Elon Musk

lol space karen was good, cant believe they didnt include apartheid clyde tho, makes u wonder if they actually use the product twitter

I was space Karen first, dammit. pic.twitter.com/UvNw3UyhbW

— Dr. Karen James (@kejames) November 18, 2022

lmao

"Space Karen" sounds like a lost David Bowie/Robert Forster collabo.

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers

I had a low opinion of Elon, but I didn't think he was this stupid about software. (assuming this isn't a leak detector)

its not about leaks hes been doing this the whole time number of lines committed was one of the things they looked at when deciding who to fire

Of course he’s this stupid he’s an emerald mine heir that’s not a background that makes you smart

What should Twitter do next?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022

"Word puzzles? Internet dating? Pokemon? What do you guys want?"

Heh

word puzzles def

Twitter should allow users to trade cryptocurrencies directly on the platform.

— Marc (@MarcTheBulll) November 18, 2022

this seems inevitable, or at least some sort of option to buy crypto or showcase your awesome nft artwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4N2dk0cMk

this seems inevitable, or at least some sort of option to buy crypto or showcase your awesome nft artwork

― Karl Malone, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:48 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

and crypto will have its ultimate crash months before they launch

they already have (had?) a thing for nft avs fwiw, it was a hexagon instead of a circle lol

its not about leaks hes been doing this the whole time number of lines committed was one of the things they looked at when deciding who to fire

― lag∞n, Friday, November 18, 2022 9:42 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of course he’s this stupid he’s an emerald mine heir that’s not a background that makes you smart

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, November 18, 2022 9:44 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but what is a "salient line of code"??? does he think there's going to be like one line of code that's brilliant and impactful in isolation?

"yeah this line is the differential equation that figures out how to align memory allocation to page boundaries, taking into account virtualization and cache latency"

actually ... brb about to go raise $10M of dumb money

but can you directly buy, sell or trade those nft avatars, on twitter? because wow, when they do that it's going to bring a lot of attention to the amazing auto-generated nft images that are out there and drive up the value. there are some really, really good images out there, people are spending a ton of time looking at them and enjoying them

maybe knowing things would actually in some way impair the pathological lack of self-doubt that has enabled his rise

actually ... brb about to go raise $10M of dumb money

― death generator (lukas), Friday, November 18, 2022 12:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the correct reaction lol

I thought all the dumb money was sitting tight right now b/c of the economic climate

I got the impression Musk has no non-superficial nor real interest in code or even productivity necessarily (CEOs have earned a lot of time to 'use their own product' all day sure sure) and this is just a way of filtering out the insubordinates.

theyll get tired of that in like a week, and this whole thing of the big companies firing people is such a charade its not in their nature, just as vcs are built to throw money around big tech companies a built to hoard computer science phds xp

sounds right

the fed is built to inflate bubbles and so forth

I got the impression Musk has no non-superficial nor real interest in code or even productivity necessarily (CEOs have earned a lot of time to 'use their own product' all day sure sure) and this is just a way of filtering out the insubordinates.

― nashwan, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:59 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think he does in some way believe in the c0de, he recently described himself as having been involved in hardcore coding for 20 years

hes trying to bring down the whole damn thing!

The Twitter shitshow is so bad that it's hurting productivity throughout the industry. People just can't look away

— Johnathan Norman (@spoofyroot) November 18, 2022

some SRE comes in with a line of perl that is 100% punctuation

just thinking of what my "10 most brilliant lines of code" would be and I'll be damned if they aren't the exact same ones I get those "why on earth did you do it this way" emails about

lmao

He should put all of his resources into developing AI that allows cars to tweet at other cars while they're driving. That would be the best use of his time.

It would be like the end of "Holy Motors."

haa

Lol pathetic

H/T @Tweetermeyer https://t.co/oJo4hBim4U pic.twitter.com/Kg0LBSFNxV

— JabroniCoin.USD (@TheBenSchmark) November 18, 2022

For a 2p meeting announced at like 8:30a https://t.co/MUuNHYF0ry

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 18, 2022

lmao

I am having a difficult time believing this is real and I am looking at the emails.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022

nothing to add but cant believe how bored of slash obsessed with this story i am even though i hate computers

Yeah, I know nothing about coding and I'm still amused at how bad Elon is at coding

have we considered the possibility this guy is in a manic episode and the last week or so is not normal behavior even for him?

New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.

You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022

so, hellbanning

have we considered the possibility this guy is in a manic episode and the last week or so is not normal behavior even for him?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, November 18, 2022 1:38 PM (fifty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah some sort of combo of that, total arrogance, and not understanding the difficulty of transplanting a work culture from one place to another

Max Deboosted

i can't get over the "lines of code" thing. i know next to nothing about code but for yuks i thought i would open up the Zork-type adventure game program i wrote in C++ in AP Computer Science, completed 23 years ago this Wednesday. despite my surprisingly diligent annotation, the code is basically impenetrable to me now, but also, despite my very proud feeling that i'd arrived at a really brilliant, elegant, efficient solution to the basic problems at hand, there is (believe it or not) no one masterstroke line of code that attests to this.

so even for my dorky 12th grade magnum opus, asking for the best line of code is like asking an automotive designer for the best single piece of metal in the engine. "come on, you know what i mean, the one that makes the car go fast!"

'Max Deboosted' is a fun new character you'll encounter on the platform, like the MS Paperclip guy... Max will help keep you abreast of Tweets that may be of interest to you

MAX DEBOOSTED

lol wasnt shadowbanning one of the things he vowed to get rid of

He was always like this. Like to think he is undergoing some sort of breakdown. Maybe if he jumps out of a building we'll know for sure xps to caek

my view of where twitter ends up is it's gonna be tumblr, dedicated fringe userbase but unmonetizable

hes def always been unstable and impulsive but this is over the top

Twitter is great but it has done harm to a lot of people when they are main character and pile-ons occur. This is possibly the ultimate instance of that.

bean dad deserved it 100%