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Twitter's new slogan is just "The cruelty is the point" now, right?
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Wonder if he fired the people who only stuck around with the Twitter Hardcore stuff because Twitter was sponsoring their work visas i.e. they couldn't really quit if they wanted to
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Nov 25, 2022 01:23
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nine-gear crow posted:Chad Loder's been perma'd three times in the last 24 hours, this last time while he was in the middle outlining a massive data breach that was still possibly underway at Twitter. Which one, Chuck Johnson or Kent State gun girl?
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Nov 25, 2022 03:30
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Which one, Chuck Johnson or Kent State gun girl? Yes.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:34
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Tuxedo Gin posted:https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1595684664228052992 It's an example of the power of labor laws in action. The people who said no to Twitter Hardcore were part of a mass layoff, which means they were covered under the WARN Act requirement of 60-day warning for layoffs. So technically, they're getting paid for two months to do nothing, right up until their official layoff in January, after which point they get one month severance. The people getting fired right now are not part of a mass layoff, which means that they get just the one-month severance.
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Nov 25, 2022 03:51
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musk shitcanned the guy responsible for 280 character tweets lol https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1595818243620380672
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Nov 25, 2022 04:12
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His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable.
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Nov 25, 2022 06:16
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. He doesn't know how to do it, so he thinks it is magic capable of solving all the world's problems.
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Nov 25, 2022 06:50
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. What I assume is that he wants to see the results of his employees, where the mass of code just shows how hard they're working. Imagine a director from the 1920s yelling at the extras to EMOTE! EMOTE! as they move around the background during filming.
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Nov 25, 2022 07:24
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. I’ve seen so many posts from claiming that “it’s just a software problem, and a software genius like Musk will solve EVERYTHING!!” and it’s just insane.
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Nov 25, 2022 07:45
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. It's not like he actually bought Twitter to make technical upgrades in the first place. He's been clear all along that he's aiming at social/cultural issues like "there's too many bots in my replies" and "right-wingers I agree with get banned and left-wingers I disagree with don't". It's reputation management. Rather than looking like an incompetent fool who ran the company into the ground within a month and is now desperately slashing expenses to stave off cashflow disaster, he'd rather portray himself as a HARDCORE programmer who's driving out the weak, the lazy, and the incompetent to turn Twitter into a super lean startup staffed exclusively by 100x genius programmers willing to put in real work. The thing is that he's extremely reliant on the image he's cultivated as the genius technical guy who brilliantly solves technical problems and has gotten rich off his technical mastery. Regardless of whether it's true or not, he's managed to successfully craft that reputation in popular culture, and that reputation is a large part of why anyone gives him the time of day. He gets a lot more slack than other CEOs would, his customers put up with a lot of poo poo they wouldn't take from other companies, and he's got his own personality cult filled with dedicated fanboys. A lot of people don't buy it, of course, but enough do - especially in the corners of Silicon Valley culture that practically idolize that sort of person. So for everything he does with Twitter, he has to do it in a way that cultivates and reinforces that image in the eyes of extremely credulous and naive business types and "I loving LOVE TECHNOLOGY" types.
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Nov 25, 2022 07:57
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. These tech bros think computers are literally magic, and literally all problems can be solved by computering at it hard enough.
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Nov 25, 2022 11:41
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Owling Howl posted:His obsession with code is bizarre. Twitter works fine. There's nothing technically wrong with it. It doesn't sell enough ads to be profitable. That’s it, though. There’s nothing technically wrong with it, so why does he need any engineers since construction is complete. The Golden Gate Bridge was completed 85 years ago, and hasn’t needed a single structural engineer, materials scientist, or maintenance technician since. Oh, wait that’s not true. Elon’s just a dumbfuck.
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Nov 25, 2022 14:42
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The fact that so many people call him "Elon" even when they're dunking on him shows how well his media-shaping has worked. Call him Musk. He ain't your friend. (Boris Johnson got away with the same thing for way too long in the UK because he spent years cultivating his first-name-terms image.)
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Nov 25, 2022 15:47
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Main Paineframe posted:The people getting fired right now are not part of a mass layoff, which means that they get just the one-month severance. Ratfuckery should be the default assumption now. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 20:01
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Appearntly everyone he dropped were people on visas.
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Nov 25, 2022 21:25
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MonsterEnvy posted:Appearntly everyone he dropped were people on visas. "hm, i'm very worried i'm not being evil enough how could i fix this"
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Nov 26, 2022 01:50
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The chuds are in a froth over a list of 5,000 Twitter accounts they've branded as antifa, and are urging one another to mass report all of these accounts to get them banned. I found this entertaining and slightly surreal exchange related to this incident.
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Nov 26, 2022 02:26
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Payndz posted:The fact that so many people call him "Elon" even when they're dunking on him shows how well his media-shaping has worked. Call him Musk. He ain't your friend. (Boris Johnson got away with the same thing for way too long in the UK because he spent years cultivating his first-name-terms image.)
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Nov 26, 2022 02:53
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GreyjoyBastard posted:"hm, i'm very worried i'm not being evil enough Probably saw some of the people talking about how the only ones left are the ones who don't have a choice and got extra mad.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:44
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Dick Trauma posted:The chuds are in a froth over a list of 5,000 Twitter accounts they've branded as antifa, and are urging one another to mass report all of these accounts to get them banned. I found this entertaining and slightly surreal exchange related to this incident. They put dril on that list. So much for comedy being legal. And libsoftiktok lol.
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Nov 26, 2022 06:35
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Young Freud posted:They put dril on that list. So much for comedy being legal. Is there a way of checking that list out without giving chuds clicks?
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Nov 26, 2022 06:36
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Is there a way of checking that list out without giving chuds clicks? Here's the list in alphabetical order https://votethemallout.ca/a.txt Or you can go through this thread for the highlights... https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1596066707746873344?s=20&t=GGxUgM5f3wQXsv4sWiwLXQ
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Nov 26, 2022 10:20
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Ahaha holy gently caress the CIA and FBI's accounts are on that list. It's literally just a list of posting enemies violent extremist Republicans hate for not letting them do whatever they want to other people.   Edit: The Onion's twitter account is on that list too. Looks like comedy is illegal in fashie land. Archonex fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Nov 26, 2022 |
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Nov 26, 2022 12:02
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Young Freud posted:Here's the list in alphabetical order Cheers! Archonex posted:Ahaha holy gently caress the CIA and FBI's accounts are on that list. It's literally just a list of posting enemies violent extremist Republicans hate for not letting them do whatever they want to other people. There's only room for one joke.
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Nov 26, 2022 17:50
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
Yah, Elon.
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Nov 26, 2022 18:29
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's only room for one joke.
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Nov 26, 2022 19:43
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evilweasel posted:
market can stay irrational more than you can stay solvent etc etc but ughhhhhhhhhh i've felt like shorting Tesla has been an absolute sure bet for a while now and its all coming true
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Nov 26, 2022 21:56
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idiotsavant posted:market can stay irrational more than you can stay solvent etc etc but ughhhhhhhhhh i've felt like shorting Tesla has been an absolute sure bet for a while now and its all coming true You don't just have to know that it's overvalued, you have to know approximately when it will fall to its true value.
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Nov 26, 2022 23:18
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You also have to be even more sure it won't go up instead, because then you have a big problem
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Nov 27, 2022 02:11
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I've never in my life given a poo poo or clicked on anything about Tesla stock, and yet Twitter now is constantly pushing tweets about how I need to go all in on Tesla to my feed.
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Nov 27, 2022 02:15
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Tuxedo Gin posted:I've never in my life given a poo poo or clicked on anything about Tesla stock, and yet Twitter now is constantly pushing tweets about how I need to go all in on Tesla to my feed. Wow that’s pathetically transparent.
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Nov 27, 2022 02:34
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Tuxedo Gin posted:I've never in my life given a poo poo or clicked on anything about Tesla stock, and yet Twitter now is constantly pushing tweets about how I need to go all in on Tesla to my feed. I know nothing about regulation in this area; would that be legal? vvv this, then, might be the purpose for which Musk ultimately sought to buy Twitter. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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Nov 27, 2022 02:37
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Discendo Vox posted:I know nothing about regulation in this area; would that be legal? I don’t think so, it’s very shameless, but I don’t think it’s against any rules.
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Nov 27, 2022 02:41
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He was already able to do that for free just by posting, hard to imagine he can reverse the recent decline by posting harder and buying pump ads
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Nov 27, 2022 03:03
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seems liek if musk only wanted to buy twitter to get discounted advertising for tesla, he wouldn't have done all the other stuff he did
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Nov 27, 2022 22:17
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Payndz posted:The fact that so many people call him "Elon" even when they're dunking on him shows how well his media-shaping has worked. Call him Musk. He ain't your friend. (Boris Johnson got away with the same thing for way too long in the UK because he spent years cultivating his first-name-terms image.) For Musk, I thought people are calling him "Elon" out of a lack of respect.
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Nov 28, 2022 17:22
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Also "musk" is already a word in English, and not a very pleasant one
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Nov 28, 2022 17:28
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Remember how he was threatening to publicly call out companies who cut their Twitter advertising, and how it was extremely obviously a terrible idea? Not only has he decided to do it after all, but he picked one heck of a first target.   Picking an Extremely Not Mad public spat with Apple of all companies is a move that has me wondering if he's more high on his own supply than I thought he was.
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Saw that in another thread, but wanted to thank you for taking the time to screenshot rather than embeds.
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