Elon Musk

good lord

Longtime Musk associates David Sacks and Jason Calacanis appeared in a company directory over the weekend, according to photos obtained by The Washington Post. Both had official company emails and their titles were “staff software engineer.”

hahaha

love too c0de

If there's a silver lining to this debacle it's that Musk will be allowed to fail and make a fool of himself again and again, in public, for everyone to see. Unlike most CEOs, who tend to do this stuff in private.

these people are freaks (the bad kind)

Scary monsters (and super creeps).

I read an overheated/overstuffed piece about Sacks the other day: https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel

not sure there's much of a thesis in there, but his politics are bad (as in Desantis donor bad) in case you were wondering

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-execs-for-cause-avoid-severance-report-2022-10

this is deranged and will 100% lead to lawsuits

also, popcorn.gif at this coming up in november: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/musk-defends-50-billion-pay-deal-as-justified-by-tesla-s-surge i don't have a view on the outcome but hope it will lead to lols.

interesting considering theyve owned a piece since the startup days iirc

Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Twitter.https://t.co/IDwnKGaxt7

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 31, 2022

articles a couple weeks old but first ive heard

do ya think that maybe he did this just to read Grimes' DMs?

it's not so much that Alwaleed bin Talal owns a piece of Twitter, it's now that Elon Musk owns Twitter and not the public, ergo Alwaleed bin Talal has leverage over Elon, also elon is a right-wing conspiracist now so more likely to promote pro-SA stuff. iirc Alwaleed bin Talal increased his ownership % as part of the deal.

there was a popular theory going around a month or two ago that Elon was tweeting pro-putin and pro-xi propaganda to try and draw biden's attention to the deal so he could stop it. obviously that did not work and but chris murphy is still trying to score political points off it? the deal is done and it would be a huge clusterfuck for CFIUS to come in now and force the deal to be unwound.

that theory actually seemed kinda plausible except for the fact that Elon does not seem smart enough to pull something like that off. he's clearly very deep into far-right conspiracy bullshit, can't imagine it goes any deeper than that

this is the guy i mentioned who left twitter for a reason, and is now part of the transition brains trust

https://www.garbageday.email/p/anti-crypto-media-personality

good luck elon

Scoop w/ @sarafischer: Twitter engineers have been instructed to look at the old Vine code, with hopes that Vine could be revived by year-end. https://t.co/XL6kdZFhEw

— Dan Primack (@danprimack) October 31, 2022

bit of history re vine

Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users.

From “Kids These Days”: pic.twitter.com/zfrTzjk0Kx

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) April 5, 2019

Is convincing Musk into relaunching Vine going to be like meme people tricking Sony into re-releasing "Morbius"?

platforms are ephemeral like nightclubs but refusing to negotiate with labor is the bedrock of the capital/silicon valley marriage

otm

tho it is interesting that give big(ish) accounts a cut of ad revenue has since become the model, at least on some sites, but not twitter lol

tbf it takes no effort to make a tweet

"relaunch vine" is a joke meme inside twitter, used to openly mock pre-musk leadership on slack.

has this account been posted yet?
https://twitter.com/ElonJet

elon tried to pay the kid $50k to take it down and he said no lmao

seems fun for him

Mark Finchem, AZ secretary of state candidate, is apparently locked out of his Twitter account and is accusing Elon Musk of banning him pic.twitter.com/dDQ6Eerak4

— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) October 31, 2022

everything that happens on twitter is just musk now

elon tried to pay the kid $50k to take it down and he said no lmao

― 龜, Monday, October 31, 2022 5:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol I was going to say how awesome that is but in this economy that kid’s going to do something terrible asap

who will fill the soros role in american politics when soros himself dies?

kind of a dread globalist roberts situation

It's weird that Soros is a villain, he's extremely generous with his wealth unlike some bizillionaires who shall remain nameless

but hey, that's anti-semitism for you!

you could legitimately criticize Soros for many of the same reasons you’d criticize the Koch family or other rich stock market investors but a lot of people who really hate him don’t mind those things

im sorry its a lil too on the nose for him to bring the guys from the project that famously doesnt work

Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover, most of them Autopilot engineers https://t.co/ogt21X90Dh <--- At Tesla, Python is a preferred scripting language, and at Twitter programmers use Scala extensively.<--culture clash, code review challenge

— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 31, 2022

jfc *i* can code python pretty well, no wonder autopilot frickin sucks

was going to say, if they're coding a realtime safety-critical system in python that would explain some things.

lol

Twitter's ongoing verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem. It looks like some people (including in our newsroom) are getting crude phishing emails trying to trick people into turning over their Twitter credentials. pic.twitter.com/Nig4nhoXWF

— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) October 31, 2022

Lol indeed. Though I think getting blue ticks to pay isn't a bad idea. They are moaning about it but most will pay up.

Musk now trying to negotiate with Stephen King to get him to pay for his blue tick.

this is literally pathetic lol pic.twitter.com/jkMe7voVwx

— cait (@punished_cait) November 1, 2022

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/022/017/thumb.jpg

https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-dissolves-twitter-board-becomes-new-ceo/a-63612360

"Grand Moff Tarkin : The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away."

ive noticed that these online right bitcoin etc weirdos are not only status obsessed often about the most inane things like a blue check or an ape drawing and they also assume everyone else must be too, but all of that is kind of whatever the odd thing is that they just talk about it openly like i saw a pic of some bitcoin millionaire eating the stupidly overpriced gold leaf covered steak at salt bae restaurant and when people made fun of him he defended himself like this is good i am demonstrating my status as a high net worth individual and then a bunch people jumped in to defend him like yes this is good this is how you do it lol, but thats not how you do it youre supposed be like i drive the s class because its the best vehicle on the market i couldnt care less what people think, even some conspicuous consumption like a rapper throwing money around or whatever has a sense of fun to it but these guys are just like *completely flat affect* must business the status and level up

Halloween with my Mom pic.twitter.com/xOAgNeeiNN

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

lmao that he's getting negotiated from $20 to $8 (from a guy who is not gonna pay a cent) and then openly admits Twitter is losing money. shit's gonna crash and burn even harder than I thought

he is just all about the self-own

xps to lagoon it’s just so joyless in a completely gamed way, none of these people are enjoying their money! What’s the point!

yeah its super lame but even lamer are the guys who aspire to be that and spend their time larping it online

it's a bunch of guys who have spent their entire lives heretofore min/maxing their video game characters and obsessing over rare loot drops generated by a random number generator applying that logic to real life now that they're paper millionaires via crypto. all you really need to know is that the inventor of ethereum invented it because he was made that blizzard nerfed his char in WoW.

So far at least two of the very small handful of people I follow on twitter have either deactivated their accounts or announced a break.

Elon's two moms are Moira Rose?

yea I remember this stuff during the online poker boom, a certain subset of young folks got really rich and all they could think to do was buy stupid cars and get mad online. I mean if you play poker for a living there's always something to be angry about. but it did occur to me that these people were just not enjoying their money at all. one of them even used it to make a fictional series about his life that he was gonna shop out to various networks. it was hilarious and not in an intentional way. if these folks just got offline and invested in original pressings of obscure German records they'd be a lot happier.

all you really need to know is that the inventor of ethereum invented it because he was made that blizzard nerfed his char in WoW.

― 龜, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 9:39 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol had not heard that, checks out

omfg… etherium was created as a cope for a world of warcraft nerf?? im losing my fucking mind. imagine being so mad you… what the fuck https://t.co/BX3rrWAtKk pic.twitter.com/4QXuWt6644

— 🌦 (@zemnmez) October 1, 2021