, here is a non-paywalled link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/...&smid=share-url quote:“This is a master class in how not to do it,” Ms. Sucher said. “If you were going to rank order ways to upset people, telling them you’re going to do it in advance, without rationale, that is a particularly inhumane way to treat them.” i'm sure ol musky sees that as a benefit, but also just lmao. twitter isn't going to last to the end of the year, is it
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Zamujasa posted:i'm sure ol musky sees that as a benefit, but also just lmao. twitter isn't going to last to the end of the year, is it The open question is about how long twitter's vendors will give them on costs and things like that. Or they're going to somehow get a government bailout, as Cruz et al are currently going all-in on the idea that twitter is going down just because of the lefty woke mafia forcing advertisers to not like the n-word and are going to call them in front of congress for reasons.
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I feel like anyone with any tangible experience with coding already know this, but it's gonna be pretty funny once the wheels truly start to fly off. https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1588391497468383232
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Wow, plus would assume the usual incentive not to wreck the site would be concern about losing severance but considering how much effort musk is putting into screwing them out of that, hmm
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Welp, deactivated my Twitter account since Musk is only ramping up the pro-fash rhetoric. There's been at least two suspensions of verified users changing their names to Elon Musk to clown on him. So much for "free speech"!
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I'm closing down the Twitter ferry good dogs, you must now be an insta fan https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1h1avx04xlz1w&utm_content=7bwv94g
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Now is OnlyFans' chance to be the digital town square.
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Never fire the guys who keep the chips bags on top of the server racks refreshed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuai_Kuai_culture
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I'm still on team Keep Twitter To Kill It Like Yahoo's Tumblr Investment, but it just occurred to me that Elon is attempting to neg companies into advertising on twitter now. It also fits with replyguying that incel freak earlier!
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Handsome Ralph posted:I feel like anyone with any tangible experience with coding already know this, but it's gonna be pretty funny once the wheels truly start to fly off. I didn’t realize Radium worked at Twitter as well; surely Musk will keep the load-bearing racist parts of the code.
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Foursquare and TripAdvisor reviews are how I communicate with family and the government, so that's it
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Cugel the Clever posted:Welp, deactivated my Twitter account since Musk is only ramping up the pro-fash rhetoric. There's been at least two suspensions of verified users changing their names to Elon Musk to clown on him. So much for "free speech"! Yeah me too, drop in the bucket as I barely used it anymore but didn’t want to be helping that creep
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I wonder if all the people who have been Elon simping (thank you based Fetterman for teaching me this word) will realize Elon is in fact not a super mega genius or if lol yeah right they're just going to go harder on actually the woke left not being ok with nazis is the problem
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The Twitter firings are so haphazard, employees are mass-messaging everyone and loading up a Google doc with whoever responds https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1588680977752395777?t=5P-iCeGU2kVHDKOL_wz3RQ&s=19 Move fast and break everything
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ADVERTISE ON MY PLATFORM OR I NUKE YOU https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241 It has been seven days. Edit: And here's a part of it - Elon's probably just now learning that Twitter only has about 15-20% of their usual advertising money booked for 2023.And they're not getting more because of Chief Twit https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1588696162261143553 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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So yeah, struggling to think of a good reason to keep my twitter account. I mainly use it for aggregating news on the Ukraine war and doomscrolling during downtime at work, so not a huge loss for me. This really loving sucks for a lot of creative people though. I'm seeing a lot of artists/musicians/authors hemorrhaging followers left and right, and many of them have gotten the bulk of their exposure through twitter for years now. Tiny niche communities just don't get the word out in the same way.
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Academia, too. This is a terrible loss of a surprisingly valuable tool for scientist-communicators to interact with the public, and for the public to ask direct questions.
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facialimpediment posted:ADVERTISE ON MY PLATFORM OR I NUKE YOU Threaten them, yeah that'll do it
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There's one thing i know about businesses, they like being blackmailed
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Hyrax Attack! posted:True, I wish the guy who got into trump’s Twitter had done that. What about Andy
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Milo and POTUS posted:What about Andy Hyrax Attack! posted:From the buzz (this was rumors so might be wildly off base) he was a noted unsolicited reply guy to female comedians and figures like AOC, not obscene stuff but clearly checking their profiles way more than a married father over 50 should be doing, and it was assumed it contributed to his unexpected divorce.
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Godholio posted:Kroger is buying Albertson's. Everything is crazy lately. I keep expecting the nukes to be in the air with 200 posts every time I check
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Milo and POTUS posted:Everything is crazy lately. I keep expecting the nukes to be in the air with 200 posts every time I check Keep Ukraine chat in the Ukraine thread thanks I had applied for a bunch of jobs with Twitter over the past year and now I’m very very glad I didn’t get any of them. On one hand, getting fired would suck, but working for Elon Musk would suck harder. Twitter would be better if Hank Scorpio existed and bought it.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I had applied for a bunch of jobs with Twitter over the past year and now I’m very very glad I didn’t get any of them. On one hand, getting fired would suck, but working for Elon Musk would suck harder. On the other hand, one can't help but appreciate the masterstroke on Dorsey's part, manipulating an idiot into wiping out the chief competitor to his new project.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Everything would be better if Hank Scorpio existed and bought it.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Keep Ukraine chat in the Ukraine thread thanks Not about ukraine as such, generally when the thread explodes it's not good
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In non-Twitter news, SpaceX shut off service to 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine (~7% in-theatre) at the end of October when Ukraine did not pay the $2,500/month/unit they were invoicing. Their website state $110/month anywhere in the world, so IDKWTF about that. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-internet-outage/index.html e: oh hey, there's a Ukraine thread, sorry
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Lake of Methane posted:In non-Twitter news, SpaceX shut off service to 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine (~7% in-theatre) at the end of October when Ukraine did not pay the $2,500/month/unit they were invoicing. Their website state $110/month anywhere in the world, so IDKWTF about that. I was heading here to post about that! I just told my wife (humble brag) that it was a total dick move on the part of Elon. Previously she had been an evangelist of his.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Threaten them, yeah that'll do it This may be the best one click summary of the Twitter advertising saga: https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1588698683662831617?t=68X3kIP_oNfGvkt32bjm6Q&s=19
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I just wonder what the next online public square will look like, let alone be named. It can’t have a name for posting like “toot” or the several other weird names that Twitter knock-offs have. I dunno, it has to be done differently in several ways. But it’s almost impossible to imagine anything being the friendly, inviting, well moderated place the world needs because the internet is such a loving mess of radicalism these days.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:So yeah, struggling to think of a good reason to keep my twitter account. I mainly use it for aggregating news on the Ukraine war and doomscrolling during downtime at work, so not a huge loss for me. The accessibility community is also caught between a rock and a hard place, with a lot of the most prominent and knowledgeable advocates being completely tied to Twitter. All their networks are through twitter, all their linked studies, their walls upon walls of discussions about best practices are on twitter and almost the entirety of their audience has been reached through Twitter. They might be able to move that following on to a different platform, but their ability to further grow and build that audience has been massively crippled. https://twitter.com/arhayward/status/1588587436661407745?s=20&t=sDJGWZIkWFZg3UIiHrAEHQ @TwitterA11y was a direct channel for completely random people to get into contact with fairly high ranking, relevant people at places like Ubisoft, EA and Microsoft. Now we're back where we started, having made some important connections but having lost the ability to reach more of the main stream industry through transparent networking. Back to knowing someone who knows someone at nepotism inc.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I didn’t realize Radium worked at Twitter as well; surely Musk will keep the load-bearing racist parts of the code. lol, I love that anecdote.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just wonder what the next online public square will look like, let alone be named. It can’t have a name for posting like “toot” or the several other weird names that Twitter knock-offs have. I dunno, it has to be done differently in several ways. But it’s almost impossible to imagine anything being the friendly, inviting, well moderated place the world needs because the internet is such a loving mess of radicalism these days. I formally submit the bingo square 'Return of Usenet (attempted)' for the 2023 real-time-history bingo card.
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