I have noticed that every trending topic I've seen today is some right wing bullshit. I'm assuming it's conservatives feeling themselves about now.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 28 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
i find this facebook tankie extremely annoying, but this seems obviously true?
I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 28, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
I guess General Motors has already begun cancelling advertising..?
I know another car company that can take up the slack!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
_people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance_Ha.. In MAU's (monthly active users), it's below platforms I've never even heard of.. it's even below Pinterest!1. Facebook — 2.9 billion MAUs2. YouTube — 2.2 billion MAUs3. WhatsApp — 2 billion MAUs4. Instagram — 2 billion MAUs5. Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion MAUs6. WeChat — 1.26 billion MAUs7. TikTok — 1 billion MAUs8. Sina Weibo — 573 million MAUs9. QQ — 538.91 million MAUs10. Telegram — 550 million MAUs11. Snapchat — 538 million MAUs12. Kuaishou — 519.8 million MAUs13. Qzone — 517 million MAUs14. Pinterest — 444 million MAUs15. Twitter — 436 million MAUs
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
my suggested topics are always useless garbage - oh you follow AOC and Ilhan Omar, you definitely want to see every attempt at a fascist hashtag!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Ed Zitron:
In short, Musk bought a company with a product that’s somewhat difficult to describe for reasons he has had a great deal of trouble elucidating. He didn’t want Twitter, he wanted to prove he could buy it, and he wanted everybody to think it was cool, which they did not. He has spent $44 billion in an attempt to make people love him only to be left with a very expensive way to make people angry at him every single day for the rest of his life.
https://ez.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-boy-genius
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
what a fn dickhole
Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself. Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.Subscribe to read ➡️https://t.co/ad9XTdVQhJ pic.twitter.com/sbO8tD8hGN— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
learn to shred
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
― death generator (lukas), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Without personal knowledge of Twitter infrastructure, I’d bet Musk is right that it’s a mess and over-staffed. Do I think he can fix that? Nope!
Wiki Foundation, for reference, spends about 100m annually.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
Musk doesn’t even know how to read code, as has been shown repeatedly.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
Like, he’s had to have people walk him through installing and running stuff off GitHub.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
some sort of stunt to keep the troops on their toes type of thing youd see in a movie im sure it went over well in real life and the workers arent say brazenly posting your code to twitter cause they dont give a shit
Happy Friday all. pic.twitter.com/Rk9m1v1hmu— Leah Culver (@leahculver) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
a social network with constantly shifting functionality would be cool, you always have to figure out whats going on like a game, of course no one would use it and it would fail
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgPXv2mXgAAIlky?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
isnt it already this?
i mean it already fails lol but assuming we're not talking the kinds of multiple outage-dysfunction that accelerated livejournal's shift into the twilight
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
just had a vision of the revenant failwhale as moorcock's GHANH (aka the key denizen of a sharknado) returned from the chamber of the dead by corum's hideous jewelled eye
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
elric musk 😔
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
Can't believe @elonmusk bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022
― calzino, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
― mark s, Saturday, October 29, 2022 9:39 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
to an extent, but change is too slow and iterative, ai will solve this
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
or blockchain will solve this
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and is set to launch "soon". https://t.co/e6LUiprjQV— RELENTLESSLY Gay (@queertardo) October 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
til jack dorsey was an ilxor viz poster blueski
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
🐦[Can’t believe @elonmusk🕸 bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F🕸— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022🕸]🐦
― barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Is Elon Musk that much worse than Jack Dorsey? I mean they are both the same ballpark of absolute cunts.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
richer = worse is how i break it down to an extent
― mark s, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, October 29, 2022 10:11 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they seem pretty similar even beyond being horrible rich guys tbh, tho musk personally owning twitter is a pretty different set up than jack running it as ceo of a public company, guess well see how it plays out
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Musk is imo worse because he's a troll.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation?fbclid=IwAR1SQ1aNpojt6ChZKgHlW1h3qGF5OOZu_oLC4DXMSJZeOccWcxnkPvHMQbw
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 29 October 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
musk doesn't seem like a genius and the fact that he's operating in bad faith makes him worse/more dangerous than jack. but but jack dorsey is an actual moron. he reminds me of peter sellers in being there.
This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, October 28, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, October 28, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i don't think this is true. the average manager of ICs or manager of managers at twitter is not unusually bad. the problem is 1) there are too many of them. the average number of reports for a line manager is low relative to the industry. you could fire half of them and not make much operational difference. 2) there's a culture of incompetence and extreme slowness among *their* managers, right the way to the top. can't imagine where that came from. (it came from jack.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
how do i become this clever?
Ok. It’s hitting me like a rock. Twitter is the social operating system for tesla. Hence tesla engineers already working with the code. It’s the software that can run communication and commerce through the tesla. Ok wow. $twtr $tsla— Ross Gerber (@GerberKawasaki) October 29, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
get hit with a rock?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 29 October 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
Nah, it's gonna take at least a falling air conditioner.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 29 October 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
it's hard for a disruptive technology, the system is stifling it. it has stuffed this one with middle management and ~feelings~ and shit.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Saturday, 29 October 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
What a guy. @elonmusk is making sure to fire people at Twitter before part of their year-end compensation *kicks in on Tuesday.* https://t.co/sEclZozKV5 pic.twitter.com/inw3vF0kIL— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) October 29, 2022
― 龜, Sunday, 30 October 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Not surprising! I personally and anecdotally know of a ton of companies at the very least dropping contract employees right before a fiscal reporting deadline. Dropping off all contractors in software at the end of Q3 to pump up Q4 numbers, etc
might result in a big hiring spree Jan1, maybe not
― mh, Sunday, 30 October 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
he's also apparently firing senior staff for cause so he doesn't have to pay their golden parachutes. congratulations to the lawyers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
sounds like he really is going to try to fire ~50% of people before tuesday. absolutely nuts, almost certainly in violation of the WARN act.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
When’s he ever had to suffer consequences for breaking the law before?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 30 October 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk is now sharing conspiracy theory blog posts about the attack on Paul Pelosi. pic.twitter.com/XKolS7ogYd— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) October 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
They should ban him from ... oh.
Dumb question: He owns Twitter now, which is a private company, so if he fails to foster a safe workspace, or actively does stuff to make it unsafe by promoting, I dunno, homophobic conspiracy theories or whatever, are there any legal ramifications, or is he just free to fuck around all he wants? Does a worker have any recourse besides quitting? (Assuming any workers will be left.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
no lawyer but does seem like someone could have a claim
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
I know the last 5–10 years have made people extremely cynical about the law but this guy was forced to buy twitter against his will by the courts.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Will be interesting to see if advertisers still want to spend money on a site whose owner uses it to post homophobic conspiracy theories in Hilary Clinton’s mentions.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
IANAL but i believe that it could very easily constitute creating a "hostile work environment" under civil rights and workplace harassment law. there must be a lot of case law by now where awful stuff the boss posted/shared on social media, right? i don't know, but you'd usually think someone with Musk's familiarity with right-wing online awfulness would focus very much on staying obnoxiously, trollishly on JUST the 'legal' side of things. (perhaps he will make the attempt, but totally fail because he is an egomaniacal moron, as this week has reminded everyone but his two million most sycophantic worldwide followers.)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
anyone who's spent time reading abt the great fraudsters (bottomley, ponzi, madoff etc)* will discover that for all the time they spend as outrageous scofflaws getting away with everything all the time they are often very active under the surface (like a swans feet) compounding the fraud more and more incoherently to support the earlier fast-toppling stages = they get away with it until suddenly they don't, the very epitome of "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly"
musk is extremely streeeeeeetched right now and increasingly hemmed in legally -- and maybe he'll get away with it! he's nominally (if not actually) the richest man in the world and has a tone of ppl who will still shill for him at any price, but he's also a massively dumb ecogmaniac who no one ever says no to
*(obviously the ones who quietly got away with much worse are nowhere listed as "great fraudsters")
― mark s, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
is this something: black swans feet
― mark s, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
musk Trump is extremely streeeeeeetched right now and increasingly hemmed in legally -- and maybe he'll get away with it! he's nominally (if not actually) the richest man in the world and has a tone of ppl who will still shill for him at any price, but he's also a massively dumb ecogmaniac who no one ever says no to
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
trump deep in the brain stem
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
re elon as fraudster have wondered for a while if there isnt major accounting fraud somewhere in his business
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link