he literally tried every conceivable way to get out of the deal. It is a terrible deal. Everyone realizes this.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
xpI was thinking the same thing, so went to their web site and learned they picked that name intentionally, because they focus on finding companies that are close to self-destruction.
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Oh, the humanity
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
they publish short reports. they were shorting twtr like everyone else in the world when elon was trying to get out of it and then they went long when it looked like he was stuck.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
xxp oh for sure. but "no one thinks he will pay $54.20 per share for twtr. no one." is a statement that conventional wisdom was that he would succeed in getting out of the deal. which it was!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
again, i probably have no clue what you are trying to say. well done. look at the big dick on caek.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
my point is not that you were wrong. if you want me to try to explain more clearly then lmk, but if you don't care that's fine.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
i am good, i kind of have a memory about you working at twtr? but it's ok.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
it's never a good idea to make general points by quoting a specific poster. for some reason they take it personally.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Like, literally I got pings that someone was being a dick about me when i haven't posted here in months and months.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
aimless, that's fair. yerac, sorry for doing that.
xxp yes i worked there until last month. it was weird. i wouldn't pay $46bn for it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
so wait - carrying the sink into the lobby was just so he could tweet a pun? What is he, 14 years old?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
That reeks of "Steve Jobs making his assistant get him a dress shirt five minutes before his McIntosh demo just so he could show that its floppy disks fit in a breast pocket" energy, except with less of a point
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
doing stupid stuff for the sake of a bad pun is good imo
― micah, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Ehh, when you've publicly stated that you plan to lay off most of the workforce? Not necessarily a way to ingratiate yourself into the new digs
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
I brought these leis for you from Hawaii.
Now I want you to count off from 1-10, and everyone with numbers 1-7, take them off
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-self-driving-claims-sources-2022-10-26/
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a41781263/tesla-us-criminal-investigation-full-self-driving/
(it's about time)
― Lee626, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
lol i finally got a chance to read the _dark forest_ thingy and saw the author and just lolled irl, it's been a long time since i thought about him. good enough piece though.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
“elon musk will never actually buy twitter” is kind of the “no way donald trump would win a presidential election let alone be a serious candidate” of 2022 and ok, yeah, still doesn’t make a lot of sense
― mh, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
The difference is Trump wasn’t desperately trying to get out of being President
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
since this is the platform thread, is this good
Meta has lost almost 20 percent of its value since the stock market closed three hours ago. pic.twitter.com/P3N6ikcgYw— Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) October 26, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:43 (one year ago) link
context is zuck had an earning call in which he announced their profits were way down and he planned to waste even more money on the metaverse
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
If we allocate more to metaverse I think it might get some legs
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
Musk should buy Facebook, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
then we'd have Facebook for celebrities/Facebook for everyone els e
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 27 October 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
Zuck revealed a colosseum in the metaverse where David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin are forced to fight his programs
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 October 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, October 26, 2022 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
There was a brief period during the primaries where it seemed like he was! That was an actual rumor, that he was trying to run but not win in order to boost his profile. I think a lot of the erratic behavior and what looked like self-sabotage wasn't him trying to get out of the job, though, it was just normal Trump (as we later figured out)
― mh, Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
"Surely his promise to prevent all Muslims from entering the country will sink his candidacy."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 27 October 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
i feel like trump taught people to be incredibly cynical about the rule of law, and mostly that was the right lesson, but it didn't apply here. wonder if delaware can run things for a while.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
so elon’s gonna re-platform trump, which will probably lead to facebook re-platforming trump because they don’t want to miss out on the ad dollars and engagement, right? which leads to trump 2024?
― 龜, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Democracy will be strong enough to take it now that Biden has done so much for the American people.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/musk-visits-twitter-hq-promises-staff-he-wont-fire-75-of-them/
Musk has an October 28 deadline to complete the $44 billion Twitter purchase, stemming from an order by Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick. Twitter sued Musk after he tried to break their merger agreement, and a trial was originally scheduled for October 17. McCormick's order delaying the trial said it will be rescheduled for November if the merger isn't completed by 5 pm tomorrow.Twitter shares are due to be suspended from trading on Friday in anticipation of the closing. The stock price has been rising since Musk reversed course in early October in order to avoid a trial and is now close to the $54.20 per-share price that Musk agreed to pay.
Twitter shares are due to be suspended from trading on Friday in anticipation of the closing. The stock price has been rising since Musk reversed course in early October in order to avoid a trial and is now close to the $54.20 per-share price that Musk agreed to pay.
also
Today, Musk posted a message for advertisers. "The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society," he wrote.After spending months trying to get out of the merger deal, Musk told advertisers he is buying Twitter "to try to help humanity, whom I love." Attempting to convince companies that they should buy ads on the platform, he wrote that "Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature."He went on to say that Twitter must show users "advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content! Fundamentally, Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise."
After spending months trying to get out of the merger deal, Musk told advertisers he is buying Twitter "to try to help humanity, whom I love." Attempting to convince companies that they should buy ads on the platform, he wrote that "Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature."
He went on to say that Twitter must show users "advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content! Fundamentally, Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise."
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
sounds like everything's gonna be fine then
― highly relevant ads are actually content! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
So glad I don’t use Twitter and have no stakes in this except wanting it to fucking fail and wanting Musk embarrassed and preferably dead
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
but highly relevant ads are actually content!
gag me with the proverbial spoon.. I've been hearing versions of this for a few years now, trying to convince us that we'll come tolike ads if we only get to see the right ones for us. This is some Phillip K Dick bullshit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
If ads are the new content they should pay me to read sites.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
which is the far left echo chamber network and how do I sign up
― rob, Thursday, 27 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
lmao
Jim Cramer is tearing up over $METAGenerational bottom in process pic.twitter.com/3tICGm6qoi— Inverse Cramer ETF (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) October 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
xp you're posting on it right now :)
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
haha "inverse cramer etf"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
"Musk said his primary motivation for buying the company is to ensure the “future of civilization.” He said the goal is to preserve a “common digital town square,” where people with wide-ranging beliefs can debate their views without resorting to violence, rather than splintering into “far right-wing and far left-wing echo chambers.”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022"
This guy really has a savior complex
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
he sure is into the idea that the main purpose of town squares is the holding of debates.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
for everyone looking to move to mastodon now that twitter's dying, i have some news for you: Evidence Of Ancient Giants Unearthed In Vietnam— big baby (wailing) (@dec_in_stone) October 27, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Very soon, Elon will be Twitter's only employee, circling the earth high above us in a Space X pod, saving civilization one unmoderated tweet at a time... Silent Running on social media
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
The $TSLA Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards https://t.co/UhZPHV2O9w via @verge— BertelSchmitt™ 🇺🇦💉💉💉💉🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩 (@BertelSchmitt) October 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
As one of his first moves, he fired several top Twitter executives, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. One of those confirmed the deal had closed.
CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, were all fired, according to the people. Sean Edgett , the company’s general counsel, was also pushed out, one of the people said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/twitter-elon-musk
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
Previously reported to have declared that he will fire 75% of employees, which does not bode well for security, also he's been quite the troll on there from time to time, and the public square is already starting to smell strange. It's been fun, but I'm gone.
― dow, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
deactivated deleted. my account sucked anyway, because idngaf about twitter, but it would be a shame if something really terrible happened to it or musk.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Friday, 28 October 2022 04:59 (one year ago) link
you're leaving twitter? henry kissinger is still alive, and you're leaving twitter?— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
the important thing about Elon buying twitter is we all have to act like Tumblr after Yahoo bought it. devalue this platform. make it much worse. stop "driving engagement" and start depression posting. block every promoted tweet. we can do this.— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) October 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 October 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link