Wasn't it not even clear that it was even actually his laptop
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
Apparently, there is some corroboration, but that's not conclusive.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
I'm fine with calling the Bidens corrupt based on influence peddling (and so was The Nation before 2020) but it's not like the GOP can make too much hay there because a) they all do it and b) everyone assumes politicians are crooks anyway so an alwayssunnyconspiracy.jpg is their only play.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
I think it's pretty definitely his laptop. But in October 2020 when it was being peddled as an obvious October Surprise, it wasn't clear and its provenance was sketchy as hell. As I keep reminding conservative friends, even Fox News refused to report on it so close to the election.
And yeah, to act like Hunter is some huge scandal when you have Jared and Ivanka sitting right there in plain sight is lol-some.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
Plus, nobody was keeping Matt Taibbi from reporting on any of this at any time, if he really thinks it's some big deal.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
the thing about hunters corruption that keeps it from being a bigger story is that theres no evidence of joe playing along
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
Honestly was less invested in this as a Biden story and more and Elon flameout
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
one thing about taibbi greewald ygelias et al going to substack is its exposing them as terrible writers
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:27 (one year ago) link
and they could totally use editors if they want they all make a ton of money but they choose to just suck instead they like it that way
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
Lack of editorial oversight can have that effect.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
just want to thank all y'all for keeping up w/ all this shit so i can pop in every now and then to kinda sorta know wtf is going on. ~appreciate *you*~
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 3 December 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
otm
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
Man, what a wet fart this was. Good that he only hyped it up for a couple of hours instead of days.
the Twitter Files even have Sebastian Gorka going “what? this is it?” pic.twitter.com/XZAgkyrzGB— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
lmao at this and also at the failure to thread tweets
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
big whop
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
it wouldve been better if he came back at the end with a "oh by way one last thing" and then tweeted a picture of hunter bidens butthole
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
yeah wtf I thought comedy was now legal
― frogbs, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
okay finally reading that uh attempt at a tweet thread and it's so fucking boring
― frogbs, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
though lmao that the "smoking gun" is literally just Hunter Biden porn
the original egg loved it
https://i.imgur.com/Xz9wovd.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
If he was pitching this as a tv series he'd already have lost the job for taking 16 beats to even start https://t.co/i0MTxEc99v— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) December 3, 2022
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link
The big reveal is basically that Twitter acted like every other media company in the country (except the New York Post) and sniffed at this thing and said, "Eh, seems sketchy, we need more information."
Some lame shit. Also, for whatever he's getting paid, Taibbi should have had the courtesy to tell Musk you don't drop breaking news on a Friday night unless you're trying to bury it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:46 (one year ago) link
On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he "had to agree to certain conditions" to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk. pic.twitter.com/49i58VbIIX— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 3 December 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
Story seems to downgrade the theory of “The FBI told Twitter to suppress the laptop story” to “some libs at Twitter didn’t to help Trump win the election”
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Saturday, 3 December 2022 04:01 (one year ago) link
Want to help
idk what the funniest thing about this is, the fact that the tweets that were "handled" were literally just leaked nudes or all the idiot chuds forgetting that it actually would've been Trump's government violating the first amendment
― frogbs, Saturday, 3 December 2022 04:04 (one year ago) link
or maybe the god awful way the story 'broke', a news dump on a Friday night via a slow tweet thread that stopped working right away, a thread that gets 16 tweets in before revealing anything at all
― frogbs, Saturday, 3 December 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
lol the improper threading made me laugh
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 December 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
the former c suite quietly got their payouts
Form 4s just filed for Ned Segal, Parag Agrawal, and Vijaya Gadde showing the RSU and stock payouts with some footnotes about their severance agreements that seem to be paid—perhaps explains why someone felt the need to try some deep fake revenge porn “news” drop this evening.— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) December 3, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 December 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link
alwayssunnyconspiracy.jpg
― papal hotwife (milo z)
Everyone knows this is called pepesilvia.jpg cmon now
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 3 December 2022 05:24 (one year ago) link
hardcore
Musk’s transition team has been slowly going through the list of employees who didn’t check "yes” to being hardcore in a Google form and, if they are marked "critical,” calling them to see if they are sure about wanting to leave.— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022
Remaining engineering managers are trying to convince their other reports who have left to come back. It has been communicated that basically anyone can come back if they want. They are being encouraged to negotiate for perks like guaranteed remote work.— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Watch out—Elon is super great at negotiating
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
He took that Twitter thing down hardcore damn
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Out of curiosity I looked at foxnews.com just to see how this is landing over there. Of course it’s the Top Story but most of the article is just re-posts of tweets succinctly pointing out how stupid this thing is.
― circa1916, Saturday, 3 December 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
c suite actually has not been paid yet lol
They have not been paid. https://t.co/G2062fMcV0— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) December 3, 2022
― 龜, Saturday, 3 December 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
weird
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 December 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
Interesting: Twitter has posted positions on LinkedIn for both software engineers and - gasp! - product managers. They list salary ranges.For the Sr PM role, the salary range is $175-259K. For Staff & Sr Staff Sw Eng, $243-$338K. Only New York and SF as locations for all. pic.twitter.com/vxMIsDy73Q— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) December 3, 2022
Twitter currently hiring. Tweet says all jobs are NY or SF only but I checked for myself and there's one in Seattle and one eng position in London too which is maybe surprising?
― anvil, Sunday, 4 December 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjHPODiUoAE3bQl?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
dril has nothing on this guy
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 December 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
the algorithmic timeline is as bad as i've ever seen it. i like one tweet by a mutual and my next 20 tweets are from that person
― 龜, Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
The mobile web version was glitching out, there were like 3 different versions of the page on top of each other but offset slightly
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Oh, wow. My notifications are all from Nov. 10 and earlier—can’t see anything after that. This thing really is breaking.— Miriam Posner (@miriamkp) December 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
I sort of really want to leave Twitter
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Like it really stinks now and is a depressing experience and it seems to be dragging the world to a dark place and I feel complicit as a user.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
delete that shit
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
Especially that Elon is acting like the Editor-in-chiel of Twitter, commissioning stories from substack journos. Everyone writing there now seems to be working for him.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Peter-in-chiel
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Essentially left at the start of November and zero regrets. I'll maintain the account so it doesn't get snapped up and will note when I'm tagged or DMs, but that's it. My last 'active' post may be tomorrow with the new By-the-Bywater episode but thinking it'll be fresh start time for that on social media as well in the new year.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
however you feel abt twitter getting worse and everything else getting worse it's definitely funny that milo yiannopolis's life is getting worse
― mark s, Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
He’s in the news againI’m sure he thinks he’s doing great
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 4 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link