not denying that Elon is a hateful dipshit at heart but this does tie into an issue that's been mentioned a lot on ILX which is that the right doesn't really have the "purity test" that the online left does, nobody really cares about your past or what your views really are, so long as you're currently amplifying hateful voices and pissing off liberals you're cool with them. in other words it's just really easy to get in with the Nazis and when you're desperate for validation I guess it's just real easy to go down that path
see also: the Dilbert guy. not a particularly long slope from "why can't I say anything nice about Trump?" to "stay away from black people"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:30 (eight months ago) link
going after the ADL is kind of low-hanging fruit in that they've claimed some twitter accounts with a large number of followers are anti-semitic for criticizing Israel or expressing anti-zionist sentiment
― mh, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:40 (eight months ago) link
i've kept my account for a while just so ...why? it's been several months, i have never had a reason to look into my previous likes or to revisit any of my numerous dumb posts.
i'm going full Cow_Art and deleting the account. i hate that i'm contributing a +1 to anything for such a horrible person and such a horrible movement of shitty people who think his poop emoji stuff is hilarious
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:53 (eight months ago) link
although I actually question how much of the lost ad revenue is really because of that, when it comes to ad buys it's all about the bottom line and I suspect the real story is just that it's not profitable to advertise on Twitter right now
― frogbs, Tuesday, September 5, 2023 11:15 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
big companies do care a lot if their ads are being served on overtly racist or other unsavory stuff, its not so much the boycotts but the underlying fact that twitter is a shithole, tho the boycotts im sure do draw attention to that, in conclusion the adl has prob lost twitter some advertisers but ultimately thats musks fault
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:55 (eight months ago) link
I kind of wish more of the news and legal people I follow were on Blue sky, I suppose it's just a matter of time before they move over.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link
musk made it a priority to let all the accounts banned for racism back on, and you had to be quite racist to get banned, if you have an old banned account and you tell them you were banned for your conservative views theyll unban you right away now, magic words
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link
another thing is Twitter is just massively unstable right now and the timeline is really janky, even if you did still want to advertise there I'd be concenered I was really getting what I was paying for.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:06 (eight months ago) link
yeah advertisers have said twitters tools for them are fucked too, and with the api changes a lot of the third party tools stopped supporting twitter, all self inflicted
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:08 (eight months ago) link
and theres no one to call anymore
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
what is the audio version of the poop emoji
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
very cool that this dolt could lose $248 billion USD and still have enough money to last him 200 lifetimes
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:41 (eight months ago) link
once it's out of beta. it's still hard to even get on there. that said I kind of like it. a few journalists I like are there, a couple that irritate me though (ben collins, zack budyrek)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:52 (eight months ago) link
the small population has meant that even though I don't like those guys, I don't see their shit 100x times a day anyway requiring me to mute them
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:53 (eight months ago) link
Phil Lewis (huffpo) seems to be the most active 'journalist' on there (in scare quotes because is huffpo journalism? is what he does journalism?) and luckily he does nothing but post links to stories, he doesn't bloviate on and on about his personal life all day long.
There is a bot set up to auto post BBC news stories.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:55 (eight months ago) link
my guess is that someone specifically mentioned the ADL to Elon (for reasons) and he has absolutely no idea who is or isn't boycotting him and is happy to do some casual anti-semitism
― mh, Tuesday, September 5, 2023 11:10 AM (six hours ago)
The ADL said as a matter of policy it does not comment on legal threats. But the organization noted it recently met with X leadership, including CEO Linda Yaccarino, who Musk hired to help revive ad revenue. Yaccarino thanked ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt following the meeting last week, saying in a post on X, “A strong and productive partnership is built on good intentions and candor.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/tech/elon-musk-adl-lawsuit/index.html
― rob, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:11 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4c8yWYTlE8
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:38 (eight months ago) link
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
not if he keeps buying websites haha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:29 (eight months ago) link
someone X at him to do Facebook next
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:47 (eight months ago) link
how is it still hard to get on bluesky? everyone I know who has heard of it has found an invite or is disinterested
― mh, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:51 (eight months ago) link
bsky-social-mgmtg-4zxptbsky-social-cx2lr-3t6kybsky-social-2tsox-62d4llook how easy it is
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:58 (eight months ago) link
thank you!
― adam, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:31 (eight months ago) link
Reading about Egyptian cassettes, still gd.
60 years ago, today, the compact audio cassette debuted in Berlin. Lou Ottens, a dutch engineer and the head of product development for the Philips factory in Belgium, was behind the invention. But what happened once the #cassette traveled well beyond his hands? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/znrXPs0QYJ— Andrew Simon (@simongandrew) August 30, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 11:51 (eight months ago) link
this was a good thread yes (i am greatly interested in the marc masters book also)
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 11:58 (eight months ago) link
so you can't read threads if you're not logged in now?
― crutch of england (ledge), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
Yes, it's been that way for a while.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:57 (eight months ago) link
nitter.net is working again as a workaround
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:14 (eight months ago) link
How low can he go?
Musk is collaborating with Tucker Carlson to promote a discredited, absurd, 15 year old conspiracy theory about Obama. Of course its the @ADL's fault that major corporations don't want to advertise against this kind of content. pic.twitter.com/Nagt5Pj4lm— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 7, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 7 September 2023 02:44 (eight months ago) link
I like in that awful meme the captions from the two biggest dominos form a sentence.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 September 2023 03:38 (eight months ago) link
Lmao yas. I didn’t notice who it was from at first tbh, was just skimming by it and thought it was too dumb to be real, had to be parody. Nope not too dumb for Elmo.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 7 September 2023 03:43 (eight months ago) link
Guess they’re fine with supporting Nazism?
They don't see the Nazism as relevant to their corporate interests, so, yes, they are fine with it because they turn a blind eye to it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 7 September 2023 03:51 (eight months ago) link
that's just not how the domino meme is supposed to work
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:41 (eight months ago) link
jus a few from itt but eg
Twitter C/D
― vashti funyuns (sic), Thursday, 7 September 2023 05:35 (eight months ago) link
so helpful, thank you!
― crutch of england (ledge), Thursday, 7 September 2023 05:56 (eight months ago) link
june 2: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-head-brand-safety-ad-quality-decides-leave-wsj-2023-06-02/
today: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/second-x-brand-safety-head-departs-in-months
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
The right's erotic fascination with Barack Obama was one thing I hoped would fade with time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:26 (eight months ago) link
This is a movement whose signature insult is stolen from racist porn.
― honey badger drinks when he wants (stevie), Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
Tucker can always sink lower, but that 'interview' is close to his nadir
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:26 (eight months ago) link
Yeah I want to see Tucker dying inside
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:54 (eight months ago) link
strike that last word
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 7 September 2023 23:17 (eight months ago) link
tucker really thought he was king shit on top of the world
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 September 2023 23:20 (eight months ago) link
the one week I completely am away from twitter the trueanon squad manages to convince people that ebola is spreading at burning man?!
― mh, Friday, 8 September 2023 15:28 (eight months ago) link
were you at burning man?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 September 2023 15:55 (eight months ago) link
e-bola is the most online virus
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 8 September 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link
e-bola the letter
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 September 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
I was at bluesky, man
― mh, Friday, 8 September 2023 16:24 (eight months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 8 September 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
you get to CEO and your job is to post things this late on a friday night (and needing to edit it three times) because your CTO threatened to sue someone and is palling around with nazis in the comments.
X opposes antisemitism in all its forms. Antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform. And X is also always open to proactively working together in that fight with all groups.👇https://t.co/EoXEvrXbKx— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) September 9, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 September 2023 03:23 (seven months ago) link
you knew the replies would have some good shit
pic.twitter.com/4sPA6GOvp3— Mr. California (@InternetHippo) September 9, 2023
― frogbs, Saturday, 9 September 2023 03:26 (seven months ago) link
that statement just reminds me how fuckin stupid the name "X" is
X looks like the same symbol you use to close a window, which is effective at reminding me what to do when I find myself using X
That said I’ve been following Medwyn’s parsnip odyssey and was delighted to see that he won 1st prize today
Arrived just after judging and the Foyer is now full of superb quality vegetables. I went straight for the parsnip class! pic.twitter.com/lsIocfSMEk— Medwyn Williams (@medwynsofangles) September 9, 2023
― master cushion (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 9 September 2023 19:18 (seven months ago) link