Welcome To Hell, Elon

[kalm]

I’m beginning to think Elon needs to make better friend choices.

[kalm]

[clenz]

It's always a good sign you are doing things correctly when the big headline/chyron while you're speaking is "the antisemitism wasn't intentional" as you're telling the people who pay for your site to exist to fuck themselves.

The dudes brain is turning to mush in real time, and it's hilarious and scary given his reach.

I think he's in some real financial shit in the coming year or so and at this point he's just going to burn everything to the ground by proxy through forcing advertisers to leave and going "THEY KILLED THE SITE! THEY RUINED MY BUSINESS! NOT ME!"

[Skjellyfetti]

[BDKJMU]

[clenz]

No one is blackmailing him.

He is facing consequences for his actions, that he is free to take.

That's not blackmail.

He's a fucking child.

[Pwns]

I'd have more admiration for him if he said GFY to corporate advertisers who want more censorship to begin with and let the value of the company tank. Of course if you were doing that you wouldn't stupidly give up one the most recognized names in a rebranding.

I badly want for Musk to be what people like Chizzang think he is, but it's more clear than ever he has no talent other than self promotion.

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

What's the EOCC?

[kalm]

Mr. Free Speech-Anti Government strikes again.

[BDKJMU]

Mr. Free Speech-Anti Government strikes again.

Fake News
https://twitter.com/yulia_navalnaya

[kalm]

Mr. Free Speech-Anti Government strikes again.

Fake News
https://twitter.com/yulia_navalnaya

He restored it.

[houndawg]

I'd have more admiration for him if he said GFY to corporate advertisers who want more censorship to begin with and let the value of the company tank. Of course if you were doing that you wouldn't stupidly give up one the most recognized names in a rebranding.

I badly want for Musk to be what people like Chizzang think he is, but it's more clear than ever he has no talent other than self promotion.

he's starting to remind me of another born-on-third-base-and-thinks-he-hit-a-triple bidnizman with no talent other than self-promotion and lack of ability to feel shame

[kalm]

lol

[houndawg]

lol

I hear they rust if they get wet? Zat true?

[clenz]

lol

I hear they rust if they get wet? Zat true?

Not just rust - completely break.

There is a “car wash” mode and if you don’t use it you brick the car and void the warranty

Not just car washes. There are multiple people now who just live where it gets rain who were just driving in the rain, or had their unit in the driveway, that had their car bricked and are being told by Tesla their warranty is void because they got it wet and to replace the battery and repair is 20k plus.


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[Pwns]

Elon Musk asking for $56 billion. Stupid guy runs several companies and posts on Twitter all day and has caused the company to lose 40% of it's value. Just fire his stupid ass.

[kalm]

Weirdo or just emotionally stunted?

[houndawg]

Weirdo or just emotionally stunted?

Leon Musk - King of Incelistan

[SeattleGriz]

Interesting rant. Makes sense on the surface. Time will tell.

I say this with utter confidence because the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems. Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but keep posting anyway. You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars.

The problem when the asset is people is that people are intensely complicated, and trying to regulate how people behave is historically a miserable experience, especially when that authority is vested in a single powerful individual.

What I mean is that you are now the King of Twitter, and people think that you, personally, are responsible for everything that happens on Twitter now. It also turns out that absolute monarchs usually get murdered when shit goes sideways.

Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.

Actually, there’s a step before trying to get the ad money: it turns out that most people do not want to participate in horrible unmoderated internet spaces full of shitty racists and not-all-men fedora bullies. (This is why Twitter is so small compared to its peers!) What most people want from social media is to have nice experiences and to feel validated all the time. They want to live at Disney World. So if you want more people to join Twitter and actually post tweets, you have to make the experience much, much more pleasant. Which means: moderating more aggressively! Again, every “alternative” social network has learned this lesson the hard way. Like, over and over and over again.

Also, everyone crying about “free speech” conveniently ignores that the biggest threat to free speech in America is the fucking government, which seems completely bored of the First Amendment. They’re out here banning books, Elon! President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have identical policy positions on Section 230: they both want to repeal it. Do you know why? Because the First Amendment prohibits them from making explicit speech regulations, so they keep threatening to repeal the law that allows social networks to even exist in order to exert indirect pressure on content policy. It’s not subtle!

State governments are even less subtle: both Texas and Florida have passed speech regulations that overtly tell social media companies how to moderate, in open hostility to the First Amendment. Figuring out how to comply with these laws is not an engineering problem (not least because compliance might be impossible). It is a legal problem because these laws are blatantly unconstitutional, and the only appropriate response to them is to tell the government to shut up and go away. (A big problem here is that the courts are pretty stupid about the internet!) A challenge to these laws, partially funded by Twitter, is headed to the Supreme Court, which is the polar opposite of a predictable system: it is a group of uncool weirdos with lifetime appointments that can radically reshape American life however it wants.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/234 ... moderation

Interesting. Seeing a goldmine of incorrect Klamala predictions. The vitriol heaped on Elon as well. Not a good look.

[UNI88]

[UNI88]

[kalm]

Interesting rant. Makes sense on the surface. Time will tell.



https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/234 ... moderation

Interesting. Seeing a goldmine of incorrect Klamala predictions. The vitriol heaped on Elon as well. Not a good look.

You can’t quit me which is why you take an interesting and likely accurate piece on Musk and get all defensive adding nothing of substance.

[SeattleGriz]

Interesting. Seeing a goldmine of incorrect Klamala predictions. The vitriol heaped on Elon as well. Not a good look.

You can’t quit me which is why you take an interesting and likely accurate piece on Musk and get all defensive adding nothing of substance.

Oh no. The whole thread, not just this post. Goldmine!

[kalm]

You can’t quit me which is why you take an interesting and likely accurate piece on Musk and get all defensive adding nothing of substance.

Oh no. The whole thread, not just this post. Goldmine!

Twitter’s value has only decreased 75% since he took over while he retweets Laura Loomer level conspiracies and offers to father Taylor Swift’s baby.

I can’t believe you’re defending him! It’s so not like you!