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Roblo posted:I doubt that now. He's fast becoming a laughing stock. The episode titles have already leaked for the new season, and one of them is called Zap gets cancelled , among other topical stuff that could get bad, so they might do it
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explosivo posted:I work for a credit card processor that works closely with one of Musk's companies and this is becoming a realer sounding scenario every day. The CEO loving loves Musk too of course so I'm sure he'd happily sell to him. Could he really buy them though? Isn’t the market cap of Mastercard and the others like 300 billion each?
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Nov 6, 2022 18:55
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Mal-3 posted:I have an academic interest in it (How in the hell did this man manage to cultivate a rep as a far-seeing philosopher king supergenius when he is so loving bad at communication?) but not enough to click through. he has a lot of money op, hth
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Nov 6, 2022 18:58
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If anyone was curious like me: Top row, from left: Kevin Systrom Instagram, Elon Musk Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Steven Levy Backchannel, Elizabeth Holmes Theranos, Maria Shriver NBC News, James Murdoch 21st Century Fox, Jessica Lessin The Information Bottom row, from left: Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Michael Abrash Oculus VR, Lena Dunham Girls, Jonathan Ive Apple, J. J. Abrams Bad Robot Productions, Brian Grazer Imagine Entertainment Lots of stories in that list of names since the photo was taken.
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Nov 6, 2022 18:59
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Captain Beans posted:Could he really buy them though? Isn’t the market cap of Mastercard and the others like 300 billion each? Credit processors != providers; the company I work for facilitates payments with mastercard/visa/etc for restaurants, online businesses and such. It would still cost him a lot of money but nowhere near the cost of buying a credit card company outright.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:03
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gently caress this loving rear end in a top hat. Seriously, gently caress the rear end in a top hat who made that loving tweet. This should have been a surprise to everyone, especially Elon, when poo poo hit the fan. Now Twitter might have a chance to fix it.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:05
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priznat posted:Man I really hope musk doesn’t show up on the revived futurama as a head in a jar (he definitely will) bobjr posted:The episode titles have already leaked for the new season, and one of them is called Zap gets cancelled , among other topical stuff that could get bad, so they might do it Oh great, I love Futurama but it was sort of a mercy to keep getting it cut short so it didn't have the chance to do a full turnaround and make me hate it like the Simpsons. What a threat to find this out in, thanks Elon
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Nov 6, 2022 19:07
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Doctor Butts posted:gently caress this loving rear end in a top hat. Seriously, gently caress the rear end in a top hat who made that loving tweet. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonerparty
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Nov 6, 2022 19:07
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Sentiments about The 'lon are pretty much exclusively pecunio-centric. I did just portmanteau this word into existence, yes.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:08
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kazil posted:he has a lot of money op, hth There's plenty of rich techbro failsons out there who don't have the same reputation, though. Zuckerberg's just as poo poo at talking to people as Musk and he constantly gets poo poo on as a malfunctioning robot or a lizardman who's disguise is slipping. I just... I don't get it. Why is this guy who can't get through his own tame press events without stumbling awkwardly like a terrified kid in the middle of their first school play treated like he's the modern Aristotle?
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Nov 6, 2022 19:14
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i work for a relative large company and let me just say.. about ~3 years ago I noticed one of the intermediate certs for our the main domain was going to expire within 6 months. based on how i understood the policies.. whoever was in charge of renewing them was suppose to do it before 6 months. so i started writing up an email asking if these certs were going to be updated... except i had no idea who to send this email to. if your answer is, "IT duh" the issue with that is our company had local IT teams that handle IT for that site and there is a group of generic IT people who are contracted out to deal with tech issues like, "my email password expired". none of these people would probably know who to talk to to address this. i asked my manager, and he took it up the chain and the response i got back was, "they're working on it" which is definitely not reassuring. keep in mind this is one of those, "if this domain is inaccessible or has that click through page we will be losing upwards of millions of dollars per hour" if it did not get fixed. a month out from expiration i got word it was being "fixed" and finally like two weeks before it was set to expire someone finally updated it. ----- basically what i'm saying is firing half your work force with an expiring certificate in two months... you better hope you didn't fire the guy whose job it is to renew those certs. because even if someone random software developer sees it... they may not know who to alert to get it fixed
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Nov 6, 2022 19:16
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Is anyone on this plane a cert doctor?
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Nov 6, 2022 19:19
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I would bet an entire paycheck that Musk knows dick all about renewing website security certificates, or indeed anything about websites beyond "click link to go to it"
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Libra posted:With all these impostors with blue checkmarks suddenly appearing, I think the real Elon should have to post his weird dick. It's the only way to prove his identity and put a stop to the trolls. 
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Xlorp posted:Is anyone on this plane a cert doctor? I know a ton about Certs, as in the mint, that was apparently discontinued in 2018!
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Nov 6, 2022 19:26
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Then you're CERTainly the right person for the job!
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Nov 6, 2022 19:28
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Did someone post Jack Dorsey simping for musk? "It wasn't Elon musk's fault for being an idiot and laying all you off, it was my fault for hiring too many people!"
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Nov 6, 2022 19:33
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Nov 6, 2022 19:35
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That changelog sounds like Musk wrote it himself
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Nov 6, 2022 19:36
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Doctor Butts posted:gently caress this loving rear end in a top hat. Seriously, gently caress the rear end in a top hat who made that loving tweet. idk our company had 1 guy quit and nobody knew how to get our code signing certificate updated. I work for a huge corporation, not a small business I imagine the knowledge loss that twitter just incurred is unimaginable to the point of being irreparable. At least I hope
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Nov 6, 2022 19:36
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Tiny Timbs posted:That changelog sounds like Musk wrote it himself It was probably just c&p from an email he sent out nexous posted:idk our company had 1 guy quit and nobody knew how to get our code signing certificate updated. I work for a huge corporation, not a small business He likely just thinks it's all automated and will roll right on over. Assuming he even knows about it or what it is, which is not an assumption I'd be willing to make
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Nov 6, 2022 19:37
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Tiny Timbs posted:That changelog sounds like Musk wrote it himself he almost assuredly did
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Nov 6, 2022 19:38
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advertisers very mad that the previous twitter c-suite wasn't making ads relevant. thanks elon!
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Xlorp posted:Is anyone on this plane a cert doctor?  I'm sorry, it only has a month or so to live.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:42
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I didn’t even know twitter had ads because I only ever see twitter through embeds Oh no I fear elon just got an idea
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nexous posted:I didn’t even know twitter had ads because I only ever see twitter through embeds From your lips to his hairplugs
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Nov 6, 2022 19:44
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first review you see in the app store for twitter ty elon.
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Nov 6, 2022 19:45
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“I do agree about his mouth comments” Did a lizard person write that?
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Strong Sauce posted:first review you see in the app store for twitter Lol, oh my god  
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Nov 6, 2022 19:49
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Have we seen a verified @realJoeBiden posting some heinous poo poo yet?
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Mal-3 posted:There's plenty of rich techbro failsons out there who don't have the same reputation, though. Zuckerberg's just as poo poo at talking to people as Musk and he constantly gets poo poo on as a malfunctioning robot or a lizardman who's disguise is slipping. Very effective PR positioning him as the next great thing which dovetailed nicely with a tech press that treated just about everything with literal childlike wonder and zero critical thinking. A lot of CEO and entrepreneur worship with a shitload of startup money going around in the 2000’s and 2010’s just vomited out as if it was real press or news really poisoned an entire generation into thinking Tony Stark was real and great The big difference is that Elmo was treated with kid gloves pretty much nonstop while everyone else started getting the critical lens because that initial PR push was so strong Hardcastlemccormik fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:Very effective PR positioning him as the next great thing which dovetailed nicely with a tech press that treated just about everything with literal childlike wonder and zero critical thinking. I actually wonder how much the timing played a role there. The first Iron Man movie came out right around the time ol' Muskie was having his first solo fame with Tesla, and it really feels like the movie did a lot to bring the 'rogueish-but-charming billionaire genius inventor' trope into/back into the mainstream.
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From the point of view of someone who isn’t in the technology world, all they’ve seen of Musk is the equivalent of those magazine covers from Iron Man where Tony Stark looks cool as gently caress. That was all intentional. They didn’t hear about the constant gently caress ups of the company (often without Musk’s name attached) since and many don’t care. It’s a lot easier to mock zuckerberg’s sunscreen covered face and weird video about BBQ sauce than it is to explain why anyone should care about widespread sexual harassment and the X% chance a Tesla might explode as it smashes into a small child of color. This Twitter story is Elmo’s first major public gently caress up in a way normies might see it in a loud way, if they don’t subscribe too hard to the GOP’s latest culture war.
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Nov 6, 2022 20:09
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I think SomethingAwful is the internet's best peanut gallery.
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Strong Sauce posted:first review you see in the app store for twitter Ah, the promise of the internet realized, an educated and well informed electorate
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nexous posted:I didn’t even know twitter had ads because I only ever see twitter through embeds I've kinda been expecting a sudden change in how embeds work, like requiring a click through to see them or something. Who knows if he's even aware of the tweet embedding API though
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I was listening to the Opening Arguments podcast this morning and they were talking about how bad musk has tanked tesla’s stock to buy a lovely vastly overpriced company that he won’t be able to make the debt payments on and it is just amazing to have all the incredible fuckups laid out so succinctly. Tesla stock is down more than 30% and almost surely there will be a big shareholder lawsuit to address musk’s dumbfuckery. It’s almost a completely own goal fuckup. Oh and on top of all that they figure musk has probably shaved about $100billion off his net worth, lol.
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