Elon Musk: He only experiences Dunning-Krugerrand

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gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

smellmycheese posted:

Look at you, boer. A pathetic creature of drugs and botox, crying and making GBS threads yourself as you meme on your platform.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 07:50

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# ? May 29, 2024 13:49

Unlucky7: Jul 11, 2006; Fallen Rib

gschmidl posted:

Armada, a ripoff of Flight of the Navigator, and probably the worst of them. I only passively experienced all three via the 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back podcast but they seem to all be excruciating as gently caress, much like Musk.

I thought it was a ripoff of The Last Starfighter?

I haven�t read the book so don�t quote me on this but I heard that one of the characters was powered on a government engineered super weed?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 07:51

Shazback: Jan 26, 2013

Question for people that know about Twitter in other languages / countries, how are all these changes to verified accounts perceived?

I remember (I think) someone in this thread mentioning that Japanese twitter was basically self-contained, with its specific codes & had limited awareness of all the stuff Elno was saying and planning on doing... But that was some weeks ago at least.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 07:52

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Unlucky7 posted:

I thought it was a ripoff of The Last Starfighter?

I haven�t read the book so don�t quote me on this but I heard that one of the characters was powered on a government engineered super weed?

It's probably both. And yes, the government engineers "Yoda kush" over decades to fuel the Gamers who will save us from the aliens. And all of Hollywood is there to make people hate aliens. No, the space ones.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 07:54

Volcott: Mar 30, 2010; People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Evilreaver posted:

If the hypothetical AI has the capability to make infinite copies of you, it is far more likely that you are currently a copy than the original. If you think you are living in a simulation (as he has stated), then it is a good idea to pray to your God, the AI, and submit to its will, lest ye be punished forever

How you go about bringing about something to exist, when you believe it already does exist, is an unanswered question

If the AI is already punishing me for not doing enough to create it why are my balls currently un-tased?

e: I was significantly further back in the thread than I thought, my bad.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 08:30

Durzel: Nov 15, 2005

I�m not the biggest fan of the BBC (David Attenborough documentaries are worth the licence fee alone though) but I�m not sure how much of a dunk it is on them to have to deal with an impromptu interview in the middle of the night UK time. How prepared can you really be for that? Do you need to be across all of the talking points 24/7 in case Musk deigns to agree to talk?

If they aren�t across the facts and ask unsubstantiated questions - that�s wrong. If they softball it and just cover the most well known stuff - that�s weak. Don�t know how the BBC could have come out of this particularly well given the circumstances.

Also lol that people are dragging the BBC after Musk brought in his best and brightest stans to the Twitter Spaces thing to crowd out the reporter (who was then criticised for leaving early) and to defend everything about him.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 08:44

Lazyfire: Feb 4, 2006; God saves. Satan Invests

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It has some neat parts, but all the asides about pop culture are just Ernest Cline crowding the reader into a corner at a party to talk at you like PacMan's the greatest thing you've never heard of.

I had barely heard of Ready Player One, the book, before Ready Player One, the movie, came out. My immediate thought to the preview was it was a cash in on nostalgia and not much more. It was somehow worse than that. The tagline should have just been "MegaMan is real and my friend" and we would have all been able to save some time.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:02

grittyreboot: Oct 2, 2012

I read all of Cline's books because they're bad in the way The Room is bad. Almost every page has something so dumb you just have to laugh at it.

Back to Musk: https://twitter.com/TheMcKenziest/s...ingawful.com%2F

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:08

big black turnout: Jan 13, 2009; Fallen Rib

I'm gonna need a better source than a screenshot of the Twitter account for the social media site for people who post "retweet if you think trump should be put in jail"

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:15

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

Also I assume '30 billion in fines' works the same way as 'If convicted on all these charges he faces up to 105 years in prison'.

I.e. A purely theoretical maximum if you treat every infraction seperately and apply the maximum penalty for each, but that's now that works in the real world.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:21

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Last number I saw was 50 million.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:23

Mistle: Oct 11, 2005; Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town; Grimey Drawer

nine-gear crow posted:

Like isn't that even the reason why the flu has come back with such a vengeance over the last two year is because going into lockdown and effectively sending it into viral remission for an entire year actually wound up weakening peoples' immunity to the surviving flu strains?

nexous posted:

No, immunity debt is a made up thing from Covid conspiracy theorists. Your immune system is not a muscle and there is no need to constantly exercise it

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discov...nce-is-lacking/

Flu is coming back all at once because people are being exposed to a new seasonal strain all at once, and the volume of cases make them more noticeable; instead of a constant stream of them you get a sudden flood of them. And because it's a seasonal strain that was passed around in small circles of numbskulls that ignored social distancing, the public at large is not going to have a related resistance to it.

grittyreboot posted:

I read all of Cline's books because they're bad in the way The Room is bad. Almost every page has something so dumb you just have to laugh at it.

Back to Musk: https://twitter.com/TheMcKenziest/status/1645949598429757447

30 billion is the maximal fine able to be issued, and a settlement will likely reduce it, but that will also come with guarantees that it won't happen again.

All of which means Lonnie is going to block Twitter in Germany, cutting off an insult and burden and discarding it like he did with Taibbi et al. :elon:

# ? Apr 12, 2023 09:32

DeeplyConcerned: Apr 29, 2008; I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

Everyone meet elon new alter ego, Alec Barton

*golf clap*

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:03

greazeball: Feb 4, 2003

big black turnout posted:

I'm gonna need a better source than a screenshot of the Twitter account for the social media site for people who post "retweet if you think trump should be put in jail"

This seems to be the leading English language report. The tweet is just taking the number of incidents (so far) and multiplying the maximum fine by that.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/elon-musk-twitter-germany-hate-speech-takedowns/

quote:

Earlier this week, the federal government announced it was instigating a procedure over suspected systemic failures under the country�s hate speech takedowns law. The law, known colloquially as NetzDG, allows for fines of up to �50 million per case.

The federal government is acting on just a handful of tweets out of hundreds that have been reported and collated in a database, per lawyer Chan-jo Jun, the founder and managing partner of the specialist IT law firm, JunIT Rechtsanw�lte.

Jun is representing the antisemitism commissioner of the federal state of Baden-W�rttemberg, Michael Blume, who he says has been targeted by abusive and defamatory tweets that Twitter has refused to take down. Some of the abusive tweets were posted by a Twitter user who had been banned before Musk took over the platform but had his account reinstated in Musk�s general amnesty on suspended accounts.

Late last year, the law firm went to court seeking an injunction against Twitter for failing to act on the reports to remove hate speech under the NetzDG law. The legal challenge succeeded in establishing the tweets were illegal. And it appears to have contributed to spurring the federal government into action � which, on Tuesday, said it had established �sufficient indications of failures� in Twitter�s complaint management processes to start a process that could result in the first penalty for a social media firm for failing to remove illegal content under NetzDG.

Discussing the background to the case, Jun told TechCrunch his firm had reported a number of tweets to the Federal Justice Office (BfJ) last year but were initially told it did not have enough material to establish there was a systemic failure.

�We had reported a number of cases to the [BfJ] at that time, and found that they agreed that these tweets were illegal but said they do not have enough material for a systematic failure. And that�s when a group of volunteers started to systematically search for illegal content and keep reporting that and making a huge database� and they kept submitting that to the [BfJ]. So it�s over 600 cases,� he said.

�The ones that are now subject to the [federal government�s] case appear to be just the first ones. They picked them out because they were all similar in that way � I think they came from the same user and had the same content. That�s probably why they chose those because it would be the easiest case to see that is systematical failure. That it was not a single failure of one content moderator but actually that the vast majority � or all � of reports were wrongly handled.�

The story doesn't seem to be getting huge traction in Germany, probably because it's only an issue for terminally online weirdos until there's actually a case. Here are a couple sources, use the translator of your choice (Deepl is pretty good for German if you don't have one in your browser):

https://www.rnd.de/medien/twitter-bundesamt-fuer-justiz-leitet-bussgeldverfahren-gegen-unternehmen-ein-UGSACCQB7FEEBJ3GKT7YRSTQV4.html
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article244654114/Bundesregierung-leitet-Verfahren-gegen-Twitter-ein.html
https://www.handelsblatt.com/techni...i/29078982.html

The last article even mentions the poop-emoji in the headline, I think in general they're just not very impreessed with his whole schtick.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:15

RoboChrist 9000: Dec 14, 2006; Mater Dolorosa

How big is Twitter - or rather was, before Musk happened - outside the Anglosphere anyways?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:45

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

How big is Twitter - or rather was, before Musk happened - outside the Anglosphere anyways?

Someone early in this thread mentioned that Japan uses it extensively, like primary communication method extensively

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:48

Hopper: Dec 28, 2004; BOOING! BOOING!; Grimey Drawer

As a German, I would be extremely surprised if anything ever came of that whole thing.
There is hardly anyone competent in this country to understand "Internet law", least of all in our government bodies.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:50

geonetix: Mar 6, 2011

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

How big is Twitter - or rather was, before Musk happened - outside the Anglosphere anyways?

my perception is that it was very tiny except for my field of work where there was a real community (infosec in NL). They�ve mostly moved off to mastodon but I cba to get on that for real.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:50

Cool Kids Club Soda: Aug 20, 2010; 😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

Azhais posted:

like primary communication method extensively

Brown and friends may disagree

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:51

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

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Pretty big in a lot of Europe, Indonesia, Brazil.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:54

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Azhais posted:

like primary communication method extensively

yeah nah

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:58

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

Shazback posted:

Question for people that know about Twitter in other languages / countries, how are all these changes to verified accounts perceived?

I remember (I think) someone in this thread mentioning that Japanese twitter was basically self-contained, with its specific codes & had limited awareness of all the stuff Elno was saying and planning on doing... But that was some weeks ago at least.

not a huge sample, but I follow a couple hundred Japanese capybara photographers on Twitter and I haven't seen a single one of them get verified

I also don't see anything except capybaras and guinea pigs and occasionally other rodents, all from Japanese people, in my "for you" tab

https://twitter.com/capybarahp/status/1645728399913041923

I think this is the ideal way to use twitter

# ? Apr 12, 2023 10:59

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

trivia: twitter character limit, at least before the weird new mega limit that is rumored (already implemented?), remained at 140 characters in Japanese since you can already pack so much meaning in to that. part of why it was so popular and successful here.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:24

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

What do all the nazi Twitter clones (Gab, Parler, Gettr, Truth, et al) do about Germany? Just not available there?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:30

armchairyoda: Sep 17, 2008; Melman

What are the odds that Elno doesn�t know that 4/20 is �weed day� and just thinks it�s weird that people freak out about Hitler�s birthday and just rolls with it?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:38

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Data Graham posted:

What do all the nazi Twitter clones (Gab, Parler, Gettr, Truth, et al) do about Germany? Just not available there?

I can't imagine anyone but a handful of the biggest AfD chuds even wanting to post on those

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:40

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

mobby_6kl posted:

I can't imagine anyone but a handful of the biggest AfD chuds even wanting to post on those

yeah lol like, Americans barely even use any of those and the one that's most notable still is only so because of who owns it/is the main character

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:43

Kingo Ligma: Aug 24, 2019; Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Data Graham posted:

What do all the nazi Twitter clones (Gab, Parler, Gettr, Truth, et al) do about Germany? Just not available there?

Most of them aren't available outside the US at all

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:44

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Kingo Ligma posted:

Most of them aren't available outside the US at all

Not surprising, but because that requires extra work it's pretty funny to think they all made the active decision that "our users are going to post heinous poo poo and we can't be bothered to police it, and other countries will hold us legally liable, so just block them all. We will not ponder the implications of this"

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:48

The Saddest Rhino: Apr 29, 2009; Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.

Shazback posted:

Question for people that know about Twitter in other languages / countries, how are all these changes to verified accounts perceived?

I remember (I think) someone in this thread mentioning that Japanese twitter was basically self-contained, with its specific codes & had limited awareness of all the stuff Elno was saying and planning on doing... But that was some weeks ago at least.

Twitter is pretty big in south east Asia among genz and millennials, mostly because Facebook is pure boomer central and a lot of the less conservative views would propogate in twitter way before FB. Also it's apparently easier to dogpile on people on twitter.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:50

Scientastic: Mar 1, 2010; TRULY scientastic.
🔬🍒

Oh God the BBC interview. Just drily saying �yeah, I get the joke� while Elon Musk expectantly looks at the interviewer and weirdly laughs.

You�ve got to watch the whole thing, it�s such an awkward experience

Edit: What a weird and strange dweeb he is, he comes across as a complete loving idiot

Scientastic fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Apr 12, 2023

# ? Apr 12, 2023 11:53

Bertha the Toaster: Jan 11, 2009

Is it only available on iPlayer in the UK? I'd be willing to upload it somewhere but I don't know what site is willing to take a BBC video and won't get pulled instantly.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:16

Zulily Zoetrope: Jun 1, 2011; Muldoon

If you're looking to upload a BBC video may I suggest... pornhub.com!? :elon:

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:22

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Is it only available on iPlayer in the UK? I'd be willing to upload it somewhere but I don't know what site is willing to take a BBC video and won't get pulled instantly.

Archive.org

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:23

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

armchairyoda posted:

What are the odds that Elno doesn�t know that 4/20 is �weed day� and just thinks it�s weird that people freak out about Hitler�s birthday and just rolls with it?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:28

SpaceCommie: Oct 2, 2008; I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism ...

SPACE!

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Is it only available on iPlayer in the UK? I'd be willing to upload it somewhere but I don't know what site is willing to take a BBC video and won't get pulled instantly.

It's on the BBC's youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSsnsAEcn8

EDIT: Looks like that's a cut down version.

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:49

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Why would you voluntarily watch this cretin speak?

# ? Apr 12, 2023 12:58

...!: 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?