Elon Musk

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.

It’s widely acknowledged as the most toxic and problematic social network.

A lot depends on who you choose to follow and what “discussions” you care to get involved in. It can be informative and amusing.

Perhaps that means I saw the worst of it, but nothing I saw made me want to go there in my spare time.

I only see tweets/discussions from the 100 or so folk I follow in my timeline, there is no need to view anything you don’t want to see.

The user makes a choice between allowing the algorithm to decide what you see, much like stopping everyone in the street and asking them for an opinion and personally choosing what you see from those you exclusively follow.

I only see tweets/discussions from the 100 or so folk I follow in my timeline, there is no need to view anything you don’t want to see.

Same. I even follow a few political accounts but I never look past more than 2 or 3 replies. And I almost never tweet.

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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.

I think a lot of people joining the dots about who Musk watched the football with last night, as a guest of the Saudis (who allegedly stumped up a lot of the cash for him to buy twitter)..

They say a picture is worth a thousand words … pic.twitter.com/qiPBnswnvc

— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) December 18, 2022

Should I run Twitter ?

— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 19, 2022

All that money and still getting told what to do.
Playing him like a cheap fiddle at a strippers bar.
So who do think was sucking up to who out of trump jnr or Elon

don’t like the result change the rules!

I think a lot of people joining the dots about who Musk watched the football with last night, as a guest of the Saudis (who allegedly stumped up a lot of the cash for him to buy twitter)..

The presence of at least one pro-Putin Russian reporters there too leaves a very sour taste in the mouth…

don’t like the result change the rules!

Is what he’s always assumed he can do… Thing is, he’s underestimated the twitterspehere’s distaste to being told that the rules have been changed by a guy who’s been playing with their precious toy for less time than they have, whilst using it primarily as a means to short-sell his competitors and shill whichever cryptocurrency happened to be his flavour of the month, before it tanked (conveniently after he’d got out!)…

So who do think was sucking up to who out of trump jnr or Elon

Like a cat with a slice of buttered toast strapped to its back, one suspects they were hung there in suspended animation, in a perpetual 69 of mutual aggrandisement…

As a Jew who controls the media, should I pull the magical lever that destroys Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elad Nehorai (@EladNehorai) December 20, 2022

A lot depends on who you choose to follow and what “discussions” you care to get involved in

Agree, I just follow people I like and read what they post. I don’t open up the comments and that is where the real shit is with all sorts of **** posting all sorts of crap. Maybe I am missing the point of social media by not reading the ‘social’, ordinary people comments but that is how I like it.

But the discourse in the comments drives the algorithm to prioritise posts that create that discourse into your feed, so even if you think you are avoiding it by not reading the bottom half of the internet, it still impacts what you see.

Agree, I just follow people I like and read what they post. I don’t open up the comments and that is where the real shit is with all sorts of **** posting all sorts of crap. Maybe I am missing the point of social media by not reading the ‘social’, ordinary people comments but that is how I like it.

There’s a huge continuum between echo chamber at one end and ‘the bottom half of the internet’ at the other, which is where you/we should send at least some of our time though. If you get too far to either end I think discussion and understanding gets worse as a result.

But the discourse in the comments drives the algorithm to prioritise posts that create that discourse into your feed, so even if you think you are avoiding it by not reading the bottom half of the internet, it still impacts what you see.

If you sort your feed chronology then there is no algorithm derived prioritising.

Facebook is a different matter.

What is Adam Hills doing with a hair colour???

That deserved more love.

It’s widely acknowledged as the most toxic and problematic social network. We’d be better off without it IMO.

Widely acknowledged by whom, exactly? I don’t recall, as a random example, Twitter ever being implicated in distributing an app which surreptitiously passed user data en masse to a third party in order to manipulate national election results.

Most social media is Garbage In, Garbage Out. Would you argue that print media is toxic after reading the Daily Express? If people are posting things you don’t like, stop reading them. There will always be Unfollow / Unfriend / Ignore / Block buttons for a given account. For a little while I followed a film-maker I liked, turned out that his entire output was about smoking a fat one and shagging his wife; I hit Unfollow.

Follow-up comments to original posts have always been a cesspit, from Twitter to Facebook to YouTube to IFLScience to The Daily Mail to the My Little Pony fan club* so just don’t scroll down. You see this occasionally on STW even, you could start a thread about say a TV show and there will always be someone wading in to go “I don’t watch it, it’s shit.” Well… why are you even here reading this thread and taking time to post about it then? 🤷‍♂️ It’s not a fault of the medium, it’s that people are weird.

(* – never piss off a Bronie.)

My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization. pic.twitter.com/eEFBuoHREm

— B Graham Disciple (@bgrahamdisciple) December 26, 2022

Like a cat with a slice of buttered toast strapped to its back, one suspects they were hung there in suspended animation, in a perpetual 69 of mutual aggrandisement

👏👏

Amazing how many people think Musk himself is actully responsible for building the cars and rockets.

Well, he’s the public face of a car company that apparently makes all its profits selling CO2 credits to SUV manufacturers, and is apparently trying to bring back 1970s Detroit (or possibly Longbridge?) build quality.

I just don’t get it, if I was that rich I’d be having a 10-way everyday, not acting like a 13 yo looking for attention from basement dwelling oddballs.

Errmmmm?

Medvedev’s thread includes the rise of the Forth Reich pic.twitter.com/OjtgoKD1qD

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) December 26, 2022

I know he’s incredibly rich, and can fill the sky with space junk visible to the human eye from Earth… but can we just ignore this utter waste of human flesh now? Just not mention him? I’m undecided about what to do with the twonks that defend him and buy his more earth bound junk… politely nodding and siding away from them might still be the safest approach, but I’d rather find ways to nudge them away from him, if possible.

I’m assuming the “epic thread” comment was referring to the absurdity of the thread. It’s genuinely hard to tell with Musk sometimes though, and he must know how it might be interpreted.

I’d be having a 10-way everyday

Your lack of ambition disturbs me!

I’m assuming the “epic thread” comment was referring to the absurdity of the thread. It’s genuinely hard to tell with Musk sometimes though, and he must know how it might be interpreted.

Nah, he’s merely an utter **** of the highest standing and the sooner his world burns down the better.

More trouble in Teslaland too.

7 out of the last 10 Tesla cars did not meet the Sellers reserve price on https://t.co/UAtOhmLwGO. Prices are falling and the sellers are not willing to accept that fact yet. Now that wait times for new Teslas are gone it looks like the used market will normalize. pic.twitter.com/WV6zle9HIa

— Brad King (@KingBrad909) December 27, 2022

The Forth Reich? Is that what we can expect when the expansionists in Fife get into power?

We watched Knives Out, The Glass Onion last night. There’s a not too subtle dig at Mr Musk right at the end.

Is that what we can expect when the expansionists in Fife get into power?

Nobody expects the Fife Expansionists

TGO could have been a good film if they hadn’t tried so hard on the social media billionaire angle.

As much of a ****womble that he is, this is still pretty impressive. I wonder who the previous record holders were.

30 dimensional chess in action. pic.twitter.com/QUbSEYxXgN

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) December 31, 2022

Breaks world record for the largest loss of fortune 

..And his plan to get all the cool right-wing kids to like him when he bought Twittter still didn’t work.  What a prat

I wonder who the previous record holders were

Masayoshi Son was the last. Bloke behind Softbank. Made one good investment into a Chinese company and then went around the world boosting the tech bubble to try and repeat.
I am sure his supporters are thinking “this is a really cunning 15d chess move. Just wait until the counter attack emerges”.

It’s just share price, reality is Tesla are pretty solid in terms of outlook, same with his SpaceX and other ventures, they’ll go back up soon enough and it’ll be another article on how amazing a turnaround it was.

Not so sure. People have been buying new Teslas over other electric vehicles because they were depreciating slower than their competitors… important when not buying outright. There was an “investment” mentality at play. Once/if deprecation increases to be the same as others (looks likely), at a time when competitors are offering better build quality, safety and all the other “normal” premium car characteristics, Tesla’s lead in their sector could disappear very fast.

Telsa just became the top luxury carmaker in the US I think. But it can’t last, when so many other major companies are working on replicating the thing that made them unique but doing it better. I’m sure Telsa will persist but they will simply become another carmaker.

Tesla’s lead in their sector could disappear very fast.

TBH depends what Tesla sector, don’t forget they have the Megabank side, cars aren’t the only money spinner.

People have been buying new Teslas over other electric vehicles because they were depreciating slower than their competitors…

I follow a couple of auction sites- one in the USA and Teslas come up on it fairly regularly, they never (maybe once or twice) get anywhere near their asking price. Always questions about build quality and software updates.

But it can’t last, when so many other major companies are working on replicating the thing that made them unique but doing it better. I’m sure Telsa will persist but they will simply become another carmaker.

Yep, the first big dominant player in a new market rarely survives as anything other than ‘another player’, if at all. The competition learns from their mistakes, catches up, and overtakes.

Tesla still have one big advantage over other manufactureres, the Supercharger network. And the competition isn’t learning.