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
iirc NPR has never gotten more than 4% of their money from government grants in my lifetime
― mh, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
new twitter just dropped
Today we're announcing Substack Notes. Notes lets writers publish short-form posts and recommend almost anything: quotes, links, images, and comments. It's coming soon and will look like this pic.twitter.com/jxDkjK0ix2— Hamish McKenzie (@hamishmckenzie) April 5, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
that is going to be a very contrarian social media experience
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
the pay to reply model
A subscription network gives you more control.Substack Notes will let you set the terms of engagement so that it's easy to keep trolls out and even easier to let valuable contributors in.— Hamish McKenzie (@hamishmckenzie) April 5, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
man, liberals going to bat for like the sanctity of npr or nytimes or whatever is almost more cringe than elon.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
substack already has that chat thing that's kind of weird
they turned it on and all of the sudden I was getting a bunch of notifications from people chatting in a group attached to a newsletter I was following
― mh, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
imo it is pretty funny npr got tagged and not voice of america, though
pretty sure elon has no idea what voice of america is
― mh, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
elon is just being naughty
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Why, it's this of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=legvfB6BoDw
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I have a Substack but I don't have the app on my phone so I've never used the chat function, and the Notes thing doesn't seem particularly relevant to my life, either.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
elon is the absolute worst and i hate twitter right now, and you absolutely do not have to hand anything at all to him please god, but reifying the ostensible neutrality of the nytimes and npr and saying things like "if you don't believe the ny times and can't watch a hollywood movie, you must be a deluded fundie trump nut", like in this real tweet re-tweeted by otherwise otm opinion guy jamelle bouie - that right there is obnoxious horseshit that should be treated with contempt imo.
A feature of information bubbles is people inside them think beliefs I’ll politely call esoteric are normal—“everyone” thinks it—and reinforce that fiction with each other.More likely many of those rejecting news, movies, and the medical profession today did so 10 years ago too. pic.twitter.com/aoBhuL7csS— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) April 4, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
tbf these people can't watch Hollywood movies because they are woke, not because they are suck
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
please pray for yale grads
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link