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Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Hyrax Attack! posted:

That fake check mark thing is a scammer’s paradise, probably already done millions in damage and wouldn’t be surprised if it has a body count soon when people start impersonating police or government agencies. A scammer with 50k bot followers could be easily pretend to be a blue check mark city emergency service and cause a panic.

Like someone said upthread, a Putin account with checkmark announcing that the nukes fly in an hour. That'll sure cause a ruckus.

For myself, I'm expecting an @WaltGisney account with a Mr House profile picture, announcing his waking from cryosleep and appeal to Disney fans to bring the blood of vital young children to the service entrance of Disneyworld to sustain him, or some equally off the wall poo poo.

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Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Ferry Good Dogs has left twitter, so it's only a matter of time now.

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Ferry Good Dogs has left twitter

:ohdear:

We live in hellworld.

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

not caring here posted:

So what happens when Musky baby loses the saudis billions of dollars? Does he run the risk of getting Khashoggi'd? Is he completely underwater at this point?

They got paid out with the other shareholders - or do you mean the ones that came in to help fund his acquisition?

Either way, the Saudis don't really give a poo poo about money and probably would want in on future Musk ventures, given his cache. He definitely isn't at any risk of getting murked. Based on the poo poo that he has tweeted at Putin I assume he spends many tens/ hundreds of millions of dollars on personal security every single year.

Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Nov 10, 2022

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Ferry Good Dogs has left twitter, so it's only a matter of time now.

... so are they on Mastodon now or? Insta, TikTok? I want to go where the good dogs go

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Grip it and rip it posted:

They got paid out with the other shareholders - or do you mean the ones that came in to help fund his acquisition?

This is wrong, they rolled their shares over to the new corporation

Grip it and rip it posted:

Either way, the Saudis don't really give a poo poo about money and probably would want in on future Musk ventures

This is correct though

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

... so are they on Mastodon now or? Insta, TikTok? I want to go where the good dogs go

Instagram for now, I might look at expanding to mastodon if I can figure it out

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!
Wordpress finally has a chance to make a comeback.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Wordpress finally has a chance to make a comeback.

gently caress you

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

also, wordpress never actually died. what do you think house.gov runs on?

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





LiveJournal

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine
Anyone want to join my webring? My Tripod site is still under construction but it's gonna be really cool once I figure out how to use this cracked Russian copy of GoLive

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
does it let me put an embedded midi on the page i got enter sandman goes super good with the burning skull gif (hell yeah)

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Check out this noob

I've got the finest dbz gifs including an insanely sick Kamehameha

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

:dancing baby.gif:


UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

Sacrist65
Mar 24, 2007
Frunnkiss
*MIDI version of Linkin Park's ”In the End" loads after 30 seconds*

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

RIP to the OSINT homies who are finally going to have to work a day in their lives

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

maffew buildings posted:

does it let me put an embedded midi on the page i got enter sandman goes super good with the burning skull gif (hell yeah)

no 56k scrubs, RealPlayer 7 or GTFO

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Alex Jones eating more poo poo

https://www.reuters.com/legal/alex-jones-must-pay-473-million-punitive-damages-sandy-hook-defamation-case-2022-11-10/

quote:

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages for his defamatory claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting, a Connecticut judge ruled on Thursday.

The ruling came a month after a jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, found Jones and the parent company of his Infowars website must pay more than a dozen relatives of Sandy Hook victims nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages for falsely claiming they were actors who staged the shooting as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns.

In a separate order late Wednesday, the judge, Barbara Bellis, temporarily blocked Jones from moving any personal assets out of the country. The ruling came at the request of the plaintiffs, who claim Jones is trying to hide assets to avoid paying.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Lm, and I can not express this enough

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1590817125345665025?t=G4heS1OafbtVfhQX41n1Bg&s=19

ao

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1590823921619648514?t=2rk70yGBwRFmfIkz2CS-lg&s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Nov 10, 2022

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Xakura posted:

This is correct though

It's very much not. They're spending money like oil, and funding the current round of vanity projects is one of the two big reasons they gave Joe the finger through OPEC.

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine
Waiting for Elon to get high and binge How I Met Your Mother. "That's what P.L.E.A.S.E. is? gently caress we gotta hire one of those"

e: I take it all back, Elon apparently DID make comedy legal after all
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1590822878274097152?t=DOTZQsABz3PKbVr1NpTHoA&s=19

Discussion Quorum fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Nov 10, 2022

hypnophant
Oct 19, 2012

Godholio posted:

It's very much not. They're spending money like oil, and funding the current round of vanity projects is one of the two big reasons they gave Joe the finger through OPEC.

Although it’s true that cutting production increases prices, it also cuts production. Revenue goes down.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

BadOptics posted:

This has some pretty bad implications for the war in Ukraine in regards to verification being meaningless.

WEIRD.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

hypnophant posted:

Although it’s true that cutting production increases prices, it also cuts production. Revenue goes down.

Yeah but they're hitting a sweet spot where they're min/maxing their profits.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Musk is bound and determined to post through it, where "it" seems to be encompassing everything from bankruptcy to FTC filings. That's dedication. Still not a good poster, but dedicated.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
John Wick 4 trailer is out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVUtrk8_B4

E: just realized it's posted in the civ thread.

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
hell yeah, I know what I’m doing for my birthday

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

bird food bathtub posted:

Musk is bound and determined to post through it, where "it" seems to be encompassing everything from bankruptcy to FTC filings. That's dedication. Still not a good poster, but dedicated.

He just wanted to bbe a moderator

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1590831852658790400

Old Boot
May 9, 2012



Buglord
Meanwhile

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1590861731865145344

EDIT:

The Twitter thing is so bonkers rn

https://twitter.com/Cat_Zakrzewski/status/1590749773619171328

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011



:perfect:

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

lmfao

MrMojok
Jan 28, 2011


I just cannot stop watching it. Worse than a train wreck.

The only two possibilities left are that he really has no clue what he is doing, or that his goal all along was to destroy it.

Honestly not sure which one is more likely.

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Amazing to watch how twitter went from thriving social media giant to a complete disaster zone in no time flat. Also makes me wonder if the FTC is gearing up to clamp down on Musk beyond just sternly worded statements.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

MrMojok posted:

I just cannot stop watching it. Worse than a train wreck.

The only two possibilities left are that he really has no clue what he is doing, or that his goal all along was to destroy it.

Honestly not sure which one is more likely.

if he wanted to destroy it there are certainly better ways to do it that don't involve showing the entire world your rear end in a top hat when most of your net worth is tied up in your cult of personality

he is actually that stupid

Old Boot
May 9, 2012



Buglord

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Amazing to watch how twitter went from thriving social media giant to a complete disaster zone in no time flat. Also makes me wonder if the FTC is gearing up to clamp down on Musk beyond just sternly worded statements.

I forgot where I read it but the consent clause thing is sounding like a 'billions in fines' deal. I seem to recall there being concerns about Elon's Saudi backers and that generating its own investigation. All while crypto is going down in flames and Harper Collins employees are going on indefinite strike and

and

https://twitter.com/TesIaReal/status/1590867536199180288

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Old Boot posted:

I forgot where I read it but the consent clause thing is sounding like a 'billions in fines' deal. I seem to recall there being concerns about Elon's Saudi backers and that generating its own investigation. All while crypto is going down in flames and Harper Collins employees are going on indefinite strike and

and

https://twitter.com/TesIaReal/status/1590867536199180288

Starting to love this timeline

E: lmao

https://twitter.com/BamaBonds/status/1590801975339540480

That Works fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Nov 11, 2022

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine
$8!

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Bortbort has about a 1200 vote lead at 98% reporting, according to KKTV.

E: I thought I posted this in the other thread. My bad.

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Nov 11, 2022

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