Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

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https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1665789667688497162

 

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FYI, Ben Collins is a jerkoff.

 

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Musk says remote work is unfair and immoral

Tesla CEO Elon Musk called remote work “morally wrong” in a wide-ranging interview with CNBC Tuesday.

The billionaire told the network’s David Faber that while remote work is a productivity issue, it’s also a moral one. He called the work-from-home model that many relied on during the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally unfair and out of touch.

“It’s like really? You’re gonna work from home and you’re gonna make everyone else who made your car come work in the factory? You’re gonna make people who make your food that gets delivered — they can’t work from home? The people that come fix your house? They can’t work from home, but you can?” said Mr. Musk, also CEO of SpaceX and Twitter.

He also expressed a personal dislike for those who choose to work from home.

“People should get off their goddamn moral high horse with this bulls—- because they’re asking everyone else to not work from home while they do. It’s wrong,” Mr. Musk said.

Mr. Musk is no stranger to attacking remote work. He has talked extensively about sleeping in the Tesla offices during intense work periods to inspire his employees. He also said he sometimes sleeps in Twitter’s offices.

 

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Musk says that Twitter made $4 billion in a year and spent that same amount...

He also says that the price he paid was "foolishly high".

WTF did he base his offer on? It was a business that was breaking even...

Cued:

https://youtu.be/NHaczOsMQ20?t=790

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Thats okay just wait for the federal judge to rule that forcing a person to work away from home is not constitutional.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Interesting insight from Elon Musk, and somewhat what I suspected. There are so many possible restrictions (variations of shadow banning) on accounts that they can't even track them all down.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666480946319687682

 

[PAF]

Interesting insight from Elon Musk, and somewhat what I suspected. There are so many possible restrictions (variations of shadow banning) on accounts that they can't even track them all down.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666480946319687682

X.AI

 

[devil21]

https://www.berggruen.org/people/elon-musk/

Working beside such conservative voices as Arianna Huffington, Saule Amorova, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Dorsey (wait, wat?), Niall Ferguson, Willie Brown (yes, that Willie Brown), Condie Rice, and many other like-minded voices for free speech and conservative values.
https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/the-berggruen-network/ (worth a scroll to see the company Musk keeps...birds of a feather)

There's clearly an operation underway to engineer Musk into a Trump-like cult figure for the right, even though like Trump, there's little to nothing to demonstrate any such following is warranted.




You know that's not what's going to happen, right? Internet ID is a required component of social credit scoring. What does it matter if you're using a VPN, which does still provide privacy and anonymity generally, if you have to register all access accounts with an ID and displays your name? Man, some of y'all sure can't look two steps ahead....

And Musk is, imo, being propped up right now to be the salesman for it to the right with this manufactured populism behind him.

For posterity.

Interesting insight from Elon Musk, and somewhat what I suspected. There are so many possible restrictions (variations of shadow banning) on accounts that they can't even track them all down.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666480946319687682

Did he post that before or after his visit to Shanghai and Mongolia?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Meta Platforms Developing Alternative To Twitter

https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2023/06/11/meta-platforms-developing-alternative-to-twitter/

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1669721532090707968

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1669721532090707968

Is it possible that the day after his acquisition with an apparently plummeting audience that there was already an all time high? Was there not a huge number of Bot accounts? If half the users were not real users and you turned them off and added one new member wouldn't you have an all time high?

 

[devil21]

Is it possible that the day after his acquisition with an apparently plummeting audience that there was already an all time high? Was there not a huge number of Bot accounts? If half the users were not real users and you turned them off and added one new member wouldn't you have an all time high?

Hey hey hey you pipe down over there. No critical thinking allowed when it comes to Musk and his chinese super app.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1671261201182101505

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This programmer has been digging into the code, and confirming what many people suspected. Everything you do on Twitter, Follow, tweet, retweet, like or reply, eventually leads to adding or subtracting from your Twitter social credit score.

https://twitter.com/The1Parzival/status/1671978309381664768

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1671999186655674369

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1671999186655674369

Those seem to be references to "right" and "left" database "join" (record merge) operations.

If so, then they are no more "socio-political" in nature than terms such as "master" and "slave", or "whitelist" and "blacklist" are when they are used in the context of computer programming. ("Breadcrumb" is also an idiomatic programming term - it's just a mechanism for tracking things that have been done.)

 

[Swordsmyth]

EU Warns Twitter It Will Need To Bolster Censorship Tools Ahead Of Elections

https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/...-bolster-censorship-tools-ahead-of-elections/

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/1672277805915340803

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Those seem to be references to "right" and "left" database "join" (record merge) operations.

If so, then they are no more "socio-political" in nature than terms such as "master" and "slave", or "whitelist" and "blacklist" are when they are used in the context of computer programming. ("Breadcrumb" is also an idiomatic programming term - it's just a mechanism for tracking things that have been done.)

Yeah, I'm not sure that the intent of those particular code segments was exactly what he said they were.

It's quite possible that I have lost those brain cells, but I don't recall ever specifically using right and left join syntax. Inner and outer (+) joins, yes, but not the right/left.

Looked it up:

Old Syntax

As a final note, it is worth mentioning that the LEFT OUTER JOIN example above could be rewritten using the older implicit syntax that utilizes the outer join operator (+) as follows (but we still recommend using the LEFT OUTER JOIN keyword syntax):

Left and right were implicit. Old syntax for old programmers. Now I do feel old.

 

[ClaytonB]

Those seem to be references to "right" and "left" database "join" (record merge) operations.

If so, then they are no more "socio-political" in nature than terms such as "master" and "slave", or "whitelist" and "blacklist" are when they are used in the context of computer programming. ("Breadcrumb" is also an idiomatic programming term - it's just a mechanism for tracking things that have been done.)

Not my particular stomping-ground, but I work in tech and I think you may be correct, as far as it goes.

Nevertheless, we have it from Musk himself that there is so much old censorship code buried in the Twitter codebase that they may never be able to remove it all and may just rewrite a fresh codebase from scratch (this was in his Bee interview on-campus at Twitter, IIRC). Even just the day before that interview, he said they found some ancient keyword-matching code that would de-boost conservative Tweets based on blind keyword-matches. Obviously, the blind keyword-matching caused a lot of collateral damage, which is how they found it.