Elon Musk

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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!"

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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%

Leaker should deliberately leak their personal copy, and it should be the music video plot for Swift's "Mastermind"

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

― 龜, Friday, November 18, 2022 10:46 AM (four minutes ago)

tumblr was pretty slow yesterday, lotta ppl bailing on Twitter to check it out. Also Tumblr was selling Important Internet Checkmarks at 2/$8 last week

that was a good bit apparently you could gift them too one account had like 20

it's perfectly possible to monetize a dedicated fringe userbase and build a sustainable business if you aren't inflated by VC money, you sell them profile trinkets for $8, it works very well

There is some serious brain stuff happening over on r/elonmusk pic.twitter.com/eUp1tWEVsS

— rustbeltjacobin 🌹 (@rustbeltjacobin) November 18, 2022

The mental gymnastics it takes to not acknowledge that he just sucks

— Peter 'Elon Musk (Parody)' Bajurny 🔰🐈🚰💉💉💉💉 (@fishmanpet) November 18, 2022

Big Q Anon "Trump is actually working with the FBI to catch Hillary" vibes there

r/elonmusk fan theory makes sense, it's like that time I bought a used Audi that I suspected might have something wrong with it and turns out there was totally a cigarette burn on one of the floor mats so I plowed that fucker into the river and showed up soaking wet on the seller's doorstep asking for my money back. He told me to go fuck myself but I was like 'too late, pal, too late'

Need a new display name, thanking u elon

Is that armor he's wearing in his profile pic?

Never a good sign.

ok here's an even worse theory

Mind Masters: Knights of Thought pic.twitter.com/e8XDE37DvZ

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) November 18, 2022

this is just the plot to Westworld

lol twitter will sell you access to its data for way less than $44b

who'd have thought 'leaf reviews' would spout a bunch of stoned nonsense

almost impressed by someone hearing "generative adversarial network" and being like "oh I get, like in a debate" and just running with it

haa true

We’re all discriminators on Twitter.

reading various reporting seems like since elon took over three week ago twitters workforce both regular and contract has shrunk by about 80%, thats fn crazy lol

wasn't that the plan all along?

prob quite a bit more than the plan but crazy regardless

I expect by New Years there will be raccoons and pigeons living in the HQ building

It's gonna look like the final fight scene in Blade Runner

lol yeah last week I was asking if any company ever managed to survive after laying off half its workforce, I guess I kind of assumed that business genius Elon Musk might realize he fucked up and get people to return and he antagonized most of the rest into leaving instead

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma - but not in science. 🧵1/ pic.twitter.com/ziuOMblwLJ

— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters) November 17, 2022

Fun long thread about how Elon has lied about his degrees for nearly 30 years and how this affects everything from his purchase of Twitter to US national security, from the account that hunted Jan. 6th Capitol rioters no less.

Since the security badges don't work any more, I have half a mind to head over to Twitter HQ and impersonate a high-level engineer for this meeting tonight

Pretty I'm sure I can just walk right in

you actually need to submit a list of your best lines of code beforehand

can I borrow yours?

the sad truth is that i might be the one person in the world who could plausibly point to individual lines of code which are outstanding. when i was first putting conferencecall.biz together it was barely working at all and the code was a sprawling mess. then ilx legend allen g stepped in and it was, from my perspective, a magical transformation of it into something that was much tighter and suddenly worked flawlessly and reliably! so i guess if i had to fake being being a software developer for elon i'd just send him those lines and then email allen to let him know i might need a bunch more help again from him soon :p

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fh4zFjPWIAAaTZz?format=jpg&name=medium

So he has at least the one brain cell

https://i.imgur.com/gJCouv9.png

Starting to think 2022 is The Year of Those Who Fucked Around and Found Out.

Found out that there are no effective consequences to anything you do if you have billions of dollars at your disposal? If so, then yes.

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Look. The site is gonna stay up but the spell is broken. He'll let Trump back in then he'll kick him off and the NYT will cover it in all caps. There'll be another private jet handjob horse bribe incident. He'll make Calacanis CEO and fire him. &c. Everyone will care less daily.

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 19, 2022

Sorry, no effective consequences to the wielder of those billions, obvs. Like 'Musk tanks the fuck out of Twitter > Musk flies to Thailand with Bankman-Fried and lives off of cocaine and milk for four months' is a totally feasible progression.

Confidence that the site will stay up seems unwarranted but the spell being broken is about right

xxp - that is sort of how I see it falling apart for Twitter as well. the site may or may not have the sort of cascading failure that a lot of the engineers are predicting but it's gonna start to lose it's appeal. it's already starting, with a lot of accounts I really liked quitting, or getting banned for making fun of Elon Musk. it's gonna get a lot more fashy, will almost certainly have regular technical problems, and may wind up full of so much NSFW stuff you can't open it in public. little by little it'll become less appealing and I think eventually you just say fuck it. Facebook is kinda in the middle of its own problem like this. I can see Twitter being like Myspace, maybe in 5 years you'll be like "ohh I still have an account there!" and log in to find it totally revamped with a really complex layout and a bunch of weird new features you don't like. half the posts will be spam. it's really hard to do anything because they had to disable so much shit to keep from getting sued. but it'll still be around.

prepare to show me your objects

New email from Elon Musk to engineers: “please be prepared to do brief code reviews as I’m walking around the office.”

That’s it — that’s the whole email.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 19, 2022

ok that is incredibly funny

I know it's a little uncouth to make these kinds of assumptions but I think this dude is 100% on something right now. his behavior right now really feels like the dudes I know who were rapidly approaching a major inflection point. like, this is what the guys I knew who were on meth started acting like.

he has implied that hes bipolar fwiw