Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child

DJ Jeff said:
I think you are nitpicking my communist friend :) (commie? social democrat?)
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According to @Eboue I am socdem scum, but I like to think I'm a socialist. As I'm neither an American nor a liberal, I don't particularly care for the Democrats either. But I'm not blind to the fact that right-wing internet radicalization is a real thing, and that this isn't going to help.
 
nimic said:
According to @Eboue I am socdem scum, but I like to think I'm a socialist. As I'm neither an American nor a liberal, I don't particularly care for the Democrats either. But I'm not blind to the fact that right-wing internet radicalization is a real thing, and that this isn't going to help.
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I am surprised Eboue would describe you as such and then call you scum, considering he seems to only espouse socdem talking points and anti centrist liberal talking points.
 
DJ Jeff said:
I am surprised Eboue would describe you as such and then call you scum, considering he seems to only espouse socdem talking points and anti centrist liberal talking points.
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I think you're conflating terms if you think Eboue uses liberal talking points. But we're definitely taking over the thread now, and I'm off to bed!

Also I think he's mostly joking about the scum thing. Maybe.
 
Advertiser: Elon, the reason we are pulling money is that you gutted your moderation team and we don't want people to screengrab our ads which are under a post that says "All Jews should be killed"

Elon: I'M GOING TO GO THERMONUCLEAR ON THE ADVERTISERS!!!

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I don’t think any of you guys understand how hard CEOs work for their money.
 
He's taking trolling to a whole new level.

The simple solution for anyone who doesn't like what he's doing with Twitter is to just leave it and don't ever go back. It really isn't that vital in your life.

In fact I'd encourage anyone and everyone to leave off all social media altogether, I've even left off using LinkedIn because of all the cnuts posting pictures and stories about stuff that just isn't relevant there. It's all such utter crap and nonsense that you can really live without very easily. I see people just mindlessly scrolling through that shite every chance they get. It really is a sad addiction, anyway rant over, I think I'll go for a smoke now to calm down.
 
berbatrick said:


In a way, I'm glad this is happening. People love free speech as an abstract value. Many (me included) would dislike spending lots of time in a site with actual free speech.

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The algorithmic amplification is bias for reality and actual viewer interest. Same with youtube. There is no conspiracy in these orgs to push right wing agenda. More viewers are drawn to these topics in terms of engagement metrics such as views, comments, likes etc. and that further adds as incentive for algorithm to push it further in people's feeds. If anything these companies have now altered these algorithms to be biased against videos with certain keywords or tags.
 
crappycraperson said:
The algorithmic amplification is bias for reality and actual viewer interest. Same with youtube. There is no conspiracy in these orgs to push right wing agenda. More viewers are drawn to these topics in terms of engagement metrics such as views, comments, likes etc. and that further adds as incentive for algorithm to push it further in people's feeds. If anything these companies have now altered these algorithms to be biased against videos with certain keywords or tags.
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Sounds likely. Rage and hate do seem like the most powerful political motivators. Also seems like they've got extremely shite algorithms though. I do not watch any alt-right youtubes (or any political youtube at all really). Every time one pops up I nuke it with a not interested. Nevertheless, after several years of doing this I am still offered Ben fecking Shapiro or some other Yank desperate to introduce me to the culture war. Left leaning equivalents never seem to rock up. You'd think even a basic algorithm would get the message at some stage after being consistently told "Yo, don't send me this crap I don't want it".

Presumably me being motivated to continuously click the "not interested" button counts as engagement beyond simply ignoring its presence and as you say "further adds incentive for the algorithm to push it in [my] feeds."
 
DJ Jeff said:
He seems a dipshit but most of the blowback on this is the democrats fear it will negatively impact them for midterms
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That's an immediate material effect, and is a subject in the news anyway, but there are less reactionary agencies that have been concerned with media control pretty much forever.
 
moses said:
And that fact he announced it on Saturday Night Live is also no shock.
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I believe him though. It was mainly a glib comment about him being such an annoying tit I can understand why other kids wanted to beat him up. But on a more serious note it stands to reason that a poster boy of the alt right is a product of that sort of childhood. They always come across as damaged individuals.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I believe him though. It was mainly a glib comment about him being such an annoying tit I can understand why other kids wanted to beat him up. But on a more serious note it stands to reason that a poster boy of the alt right is a product of that sort of childhood. They always come across as damaged individuals.
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Oh I absolutely believe him. That tech generation are very interesting. They are an older capitalist / american myth incarnate. They are the only large wave of self made millionaires and it's has exploded their egos. That sort of money in that vast swathe traditionally was based on inheritance. Power of the individual proved, bootstrap capitalism at work. The fact that they are so numerous and and are concentrated at the interface of so much of our information is basically a perfect storm.
 
Twitter looking like a shit deal at 40bn-ish dollars.But Elon is anything but boring.
 
Raees said:
he has aspergers and was very socially awkward as a kid getting beat up all the time.
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That was Bill Gates. So, no, Musk does not have it unless it's acknowledged and signed by a mental health specialist.

I wonder how long until an adaptation of the anti-Glazer song resonates on Twitter just to piss him off further.
 
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-cut-in-half?utm_campaign=post

And yet still, there was Twitter to run: systems to maintain, code to write, projects to sync up on. And so workers began to create Google Docs listing who they could confirm was still employed at the company. They messaged colleagues on Slack to see who would message back. If the person responded, they got added to the doc.

“We’re basically messaging all our coworkers trying to figure out who’s left, like after a disaster,” one employee told us.

The confusion has made the company vulnerable should systems begin to break down or suffer an attack, employees said.

“It’s extremely unclear who still works here,” another worker told us. “Lots of ‘everybody left raise their hands’ in project channels.”
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Hope he takes the site down. It's probably for another thread but I believe Twitter has been far more damaging than even Facebook when it comes to the downward slope of politics and society even though it is a drop in the ocean compared to the size of Facebook.

As for Musk this is already looking like an emperor's new clothes situation. His success at Tesla and SpaceX is off the work of the best and brightest workers in science, engineering, technology, research and development etc as well as a phenomenal marketing operation. He drives the standards as the CEO and there's no reason as far as I know that what he is demanding from twitter employees is different to his other companies. But the other companies develop products that are tangible in a way that the benefit of social media like twitter is not. The company itself does not produce the value created on twitter. They facilitate the service that allows users to create the value and if the users don't like the way the company is facilitating then they may go and with that the value goes. The fact he was publicly grovelling to Stephen King is an example.
 
Years of best practices in market research, planning and execution just thrown away by the richest man on Earth who also happens to be a manchild moron. Capitalism at its best or worst?
 
RedDevilQuebecois said:
That was Bill Gates. So, no, Musk does not have it unless it's acknowledged and signed by a mental health specialist.
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Yes, I would add that such conditions have bad consequences on the carriers more times than not: the combination of mild simptoms and higher functions is pretty rare. Nevertheless, Asperger and mild autism are often used as an embellishing medal by narcissists to justify their sociopathic or inconsequential behavior.
 
Apparently losing $4m a day shows the bonkers nature of valuations. He needs to put a team around him on the board like he has at Tesla asap rather than publicly try to run it himself at pace - there’s too much noise and he’s a troll on Twitter.

Should also invite Jack to be on the board, having the founder will help keep the original values and authenticity.
 
He reminds me exactly of Russ from silicon valley. I can't believe it's happening in real life with the richest person alive, but then again the European Super League showed us that these billionaires are idiots.
 
Shane88 said:
He has been acting like a child for years at this point and his net worth keeps going up. Why would it change now?
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because he bought a company he couldn't afford selling shares from the company he has that is worth what it is because people still thought while a troller he still had his head screwed on, hes currently in Kanye levels of absurdity and in debt after buying a company losing a billion dollars a year that he payed 3 times what it was worth for, obviously he wont be actually bankrupt but this whole deal may really feck him financially
 
I think he'll end up winning on the deal

Twitter gives him political leverage which he'll use to his advantage in whatever ventures he has planned
 
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