what if, unironically, the child has bad vibes
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
when peter singer turned up in the middle of the effective altruism / sam bankplan-fraud discussion i assumed it was a typo for PAUL singer (the hedge fund guy who "pioneered" effective altruism, whatever this means) -- but no! it's peter, with a finger in every fkn dark pie lol!
30 years ago he was best known as the animal rights guy, which was a way better bit imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
oh no, now I remember who he is
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
my favourite peter singer anecdote is when he was on a panel in germany in i guess the 90s discussing something or other and there was a stage invasions by autonomes* and they grabbed his spectacles off his face and flung them into the audience
he wrote a big long piece i think in the new york review of books saying this was bad not good but i disagree bcz it was funny!
*best of all the gnomes
― mark s, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I’m genuinely impressed by the number of times he gets close to making a savvy management decision before inexplicably smashing into a semi-truck.e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
e.g., focus on video, concerns about infrastructure costs, spot checking code quality, etc. are solid ideas but his execution was so wildly dumb it makes me question whether they were genuine ideas about making Twitter better or simply gimmicks to improve his brand.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:32 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i guess this link belongs in the twitter thread, but it speaks to this point so i'll but it here https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
'crashes bring people together'
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, January 17, 2023 9:24 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.imgur.com/v9NBTOh.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
is that good
Tiny scoop: We learned today that Twitter’s revenue is down 40 percent year over year (& Musk’s first giant interest payment on the company is due at the end of the month): https://t.co/IH7lJiQ0Dw— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:40 (one year ago) link
btw that article is the saem one caek posted, def worth reading for true musk heads
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
lol
wow: that 2016 tesla self-driving demo that essentially kicked off the entire industry-wide spending spree...it was fake https://t.co/F5uXGvzfiU— Max Chafkin (@chafkin) January 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
the information reporting that in addition to revenue being down 40%, the top 500 advertisers have left lol
on the left hand side of the verge article there's a little blue bar that tracks elon's net worth over the course of the twitter saga, it's good
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
" A Tesla owner was recently seeking a state inspection sticker at one of VIP’s locations, Winkeler said, but the car displayed a light indicating a traction control problem. The service center couldn’t pass the vehicle’s inspection with the light on, but also couldn’t access the dashboard error code to diagnose the problem. The customer had to drive to Boston to get the car diagnosed. "
what a bother
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 10:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thats fn crazy youd think itd be down by more than 40%
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
the expected revenue from the sell-off of the neon twitter sign and assorted work stations must be incredible
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
the interest payment is coming up https://www.ft.com/content/25f67d89-2940-43b9-9a42-bfc34d262631 (use archive.ph if you don't wanna register)
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
oh its 500 top advertisers not the 500 top advertisers
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
Elon's just gonna sell the sink he brought into Twitter, some fanboy will pay 1 billion for it cos he touched it
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
it'd be really funny if 50% of the revenue was the weird dudes who pay to promote their own incoherent tweets
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
someone should get steve cohen into the twitter memorabilia scene
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
2 billion if he jacks off into it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
Fidelity, which owns a stake in the social media platform through a listed fund, has cut the value of its holding from $19.7mn in October to $8.6mn after Musk closed the deal.
lmao
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Seeing a lot of crying from the people that insisted Elon “fixed” Twitter. pic.twitter.com/iBihVKn5rp— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
they will never learn that most people don't care about their shitty opinions
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
and people really dont care about their whining about engagement
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Don't know how it hasn't gone more noticed over the years, but the guy in this video that Elon tweeted out to show the safety features of Tesla autopilot...? He died in a Tesla autopilot accident two months later.https://t.co/JUJriy3YOf— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
his final words were "so thrilled...this will...help improve...self-driving...next patch"
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
Best…car…I…ever…had…
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
“He had said, ‘For something to catch Elon Musk’s eye, I can die and go to heaven now,’” said a neighbor, Krista Kitchen, choking up. “He was absolutely thrilled – and then a couple weeks later he died.”
https://t.co/1BWwPHIzR0— extremely pleasant mail delivery guy (@dumbmailguy) January 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
Mind detergent and soul rot, from the top to the bottom.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
genuinely think some of these ppl should go to church they'd be better off
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
worth a shot
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
lol why
NEW: https://t.co/9ameptuFXR— Dana "Legacy Blue Checkmark" Hull 👩🏻💻 (@danahull) January 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
haters will say its photoshop
- elon
― 龜, Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
interesting
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
knives comin out
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
i'm pretty sure some undercredited production person directed the fuck out of the video while elon executive produced and called himself director
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 January 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm8PZZgXgBAwIFs?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
This is the world we live inAnd these are the stans we're given
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
gosh, I hope Elon saves Catturd
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:28 (one year ago) link
'take the algorithms off'
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
this is probably why the desktop site has started defaulting to "for you" every time, gotta get that catturd engagement up
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:35 (one year ago) link
Fortunately, catturd is not "for me." (Yet. I'm sure if he whines enough Elon will set it up so everyone is auto-following both himself and catturd.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
Fortunately Catturd 1 is okay
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
Catturd Prime
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
not everyone saw Catturd's tweets, but everyone that did started a ban
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 January 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
Very nice
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
I keep wanting to ironically buy catturd merch but I suspect that impulse will never result in anything
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
Why would you do that? May as well wear an ironic swastika.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
the fact that this account is run by a 65 year old really comes through in phrases like "take the algorithms off" lol https://t.co/0drpUya5BP— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) January 20, 2023
it's so funny to post "engagements are almost down to nothing" on a post with 25,000 likes— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) January 20, 2023
worth noting that catturd has gained over 600,000 followers since elon became ceo a few months ago (nearly double what they had before). he just loves whining— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) January 20, 2023
catturd2 knows that when elon replies to him he gets thousands more followers
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
wait is that guy really 65 lmao
― frogbs, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link
he’s not young!
he owns a registered business that owns property (maybe just his own home) that is “catturd llc” or something like that
just an insanely pathetic guy. I’m a cat owner and I have to admit branding yourself with all cat stuff is insanely beta
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link