Elon Musk

fuck this whole blue-check thing

because fuck anyone not running dark mode

So many dudes gonna be sending their life savings to fake sex worker accounts (already a problem but infinitely worse with paid checkmarks) and inevitably taking it out on the real person.

xp I’ve never used dark mode anywhere

white text on a black background hurts my eyes

is there some kind of Brewsters Millions situation going on here

Thank you.

A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

threatening advertisers should work out

lol @ his followers suggesting he should sue them for not advertising anymore

im sorry its a lil too on the nose for him to bring the guys from the project that famously doesnt work

Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover, most of them Autopilot engineers https://t.co/ogt21X90Dh <--- At Tesla, Python is a preferred scripting language, and at Twitter programmers use Scala extensively.<--culture clash, code review challenge

— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:18 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

slow update from me, but one thing that a *good* Scala dev can do (note: I am not one) is write a program in a single line of code; what a bad Scala dev does is write extremely verbose Java

you've got to admit it would be interesting to know which companies he means I mean there is no other way to have that information none

its amazing within a week of owning Twitter he's antagonized their main source of revenue AND nearly all their users while also firing half the company

Too bad the entertainment is peaking so early, he's not going to be able to sustain this for long.

if I do decide to go out, it’ll be like this pic.twitter.com/WVC8kbJ8yd

— Tendentiousness (@tarintowers) November 5, 2022

Weird… reading this thread on the official Twitter desktop app (v12) wondering what might break 1st… then noticing that every tweet in the thread (about how twitter will break) is already broken… showing as [user] and [user] plus double avatar. Sign of things to come?!? pic.twitter.com/PNsUav5k9u

— emmanuel momoh (@emomoh) November 4, 2022

lol twitter cops suspended me

https://iili.io/mN0NAN.md.jpg

https://iili.io/mNG7Sf.md.png

white text on a black background hurts my eyes

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, November 4, 2022

for me too.

I'm worried that twitter imploding just as the election is happening will be bad

lmao matt

White text/black background much easier on my eyes than the reverse, especially in the dark/low light.

The guy from Nvidia who tweeted that they should replace all the scala with python deleted the tweet and quit his job haha

Threatening advertisers seems bad for your relationship with current advertisers but also seems like a guaranteed way to never get any new advertisers.

Matt you are a hero

Apparently, free speech does not extend to making fun of the king.

should change the profile image to this
https://mcanhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elon-musk-before-hair-transplant-cnn-e1637934950726.jpeg

idk why people think these old photos of him are embarrassing, he looks way more embarrassing now

He doesn’t think that though

matt i'm dying

Elon Musk as crying clown - I meant actually crying but whatever
https://i.imgur.com/E81zyxq.png

Twitch streamers should be covering this. I want to consume this trash even more passively than refreshing ilx

holy cow this thread

1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...

And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022

That whole context about the way those big ad deals are booked is interesting. Totally makes sense people wouldn't want to commit to Twitter in the middle of the drama. So Elon kind of fucked the financials well before he actually bought it, just by being his mercurial maverick dipshit self.

LOL @ Matt that was heroic.

idk why people think these old photos of him are embarrassing, he looks way more embarrassing now

Right? He's all lumpy now. He looks like a celeriac with hair.

this is good https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-does-elon-musk-think-twitter

https://i.imgur.com/6JVRAe0.png

More Ed Zitron fun:

https://ez.substack.com/p/billionaire-brain-damage

so are the mass layoffs and abuse of remaining labour particularly bad because he fucked up the ad sales with his antics or is it just what he would always do anyway?

I think he wants to straight-up punish them because he doesn’t respect them. It reminds me of something that Steve Jobs would do only Steve wouldn’t shitpost about it first.

SpaceX runs well because Gwynne Shotwell, despite being 100% Team Musk keeps the place running efficiently. I applied for job there once and got as far as a skype interview but hfs the pressure that everyone there joyfully works under.

this is a super-dumb question from someone whose grasp of coding is not much more advanced than GOTO10 DUBDOBDEE IS SKILL but what is this code that everyone is writing all the time: by which i mean i guess is it speculative new projects, greenlit projects, new better faster solutions to old problems, frantic patches to looming disasters, other?

i guess i just find it odd (as someone who works in the CONTENT-O-SPHERE where the endpoint of the work is that the public see the work) that so many ppl are just off in rooms tasked all day with "writing lines of code"

10 MODE 2
20 COLOUR RND(15)
30 PRINT "snoball IS SKILL   ";
40 GOTO 20

(except mostly in Scala apparently)

> what is this code that everyone is writing all the time

i spent the last week improving user experience and fixing errors in code written in 2017. and reviewing other people's attempts at same. i didn't do any new features this week but there's often that too. there are also times when you are forced to update things due to infrastructure changes or increasingly obsolete hardware.

yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgyz77QX0AAkR1J?format=jpg&name=medium

This is basically Cartmanland in reverse

yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished

― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

rip me

i know something about programming and i do wonder what everyones doing at some of these companies, google has according to googling 27k engineers! who knows what theyre all up to all day, on some level google is probably just collecting them because they can

They're probably just sitting there googling things.

that is how you do programming tbf, you google why doesnt my code work, where did i go wrong in life

google has a lot of products some of the most used products in the world, they have prob the most extensive infrastructure in the world or at least top two, they have researchers, they make their own programming languages, theyve got frameworks (of course), they do artificial intelligence (not a real thing), theyve prob got some guys who just do math (not programming), idk, my point i dont what they all get up to over there, someone is in charge of the google doodle, maybe a whole team

That seems like a fun, low pressure programming gig, but idk, maybe after a few years the pressure of coming up with new doodles is intense.

The most recent doodle was about jollof rice, so I guess if you run out of ideas you could just do your lunch.