Elon Musk

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.

Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I

citation needed

LinkedIn has become infested with right-wing political posters. Many of them have probably been kicked off other sites.

LinkedIn will have like, a head of DEI at Google post something innocuous and 1/3 of the replies will be from old white dudes who are like heating repairmen in Nebraska deriding them for being woke.

or, someone will post something LGBTQ+ (hey I got married, hey here's my kid) and they'll be blasted to hell by both the previous posters and non-US based software devs (eastern european, middle eastern, south asian) jeering at them or saying "this is in appropriate for a careers website, no one cares about your personal life"

They said I was too socially conscious , so I beat em unconscious

at least people stopped sharing shit from Dan Price

The problem with his vision of being WeChat America is that we already have a range of entrenched payment portals and Twitter wasn’t popular enough before he made it stupider.

If peak Facebook couldn’t make sending money to people a serious part of their business, Twitter has no chance.

Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn? My impression - from the email notifications I get, not from, you know, actually logging in to the site - was that people just posted when they changed jobs or companies or did a training course. Actually all the notifications I've got in the last couple of years have been 'hey do you want to connect with this person you don't know who works at the same company as this person you used to work with several years ago?'. Er, no...

I never post. I just like that the timeline is lobotomy level content.

This feels like admitting to meeting a partner via online dating when it was still weird, but I actually got my current job via (very well targeted the) recruiter spam on LinkedIn too haha.

Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to.

citation needed

I’m not expressing any love for Trump but he seems to have some ability at social manipulation that Elmo lacks. Trump could shitpost effectively on Twitter. Elmo cannot. Trump is a guy bikers could have a beer with. Elmo is not.

You're talking about ex-president, Donald J Trump, correct?

Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn?