ManaByte
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I want Elon to go before congress to answer to that and just play a video of Pepe memes.
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I want Elon to go before congress to answer to that and just play a video of Pepe memes.
Tanstaafl
A temporary boost from schadenfreude spectacle probably isn't the best for an advertising campaign. They wouldn't want to be caught up in it either. And Elon has said some questionable things recently. Smart to not want to get tied to it at all.
His attitude towards subsidies seems to have changed, remains to be seen if that extends to accepting them if any are made available. Regardless of that, he also got a lot of help from nations of people that wanted electric vehicles and space exploration to succeed. Twitter doesn't seem to have this, in fact, there seems to be a lot of people that want Twitter to fail. Since the company isn't as important or irreplaceable as spacex or tesla it isn't being protected and taken care of responsibly by those around. They seem to be resigning from the company, if they haven't been fired.
With so much disruption there's a lot of risks at the moment. The sudden changes without much forethought for consequences shows confusion. Firing and rehiring, removing features, adding features, removing them again. Plans for banking, while expressing contempt for institutions that oversee the safekeeping of personal data. While some might overlook that in the fervour, the sober might have some questions about security.
yet_another_alt
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Imagine if Musk is actually using Twitter to train his AI best friend so it knows who to throw rocks at.
Maiden Voyage
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Amiga
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Yes, that's imaginable... he's mentioned fear of AI which would suggest shackling, not free will, to a particular directive not in a town square but a recently downsized factory town's amusement park. Giving weight to his tweets as sticks and stones.
LegendOfKage
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Years ago, I remember reading something from someone who does a lot of advertising hiring. One of the first questions they'd ask is what is the most important website when it comes to marketing and reaching the largest audience. If a person was being interviewed and they said twitter, the interview would end right there, because they would be proving that they already don't understand the market that they're trying to get hired into. They're going on feelings of what seems important to them rather than learning and understanding how to most effectively do their job.
Was just wondering if he was preemptively attacking a government figure that could be in position in the future to be investigating him. Create a situation with this kind of fuzziness. Saved me looking up their portfolio a few moments ago.
Maiden Voyage
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ManaByte
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As soon as Birdwatch started fact checking everyone and not just their enemies, they realized he’s too dangerous to be left alone.
Maiden Voyage
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LegendOfKage
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Exactly. What happened to "they're a private company, they can do what they want." ?
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I can’t tell what’s real anymore
Maiden Voyage
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Market cap. They’ll survive.
StreetsofBeige
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Stock dropped 4.5%. As dumb as it seems, if this stuff is common tricking people, it may be good opportunities to buy looking for a fast rebound. I wouldnt be surprised if it all rebounds next week.
strange headache
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That senator is an outright tool. He clearly started this sh*t with his petty rant about some random guy impersonating him. Now he's flaunting his political position because he's salty about being put in place by Musk.
If a single tweet can obliterate 30 billion dollars then there's something severely wrong with the financial system and you've got much bigger problems than some rich guy buying a social media platform.
This.
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It's all in the wrist
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How the fuck is congress going to fix Twitter.
Maiden Voyage
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When they find out the internet exists, there will be hell to pay.
ChorizoPicozo
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This ain't it chief.
Bragr
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It always was, but we will never accept it.
ChorizoPicozo
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No. Is the opposite. But that will be china
Maiden Voyage
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Gaf and porn too pls
so, same shit, different owner? lol.
Daytonabot
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Wikipedia is one of the rottener parts.
*Nightwing
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this is a job that calls for the return of congresses bestest and brighteststs
Bragr
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What do you mean
Daytonabot
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Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-leaning “establishment.”
nypost.com
It's not materially better than garbage owned by Meta or Google.
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Bragr
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It's the best archive for video game information. That saves it.Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-leaning “establishment.”
It's not materially better than garbage owned by Meta or Google.
Daytonabot
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If you have to use it, I highly recommend https://wikiless.org. Better yet, you can use the Privacy Redirect add-on for any Chromium browser.
RoadHazard
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What about GAF? No, you're right, it needs to go.
strange headache
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So this senator colluded with the WAPO to impersonate his own account only to then complain that his account got impersonated after allowing for his account to be impersonated.
Can't make this sh*t up
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LegendOfKage
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Remember when journalists reported the news instead of trying to be the news? Didn't there used to be some ethical guidelines about that?
So this senator colluded with the WAPO to impersonate his own account only to then complain that his account got impersonated after allowing fir his account to be impersonated.
Can't make this sh*t up
RoadHazard
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There's also such a thing as investigative/undercover journalism, where you're often more involved in actually making the story happen. Don't know if this would qualify as that, but yeah.
Dr.D00p
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I've never understood the elevated, almost mythical status given to journalists & the profession, in the US.
Here in the UK, they're basically seen as a bunch of dirt-bags on the same level as 2nd hand car salesman.
RoadHazard
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Those tabloid shitposters aren't actual journalists.
FunkMiller
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The ones from the red tops, absolutely. But we have some amazing journalists in this country, working for the broadsheets and some of the broadcast media. Most recently I can think of Alex Rossi at Sky News, whose embedded reports from Ukraine have been invaluable in uncovering Russia’s war crimes.
strange headache
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Twitter HQ had more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast... let that sink in!
They spent almost 300$ on food per person and had to throw away most of it since nobody showed up.
But clearly Musk is the one who doesn't know what he's doing.
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Dr.D00p
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Regardless, the journalistic profession still isn't held in the same 'awe' as it is in the US and dare I say it, a lot of US journalists are very snooty and up their own arses about the job.
Dr.D00p
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Lol..supposedly the richest man on the planet getting bogged down in the minutia of catering costs at Twitter HQ.
strange headache
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Lol..supposedly the richest man on the planet getting bogged down in the minutia of catering costs at Twitter HQ.
I'd say it's emblematic of everything that goes wrong at that company and how the wasteful SF mindset is cancerous to productivity.
Dr.D00p
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Well, whatever, I just hope Aaron Sorkin is taking notes on all these Twitter interactions from musk, for a screenplay and a sequel to 'The Social Network'
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ReBurn
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Market cap isn't real money anyway. The stock price will recover.
LegendOfKage
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True, but even that is just reporting on what is happening at a company from the inside. It's still not "making" the news to the extent that this is. Weren't there enough examples of the shit show that was twitter blue verifications that the press didn't need to make their own story with the help of someone in the government?
I heard something a while back that the problem with journalism today is that it didn't used to be an elite and elevated profession, it used to be class clowns who didn't respect authority and grew up with a continuing desire to question those in positions of power. That honestly makes a lot of sense.
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Maiden Voyage
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Lol..supposedly the richest man on the planet getting bogged down in the minutia of catering costs at Twitter HQ.
It's his purview to make the company profitable. Paid, catered lunches are absolutely something he should investigate and axe. I don't think this is a waste of his time at all. There's probably all sorts of bad wastes of cash at Twitter. Headcount reduction is a great reason to examine current costs of goods & services provided to employees.
I have zero doubt that Musk can streamline the expenses to only what matters. The question is, can he create a reliable, sustaining revenue stream?
Wildebeest
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In the UK it is traditional that Journalists are pretty highly educated people from "good families" but they have to learn that they are always talking down to people with relatively low levels of comprehension and have to tow whatever line the rich owner who pays their wages wants to be pushed. To them, it is a degrading job they have to do to fund their drinking.
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