Elon Musk

it's never a good idea to make general points by quoting a specific poster. for some reason they take it personally.

Like, literally I got pings that someone was being a dick about me when i haven't posted here in months and months.

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.

so wait - carrying the sink into the lobby was just so he could tweet a pun? What is he, 14 years old?

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

doing stupid stuff for the sake of a bad pun is good imo

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

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

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)

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.

“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

The difference is Trump wasn’t desperately trying to get out of being President

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

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

If we allocate more to metaverse I think it might get some legs

Musk should buy Facebook, too.

then we'd have Facebook for celebrities/Facebook for everyone els e

Zuck revealed a colosseum in the metaverse where David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin are forced to fight his programs

The difference is Trump wasn’t desperately trying to get out of being President

― 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)

"Surely his promise to prevent all Muslims from entering the country will sink his candidacy."

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.

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?

Democracy will be strong enough to take it now that Biden has done so much for the American people.

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.

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."

sounds like everything's gonna be fine then

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

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

If ads are the new content they should pay me to read sites.

which is the far left echo chamber network and how do I sign up

lmao

Jim Cramer is tearing up over $META

Generational bottom in process pic.twitter.com/3tICGm6qoi

— Inverse Cramer ETF (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) October 27, 2022

xp you're posting on it right now :)

haha "inverse cramer etf"

"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

he sure is into the idea that the main purpose of town squares is the holding of debates.

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

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

The $TSLA Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards https://t.co/UhZPHV2O9w via @verge

— BertelSchmitt™ 🇺🇦💉💉💉💉🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩 (@BertelSchmitt) October 27, 2022

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

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.

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.

you're leaving twitter? henry kissinger is still alive, and you're leaving twitter?

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) October 28, 2022

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

I instinctively block promoted tweets (they make it easier than any other platform) and for a while 99% of my ads were for HIV/PREP drugs and then that transitioned to ads aimed at doctors trying to get people to take them.

(the old story about Target predicting a teenager's pregnancy based on the algorithm had me worried for about a minute when the first HIV ad popped up.)

People saying they are going to leave because more bad ppl are going to come back assumes there aren't enough bad people posting today. Or that the situation was improving purely because a few accounts (Trump's) was finally put to rest. This is really, really not the case.

But if it becomes markedly worse at aggregation of opinion/news then it will be diminished.

Blue check marks for every scanner crimewatch account

Lol at this discussion

Am I the only person who thinks you would lose something if we all retreated into our little soc media walled gardens?

— Tom Munday (@tommundaycs) October 28, 2022

I've deactivated my barely used account. So you can look forward to a...slight reduction in embedded tweets on the uk pol thread.

All of the “free speech” platforms are unusable right wing cesspools due to the lack of moderation. If Musk wants to turn Twitter into that, good for him, it will lose all of its value to advertisers.

Twitter already does a bad job rooting out the troll accounts, the frog picture people and whatever. What they do right now is ban the big accounts that violate their policies, like Trump. With those people back on it will make the site shittier though as the trolls will feel like it is “their” space, they’ll have more big tweets to congregate around.

musk already told advertisers that hes not going to make it a right wing free for all, who knows what hell actually do, but theres really no angle to making it a total shithole, theres no point in owning it if people stop using it, which is happening anyway lol