Twitter C/D

'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

Imagine being worth billions and choosing your time to...post online, like the rest of us

"Perspective

In business and in life, I have always believed that the best way to understand someone’s perspective is to reverse places with them. Pretend that you are sitting in their seat, and they are in yours.

The story I am about to tell begins on January 3rd, 2024"

How it started, how it's going pic.twitter.com/KziTOa9byi

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) January 8, 2024

lol if ackman actually loses axel fkn springer

He is writing LRB length essays on X, man has been so roasted.

it's not impossible that out of caitains-of-industry-style solidarity a publisher with the politics of springer (v bad) actually forces BI (which it owns) to retract the story or modify it in damaging ways, despite it being true, which would offset this extremely enjoyable and deserved roasting

is this the first large-scale main-character event* since elon's changes (which basically made him the permanent main character, which is after a while much less fun)?

*honest question, twitter has literally destroyed my memory

probably obvious but s/b captains

It's a 'recovery' for twitter of sorts. Israel/Palestine has shown that you can still get quite a lot of news/analysis out of it (and you get to face some very dark stuff too but it's all aggregated in a way that was questioned whether you could get it again from a main event), and then it spits out its first main character for a while.

“main character “ to who, tho? i don’t know who Ackman is or what he’s upset about, and i don’t care. if he’s a billionaire, then he deserves the guillotine— that’s about all i know or think of it.

it isn’t in the news— no coverage that i can see on WaPo, the Times, Politico, etc.

i agree with xyzzz that twix has been fine for getting out info during the genocide, but honestly, this site isn’t as important as it once was, and that’s a good thing.

main-character-syndrome has always been a purely in-twitter phenom: with the caveat abt my memory still in place (and noting the musk special case) i'm not sure that any of them previously (and significantly) broke containment into the "grown-up" papers

it’s sort of like being a “main character “ in a really awful novel that hardly anyone reads then, i get it