Elon Musk

gross and weird, just like the man himself

Also reinstated Project Veritas. So what if — either because it was always the goal or it has evolved apace — the model is to turn it into a global disinformation network for the international alliance of kleptocrats and religious fundamentalists? (Yes, I have been watching The Peripheral, why do you ask.) Authoritarian populism gets its own giant megaphone, which they can't build themselves because they've tried, but they can take control of one that already has the infrastructure in place. With costs covered by the League of Evil Billionaires. Still open to anyone, but with the trolls and fake accounts encouraged rather than restrained.

there have been numerous sites which encourage trolls and fake accounts and there ain't a single normal person on any of them

Yeah, and that would probably be the result here. But they're starting at a scale where there are already a lot of "normal" non-chan people. Maybe you figure some of them stay because they don't really care about politics, they care about sports or TV shows or whatever. I don't know. I don't really think there's some masterplan or conspiracy here, it's all way too half-assed. But after some initial noises about caring about moderation, Musk is on a totally different tack. Maybe that's just his natural instinct, but god knows who all he's hearing from or what kind of money is being bandied around.

yeah, given the size of the platform, it will take more than individual users deciding "enough's enough" for it to lose its hold on all kinds of not-paying-close-attention people. assuming for a moment that the platform continues to function on the technical and financial levels... it's gonna probably require organized boycotting and noise-making, social pressure that gets people to equate having and using a Twitter account to, like, having and using a Fox News premium subscription or something like that. it has to be WIDELY understood as a right-wing scumbag edgelord disinformation site... not just amongst politically-informed types who've been carefully following all the Trump/Musk stuff and Musk's continued descent into obnoxious fashy jerkwad trollery.

do normal people use twitter though? i thought it was just

a, celebs & journalists posting
b, plebs quietly following a
c, nutjobs

that weird fucking post is a milo manara lift btw

are ilx0rs normal people or c

if you need to ask

d, bots

e struggling comedians

the problem with turning twitter into a right wing hellhole is not only that users will leave but that advertisers will too, however normal twitter has already been a big amplifier of right wing propaganda enabling trumps presidency hosting the vile libs of titok and so forth, so if i were them id basically keep it how it was maybe let a few big accounts back on

tbh I don't really know how the math changes when it comes to social networks, because people join because people they like are on it, and when some of those people start leaving they may start leaving as well. even though Twitter is addictive and has a stranglehold on those little pockets of free time people have I also think it doesn't take much for that addiction to break. the clowning on Elon is fun and I'm all for messy forums drama but is it really gonna be fun a month from now? I'm already noticing some of the good people have left and that a lot of right-wing trolls are starting to take over.

the whole idea Elon has - that Twitter should be a "town square" or "marketplace of ideas" - is exclusively a right wing thing, for reasons the left figured out long ago. free speech absolutism always just leads to stuff like "maybe Paul Pelosi had a gay lover and staged a false flag attack to help Dems in the midterms" which I think most smart people figured out you just don't engage with. you can't change anyone's mind and quite frankly who wants to spend their time that way? ILX is an echo chamber too and that's why I like it. you don't seek out contrarian assholes to hang out with in real life so why would you wanna do that online?

yeah the elon pile on seems like its already over as far as something thats fun im sure it will continue forever in some form, but yeah hes prob gonna ruin the site seems like rip

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whoa we've entered the wormhole

did that just happen? I think it did!

Dang, I assume that was (inept) spam. Banned.

I am interested in new ideas, maybe give paul a chance

we’re through the looking glass here people

what do you guys think the probability is that Elon has seen this thread? probably non-zero!

I mean, Paul there has a very interesting filmography over on imdb.

"quality is something you definitely cannot afford to compromise"

New board description?

guess papers best prices

i've never had quality, are u willing to accept any of the rest of my shit for a deal, world

Tesla price just keeps dropping. Saw Elon was being rounded on by right wing Twitter for his refusal to unban Alex Jones.

wonder what it would take for him to get fired from tesla

hope i can get a tesla for five bucks soon and enter it into a demolition derby

A consummation devoutly to be wished

Xp

crash the tesla once it combusts and burns for five days

Teslakuh

Grandpa? Why do we celebrate the holiday?

Sit on my lap son & let grandpa tell you the story of this day

You see, twitter only had enough engineers remaining to keep it running for one more night, but it miraculously kept working for eight nights

We burn a Tesla in remembrance

— Elder Rubber Asylum (@Rubberasylum) November 18, 2022

wow it still works!

haha

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiH_jo3XkAA8ux4?format=jpg&name=large

What are the words “Taylor Swift” doing there?

Why is israel engaging with Kanye for clout

Anyone else feel like they're getting weirder/sketchier/more random suggested tweets? Just anecdotal, but the timeline feels more cluttered.

Oops I guess that should have gone on the Twitter thread. I forget which one I'm on.

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What are the words “Taylor Swift” doing there?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, November 21, 2022 7:42 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i have done some research and the country of israel tagged taylor swift in their post as a reference to:

Taylor Swift: “I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Narrative”
Swift wrote a note on Instagram in response to the video Kim Kardashian posted of Swift’s phone conversation with Kanye West.

xp lol

who could have predicted this

Twitter won’t restart paid verification until ‘significant impersonations’ stop, Elon Musk tells employees https://t.co/htpnMtov4m pic.twitter.com/a4GYMd5YI6

— The Verge (@verge) November 22, 2022

He is running this site in a dumber way than I ever would have predicted

Staggering. The dumbness. I’m dumbstruck

its really something

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiIJEl_XEAEoDmY?format=jpg&name=large

lmao

idc if real or fake

i did search and its in a bunch of tweets at least, good enough for me lol