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Anyone fancy trying neurolink then? Don’t worry the monkeys only chewed a finger* or two off in tests**.
It's probably got very little to do with medical advances and more to do with some people thinking they can live inside the internet and actually experience the sensations therein.
A bit like those extreme gothic types that like to believe they really are vampires.
Could have just said "you're wrong" and been less of a dick about it but you kno' hating on something is so cool right now.
I’m tempted to just set up another account using a burner email address, just to troll Musk.
I’ve never had a Twitter account and I’m considering signing up just to give him shit. Maybe that’s his plan? Curse you Musk and your psychological games! Curse you!
I’ve never had a Twitter account and I’m considering signing up just to give him shit. Maybe that’s his plan?
he had only 96M followers a couple of weeks ago and now its up to 120M. You might not be alone
he had only 96M followers a couple of weeks ago and now its up to 120M. You might not be alone
Its a bit like a house fire down the street - everyone is turning up to have a look and many are deciding to piss on the flames. Elon could end up with a metaphorical pile of smouldering ash covered in piss or they may well end up putting it out for him.
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Could have just said “you’re wrong” and been less of a dick about it but you kno’ hating on something is so cool right now.
I could have, but half the joy of social meeja isn't just telling people they're wrong, it's dissecting and illustrating the ways in which their wrong. 😉
As for "hating on" twitter/Elon? Yeah I wasn't a fan of either since before it was cool, I've not hidden that fact.
Those slowly coming to the realisations that the apps, personalities and narratives that have shaped their current world view are flawed are just going to have to get used to being challenged when they start try to apologize for the whole sorry shit show...
Those slowly coming to the realisations that the apps, personalities and narratives that have shaped their current world view are flawed
Whereas those thinking that this has only become an issue since the advent of "social media" are just hopelessly naïve.
Just to put it in perspective Twitter apparently has 396.5 million users, that’s just under 5% of the 8 billion people living on Earth currently. If you think you’re getting comprehensive news/information with insightful comment and opinion from just 5% of the population (mostly the wealthiest 5%) guess again…
What do you mean by comprehensive? All the major news sources are on Twitter, and all the local news sources that I want to read about, too. No doubt if I wanted live coverage of the latest scandals going on in some remote village in Ghana I'd be stuffed, but for the actual news that affects me I'd say yes: it's pretty comprehensive.
Whereas those thinking that this has only become an issue since the advent of “social media” are just hopelessly naïve.
Indeed this is very much a repeating pattern throughout the ages.
Elon Musk is more like Henry ford than Tony Stark, Twitter now being his 'Dearborn Independent'.
What do you mean by comprehensive? All the major news sources are on Twitter, and all the local news sources that I want to read about, too. No doubt if I wanted live coverage of the latest scandals going on in some remote village in Ghana I’d be stuffed, but for the actual news that affects me I’d say yes: it’s pretty comprehensive.
I suppose I simply mean looking beyond a single media platform and its contributors, perhaps 'comprehensive' isn't the right word? Dunno.
If the rectangle in your pocket is your main window on the world and the major source by which news/information filters through is the twitter app, you're inherently limiting the breadth of sources and perspectives.
If you consider twitter a comprehensive source then fine, but as noted before it's really just an aggregator, which means everything posted can be found elsewhere and the algorithms and filters in place to dictate what you users see are now ultimately under Elon's control...
I still think twitter needs to be starved of users to force a moderation of its owner's behaviour, ultimately part of that is those people seeking out other sources of news and information, which really might not be such a terrible thing...
It's those that consider twitter 'town square of citizen journalism' that I have direct issue with - not those that get information from reputable news sources who have shared head lines on the platform.
half the joy of social meeja isn’t just telling people they’re wrong, it’s dissecting and illustrating the ways in which their wrong.
What you've done there is use the possessive 'their' (as in belonging to them, i.e, they had their arses handed to them by a grammar pedant) whereas you should have used they're, which is the contraction of they are. Which is odd, because you got it right the first time, in exactly the same form (i.e. they are wrong becoming they're wrong)
What you’ve done there is use the possessive ‘their’ (as in belonging to them, i.e, they had their arses handed to them by a grammar pedant) whereas you should have used they’re, which is the contraction of they are. Which is odd, because you got it right the first time, in exactly the same form (i.e. they are wrong becoming they’re wrong)
Or did I do it as a gift to a would be grammar pedant, Providing the opportunity to point out and explain my error, thereby helping to illustrating the point I was making?
(I did not).
17 pages when all that needed to be said is Elon Musk, bit of a ****. He reminds me of Steve Jobs who, in turn, makes me think of Bill Burr talking about Steve Jobs. I see Musk in the exact same way.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s-qZsjK8I
Bankruptcy does seem a serious possibility.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1603034520747376640
Musk is now banning journalists who have been critical of him.
Aaron Rupar is a well-known liberal journalist.
https://twitter.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1603552973031968774
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1603562427131596820
Musk is now banning journalists who have been critical of him.
Yup, he's definitely championed the old free speech there hasn't he...
Well banning journalists ticks one of the Fascism boxes but then Fascism and free speech don't mix that well unless it is that sort of free speech.
It’s because of location tracking breaches - apparently
There "was" two narratives, the alternative was those journalists calling out Musky for posting data that could identity individuals, both narratives had "evidence" last night.
Not really believing anything at this point
I like the way he ran a poll
It didn't go the way he wanted
So he ran another...
What an absolute tool
Yeah like all the other fascist-adjacent right wing narcissists masquerading as free speech absolutists; it all goes fine until they encounter the "wrong" sort of free speech.
It's like watching a 4 year old having a tantrum.
Yeah like all the other fascist-adjacent right wing narcissists masquerading as free speech absolutists
Free speech seems to mean the right to say what they want when they want without any consequences including people pointing out they are knobs.
It’s because of location tracking breaches – apparently
The flight-tracking data is publicly available, anyone can access it. Elon changed the rules then banned the account that was tracking his private jet based on posts that preceded the rule change.
The journalists' bans were because they expressed support for the flight-tracking account and criticized Musk. But, when Nazis are involved, Musk is a free-speech absolutist.
https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1603633860394131462
Shadow banning Mastodon links too.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1603691621828132864
Making things difficult for Ukrainians, too.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1603675700313325569
I'd absolutely love it if journalists had the backbone to just quit Twitter en masse, but alas I think they're too hooked on it.
The problem with switching from Twitter is network effects - everyone is on Twitter, so you have to be on Twitter. Mastodon is the obvious alternative, but there's little point in posting there because everyone's on Twitter. The one thing that Twitter is really useful for is getting news updates from legitimate sources, so legitimate journalists need to be on Twitter. They aren't going to quit because they can't.
Aaron Rupar's ban seems to be related to criticizing Musk, not for breaching location tracking rules.
https://twitter.com/CleoMatra/status/1603707082758590465
He seems to have attracted the attention of the EU again with his journalist banning, emotions really must be like a roller coaster ride round him at the moment:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63996061
https://twitter.com/inthefade/status/1604118825506672640?t=AOXDGkvdHv6D0CxeA75gvg&s=19
This hurts my eyes
That's a parody, surely?
As a graphic designer, all I can say is WOW! That really is quite something. Its difficult to know where to start with that?
I'd love to read the brief the designer got from Elon 🤣
It looks like something you'd see airbushed onto the cab of a big American truck in Idaho or somewhere
binners
It looks like something you’d see airbushed onto the cab of a big American truck in Idaho
Perfect 😀
That really is quite something. Its difficult to know where to start with that?
Not too hard - I think that was an option in Wordart ca. Office 97?
I’m picturing the ‘design process’ as being like those episodes of the apprentice, where an inexplicably overconfident photocopier salesman from Telford is trying to tell the long-suffering designer at a top London design agency what to do
Except this time it’s for real and he actually owns the company
The result certainly looks like something an Apprentice contestant would come up with
I’d love to read the brief the designer got from Elon 🤣
”Give me what I want.”
That’s a parody, surely?
That's what I thought but, unbelievably, it appears to be genuine
It makes perfect sense if you pair it with this I think. I like it.
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I like it.
That's bumped it up to two, then
It looks like something you’d see airbushed onto the cab of a big American truck in Idaho or somewhere
I hope that’s not a cheap shot at Bigfoot!
I’d love to read the brief the designer got from Elon
Give me something unique that others wont try and copy?
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Full MemberI’d love to read the brief the designer got from Elon 🤣
It's exactly like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer designs a car
There's got to be years worth of PhD theses out of the likes of Musk, Trump and Putin. Vastly wealthy overconfident egotistical jerks who have spent their whole lives surrounded by Yes Men.
A study in what happens when you give a total bellend any form of power.
A study in what happens when you give a total bellend any form of power.
This pretty much sums up my experience of working in TV tbh
When does it start becoming an issue owning a tesla and feeling like you have chosen to support this guy? We had someone at work who just bought one explaining their choice in detail a bit too much.
A study in what happens when you give a total bellend any form of power.
I was a STW moderator. QED.
If he carries on selling Tesla stock to fund his Twitter habit the conflicted Tesla owners may have less of a problem soon
Nice pics of him at the world Cup final with the various quatari leaders and jared kushner......
Nothing dodgy there at all move along
When does it start becoming an issue owning a tesla and feeling like you have chosen to support this guy? We had someone at work who just bought one explaining their choice in detail a bit too much.
I'd say he's already alienated a big chunk of his customer base, but then he may well be on his way to winning over another chunk. He seems to be alligning himself with the Trump/MAGA lot, and Trump never really budged up or down much from 40% in the polls
I wonder if he'll be kicked out of Tesla by his own board for being too much of a liability?
As happened with PayPal?
He seems to be alligning himself with the Trump/MAGA lot, and Trump never really budged up or down much from 40% in the polls
The Trump/MAGA lot have previously been very attached to their big ICE powered trucks.
Maybe this is all just a plan to sell them electric vehicles?!?
Yup, he's got the lentil knitting segment covered, next target is the cousin ****ers.
Coward.
It's nonsense. He'd planned to get someone in anyway. The same will happen if you press Yes or No.
Lots of people saying on twitter that Jared Kushner is lining up to take over. I'm not awake enough to work out how true that might be.
They’re saying Jared as he was stood next to him apparently at the World Cup
And as we all know, two people in the same photo …
I’d love to read the brief the designer got from Elon 🤣
perhaps the brief was:
make it like
something you’d see airbushed onto the cab of a big American truck in Idaho or somewhere
That logo is fantastic. Looks like a forgotten early 80’s video games developers logo
“I want something that will appeal to Trump’s NFT buyers…”
That poll needs a "don't care anymore" option.
This was amusing although it does also show how hard it is to link to mastodon.
https://mastodon.ie/@oliverdarcy/109537174715279369
Ah right, so he'll step down when someone takes the job that clearly no one is going to take... excellent way of getting out of sticking to the poll results.
I'll be a bit disappointed if he does step aside.
I wanted to see the platform razed to the ground and then the earth salted.
Always thought it was full of obnoxious clever dicks vying for attention and putting other people down, so it was somehow fitting that he ended up buying the bloody thing.
I don't think he ever was going to stay..... he's got bigger fish to fry.
Always thought it was full of obnoxious clever dicks vying for attention and putting other people down,
You know you don't have to look at it, right?
I don’t think he ever was going to stay….. he’s got bigger fish to fry.
Its a hobby gone mad for him though.
Not sure who would want the job bearing in mind chances of him actually relinquishing control would be practically zero.
You know you don’t have to look at it, right?
Pretty clear from the comment that they didn't look at it.
Mastodon sounds like a homoerotic hair metal band, but on the flip side it also sounds like a mains vibrator. I might have a look at it.
On the BBC website, a quote from a former Twitter staff member.
"I imagine he's getting pressure from investors to step down and is using this poll to make it look like he's following the will of the people instead of the will of those paying his bills."
Mastodon sounds like a homoerotic hair metal band,
you're not a million miles off...
What is Adam Hills doing with a hair colour???
You know you don’t have to look at it, right?
Pretty clear from the comment that they didn’t look at it.
I've chiefly looked at Twitter in order to write news articles about it, in past jobs.
Perhaps that means I saw the worst of it, but nothing I saw made me want to go there in my spare time.
It's widely acknowledged as the most toxic and problematic social network. We'd be better off without it IMO.