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Clarste posted:I thought that was working as intended. It's intentional but I do enjoy that the intent is so poorly conveyed, people just assume the site's broken.
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Twitter, and social media as a whole, is a modern tower of babel and Musk is doing the lord's work by smiting it.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Someone already posted this earlier but if it prevents anyone from creating a twitter account then godspeed: It'd be nice if this was put in the OP.
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Many nitter instances also have RSS feeds for the twitter accounts so you can follow them without Following them.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Many nitter instances also have RSS feeds for the twitter accounts so you can follow them without Following them. The rss feature does not work very well in my experience, like it would cause my reader to issue an error about a third of the time.
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discord is forcing the clyde bot into every server (including private servers!) to scrape chats and train AI if you think that sucks, get your local discord modmins to drop this into a chat box to pre-emptively ban the bot from joining the server: code:Kith fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Kith posted:discord is forcing the clyde bot into every server (including private servers!) to scrape chats and train AI If you're worried about Discord scraping private chats on your Discord server, then you should close down your Discord server and move your community to a different service entirely. All Discord servers and Discord message are hosted on Discord's cloud services, and Discord doesn't use end-to-end encryption. This means that Discord can already access every single message that's ever been sent using their service. They don't need to use a chatbot to log and scrape your messages, and the chatbot almost certainly won't be doing any logging or scraping - they can already dump the entire contents of your entire server into their AI training set, and don't need to add anything to your server to do so. Why are they adding Clyde to all servers, then? Because a bunch of people absolutely loving love that poo poo (I've already seen more than a few servers adding ChatGPT-powered chatbots themselves), and Discord is desperate for cheap-and-easy features that they might be able to sell premium access to without people feeling like they're being nickel-and-dimed.
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All of the pushback I've seen against Clyde is because of some TOS verbiage that would allow it to to do the scraping and training, so I figured I'd share an out for interested parties. That's all.
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Came across this video from 4 months ago when the Youtube adblock notification was smalltime. Which boils down to that while Youtube has the right to ask you to stop blocking ads, we also have the rights to non poo poo ads. GIves a few options to block and do otherwise, also has some legal points of our rights to block. Video description has a lot of links to legal aspects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHi9yH6UB0 OgNar fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Congratulations on losing $25 billion in one year. https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1719064195042324772 "On Monday, employees at X were awarded equity in the company at a valuation of $19 billion, or $45 per share, according to internal documents seen by The Verge. That price is a 55 percent discount to Musk’s original purchase price, per the documents, which note that “the fair market value per share is determined by the Board of Directors based on a number of factors in a manner that complies with applicable tax rules.” (Musk is X’s chair and has yet to create a formal board.)" "Until now, employees at X have been working there without the knowledge of what the company is worth since Musk bought it. This stock award information finally answers that question, though it seems that Musk’s valuation may still be too generous; one of his big investors, Fidelity, thinks X is worth 65 percent less than when he bought it."
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Didn't he buy at $54 a share? How is $45 a share a decline of 55%?
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haveblue posted:Didn't he buy at $54 a share? How is $45 a share a decline of 55%? less shares exist now (presumably, precisely to create this misimpression it hasn't gone down that much)
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haveblue posted:Didn't he buy at $54 a share? How is $45 a share a decline of 55%? Less overall shares, each worth less.
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I feel like $19 billion is an extremely generous valuation
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There's two big flaws with this valuation: 1) Saying Twitter was valued at 44 billion a year ago is technically true, but inaccurate. Musk overpaid for it. 2) This is twitter's own valuation of itself, which obviously has some flaws because there's lots of ways to fluff it with brand and false assumptions. It's real value is probably closer to 13 billion (per fidelity).
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Oct 30, 2023 22:19
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Right, he was literally bidding against himself at that sale price. Nobody thought Twitter was really worth much to anyone in a sale because until right before Musk bought it, it had never been profitable.
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Oct 30, 2023 22:25
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Eh, Twitter had a value somewhere in the 35-40 billion range. He just overdid slightly so he could do the funny weed nazi number.
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Morrow posted:There's two big flaws with this valuation: It's probably lower than even the Fidelity valuation considering that was Twitter and not X. The brand loss alone is something like $4-10 billion dollars.
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Giving it a valuation is also really weird in this context because the way the market sees it is like "if Musk sold the company today, what would it be worth?" And baked into that assumption is that post-sale management would almost certainly return to a "value-maximizing" mindset that would almost certainly involve kicking Musk out and reverting the company to its pre-Musk state as much as possible. If you're talking about the value of a share though, then that's taking a big gamble on Musk actually doing that, and every day he doesn't do that is going further down road of it being a total write-off. Anybody that buys a share of it right now is basically playing a game of chicken over when he sells the company, or assuming that he's a normal rational person that will start realizing that his decisions are bad and either start making good decisions or cut his losses and sell, and not pricing in the possibility that he's an insane egomaniac who will ride it to zero.
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To be clear, these are internal metrics and not actual share prices because the company is now private and not publicly traded Musk doesn’t want to answer to anyone so he’s not only taken the company private but he also has no Board to answer to.
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Morrow posted:There's two big flaws with this valuation: it was valued at $44b. by elon musk. he valued it enough to fork over $44b for it. now, once he came down from his bender he realized he'd made a terrible mistake, but he did value it at $44b. and that's relevant to how funny it is that even elon can't manage to claim it's worth more than $19b
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Mercury_Storm posted:Someone already posted this earlier but if it prevents anyone from creating a twitter account then godspeed: I'm dumb and don't know how to use this. Just install the chrome extension? I can't see an option to add the redirect patterns
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Once you add the extension, find it in the extensions area which is usually in the upper right of the browser or in the main menu under extensions. Click on the Redirector icon then Edit Redirects.
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1721608444615311637 This was the only purpose I used my last remaining twitter account for so 
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If I ran a social media platform I would want to maintain links to a userbase of 40 million people with a large disposable income. But I am not the richest and smartest man alive, elon musk.
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Oooh this actually feels like a blow to Twitter. https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-loses-another-one-sony-is-disabling-twitter-integration-on-playstation-consoles-next-week/
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Dull Fork posted:Oooh this actually feels like a blow to Twitter. https://www.pcgamer.com/elon-musk-loses-another-one-sony-is-disabling-twitter-integration-on-playstation-consoles-next-week/ Literally two posts above you, dude.
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Elon's first AI model just rolled out and three guesses what dataset they're training it on.Futurism posted:Over the weekend, Elon Musk's startup xAI released its first AI model, called Grok, to a select group of users — and judging by screenshots posted by X-formerly-Twitter employees, the model will be a far more crass and dad joke-prone chatbot compared to more professional offerings like ChatGPT. So...Grok? Does that mean QBot was already taken?
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Allegedly some of the early users are ‘luminaries’ like Andrew Tate and Ian Miles Cheong. So literally the most insufferable people on Earth.
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"please don’t use it if you hate humor!" is exactly the kind of thing people say when they have the most dogshit sense of humor imaginable
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'spicy questions' meaning the ones that get you excluded from any other place. Including I assume "the Jewish one"
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You know, spicy questions. Questions that fill you with energy and make your face feel numb. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1720643054065873124
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EasyEW posted:You know, spicy questions. Questions that fill you with energy and make your face feel numb. This is going to cause someone to snort a bleach/draino/baking soda mixture someday soon.
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That makes Grandma's stories about her work at the napalm factory look charmingly quaint.
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Angepain posted:"please don’t use it if you hate humor!" is exactly the kind of thing people say when they have the most dogshit sense of humor imaginable The
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It's that time of the month again- Twitter and Elon Musk (what's the difference any more) did something so far beyond the pale that major advertisers are jumping ship. This time it was approvingly retweeting blatant antisemitism and being unable to stop ads from accompanying it.quote:Yaccarino has been trying to bring advertisers back to the platform by claiming it’s safe for business. She’s also claimed that X (formerly Twitter) has been “demonstrating its absolute commitment to combating antisemitism on the platform” and that “antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform.” haveblue fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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quote:As X owner Elon Musk continues his descent into white nationalist and antisemitic conspiracy theories, his social media platform has been placing ads for major brands like Apple, Bravo (NBCUniversal), IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity (Comcast) next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. The company’s placements come after CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed that brands are “protected from the risk of being next to” toxic posts on the platform. Why the gently caress are Apple and IBM still advertising on xitter at all. I can kind of get Xfinity because it's hard to think of a more publicly hated company.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Why the gently caress are Apple and IBM still advertising on xitter at all. I can kind of get Xfinity because it's hard to think of a more publicly hated company. because there are still twitter users that don't share our opinion of it as long as you're getting a good price and not actively damaging your brand (which in this case has much more to do with the placement of the ads than with Elon tweets) why wouldn't you?
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