meeting of the brain geniuses
https://i.imgur.com/sgOcvGQ.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
lol I'd like to see the unhinged leftist equivalent of that tweet
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
the unhinged left tweets are people telling him he sucks shit
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
xpost "everyone should be working out nude in public"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
i kind of assume MY means more like "it's ableist to call people on the phone" type tweets. but those are fun to laugh at while there's nothing absurdist about "women are the property of their husbands"
― rob, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
xyz I know there’s lot of good stuff still on Twitter. I’m saying it might be time to stop posting
in spite of that
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
lol sorry for quoting my italics
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
i was there first and i will be there after, maybe
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Just because an asshole buys the mall it doesn’t mean the teens are going to stop hanging out at the food court
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
and the mall is dying
you literally can't click a link on twitter right now. it's wild how this site is slowly degrading— Tim Marcin (@TimMarcin) May 8, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
it's sort of like if all the anchor stores turn into gun ranges
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
xyz is like i only shop at the sunglass hut
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
did any of you ever see The Wave? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
― rob, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
lol
We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
oh man I hope that doesn't mean a handful of the weird twitter accounts that stopped posting over a decade ago like @UtilityLimb and @tree_bro get nuked
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
elon not understanding twitter once again
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
people were good at posting back then
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
tree bro & utility limb will absolutely get nuked
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
going through and liking and replying to all their tweets in an attempt to register activity
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
even his blue check toadies don't like this move based on the replies to that tweet so I hope he will walk it back like he has consistently done for many, but not all, of his moronic decisions with this site.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
hope he nukes me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
it's going to be funny when the dead celebrities who got an involuntary blue check then get their accounts deleted
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
it's probably just elon looking to cut costs and choosing the absolutely wrong place to do it
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
it's not a cost cutting measure. he's trying to force people to play with him.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
otm
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
the old inactive accounts likely existed before you could really post video, so even if they're image-heavy they're probably shifted off to cheaper storage by this point. there's little savings there, I'd think
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
On the bright side of Twitter, @JayCuda has been killing it lately with his bizarre (but factual) baseball statistics/infographics
― Josefa, Monday, 8 May 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
search seems increasingly useless, I was trying to find some tweets I posted in 2018 and advanced search couldn't locate them
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
That's right
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
I’m sure you still see good stuff on there. You will do as long as people keep giving musk free content that he uses to maintain a platform he uses to promote white nationalism very openly.― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
As opposed to the other guys who owned twitter pre-Musk, who were being given free content in a platform which ended up promoting Donald Trump and his gang?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/thrawn.movie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/vsTS8X4.gif?fit=851%2C315&ssl=1&is-pending-load=1
― nickn, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
xp.
sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
let's go back to the mall metaphor for a second. blue checks are previously ignorable mall walkers who now aggressively harass everyone. bot accounts are fountains... and they're all drying up ;_;
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
musk's tweets are shrim, dril is Jeffrey
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvnwbmDWYAED_Fn?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
purging accounts is good now
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
musk is basically the dog from this comic
http://nedroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2008-01-03-1217-buddycomics01.gif
except he's a billionaire nazi
― De Smurfführer (cat), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 01:20 (eleven months ago) link
im not endorsing this but i am enjoying it
Will take a long time for historians to prove this but I think you can explain a lot of US politics and discourse 2015-2020 if you understand that on here a clique of Bernie-adjacent millennials was simply better than everyone else at making fun of people https://t.co/vdAHD1E5gO— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 8, 2023
It seems like a tiny and irrelevant thing (it is, it should be) but it drove a lot of establishment figures absolutely fucking nuts. A kind of post-"weird twitter" (lol) leftism had some degree of hegemony on the website they inhabited and it killed them— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 8, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
I don't.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 09:00 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, this is why reading the LRB and Unherd is the same thing.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 09:05 (eleven months ago) link
Twitter is not a publication. Glad to help.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 09:13 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, that's why it's an analogy mate.
Colour me skeptical that social media sites, unlike publications, are platonically perfect bastions of neutrality and uninfluenced by the agendas of their owners.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 09:17 (eleven months ago) link
Mate, Elon Musk does not shape the content in anyway so all I'm seeing is right-wing content.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 09:20 (eleven months ago) link
I hate Twitter but am with xyzzz on this— there’s still plenty of stuff on the site that is fine, even helpful to some people. Maybe instead of chastising people who still use it, it would be better to continue documenting its problems and downfall? just feels like a useless pile-up.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 11:19 (eleven months ago) link
All tech bro CEOs are Randian creeps, pass it on.
For whatever reason I still see a timeline that’s remarkably close to how things looked Before Elmo.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 11:36 (eleven months ago) link
time to go imo. Not that I have an account anyway, but definitely trying to ignore twitter links etc now. Which is going to make me out of touch with the discourse but that's a price I'm prepared to pay lol
For everyone who's like 'who care about the ownership, they're all assholes' I feel like Muskrat is inevitably gonna just keep upping the ante here, so if you're not at breaking point yet you will be in a couple weeks when Golly faces replace the bird logo for 72 hours
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 12:03 (eleven months ago) link
by the looks of it Elon is pretty close to responding "Interesting!" to holocaust denial stuff so yeah maybe time to jump ship
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 13:43 (eleven months ago) link
I mean my timeline is close to what it looked like before, except half the people have either stopped posting or have throttled way back. the Lakers/Warriors game last night would've been pandemonium on my TL last year, because all that energy kind of feeds off each other, now most of the people I like just don't care to share their thoughts on Twitter anymore
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 13:45 (eleven months ago) link
I also don't think caek was saying you should leave because your timeline will be less good, as some people seem to be implying. I read his comment to be that you should leave because staying helps keep the lights on for a platform that is aggressively pushing nazi voices and ideology. I don't completely agree, I think it is still good to boost the good on there and refuse to give attention to the bad, but I'm not unsympathetic to his POV.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:00 (eleven months ago) link
Yep.
Here’s a fun new tweet from the owner btw. It’s about soros and Zuckerberg (wonder what those guys have in common, does anyone know?)
Strange that election officials from pivotal regions attended a far left conference when they’re supposed to be impartial— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:13 (eleven months ago) link