so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter
your subscription to NYT helps pay the people who write the things you read, none of your twitter blue subscription will go to anyone who writes what you read, seems a p important distinction. though elon's "point" follows the path of other disruptors, like streaming music, illegal downloading, etc, where the people who make the money are the people who design the structure that delivers you the art, while the artist is impoverished.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
and obvs a lot of the NYT is terrible but
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
someone shd start the nytimes for tweets lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
this is not the Succession thread (is it?)
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
twitter meets nytimes meets ilx on the blockchain
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link
When Tweetshelf shut down its free service a few weeks ago, I found myself addictively scrolling Twitter again. Now I'm considering paying for Tweetshelf so I can see the articles people are sharing without feeding my habit. But that's also a feature of Twitter Blue, so it sort of makes me feel like a chump, even tho I wouldn't be giving my money directly to Twitter.
― jaymc, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
awww, is your 44 billion dollar purchase not going so well?
They should really get rid of that 100 IQ maximum limit for creating an account on Instagram— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
"the site for people who care what their IQ is" is not the selling point he thinks it is
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
rotate cube in mind to login
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
lol
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Today's new weirdness: retweets are no longer labeled as such, so it looks like people you don't follow are randomly showing up in your feed.
― Chris L, Monday, 3 April 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
wow (working on web)
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
the site icon/logo has now been replaced by a doge
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
I swear to God, if this is an April Fools joke that was supposed to happen 2 days ago...
― Chris L, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
Also seeing unlabeled retweets in for you and the shotcoin thing. Good stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
only a business genius can do these kind of things
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
He knows exactly what he’s doing pic.twitter.com/XgBwXcex7E— well, (@eatmyassedhole) April 3, 2023
painful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
epic
― michel goindry (wins), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
weird
🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk facing $258 BILLION racketeering lawsuit for his role in "running a pyramid scheme" to defraud investors with Dogecoin, an unregistered security.https://t.co/x7NHEzbLnt— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
painful, epic, weird
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
lol my first instinct was to X out immediately because i thought they'd gotten hacked
doing this 2 days after April Fools is so painfully on brand
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
good call
Can't wait for Elon to change the Twitter logo into a doge or some other equally cringe shit.— SystemFreez ❄️ (@SystemFreez) April 25, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
theres this too
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs0ItuRakAAhlGF?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/twitter-thinks-elon-musk-burying-dogecoin-lawsuit/
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
someone run a poll on the cringiest people of all time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
"that would sick"?
You never her, Elon.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
every post on Elon's feed could be replaced with Gal Gadot "Imagine" and it still wouldn't be close
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
ugh I hate that doge icon sitting there, makes we not even want to use the stupid site.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
It’s really embarrassing
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
Makes ME, I mean, but also maybe we
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Hey @elonmusk, a few avatar ideas, уou're welcome. From the very heart, bru. pic.twitter.com/6de2YxvCbM— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) April 4, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
on russian twitter doge coins you
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
wow fuck this dogecoin shit
https://i.imgur.com/hLumEJv.png
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
When I’m dumb enough to click on a Musk tweet or reply I used to see people roasting him, now all I get are his most pathetic reply guys cheering him on.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
it looks like blocking him is holding this time
I previously had him blocked and the site "mysteriously" unblocked him
― mh, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
So now NPR is "state-affiliated media." I so want to just dump Twitter completely, but I'm a reporter, a lot of the people I cover are on there saying things, I can't just turn it off.
NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing. pic.twitter.com/K4h8kpsqkC— Lulu (@lourdesgnavarro) April 5, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
There really should be a mass media defection from Twitter, all legitimate news orgs should just drop it. I can't believe Twitter engagement adds much to anyone's bottom line.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:27 (one year ago) link
npr shd delete their account twitter is dead anyway lol xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
i can't get past the fucking doge
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
it's like elon just put his own dipshit face in the corner of the screen, it's the exact kind of reminder that you're on the site of an early teenage boy
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
NPR technically is state-affiliated since it was created by congress ha-ha
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
tesla and spacex both get far more money by conforming to the preferences of the federal government than NPR
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
the trump thing yesterday got me back on twitter for the day but it's not the same. doesn't have the juice any more.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
The 'News' tab for me has only one entry: Wisconsin
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
yeah elon killed it xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT THIS ERA OF TWITTER BUT YOU CAN'T DENY THAT IT'S FINDING NEW WAYS TO INNOVATE THAT WOULD HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN COMPLETELY INCONCEIVABLE, LIKE "MAKING ME UNHAPPY TO SEE A PICTURE OF A DOG"— Christine Love (@christinelove) April 5, 2023
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
that tweet did get me curious about who actually funds npr. while npr itself isn't funded by the gov, it does receive member fees from its member stations, who themselves are funded (a little bit) by the CPB, which effectively makes NPR federally funded.
that said, i agree with caek that tesla/space X are far more subsidized by the gov (and honestly, what industry isn't the government subsidizing in some way?) and it's obviously not the same circumstance as china daily, etc.
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
there are legit usa gov media outlets like radio free europe which btw did not get a tag
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
i think i know somebody who works at voices of america or a VoA affiliated org
and yeah, not expecting elon to be consistent in the least here hah
― 龜, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link