Elon Musk

damn

lmao @ him saying "nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists" the same day he fired literally half the staff

pic.twitter.com/KdiuHd6gaC

— Elon Musk (@ChrisWarcraft) November 4, 2022

gotta admit this is tremendous content

lol former Viking Chris Kluwe! good dude

lol

Whoa https://t.co/J0Xpq6G86T

— Keanu Reeves (@abnerpastoll) November 4, 2022

everyone's doing it now that verification is disappearing lol

I did not expect it to take less than two weeks for it to get this bad. Well done Elon!

it's cool that free speech in America is entirely dependent on advertisers

he loves posting and loves the reaction he’s getting.

not to do the Trumpy "here's what he's REALLY doing" thing for a guy who probably hasn't slept in 4 days but is there a chance he's saying this as a way to justify the massive layoffs without getting sued? I mean legally I'm sure this won't work but Musk seems like one of those "they have to tell you if they're a cop, man" guys

firing 50% of the workforce will be so good for morale - imagine losing that many of your co workers in a day

"Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter’s workforce to slash costs at the social media platform he acquired for $44 billion last month, people with knowledge of the matter have said. The company must also find ways to cope with interest costs on a massive debt pile."

https://www.pressherald.com/2022/11/04/layoffs-lawsuits-begin-after-musk-takes-twitter-helm/

looks like he's following the letter of the warn act

Latest: “It looks like employees are getting their notices and at least some will be paid until January 4,” says the attorney who sued Twitter under WARN Act. “I am pleased that Elon Musk learned something from the lawsuit we brought against him at Tesla" https://t.co/OMwAAFzLlE

— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) November 4, 2022

(accidentaly fires entire ar15 magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]

— wint (@dril) June 9, 2017

Wonder what percentage of the team that suspends misbehaving verified accounts is getting the axe.

For some reason I read ar15 as art15 which must be a cool art zine

it’s funny cause looking at the most recent results of every social media company, ad buying on a whole is way down and projected to keep on going down as advertisers braces for the recession. in this environment, twitter’s implosion / elon’s own goaling must look like a freakin gift, easiest spending cut to justify ever if you’re an advertiser.

everythings fine

Having a nightly standup is bad enough, but imagine holding one while everyone around you is being unceremoniously fired pic.twitter.com/aumYS2LW1V

— Shantini Vyas (@shantinix) November 4, 2022

On Wednesday, if you would’ve asked, I would’ve said that product designers who can’t program but work on software is bad for software and the entire field of “AI ethics and responsibility” is quackery. Yet, after seeing all these people laid off, I feel terrible for thinking this.

The blue check mark was a status symbol tho! Esp for my friends in weird bands who didn’t “deserve” it. Many xxxxxxps
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, November 4, 2022 9:49 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s also very popular in science where people are paid in prestige.

Sure pic.twitter.com/9Zbxcmt5Kj

— Katrina McKinney (@catincoggnito) November 4, 2022

Esther Crawford is one example of why I believe product designers who can’t program make terrible software.

twitter's peer companies (meta, snap, goog (via youtube)) are down ~50-80% since april, when elon made his offer. what's sort of neat is that because of musk's lawsuit, you can see what the market thought twitter was worth when they thought the deal would be renegotiated or wouldn't close entirely - and that number wasn't 44 billion! now, noone's saying it won't be worth 44 billion someday in the future, but my personal take is that if that ever happens, it will be due to some rising-tide-floats-all-boats forces such as a return to a ZIRP environment and the exuberance/frothiness of 2020/2021... and that's only if musk hasn't run it into the ground by then!

fwiw I agree, I just think that’ll happened. The “correction” went way beyond reasonable correction. I believe all of these companies are presently undervalued. Including my current employer who can’t even ship avatar legs.

idk programmers who design also make terrible software, its pretty hard to be good at both, and also hard to do both

idk programmers who design also make terrible software, its pretty hard to be good at both, and also hard to do both

― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:06 PM (twenty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol fair!

software is hard is how i break it down to an extent

software is hard is how i break it down to an extent

― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 12:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

My point is really that product designers who can’t program struggle to iterate. They can make the design process feel glacial and cumbersome. If you can program, it’s possible to brute-force a solution and retain some creative momentum. I guess this is probably a better discussion for a different thread!

And, truthfully, there’s nothing worse than a non-creative product engineer. You can usually spot them by their vocal love for Haskell.

I’ve written this elsewhere in this thread, but I was thinking about it this morning. I have friends at both Tesla and SpaceX and they all seem satisfied by their jobs. They all say Musk can be a great CEO because his ADHD is so intense that, in practice, he leaves everyone alone to do their work relatively unmanaged because he’s so frequently distracted by unimportant nonsense. Zuck still commits code and it’s annoying. sund4r frequently attends design meetings and I imagine that’s annoying too. I wonder what they think of Musk making all these product changes at Twitter, making people work 80 hour works to ship his pet features, running Twitter polls, etc.

xps re nightly standup

I love my family and I’m grateful they understand that there are times where I need to go into overdrive to grind and push in order to deliver. Building new things at Twitter's scale is very hard to do. I'm lucky to be doing this work alongside some of the best people in tech. 💙

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022

And, truthfully, there’s nothing worse than a non-creative product engineer. You can usually spot them by their vocal love for Haskell.

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 4, 2022 12:10 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

cmon u know you want to work at a place where you can just write weird haskell programs all day and never have to talk to another designer/marketer/bizdev guy, thats the dream

man’s got Your Da energy no matter how many emojis he uses

The hilarious tragedy of Elon Musk is he really wants to post but he can’t. The man can’t post. It’s not in his blood and it never will be. He can spend all the money in the world and he’ll never be a poster. The real ones know exactly what I mean.

— gaming on an ultrawide (toilet) (@Arr) November 3, 2022

xp - goddamn the responses to that tweet are bleak as fuck.

My point is really that product designers who can’t program struggle to iterate. They can make the design process feel glacial and cumbersome. If you can program, it’s possible to brute-force a solution and retain some creative momentum. I guess this is probably a better discussion for a different thread!

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 4, 2022 12:09 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i would like to hear more about this tbh mb in here

Programming as a career

xp LinkedIn brain

Sorry, honey (shhh, don't cry now). Mommy has to sleep on the floor tonight because the rocket boy that memes all day bought all the tweets and he's making us work round the clock so we can charge $8 to suckers for a blue checkmark. Very important work.

— curbanski (@ChrisUrbanski) November 2, 2022

Actually even worse than that

To those commenting on our family: our 3 children are watching Esther model what it looks like to give your all to something that matters to you, and watching me model what it looks like to support a loved one 100% #RideOrDie. The kids are alright. 😀

— Bob CowhΞrd | cowherd.eth (@bobcowherd) November 2, 2022

guys, it’s fucking Twitter, you’re not working on a vaccine.

i dunno I'm becoming pretty immune to social media rn

We are #OneTeam and we use the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWork to show it, which is why I retweeted with #SleepWhereYouWork -- a cheeky nod to fellow Tweeps. We've been in the midst of a crazy public acquisition for months but we keep going & I'm so proud of our strength & resilience.

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022

Delivering this speech into a blurry Hi-8 camcorder while a masked man with a South African accent holds a gun to my beagle’s head.

Bob Cowherd is a crypto huckster. I think Esther Crawford is too.

Both pathetic.

fwiw I agree, I just think that’ll happened. The “correction” went way beyond reasonable correction. I believe all of these companies are presently undervalued. Including my current employer who can’t even ship avatar legs.

anecdotally, it seems like he's gone out of his way to fire people on maternity/paternity leave, and people who are expecting.

yeah the correction was multiple things: the market being overvalued in general, those companies being overvalued in particular, and those companies starting to not look like rocketships anymore, facebook had seen nothing but massive growth up til then and now all of a sudden thats looking pretty shaky, obvs not a thing the market loves, thats why zuck did the metaverse he needs a new opportunity, but people arent buying lol

iiuc esther crawford is a social listening (i.e. marketing) huckster, but she got moved onto "moonshot" stuff when she joined via an acquistion, and moonshot == crypto under jack.

it's happening

The site continues to display signs of all kinds of incidents.

Loading tweets has had < 1 9 SR for me since my first tweet and I keep running into weird bugs I've never seen before, like the desktop site redirecting me to the mobile site login page and then failing; pic.twitter.com/wlIKO4uJ75

— Dan Luu (@altluu) November 4, 2022

I wonder if its Musk vs. the Algorithms like Attack of teh CLones?

(xp, he's ex-twitter infra)

lol the site is already breaking, impressive