elon's 4D chess is that "Masturbatedon" or "Masterbatedon" might be read as "masturbate don" i.e. elon wants to stroke donald trump... he's heading off that insult before it can even begin! :-)
― 龜, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
he could really plumb some new depths if he came out as kinky and poly
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
Another fun thing: for years, he was a reply guy in The Onion's mentions.And then they made fun of him a couple times. And he responded by pivoting to the right-wing satire site that publishes "Elon in a mech suit" fanfic. Watch the shift: pic.twitter.com/UqfkpM7oFW— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022
But yeah, this is what he thinks is the height of comedy: fan-fiction about how cool he is pic.twitter.com/zEdHGQ3PAx— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at ReadTPA.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 7, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
He deleted the dirty screen tweet and retweeted a couple of Tesla tweets lol
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
cool cool cool
To independent-minded voters:Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
so Twitter is now officially a mouthpiece for the Republican party?
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
It’s a mouthpiece for someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder.
It’s interesting. Jack was semi-public about his struggle with manic depression. Ev too. I don’t think Musk has ever spoken publicly about his clear issues.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
He has! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/business/elon-musk-tesla-board.html
It’d feel more like a win for the bipolar community if there wasn’t so much … uh, baggage.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
I'm just trying to picture the absolute uproar if, say, Zuckerberg flat out said everyone should vote for Democrats. All hell would break loose.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Meant to qualify that with if he used his official Facebook platform to do so.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
“therefore I recommend” is just absolutely killing me
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
the classic "guy who cannot take an L or log off"
― ciderpress, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg7q9ZJVsAAoIzT?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
There’s a whole account for this stuff
Elon Musk liked a tweet from Eva Fox 🦊Claudius Nero’s Legion 🐺 https://t.co/oDBwElNolN— ELON ALERTS (@elon_alerts) November 7, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Monday, 7 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
This feels like watching Trump's first week in office if he misplaced the keys to the White House and spent three hours on camera looking for them
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
He's tanking the site, he's drowning in debt, he's a huge fucking baby, and he reads his mentions.— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
cool cool cool🐦[To independent-minded voters:Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022🕸]🐦
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
lmao he's fucked https://t.co/MEL9lYlqQW— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 7, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
someone that’s doesn’t treat his bipolar disorder
certainly has all the earmarks of someone riding their mania straight at a fiery crash into the mountain
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
maybe he'll make Kanye Chief Product Officer
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
interesting
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
re the yang tweet
https://t.co/zUkuY3rsNq pic.twitter.com/JaTJo2CzyE— Jesse (@RequiemArm) November 7, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe's Twitter account! Wasn't it obvious he was doing a PARODY???— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 7, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
He's such a dummy. By going full goblin and imposing such a strict my way or the highway binary, he's pretty much whittling down the number of people that would pay to associate with him and in turn prop up his ego/clout. He is indeed going to end up in a the same sort of parallel universe as Trump, surrounded by yes men, Scott Baio and Three Doors Down.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
hatchi matchi
Bullied Loner Plans Office Shooting https://t.co/vi1zjXxjB3 pic.twitter.com/uLVy73blc1— The Onion (@TheOnion) November 7, 2022
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
They should stick him in the middle with a big flag when the fabled "both sides" he loves so much start unloading on each other.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
WAIT! Don't go!
Tech insider Casey Newton tweeted Saturday that some Twitter employees are getting called back in after getting sacked Friday. Those who are being asked to return, according to Insider, were key to Twitter’s operations; it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is basically what you get if you take Steve Jobs and drain his genius for design, commitment to excellence and ability to bring out the best in people, even better than they themselves thought possible. What you're left with is a destructive, selfish narcissist promoting vaporware.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
just rebrand it Shitter already
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's already in the toilet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
lol there are people suggesting that Elon should fire these people if they refuse to come back. THEY'RE ALREADY FIRED.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
xp
Hey, he has been fishing for additional revenue streams and Wacky Packages-style re-skins aren't as dumb as some of the ideas they've been throwing out.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
"it's unclear why these individuals were chosen to be laid off in the first place" yeah duh, because this appears to have been so massive no actual thought was put behind what they were doing.
― akm, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
RIFs are often poorly thought through/done without regard to operability even at my company, to the point where they literally laid off half of our project team prior to a live date, which basically made the entire project a big disaster. at a company like Twitter that's run by the equivalent of a gardener whose head was run over by a lawn mower, well...y'know.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
for SWEs it really does seem to have been lines of code in the last 30-60 days combined with tenure.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
that's the reporting, and at least in my former org it matches what actually happened.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Amazing
Could use a community manager who has grown an amazing online message board, subreddit, or online forum… work from home, anywhere in the world, as long as you’ve done it before and you have a playbook I can learn from. Email Ja✧✧✧@calaca✧✧✧.c✧✧ explaining your experience— @jason (@Jason) November 8, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
haaaaa
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
nominate e.mily
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Is Philip Greenspun still alive?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
invocation of greenspun is always my line for OG SHIT. i was as ignorant then as i am now and could never figure out the board's connection to this greenspun, like, is this on some usenet bullshit, what is this? mr. greenspun (didn't know there was one) should definitely end twitter, is what i'm getting to here
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
Philip Greenspun. Born September 28, 1963 (age 59)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
(post for my) green spun philster
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
Having seen WeChat work in China, this scenario actually makes sense:
There you go. Musk’s plan for Twitter is to copy WeChat. https://t.co/wgcjUc2fOT— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 8, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
legendary greenspun hours: when his dog* had like peed on the server out in the garage that ilx and the all other boards** were housed on, and we had couple of days outage till it dried out or whatever
*(probably no longer with us RIP) **eg there were two Y2K boards on greenspun bcz there'd been a massive flameward schism over how to interpret the non-arrival of the Y2K end-times, also ask a drunk and iirc de subjectivisten 👋🏼
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
copy wechat (create x the everything app) except start by paying $4b for the legacy code base of a site for journalists to yell at each other
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
I feel like a problem with this model is Elon himself. Most people have gotten comfortable with online payment systems, but those are generally controlled by big faceless corporations. We may not like them, but like the banks, we have some level of trust in their institutional competence and stability. But to the degree that Elon is just making Twitter all about him, I think there might be some well-founded reluctance to give This Guy your credit card info and purchase history.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
if you use paypal* you already did!
*used paypal 20 years ago
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
It boggles the mind, but the need for these dudes to broadcast their assholism rather than quietly go about business as secret assholes or rumored assholes is incredible. It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
people be wanting attention is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link