Twitter C/D

the fool is Poochie incarnate

he should go back to his planet (mars)

I always think of Jeremy from Peep Show

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S01E05/gif/8ZuNiQ8PqOlE.gif

Is there a reason for his fascination/love for the letter X?

highest math he knows

I wonder how rich the guys who sold him X in the first place got off their equity in (eventually) Paypal.

Is it true he named his cars with those model numbers so it would read S3XY (and Cybertruck)

One reason sports Twitter has stayed active through the tumult of the Musk era is that the alternatives that have emerged are less appealing to sports fans. Meta’s rival app, Threads, surfaces posts to a user’s feed through an algorithm rather than in real time, making live events harder to follow. Bluesky, which was funded by a Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, does show posts in reverse-chronological order, but the app remains invitation-only and is less active than Twitter

From New York Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/sports/sports-twitter-x-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

the reason bsky doesn't work for sports is it doesn't do video

yeah u need the vids

just from my personal observation twitter sports has declined, sometimes i search celtics the day after a game to see what articles thread with clips in them and so forth are in there and theres less than there used to be, tho some of that could be due to changes in the search algo

it's still good for sports, though obv as people leave it gets worse and worse. for me MLB twitter is kinda dead, NFL twitter is on life support, but NBA twitter is still good. all depends who you follow I guess.

and yeah the algorithm kinda fucks with it now, especially the timeline being constantly broken, but last night it was fine

what this is a reply to is both worse than expected and exactly what you'd expect.

They absolutely want your extinction

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2023

What is it a reply to?

https://i.imgur.com/gqeu3pF.png

jfc this guy

Ah yes the name Lee, so tarnished that it cannot be anyone's surname anymore.

holy shit

Elon seemingly bleached the shooters Twitter account so that the shooter didn't seem so right wing. #Anonymous https://t.co/ZuIcYjFMtB

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) October 26, 2023

Thank you, caek.

xp
Elon going full "14 Words" there.

wait what's this about cleaning up the shooter's twitter history? he removed tweets?

Yeah idk what that means. The account was deleted, which seems to be SOP for mass shooters on social media, regardless of their user behavior.

assuming that data is still stored somewhere behind the scenes regardless of it being 'deleted' (I work in software and we never actually 'delete' anything), maybe they're worried the FBI is going to be interested in that data and it'll make Elon's Nazi shit look bad

thats the old thinking, the new way is to delete everything, remove all data, no more data

the backup was in the data center that elon just unplugged without powering down

Shout out to all the single and available and definitely real young ladies liking all my current posts, thank you for your support!

twitter has been on the naughty step with the FTC for about 5 years and, to first order, is not allowed to delete anything.

Quite broken again for me today. Will display ads and people's retweets okay, but any other tweets in my feed are devoid of any actual text and are displaying that unix epoch timestamp thing (31 Dec 69)

nice

surprised he hasn’t changed it to 20 april 1969

Surprised he hasn’t changed it to 4/20/1888

fyi for those interested and who isnt in epoch time often when you see a date displayed on a website/computer/whatever device its getting it by subscribing to a service that tells it how many milliseconds have elapsed since new years 1970 then the computer does a calculation to convert that into a human readable time format, so when you see that new years eve 1969 date it means the process is failing

Dud.

Epoch time =Stooges time, gotcha

lol

Flavor Flav sings the National Anthem at the Milwaukee Bucks game: pic.twitter.com/zsiE4LszFU

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 30, 2023

need to get chuck d's review

OK he doesn't sing as well as most but I was won over by this, Flav clearly really truly loves the National Anthem and frankly so do I.

Flav should sing that national anthem at every game, if we're going to keep doing that

I was actually at this game, judging by the reaction of the crowd nobody knew he was doing it, and it was very difficult to not laugh when it showed the players trying hard not to crack a smile

oddly enough he was *not* the halftime performer so apparently they flew him out just to do this? I don't know I have so many questions about this

thinking about flav on the halftime performer circuit doing 911 is a joke with custom lyrics for the home team

I was completely taken out by “the bombs burs- *BREATH* -sting in air”

need to get chuck d's review

― lag∞n, Sunday, October 29, 2023 9:30 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3G3tpB5sdY

$19 billion seems generous. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/technology/x-twitter-19-billion-dollars.html

In the paperwork for the new stock grants, X said the equity would be offered at $45 a share in the form of restricted stock units, which employees can earn over time.

granting RSUs suggests that elon plans to re-IPO twitter in the next couple of years

Or just maybe he's just trying to look as if he's compensating his employees without giving them anything of value.

Also - giving them strike prices that appear to be wildly over valued might do just that. If Twitter is indeed worth less than half the purchase price (a fairly uncontroversial estimate), those stock grants are going to be worth far less if they convert to cash at some point, and this means the income tax paid on the $45 price might potentially offset a massive amount of the actual income gained from the resulting value converted, especially for large amounts. Yikes.

Just to reiterate more clearly, employees will owe income tax on their grants at the $45 valuation offered, regardless of how much money they can get out of the equity when it's eventually liquid. So if the income tax you pay on the grant exceeds the value of the equity later on (say it dips to $10 a share for an IPO or a sale), you might actually lose money exercising said equity. Reverse startup indeed.

working until its just elon in a garage