Elon Musk

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.

just rebrand it Shitter already

I mean, it's already in the toilet.

lol there are people suggesting that Elon should fire these people if they refuse to come back. THEY'RE ALREADY FIRED.

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.

"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.

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.

for SWEs it really does seem to have been lines of code in the last 30-60 days combined with tenure.

that's the reporting, and at least in my former org it matches what actually happened.

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

haaaaa

nominate e.mily

Is Philip Greenspun still alive?

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

Philip Greenspun. Born September 28, 1963 (age 59)

(post for my) green spun philster

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

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 👋🏼

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

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.

if you use paypal* you already did!

*used paypal 20 years ago

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.

people be wanting attention is how i break it down to an extent

the ones who can keep it quiet are the ones i fear more tbh (they're like the fraudsters who never get caught)

the internet tells me there are 3,311 billionaires btw (maybe there's a page somewhere with a number that clicks up or down)

results for billionaires vs results for "real billionaires"

Tesla dropping another 5% today is it? Down to a new 52 week low?

Giant Tesla recall just announced — 40,000 cars with power steering issues, apparently.

all tesla OSs will be upgraded to display twitter as their homepage, car self destructs unless you pay an extra $8 per month

What was Musk's role in PayPal? Was he instrumental in it development or is it more of a Tesla thing where he glommed on to someone else's stuff?

the latter iirc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

shouldn't be a surprise but Elon was a notoriously poor developer - a lot of his ex-employees remarked that virtually all the code he wrote had to be rewritten

Yeah, but the *ideas* in that code, man, the *ideas*." He's a visionary, not a secretary.

Like, check out my code:

$htmrr----
jheeeeeee*#&>>>
exe:--SELF-DRIVING CAR
Kooo>>>2112
******
AV-??/://EXE

Clean that up and you're practically minting money.

shouldn't be a surprise but Elon was a notoriously poor developer - a lot of his ex-employees remarked that virtually all the code he wrote had to be rewritten

― frogbs, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 10:39 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf this is pretty standard you build something that works and eventually if it catches on you hire people who are better than you and also have more time to do a good job

Paying 44 billion to become a mid.

Incredible how small time he is. This is the world's richest person (for now) and he's got such severe poster's brain that he's doing this. https://t.co/iBWX0m4EBW

— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 7, 2022

Mid range mod

Funnily enough LinkedIn might be the only old-ish social media that isn't on fire?

Why couldn’t he buy LinkedIn?

— Prof Jo Barraket 💉💉💉💉💉 (@JBarraket) November 7, 2022

LinkedIn brain impervious to worms though

linkedin is perfect because it can't pretend to be anything other than a corporate shill site you only visit because you have to or because you're psychotic

I actually went on there for the first time after signing up like 15 years ago and looked around and, blech.

Lol so many bad takes earlier on this thread and people who were buying into his snake oil.

Happy to see how the tide has turned and everyone - except for tsla cult bagholders - can see the emperor has no clothes on.

i find linkedin incredibly soothing. like porridge.

linkedin help me break my addiction to twitter - after i limited my twitter usage any time i feel the need to plug in to a stream of updates i'll go to linkedin, read a few posts, and then close the tab (easily, without friction)

linkedin is kinda like methadone for social media

LinkedIn has a particularly deranged vibe, as not only is your boss on there, but everybody who could possibly be your boss and all the batshit influencer/grifter/striver they pay attention to all in the same ecosystem.

linkedin incredibly depressing to me as I need to use it to look for jobs; but the feed is just post after post of layoffs at the moment.

linkedin help me break my addiction to twitter - after i limited my twitter usage any time i feel the need to plug in to a stream of updates i'll go to linkedin, read a few posts, and then close the tab (easily, without friction)

same same

i find linkedin incredibly soothing. like porridge.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:40 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

linkedin help me break my addiction to twitter - after i limited my twitter usage any time i feel the need to plug in to a stream of updates i'll go to linkedin, read a few posts, and then close the tab (easily, without friction)

linkedin is kinda like methadone for social media

― 龜, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:47 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao gotta check it out

i figured most people were like me - on linkedin constantly when job searching and barely ever on it when not

this is like i'm reading some strange foreign or alien philosophy. i've not been there since 2014, doubt the time would change my opinion. i was quite actually a diff person then tho, hmmm, do i dare?

It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.

Narcissism is a normal stage of development if you’re say 3 years old. Some people never mature emotionally beyond that.

In Elmo’s case it seems to be mixed with the terminally online techbro’s need to be perennially correct on technicalities. Like Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I don’t think Elmo can.