Though my favorite rumors are that they have rushed through new functionality that is meant to debut soon but have already fired the teams that created it.

So they have gotten rid of the devs that wrote it before the go-live of the new functionality. That is completely crazy (and I'm being kind).

 

The Jaime chapter of Storm of Swords reveals the backstory of Jaime and why he joined the Kingsguard.

 

I never understood why Tywin allowed him to join and now I do.

Telsa stock has dropped by 38.50% in just the last five days.

I love the BB!

 

They are like a deeply unfunny version of the Onion to me.

 

If even half the stories - heck if even one third of the stories - coming out of twitter right now are true, the company will soon be bankrupt.

 

After laying off half the staff and the disaster of the new Twitter Blue launch, there are now also reports of the FTC and the European commission getting ready to crawl up their backside (no doubt because the entire senior executive staff tasked with user security quit the same day).

 

And apparently Musk just admitted - internally - the company has a negative cash flow of billions of dollars and that he has had to sell some Tesla stock just to keep them afloat.

 

This is one of the things that has the FTC rattled.

 

 

Fuck me!

 

I can imagine that this is a big deal for people whose livelihoods/social lives depend on twitter 

11 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

I can imagine that this is a big deal for people whose livelihoods/social lives depend on twitter 

 

Yeah, a lot of concern from people whose entire audience is on twitter.

 

I think they are fucked either way. Even if the company does not go down, Elon's vision of it is very different.

Only blue checkmarks will get primacy. So the age of non-verified users building very large followings (e.g. @dril) is essentially over.

And most of the people who built their audience entirely on Twitter started out anonymously.

On 11/8/2022 at 8:36 PM, Stromboli1 said:

I love the BB!

 

 

The Babylon Bee is awesome

 

 

It's interesting to understand why the mainstream and their NPC army are harassing Elon Musk.

 

They didn't care about Jeff Bezos' workers who have to pee in bottles... but they get angry against a guy, just because he wants free speech.

 

Tell me you're totalitarian bullies without telling me you're totalitarian bullies.

 

Just now, Enrico_sw said:

It's interesting to understand why the mainstream and their NPC army are harassing Elon Musk.

 

They didn't care about Jeff Bezos' workers who have to pee in bottles... but they get angry against a guy, just because he wants free speech.

 

Tell me you're totalitarian bullies without telling me you're totalitarian bullies.

 

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Yeah, a lot of concern from people whose entire audience is on twitter.

 

I think they are fucked either way. Even if the company does not go down, Elon's vision of it is very different.

Only blue checkmarks will get primacy. So the age of non-verified users building very large followings (e.g. @dril) is essentially over.

And most of the people who built their audience entirely on Twitter started out anonymously.

 

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World Cup ambassador calls homosexuality 'damage in the mind'

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221108-world-cup-ambassador-calls-homosexuality-damage-in-the-mind

 

Qatar is a place with slavery, homophobia and intolerance. But no one gives a shit.

 

Blue-haired people prefer to scream on Elon for bringing free speech to twitter, rather than calling out a country like Qatar that's full of real bigots.

This one is good too

 

 

3 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

I'm not sure what this has to do with the fact that almost the entire senior security staff left in one go. Or the FTC breathing down their necks.

 

And if the point is that a situation where anyone can buy a blue tick for eight dollars is better, I suggest you check out the insane stuff that has already happened even after just a few days of that.

Honestly from an objective business perspective, the entire take-over has been handled shoddily.

If I were an engineer still working there, I would seek other employment quickly (especially if they are serious about delegating FTC certification to the engineering level).