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RocketMermaid: Mar 30, 2004; My pronouns are She/Heir.

Mokotow posted:

These manic episodes are becoming longer and more frequent.

I feel like he's been on one singular coke binge for the last three weeks straight.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:44

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# ? May 28, 2024 12:21

Strong Sauce: Jul 2, 2003; You know I am not really your father.

elon please log off i cannot keep up with this thread.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:44

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Strong Sauce posted:

elon please log off i cannot keep up with this thread.

I spent 44 BILLION to never log off.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:45

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Chimp_On_Stilts posted:

Gives me Qanon vibes, too.

"The storm is coming" - a moment when all will be revealed, your Enemies will finally suffer, and you will be vindicated at last.

There's people who expect to see something like source code which states "if tweet.sentiment = conservative, then shadowban", or an official human written list titled "Conservatives To Suppress" from Twitter Trust & Safety with a signature at the bottom which states "personally approved by Hillary Clinton".

The reality, of course, is that content moderation is messy and difficult and its grey area corner cases all the way down. The actual files would be more like "Here's a chain of two hundred emails and seven documents, with comments, where we deliberated exactly how to define Hate Speech for six months and, in the end, some anti-trans stuff fell under this policy so a few accounts got whacked for repeatedly deadnaming people with intent to antagonize".

"Even then, two of the suspensions required director level approval because the accounts were prominent."

If it's anything like Facebook, it'll be:

"Mr. Zuckerberg, we have built a new automated content moderation system that reduces violent and extremist content on the platform by over 92%. Note that about 85% of this flagged content is conservative in nature"

"Well, we wouldn't want to piss off all our conservative users, so throw that system in the trash"

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:46

Hardcastlemccormik: Jul 19, 2022

A write up of today�s insanity with a little context sprinkled in for good measure.

https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1597344701811941377

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:47

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

loving lib apple donating 97% of its contributions to democrats. Not like fair and balanced Tesla donating a mere modest 91% of its lobbying to democrats

Those are employee contributions :lol:

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:48

Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

Strong Sauce posted:

elon please log off i cannot keep up with this thread.

"Who is standing in front of my Tesla shouting 'log off!' I will never log off and also the car's autopilot will kill you and then go off a bridge."

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:48

Rigel: Nov 11, 2016

Entropic posted:

It�s probably just that he�s trying to do features that involve in app payments and is finding out that Apple takes a huge cut of those.

Could be both. He is talking about Apple censorship for some reason.

"By the way Elon, while we are talking, we now demand that you get rid of the Nazi poo poo too."

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:48

kazil: Jul 24, 2005; Derpmph trial star reporter!

Strong Sauce posted:

elon please log off i cannot keep up with this thread.

"The Elon Thread is going to become HARDCORE�. If you want to be part of this HARDCORE� experience, click yes, otherwise you will get 3 months of thread severance"

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:49

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

So it's just musk claiming apple threatened twitter with getting kicked off the app store.. I'm sure it's legit.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:49

Wildtortilla: Jul 8, 2008

Stoatbringer posted:

Elon has enough money that he could literally do this in real life, every day, and then shag supermodels on a big pile of sweets like Spawny Get from Viz.

https://i.imgur.com/2v0ygoT.mp4

Instead he's spending his time being a whiny baby on twitter.

lol

Holy poo poo what is the source of this clip?

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:51

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

Wildtortilla posted:

Holy poo poo what is the source of this clip?

Lol that's a mobile game ad

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:53

Soylent Yellow: Nov 5, 2010; yospos

kazil posted:

Musk uses "Free Speech" like a sovereign citizen using code words to get out of consequences

"The Apple app has a gold fringe, it's maritime internet law"

Musk seems to be fixated on the US 1st Ammendment free speech umbrella. Several lawyers must be screaming at him that this isn't a Thing in the rest of the world, and that the EU are just laughing and adding an extra billion onto the eventual fine every time he does something stupid.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:53

Lamech: Nov 20, 2001; Soiled Meat

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Doesn't Fortnight make more money than Twitter

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:53

explosivo: May 23, 2004; Fueled by Satan

Wildtortilla posted:

Holy poo poo what is the source of this clip?

Looks like a mobile game ad to me

edit beaten

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:53

kazil: Jul 24, 2005; Derpmph trial star reporter!

Lamech posted:

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Does Fortnight make more money than Twitter

Twitter doesn't make money so probably

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:53

Bronze Fonz: Feb 14, 2019

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:56

Hardcastlemccormik: Jul 19, 2022

Soylent Yellow posted:

Musk seems to be fixated on the US 1st Ammendment free speech umbrella. Several lawyers must be screaming at him that this isn't a Thing in the rest of the world, and that the EU are just laughing and adding an extra billion onto the eventual fine every time he does something stupid.

It�s not even the US Constitution, which is fixated on government censorship. It�s some sort of amorphous moral triumph of saying whatever you want and other people have to listen to you, support you in an open market, and cannot pull away for any reason.

�Free speech� is a purely self serving phrase that they continue to use because it riles everyone up, but in reality it really just means �mandatory support while I shout slurs� which isn�t what most sane people mean when they talk about it. Especially in the strictly legal sense.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:56

sticksy: May 26, 2004; Nap Ghost

Strong Sauce posted:

elon please log off i cannot keep up with this thread.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:56

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

Lamech posted:

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Doesn't Fortnight make more money than Twitter

Emphatically didn't give a poo poo, and yeah lol Twitter has made money 2 quarters in 14 years

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:57

koshmar: Oct 22, 2009; i'm not here

this isn't happening

Lamech posted:

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Doesn't Fortnight make more money than Twitter

Fortnite makes money QED

# ? Nov 28, 2022 22:57

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Fortnite makes enough money to keep Epic comfortable picking fights with Apple and Steam

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:01

Droogie: Mar 21, 2007; But what I do
I do
because I like to do.

Message to Tim Apple:
Call. His. Bluff.
:pray:

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:04

Chimp_On_Stilts: Aug 31, 2004; Holy Hell.

Lamech posted:

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Doesn't Fortnight make more money than Twitter

From Apple's perspective, in the Epic Games / Fortnite dispute they're defending their 30% cut on every sale in the app store, which in 2021 meant 30% of $85.1 billion according to this source I spent exactly zero seconds vetting. Even if that source is off, I'm sure it's shitloads of money.

If dumping Fortnite on iOS means saving the remaining $XX billion, Apple will happily do it. It's the obviously correct financial choice from Apple's perspective. "Do we forgo a small amount of revenue to save a very large amount of revenue?" - yes, it's a no brainer.

Meanwhile Twitter is struggling to make money at all. Financially to the App Store it's probably insignificant. So Apple's decision making here wouldn't be primarily financially motivated, it would be motivated by the reputational risks to Apple. They're choosing between the pain of hosting an app which contains content they don't want associated with the Apple brand vs. the pain of removing a popular app. Both would create backlash.

Which choice is worse? That's a VP and maybe even CEO level decision at Apple.

Chimp_On_Stilts fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Nov 28, 2022

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:04

Synesthesian Fetish: Apr 29, 2008; Ya know, I useta be President... I'll let you kids punch me anywhere but the face for a dollar.

I keep refreshing this thread hoping that I'll see the exact moment that Elon's brain fully breaks. I wonder if they have a contingency plan?

Maybe a brain damaged parrot can take over? 🤣🤣🤣

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:04

BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

MrQwerty posted:

Those are employee contributions

So then why are all the republicans in SV working for intel?

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:05

Shaking lemur butt: Jan 5, 2015

Bronze Fonz posted:

It's amazing the amount of cognitive dissonance going on, when you get poo poo like this in-between him squawking about being a centrist.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:06

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003; LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL (づ￣ �￣)づ♥(�∀�●)

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

So then why are all the republicans in SV working for intel?

Lotta chuds in manufacturing.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:07

BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Lamech posted:

Didn't Apple not give a poo poo about losing Fortnight to the "30% is unfair" argument

Doesn't Fortnight make more money than Twitter

Yes and yes. Fortnite just came back to iOS this year but you have to download it from the company�s website directly and it could be up to 5 years before apple lets them back on the App Store. Google pulled Fortnite from Play right after too

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:07

Decon: Nov 22, 2015

Hardcastlemccormik posted:

It�s not even the US Constitution, which is fixated on government censorship. It�s some sort of amorphous moral triumph of saying whatever you want and other people have to listen to you, support you in an open market, and cannot pull away for any reason.

�Free speech� is a purely self serving phrase that they continue to use because it riles everyone up, but in reality it really just means �mandatory support while I shout slurs� which isn�t what most sane people mean when they talk about it. Especially in the strictly legal sense.

Yep. And when I was a reddit debate dipshit, my test for it was consistently "Is it a violation of free speech if I kick someone out of my home for calling my partner racial slurs?" The rate at which I got "yes" was un-fuckin'-real. And it was either "yes" or some bullshit mental gymnastics about how a "public place" (e.g. Twitter, Reddit, etc) is different... which apparently means, if I'm at, say, a bar, the bar's owners, bartenders, patrons, etc. have to bite their tongues and tolerate it if someone decides that's the place to begin said slur hurling.

It's not a rational, considered take on where one person's freedoms end and another's begin. It's not a consideration of bodily freedom, freedom of association, monetary freedom, etc. It's just a childish "gently caress you listen to me" propped up by lovely latin phrases and about 10 years of online navel gazing (starting around when GG started).

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:08

Droogie: Mar 21, 2007; But what I do
I do
because I like to do.

MrQwerty posted:

Lotta chuds in manufacturing.

True 😂😂

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:08

Serious_Cyclone: Oct 25, 2017; I appreciate your patience, this is a tricky maneuver

That clip was used in another game ad except the titanic was being launched into downtown Manhattan and I downloaded the game based on that clip and the game sucked thank you for coming to my TEDx talk $8.

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:09

TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

Shaking lemur butt posted:

It's amazing the amount of cognitive dissonance going on, when you get poo poo like this in-between him squawking about being a centrist.

I'm assuming that's fake...I didn't bother checking though :thunk:

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:10

kazil: Jul 24, 2005; Derpmph trial star reporter!

Shaking lemur butt posted:

It's amazing the amount of cognitive dissonance going on, when you get poo poo like this in-between him squawking about being a centrist.

it's fake

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:11

Comfy Fleece Sweater: Apr 2, 2013; You see, but you do not observe.

Droogie posted:

Message to Tim Apple:
Call. His. Bluff.

Tim is a robot, he�s not going to respond like we�d all want him to (removing Twitter immediately etc).

But he�s still absolutely the wrong ceo to mess with

# ? Nov 28, 2022 23:15