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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Why are people ITT doing that thing they did (and still do :rolleyes:) with Trump where you deliberately misspell his name?

:tinfoil: elong tusk searches his name all the time what if he finds the forums and offers 420.69 million for it :ohdear:

(its fun)

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roffles
Dec 25, 2004

lol elon paid 44bn to build his own total perspective vortex and its full of nazis

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Sentient Data posted:

He could have spent a fraction of the money on a company that just builds assets and pays actors to put up with whatever bullshit fantasies he wants 24/7. This week he's a tech boom genius riding the startup days at paypal, next month he's an oil tycoon in the 1800s, the month after that he's the captain of an intergalactic colony ship mid-voyage

I’m surprised the higher ups at Tesla/spacex haven’t called the Twitter devs to suggest building this type of Twitter hugbox/quarantine zone for Elon just so he stops loving up everyone’s stock price lol

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Sankis posted:

just because it's so awful: Its a video of sick fucks putting a cat in a blender

seriously even just reading about it has me hosed up

Jesus Christ who do you follow on Twitter all I saw was NBA and cute dogs and goats on my feed like usual DO NOT READ THIS SPOILER (animal violence)

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056?s=46&t=VqGDTpMBvtmBLtOHIUgZdw

Every time another major Twitter #desaster happens this tweet just gets more funny but I gotta admit I didn’t expect “Twitter destroys political campaign”

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

TulliusCicero posted:

:lol:

Wait, he thinks the AIs are woke? Are you loving serious?

Holy poo poo this clown is a mental case: just complete obsession

more like Woke-o's Basilisk amirite guys?

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

mysterious frankie posted:

I do sort of get the impression that modern capitalists hope they can capitalism their way through all the mounting issues reckless capitalism causes and somehow end up in the post scarcity Star Trek future we thought we were heading for in the 90s, but without having to change in any way whatsoever. If everyone with power runs nothing but increasingly deranged Hail Mary plays, then someone will discover the secret touchdown that's worth all the points, surely.

I think they just watch Star Trek and think holodecks and warp drives are cool, Elon Musk would slap a credit card reader on a replicator in a second to launch X The Everything Machine or whatever and call himself a space socialist.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
I guess if you’re a dumb poo poo with no actual ideas it’s a great idea to tweet one liner nonsense and just let your stans read into it however they want, but I’m not sure Elon has that kind of self awareness.

It’s been real funny watching Elon think he can thread the needle of keeping the chuds and his advertisers happy and just keep walking into rakes though.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Yeah throw your advertisers under the bus by implying it was their decision to have Twitter flag the video, I’m sure that’ll bring them back.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664618300041469952

hmmm what's Twitter's value these days? :thunk:

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

DeeplyConcerned posted:

Yeah, I'm a straight white male and I haven't heard any hate speech at all! Sounds like somebody's triggered :elon:

Without looking at the original announcement I imagine if Elon wants to know what they’re talking about he can just scroll through the replies.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

loving Moron posted:

It just still blows my mind that Elon has fans who ride his dick and thonk he is Iron Man in real life.

Dude is just an insecure Tony Stank who dug himself into a pit where he now hangs with catturd and ianchong.

If it makes you feel better the number of people who believe this are going down almost as fast as twitters valuation. It’s anecdotal from what I hear at work and such but I choose to believe.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

kazil posted:

lol why not just make it so users can't block the ads?

oh yeah, because he fired everyone

It's probably more the block the blue extensions and things that spam a ton of API requests. Obviously the solution is to not let them do that anymore instead of any introspection about why so many people are blocking blue checks on sight.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

redshirt posted:

lol "trained in no rules street-fighting"

shouldve trained in stairs-fighting hiyoooo

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
I hope that Elon Jet guy got a cut of the twitterbux

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

smoobles posted:

the apps already work together too because of smart URLs or whatever, I can fulfill a Venmo request from WhatsApp

he's trying to create an everything app when the phone already is the everything app.

It’s kind of breathtaking how stupid he is that he hasn’t realized this and thinks he can bargain Tim Cook down on payments who is literally his competition.

Elon going to need to buy a phone company next. Is blackberry still kicking around?

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
really hoping elon annoys zuck so much we get a parking lot fight at the next tech billionaire party

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

redshirt posted:

SpaceX has real national security implications, and the military is just sitting back watching this clown poo poo post?

Has elon even showed up to the spaceX offices recently? Maybe everyone recognizes that the best thing they can do is just leave elon to roll in his own poo poo on X and maybe they won't destroy their launchpad next time.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
I wonder if those user-seconds are still unregretted

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Mr. Fortitude posted:

Apparently it's only for Blue subscribers. So he's reimplementing something he scrapped when he first bought and took over Twitter.

Except now the Blue subscribers are probably 80% people he specifically courted by getting rid of the ID verification. Let's see if he wriggles out of this one!

( also lol and lmao)

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Strategic Tea posted:

This is a real thing in accounting; business owners make all sorts of mathematically bad decisions and absurdly risky plans because 'rarr I don't wanna pay tax on that!!'

Don't let the tax tail wag the dog is the saying

Ah, the owner version of 'i dont want a raise because itll cost me more in taxes'

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
Now that I think about it I don't know why I thought this Zuck stuff would finally make him stop posting, how can you dent the confidence of a man who posted this of his own volition

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

Armitage_Shanks posted:

There was an early post acquisition "spaces" with some of the Twitter engineers and he dropped the "rewrite from the ground up" and some probably long fired engineer called him out on it being nonsense. Anyone got it to hand?

https://youtu.be/cZslebJEZbE

This rewrite thing makes sense given his history of stupid ideas, it’s in line with his “first principles” bullshit which sounds a lot like “let’s reinvent the wheel to make sure it works”

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

kazil posted:



He's going to do it lol

I don’t have a bluesky account but it appears that it has a block function. lol if @jack has just been baiting elon into doing stupid poo poo behind the scenes this entire time.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
so did he mean to leave out the “unregretted” part or are even the fake metrics starting to look bad?

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

marshalljim posted:

NPR and PBS are always worried about getting their grants and/or public funding pulled, too. They do a lot of good work, but they can also be quite cowardly.

Maybe they all have extremely problematic DMs on Twitter and they know elon can read them :tinfoil:

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
I'm not a lawyer but at this point doesn't the ADL have a better case for defamation (exhibits A-Z: elon's tweets) then Elon does? How's he going to prove his claim that they caused 60% of his advertisers to leave or whatever.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
https://twitter.com/david_leavitt/status/1699449543689990323?s=46&t=VqGDTpMBvtmBLtOHIUgZdw

Elon should totally sue

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

PhazonLink posted:

e:

logic razor says he's just another dumb boy that got told to grow up and stop being lovely, and he fought against.

also he pretends to be american . lol imagine being a south park bro contrarian of a country on the other side of the globe. also probably doing it as a free agent and burning your parent's money to be a US poster.

I would love to be wrong about this because I don't think it's very funny since I imagine IMC makes (a lot of?) money doing this.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
Not sure if asking for someone to compile a collection of twitter's greatest racist hits for everyone to see is going to go well for elon musk but I look forward to the ensuing lols

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
drat, noticed twitter embeds aren't working and the links actually dont load for me anymore, I guess public access is completely gone?

Though I guess now I can't even load twitter.com so maybe it's finally happening.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

poisonpill posted:

So he’s latched onto AI as his latest scam to keep his stock price bubble from bursting

I guess as long as he can keep dodging those cloud bills, from what I hear it’s not cheap to run this type of thing. Unless @xGrok is really just a random word generator or Elon alt-posting

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
Every time elon announces a new idea im just reminded of this

https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538?s=46&t=VqGDTpMBvtmBLtOHIUgZdw

Though I’m not sure why he’s so fixated on the hitchhikers guide since it seems like he’s the exact type of person that it mocks at every turn. Even spacex is just that bit with the golgafrinchans.

Grok is gonna be Marvin the paranoid android if all it reads is tweets all day.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

yook posted:

I choose to believe the story about Elon’s kid asking why the future doesn’t look like the future when he designed the cybertruck is true, it’s just the kid was talking about a more utopian future like Star Trek or futurama.

Then Elon took that and decided the future was going to be cyberpunk bladerunner dystopian hellscape instead and that we better start getting used to it now.

I am very mad that this fucker that can’t tell the difference between movies and reality has so much money and power lol

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
lmao elon musk is making GBS threads his pants ON PURPOSE

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

WeaponX posted:

can’t belief all these watchdogs want to destroy x for reasons. quick- is newguard owned by a Jewish guy??

Have you considered that watchdogs need to eat and they might be *gasp* taking money from ….. “the wrong people”?

Subscribe to X premium for the real news!

roffles
Dec 25, 2004

RocketRaygun posted:

Media Matters is a non-profit, it can't be trusted. NewsGuard is for-profit, it can't be trusted.

Only trust your fists, but Elon isn't saying that.

Elon will cut through the lies with his blade of truth he has shown you the way.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
Waiting for Elon to go directly after advertisers for defaming him by not advertising on his totally normal platform. It’s gotta be close.

roffles
Dec 25, 2004
Keep digging Elon it’s going to work!

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roffles
Dec 25, 2004

kazil posted:

lol watching this interview, he's so, so, so bad with metaphors

He’s so bad in every interview I just don’t understand how his inverse charisma works

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