Twitter C/D

^^^ oh surprise, surprise

fbi needs to raid the twitter compound

James Fallows has taken to calling it Xitter, which I assume is pronounced "shitter."

again, making the most transparent and obvious choices to tank the company. A strobe light blasting a residential building.

i dont get why everything is 5d chess explanation thing with him, we cant it be just be that musk is stupid

meme master x

He really is the most embarrassing person on the planet

xp "why cant it just be..."

Imagine no more. This is my life now. https://t.co/k5QfAm8yuG pic.twitter.com/e7ECCM2NUD

— Christopher J. Beale (@realchrisjbeale) July 29, 2023

citizen xane

This is what a poster looks like.

Deeply excited to embarrass my 26-year-old self tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Wx7vQNUOhN

— Becky Hammer (@beckyhammer) July 28, 2023

lol

i will never post on "X"

aw, becky hammer. <3 i don't really know who she is, but she followed me and i was always happy to see her.

just hope you dont get too much wind i guess

Elon Musk’s giant X logo on top of the building formerly known as Twitter HQ…

appears to be held up by sandbags pic.twitter.com/dLtPpekpXr

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023

since it's made out of Lego Technics pieces it can't weigh much so I'm not worried

lol i just remembered i dremt it was struck by lightning and the entire building burned down

imagine if you died because you were walking along the street and you the giant X that Elon Musk put on top of twitter HQ fell on top of you, it would be so embarrassing

im sure its fine

X / Twitter won't let city building inspectors check out the giant X logo on the roof of their HQ

inspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure https://t.co/bqc1JXuUbn pic.twitter.com/93R0bieIfs

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023

they just don't want the inspector to waste time inspecting something that's 100% up to code

structural engineering is famously superfluous

so X/Twitter just reinstated Kanye and is starting to ban ads that attack Republicans, seems like a bad sign for the brand that even *I* didn't know about this until a couple days after the fact

I think it’s time reputable news, journalists, writers, and politicians delete their profiles. They aren’t all on Truth Social. Most of them are now on threads anyway and the savvy ones are on mastodon. Blue sky should probably open up too.

Wonder if that X is made of carbon fiber

So, dumb question, but is the whole “clueless billionaire’s vanity project” aspect of the Twitter takeover just a front for Elon’s backers buying influence over our political discourse and/or attempting to destroy an avenue of free speech which was increasingly seen as a threat?

its amazing how "is he tanking Twitter on purpose" has come up every week since he bought it

I do think there may be an ulterior motive for the name change. I believe his legal team is gonna try some shit. but really if you follow this guy at all you'd know these are just the kinds of ideas he has. he never says anything smart

not tanking, hasn't said "trust the process" yet

Im not sure he has “backers” in that sense but he has supporters of wealth and influence, I suppose. But I think this was opportunistic of them or just the obvious end result of the actions taken so far. You could pose the same question about Trump. Manipulated fool or Machiavelli? It’s somewhere in between.

the fact that he tried to change paypals name to x makes me think he just really likes it and also has been waiting 20 years to use the domain

yeah I mean if the scheme was to kill Twitter by implementing ideas that are completely in character for Elon Musk I'd actually tip my cap to that

what really disturbing is the fact that hes been so successful, by one important measure the most successful, to this point while doing this type of shit

space x just blew up a rocket and a landing pad trashing the local environment because he felt like it wasnt necessary to build the proper infrastructure, tesla makes shitty cars which he constantly lies about, the tunnel company was purely a pr gambit to sabotage public tanspo, hes got another company devoted to torturing monkeys

right I mean I think big tech companies do dumb shit all the time but a lot of times those ideas actually wind up being successful or at least not hurting their bottom line so I have to say "well ok maybe I'm wrong and just don't understand this". but 90% of Elon's ideas are just plain idiotic and/or unworkable, and with Twitter we're finally seeing how bad things get when he's actually able to unilaterally make decisions. so yeah the fact that he's been so successful can only mean that either our system is deeply fucked up to the point where a random nepo baby who gets lucky with investments can become one of the most powerful men in the world, either that or objective reality just doesn't exist

How quickly we forgot all the lawsuits and bullshit over the Tesla solar roofs, the SolarCity fiasco, etc. etc. etc.

The "use twitter as a vehicle to move political discourse right" gambit I think would be a dumb plan because twitter's influence isn't over the population at large (main twitter related topic I used to hear from activism/ngo friends who dealt with it a lot pre-Musk was "it's not that effective because regular people aren't on there"), it's over the media class and I think it's p hard to argue anything Musk has done has been to get that demographic onside.

so yeah the fact that he's been so successful can only mean that either our system is deeply fucked up to the point where a random nepo baby who gets lucky with investments can become one of the most powerful men in the world, either that or objective reality just doesn't exist

love freedom of speech

Breaking News: X, Twitter’s parent company, threatened to sue a nonprofit that tracks hate speech, saying it tried to hurt the social platform with its research. https://t.co/OqGW94Pxkv

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 31, 2023

Yeah I guess what I was getting at is that this quick pivot to stomping out actual discourse and reporting, and attempting to turn Twitter into yet another conspiracy-laden conservative echo chamber, if successful it’s a pretty big win for the right, and you have to look at who helped Elon finance his acquisition and wonder whether it’s really just him who is driving it in this direction. It becomes another piece of the new hegemony they are trying to create.

Yeah I guess what I was getting at is that this quick pivot to stomping out actual discourse and reporting, and attempting to turn Twitter into yet another conspiracy-laden conservative echo chamber, if successful it’s a pretty big win for the right, and you have to look at who helped Elon finance his acquisition and wonder whether it’s really just him who is driving it in this direction. It becomes another piece of the new hegemony they are trying to create.

theres def some sort of movement, radicalization amongst the psycho silicon valley elite, but imo as far as the plan or just a thing that happening because its the kind of thing they like to turn twitter into a right wing platform it will prob not work because its incompatible with what people liked about twitter in the first place, as evidenced by twitter currently in its death throws

what excuse do you all have still being on it, save for 'im a poster its what i do'

It’s still full of really good people I follow who aren’t elsewhere, or if they are don’t post as much.

funny thing is twitter was already an excellent right wing echo chamber, real killed the goose who laid the golden egg type scenario

what excuse do you all have still being on it, save for 'im a poster its what i do'

reporting back to us obv, I'm not on there anymore and love to get my twitter news from this thread

im personally not a big boycott x (haha) guy in the first place i dont think were going to shop our way to freedom, but also i was there before elon and now im supposed to leave just cause he has all the money in the world

funny thing is twitter was already an excellent right wing echo chamber, real killed the goose who laid the golden egg type scenario

― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:22 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yep, v otm

same, I mean I posted on SomethingAwful for a while and part of the game was always who could say the most shit about Lowtax without getting banned. to me "the owner of this place sucks" is just a natural place for a message board/social media site to be in. Musk is definitely a more obnoxious and infuriating guy than Zuck and the others but is he really that much worse? I dunno.

if I still check Twitter it's because there are still some people I really like on it. a lot of them are not American and don't seem to know a whole lot about Elon so they just respond to all the weird shit with "ha ha what is going on here". I used to be on there because it was really good for following sports, particularly baseball, but the timeline is constantly jacked up and a lot of the good accounts aren't really active anymore, so it's not really worth it for that either. idk I figured i'd check in every now and then but that stupid fucking "X" on my home screen now makes me really wanna uninstall the app from my phone

theres nowhere else to get posts this good

My boyfriend told me about how when he was a teenager he would invite girls over to his house in rural Sweden and make them deli meat sub sandwiches, which he had learned about in the US, to impress them and they would tell him, “I never knew that a sandwich could be like this!” https://t.co/aIs9M8UXAR

— Christin (@hexprax) July 27, 2023

im personally not a big boycott x (haha) guy in the first place i dont think were going to shop our way to freedom, but also i was there before elon and now im supposed to leave just cause he has all the money in the world

― lag∞n, Monday, July 31, 2023 8:27 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're not trapped in there with him, he's trapped in there with us

where else would i learn about the existence of e.g. this house (17 Stanleylaan, ostend, flanders):

Architect: ‘What kind of windows would you like?’ Client: ‘Yes’ pic.twitter.com/9dMpH8bEQU

— Ugly Belgian Houses (@uglybelgianhous) July 31, 2023

(20 years ago the answer was ilx!)

i love x the everything message board