Twitter C/D

vcs are like im going to give you one million dollars and i want three board seats and please cc me on all communications, then the saudis or softbank walk through the door with $100m and go call us if you need more

what weird stuff? xp

the top of andreessen's head is quite weird

dysfunctional allocation of capital in pursuit of higher profits is the distinguishing mark of a capitalist economy

peter thiel becoming an fbi informant
marc andreesen one-upping his previous bullshit by posting a screen inspired nearly entirely on tweets he read coupled with the pronouncement they're going to invest in things that are more likely to become defense department contractors

my theory is that thiel specifically was angry he wasn't getting the deals so he's trying to claim all his moneybag competitors are foreign agents

andreesen is just perpetually pissy, I guess

oh gotcha

VCs are pissy because ZIRP is over and so are inflated tech valuations

lol

yeah, that seems to be the big thing making them insane

I have a hunch these bank lenders will be OK.

Hopefully their office windows don't open

No idea if this is real or not but it sounds insane

https://bsky.app/profile/mollyknight.bsky.social/post/3kclrwbyg5i2q

idk if you follow someone they can attempt to call you doesnt seem too bad, you dont have to answer

Looks like it's real--on my phone but not on desktop

For those without Bluesky, you have to turn off audio/video messaging manually in Twitter settings if you don't want robocalls or whatever.

I just got a called from Matt Ygelias with an offer of 10 free laptops

Who takes calls

I never updated the Twitter app because I wanted to see how long it took for it to become unusable due to obsolescence (it’s still working 3 months in btw) and I don’t see this option at all

If you don't update soon Elon Musk will hire a gang of blue checks to come over to your house and robocall you in person.

incredible

“Thanks to my soon-to be ex-wife for marrying me when I was broke, supporting me along the way, and bearing my children. Now that I have garnered some mild internet clout, I will be leaving her for a younger woman that I met on crypto twitter.” 🤠 pic.twitter.com/8hyyPMwRXW

— Circe (@vocalcry) October 24, 2023

lol

hell hath no fury brah

tagging your ex and new gf in the same tweet is next-level posting

Yeah, that literally made me gasp

looked at the wife's twitter and I can't figure out what is going on with those people at all, thankfully I don't have an account any longer and will not be tempted to dig any further.

Am I meant to know or care who that guy is?

BTW - that tweet, here on this thread, is a perfect example of what someone was pointing out on the anti-semitic thread (Felicity I think?) re, lacking context. Its something I've always hated about ILX, but this is the actual Twitter thread so I guess I cant kvetch here.

The context is "holy fuck, look at this fucking mutant." It's an example of the kind of brain poisoning that simply didn't exist pre-Twitter: like, aside from your family and maybe your neighbors, who needs to know that you cheated on your wife and are now getting divorced? But apparently he thinks the whole world needs to know, and he thought including both his soon-to-be-ex-wife and his new girlfriend in the tweet was the correct move, from a performance standpoint. It's stunning in its insanity.

And in answer to your question, no, you're not meant to know or care who he is. I certainly had no idea who he was when I saw that tweet and laughed out loud at the sheer "look-at-me"-ism of it.

Yeah fair enough :)

Sorry I realise now it sounded like I was aiming that at you, which I wasnt.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9VHYdQWUAAdjTe?format=jpg&name=medium

https://archive.ph/2023.10.26-013959/https://www.wsj.com/tech/xs-tumultuous-first-year-under-elon-musk-in-charts-71656f81

hey congrats to snapchat

Weird, I didn’t even know Snapchat was a thing, I thought it was functionally replaced by TikTok.

snapchat is more of a messaging thing it does have social features but i think people use it a lot just between friends, where tikitok is more about watching lil movies strangers put up

weirdest thing to me about that chart of daily users caek linked was that facebook stayed perfectly flat the whole time. not so much as a wiggle, wobble, or hiccup.

it's the lightest grey line under TikTok, not the axis beside the label

*that's the joke* ugh, apologies

I think tweets without context or having to click through to read a thread kind of suck

but that particular one, it’s someone summarizing the situation referenced in the screenshot and basically explaining why it’s funny? crypto man publicly admitting his affair and divorce

Genuinely surprised at TikTok doing so erratically.

^^Bad press and different states banning/limiting use by employees probably contributed, along with other users trying it out and not really succeeding with views and/or getting the hang of posting, so they drop out.

And in answer to your question, no, you're not meant to know or care who he is.

well I wound up looking this guy up and lots of idiots do know who he is, he's some bitcoin/youtuber grifter who had his channel taken away by his business partners. these kinds of businesses are all BS to me but they do have a following amongst choads.

the problem with Twitter embeds now is that if you are not logged into Twitter and click on it, either you won't see other tweets in the thread or replies, or it will just take you to their main profile page that only loads tweets from like 5 years ago.

yea pretty amazing how all these changes have effectively broken the way Twitter displays on outside sites, for example making the default link "x.com" now when most sites just look for the Twitter URL, it's just remarkable how little he thinks about anything

i can understand people thinking hes tanking the site or purpose, i dont think that, but i can understand it

Seeing someone do something badly makes you realise how difficult it is to do something well

true but virtually every single decision he's made from the jump has been so obviously stupid that you can't even couch it in terms like "hey, running a website is hard!"

I wasn't excusing this clown! More pointing out that one needs to keep one's ego in check, which is clearly not possible for many people inc. him.

nah I get it I mean ol' Musky was in a no-win situation right from the start but yeah between this and the Trump administration we are seeing some very good examples of why the "I alone can fix it!" shit never works because these things are always way more complicated than the public knows. that said virtually every bad thing that's happened to Twitter was predicted the instant Elon took over

Also just the hubris of having your ego stroked for so long that you genuinely believe that you are so smart that you don't need to listen to anyone else, especially not the folks who you can tell are genuinely smarter/more knowledgeable than you.

finally deleted my accounts today (all three of them). I'd only reinstated them initially because it was the only way to read the entirety of embedded twitter threads in here, and then I eventually began just using it to sports shitpost, but holy fuck has even that become toxic.

it's not inherent to Twitter but it kind of explodes there in a way that it wouldn't on FB due to difference in design.

basically a local thing happened last night - Orlando City SC is about to face Nashville SC in a best of 3 playoff series for soccer (ok FOOTBALL). yes, a best of 3 series is beyond stupid but STAY FOCUSED grr.

anyway so Nashville fans began this really aggressive, but initially purely soc...football discussion, and then one of them discovered an OCSC fan's wife had an OnlyFans and dropped that nugget at the right moment in the discussion, at which point several Nashville fans began harassing his wife, and calling him a 'cuck' on Twitter, and accusing him of making death threats, meanwhile the guy in question who started the whole OnlyFans-gate is apparently banned from several events due to making women feel uncomfortable.

like these toxic harassment campaigns just seem to be easier to pull off on Twitter with IRL consequences, and in this case it's just...over a game of footie? so I don't really wanna be part of that anymore.

(that and Elon's anti-semitism!)

Lol i did not know what what onlyfans is and was like “is this some sort of sportssite beef?”

Also just the hubris of having your ego stroked for so long that you genuinely believe that you are so smart that you don't need to listen to anyone else, especially not the folks who you can tell are genuinely smarter/more knowledgeable than you.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:34 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

funny thing is hes always been like this he tried to rename paypal x and they fired him lol