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I would find it unusual for individual devs to be reporting directly to the CEO. It would at least go dev -> team leader -> CEO.
Agreed, it's unusual. It seems to applied to a specific subset of projects Musk personally mandated. Even there, I'm not sure if "Elon Musk reads every engineer's status report" is what's going on; he may be asking they be sent to him so he can see them if he wants to.
Still, given how seriously broken Twitter seemed to be, he likely wants the option to be more hands on.
 
I love how progressives fall into the pre-modern (or really pre-civilizational) moral framework. You had an account on a server which previously used a script developed by someone associated with a bad guy, therefore you're contaminated. Will some cleansing ritual help them?
When you deconstruct the old thing, you don't magically get something new, you slide back to something even older. Though given these people worship the "indigenous" maybe they don't see it as a bad thing.
 
Agreed, it's unusual. It seems to applied to a specific subset of projects Musk personally mandated. Even there, I'm not sure if "Elon Musk reads every engineer's status report" is what's going on; he may be asking they be sent to him so he can see them if he wants to.
Still, given how seriously broken Twitter seemed to be, he likely wants the option to be more hands on.
Musk is probably trying to cleanup the management levels, too. I know nothing about his management style but I daresay finding inconsistencies between what engineers are working on and what their managers are saying they're working on would be informative.
 
The ONLY change I want to see on Twitter is the 30 day 'deactivation' window removed. Preferably without notice.

All those people who have 'quit' twitter only so they can come back again in 3 weeks time when the hype has died down will suddenly realise they can't actually log in and reactivate it, they'll lose years of content, followers or whatever and will have to start at step one all over again.

Maybe have the data still there just in case someone has been hacked and tried to delete the account, but it shouldn't be too hard to find out who has deleted their account using an IP they frequently use and bar them from ever being able to access their account again.
 
While I generally to hate it with all my heart and soul, nevertheless, the BBC has had that as a standard disclaimer next to any embedded content for years, especially on their "twitter said" stories. They've also not been that obsessive about the twitter takeover, possibly because they still employ actual journalists (biased and paternalist though they may be).
The BBC has had a Twitter reeeeeeeeeeee piece on the front page of their website for the last few weeks each day. One of their tax-payer funded 'journalists' reeeee'd about it for a while and started advertising Mastagone or whatever
 
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Musk is probably trying to cleanup the management levels, too. I know nothing about his management style but I daresay finding inconsistencies between what engineers are working on and what their managers are saying they're working on would be informative.
Yeah, my reading is that everyone in the company is going to have to prove they are not useless wastes of money. I have sympathy for people in the position of proving they're competent, but I also think it's warranted, however unpleasant it is.
 
I love how progressives fall into the pre-modern (or really pre-civilizational) moral framework. You had an account on a server which previously used a script developed by someone associated with a bad guy, therefore you're contaminated. Will some cleansing ritual help them?
If we follow that logic, satellite navigation requires rockets, rocket technology was first developed at scale and popularized by a man who was literally a Nazi (like, a no shit Nazi). If we follow their line of reasoning, everyone who has ever used Google Maps or something else with satnav is a Nazi. Maybe things aren't as black and white as they claim and the fact that they can't figure that out is horrifying.

It sure is fun to watch them throw shit at each other though.
 
One thing I want Elon to change is that if you are using a browser on your phone, not the twatter app, and you aren't logged in, you can scroll down like 5 tweets on any timeline before twatter shoves a popup in your face you can't get rid of telling you to sign up or use the app. You cannot look at twatter on your phone unless you have an account and are logged in or use the app

Fix this shit Elon I'm sure it weighs down on views and engagement. Pisses me right off. Fuck you why do I have to do this shit just to look at your website on my phone?
 
One thing I want Elon to change is that if you are using a browser on your phone, not the twatter app, and you aren't logged in, you can scroll down like 5 tweets on any timeline before twatter shoves a popup in your face you can't get rid of telling you to sign up or use the app. You cannot look at twatter on your phone unless you have an account and are logged in or use the app

Fix this shit Elon I'm sure it weighs down on views and engagement. Pisses me right off. Fuck you why do I have to do this shit just to look at your website on my phone?
Good news! That hacker Musk brought on as a intern is planning on doing just that (and fixing search)

"that’s what Elon told me my job was, and I will try my hardest to do it. I have 12 weeks also trying to get rid of that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a little bit ugh these things ruin the Internet

if I just get rid of the pop up I still consider my internship a win. I have a chrome extension on my laptop to block it reminds me of the guy who got a job at Apple, made Wallet automatically delete your expired boarding passes, and quit the next week"

 
Good news! That hacker Musk brought on as a intern is planning on doing just that (and fixing search)

"that’s what Elon told me my job was, and I will try my hardest to do it. I have 12 weeks also trying to get rid of that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a little bit ugh these things ruin the Internet

if I just get rid of the pop up I still consider my internship a win. I have a chrome extension on my laptop to block it reminds me of the guy who got a job at Apple, made Wallet automatically delete your expired boarding passes, and quit the next week"

MUSK-SAMA I KNEEL
 
Good news! That hacker Musk brought on as a intern is planning on doing just that (and fixing search)

"that’s what Elon told me my job was, and I will try my hardest to do it. I have 12 weeks also trying to get rid of that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a little bit ugh these things ruin the Internet

if I just get rid of the pop up I still consider my internship a win. I have a chrome extension on my laptop to block it reminds me of the guy who got a job at Apple, made Wallet automatically delete your expired boarding passes, and quit the next week"

I saw his name pop up reading this thread and I didn't realize this was the guy who hacked the PS3 till just now. Good to see he's doing some good, ostensibly.
 
“ also trying to get rid of that nondismissable login pop up after you scroll a little bit ugh these things ruin the Internet”
YES, THANK YOU. I don’t want to sign up for Twitter/Instagram/Pinterest, I just want to see the context of this one picture that popped up in an image search. (And uBlock Origin only fixes it sometimes.)
 
I assume someone must have already posted in this thread about the changes Musk has allowed to be made, to block the trading of child porn/child sexual abuse material and allow direct reporting of such material where it appears on Twitter, rather than making it more difficult by forcing users to find a different form somewhere on the help and support section..
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/202...ild-sex-exploitation-on-twitter-as-priority-1
Well, someone's found a bit of 'context' which helps clarify why Yoel Roth (yoel.roth@gmail.com), the former Twitter 'Trust & Safety' head was blocking all this, and why he was pushed onto Twitter in the first place. In Roth's dissertation, 'Gay Data', from 2016, he looks at how applications like Instagram and Grindr which are commonly known to have explicit material have been age gated, kept away from kids, and explores how apps perceived as 'safe' like Twitter can be leveraged to push homosexual propaganda to children and facilitate their grooming, even 'connecting' for physical meetups.
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