Elon Musk

Ghost employees don't need health insurance Elon

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the payments stuff with Elon is giving me fucking flashbacks to working for a legal tech company (I was director of engineering for 4 years) and our way overly involved founder/CEO got a whiff of blockchain, which, at the time, I thought had some legitimate uses for building smart contracts and overlap with esign and legal documents, so worth looking into. But he got completely hung up on the cryptocurrency aspect and that became all it was about, to my dismay (this project wound up going nowhere). In the end, every single one of these founding fuckers seem to want to be bankers.

Here's an interesting post along these lines: https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/

tbf it is free money

but on the other hand some random software company thinking theyre going to be the ones to grab it is very silly

the technology itself is interesting and compelling. the incentivizing aspect of it, which is all anyone cares about, to me, is fraudulent nonsense.

I didnt' upgrade medium so I can't read the Cory Doctrow article on this but this summary is enough: "They recognize, with startling clarity, what Cory Doctorow unpacked earlier this year: whatever the particular web3 project’s service is, it is there to generate a need for a specific crypto-asset in order to drive up its price, and to ensure pay-off for those who invested early."

and that, to me, is the shit part of this (and everything related to tech)

i guess I'm just saying capitalism is shitty, on reflection

you're saying you're not a fan of ponzis?

The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon

― | (Latham Green), Friday, November 11, 2022 9:28 AM bookmarkflaglink

seems like another case of corporate takeover advice received from the Oracle at Delphi. a teachable case for Business 101.

i must admit when i found out you could run computer programs on ethereum i was like thats pretty cool, but ultimately none of this stuff has any real world uses because its too expensive and a huge target for malicious actors and subject to catastrophic bugs that might as well be malicious actors and im sure some other reasons im not thinking of

its more interesting for its not understanding how the world works underlying philosophy, the search for trustless relationships is futile

could all have this been avoided by one really meaningful pinky swear

im sure some other reasons im not thinking of

it's hella tacky

there is that

Talking about schemes..

What a dark, dark, dark day. I'm utterly devastated to report that, with FTX Future Fund folding, the probability of 10^45 digital people coming to exist within the Milky Way galaxy may have just fallen by 0.001%. However bad you think climate change is, THIS IS WAY WORSE. https://t.co/rlGJ8njcgu

— Émile P. Torres 🏳️‍⚧️ (@xriskology) November 11, 2022

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— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) November 11, 2022

As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022

he shouldve bought huffpost

Elon Musk will be publicly blaming twitter’s situation on Jews and globalists within days

wait. the media elite fired half the staff?

I fired ten people

Lmao, looks like the parody greenwald account got the real greenwald account suspended for being an impostor.

xps if there is one person it's exhilarating to see burned by nu-Twitter it's Glem Grunwald. Nobody deserves it more.

Scratch that, there are multiple parodies going around and one of them got axed

listen - no one got laid off except the ghosts who worked at twitter

On Oct. 30, Mr. Musk received word that the rapid approach could cost millions of dollars more than laying people off with their scheduled bonuses. He agreed to delay, four people said.

But he had a condition. Before paying the bonuses, Mr. Musk insisted on a payroll audit to confirm that Twitter’s employees were “real humans.” He voiced concerns that “ghost employees” who should not receive the money lingered in Twitter’s systems.

stupidest possible move theyre just going to haunt you forever now

I think I very rapidly want to improve every aspect of Twitter. Search I know we can improve immediately and in a number of ways. I mean, just this morning, I actually was just looking for Jack [Dorsey] actually. And I typed Jack into the search engine, and “@jack” was not the number one thing. But that should be the number one thing. So then I just had to type “@jack” in directly. If you type j-a-c-k, your number one thing should be Jack Dorsey. I mean, that’s probably what you’re looking for, you know? So I think anything we do to improve any aspect of the system, let’s do it right away.

sounds like there needs to be a big jack off to determine who's the first result

Mr. Kaiden asked managers to verify that they knew certain employees and could confirm that they were human, according to three people and an internal document seen by The Times.

he seems to have implemented a lot of new systems that involve double-verification

Double-verification is good.

Triples is best.

trust, but verify. and verify. and then verify one more time.

can you get so verified that you dont even know who you are anymore (verification horseshoe theory)

this has to be intentional, right? there's no way this is well-meaning or some sort of radical business galaxy brain shit; he must be intending to tank the company, though i don't know or care enough to try to discern why.

at the $14.99/month level, yes you can
xp

need to get some of that 14.99 great price cheap

forks he’s just a dumb guy, no galaxy brain about it

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Posted: November 11, 2022 at 11:24:01 AM
stupidest possible move theyre just going to haunt you forever now

xp i’m just recognizing excellence

i'm not arguing musk is not dumb, just that this level of dumb seems theatrical to the point of disingenuousness

that feeling is so strong to me, that he’s either incredibly incredibly high or he’s so beyond billion $ that NOTHING MATTERS in a beyond normal rationality level. nobody could be this nonsensically dense

i have no idea about his drug habits and stuff but the coke thing seems very plausible. especially when he was advising his employees to get more intense and just fire themselves up to work nonstop and embrace the intensity, i mean, lol

hes def not doing it on purpose but there is some sort of pathological sabotage happening, he wanted to buy twitter because hes obsessed with it, but its a love/hate relationship, its the place where hes most criticized which also makes it the place he most wants to be accepted, he tries desperately to fit in by posting memes and receives more grief in return, he thinks if i just owned this thing i could fix it so it doesnt bother me anymore, so going in he already has an urge to destroy at least some aspect of it, and his emotional neediness is overwhelming any sort of business rationality

i'm just glad this is happening with something essentially useless and he didn't somehow buy five major airlines and now no one can fly anymore

xp ^too long for a tweet. you shld email him

i dont think hes on coke but would be very surprised if hes not a long time abuser of adderall or the like, then once youre on that never sleeping and so forth youre prob gonna need some benzos to deal with the anxiety and even you out a little

said cocktail is not great for impulse control

Mr. Kaiden asked managers to verify that they knew certain employees and could confirm that they were human, according to three people and an internal document seen by The Times.

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