Elon is off to a good start.

[Paul Pless]

That’s certainly right.

We have here yet one more case of an acquisition at top dollar just before a downturn, savings being made by cutting staff… he might as well have bought a Premier League football club. At least they actually do have season ticket holders!

perhaps his goal is not one of making a profit

[TomF]

perhaps his goal is not one of making a profit

Exactly. What other benefit might Musk derive from eroding Twitter's reach and provoking chaos within its moderation processes right now?

[L.W. Baxter]

"boys, playing with toys"

[Canoeyawl]

it won't become a porn hosting site
to allow such would mean the loss of its corporate clients and advertisers

GM is already out...

[StevenBauer]

This is interesting: https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-...g-3e88cde5267d

[David G]

I sent him a tweet this morning... offering to keep my twitter acct if he'll pay me $100/month. I figure, what the hey... given recent behavior, he might just prove stupid enough to go for it.

[C. Ross]

This is interesting: https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-...g-3e88cde5267d

Extremely interesting.

If one doesn’t want to buy the whole dystopian argument, believe this:

Plus the company’s social graph data is a goldmine for other businesses that may wish to benefit from detailed knowledge of the makeup of society.

The value of metadata about how people interact in cyberspace is valuable. Not sure Twitter has anywhere near extensive of a social graph as Facebook, or as wide a pool as Google or ISPs or cell companies, but it’s a niche-y rich social graph.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

There are parts of this thread that are well above my pay grade. But I’d like to thank those who posted them.

I notice that Musk’s big rocket seems to have a few problems.

[David G]

Borowitz reveals latest rumor -- Musk is considering making every twitter member purchase a minimum of one tesla.

[rbgarr]

Spot on about him: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/...a-tech-startup

[StevenBauer]

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[LeeG]

thx Steven

[Garret]

That's great Stephen! Plus, he's my old guy who won his last election with over 2/3 of the votes cast - including a lot of Rep voters.

[RFNK]

Musk really is scum and no one should support any of his businesses. In 2018, Unsworth, a British cave diver, a genuine hero, took a leading role in the most incredible and dangerous rescue mission in our history. Musk, pretending he had any clue at all about cave diving and desperate for even more publicity, came up with the dumbest plan imaginable to save the Thai children trapped in a cave. When Unsworth pointed out the stupidity of Musk's approach, Musk spread a lie, based on no evidence whatsoever, that Unsworth is a pedophile to the world's media, in revenge. What sort of nasty jerk would you have to be to do that?

[Wine47]

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Well that did not age well - Today he is asking for Twitter users to vote Republican. He seems to be his most worst enemy - ala Trump. Foot in mouth disease!

[Joe (SoCal)]

My right wing nut friends are frothing at the mouth for Musk to reinstate TFG. When I point out Musk’s irrational, inflammatory posts like promoting a disinformation tweet about Pelosi being attacked or his most recent political tweet telling people to vote republican. They love to point out that he’s on the autism spectrum. To which I say yes his autism makes it hard for him to distinguish SOCIAL cues, thus he might not be the best person to run a SOCAL network. It’s like having a legally blind pilot, or a surgeon with tremors.

[sonofswen]

[Joe (SoCal)]

Ditto

[LeeG]

Even billionaires need toys.

[AndyG]

"Mastodon or Tribel?" my friends are asking...

Andy

[Canoeyawl]

Loved the nazis, Hitler not so much

[Rigadog]

What a douche...

[Rigadog]

My right wing nut friends are frothing at the mouth for Musk to reinstate TFG. When I point out Musk’s irrational, inflammatory posts like promoting a disinformation tweet about Pelosi being attacked or his most recent political tweet telling people to vote republican. They love to point out that he’s on the autism spectrum. To which I say yes his autism makes it hard for him to distinguish SOCIAL cues, thus he might not be the best person to run a SOCAL network. It’s like having a legally blind pilot, or a surgeon with tremors.

Well said, very good!

[Joe (SoCal)]

The Case for Quitting Elon Musk’s Twitter

Elon Musk has said that he took over Twitter to preserve its role as a digital town square. Judging from his first ten days leading the company, he has made it more like his own digital back yard, a place where he is free to shout nonsense at his neighbors, kick out his perceived antagonists, and capriciously revise the house rules. As a boss, he has been inscrutable and cavalier, directing his managers to fire nearly half of Twitter’s staff, over e-mail, then reportedly attempting to woo some of them back. Employees accustomed to working remotely have suddenly been ordered back to the office—or else. The same sense of chaos has consumed the platform, as Musk has tinkered haphazardly with Twitter’s content-moderation and account-verification mechanisms, sometimes issuing and revoking a new policy almost in the same breath. On November 6th, a week after declaring that “comedy is now legal on Twitter,” he dictated that parody accounts failing to identify themselves as such would be “permanently suspended.” Some took the news as an occasion for some kamikaze-style trolling. “I am a freedom of speech absolutist and I eat doody for breakfast every day,” the comedian Kathy Griffin tweeted under Musk’s name, and was promptly given the boot. As an illustrator named Lauren Dombrowski tweeted, “being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/in...S7xgvz_PCYMvuM

[AndyG]

Look, it's like this...

Elon has admitted to having that autistic spectrum trait referred to as Aspberger's syndrome. Aspberger's is often related to issues with social interaction. For whatever reason, Elon spent $44 billion on a social media platform.

Can this possibly end well? Who's going to ever say "best not, Elon", other than a few million non-paying Twitter users?

@andyg@glasgow.social (Mastodon)

[AndyG]

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[Joe (SoCal)]

It took a 19-year-old with $8 10 minutes to blow up Elon Musk’s new blue check scheme

At 2:29pm, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported news that would shake up the NFL: Josh McDaniels, head coach of the Oakland Raiders, was fired.
The tweet racked up more than 3,000 likes and thousands of retweets, as all Adam Schefter tweets do. After all, he’s the primary source of breaking news around the NFL and he is verified on Twitter so people can tell at a quick glance they are looking at real news from a trusted source.
Except, it wasn’t Schefter who tweeted that—despite the account’s display name reading “Adam Schefter” and a blue checkmark appearing next to it. It was @AdamSchefterN0T, an account created earlier that day by a 19-year-old college kid who had $8 to spare.
The phony Schefter page was set up to be identical to the real one; it had the exact same avatar and display name. It also had a blue checkmark, previously only given to accounts to indicate the person operating it was who they claimed to be. It was only on the account page that users saw a pinned tweet stating, “I am not Adam Schefter this is a parody account.”



https://www.dailydot.com/debug/elon-...-schefter/?amp

[Canoeyawl]

Fake Eli Lilly Twitter Account Claims Insulin Is Free, Stock Falls 4.37%

Forbes

(20 points!)

[sonofswen]

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[Canoeyawl]

Lots of people drove Fords when Henry owned it.

Henry started out making watches, it was only an accident he was a very sharp businessman.
What has elon built, ever?
(I am a Ford fan at least of the older performance stuff, and a Henry Ford watch would be a pretty cool thing to see)

[Garret]

Henry started out making watches, it was only an accident he was a very sharp businessman.
What has elon built, ever?
(I am a Ford fan at least of the older performance stuff, and a Henry Ford watch would be a pretty cool thing to see)

A bunch of businesses & a whole lotta $.

Elon may be a jerk, but he's not a moron.

[RFNK]

Look, it's like this...

Elon has admitted to having that autistic spectrum trait referred to as Aspberger's syndrome. Aspberger's is often related to issues with social interaction. For whatever reason, Elon spent $44 billion on a social media platform.

Can this possibly end well? Who's going to ever say "best not, Elon", other than a few million non-paying Twitter users?

@andyg@glasgow.social (Mastodon)

Asperger

[RFNK]

A bunch of businesses & a whole lotta $.

Elon may be a jerk, but he's not a moron.

I just can't get past the jerk bit.

[Garret]

I just can't get past the jerk bit.

I hear you!

[Durnik]

That's great Stephen! Plus, he's my old guy who won his last election with over 2/3 of the votes cast - including a lot of Rep voters.

And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says when she has a chance to explain her points to Rep voters, they agree.

It's almost like the major Democratic Party doesn't want to help little people.