Elon Musk: He only experiences Dunning-Krugerrand

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Steadiman: Jan 31, 2006; Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

_{silly sevens}

kazil posted:

He's not being self deprecating, he's making GBS threads on the plus sized models in the ad

Oh goddammit musk. I hadn�t even considered that would be a thing here but yeah I guess he is

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:27

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 15:14

nexous: Jan 14, 2003; I just want to be pure

Vintersorg posted:

Musk taking inspiration from Vivarium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzmicMitN0

I hated this movie yet am compelled to watch it again

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:28

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

kazil posted:

He's not being self deprecating, he's making GBS threads on the plus sized models in the ad

Elon Musk is being a shithead? To women even? I don't believe it

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:30

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

so is musk admitting his own bird algo ads is serving him ads for his man boobs because his diet and drug habit crashed and he gained all the weight back + interest?

lol at the sequel to which white lumpy thing 2023 summer edition.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:45

Lamech: Nov 20, 2001; Soiled Meat

wtf are those roads I see in Musklandia? I only travel by loop, thank you very musk

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:48

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Lamech posted:

wtf are those roads I see in Musklandia? I only travel by loop, thank you very musk

All loops lead to roads. How else will you get your Tesla into them?

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:51

YanniRotten: Apr 3, 2010; We're so pretty,
oh so pretty

koshmar posted:

I'm by no means an expert on certs, but won't this just cause their internal apps to constantly complain that the certs are expired? It's clearly pants on head stupid to fire everyone who had the keys to manage them but won't it be more of a nuisance?

It sounds like the immediate problem is that when nodes phone home to puppet (part of them being able to keep their servers configured correctly), they will NOT trust that the server they have contacted is actually controlled by Twitter and therefore won't even communicate with it.

that doesn't seem fatal but they probably have to spin up new puppet infrastructure and then update their entire fleet to talk to it. without the benefit of the thing that lets them easily configure their server fleet.

basically a surprise, large IT project of building a new city because you lost the keys to your house.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 01:59

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

YanniRotten posted:

It sounds like the immediate problem is that when nodes phone home to puppet (part of them being able to keep their servers configured correctly), they will NOT trust that the server they have contacted is actually controlled by Twitter and therefore won't even communicate with it.

that doesn't seem fatal but they probably have to spin up new puppet infrastructure and then update their entire fleet to talk to it. without the benefit of the thing that lets them easily configure their server fleet.

basically a surprise, large IT project of building a new city because you lost the keys to your house.

that's a problem for the nerds, not the thinkers

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:00

The Last Call: Sep 9, 2011; Rehabilitating sinner

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1634606320551690241

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:11

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

The Last Call posted:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1634606320551690241

#marcia
Did you sell out the US

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:15

YanniRotten: Apr 3, 2010; We're so pretty,
oh so pretty

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

that's a problem for the nerds, not the thinkers

comedy option: trying to fix this bricks every server owned by Twitter since the people who are left aren't super great at stuff

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:19

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

YanniRotten posted:

comedy option: trying to fix this bricks every server owned by Twitter since the people who are left aren't super great at stuff

poo poo, I thought mine was the comedy option. Need to work on my material

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:21

thin blue whine: Feb 21, 2004; PLEASE SEE POLICY; Soiled Meat

PC LOAD LETTER posted:

So whats going to be the tipping for Twitter?

Some sort've financial debt issue that they can't push off thanks to dwindling revenue?

Or is there no tipping point to sudden collapse and instead its going to be more of a looooooong slow drawn out collapse as Elon struggles to keep the place afloat?

I can't really tell which at this point but my guess would be the latter rather than the former.

I'm not an expert but my belief has been it will keep plugging along for probably years. Too many people have a vested interest in controlling Twitter, it is too useful to keep it around so people don't find or make an alternative, and to keep it a poo poo hole for anyone other than a right wing idiot to use. We can all (rightfully) laugh at how dumb and bad Elon and his sycophants but unfortunately even in its current state it's useful for disrupting useful information and disseminating bad information, in an age where information is extremely valuable.

However, one of my friends who is very, very high up at one of the major tech companies, specifically in their advertising division, told me he was withholding his judgement on Twitter's demise the first few months after Musk purchased it but now doesn't think advertisers will come back to Twitter and it will sink by the end of the year.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:24

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

Add in the recent news that Meta is doing their own Twitter clone that will come with the entire Instagram member base built in.. I think Twitter may get crushed by competition before the servers even have a chance to finally fail!

(Meta would also be horrible but it would be funny to see it kill off elon's twitter)

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:27

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

The meta one is going to be decentralized which I don't think is going to quite replace that twitter niche

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:31

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

zuck and decentralized seems like a paradox on the level of matter and antimatter.

also given how zucks vr matrix is still sucking poo poo, him fusing a bird clone with instragram seems like a bad idea. also just like Musk doesnt get how posting culture and norms are for twitter, I dont think Zuck gets how Instagram norms and usage is like.

(note I dont either, isnt Instagram mostly women posting and sharing stuff and influencer stuff.)

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:46

AlmightyBob: Sep 8, 2003

PhazonLink posted:

so is musk admitting his own bird algo ads is serving him ads for his man boobs because his diet and drug habit crashed and he gained all the weight back + interest?

lol at the sequel to which white lumpy thing 2023 summer edition.

also it's a scam site but elon is a huge mark so he doesn't realize it

# ? Mar 12, 2023 02:54

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

this isn't happening

eLOM dUSKS Twitter continues to deliver the hits

https://twitter.com/Mateba_6/status/1634694563859251200?s=20

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:09

The Last Call: Sep 9, 2011; Rehabilitating sinner

Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk�s Twitter

�Twitter shouldn�t provide a platform for Mexican cartel members to spread their hate and incite violence," an official for the organization behind a new report said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/mexican-drug-cartels-twitter-elon-musk-report

Prominent members of Mexican drug cartels are using Twitter to recruit new members, send warnings to rival gangs, post gory images and videos, and glorify the narco lifestyle. Some of these accounts were banned by Twitter�s safety team between 2012 and 2015, but they have been reinstated since Elon Musk bought the company last year.

These are the conclusions of a new report released on Thursday by the Alliance to Counter Crime Online, a coalition of organizations that research online crimes including drug trafficking, child sexual abuse, and romance scams. Now, the ACCO is calling on Twitter to block and remove narco content and to once again suspend the accounts that spread it.

�Social media is a tool that provides benefits to and strengthens drug cartels by enhancing organizational and operational capabilities,� report author Dr. Nilda Garcia, assistant professor in the political science department at Texas A&M International University, told BuzzFeed News. �These communication outlets provide major opportunities for drug cartels not only to engage in public relations strategies, gain legitimacy, incite fear, and recruit, but also facilitate the diversification of criminal activities that involve extortion, drug sales, and human smuggling online.�

Some of the cartels� imagery appears to violate Twitter�s policies around violent content. One video posted by a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, headed by Nemesio Oseguera, one of the world�s most-wanted drug lords, features decapitated heads of rival cartel members being tossed into a bonfire. Another tweet posted by a member of La Chapisa, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel, features a victim being scalped.

Under Musk�s leadership, the report said, Twitter�s efforts to remove this content and block these accounts has declined. Some of Musk�s actions � like firing over 70% of Twitter�s employees, including content moderators responsible for keeping the platform safe � have made the problem worse, according to the report.

�Twitter shouldn�t provide a platform for Mexican cartel members to spread their hate and incite violence,� Gretchen Peters, executive director of the ACCO, told BuzzFeed News in an interview. �We are asking them to study the problem and really examine this issue more closely.�

Extremists and other bad actors have flourished under Musk�s leadership, as thousands of previously banned accounts were reinstated, including those of far-right figures like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon. Earlier this year, Twitter sparked outrage after it allowed members of the Taliban to buy blue verification checkmarks for their accounts. (Twitter removed the checkmarks from these accounts shortly thereafter.)

Unlike the Taliban, members of the drug cartels haven�t bought blue checks yet, according to the report�s findings. Garcia said that she suspects that this is because gang members don�t want to attract more attention and potentially get deplatformed again. �Using social media can be a double-edged sword for them,� she said. �They have learned how not to be as vulnerable, and not attract more attention from authorities.�

Some cartel members are more brazen than others. Rena �la Rana� Arzate Garcia, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, for instance, has his �Wanted by the FBI� poster as his Twitter header image. The Cartel del Noreste has used its Twitter accounts to actively attract new members, posting recruitment notices right in its Twitter bios and inviting anyone interested to join the cartel�s Discord, the report states. (However, by the time the report was published, the Cartel del Noreste had removed such calls.)

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:12

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

koshmar posted:

eLOM dUSKS Twitter continues to deliver the hits

https://twitter.com/Mateba_6/status/1634694563859251200?s=20

it's not even good Matrix fetish porn

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:14

Zephirus: May 18, 2004; BRRRR......CHK

YanniRotten posted:

It sounds like the immediate problem is that when nodes phone home to puppet (part of them being able to keep their servers configured correctly), they will NOT trust that the server they have contacted is actually controlled by Twitter and therefore won't even communicate with it.

that doesn't seem fatal but they probably have to spin up new puppet infrastructure and then update their entire fleet to talk to it. without the benefit of the thing that lets them easily configure their server fleet.

basically a surprise, large IT project of building a new city because you lost the keys to your house.

Yeah it's this. Regenerating the CA cert for puppet is relatively trivial, but updating the CA cert on each node requires a number of relatively simple steps ( stop puppet, delete files restart puppet, allow cert in puppet enterprise if you're using that and not autosigning ). Doing that on a few thousand nodes is a right PITA if they're not in a secondary automation system.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:16

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Bootcha posted:

He wouldn't be the first person to try and dig into Central Texas limestone aquafer and then drown.

Oh wait the above ground speed train? Austin is very much NIMBY Rock for all it's blue liberal wart shouting. Like it can't even approve a second water treatment plant for the city because no one wants a water treatment plant driving down real estate value around it, and twice a loving year a flood of rain pours in to the point we have boil water alerts because the one facility can't keep up with demand and bad weather.

No loving way are people going to sell their land or rights to Musk, no matter how much they love him, to build a hyperloop in and around the city.

I did mean the lovely underground car tunnels with strobing LED's, but that was still very interesting to read!

Zephirus posted:

Yeah it's this. Regenerating the CA cert for puppet is relatively trivial, but updating the CA cert on each node requires a number of relatively simple steps ( stop puppet, delete files restart puppet, allow cert in puppet enterprise if you're using that and not autosigning ). Doing that on a few thousand nodes is a right PITA if they're not in a secondary automation system.

*Everyone who knows how to run the automation system has been fired and nobody knows where the documentation is. Or if it exists.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:21

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

The Last Call posted:

Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk�s Twitter

�Twitter shouldn�t provide a platform for Mexican cartel members to spread their hate and incite violence," an official for the organization behind a new report said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/mexican-drug-cartels-twitter-elon-musk-report

Prominent members of Mexican drug cartels are using Twitter to recruit new members, send warnings to rival gangs, post gory images and videos, and glorify the narco lifestyle. Some of these accounts were banned by Twitter�s safety team between 2012 and 2015, but they have been reinstated since Elon Musk bought the company last year.

These are the conclusions of a new report released on Thursday by the Alliance to Counter Crime Online, a coalition of organizations that research online crimes including drug trafficking, child sexual abuse, and romance scams. Now, the ACCO is calling on Twitter to block and remove narco content and to once again suspend the accounts that spread it.

�Social media is a tool that provides benefits to and strengthens drug cartels by enhancing organizational and operational capabilities,� report author Dr. Nilda Garcia, assistant professor in the political science department at Texas A&M International University, told BuzzFeed News. �These communication outlets provide major opportunities for drug cartels not only to engage in public relations strategies, gain legitimacy, incite fear, and recruit, but also facilitate the diversification of criminal activities that involve extortion, drug sales, and human smuggling online.�

Some of the cartels� imagery appears to violate Twitter�s policies around violent content. One video posted by a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, headed by Nemesio Oseguera, one of the world�s most-wanted drug lords, features decapitated heads of rival cartel members being tossed into a bonfire. Another tweet posted by a member of La Chapisa, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel, features a victim being scalped.

Under Musk�s leadership, the report said, Twitter�s efforts to remove this content and block these accounts has declined. Some of Musk�s actions � like firing over 70% of Twitter�s employees, including content moderators responsible for keeping the platform safe � have made the problem worse, according to the report.

�Twitter shouldn�t provide a platform for Mexican cartel members to spread their hate and incite violence,� Gretchen Peters, executive director of the ACCO, told BuzzFeed News in an interview. �We are asking them to study the problem and really examine this issue more closely.�

Extremists and other bad actors have flourished under Musk�s leadership, as thousands of previously banned accounts were reinstated, including those of far-right figures like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon. Earlier this year, Twitter sparked outrage after it allowed members of the Taliban to buy blue verification checkmarks for their accounts. (Twitter removed the checkmarks from these accounts shortly thereafter.)

Unlike the Taliban, members of the drug cartels haven�t bought blue checks yet, according to the report�s findings. Garcia said that she suspects that this is because gang members don�t want to attract more attention and potentially get deplatformed again. �Using social media can be a double-edged sword for them,� she said. �They have learned how not to be as vulnerable, and not attract more attention from authorities.�

Some cartel members are more brazen than others. Rena �la Rana� Arzate Garcia, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, for instance, has his �Wanted by the FBI� poster as his Twitter header image. The Cartel del Noreste has used its Twitter accounts to actively attract new members, posting recruitment notices right in its Twitter bios and inviting anyone interested to join the cartel�s Discord, the report states. (However, by the time the report was published, the Cartel del Noreste had removed such calls.)

Looking into it

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:44

DRINK ME: Jul 31, 2006; i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN

nexous posted:

I hated this movie yet am compelled to watch it again

Weird not horrible movie. The screaming kid kind of grated on me and has stopped me from watching it again.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 03:52

Devils Affricate: Jan 22, 2010

Vivarium is an excellent movie and people who don't like it probably just don't know what brood parasites are so the analogy is lost on them

# ? Mar 12, 2023 04:17

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

The Last Call posted:

Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk�s Twitter

wasnt there a recent news of 4 americans killed during a (medical) tourism trip gone bad?

Also bad on both sides seen messing with (medical) tourism money is big no no that whatever crime org that did it just straight out threw some of their own people under the bus as an offering/apology for messing with the clean money dam.

# ? Mar 12, 2023 04:20

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Payndz posted:

That technically got to number 1 in the UK singles chart because it was the B-side of 'The Chicken Song' (which did get to number 1).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM4wVgZN9o

# ? Mar 12, 2023 04:28

.random: May 7, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM4wVgZN9o

Sorry what

# ? Mar 12, 2023 04:33

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Handle with Caution; Nap Ghost

Megillah Gorilla posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM4wVgZN9o

man. the UK is weird

# ? Mar 12, 2023 04:34

...!: Oct 5, 2003; I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?