also, one they can't pry into to see what you posted last week
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Snapchat’s active user base surged to 350 million people per day, more than Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit.
Pinterest? What does anyone do on Pinterest? Collect photos and 'pin' them to your wall? Gimme a break.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
people, women mostly, seem to use it for shopping reminders/inspo, ask the women in you life if they have a desk/dress/yarn board its a whole hidden world
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Their 'sign in NOW!' wall is so fierce that I've never had a chance to peruse it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
yeah i always felt like it was more just a centralized bookmarking tool for mood boards than a social network but maybe people use it socially
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
i think yes but also you look at other peoples boards to find stuff for your boards
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgAtFMhXwAAF7lE?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
some of you are really telling on yourself in this thread
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
What’s a computer?
(Eat y’self fitter)
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
who uses
https://pinboard.in/
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
That is one I actually do use. I started using it after the previous bookmarking service shut down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
i used to follow him on twitter when he was just making fun of silicon valley, then he got super into dem politics, an arrogant man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
its cool how he just runs that site himself and keeps everything on a couple servers tho, living the dream
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
i've met him. he's nice! he's terrible on twitter though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
iirc he's taking the year off. maybe he'll be better when he comes back, or maybe he won't come back.
true old schoolers like to write down their favorite websites and keep the list in the top drawer
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
"the web drawer"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
The site works great. I've been keeping bookmarks there since 2005.
I can't remember what the prior one was called.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
delicious
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
Yes! del.icio.us
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
jfc
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
"How's it going, everybody? You're all fired! OK, not all of you. You, you, you, not you. You, you, you, not you."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
sounds like it's done. "you'll all hear directly from elon on friday" from current leadership to staff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
have fun making $1.2 billion a year in interest payments
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
i will fine
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
no one thinks he will pay $54.20 per share for twtr. no one.
― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 1:16 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
no, he's just not stupid enough to overpay that much for TWTR.
― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:01 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
shades of George Constanza's house in the Hamptons.. he's gonna ride this out as long as possible: "So, eh, where would my office be if I did go through with the deal?"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
xp what’s the point of this
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
That he is stupid enough?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
everyone thought he was gonna be able to wriggle his way out of this one lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:42 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
there was some point in recent times when he emailed all the early pinboard users saying "hey, I know you paid a small amount way back to get a lifetime subscription to this site but hosting it's gotten kind of pricey could I get a few more bucks"
I was like, should have asked before you got super obnoxious on twitter about politics sorry buddy
― mh, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
haa
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
i must admit i don't really understand the focus on the share price and how much extra money he has to pay compared to what twitter is worth. if there's a chance he's going to go bankrupt or something, i guess i'm interested. but am i wrong to see buying twitter as not an investment but control of a global loudhorn for someone who is obsessed with his own celebrity? i'm always hearing that these super wealthy people are about to finally eat shit but no, i don't think he will. paying an extra 20 billion for twitter, when you have $200B+ and you also have tesla (i know) and spacex (i know)?
however i'm not a finance guy and so maybe the main takeaway here is that it's bad for twitter investors or whatever
xposts
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
are we really ready for an all-electric twitter?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I think there is a certain delight in seeing supposed geniuses, especially obnoxious ones like Elon, fail spectacularly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
I think its not just that he's wildly overpaying but also that the writing seems to be on the wall for Twitter so he's gonna left holding the bag when everything goes South. who knows though he'll probably convince the US government to spend $5 billion bailing him out so long as he promises to unban all the Nazis
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
i guess i see it like when jeff bezos bought the washington post. i don't know how much he paid for it. let's say he overpaid by like 2x, just a ridiculous overpay, like the twitter thing.
but who cares? newspapers don't make money. twitter doesn't make money. bezos and musk could both just subsidize the total financial failure of both companies, out of pocket, or by getting donations from their friends. "you in for $5B to float twitter for another 5 years? should be fun -- elon"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
didn't mean to pick on yerac in particular, other than in her capacity as an actual finance expert. a lot of people have been comically wrong about what would happen. that was my point.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
he agreed the price at twitter's absolute top of its value, and it's near zenith of cultural relevance.
total fuck up. he can't fix it. (someone paste this when he fixes it.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
You edited out a few posts in the middle, so yeah, it came across exactly how it did. I would be less fast to point out someone else’s wrongness - not their singular wrongness, given people have assumed the same- if I had posted this in the past month but you know.just curious why anyone in the uk gives a shit about interest rates given how the mortgage market there works.
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
xp to Karl
Bezos paid $250 million in cash for the Post. Since he made it private, it's impossible to tell if that was a good financial decision (and as you said, he clearly did not buy it as a pure investment)
― rob, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
twitter does make money, but now it likely won't (at least under GAAP accounting), because of the interest it has to pay, xp to karl
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I mean yeah I think people constantly underestimate just how stacked the deck is in favor of people like this. they can't fuck up no matter how hard they try. Donald Trump committed like 57 different crimes in office that would get a person like me the death penalty in 57 different ways and yet he just walks around his golf club all day. this Twitter deal looks like one of the stupidest rich guy decisions in history but I have no doubt his finance guys will find a way to make money while completely torpedoing the company. thats America, baby!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I always hope for the big social platforms to die, so hoping for this outcome atm
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Newspapers are profitable. They’re just not profitable ENOUGH to keep Wall Street scumbags happy, so they get bought and sold back and forth among the vulture class.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
he agreed the price at twitter's absolute top of its value
not quite true - twtr was a lot higher in 2021. if he'd made an offer in 2021 when twtr was trading in the $70s, the offer would probably have been $142.069. relative to that, he thought he was getting a bargain at just $54.20, but failed to account for the fed!
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
xp to rob $250M in cash! the brinks delivery people must have felt like badasses on that day!
but still, that entire investment is a rounding error to Bezos. less than 1% of his net worth, in fact far less than that (.0017)
to compare, i have in the neighborhood of $10K left to live on. a "Washington Post" to me is $17. Less than a twenty dollar bill. I could take a 20 dollar bill and light it on fire and it would be like buying the post and burning it to the ground, on Bezos terms
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
Twitter was much more expensive, on relative terms, of course ($50 billion to musk's ~$200B). i realize that's still a lot of money, even to musk
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
Oh hey
On the @Reuters wire: EXCLUSIVE-TESLA FACES U.S. CRIMINAL PROBE OVER ITS AUTOPILOT TECHNOLOGY-SOURCES— Dan Levine (@FedcourtJunkie) October 26, 2022
― barry sito (gyac), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link