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GeorgioCostanzaX
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I’d never pay for Redbull but since I’ve worked for mostly these types of Sillicon Valley tech firms my entire career where it’s FREE I can say it does seem to hit differently than coffee. It’s not just the caffeine but the chemical soup of additives and sugar that does it. Makes me wish I could use a Time Machine and try the cocaine laced version of Coca Cola which still does have a non narcotic extract from the coca plant in it.
How Coca-Cola Obtains Its Coca (Published 1988)
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Yeah coffee is more of a slow burn for me.
Red Bull or other cocaine drinks seem to give instant boosts while having steep drops later.
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M1chl
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I've read about the woman a little bit and she was there as someone who build Machine Learning scanner, I think probably different people were calling the shots. But I do hate that they didn't implement any meaningful deterence to pedophiles, so I don't care as much her being ousted like that.
But beware that some trollsite could put out fake pictures, because it's fun to make people suffer.
here is the article, by the way:
A fired Twitter contractor on their fears for the platform under Musk
Melissa Ingle, a former senior data scientist at Twitter, talks about how the job cuts at the company pose risks of a rise in misinformation.
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Grildon Tundy
Member
Are you referring to this part?
" Our entire account team turned over multiple times in 2 weeks. We had multiple people (AE, AM, analyst, creative specialist) supporting our account and they all vanished without so much as an email."
Because that was strangely worded. I believe he's talking about the account team at Twitter--not his company
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
A great man once said they contain scum and villainy.
Scotty W
Banned
Great deflection
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Soda is death. I haven't drank an entire regular soda in like 3 years. I started trying to lose weight and my doctor told me to cut out soda. I immediately felt the difference.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
The site never moderated hate speech well. It was just uber focused on specific brands of it, but allowed other types. Campaigns of hate were made on a daily basis against people like JK Rowling. Just merciless vicious attacking and not only attacks, but threats and graphic fantasies of violence.
Twitter's problem was never allowing or disallowing "hate speech" it was the fact that they never defined it properly or used any logic when applying it. Saying "men aren't women" was absurdly considered hate, but saying "die terfs" wasn't.
Elon may allow more crap on the platform now, and because of it some more vile stuff may sneak through the cracks, but at least there seems like there will be some consistency applied and people can know what to expect of the platform and if they are turned off by lighter moderation, they don't have to use the platform. But I'd be willing to bet you the more outright nasty stuff like racial slurs will still get people banned.
I think ultimately, people are just butt hurt those whom they ideologically disagree with have been allowed a platform again. They take bans from Twitter, aka "the public square" as victories and vindications, and when those are reversed it feels like a personal loss. And to those people I say get a life, go outside, and don't be so invested in trivial nonsense.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Honestly it was looking bad the first few weeks, but now it really does look like Twitter has the same amount of stickiness as any social network. The media has desperately been trying to get everyone to hate Elon and get the users to exile themselves from their social network addiction of choice but no one is really budging. So we know the user base isn't going anywhere come hell or high water. But Elon still has a real problem. Twitter needs to generate revenue to survive on it's own if we assume Elon isn't planning on selling his entire Tesla stake to prop Twitter up. So the real question becomes how else do you monetize social networks besides ads?
It's actually been interesting to witness the way the powerful individuals of society wield their corporations to control social media by threatening to withhold advertising since the social media company cannot survive without it. The entire advertising based ecosystem for these social media companies was an informal but effective system of control of their social networks to ensure only thoughts the corporations deemed appropriate were allowed. In that sense, advertising being the basis of social network revenues prevents free speech.
With Twitter, we're seeing the effects of it now because the corporations are wielding this power over revenues as a cudgel to try and crush a Twitter that doesn't only allow the thoughts they deem appropriate. And if Elon doesn't figure out a solution, there will be nothing he can do to prevent Twitter from financially withering away because it was a heavily leveraged buyout and like most of these LBO's you pile on a lot of debt and see if the company survives or not. From the days of TWA to very recently Toys 'R' Us, the general success rate of LBO's is very low and most of the time LBO's are used by "corporate raiders" like Carl Icahn to strip companies of assets and then declare them bankrupt. Elon using an LBO to try and save a company goes against how LBO's typically are supposed to work.
It's actually been interesting to witness the way the powerful individuals of society wield their corporations to control social media by threatening to withhold advertising since the social media company cannot survive without it. The entire advertising based ecosystem for these social media companies was an informal but effective system of control of their social networks to ensure only thoughts the corporations deemed appropriate were allowed. In that sense, advertising being the basis of social network revenues prevents free speech.
With Twitter, we're seeing the effects of it now because the corporations are wielding this power over revenues as a cudgel to try and crush a Twitter that doesn't only allow the thoughts they deem appropriate. And if Elon doesn't figure out a solution, there will be nothing he can do to prevent Twitter from financially withering away because it was a heavily leveraged buyout and like most of these LBO's you pile on a lot of debt and see if the company survives or not. From the days of TWA to very recently Toys 'R' Us, the general success rate of LBO's is very low and most of the time LBO's are used by "corporate raiders" like Carl Icahn to strip companies of assets and then declare them bankrupt. Elon using an LBO to try and save a company goes against how LBO's typically are supposed to work.
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HoodWinked
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I don't drink soda but diet coke is the weird weapon of choice among some very notable people and they drink like 4+ cans PER day.
Warren Buffet
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I decided to read what was screenshotted on that Tweet, and that’s not what he’s saying at all.
He says that the content on Grindr is inappropriate for minors to be on there. But minors do show up on Grindr anyway through bypassing age filters by lying about their birthdate, which is factually true. He argues that service providers should consider designing their apps in a way so teenagers can safely connect with one another, i.e. filtered away from the adults so we don’t have statutory rape occurring.
That is a completely reasonable take.
Toons
Member
You're a stronger man then me but I've weight the same give or take 10 lbs for the last 4 years so I'm doing something right
Toons
Member
As an artist it seems way better than insta as far as visibility goes. Time will tell but it's promising for me
diffusionx
Gold Member
The ad model doesn’t work unless you are Facebook or Google and figured out a way to spy on the entire population of planet Earth at all hours of the day. Like how when I talk about something to someone and I see ads for it on instagram 30 minutes later type of thing. They all swear they’re not using device XYZ to listen to you but we all have had that experience. So unless you are them, and Twitter is not them, you have to find a way to get money from people using the service, period.
LegendOfKage
Member
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Only took him a failed launch, angry companies, and a couple of weeks to realize that maybe using different colors for official accounts might be a better idea than making all the accounts look the same.
It's progress though I guess.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Well its a start.
Twitter has been around for 15 years and never had that idea.
PSYGN
Member
Nice. All companies should leave Twitter (and social media in general) to escape the toxic cancel culture Twitter harbors. It was funny at first but ultimately a mistake to personify a brand because then they have you by the balls.
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Amiga
Member
Explains why Musk was urgent in trying improving the android Twitter app, he expected Apple to make a move.
funkygunther
Banned
What's your evidence of Musk improving Android?
Valedix
Member
Lmao there is always going to be impersonation
Amiga
Member
"trying" to improve the "Twitter app" in Android.
funkygunther
Banned
Yes whats your evidence?
Amiga
Member
funkygunther
Banned
Musk was wrong, got schooled by a worker and others, fired worker.
Also this:
"Slow on iphone"
Also when someone at work starts a sentence with "I was told" it's because they are in defense deflect mode and are not confident in what they're saying.
What else you got? Remember you're trying to prove he's actually trying to improve the Android app. We haven't even got to the "because Apple" part of your post.
Amiga
Member
"trying" is the keyword.
And in a company judgment is dependent on technical experts that is normal. Her it was one guy contradicting several others, And did admit to the issues after getting pressed and excused the bad performance as a tradeoff. Musk did not accept the tradeoff and ordered stripping several things in the code like the mentioned "microservices".
funkygunther
Banned
Yes evidence of trying. Trying is not synonymous with you making stuff up. The one guy said performance could always be improved, which is true. He said RPC calls were zero, Musk pivoted it to be about microservices. Nothing has come after these words, thsts been it.
Whatever it is also apparently affects iPhone so that's your argument that it has something to do with an Apple feud completely fizzled.
Amiga
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MaestroMike
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I think Apple only tweets when an event is coming up & then they delete it afterwards thats the only time I'd see a tweet from them on my TL.
Flatline
Banned
The site has a vague "Code of Conduct" blue haired San Francisco lunatics expoit to ban the wrongthinkers. After years of hypocrisy and ridiculous double standards saying this bullshit means you're either dumb or pretend to be dumb to push your agenda and as per usual with people like you it's the latter.
V1LÆM
Gold Member
What's this talk of Apple apparently looking to delist Twitter from the App Store?
Any weight behind it? Would be huge if they took it off but I'll be pissed. I don't really care if Twitter goes down the Shitter but I'd need some other way to follow news and I'm certainly not joining Instagram or Facebook!
WTF is Hive? Sounds nasty.
and if that beedy eyed little creep show of a manchild is on it then I'm staying away from it.
Any weight behind it? Would be huge if they took it off but I'll be pissed. I don't really care if Twitter goes down the Shitter but I'd need some other way to follow news and I'm certainly not joining Instagram or Facebook!
WTF is Hive? Sounds nasty.
and if that beedy eyed little creep show of a manchild is on it then I'm staying away from it.
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Azurro
Banned
That's the media trying to will Twitter out of existence. There's a bit of noise here and there, but they are not leaving, and there's more activity than ever and more users signing up.
Just admit it, Twitter is no longer a platform designed to enforce the woke hate movement and you are salty about that. As I said, you are a perfect barometer, you are crying and screeching, which means the new regulations are working well.
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It is, plus the ability to track your mobile device activities with added clarity. I also stick to using Twitter through my browser.
gunslikewhoa
Member
This thread will continue to age like milk.
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Wildebeest
Member
So we can conclude that the world has been fully saved now. The evil AI in the future has been fully outsmarted by Elon firing Twitter employees. Time to do the Yub Nub dance.
Swift_Star
Banned
LMAO, he's going to try what everyone else was suggesting. This guy is a complete moron.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
No platform is going to pass the purity test:
Post.news apparently accidentally sent activation emails to more people than intended. I haven't heard any dirt on that platform yet.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Guilty_AI
Member
its fine, double standards are in these people second nature
gunslikewhoa
Member
How will he ever get by?
FunkMiller
Member
This is the kind of absolute fucking trash that can be labelled as ‘free speech’ by the hard of thinking, that does a great deal of harm.
If Musk seriously wants Twitter to succeed moving forward as a mainstream social media source, he most certainly needs to clamp down on this conspiracy laden, fake ass horseshit as quickly as possible.
If Musk seriously wants Twitter to succeed moving forward as a mainstream social media source, he most certainly needs to clamp down on this conspiracy laden, fake ass horseshit as quickly as possible.
Why? Counter the Ideas. Silencing them just pushes them and their followers further into their beliefs.
ValiantTraveler
Member
This thread will continue to age like milk.
I read that thread this morning, very informative. Twitter is going nowhere.
Now the guys urging their followers to move to Hive are fucking delusional. Just pure virtue signalling. Love it or hate it Twitter is the place to be for any sort of discourse. No one is going to move to another platform to talk in the void or follow 3-5 accounts. Minds and Hive have been trying for a long time.
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