Twitter C/D

hardcore

Musk’s transition team has been slowly going through the list of employees who didn’t check "yes” to being hardcore in a Google form and, if they are marked "critical,” calling them to see if they are sure about wanting to leave.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022

Remaining engineering managers are trying to convince their other reports who have left to come back. It has been communicated that basically anyone can come back if they want. They are being encouraged to negotiate for perks like guaranteed remote work.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022

Watch out—Elon is super great at negotiating

He took that Twitter thing down hardcore damn

Out of curiosity I looked at foxnews.com just to see how this is landing over there. Of course it’s the Top Story but most of the article is just re-posts of tweets succinctly pointing out how stupid this thing is.

c suite actually has not been paid yet lol

They have not been paid. https://t.co/G2062fMcV0

— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) December 3, 2022

weird

Interesting: Twitter has posted positions on LinkedIn for both software engineers and - gasp! - product managers. They list salary ranges.

For the Sr PM role, the salary range is $175-259K. For Staff & Sr Staff Sw Eng, $243-$338K. Only New York and SF as locations for all. pic.twitter.com/vxMIsDy73Q

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) December 3, 2022

Twitter currently hiring. Tweet says all jobs are NY or SF only but I checked for myself and there's one in Seattle and one eng position in London too which is maybe surprising?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjHPODiUoAE3bQl?format=jpg&name=medium

dril has nothing on this guy

the algorithmic timeline is as bad as i've ever seen it. i like one tweet by a mutual and my next 20 tweets are from that person

The mobile web version was glitching out, there were like 3 different versions of the page on top of each other but offset slightly

Oh, wow. My notifications are all from Nov. 10 and earlier—can’t see anything after that. This thing really is breaking.

— Miriam Posner (@miriamkp) December 4, 2022

I sort of really want to leave Twitter

Like it really stinks now and is a depressing experience and it seems to be dragging the world to a dark place and I feel complicit as a user.

delete that shit

Especially that Elon is acting like the Editor-in-chiel of Twitter, commissioning stories from substack journos. Everyone writing there now seems to be working for him.

Peter-in-chiel

Essentially left at the start of November and zero regrets. I'll maintain the account so it doesn't get snapped up and will note when I'm tagged or DMs, but that's it. My last 'active' post may be tomorrow with the new By-the-Bywater episode but thinking it'll be fresh start time for that on social media as well in the new year.

however you feel abt twitter getting worse and everything else getting worse it's definitely funny that milo yiannopolis's life is getting worse

He’s in the news again
I’m sure he thinks he’s doing great

turns out he failed to say don't say that

Milo Yiannopoulos has been fired from the Ye / Kanye entourage after a series of disastrous media appearances that saw the candidate praising Hitler. Milo says in an email that there was a “mutual conclusion that I should step away.”

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 4, 2022

It's Ernst Röhm all over again.

too much luftwaffling on key decisions

"candidate"

Goosestepping away

I’m going to have to see Kanye’s policy website before I decided

I rarely use twitter but I cant get rid completely when things like this get posted.

It is your holiday duty to make sure everyone you know is aware of the deleted subplot in Love Actually where the little boy is a trained gymnast. pic.twitter.com/Za2pzGVn6H

— Patrick Fisackerly (@fisackerly) December 3, 2022

Like it really stinks now and is a depressing experience and it seems to be dragging the world to a dark place and I feel complicit as a user.

This is the absolutely correct take. Every other take is essentially in the bucket of laziness or enabling abuse; i.e weak af.

Jump ship with no regrets.

love actually is one of those things where you think you know what it is but then you examine that and theres theres absolutely no idea there, like maybe its a ryan gosling romcom it could be a british tv show about really anything

xxp the boy from that movie is reportedly dating Elon's ex-wife (the actress he was married to twice lol)

Elon must be ... flipping out.

She's the one who texted him "Please do something to fight woke-ism. I will do anything to help! xx" Fuck all these weirdos.

she's what we call a "hat actor" where she just does an impression based on the type of hat her character wears imo

fuck acting a hat

act fucking a hat

oh, she is also the author of an anti-feminist dystopian novel.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53017865-the-quickening

lmao

its such an insult to be ruled by these doofuses

^ ^ ^

I try to not let it get me down too much, but this is so OTM

it’s the theme of the last 6 years really

I mean, it's been the theme of our lives for a lot longer than that, to be quite real, but it's become much more *apparent* in the past 6 years.

Yeah I feel like rulers being doofuses is more the norm than not. Not that that makes it any more acceptable. But I mean even before we get to the rogues' gallery of the last few centuries we had millennia of craven vain monarchs and popes and whatnot.

what is going on here

We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of “Twitter Files” – without knowledge of new management.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 6, 2022

i don't even fucking know. jim baker gave them this stuff, and now they're embarrassed/mad that it wasn't as explosive as they thought? it sounds like elon didn't even realize baker worked there? fuck all these dummies.

like I believe that Jim Baker watered something down for Biden.

Again these were DICK PICS, why the FUCK do they think anyone thinks it was bad to ask Twitter to delete these. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

That was their whole point, they wanted to be able to scream for 20 months about how "the truth was silenced by the Biden administration".

it's about ethics in penis journalism

*points at gawker*
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