Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[PACOX]

Apparently you need to clean the cybertruck immediatly or it'll rust away. expect too see a lot of rusty cybertrucks in the near future.

The actual hell?

And this guy sends people to space?

Of all the billionaire tech bros he has to be the worst .

[Edge-]

The actual hell?

And this guy sends people to space?

Of all the billionaire tech bros he has to be the worst .

He doesn't. His money, which hired a lot of very smart people who are very good at their jobs, did.

The Cybertruck and Twitter are prime examples of what happens when he gets deeply personally involved in projects. They are the exact reason why there are stories of people at SpaceX and Tesla whose job it is to largely keep him distracted and from sticking his fingers into things. Because the Cybertruck, despite some valiant efforts by their engineers to give it some use-cases, and Twitter, which there are no guardrails against Elon at, are the results when he "shares" his genius.

He's every out of touch billionaire, and he's continuing to surround himself with more enablers. Which makes his lurch to the right and his embrace of far right conspiracy theories and meming make all the more sense. He wants a crowd that will fawn over his every word and clap like seals when he "owns the libs" because that is, and will continue to be the greatest achievement one can reach as a conservative on the internet.

[Benggaul]

Of all the billionaire tech bros he has to be the worst .

Not sure I'd agree. Most of his blunders are self-destructive. Working conditions at Tesla are shitty, but I think Amazon has it beat in the sheer number of people's lives ruined/exploited.

[Muzjhath]

The whole point is that this is a new problem that exists thanks to Elon's policies. There are myriad possible solutions to the new problems, of course, but the discussion is whether those solutions are even worth the effort to implement or whether the changes have killed enough value in the platform that it is no longer worth continuing to maintain. Few companies are probably still actively maintaining their Myspace pages : P

This!
Elon claimed he'd do away with bots.
Guess what? Before Elon I had maybe 2 random bot accounts a year try to follow me.
Now? I get around one a day that I block.

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The actual hell?

And this guy sends people to space?

Of all the billionaire tech bros he has to be the worst .

Think him of SpaceX's PR guy and person who handles Shareholders and Money People.

[Elder Millennial]

Ah, I guess I have a different definition of what "press release" entails then. I thought you meant it more in the sense of just disseminating information to the public.

Perhaps in future a compromise would be to have the statements released on Twitter as normal but with comments disallowed and instead include a link in the post to a separate--moderated--company site for discussion. Probably too much of an added expense if you don't already have a public-facing company discussion forum, though.

There are really 3 channels by which the company "talks" to the media and public.

1. There's an email list of other companies, media etc.
2. Via LinkedIn.
3. Twitter.

Twitter has both the furthest and fastest reach and the highest levels of "community interaction".

They all have their uses and levels of utility. Twitter got to where it is because of just how quick, easy and far reaching it was. The problem with it now is that the "community interaction" has turned into an unmanageable and unmanaged minefield. Turning off comments etc will ultimately make the medium essentially pointless

[Mayhem]

So I have a second account for twitter that follows no one and has no followers, new accounts see some really terrible shit on that site

like it's filled with blue check scammers, in between some politicians and then just straight-up death, not even a warning, just a video of some guy falling to his death

[Edge-]

So I have a second account for twitter that follows no one and has no followers, new accounts see some really terrible shit on that site

like it's filled with blue check scammers, in between some politicians and then just straight-up death, not even a warning, just a video of some guy falling to his death

So...increasingly like /b/ then.

*Elon puts a cigar in his mouth*

I love it when a plan comes together!

[Cthulhu 2020]

I'm not gonna post the other brainrot that's in this thread, but needless to say there's a fuckton of blue check marks on Twitter who believe that Elon Musk and Republicans are the "ruled working class" and teachers, baristas and minimum wage workers are the wealthy elite ruling class.

It's so fucking divorced from reality it's a wonder these people manage to put their shoes on in the morning. It's like they have no idea what any of these words even mean, where they identify oppression as "people who think like me are getting bullied by people who don't think like me". I've lost several IQ points this day just reading this slop.

[Elegiac]

I'm not gonna post the other brainrot that's in this thread, but needless to say there's a fuckton of blue check marks on Twitter who believe that Elon Musk and Republicans are the "ruled working class" and teachers, baristas and minimum wage workers are the wealthy elite ruling class.

It's so fucking divorced from reality it's a wonder these people manage to put their shoes on in the morning.

What's the word for politics which are the equivalent of a rich kid dressing like a homeless person?

[Captain N]

I'm not gonna post the other brainrot that's in this thread, but needless to say there's a fuckton of blue check marks on Twitter who believe that Elon Musk and Republicans are the "ruled working class" and teachers, baristas and minimum wage workers are the wealthy elite ruling class.

It's so fucking divorced from reality it's a wonder these people manage to put their shoes on in the morning. It's like they have no idea what any of these words even mean, where they identify oppression as "people who think like me are getting bullied by people who don't think like me". I've lost several IQ points this day just reading this slop.

Stupid people that are barely getting by need to have a permanent underclass to feel better than. Republicans and their voters continue to push for such a thing. It's outright lying to themselves and a self-own when Republican reactions (they don't have policies) end up blowing up in their faces. But for the brief time living in the fantasy makes them feel better about their own mediocre existence because for a moment they aren't the underclass they do desperately despise.

[Benggaul]

What's the word for politics which are the equivalent of a rich kid dressing like a homeless person?

Inoperable Tudor?

[Elegiac]

Inoperable Tudor?

How's it feel to be the funniest person on the internet today?

I'm mad because I didn't think of it first.

[Sorshen]

Congratulations to the 2 campaigns he launched/backed on twitter.

[Edge-]

Congratulations to the 2 campaigns he launched/backed on twitter.

Wait, which was the second? Vivek? Or are we counting the failed launch or Ron's campaign as two campaigns because they did his campaign launch twice after the first crashed because the software sucks.

[Breccia]

Inoperable Tudor?

It's not a Tudor!

[ringpriest]

Stupid people that are barely getting by need to have a permanent underclass to feel better than. Republicans and their voters continue to push for such a thing. It's outright lying to themselves and a self-own when Republican reactions (they don't have policies) end up blowing up in their faces. But for the brief time living in the fantasy makes them feel better about their own mediocre existence because for a moment they aren't the underclass they do desperately despise.

It's not just that, though. You're absolutely right about what motivates the average Republican voter... but the average Republican voter is not who sets Republican policy 99% of the time. It's the wealthy (the capitalist class, really, although demonization of Marx in American discourse discourages most from putting it that way) who make decisions to their own benefit. That ruling class of capitalists use the ages-old strategy of dividing the proles and the petite bourgeoisie and turning them against each other in order to prevent the lower classes from uniting against the capitalists.

I still find it interesting to observe how, after 8 years of President Obama blatantly operating as an establishment technocrat (a Democratic trifecta and the only major accomplishment was to pass libertarian-approved public health legislation), he was succeeded by President Trump who, if he did nothing else well, did a superb job of making certain that the American populist left and populist right will loathe each other for a generation or more.

[Edge-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesi...ter_to_see_if/

BTW, recently Elon has been desperate to bring Mr. Beast and his views to Twitter, but the Beast guy has no interest because Twitter's payouts are dogshit compared to what he spends making videos apparently.

Elon is desperate though, and also a stupid man.

So apparently Twitter is running an ad on one a new Mr. Beast video, except it's not labled as an ad anywhere which is a violation of FTC guidelines which require all advertisements be clearly labeled. This isn't something Mr. Beast could do himself, this is a platform-level change. Something that say, an egocentric, desperately replyguy CEO would demand engineers do.

Laws? Regulations? Those apply to regular people. Elon is not regular people. I just wish people would start treating him like the regular, boring asshole he is.

[Paranoid Android]

So Elon just went to Auschwitz, cause you know, going there means you are not an antisemite anymore. Then can't help himself and reply to this:



The End Wokeness account is well, extreme right wing and shocking! They lean on the white nationalist side. The tweet bringing up the good ole "Kill the Boer" an anti-apartheid but now like everything is used to flame the white supremacist mantra that whites in South Africa are facing genocide. Of course we know the "white lives matter" is a racist response to Black Lives Matter.

Listen we can't discuss the ling as much cause of Forum Rules, but the point here is this dude can't help himself to immediately after a visit to Auschwitz, Elon has to embrace white supremacy.

[Edge-]

!!

Intersting!

That's insane!

Wild!

True

Concerning...

Elon's regression to a smoothbrain reply guy continues.

[PACOX]

So Elon just went to Auschwitz, cause you know, going there means you are not an antisemite anymore. Then can't help himself and reply to this:



The End Wokeness account is well, extreme right wing and shocking! They lean on the white nationalist side. The tweet bringing up the good ole "Kill the Boer" an anti-apartheid but now like everything is used to flame the white supremacist mantra that whites in South Africa are facing genocide. Of course we know the "white lives matter" is a racist response to Black Lives Matter.

Listen we can't discuss the ling as much cause of Forum Rules, but the point here is this dude can't help himself to immediately after a visit to Auschwitz, Elon has to embrace white supremacy.

Ah why did you have to tell me that account exists? I can't help but to read the trash they come up with.