𝕏 / Twitter / X, the Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter / "MUSK OWNS TWITTER"

[AnOminous]

The difference between Musk and Trump is Musk has more or less absolute power to do whatever the hell he thinks will right the ship.

Unlike the President of the United States, Musk outright owns what he's fucking with. It's entirely up to him whether he rights it or crashes it with no survivors or, more likely, something in between.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Start-ups in tech always have had generous benefits and all kinds of perks, I think when innovation is your goal it makes sense to attract the best of the best.

Problem is after that, when you move towards being an established company, it's basically impossible to reduce benefits unless you want to lose your good people, but now there's a ton more people who may not be as good as the ones you really want to keep/attract but still get the same benefits. So it can bloat out of control unless you stay lean with your headcount.

Startups have perks because they're overworking people and underpaying them - and people are notoriously bad at working out what a "perk" is worth.

Free soda? That's like $3-5 a day, but people value it much, much more.

Startupbros even use it as "indicator" lol https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-–-soda’s-are-no-longer-free/

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

@moocow


The only incorrect part of your post. They'll turn to the tried and true pastime of leftists the world over for well over a century now -- they'll gang up on and cancel each other.

To a certain extent that's already happening. The big Mastodon instances require "Content Warning" labels far above and beyond what even the most censorious Twitard is willing to countenance. The sort of snark and passive-aggressive bullshit that counts as wit on blue-checkmark Twitter is socially frowned upon by left-leaning instances, who prefer their hugboxes to focus more on giving hugs, as part of the reason quite a few of those guys fled Twitter years ago was because they hated the attention whore, asshole and corporate culture fixation of the birdsite.

Add to that, that the new refugees are often demanding and asking for things that the average Fediverse user is expected to learn how to do themselves, or is just not able to be done given the way the network fundamentally works, and well, no one is happy about the influx.

 

[George Lucas]

Startups have perks because they're overworking people and underpaying them - and people are notoriously bad at working out what a "perk" is worth.

Free soda? That's like $3-5 a day, but people value it much, much more.

Startupbros even use it as "indicator" lol https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-–-soda’s-are-no-longer-free/

Coffee’s always been included in white collar jobs for as long as I can remember, but there are some unwritten rules:
1. Clean up after yourself
2. Don’t bitch about the brands
3. If supplies are overflowing it’s okay to take stuff home, but otherwise DON’T HOARD SHIT.

Basically cheap free shit is normal in the white collar world and anywhere without niggers. Once you add in niggers it gets ruined. Twitter probably started out pretty small and providing lunch helped build the culture, then all of a sudden you have Hujeedman Goppodigul complaining about not having vegan dishes and your cheap company cafeteria is now subsidizing your worker’s autistic (expensive) diets.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

As usual, they trot out the "it's a private business" argument only when it suits them. Now that twitter is owned by the wrong people, all the usual suspects suddenly pivoted to going on about how twitter is a public square and should be regulated as a common carrier.

Now then you mention it, the guys of American Thinker posted this one about Elon and Twitter.

D.C. bares its venomous fangs before Elon Musk

Years after being founded, Twitter developed significant userbase, it also became the customary channel of communication for the powerful in Washington D.C. Many Democrats claimed Twitter's lack of regulations was a major factor beh...

www.americanthinker.com

November 14, 2022

D.C. bares its venomous fangs before Elon Musk​

By Rajan Laad


Years after being founded, Twitter developed significant userbase, it also became the customary channel of communication for the powerful in Washington D.C.
Many Democrats claimed Twitter's lack of regulations was a major factor behind Donald Trump's amazing victory in 2016.
As part of a remedial action, Twitter began targeting conservatives.

All through the Trump presidency, there were allegations that Twitter was suppressing conservative voices.
Anti-Trump trends, which probably were the product of Democrat trolls, were promoted. Occasionally, the mainstream media reported these trends as if they were public opinion. The news would feed the trend and the cycle continued.

Disclaimers were added to many of Trump's and other GOP leaders' tweets, while Democrats could spread misinformation unchallenged.
Twitter had become a platform of disinformation and perception-building for the Democrats.
Twitter’s abuse of power reached its heights in October 2020 when the platform locked the account of the New York Post for tweeting their reports about Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings Biden and his 'laptop from hell.' Sharing of these reports was also prohibited.
Twitter had suppressed the most important story of the 2020 presidential elections and had meddled with the elections. A NewsBusters poll revealed that 16% of Biden voters would have voted differently had they known of Hunter’s shady businesses.

When Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, he pledged to restore free speech on the platform.
This obviously incurred the wrath of self-righteous Democrats who are fanatic subscribers to the groupthink and presume only they should be allowed to express themselves freely.
The Democrats viewed it as an invasion of their territory.

 

[SBG]

Code is locked down and no one knows why.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1592149250598899714

 

[AnOminous]

Coffee’s always been included in white collar jobs for as long as I can remember, but there are some unwritten rules:
1. Clean up after yourself
2. Don’t bitch about the brands
3. If supplies are overflowing it’s okay to take stuff home, but otherwise DON’T HOARD SHIT.

Coffee's for closers. Bitch.

 

[George Lucas]

Code is locked down and no one knows why.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1592149250598899714

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Any software project that allows a large number of people to commit to the main repo is retarded. The most successful software (at least whose dev we can see in the open) heavily restrict who can contribute directly, i.e. they’re all easily known by name. If some random Twitter pajeet can commit code to the main Twitter repo without any kind of review, or an automated review or whatever, that is retarded.

 

[AnOminous]

If some random Twitter pajeet can commit code to the main Twitter repo without any kind of review, or an automated review or whatever, that is retarded.

You know the woke squad used their access to do all kinds of unaccountable and shady shit, with or without the explicit endorsement of management. It will probably take months or years to unwind it all and fire everyone responsible, if that's even possible.

 

[Goofy Logic]

Any software project that allows a large number of people to commit to the main repo is retarded. The most successful software (at least whose dev we can see in the open) heavily restrict who can contribute directly, i.e. they’re all easily known by name. If some random Twitter pajeet can commit code to the main Twitter repo without any kind of review, or an automated review or whatever, that is retarded.

Which is likely why the code was locked down. Musk may be a whimsical narcissist, but he is very much aware of potential software risks. Because of his restructuring, there is the very real threat of disgruntled employees logic-bombing the code to further trash his reputation.

 

[AnOminous]

Because of his restructuring, there is the very real threat of disgruntled employees logic-bombing the code to further trash his reputation.

And of course, the very people who would commit felonies like that are whining about him taking the entirely reasonable precaution of stopping them. I would say it's not merely a threat, but an inevitability that the remaining criminal scum at Twitter would try shit like that.

 

[introvertedobserver]

As usual, they trot out the "it's a private business" argument only when it suits them. Now that twitter is owned by the wrong people, all the usual suspects suddenly pivoted to going on about how twitter is a public square and should be regulated as a common carrier.

They don't actually want that (although they might legit be dumb enough to think they do). The rules for common carriers refusing service/banning people are much closer to "gotta be breakin' the law or we can't do shit" than even Elon's plans. Conservatives/Republicans were entertaining that idea pre-Elon buyout.

Presumably in their mind common carrier regulations would give them their power back (which is the real reason for the freakout - the loss of power) since regulatory agencies do tend to favor them. What they don't realize is that, lol no it doesn't give them their power back since those regulations themselves are subject to Constitutional limitations on power.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They don't actually want that (although they might legit be dumb enough to think they do). The rules for common carriers refusing service/banning people are much closer to "gotta be breakin' the law or we can't do shit" than even Elon's plans. Conservatives/Republicans were entertaining that idea pre-Elon buyout.

Presumably in their mind common carrier regulations would give them their power back (which is the real reason for the freakout - the loss of power) since regulatory agencies do tend to favor them. What they don't realize is that, lol no it doesn't give them their power back since those regulations themselves are subject to Constitutional limitations on power.

This exactly - people (glowies) have built a very carefully separated church/state boundary that lets them do what they want within the structure of the law. Many of the things that the howlers want would be impossible in the US if they had got their way on everything. If fiber is a utility provided by the government, it becomes nearly impossible to "deplatform" people. If twitter becomes one, it would be actually impossible, and probably damn near impossible to keep spam off it, too.

And perhaps they'd win that battle, too, and overturn the 1st as easily as they've "overturned" the 2nd - but maybe they wouldn't.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Senator Markey might be pissed by that reply then Musk posted.

US senator threatens Elon Musk

US Senator Edward Markey has threatened congressional intervention if Twitter owner Elon Musk doesn’t “fix” his companies

www.rt.com

US Senator Edward Markey has responded to a tweet by Twitter owner Elon Musk by threatening congressional intervention if the billionaire doesn’t “fix” his companies to the lawmaker’s satisfaction.

The row began on Friday, when Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, demanded answers from Musk as to how a Washington Post reporter was able to create a verified account on the platform impersonating the senator. “I’m asking for answers from Elon Musk, who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation. Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again.”

Musk, who acquired Twitter in a $44 billion takeover that was completed late last month, replied to Markey on Sunday, saying, “Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody.” He posted another tweet asking why Markey’s profile picture shows him wearing a mask. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591813228119855104

 

[moocow]

Just how much information is that app harvesting?

All of it. Literally everything it can possibly convince users to give it permission to access. All the social media apps do this, as much as possible. Remember how the Facebook app (at least on Android) used to be notorious for draining phone batteries within hours and how laggy it made most devices? Twitter did this too, btw. So did the rest.

What you're less likely to remember is the timing surrounding their sudden decision to "fix" it after ignoring complaints for years. They mysteriously decided to address those complaints practically overnight and sure enough, proudly announced an update that finally solved the problem (and sure enough, it did). All the social media companies did the same around this time as well.

Wondering what else was happening in that timeframe in the Android ecosphere? Google were set to release Android's next major version with a bevy of new features. One of those features was better app metrics gathering (and importantly, allowing users to see it) and finer-grained control over app behaviors (not just permissions, but resource consumption limits).

In other words, Google was about to release an update that would not only allow users to literally block/stop apps from running unless they explicitly ran them, but would also reveal what the fuck all these apps were actually doing with all that battery power. Namely, constantly scanning everything they could on the device, sending whatever they could back to their masters over the air (cellular or wireless -- they didn't care), and also constantly checking for updates to ping the user with.

They "fixed" their apps to stop that data collection and transmission because it was about to become impossible to hide the activity from their users. If you look back, there's a pattern of indicators that the spigot of endless user data had been closed off around the same time as well. Let's just say it wasn't just the Cambridge Analytics thing that collapsed Facebook's "collect and sell user data" business. It was also the fact that they had a lot less to sell once they had to turn off all their portable surveillance equipment. Same thing happened to the rest of the social media networks too.

Code is locked down and no one knows why.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1592149250598899714

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People know why. The people trying to poison and sabotage the company technologically know exactly why everything's been locked down "suddenly," and they're scared shitless because they know the only reason that would happen is that other people have caught them.

 

[St.Davis]

Thus far I have seen precisely no negatives to Musk's buyout of Twitter. He definitely overpaid (Not my problem), and I am annoyed at the golden parachute that many parasites are likely to have been given, but I am exceedingly pleased that he is laying off thousands of abject retards and pink-haired commies.
He has made hundreds of thousands of people I hate incredibly mad, and is seemingly in the process of unfucking the BkueCheka system.
He also seems to actually be making some effort to undo the consensus-forcing systems the site has been plagued with; the recent Japanese twitter "trending" changes being an indicator of that.

I really have no clue why some people here want to pivot conversation into attacking Musk, and declaring that things are "Exactly the same" or even somehow "Worse". I don't think I trust Musk, but he's doing something here that seems positive so far, so why would I want to side with trannies, faggots, and other undesirables right now? Feel free to invent some gay strawman about worshipping him like a redditor though if that makes you feel better.


He hasnt unbanned me yet though. Come on Musk I want to go back to mocking trannies and niggers.

 

[AnOminous]

I really have no clue why some people here want to pivot conversation into attacking Musk, and declaring that things are "Exactly the same" or even somehow "Worse".

It's definitely worse for twittards, but that's a good thing for anyone who isn't a twittard.

 

[DumDum Did Nothing Wrong]

People know why. The people trying to poison and sabotage the company technologically know exactly why everything's been locked down "suddenly," and they're scared shitless because they know the only reason that would happen is that other people have caught them.

This, Musk and his team ain't playing around and gonna let jannies poison the code and sabotage the company from within. Watching these jannies get btfo has been quite enjoyable and a good palette cleanser over election fuckery. Though do think Musk fucked up with his funny response to Senator Markey.

 

[Some Badger]

Senator Markey might be pissed by that reply then Musk posted.

US senator threatens Elon Musk

US Senator Edward Markey has threatened congressional intervention if Twitter owner Elon Musk doesn’t “fix” his companies

www.rt.com

Kinda wonder how much of an empty threat this is. Twitter is a bit too politically convenient for Democrats to just concede.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Kinda wonder how much of an empty threat this is. Twitter is a bit too politically convenient for Democrats to just concede.

I guess they jumped to a much more profitable ship like Mastodon.