Elon Musk

WT..?

hahhaha the dreaded bottom corner where we put the stuff that doesn’t exist yet

more twitter infrastructure research

for people blathering about “just put twitter in the cloud” we tried that. i was there. so just to put some numbers out there, let’s assume aws gave you a 60% discount. now you’re talking approximately 500,000 m6gd.12xlarge systems (new hw was bigger). that’s $300MM monthly

— ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ but can’t dance off it (@petrillic) November 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBHdj8XkVFg

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Wade-5/publication/302632920/figure/fig2/AS:751645805789184@1556217733527/Then-a-Miracle-Occurs-Copyrighted-artwork-by-Sydney-Harris-Inc-All-materials-used-with.png

TBF that's what I would expect an arch diagram to look like. also I'm a bit surprised he put that on twitter for the entire world to see

also re: cloud that is a good point. cloud hosting is great if you have predictable traffic levels, less good if it fluctuates wildly and you're paying bandwidth costs.

The people have spoken.

Trump will be reinstated.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022

lol this asshole

Let ‘em eat caek.

The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2012

he claims hes not coming back

TRUMP JUST RESPONDED TO ELON’S POLL AND SAID “NO THANKS” LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/CXGr9GY5vE

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 19, 2022

xp to infrastructure post

1000 node presto cluster is not “keeping twitter running” that is probably some analytical junk and if the last two years have taught me anything, it is that you really need to segment “this is what keeps people doing things” and “this is how we determine what people are doing and modify that experience”

the latter is where potential exists but if it’s a zillion times larger than the former then you’re taking crazy pils

hahhaha the dreaded bottom corner where we put the stuff that doesn’t exist yet

putting money on trump making "the best deal ever" and coming back after "winning."

but i should probly read/watch/listen to trumps actual reply, which i have not.

you should never read/watch/listen to that guy

When you spend $44b on a ring and he says no

— James Millar (@JDMillar1) November 19, 2022

This is what Zuckerberg is up to btw.

pic.twitter.com/wDF9tRA2qX

— Gavin Mueller (@gavinmuellerphd) November 20, 2022

Tesla is recalling more than 321,000 vehicles in the U.S. because tail lights may intermittently fail to illuminate, the company says. https://t.co/BlEmQTLkz2

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 19, 2022

its very funny (and good) that regulations classify bug fix updates that can be done "over the air" as recalls, it must make him so mad

tesla bring software industry practices of frequently pushing new updates to their cars is unsafe, cars need to behave in consistent predictable ways and if youre always changing the software thats not happening, even worse other companies are doing it now too

Elon is merely acting as transgressor, exploring how fast others can degrade their service.

I saw someone on Twitter make the point that Trump's deal with Truth Social (i.e. whoever actually put money into that thing, because obviously it wasn't him) require that all of his posts appear there for at least 6 hours before appearing anywhere else. Assuming that's something Trump could wriggle out of if he wanted to, it's still a useful leverage point for him to do something — like, insist Musk buy the company or something.

Trump famously loves obeying contracts.

he knows it would be a beta move to come back under these circumstances.

i dont think he can stay away hes going to make up an excuse to save face

maybe well get partial posts with a link to the truth social original or something

and he does need twitter right now with fox et al trying to shut him out he needs that megaphone

Hey @Tesla, pay the man. Assholes. pic.twitter.com/FHpPU2Ir1R

— 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 (@hardestrides) October 10, 2022

Imagine if Mussk could do for Tesla what he did for twitter - junkyards full o' telsas

Someone in that twitter thread points out that video is from 2019 and since "resolved", no idea how true that is as they dont back the claim up.

But I'm getting wary (and weary) of a lot of disinfo and "comedy" crap flying around now.

ok!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiDP2jHVEAE-5JO?format=jpg&name=medium

very good point

at some point elon is going to log into the account and post from it

— orinoco hockey flow (@sponcondereplay) November 21, 2022

This just took the lead in the Cringiest Fucking Thing I've Ever Seen in Austin Contest, which is really saying something pic.twitter.com/rViskmVi20

— Evil MoPac (@EvilMopacATX) November 21, 2022

uhh what is he doing right now

And lead us not into temptation … pic.twitter.com/8qNOXzwXS9

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022

Winning, something something tiger blood

gross and weird, just like the man himself

Also reinstated Project Veritas. So what if — either because it was always the goal or it has evolved apace — the model is to turn it into a global disinformation network for the international alliance of kleptocrats and religious fundamentalists? (Yes, I have been watching The Peripheral, why do you ask.) Authoritarian populism gets its own giant megaphone, which they can't build themselves because they've tried, but they can take control of one that already has the infrastructure in place. With costs covered by the League of Evil Billionaires. Still open to anyone, but with the trolls and fake accounts encouraged rather than restrained.

there have been numerous sites which encourage trolls and fake accounts and there ain't a single normal person on any of them

Yeah, and that would probably be the result here. But they're starting at a scale where there are already a lot of "normal" non-chan people. Maybe you figure some of them stay because they don't really care about politics, they care about sports or TV shows or whatever. I don't know. I don't really think there's some masterplan or conspiracy here, it's all way too half-assed. But after some initial noises about caring about moderation, Musk is on a totally different tack. Maybe that's just his natural instinct, but god knows who all he's hearing from or what kind of money is being bandied around.

yeah, given the size of the platform, it will take more than individual users deciding "enough's enough" for it to lose its hold on all kinds of not-paying-close-attention people. assuming for a moment that the platform continues to function on the technical and financial levels... it's gonna probably require organized boycotting and noise-making, social pressure that gets people to equate having and using a Twitter account to, like, having and using a Fox News premium subscription or something like that. it has to be WIDELY understood as a right-wing scumbag edgelord disinformation site... not just amongst politically-informed types who've been carefully following all the Trump/Musk stuff and Musk's continued descent into obnoxious fashy jerkwad trollery.

do normal people use twitter though? i thought it was just

a, celebs & journalists posting
b, plebs quietly following a
c, nutjobs

that weird fucking post is a milo manara lift btw

are ilx0rs normal people or c

if you need to ask

d, bots

e struggling comedians

the problem with turning twitter into a right wing hellhole is not only that users will leave but that advertisers will too, however normal twitter has already been a big amplifier of right wing propaganda enabling trumps presidency hosting the vile libs of titok and so forth, so if i were them id basically keep it how it was maybe let a few big accounts back on

tbh I don't really know how the math changes when it comes to social networks, because people join because people they like are on it, and when some of those people start leaving they may start leaving as well. even though Twitter is addictive and has a stranglehold on those little pockets of free time people have I also think it doesn't take much for that addiction to break. the clowning on Elon is fun and I'm all for messy forums drama but is it really gonna be fun a month from now? I'm already noticing some of the good people have left and that a lot of right-wing trolls are starting to take over.

the whole idea Elon has - that Twitter should be a "town square" or "marketplace of ideas" - is exclusively a right wing thing, for reasons the left figured out long ago. free speech absolutism always just leads to stuff like "maybe Paul Pelosi had a gay lover and staged a false flag attack to help Dems in the midterms" which I think most smart people figured out you just don't engage with. you can't change anyone's mind and quite frankly who wants to spend their time that way? ILX is an echo chamber too and that's why I like it. you don't seek out contrarian assholes to hang out with in real life so why would you wanna do that online?

yeah the elon pile on seems like its already over as far as something thats fun im sure it will continue forever in some form, but yeah hes prob gonna ruin the site seems like rip