Twitter C/D

checkmate libs

Why?

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

doesn’t make sense

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

didn't realize jack has a nostr link in his profile (what's nostr?)

this is getting quote tweeted all over the place:

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2022

do gotta give credit to his captive h-1b engineers for keeping the site running through the most batshit world cup ever, kudos

Jack’s going to be really upset with this until he goes off to a silent retreat for a month and forgets everything again

i didn’t think twitter counted as a gatekeeper under the EU definition

seems like they would

Obligations for Gatekeepers
The DMA only places obligations on “gatekeepers,” which are companies that create bottlenecks between businesses and consumers and have an entrenched position in digital markets. The DMA’s threshold is very high: companies will only be hit by the rules if they have an annual turnover of €7.5 billion within the EU or a worldwide market valuation of €75 billion. Gatekeepers must also have at least 45 million monthly individual end-users and 100,000 business users. Finally, gatekeepers must control one or more “core platform services” such as “marketplaces and app stores, search engines, social networking, cloud services, advertising services, voice assistants and web browsers.” In practice, this will almost certainly include Meta (Facebook), Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, and possibly a few others.

oh actually maybe not missed the within the eu part of "an annual turnover of €7.5 billion within the EU"

right. too small

looooooool when you’ve lost this neoreactionary class ally it really is over

This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.https://t.co/bbmZ4yvAJH

— Paul Graham (@paulg) December 18, 2022

He’s going to say this was a mistake announced without his permission why he was attending the World Cup final isn’t he

*while

Paul Graham acting like he wouldn’t pay $50 million for a huff of Elon’s ballsack

lol

It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 16, 2022

doesn’t make sense

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

he rolled his shares over with elon when he couldve cashed out lol

fun fact, if jack had taken the cash he would have received just under one billion dollars (he owned 18,042,428 shares)

I think we've made this point here, but worth repeating. They don't really want the lefties and progressives to leave, they just want to be able to abuse them without consequence.

Elon Musk is running the left off this app but the gag is the right doesn’t want to be here alone—what they want is to harass us and see what we’re talking about so they can create strawman reactionary arguments. Otherwise they’d have been happy w/ Truth Social but never were

— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) December 18, 2022

not sure, I think they want a space where the right can influence more a passive center and Twitter can be that (more) on this trajectory

they?

They being "the right" in this formulation.

Yeah, I think that is kind of the idea or at least the fantasy — a broad platform where right-wing views can reach a general audience without interference by leftists, fact-checkers, journalists, or anyone who might contest their worldview. The problem with that idea obviously is that to make it a reality you have a create a space so unwelcoming that you're going to drive off a lot of your general audience too.

Hahahaahahahahahhahahhahaha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993

Minutes pass, and then

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/

🤨

"assassination coordinates" trending, well done

this fn guy

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

I’ll give him credit this is pretty entertaining

he's going to appoint david sacks as CEO, which he was going to appoint anyway.

regardless of his plan why would he do the poll lol hes off his head m8

hes already rolling back the linking rule

Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

i voted no for the lolz

lol he’s just going to ban everyone who votes “yes”, I mean this is straight out of the early 2000s forum mod snaps playbook

What is going on

No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

i voted no for the lolz

Same. If Twitter continues to die and Tesla keeps tanking because of Twitter and the Musk bubble getting popped, that's good times.

*Droopy Dog voice* Should I just go fuck myself then? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) December 18, 2022

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Bran_Stark?file=KingBran.PNG

Also big no vote. Every minute he’s ceo of a company he personally owns and cannot operate does harm to him I love it.

Seems like he’s hinting about shutting it down in his latest tweets though hahah.

Good jack content. What a fuckup. Real Chauncey gardener vibes.

https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski/109537154119112076

apparently he would have cleared just under a billion if he hadn't rolled his shares into Elon's vision

Lmao that the “no linking your other socials” rule was apparently solely implemented to ban Taylor Lorenz

Well she did cry that one time

i'm so eager for the taylor lorenz story to drop. it's gonna be so good

yeah i wonder what shes got

how’s the middle manager lady who pulled all nighters doing?

During today’s launch of @TwitterBlue the SF team experienced two literal fire drills. The first one happened at HQ and led us to a Starbucks where we kept rolling out the release, then the coffee shop had its own fire drill — sending us back to HQ to finalize the roll out. 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/bYsJdZyVXs

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) December 13, 2022

tried to embed the video where she was talking to camera but apparently twitter doesn't work properly? someone should look into that.

Will soon be fired for promoting Starbucks

my team keeps getting hit by lightning when were trying to roll this feature out

i'm so eager for the taylor lorenz story to drop. it's gonna be so good

is it this one? just came out i think

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

The Twitter owner threatened legal action, changed the platform’s rules and suspended journalists’ accounts after a confrontation involving his security team at a gas station. But the incident’s timing and location cast doubt on a link to the @ElonJet account.

chronological timeline is amazing when you see the third reply is some tuned-in 13 follower reply guy doing this

No! The right and virtuous way is always more challenging but you can't just give up this easy. You know you're doing what's right by the people. Anyone with a problem with you is just afraid of being exposed for the clowns they are. #elonmuskdoesnotbudge

— Ian Thomas (@ian_is_a_jerk) December 19, 2022

Musk’s lackeys spent their entire day in my mentions defending this absurd policy as just and wise only to have Musk abandon it in less than 12 hours

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 19, 2022