Elon Musk

there are few people I hate more than Andy Ngo, who earlier this year, basically called an eyeball witness to a driver intentionally hitting pedestrians during a protest a liar and incited his minions to attack her

this couldn't possibly be new twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) letting Bari Weiss rifle around in a backend tool that clearly says "Direct Messages" in the sidebar could it? 🤔 https://t.co/qqfoKuvs30

— tom mckay (@thetomzone) December 9, 2022

Three of us resigned from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today: @eirliani @podesta_lesley and me. Here’s why https://t.co/h05TblfGIO pic.twitter.com/iqcHvhbgms

— annecollier (@annecollier) December 8, 2022

Correct. For security purposes, the screenshots requested came from me so we could ensure no PII was exposed. We did not give this access to reporters and no, reporters were not accessing user DMs.

— Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) December 9, 2022

How did this work, though, @ellagirwin? If reporters didn't have access to DMs, what was the process?

Did they give Twitter officials search queries to run on the DMs, and have you retrieve relevant ones?

Did Twitter officials pick out the DMs yourselves to give reporters?

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) December 9, 2022

so glad I never used my gov name on Twitter.

good chance theyve got you linked to it in their data anyway

google for "buttface-mcgee" and find Neanderthal

pt 3 of THE TWITTER FILES is entirely dedicated to the output of ilxor neanderthal 👍🏽

greenwald already firing up the outrage machine

theyre so lazy they need to do better

Most people's disinterest in this is enraging these guys

cool

hope they rage-stroke out, every last one of them

Dream of Twitter one day being broken to the point where everyone can only see their own Tweets and all recreate I Am Legend

much-followed accounts that follow no one: mel brooks 👈🏽

Please stay on strike if you’re going to leave Top Gun Maverick off this list @aoscott

seriously how many of these films have you seen / heard of… for me it’s 0 / 2 ! pic.twitter.com/UxW6tJJOO9

— @jason (@Jason) December 9, 2022

Top Gun Maverick was great!

NYTimes has gone “full woke”.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2022

on cinema at the cinema twitter crossover event

Not only did the NYT fail to list Top Gun Maverick. It doesn't even have a comics page!

Has anyone counted how many times this guy tweets a day?

I love that we’ve now reached the Star Wars nerd state of “Not liking my favourite film is oppression” in record time. I’d settle for that level of bedshitting

idek who would want to be a critic anymore. a local theatre review here generated a 7 paragraph essay from someone in the production, that was reposted by like 15 other people, who had a list of demands of things the critic 'needed' to include next time and ongoing in all reviews (even though dude is on an oppressively small word count). Like they think the critic is their publicist.

and then the example above, butthurt IP fanboys hershey squirting their keyboards because AO Scott didn't think the newest Jackass should be film of the century (no shade on that franchise tho which I love).

I think the thing you have to understand about twitter is there is an entire heavily monetized ecosystem that has kept itself fueled up for years on the self-fulfilling prophesy that they’re perpetually victimized by every conceivable entity in the world, and that’s elon’s market

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 9, 2022

J4ckass will be on my 2022 ballot (and was my first Jackass anything)

Wow, you've got a lot of awesome Jackass movies (and TV shows) to catch up with!

I still need to see it. have loved the other films in the series. nothing makes me laugh more than Johnny Knoxville flipping a golf cart in whichever one that was.

That was #1

Filmed at my hometown mini golf course!

I really expected him to lose interest by now, and set his sights on Martian moss farming or whatever.. but if this is a manic episode, it's a sustained one. He even lives in the building now

It's his new toy. He'll play with it until it's so broken it's no fun any more.

Elon is now replying in agreement to Lara Logan, who was recently banned from Newsmax for spreading conspiracies about a “global cabal” of UN officials who “dine on the blood of children”: https://t.co/6DX1xNZ2lx pic.twitter.com/jTqLhhYzUl

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 9, 2022

It really can't be overstated just how much of a shameless liar Elon is pic.twitter.com/cpEa0Rcndl

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) December 9, 2022

Taibbi's rolling out Part 3, fwiw. All about events leading up to Trump's account being suspended. As before, all the selective screenshots are supposed to look like some big anti-Trump collusion, but clearly they just show people trying to do a kind of impossible job (monitoring election disinformation) in a crazy environment.

I don't know a single person, even Elon fellator, who gives a fuck about that tonight, lol.

they really gotta work on theatrics more

the effort is very low all around

why do they keep doing this on friday nights lol

idk I used to spend my late 20s grabbing a bottle of Jamesson, inviting friends over, renting a projector, and reading Tweet threads together

this is so dumb

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjlO_M-XEAI5JXZ?format=jpg&name=large

FIFTY-TWO

jesus fucking christ, if only there was a non-Twitter medium in which lengthier stories could be published. alas, Twitter is our only option

Twitter is the perfect publishing platform to pretend to do journalism but never provide actual context or details. It's just headline after headline.

this is the JFK for this generation

my head is spinning as i countenance the dense tangle of orwellian unwords like "bounce"

Companies use internal jargon, news at 11

pretty easy to grift readers if they hang onto your every word, just say a company is doing something mundane and then act as if it's never been done before

at least a bounced account wasn't 86'ed

Damn, Taibbi 51'd everyone, overbearing mod behavior imo

Elon is basically just outright making Twitter part of the right-wing media ecosystem — allowing people to say what they want, for now, but he guides the narrative. Or at least that seems to be the idea. But he can't really do that and have Twitter be any semblance of its former self. It still seems like this just ends up with a Twitter no one wants.

he'll probably die in a strange way.

hopefully at least

like ironically in one of his own Teslas, hopefully

Spoiler

At the end of Twitter Files 3 Mulder and Scully find Taibbi’s body crammed into a duct that smells suspiciously of Morley cigarettes

is he going to sue himself

NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 10, 2022