Elon Musk

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

I remember somewhere around peak Google when I read some profile of at least one of the Google dudes and he was driving one of those stupid looking high six figure sports car that looked like Sammy Hagar in vehicle form. I could be worth untold billions and I would literally never buy some yellow spandex jumpsuit with wheels. I can't tell if they're bored, have bad taste, get bad advice ... probably all three. Like, they probably watch "Entourage" for ideas.

yeah theyre just like i should consume the things for rich suckers now

you guys really hate lambos eh

I paid stet a few hundred bucks to get an emoji on my name and he never delivered

ilx rug pull

lol

thinking about this pay-to-verify thing, the intent is to also open it up to normie, currently non-verified users too right? so elon thinks it's not just extorting current blue checks for money, it's a whole new revenue stream. but that obviously dilutes the value of a blue check if anybody can buy it for $8. altho it's already pretty diluted as-is, so many alt-right nutjobs have one via running conspiracy theorist fake news sites.

a pic of some bitcoin millionaire eating the stupidly overpriced gold leaf covered steak at salt bae restaurant

imagine trying to parse this sentence in 2002

Oreos should buy Twitter

How about Blue Check for important people and orange check for nobodys that want to send Twiotter thier social security number

you guys really hate lambos eh

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, November 1, 2022 10:04 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lambos are sick dont get me wrong, they are 100% for rich suckers tho

i guess if you want to split hairs theyre also for insane rich people, thats really more their image, but most of their sales you have to think come from the suckers

lol just recalled someone telling me about their bitcoin rich cousin who bought a lambo