Twitter C/D

In the last week or so, I've been getting the same ad embedded after every third tweet, so obnoxious.

This morning, before I blocked it, it was for a reality cooking competition show from.... OnlyFans.

Bill Ackman is worth $4 billion dollars. He should be eating grilled baby panda on an island somewhere, unbothered. Instead he accidentally humiliates his wife because he's too online. This is still a powerful website.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 7, 2024

reminds me of ryan broderick's diagnosis of twitter's significance:

The reason for its success, if you can argue that it was ever really successful, wasn’t that it was cooler than Facebook. It was because of its proximity to power. The reason it was so popular with activists, extremists, journalists, and shitposters was because what you posted there could actually affect culture. The thing that ties together pretty much everything that’s happened on Twitter since it launched in 2006 was the possibility that those who were not in power (or wanted more) could influence those who were.

he goes on to say:

And I don’t think it’s an accident that a deranged billionaire broke that, nor do I think it’s accident that we’re suddenly being offered smaller, insular platforms or an offshoot of a Meta app as replacements. The folks in charge clearly don’t want that to happen again.

it's happening again with this ackman stuff, but this feels like the first time in a long time.

lol https://www.ft.com/content/f1c31251-4c06-47e6-8495-106c2e4a6118

I think Twitter users were able to partially puncture that early 2010s Tedtalky bubble of people thinking they were sages because they were rich. Like, sure, everyone at your conferences will tell you you're a genius, but a bunch of overeducated nobodies will mock you mercilessly.

lol this one really sounds like bateman

"I did meditate when I was going through challenging times. I need to take it up again. Very powerful."

And I don’t think it’s an accident that a deranged billionaire broke that, nor do I think it’s accident that we’re suddenly being offered smaller, insular platforms or an offshoot of a Meta app as replacements. The folks in charge clearly don’t want that to happen again.

imo this is basically true tho its at least somewhat more subconscious and institutional than its is intentionally diabolical

lol this one really sounds like bateman

i got all of them right except that one!

Man when Financial Times is clowning you, it’s time to log off.

xp re: broderick’s “actually affect culture”

i am not sure whether this sounds true or quite deluded. like, the lures on the line were sure dancing faster tho

I am in love https://t.co/lDiZ8qpSPs

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) February 3, 2021

'dream up your grounding'? well we know that statement wasn't plagiarized because no one else would stupid enough to arrange words in that order.

https://i.imgur.com/KBW4yuT.png

she simply gave him a small orb as one does the orb was of no great size

At some point, she was asked to give Epstein one of the ‘orbs,’ small resin sculptures that her group made, which MIT used as gifts for donors to the university. Neri’s group made many of the gifts for MIT MediaLab donors as her work is unique and beautiful.

Simon, I enjoy and often agree with your posts but you got this one way wrong:

Neri is not a public figure nor am I POTUS, as such your Hunter Biden comparison makes no sense.

Being accused does not make one guilty. Please give @NeriOxman a chance to both understand and…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 8, 2024

Hey, Elon! How's Grok coming along?

https://www.axios.com/2019/09/14/joi-jeffrey-epstein-ties-mit-media-lab-professor

"...it is very important that you don't mention Neri's name or otherwise get her involved ... I don't want to see her forced into a position where to protect her name she Is required to be transparent about everything that took place at MIT with Epstein."

I don't want my wife to be forced to be transparent about her academic and business dealings

What other ‘questionable relationships’ are you alluding to? Neri does not have ‘questionable’ relationships.

Would beg to differ.

The Dead Internet Theory gains support after a video uploaded without sound receives a suspicious amount of engagement. https://t.co/4OQe5pRMYz

— Know Your Meme (@knowyourmeme) January 8, 2024

xxxxxxp "Let your haters be your waiters" sounds profound by comparison.

"Let your haters be your waiters" suggests the utterer will unwittingly ingest a lot of wait-staff urine during their every meal out.

Elon seemingly purging his critics

What the fuck is going on pic.twitter.com/1BFZJY7RM8

— Yugopnik 🇵🇸 (@yugopnik) January 9, 2024

Or Ackman critics I guess

pivot to video except its the year 2024 this time

Elon Musk’s X, long known as a service for posting short text-based messages about anything and everything, claims it’s “now a video-first platform.”

As proof of its video transformation, X touted a new video feature that is much like TikTok’s full-screen, infinite scroll, and that has over 100 million daily users—”more than half of whom are Gen Z, the fastest growing audience on X,” the blog post claimed. It also mentioned letting users publish longer-form videos, crowing that “In December alone, people watched 130 years’ worth of videos 30 minutes or longer.”

https://archive.ph/jUmk7

skype it to my inbox

short text-based messages

ackman didnt get the memo

they weren't banned, they just set their backgrounds to say Account Suspended. artistic choice!

lol Ackman's profile pic is so AI-touched up it looks comical

I don’t know who this guy Ackman is and yes I’m pretty smug about it

and that's ok

I'd never heard of him before all this but wow he is a tremendous asshole. It sure is great having a society subject to the whims of deranged billionaires.

All those accounts violated...
The X Rules.

“now a video-first platform.”

pivot away from snooty intelligencia and boring journalists towards fast-fashion trends, vibes, viral challenges

tiktok except with elons people is the worst possible app lol

none of this woulda happened if we hadn't sabotaged Google+

ok but clowning google plus was some of the best times ever had online

forget google plus, google wave baby

Were they the first to add "+" to their name? Everything is "+" now.

orkut was my shit bring back orkut

one of Linda Yaccarino’s big announcements for X while she’s in Vegas for CES is a video partnership with…Tulsi Gabbard pic.twitter.com/44VGaCkOtC

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) January 9, 2024

I want Jaiku back. Combine it with app.net and you'll crush it

Welcome to The Family

As of last night, my phone wouldn't let me use Twitter anymore unless I updated the app (which would have turned it into X and probably done a bunch of nefarious shit to the phone)...so I deleted the app entirely. Still using Twitter on my laptop a little but have one foot out the door now for sure.

I'm still using the Twitter branded app on my android phone but realise it's probably on borrowed time.

I still have the Twitter app on an old ipad but search won't work on it.

i have the x app on my phone but i do not uses it, sometimes i go to twitter.com and search for boston celtics

what are those fellas up to

theyre doing great

bring back kinja

Does Larry Bird still play for them?

in spirit